The Woodshed

I believe my unique Creative skills* to be communicating, inspiring, coaching and empowering. Communicating (i have mastered the art of communication) Inspiring (i look for story-telling to drive important messages) Coaching (i have the patience of Job. And 4 kids!) Empowering (i have released the Ego, who has already served his purpose thank you) What are yours? (*inspired by @DeepakChopra) Pic: Taken whilst watching my daughter, Emma (14), fly off to visit her cousins in Johannesburg.

Ever wanted to know what it feels like to present an award at the countries largest gathering of creative's - from backstage nerves to onstage hysteria? I had the honour of handing out the Gold Loerie award for Excellence in Mobile Advertising at the Goodhope Centre in Cape Town, SA on Sunday night at the annual 2010 Awards (it went to gloo Digital Design for their client, Cosmopolitan). I did my best to record the experience in true ' Strange Days ' style. Put yourself in my shoes ;-) be warned: the filming is not exactly steady. ;-) take a deep breath and point your mouse here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PhvpXll58 Aaait!

Dad, i love you man.

i'm super excited as I step into a brand new chapter in my life: Chief Creative Officer of Quirk. i guess a lot of peeps would like to know how the journey transpires - this is a screenshot of my gmail yesterday.

The moment has come for Mzansi to stand up and create history. Let us unite with the sound of vuvuzelas today at 12 noon. Lets go out there and do what Mzansi does best… blow our Vuvuzelas and show our support of Bafana Bafana and for the 2010 World Cup. Vuvuzela Moment “Vuvuzela moment” is an initiative which will bring Mzansi to a standstill, make the world stand up and take notice of Mzansi’s pride, its own heritage! On the 9th of June 2010, 2 days before kick-off at exactly 12 o’clock, for 5 minutes, stop what you are doing, get your Vuvuzelas, and blow on it like never before. If you are in the car, hoot and let the sound be heard from Cape to Mpumalanga to KwaZulu-Natal and from KwaZulu-Natal to Limpopo! article: http://tinyurl.com/33efjxe

1985 Symbolics became the first company to register as a dot-com, on March 15. The domain survives today, but the Massachusetts-based computer manufacturer failed to keep up with the evolution of the PC industry. Of the six dot-coms registered in its first year, only one was not involved in computing: defence contractor Northrop. 1990 Barely a few hundred dot-coms were registered during the 1980s, but after Tim Berners-Lee put up the first website in 1990 (info.cern.ch) from his base at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the concept took off. 1995 The flotation of Netscape ushered in a dot-com boom, after its value rose to $2.8 billion in one day. A year later, while the PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin were busy working on the nascent Google, Yahoo!’s share price tripled on its first day of trading. 2000 Two months after AOL.com acquired Time Warner in a $164 billion deal, the dot-com boom reached its zenith on March 10. Nine weeks later, the fashion webs