Friday, August 25, 2006
For the love of Brad....
I'm standing in the queue of the Rosebank Post Office, and on their
magazine rack, the cover of Elle reads: "Jen & Vince -- on love, sex
and each other"... and right above it, on the cover of People: "Jen
and Matt: are they an item?
Well... are they?!? I don't know what to think anymore.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Thank you, everybody. And Bob bless Laura!
Wowza! Thanks to everybody for the extraordinary response to the article in The Witness (www.witness.co.za ) this morning -- set my morning on fire. Not all happy chappies, of course, but that's the way it should be. We celebrate disagreement around here.
The sign-up rate for the SCARY THOUGHT newsletter has been similarly extreme, but I'm not complaining. For those of you who have asked what's in store, I'll offer this much:
"I had a monumental thought this morning. But I didn't like it." -- Samuel Goldwyn.
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A special thank you to Laura from The Witness for writing the piece. You're one of the good guys, Laura. A woman in a white hat.
Monday, August 21, 2006
That old thing again.
It's great to see Apple advertising on primetime TV, but I'm not sure about the ad for the iPod Hi-fi. Look, it's perfect. Well written. Beautifully shot. And, as do all good ads, it makes one good point well. But that voice. It's just the wrong voiceover artist. Middle-aged white male who sounds suspiciously like a voice artist droning on about inviting his girlfriend over to his embarrassingly tiny apartment? It just sounds wrong. Steadily, the industry's coming around to the fact that honest, clear, "common" voices just work better. I didn't expect Apple to be one of those who hasn't yet caught on.
As for the Apple Hi-fi itself... cool, hey? Very pretty. No doubt performs like a beast. I'm still hooked on my Bose SoundDock, though. Love her, love her, love her.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but...
...well done to SABC3 TV news for their coverage of the trouble in Kinshasa. Of course, now that Miranda Strydom's report is over, I'm switching to e-tv, but I'll be following the Kinshasa story on SABC3. Tight reporting, reflecting the drama without playing it up.
Craig Urbiquitous.
Is South African actor Craig Urbani in everything? He's in two soap operas, and roughly 67% of all ads on primetime TV. Who is this man's agent?
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Dear God! I'm naked!
The Witness, a newspaper in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (place of my birth) is running an interview with me tomorrow. There's a picture of me... *cough!*... naked! It's all very conceptual, y'know.
About Me
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- Name:Lev David
- Location:South Africa
Lev David is a writer and media consultant with a startlingly fresh approach to communicating your message. With words and ideas that are lean, precise and simply unstoppable, he has been smacking the mainstream media about the arse since he was 15. Good enough is never good enough. Ordinary gets a bullet in the head. The world is a mess of messages. Cut through.