Jodie Adam
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
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Beyond the Special Effects: A Critical Review of James Cameron's Avatar
Avatar, directed by James Cameron and released in 2009, promised to be a game-changing film with its groundbreaking special effects and visually stunning world of Pandora. The film was highly anticipated and had a huge budget, yet it ultimately fell short in its storytelling. The plot was unoriginal and predictable, with shallow, unlikeable characters. The villains, too, were stereotypical and served to reinforce racial stereotypes.
By Jodie Adam3 years ago in Geeks
Ten tips to make money writing for Medium
Identify a niche topic: Medium is a platform where readers come to find information on specific subjects. To make money quickly, it's important to identify a niche topic that is in high demand and write articles that provide valuable information to readers in that niche.
By Jodie Adam3 years ago in Lifehack
The 5 Best lines in Restless Natives
Restless Natives is a 1985 film set in Edinburgh about two friends, Ronnie and Will, who dressed as the Clown and the Wolfman hold up tourist coaches in the friendliest way possible. In the process, they become local heroes and inadvertent tourist attractions themselves. The main conflict in the film comes from Ronnie wanting to become a more serious criminal, while Will is a romantic hero, far more concerned with doing the right thing than becoming rich. At the end of the day, the film is an exploration of their friendship as they struggle to find meaning and direction in Thatcher’s mid-eighties Britain.
By Jodie Adam4 years ago in Geeks
Why writing a book was so important to me
I had a few reasons for deciding to write a book about copywriting. The first was personal fulfilment: it was a good way to consolidate what I had learned. Secondly, professional recognition: I was looking for a new job at the time and a book is far more impressive than a CV. And finally, vanity: having an actual printed book with your name on the front feels awesome.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Motivation
Tales from the Dyslexic Side: Part 4
People who love books and read them quickly are said to devour them; this bestows books the quality of food, as though they are sustenance keeping the avid reader alive. For some of us, that’s just what they are. Books are more than just bound paper and printed lines, they are doorways to other worlds and experiences to live. I developed a passion for books which was never matched by my ability to consume them. I could taste the stories they held and I wanted to munch my way through them, but I couldn’t say I devoured them, that would give the idea of reading quickly. It was more like I nibbled my way through them, and if we’re holding to the analogy, probably dropped a fair few crumbs on the carpet while doing so.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Motivation
Alternatives to coffee
As well as spawning more memes than the cat who first had a cheeseburger, coffee is the single greatest ingredient for getting the world running. Without an early morning injection of caffeine, the world would be left floundering around in its pyjamas trying to rub sleepy dust out of its eyes until lunchtime.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Lifehack
Tales from the Dyslexic Side: Part 3
Reading slowly and missing out on the meaning aren’t the only problems for dyslexics at school. We also try hard, making a huge effort only to end up with a chaotic mess. Even before I was allowed to use pens and let loose with bottles of ink (I still can’t believe they let primary schools kids use fountain pens), my school work was always a mess; my exercise books were a spaghetti junction of crossings out and smudges where some words floated off the lines and others sank beneath them. There was no uniformity of letter size from the beginning to end of a word and the whole thing was a battleground of arrows showing where certain letters had been inserted too late.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Psyche
Brief encounters in Bologna
Daytime drinking? I can handle that. Morning drinking? Yeah, I’m up for that as well, I thought as I made my way to an Irish pub smack in the middle of the Bologna’s student district. The pretext for my early morning drinking was the world cup being played a few time zones to the east but with my interest in football always having been somewhere between none and “is it over yet?” I soon found myself a bit tipsy and fairly bored.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Confessions
Tales from the Dyslexic Side: Part 2
Dyslexics, it is said, have a reduced working memory; we can’t hold as much “live” information in our heads at once. While your long-term memory can be seen as a hard-drive storing retrievable information, your working memory is like a processor, holding and manipulating the info you are accessing now and allowing you to focus on the task at hand. So, to be able to concentrate on something, we need it broken down into nice manageable pieces. And this is fundamentally what being a copywriter is all about: taking something complicated and translating it into the simple terms we can.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Psyche
Tales from the Dyslexic Side: Part 1
Over the years, I’ve worked, and been sacked as a copywriter, a graphic designer, an editor and even an English teacher. I’ve written for famous international brands and taught English in universities. The majority of these career experiences have either finished with me being sacked or simply told not to bother coming back next term. Yet despite this, I think I’ve been fairly successful, and as Douglas Adams said, “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be”.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Psyche
The Twin Gods of Gemini
The hushed congregation of acolytes stared straight ahead, as the High Priestess of Gemini strode down the aisle. The only sounds were those of the priestess’ heels as they clicked on the stone floor and muffled lamentations of the baby held in her arms, which echoed off the cavern walls.
By Jodie Adam5 years ago in Futurism
