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Author Archives: Peter Hay
Review: Damien Hirst, Tate Modern
Someone once told me a great story about Damien Hirst. Having been at a party, the man himself had been working the room, asking guests to put their hands in his pocket and guess what was in there. The mischievous … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Communication, Media
Tagged Ann Gallagher, art, Charles Saatchi, Conceptual art, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Jay Joplin, Magma, Minimalism, Robert Morris, Tate, Tate Modern, YBA, Young British Artists
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Review: Brand Anarchy
Brand Anarchy: a book that takes the urban sprawl of our current media landscape, flattens it to its foundations and reconstructs it, explaining how and why each structure looks and stands in the way it does. Authors Steve Earl and … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Digital, Media, PR
Tagged Alastair Campbell, Brand Anarchy, comms, communications, Francis Ingham, Greg Dyke, marketing, media, PR, public relations, publicity, Stephen Waddington, Steve Earl
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Chance is the name of the game: Alighiero Boetti at Tate Modern
As I walk through the archway to room two of the Alighiero Boetti exhibition at Tate Modern, above which are two signs, flashing alternately; one the word ‘PING’, the other ‘PONG’, curator, Mark Godfrey is standing, discussing the piece Shaman/Showman: … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged Alighiero Boetti, Alighiero e Boetti, art, Arte Povera, Boetti, chance, Mappa, Mark Godfrey, Shaman/Showman, Tate, Tate Modern
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Review: Picasso and Modern British Art (Tate Britain)
Influence is a complicated affair. Impossible to measure with any great sense of accuracy or meaning yet it is as ubiquitous as oxygen. We spend our lives being influenced, often without noticing that it is even happening. The exhibition currently … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged art, Ben Nicholson, Cezanne, Cubism, David Hockney, Duncan Grant, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, Guernica, Henry Moore, influence, Modern art, Picasso, Tate, Tate Britain, Wyndham Lewis
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Social media let down by poor customer service at Fulham’s Sands End pub
Daily, I read various case studies where the powers of social media and customer service combined fall far short of the superhero status they have the potential to achieve. As general customer service skills have been around for a good … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Social Media
Tagged comms, communications, customer service, Fulham, Hurlingham, PR, publicity, Rose, Sands End, social media
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Ego and the idiot: the modern opinion piece.
When I read the over-saturation of opinion pieces littering the pages of the media, written by a superiority of didacts who have such high opinions of themselves that they regularly plaster 1,000 words of condescending, cynical and, quite frankly, joyless, … Continue reading
Posted in Media
Tagged Beyoncé, Charlie Brooker, Guardian, Lady Gaga, media, New Year, New Year's resolution, opinion
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Graduate schemes: are PR agency bosses failing graduates?
The ever-resourceful, and thoroughly good chap!, Ben Cotton, has once again compiled his well-researched and really rather helpful list of PR graduate schemes to give the future talent of the PR industry a much-needed foot up. Most of us have … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Media, PR
Tagged Ben Cotton, comms, communications, graduate schemes, graduates, interns, internships, PR, public relations, publicity
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‘Targeting’ journalists on LinkedIn as a comms professional
On Wednesday I spoke at the Social Media Academy #LinkedInConf on the subject of ‘Targeting Journalists on LinkedIn’, so I thought I would share some of my thoughts, and some additional points that came out of the discussion, here. Firstly, … Continue reading
Posted in Digital, PR, Social Media
Tagged comms, communications, journalism, journalists, LinkedIn, Social Media Academy
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Twitter celebrates ‘top tweeters’ at #TwitterDinner, but what places a tweeter on top?
Last night, as I skimmed through my feed, a nightly ritual before drifting off to Bedfordshire, I noticed a handful of celebrities were waxing lyrical about the ‘top tweeters’ #TwitterDinner they had just attended, hosted by Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, … Continue reading
Q&A: Ed and Sarah Rogers, Riverhill Gardens
Channel 4′s Country House Rescue, for me, is all about the best of British: our long-standing architectural heritage preserved and sympathetically modernised for future generations to enjoy. Collectively, these programmes symbolise the conservation of a heritage that lies at the … Continue reading
Posted in Digital, Media
Tagged Channel 4, Country House Rescue, digital, Facebook, Riverhill Gardens, Ruth Watson, Twitter
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