Author Archives: Julian Saunders

Paul Nash at Tate Britain

Occasionally you go to a show that gets you to see the world differently: Paul Nash’s show at the Tate is one such. Landscapes, from his perspective, have distinct auras, – as though they contain spirits and evoke a supernatural world. His first paintings were dreamlike night scenes. And through out his life he wasContinue reading “Paul Nash at Tate Britain”

The march of the matchmakers.

(Book review published in Market Leader: September 2016) Here are a few hours in the life of a modern everyman I picked up my IPhone and Googled the location of my coffee meeting. Then I summoned an Uber and, on the way, planned my holiday on Airbnb. At our meeting we checked out a YouTubeContinue reading “The march of the matchmakers.”

Dandies and image makers

The photographers gallery continues to be great value-For £3-00 you can see two great shows Make you look: Dandyism and black masculinity  Joyful,liberating and gloriously subversive. People inventing and projecting their own style.Often if you have got less materially then you often end up wearing your wealth and projecting your own style.  Your art isContinue reading “Dandies and image makers”

How China is changing the internet

This film is worth a watch to show how WeChat-which started as a messaging app- is evolving into a one stop killer app for search,social and shopping. (And you thought Google and Facebook were too powerful.). It’s success is due not to Chinese govt support but innovation to make the user experience a) very easyContinue reading “How China is changing the internet”

Throwing Stones at the Google Bus- Douglas Rushkoff

This is a (slightly extended version)of a book review I have just published in Market Leader (the Marketing Society’s quarterly journal : It all started with such high ideals. The web was created as a kind of commons with the promise of a radical democratisation of power. As Rushkoff puts it – The distributed natureContinue reading “Throwing Stones at the Google Bus- Douglas Rushkoff”

APG Strategy V Robots

Another excellent conference and excellent value Here are  a few  things i took away Steve Hilton may sound modern (took his shoes off in public/wore T-Shirt etc)  but his ideas are really a reworking of ideas launched by the levellers in the 16th Century, and developed by Romantics in the 19th century- he wants thingsContinue reading “APG Strategy V Robots”