Identifying Features: Mum, Dad and a motley assortment of Noisy Kids. If you’re very unlucky you might even get Noisy Dog or been-at-the-gin Noisy Grandma Distinctive Markings: Three trips’ worth of assorted beach equipment – all designed to make loud noises / fire plastic missiles / block out your sun Natural Enemies: Just [...]
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
From farm shoppers to fans of Fairtrade, find out which eco foodie tribe you fall into with our handy spotter’s guide The Organic Shopper Amelia’s swapped the Range Rover for a Prius, and finds it much easier to reverse into those tiny spaces in front of the Organic Shop, even if there’s just no [...]
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
IdentifyingFeatures:Rapid-blinkingand intense eye-contact (to appear trustworthy) and the strange tendency to use American-sounding phrases in conversation. Distinctive Markings: A copy of the latest NLP book and a subscription to Psychologies magazine. Natural Enemies: ‘Non-receptives’, ie anyone who looks at them and says “Are you on something, or what?” Their Heroes: Derren Brown, Paul McKenna, [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Spring is in the air, the sun’s out and suddenly everyone’s coupled up. Whispering sweet nothings into their his n’ hers phones, slipping their hands into each other’s back pockets, gazing wistfully into the middle distance whenever they’re apart. It’s mating season all right. Time to get your own back. Here’s Eyespy’s pocket guide to [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Identifying Features: A carefully honed ability to spoon forkfuls into the mouth whilst taking notes with the other hand. Distinctive Markings: A notebook, and an array of disguises. Natural Enemies: Waiters that hover and ask her what she’s writing and any other restaurant reviewers. Especially ones with different opinions. Mating Call: “Share the [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Habitat: Raking through the 70% off rail, ready to pounce when she sees a bargain. Signature Behaviour: Queuing outside Next at 5am, elbows bristling, ready to barge through the doors first. Distinctive Markings: An armful of carrier bags and a pair of sharp elbows. Natural Enemies: Other sale shoppers Mating Call: “I saw it first!” [...]
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
How quickly things can change. Six months ago, Polly wouldn’t have blinked at maxing out her credit card every weekend – new jeans from Axle, a Westwood dress from Roulette, armfuls of accessories and that military jacket that had been in Grazia that week. And that wasn’t even a payday spree. But the [...]
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Ed and Keri tell everyone they’ve never been happier since they decided to go off-grid. It’s always been a dream of theirs to disconnect, to get back to a simpler way of living, they claim and only the most cynical of their friends brings up all those redundancies at Ed’s old firm. But if they [...]
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Signature Behaviour: Leaving a trail of artisan-fashioned rose petal confetti behind her as she makes her way back to her Wedding Fayre stand, between the toastmaster and the woman who does handmade wedding favours. Distinctive Markings: Constantly ringing BlackBerry, an armful of buttonholes and a can of spray paint for the gold doves her latest [...]
Sunday, February 1, 2009
F ***ing Valentine’s Day. No sooner have you made it through the bleak, never-ending-horror that is January, then when without warning, we are forced to parade our relationships, or lack thereof, to the goddamn world. Up and down King Street the promise of disappointment hangs thick in the air as shop windows fill with [...]
Familiar with the Daft Punk Pyramid? Well I’m sorry Thomas and Guy-Manuel, but Etienne De Crecy has almost eclipsed your travelling stage with this epic installation. Those crazy french euro-house DJs, what will they think of next?
Popularity: 20% [?]
Familiar with the Daft Punk Pyramid? Well I’m sorry Thomas and Guy-Manuel, but Etienne De Crecy has almost eclipsed your travelling stage with this epic installation. Those crazy french euro-house DJs, what will they think of next?
Popularity: 20% [?]
According to our publisher, we’ve ‘had a thing’ about this video this month. I’m not sure what he means by that, but what I do know is that Gallery accounts for probably one fifth of the seven million, two hundred and eighteen thousand, two hundred and twenty nine times the video has been viewed at the time of writing. That’s 1,443,645.8 times. Yep, we’re so crazy that we watched it point eight of a time just to make the figures add up. Anyway, POWERTHIRST. It’s an energy drink for men.. MENERGY!
Popularity: 43% [?]
This month’s ‘Youtube video of the month’ was a close call between a Gallery favourite comedy classic involving a cleverly dubbed television advert and that epic new television advert featuring Brains from Thunderbirds dancing to Snap’s ‘Rhythm is a dancer’. No contest really.
Popularity: 13% [?]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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