Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Nov 24, 2011, 9:15 pm
Okay – everyone settled down and holster your laser guns. It seems the Jedi and Rebel alliance are crossing over to the Dark Side… This is our sort of event. Take a performance style with great legacy – burlesque – and then refresh it with something hugely popular but very left of center �...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Nov 24, 2011, 8:57 pm

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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Nov 23, 2011, 10:56 pm
If you haven’t already, you might like to read An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 3 first. Editor’s note: This is an ongoing story, and sometimes I will probably change my mind about something that has already been posted. In Part 3, I introduced Trevor Deathpriest and Lorenzo Deathp...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Nov 20, 2011, 2:27 am
I’d like to watch a television show called The Murray Files, where Murray investigates the paranormal and alien abductions and why people watch Jersey Shore and Celebrity Apprentice and inexplicable things like that. He will be assisted by an attractive intellectual female type person and there wi...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Nov 16, 2011, 4:13 am
Okay. Midnight”s mum – don’t click this video. It’s harmless ’cause it’s Lego. And everyone needs a little Lego for Valentines Day… or days ending with Day. Thanks to my old mate Thomas who always seems to find this sorta stuff… while holding down a high pressure day job.
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Nov 9, 2011, 10:06 pm
If you haven’t read it already, you might like to read An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 2 The band of Adventurers were nonplussed. “I’m kind of used to riddles being inscribed above the magic doors of castles and caves and whatnot,” said Borgus to the others. “Usually, you sol...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Nov 7, 2011, 11:24 pm
Every time I come to Tassie I’m reminded of the fact that Tasmanians have stolen the most beautiful State from the rest of Australia and it’s time we demanded it back. I’m sitting on the back deck of a house in West Hobart, looking out across the city to the Derwent River. This view is pictur...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Nov 2, 2011, 2:54 am
The following is a presentation we were asked to make to the International Special Event Society Hong Kong Chapter on how event agencies or for that matter stand alone legacy events could develop an effective social media strategy. The following is what we presented and what we are currently workin...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Oct 31, 2011, 7:44 pm

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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Oct 26, 2011, 11:05 pm
If you haven’t read it already, you might like to start at An Adventure In The Castle Of Despair, Part 1 48 games of rock, paper, scissors, sorcery, political assassination later (it’s hard to beat political assassination) and Gort stepped out onto the causeway. Had the band of adventurers chos...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Oct 25, 2011, 6:31 pm
Recently we were doing some work for the Jack Morton Worldwide team in Hong Kong and enjoyed the following performer ‘discovery’. The meshing between a rocking soundtrack, a sensational charismatic dancers, and some fabulous multimedia support – all translates into a really strong event perfo...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Oct 23, 2011, 10:31 pm
Nurl looked up from his worn copy of Snard’s Guide To Evil Architecture with a thoughtful expression on his pointlessly handsome face. “Anything?” asked Borgus Rennan, 13th Level Mage, who had dismounted from his mighty steed and had spent the last 20 minutes tinkering with its throttle. “...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Oct 9, 2011, 11:00 pm

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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Oct 7, 2011, 3:30 am
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About th...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Sep 21, 2011, 8:55 pm
Great Ad but before you clickplay – don’t if your under 18 years old and or are sensitive to relatively explicit imagery. For all others – click away and remember to do a regular reach and roll check.  
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Sep 17, 2011, 6:34 pm
Dance. Music and dancing are a fundamental part of the human condition we all share. We may not all be sensational at it but we all feel better doing it – alone and within a group. Not surprisingly when we gather the ‘tribe’ together for a meeting… an event… we’ve discovered that dance c...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Aug 21, 2011, 8:16 pm
We can’t wait to see the new iPhone 5 but more so we can’t wait to see the difference in event delivery between Steve Jobs and Tim Cook – an opportunity for something new or an opportunity to extend and build on what already works. Interesting times. Oh… and we also can’t wait to see and f...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Aug 16, 2011, 3:06 am

