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Articles by James McConachie

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Trace Elements: Weakending

01/05/2012 James McConachie

As the week draws to its close, that trusty old question “What are you getting up to this weekend?” will doubtless be asked in workplaces across the land. Weekends are the pay-off after all for (read more)

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Trace Elements: Happy?

24/04/2012 James McConachie

Throughout jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald’s extraordinary career, awards and applause acclaimed her talent. What Ella really wanted to hear though – was that she was beautiful. Problem was, Ella wasn’t, and this made her unhappy. (read more)

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Trace Elements: Scribble

17/04/2012 James McConachie

The Gershwins served up “poe-tah-toe” in their pronunciation-divide ditty Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off for a roller-skating Fred and Ginger to deliver in the movie Shall We Dance some 75 years back. Forward to (read more)

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Trace Elements: Together

10/04/2012 James McConachie

A few years back, a female friend of mine married a man who was/is bisexual. I remember she told me – that if they walked along the street together and a hot woman passed by (read more)

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Trace Elements: Humour

03/04/2012 James McConachie

I was hissed at once in a comedy club (I was performing stand-up) for telling a gag that went something along the lines of “My neighbour’s finding it difficult to come out of the closet. (read more)

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Trace Elements: The Others

27/03/2012 James McConachie

I caught the closing minutes of a TV property show last night. A couple had chosen (for couple, read girlfriend) the new home they were going to move into, with the main criteria being she (read more)

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Art

Trace Elements: iLove

20/03/2012 James McConachie

Neuroscience reveals the brain’s love pleasure chemicals are usually released for 1½ to 3 years max. In other words, being in love should last you roughly as long as your next mobile phone handset. But (read more)

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Art

Trace Elements: Mars & Venus, Mum or Dad?

13/03/2012 James McConachie

There are countries where little boys and little girls grow up to marry their mums and dads. The UK is one of them. It may sound wrong, very wrong, but it’s human nature. So that (read more)

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Trace Elements: Romance

06/03/2012 James McConachie

When writing fictional characters, a basic rule is females say it, males show it. In the real world this reveals itself most dramatically when men and woman date, then stop. He’ll often just vanish without (read more)

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Art

Trace Elements: Trying it on

28/02/2012 James McConachie

Picture a clothes shop: A customer walks in, eyes a garment, tries it on, says they love it, tells the assistant they’ll definitely be back tomorrow to buy. They’re never seen again. Fickle? Polite? Hit (read more)

Art

Trace Elements: Can I Have A Word?

21/02/2012 James McConachie

Several months back at an advertising agency I won’t mention (coughs Billington Cartmell) I was pitching potential straplines for a Panasonic camera campaign. Its artwork featured a suited City worker admiring adventure holiday shots he’d (read more)

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Trace Elements: Catch My Pitch

07/02/2012 James McConachie

Picture this: An Oscar-winning super producer, a TV network super suit, their brand new Central London indie offices, and me in the hot seat (it’s still warm from the legendary actor who’s attached to their (read more)

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Trace Elements: Namedropping

31/01/2012 James McConachie

Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Robert Pattinson Name-drop a celebrity in a digital headline and extra clicks are guaranteed. They’re like the sugar that tempts mouse-holders to nibble at your first few lines. After that… Well, a story (read more)

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Trace Elements: Marketing Copy

24/01/2012 James McConachie

“How old are you? And are you married with children?” I was asked by a potential client last week in Canary Wharf. My top of the range anti-wrinkle cream allowed me to subtract vainly for (read more)

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Trace Elements: Off Course

17/01/2012 James McConachie

I used to live across the street from Hamburger University, where McDonalds teach staff the innermost secrets of the McMuffin, Happy Meals and Going Large. Unusually for a seat of learning, it was perched above (read more)

Art

Trace Elements: Commercial Breakdown

10/01/2012 James McConachie

A commercial break on Pick TV has just made me question the way that I’m living life. And not in a “It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting here on my own watching Pick TV” kind (read more)

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Trace Elements: Screamer

03/01/2012 James McConachie

Back in the sixties, teenage girls in their thousands would cram into concerts given by The Beatles and scream hysterically from first note to last. The songs were seldom heard. Those teens could obviously have (read more)

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Trace Elements: Workaholic

27/12/2011 James McConachie

During a party thrown to celebrate my 2nd birthday, apparently, my Grandma asked me the big question “Where’s Daddy?” I’m told my response was to point over to a framed photo on the mantel. The (read more)

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Trace Elements: Taboo

20/12/2011 James McConachie

So it’s Tuesday morning and I’m writing copy from home for a tobacco firm. What makes it worse ethically and karmically is they’re global. Plus I’ve just noticed the words tobacco and taboo look spookily (read more)

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Trace Elements: Twister

13/12/2011 James McConachie

I’ve never been to Mumbai, but if their train journeys into work are less overcrowded than London’s, I may outsource myself soon. Plus a mutant insect flew into my mouth I guess I’d never make (read more)

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4Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP
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6Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP
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7Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP
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19Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP
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22Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

23Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

24Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

25Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

26Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

27Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

28Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

29Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

30Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

31Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Occultism & Sexuality17/09/2019 The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP

 
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