Author Archives: Jon Bounds

Writer, honest. Currently working on Pier Review “a journey to the outcrops of a dying culture”.

Used to do Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, Dirty Bristow, 11-11-11, Twitpanto et al.

Why haven’t newspaper clichés evolved?

There’s a lovely new site doing the rounds called Glum Councillors it’s dedicated to collecting: “images of councillors looking glum whilst pointing at holes in the road, wearing hard hats or presenting oversized cheques.” Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Sites like this and Lolitics are parodying the politicians (and wanabees) — but the poses and the […]

hooves up!

hooves up! Originally uploaded by bounder

Passive Agressive Email Marketing

Got this today from CoTweet (which I like, it’s really the only CRM service for Twitter): “CoTweet is not for everyone. It’s designed for teams who are managing the front-line of the real-time web for their organizations. It’s for people committed to engaging customers in authentic two-way conversations, rather than just broadcasting messages to followers.… […]

West Wing — it’s the Manics for the over 30s

Not that the Manics aren’t now for the over 30s too. Think about it, long complicated sentences that struggle to fill the available time, politics references you don’t get first time — AND Bradley Whitford looks a bit like James Dean Bradfield.

The Future of Reality TV

Channel 4 have announced that they’re giving up with Big Brother after the next series — although a dedicated web show for 2011 would be my guess — they’ve tried fiddling with the format, bunging more and more people in, making more and more stuff happen. They’ve cut the “my god, who wants to watch […]

How PR works

I think we know this already, “Suits make a corporate comeback,” says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002. Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are […]

Le Nombrilisme

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6115666[/vimeo] Le Nombrilisme from bounder on Vimeo. A little film I made for this.

Did success peak in 2004?

One of the quirks of news reporting that amuses me most is when things are “hailed a success”. It a lovely phrase to report on all sorts of projects, especially where the success or failure conditions weren’t laid out before-hand or, in my suspicious mind, for projects that the numbers show weren’t that successful at […]

The End of the Line

When I organised the 11-11-11 eleven hours on the eleven bus day I didn’t make it too clear to people that it was art — it tends to put people off. But I’ve had a slightly different version of the idea, one that’s simultaneously easier to get involved with and has a wider remit. The […]

WWIII Propaganda: Torrent Your MP3s

WWIII Propaganda: Torrent Your MP3s Originally uploaded by Brian Lane Winfield Moore