I’ll admit I watched Big Brother again last night - a special extended edition, but only because I’d heard in the day that one of the girls had been kicked out for making a racist comment.

They dragged out the show and made everyone wait until the end of the program to finally show the footage we all wanted to see. It turned out that female ‘Tim Nice But Dim’, Emily, had made a reference to her ‘best house buddy’ Charlie in what seemed to be a act of niave stupidity. The result was that the BB producers removed her from the house.

I really wanted to get online and put this down last night because watching the show, and then the beginning of BBBM had me wanting to put to two cents in too.

Firstly the producers did what they had to in removing her. True. But the whole situation is has been blown in to so much more than it should. I guess the media are sensitive to the subject and it gives them something to write about too.

If you didn’t see the show Emily seemingly innocently (hmmm) called Charlie a word which is commonly used in rap songs and by a certain portion of the black community as term of endearment. The fact that a white girl would use the same expression is where the fuss is being made. The whole situation around the use of this word is something that really gets my goat. Fair enough people can say that they can call themselves what ever they like - it is their choice.

I am from german blood and I’ve often felt I had the right to say what I want about german people as I am one too but I don’t. This is because I would be just as bad as the bigots in perpetuating sterotypes, prejudice and discrimination.

I’m defending her but Emily, it could be said, is a victim of the society she lives in, where these words have been dumbed down and accepted in certain context. Unfortunately she didn’t have the intellegence to realise that this kind of language will never accepted in the mainstream and hopefully never will.

I think the society as whole should bear the responsiblity for yesterday’s incident. However it is Emily who will have to wear the label of racist for a very long time to come.

Last friday I waved good bye to my friends at LexisNexis. After 5 years I have moved on to a new company called Ellipsis Media. They are a web design agency which also sells and supports its own suite of online products. My role is that of art director and I jumped straight in on monday.

Since monday I’ve surprisingly got immediately involved in design work, creating an html email and flash game for Cancer Research UK. There was already a concept produced which I’ve been working on to satisfy the client, and then finalising the look and feel of the game, creating the symbols which I’ve passed on to the developer.

So, that’s all good. I had thought I’d be tied up in meetings for the most part getting to know the workings of the company but that has had to take a back seat. At this moment in time the company has a ton of work on, which is brilliant, and this clearly takes priority.

The guys here are cool too. I’ve not really had much chance to talk to them so far but hopefully we might get a chance to go for a drink one evening and step away from work mode.

It’s been a wierd few days, leaving LexisNexis behind, not going in to Holborn on monday morning. But I’m sure I’ll get used to it. 5 years is a long time in one place, my collegues were like family and the office a second home. I will miss it. Thankfully they’re having a summer party on the 28th at Soho House which I’ve been invited to which should be fun.