By Libby Gandhi Vivid, the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas, announced its 2018 lineup this morning. Celebrating its 10th anniversary from 25th read more …Continue reading Vivid Festival Announces its 2018 Line-Up
By Dorothy Thompson Mohandas Gandhi uttered these unforgettable words in a speech he delivered in 1931. The sensibility he spoke of then is just as read more …Continue reading “A Nation’s Greatness Is Measured By How It Treats Its Weakest Members”
By Marcus Honesta It’s unusual when the sharks start attacking each other. Generally speaking, they never break ranks. However, in a recent visit to Australia, read more …Continue reading Group M’s Boss Calls Out Media Fraud
By Libby Gandhi. The 21st Biennale of Sydney opens to the public today. Encompassing art discussion panels, dedicated exhibitions, and a major event on Cockatoo read more …Continue reading The 21st Biennale of Sydney Has Arrived
By Dorothy Thompson. Every day, it seems, someone else falls foul of the “Thought Police” and “New Age Censors”. Their quarry is accused of either read more …Continue reading MUM, DAD, HUSBAND, WIFE, MANKIND, DARL, LOVE, SWEETIE: ALL MUST GO!
By Marcus Honesta. WPP suffered its worst share slump since 1999 after Chief Executive Officer Martin Sorrell slashed the profit outlook and predicted a year read more …Continue reading WILL WPP SURVIVE?
By Jen Brewster. Spike Jonze, Oscar-winning director, is not adverse to making wonderfully imaginative ads featuring dance as a focal point. He did it for read more …Continue reading Is this the greatest Apple commercial ever made?
Interview by Libby Gandhi. In the second part of CTL’s interview with director Jasmin Tarasin, we discuss her role as head of Free The Bid read more …Continue reading INTERVIEW Part 2: Director Jasmin Tarasin
By Marcus Honesta. Having demonstrated that they can’t make enough money out of their core business to survive; (because of their flawed business model) Advertising read more …Continue reading IS WPP ENGINEERING THE END OF THE INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANY?
By Libby Gandhi. This time last week, few had heard of the term ‘Inclusion Rider’. All that changed when Frances McDormand took to the stage read more …Continue reading What is an Inclusion Rider?
Interview by Libby Gandhi. One of Australia’s most talented and accomplished directors, Jasmin Tarasin adds a raw, stripped back cinematic beauty to all her projects. read more …Continue reading INTERVIEW: Director Jasmin Tarasin
By Dorothy Thompson. Aunty (your ABC), has revealed that it pulled the wool over the ever-alert media yet again. B&T Magazine frothing at the mouth read more …Continue reading WHERE DID TRUTH & INVESTIVATIVE REPORTING GO?
By Marcus Honesta. “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” Robert Frost. We as a society are not very good at honouring either our read more …Continue reading WE SHOULD BE HONOURING OUR VISIONARIES.
By Marcus Honesta. Almost a year to the day, P&G’s CBO (Chief Brand Officer) Marc Pritchard is on the warpath again demanding: ‘fewer project managers’ read more …Continue reading P&G’S MARC PRITCHARD IS ON THE WARPATH AGAIN
By Dorothy Thompson. I read today with sadness, a beautifully written story by a young woman journalist Karlie Rutherford, it was published in The Daily read more …Continue reading #METOO: WHAT IS THE REAL COST?
By Clare Winterbourn, Born Bred Talent. In what five years ago, you would have thought impossible, a recent post by “high profiled” social influencer “Kylie read more …Continue reading SNAP, CRACKLE & CRASH: The inexplicable power of Influencers!
By Steve May, Copywriter and Director at ROCKATANSKY. Without doubt, the biggest weight on any new freelancer’s shoulders is what to charge. Is it read more …Continue reading PRICING FOR FREELANCE NEWBIES: It’s not about what you charge
By Marcus Honesta. From bodies in barrels, to kidnappings in the Outback and sex in the suburbs, South Australia’s capital is also known as the read more …Continue reading ADS WE WISH WERE NEVER MADE: What was he thinking????
By Libby Gandhi. Black Panther could have buckled under the weight of expectation. 24 years in the making, dripping with racial and historical poignancy, it read more …Continue reading Film Review: Black Panther
By Dorothy Thompson. Now the dust has settled on the “Christmas” Whops…. Summer? School? I’m not even sure what we are supposed to call them read more …Continue reading POLITICALLY CORRECT SANTA
OWNER & HOST OF THE MALAYA. RIP. By Mike Canavan. If you’ve been in the advertising, production, marketing, media, sales, television or the radio business read more …Continue reading FAREWELL LANCE WONG.
By Marcus Honesta. I’m oft to wonder why stories get started; but more importantly what was the motivating force behind them. At a particular time, read more …Continue reading THIS IS THE REAL CRISIS IN TV COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION BUSINESS.
By Libby Gandhi. #MeToo is a watershed cultural moment. Going from strength to strength over recent months the campaign has effected awards ceremonies, international politics, read more …Continue reading The Origins and Omissions of #MeToo
Interview by Libby Gandhi. International comedy Director, Dave Wood, has been celebrated at AWARD, AXIS, LIA, New York Festivals and British Arrows, having produced witty read more …Continue reading INTERVIEW: Director Dave Wood
By Dorothy Thompson. Well it’s official; as if there was any doubt at all, Kyle Sandilands is a complete unmitigated, obdurate, dolt! Although he is read more …Continue reading “HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY KYLE”!
By Dorothy Thompson. In a recent quote from Kathy Lette at the launch of her latest book (you will remember she was the author of read more …Continue reading THE GLASS CEILING: Does it really exist?
As told to Marcus Honesta. In “The Last Chapter” of my sit downs with one of the Advertising Agencies more famous, retired Creative Directors I read more …Continue reading WHERE DO ADVERTISING AGENCIES COME FROM?
by Libby Gandhi. Women in Film and Television New South Wales (WIFT NSW) have partnered with UK-based Raising Films to cast a spotlight on the read more …Continue reading Raising Films arrives in Australia
By Dorothy Thompson & Mark Ritson. Love him, hate him; but do not dismiss his views. Ritson is blunt, some might say rude, crude and read more …Continue reading WHATEVER THE MEDIUM, FAKERY IS THE NEW REALITY
By Marcus Honesta. In the normal tranquil seas that lap upon the shores of the BBC UK (now that dreadful Jeremy Clarkson has gone), things read more …Continue reading MY DEAR FELLOW I SAY: WE DIDN’T SEE THIS ONE COMING.