When I was a boy I spent hours upon hours on Southend Pier, walking its length, feeling its girth, teasing its claim to be the longest in the world at 1.25 miles. Its slot machine alleys whispered to me alluringly. Cheap, trashy items like tin rings and shoddy pen knives (that I would have left [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Southend Pier – still standing, but not standing still.
Posted in Art, Childhood, Communication, Creative writing, History, Memory, Photography, tagged Estuary, Kent, Leigh-on-Sea, Longest Pier in the World, Mudflats, Old Leigh, Peter Stannard, Roy Stannard, Southend, Southend Pier, Thames on August 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Getting the Business Edge
Posted in Communication, Photography, Theatre, Uncategorized, tagged BHCC, Brighton & Hove Chamber of Commerce, Business Edge, CADIA, Facebook Places, Foursquare, Maria Scard, Maria Scard Photography, Peacehaven, Roy Stannard, Sussex Enterprise, Wired Sussex, Zerofiftyone, Zerofiftyone Media on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When I arrived at ad agency Zerofiftyone on the 4th January I embarked upon an audit of the affiliations, memberships, connections and outbound communications used by the agency. Many of the memberships including Sussex Enterprise, Brighton & Hove Chamber of Commerce, CADIA (Crawley & District Industry Association) and Wired Sussex were in the name of [...]