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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Jun 30, 2011, 11:32 pm
The ‘Vendor Client’ video has been around for sometime, half a million viewers in it’s first 14 days being posted some two years ago but it still resonates as strongly today as it did back then. Perhaps understandably this is the case more so with freelancers, SMEs and boutique outfits such as...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Jun 5, 2011, 11:50 pm
A little while ago a fabulous post from Stephanie at her sales-centric blog that helped us provide better clarity on some of our clients. Not so much the Good, but rather the Bad and the Ugly. It indentifies the top three clients you just gotta cut loose. I reckon she’s really on the money with th...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - May 28, 2011, 3:14 am
We stumbled across a great project call Playing For Change that features well loved songs being played by different musicians from around the world. The Ben E. King classic ‘Stand By Me’ is really moving. It comes from the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”,...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - May 3, 2011, 9:27 pm
We had only recently blogged about our fascination with featuring sand artists within some of our corporate event programs – and then suddenly a long time creative partner of ours has put aside his cartooning pencils and re-invented himself as a sand artist – and a sensational one at that! It n...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Mar 26, 2011, 6:04 am
As a leisurely follow-up to Greg’s post on Sand Artistry – I just stumbled across an Italian artist called Matteo Negrin who has produced a stunning piece of art to music called… ‘Music Painting’. Loved it. Just gotta share it. This is a sensational story telling tool that would be sensat...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Feb 21, 2011, 8:50 pm
Occasionally we’ve been accused of sticking our heads firmly in it, fair call, sand that is, however we’ve also found ourselves playing with sand within an event context. This has varied hugely from a series of sandpits for an interactive teambuilding dinosaur dig for a mining firm, to an onst...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Jan 17, 2011, 2:32 am
I’m going through a Michael Caine movie phase. Thus far I’ve watched: Get Carter, The Ipcress File and The Italian Job. Next in the lineup is Zulu – which, unlike the previous 3, I’ve never seen before. I’m told it’s a cinema classic, so I have high hopes. - Posted using BlogPress fr...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Dec 9, 2010, 5:00 pm
Yeah. We know. Everytime we hit the madness of December-January we drop off the virtual radar. The previous year in our post Event Teams Should Eat More Fish we promised to eat more fish… and by that we really meant blog more regularly and…uhh… eat more…uhh fish. Well I am pleased to declar...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Nov 12, 2010, 5:37 am
Recently a ‘Tips for Event Success’ was contributed to the September MICE Biz supplement of the South China Morning Post – the premier English language newspaper of Hong Kong. And before we forget – a big shout out of thanks to FACTOR168 fan Pru at Sinclair Communications for the editorial o...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Nov 10, 2010, 6:28 pm

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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Nov 9, 2010, 7:17 pm

