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

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    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…

  • When Facebook becomes a book

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    When Facebook becomes a book from Siavosh Zabeti on Vimeo. I think I’ve become a little obsessed with the digital word lately. I’ve pretty much stopped buying newspapers and magazines and get my fill online. I use my iPhone for my shopping lists and to jot down the epiphanies that come to me in the…

  • Lighting of the Christmas Tree

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    Tanya Heading

    Love the Christmas spirit? Head to King George Square on Friday 3rd December to see the Lighting of the Christmas Tree. Brisbane’s Lord Mayor Campbell Newman and a host of special guests (including Santa!) will be there with performance excerpts from Queensland Ballet’s The Nutcracker and plenty of your favourite Christmas carols. Festivities begin at 6:45pm…

  • Woolloongabba Antiques Precinct is now open!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Photography: Janet Pogorelc @ Brio Group If you’ve been missing Miss Posh Poodle from Brisbane’s LaTrobe Terrace you’ll be happy to know she’s relocated to the newly opened Woolloongabba Antique Centre where sisters Sarah Jane Walsh and Megan Rizzo will have you embarking on an antique experience like no other. The centre is at the…

  • Where good ideas come from

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    Tanya Heading

    This TED talk by Steven Johnson into the generation of ideas is sure to get you spending some extra time at your local coffee shop or dawdling a few minutes longer at the water cooler. Johnson provides a wonderful insight into the benefits of team work and the open discussion of ideas. He dispels the…

  • GetUp launches spoof ANZ Barbara bank ad

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Seems everyone is talking banks at the moment … not necessarily in the positive  point-of-view. Our back pockets seem to be constantly being stretched to the limit, whilst our banking friends reap the rewards. However, the ever-enterprising world of advertising can at least take a humorous viewpoint and we can have a laugh. Have a…

  • ‘Twitter’ has movie potential

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    Tanya Heading

    Poor Twitter. That little bird has always been the second idea, the afterthought. Just as facebook was the first to pioneer social networking, it’s also been the first to be made into a movie. But don’t worry Twitter fans! I know you’ve been wondering how great the Twitter movie could be… so here’s a sneak…

  • Imagine if you had a Sixth Sense

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    One of my students told me about this TED talk that they had watched and it is really amazing where technology is going. I have often wondered about what it would be like to have a sixth sense and now it seems it is not too far away. Enjoy. [flv:http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/PattieMaes_2009-medium.flv 446 326] Yours in Technology…

  • Sometimes it pays to think small…

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    Tanya Heading

    During my recent wanderings around the wonderful world of facebook, I discovered this fantastic little competition that had happened on flickr: Spectacular Insect Faces! The competition closed in March, but lucky for us the winning entries are still available for all to see! Have a look at all the top entries here. See if you…