Charlie Tims
Associate
Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
- Oh yes, it's an inaugural Demos Podcast Here’s a first go. It’s Duncan O’ Leary and Sarah Gillinson talking about their recent pamphlet “Working Progress” in which they argue that graduates aren’t what employers want, but if they were, then employers wouldn’t be able to handle them anyway. In places you can hear the rumble of traffic and police sirens on Tooley St, but that aside, if you have any comments/abuse that you’d like to dish out send an email to charlie.tims@demos.co.uk.... continue reading on 28th June 2006 in Demos Podcasts
- Public Space Heros So, Westminster City Council finally ASBOed Phil Howard the Oxford Circus preacher. I for one will miss him ? you can read a lovely article on this enigmatic creature in the Guardian. Maybe you think he?s irritating, but after trundling around some pretty boring public spaces while researching People Make Places, I would conclude that it?s people like Phil who make the world a more colourful place. Godspeed you Phil.Back in the day, when I used to pick up litter in Westminster for a living,... continue reading on 10th May 2006
- Timeshare for The Myspace Generation I can?t decide if Adventure Island is an interesting experiment in Everyday Democracy revolutionising the meaning of holiday, or a horrific, morally-corrupt flash-colonisation-mob of oversexed, overmyspaced 20 somethings, hell bent on ?touching each other? in paradise . Mark James, an entrepreneur trading in Gap Year breaks, has bought a 3 year lease to a small adventure Island. He is recruiting ?a tribe? of 5000 people to start establishing an ecologically sustainable community within its... continue reading on 28th April 2006
- Everything TV Have you heard of You Tube? Apparently 10 million Americans are using it every day. Can?t decide whether it?s the future of broadcasting or not. According to the brilliant bigshinything blog ETA used it to announce a ceasefire last week. In fact, you can watch it here . Now that ministers have "got the hang of blogging" perhaps they'll give this a go too. There's alot of this crazy clip culture around at the momnet. If you like you tube - try video bomb or holy lemon. continue reading on 27th March 2006 Comments (1)
- Fight the Bangle During 2005 protest went personal - political pin badges made a come back, I-pods had to be accessorised with ice-white make poverty history wristbands and everyone blogged till their fingers bled. Those firebrands at The Countryside Alliance seem to have caught up now with the ultimate status symbol of elite protest; the sold silver protest bangle. oh yesI saw one passing through Mayfair the other day and it made me feel all shivery. continue reading on 18th January 2006
- Festive Highlights In a focus-group researchers mug-up a series of conclusions from focus-grouper's responses. The results of the workshop with hairdressers (and many others like it) will not stop with policy-wonks, but will be developed into stories about the future of the city, which will be developed by professional writers and be made publicly available through the Glasgow 2020 website. This is one of the core values of the project; that legitimate visions of a city's future are built through public... continue reading on 3rd January 2006
- The all seeing eye of social research The Universities of Portsmounth, Leeds and Belfast have produced a research tool that threatens to create mass-redundancies amongst the interns of Britain.The "Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System" is a veritable honey pot of postcode-searchable information on population, industry, work and poverty, live and death blah blah blah tracked from the 19th century till the last census in 2001. For example, here is everything you could want to know about Southwark. continue reading on 19th December 2005
- Britain - Not so creative afterall? Just came accross the "Creative Industries Economic Estimates Statistical Bulletin 2005", burried deep in the bowels of the DCMS website (what else are sundays for?). It shows that after rapid growth in the late 1990s, since 2001, employment in the creative industries has stagnated at about 1.8 million. It also suggests the number of businesses in the sector has fallen from 121, 900 to 113,300. Just thought it was odd as it seems to completely contradict the received wisdom, that Britain's... continue reading on 11th December 2005
- Spin Free Back before broadband meant you could waz anything off the internet at light-speed there used to be a lot more CD-Roms cluttering the place up. To celebrate Demos' 10th anniversary a few years ago we knocked a whole batch of these up with our entire back catalogue of pamphlets loaded onto them. Anyway, over the past few years, as people have become more adept with the internet and computers have quickened, the disc has started to become a bit obsolete ? they get left behind at events, and... continue reading on 9th December 2005
- Music, Makes The People, Come Together... "No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world," said The Who guitarist Pete Townsend. And he was right. This morning I switched on the radio to hear Pete Doherty, of popular beat combo Babyshambles, name-check both my birthplace and my current home in the same line of his current pop-ditty Albion. It was life-affirming stuff. But as an individual, Mr Doherty quite obviously isn?t. So there you have it; pop stars won?t save the world ? music might. Tapping into the... continue reading on 9th December 2005