Catherine Stones

Good show to Catherine Stones for getting an exhibition together for the fabled North Bar in Leeds.  Her work’s great, check it out and more at CatherineStones.net

D&AD Judging

Been a daft busy month starting with a week in London filming kids jumping off buildings, a week off so I could actually see the family digging the garden and painting walls @ home, then a week back in London for D&AD awards judging in the website category.  A chance to meet some great people and check out the cream of website work from around the world.  There were 500 website entries, plus more digital in advertising and virals.  Overall there were 20,000 pieces of work that made it to Olympia and 500 international judges visiting over the four days.  Check out theThe D&AD Blog  for more…

D&AD entries at Olympia, London

Got2b Urban Freeflow Parkour Jam

Just putting the finishing touches to a campaign for Got2b where we were working with Urban Freeflow.  Some great footage from the Parkour Jam that I’ll share when it’s live next week.  But meantime I wanted to upload this photo of one a traceur doing his thing on the day.  It was great to watch something like 200 teenagers climbing up buildings.

Parkour

Write a book

After getting some interest in a treatment for a sci-fi / crime novel last year I started writing a novel, the general premise of which is about a virtual afterlife.

I now have a complete first draft and I’m looking to find an agent and publisher.

You can read the first few chapters on authonomy here.

Here’s the blurb:

In a future where God is dead what if there was a company that could guarentee your afterlife with a pill. Would you take it?

The Eternity Pill monitors your environment and a moment before certain death alters your perception to make your last moment feel like a thousand years in a virtual paradise. Be reunited with your loved ones, be any age, never in pain and never growing old. Sound too good to be true? It probably is. When supercop rookie Lamaloula Bains is assigned a new partner, Jason Strange, she gets sucked into a personal war with radical Christian fundamentalist, the dark Pastor Lane, that escalates to a power struggle for the hearts and minds of the whole planet.