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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 3:49PM Here's the latest in the Electric Luxury debate. I shot this in Hong Kong in May with John Flatt producing and Moray Wedderburn directing. You can see me getting out of the enormous Phantom and walking into the Peninsula Hotel - not a bad way to spend and afternoon. More at the campaign site, www.electricluxury.com
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 1:32PM Today Rolls-Royce annouced their new experimental model, 102EX - a fully electric-powered Phantom. They're using it to start a debate about the pros and cons of electric drivetrains in luxury cars. You can join the debate at electricluxury.com. Music by Will Saul at Simple records.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 11:41AM
One take, live. Inspiring that one man can make so much beautiful noise on his own. I saw him perform this last night at the Barbican - ending with him stamping on the keyboard - there's no artifice here, he really means it. One of my favourite lines ever 'Get your coat, 'cause the righteous are leaving...'
David Ford, Inspiration, State of the Union, one take., solo performanc in Music Friday, February 11, 2011 at 11:29AM 
We’re in the process of renovating our house (I say ‘we’, really it’s my better half who’s doing all the hard work). In the alcove in our bedroom (which was painted a new shade I’ve christened ‘Yoda Green’ there was a nasty up-lighter. It was still there when she started painting the room but when the electrician took it down, Yoda appeared. Little things, little things...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 10:16AM 
The Pushmi-Pushu is a throwback from Dr Doolittle's Pushmi-Pullu, only far more stupid and useless.
The Pushmi-Pushu doesn’t know where it’s going. It doesn't know what it’s doing. But it pushes and pushes and pushes on blindly, in the vain hope that it will get somewhere.
Quite often it's so busy pushing it fails to notice the cliff edge and plummets over the edge. (Huzzah!) Sometimes it succeeds in pushing until everyone else is backed up against the wall and just gives in. (Boo!)
You’ll find the Pushmi-Pushu at home in meeting rooms. Quite often there's a herd of the blessed things, grunting and sweating, trying to out-push each other.
You’ll recognise their distinctive cry: “Weneedtohaveameeting”, which they repeat until you give in and let yourself be shoved into a windowless room where you'll spend the next three hours wishing you hadn't agreed to it.
Classic behaviours include total deafness when you use the word ‘No’; the ability to change their minds constantly; the ability to be oblivious to anyone else's opinion. The scientific community recently discovered the Pushmi-Pushu's brains are very small and are located in their hindquarters.
If you see one, hide. If you can't hide, slump over your Mac and play dead. It’ll eventually go and find someone else to hassle.