entertainment

  • NYE in Brisbane!

    It’s that time of year again, when the sky lights up with the promise of new beginnings, fresh starts and clean slates. We start our new resolution lists, set new goals to achieve and start planning our unforgettable experiences that we can tell our grandchildren, so they know their grandmother/father was once a hip youngster.…

  • Nothing but the Best

    This is the time of the year when we all like to reflect on the past year’s “great” and “not so great” achievements and make personal changes to help us achieve our new goals next year. Tuesday afternoon was one such time at the Brio HQ when I was both laughing and teary at Belinda’s…

  • YouTube for business

    Have you ever considered YouTube as part of your digital marketing mix? It’s free, easy to use, and you can customise your channel to compliment your company’s branding. It’s a proven platform that allows you to share videos to existing and new audiences, integrate video content on your website or Facebook page, and can help…

  • U2 Concert 2010

    My favourite band of all time, U2, dropped into Brisbane last week, and I was lucky enough to see them – front row! It was an absolutely fantastic concert, with some songs from their new album, but also the classic hits “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where The Streets Have No Name”.…

  • Gender Stereotype Advertising

    [briotube]http://www.youtube.com/v/NIdrloPF0bU[/briotube] Have you ever noticed, every time you turn on the T.V, go into a store, or look at a newspaper, you are accosted by gender stereotypes? There are children’s Toy Commercials, which never show the fathers.  There are household cleaning product commercials where the woman is fretting over her mother in law coming over,…

  • Illustration inspiration!

    One of my resolutions for the New Year is to get back into illustration and painting, so I’ve been having a little look around cyberspace to get some inspiration and see what styles are out there. This week I came across some wonderful caricatures which I thought I’d share with you. It’s incredible to see…

  • Spare Ticket event connection site launches in 12 days!

    There’s 12 days to go until Australia’s first event connection site is launched and the Brio kids seriously can not wait! With the huge amount of festivals, concerts and cricket coming up this summer (and the huge amount of people I know on Facebook trying to flog spare tickets) this site couldn’t come soon enough!…

  • World of Warcraft Cataclysm Expansion only 3 more sleeps!

    I don’t know how many of you are gamers, but I am sure that most of you are either related to or are friends with a gamer who is just as excited as I am that the Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft is being released next week. World of Warcraft is by far the…

  • Selley’s new TV advert – so simple but so effective

    I just had to share this new advert for Selleys with you all as it’s quite good. It warns men: Don’t leave your wife at home with a tradie.  The ‘Do it yourself, before someone does it for you’ campaign – BWM’s first for Selleys – features a woman flirting with the tradie as he carries…