I often get teased about how little I know about popular culture..which is not true as I know a lot about it, but have little capacity for remembering small facts and lines from films!
Two loosely based examples 'popular culture' that I am really enjoying at the moment are the series of adverts for the British Census, and the TV series, 'The Boat that Guy Built'.
The billboard advertisements feature photographs of everyday objects such as a computer and bus that have been carefully constructed out of purple paper. The adverts remind me of my former love for the Skoda Fabia, 'Full of Lovely Stuff' advert, which still delights me - using evident hand processes to suggest a sense of humanism and integrity to products or processes.
'The Boat That Guy Built' features a humorous motorcycle racer and mechanic called Guy who has set himself the task of doing up his long boat using inventions from the industrial revolution as he travels along English canals. He has so far woven a cotton sheet, created a clock suitable for a barge, thrown a Wedgwood mug and created other facilities for his barge. His lighthearted journey highlights some very interesting insights into industrial labour, and the breadth of inventions that changed our lives prior to the digital revolution. Here is in the last episode...
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