Stop Online Piracy, But Not Like This: A Film Producer’s Opinion on SOPA & PIPA
Posted on 19 January 2012
You may have noticed today that Wikipedia is blacked out to protest SOPA. I cannot accurately express in words how proud I am of the Wikipedia Foundation for taking part in this protest, but I’ll try: Very to the power of one billion. But I think it’s even more than that. If you haven’t already [...] Continue Reading
4 Reasons Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work And How To Fix Them
Posted on 05 January 2012
New Year’s Resolutions are a nice idea – they indicate making solid, positive and lasting changes to our lives and how can self improvement be bad? But the bad news is that the vast majority of people that make New Year’s Resolutions just don’t stick to them for longer than a week or so. Here are [...] Continue Reading
5 Goals For 2012: My 2012 Manifesto
Posted on 01 January 2012
So, in 2012, I, Adam Patel, resolve to… #1. Get Up Earlier (at 7am every day including weekends -well, possibly not Sundays) Being honest, I hate waking up early. Up to now, my definition of freedom has somewhere included the words “man should have the right to wake up naturally”. And this was all well [...] Continue Reading
2011 Highlights: My 10 Favourite Moments Of The Year
Posted on 29 December 2011
It is an annual ritual for me, during the week between Christmas and New Year, to relive the year I’ve just lived through, take stock of the lessons that can be learned from my mistakes and celebrate my achievements and triumphs. And thanks to Facebook’s new Timeline profiles, we are living the most heavily documented [...] Continue Reading
Superman Requiem in Total Film Magazine
Posted on 28 October 2011
Ahead of the London premier of the film in early November, Superman Requiem has been featured in December’s edition of Total Film magazine. This is incredibly amazing for two reasons: Number one: I grew up reading Total Film. I have quite a few issues of Total Film in my collection. Throughout my teenage years it [...] Continue Reading
Richard Branson: What Success Means To Me
Posted on 25 October 2011
Richard Branson has been one of my role models since I first heard of him. In this post he explains what success means to him. And prepare for a surprise. Continue Reading
Investment Mistakes: How To Lose £2500
Posted on 20 October 2011
So after more than a year of silence, in mid October, Apple finally released its next generation iPhone, the rather depressing iPhone 4S. Continue Reading
10 Stock Trading Lessons Learned The Hard Way
Posted on 04 October 2011
September, particularly the last couple of weeks, have been a rough time for traders. The Eurozone crisis (it’s Greece’s fault) has caused the entire market to under perform, resulting in a rather dampened set of circumstances in which the NASDAQ and the FTSE have pretty much just fallen consistently for nine days on the trot. [...] Continue Reading
Dave Gorman’s Powerpoint Presentation & Other Edinburgh Fringe 2011 Reviews
Posted on 18 August 2011
Last weekend, I was lucky enough to go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. My love of magic and illusion has over the years transpired into a love of live entertainment in general. Stand-up comedy inevitably falls under that umbrella. If you’ve never been to the Fringe and you don’t know what it is, let me [...] Continue Reading
My First Movie Credit!
Posted on 14 August 2011
Directed by Adam Patel!? Well, not quite. It’s been my dream for over half of my life and while this is not necessarily the manifestation of that dream, it’s certainly a step in the right direction… Continue Reading
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