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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Oct 31, 2010, 7:15 am
Events, like personal relationships, need five key elements to ensure that they are a memorable, meaningful and enjoyable experience – they are balance, focus, magic, practice, and respect. With that in mind – here are our five key fundamentals to ensure event success. Business Theatre. Strike...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Oct 24, 2010, 8:04 pm
Recently staff journalist and self confessed gourmet traveller Megan Gell from CEI Magazine shared a very complicated cup of fruit juices with Darren Kerr during a recent visit to Hong Kong.  Some laughs were had, world peace was discussed, best city as a MICE destination was pondered, the delight...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Oct 7, 2010, 10:23 pm
As a finalist at the 2010 Australian Event Awards – we are delighted to congratulate David Atkins Enterprises for deservedly taking out the Best Export category with not one but two world class public events – the Winter Olympics and Shanghai Expo. In addition – David Atkins was also awarded w...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Oct 4, 2010, 8:36 am
Working within Asia and Australia, we’ve become well aware of the strategic and tactical differences in western and eastern event styles from an event company perspective, but what about from the corporate client perspective? We were curious to discover what desirable vendor attributes and event e...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Oct 3, 2010, 8:16 pm
Midnight is a huge fan of a TV series set around an IT help center and I guess it’s okay. But for me – this little gem buried deep within YouTube is it’s peer. It’s called ‘The Website Is Down’ and it’s a cracker. Humour is always a very personal thing at the best of times but each of...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Sep 23, 2010, 8:47 pm
A quick post on an experiential marketing event staged for IKEA that if nothing else generated some major viral activity and online youtube hits (and this post I guess) but to be frank, I am not sure what the messaging point of it actually is. The premise… or as they put it – the ‘experiment�...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Sep 17, 2010, 12:25 am
We are delighted to be named a Finalist in the Australian Event Awards for 2010. It is always nice to be recognised by one’s peers. Our two esteemed competitors for the ‘Best Export’ award are David Atkins Enterprises and Maxxam International. We reckon that we are keeping pretty good company...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Sep 8, 2010, 10:42 pm
The Eventprofs Blog Awards are back for their 2nd year and celebrate our community and the thought-leaders who help to propel it forward. We are delighted to announce that FACTOR168 Creative Event Company, with the support of fans and supporters, was awarded the Event Industry Best Corporate Blog Aw...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Aug 31, 2010, 10:35 pm
Part of our scope of services includes not only designing and delivering business event experiences for corporate clients directly but often we are engaged by other live communication and event marketing organizations that lack the specific in-house experience and showcraft (or show production) expe...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Aug 28, 2010, 10:09 pm
They don’t rap about bitches and hoe’s – they rap about witches and trolls! Man. I love ‘Flight of the Conchords’. Crazy talented Kiwis.
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Aug 24, 2010, 3:40 pm
We are delighted… no… we are totally thrilled and humbled to be nominated for the Eventprofs Awards 2010 in the Best Corporate Blog category. These awards are the brainchild of Lara McCulloch who is the CEO of the special events industry’s highest ranked independent blog and is also the found...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Aug 22, 2010, 1:38 am
Surprisingly there have only been two major events ever staged within the legendary Angkor Wat site. A national event staged in 2002 with star tenor Jose Carreras – and eight years later with this memorable and awe inspiring corporate event produced by the FACTOR168 Creative Event Company. In des...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Aug 17, 2010, 10:28 pm
One of my fav’ films in recent times has been ‘Tropic Thunder’ with Ben whats-his-name and Robert Downey Jr playing an Aussie Russell Crowe inspired actor who goes black and kinda never goes back. But without doubt – the star for me was the small supporting role played by Tom Cruise as the ...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Aug 16, 2010, 8:36 pm
One thing that we find is very popular when producing business events throughout Asia is the popularity of the Boutonniere. The what? It’s French for a bloke’s corsage… usually a single flower or bud worn in the lapel buttonhole of a suite. The buttonhole that is the same side as the pocket ha...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Aug 9, 2010, 3:12 am
The tendency, especially among males, to make educated (?) guesses about subjects and present them as fact. The syndrome manifests itself most frequently when the sufferer is asked a question by a member of the opposite sex. Female: Do I need to put premium gas in my car? Male: Absolutely. If you...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Aug 8, 2010, 8:15 pm
Just a pointer that I’ve created a new ‘Conversation’ topic over on the forum: The Conversation: Banning The Bomb?. Please feel free to join in!
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Aug 7, 2010, 7:18 pm
awwww yeah…. sometimes you come across something that you just love and for me it is the indie band Dancing Pigeons with their song ‘Ritalin’. Now I have to confess, it is the video clip that hooks me more than the actual song. To my precious easy listening ears it’s no Lionel Ritchie ‘Dan...
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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Jul 28, 2010, 11:17 pm
Having recently finished a lengthy consultation engagement to refresh and restructure the Uniplan Hong Kong events business and provide leadership to their Greater China group, FACTOR168 Creative Event Company founding partner Darren Kerr was asked which project left the biggest impression. He nomin...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Jul 23, 2010, 4:06 am

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Darren K. posted an article on FACTOR168 | Muse - Jul 17, 2010, 11:33 pm
Mister Midnight, a pal of FACTOR168 Creative Event Company, sent us a link to an outfit that is producing a ‘trompe-l’oeil’ styled wall and door stickers that provides a sensational 3D-ish effect. At first we were a tad skeptical but they are actually really cool. We are already buzzing with ...
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Darren K. posted an article on Voodoologic.org - Jul 16, 2010, 8:23 am
I’ve just finished the new Domino’s “7 Meats Pizza”, which included 2 meats they had to invent themselves. This got me to wondering, what do the Voodoonista consider to be the creme-de-la-creme of the fast food experience? Shout it out in the comments section! Footnotes: 1. Well, new to m...
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