Win Derren Brown ENIGMA tickets for 29 June 2009
Please note this was for June 2009 tickets and this competition is therefore closed.
Yes that right there’s a competition over at the facebook page run by Abeo:
http://www.facebook.com/DerrenBrown
Send your entries here. Again you can enter as many times as you like although this time it’s a little harder. We’re not so concerned if your not a fantastic artist/photoshop guru (like the one above from 6yr old Sarah) as it’s ideas that will win us over. However if you enter a stunning piece of artwork (that is your own!!!) that will impress us too.
Get your crayola out and good luck.
PD+Abeo.
It’s Coops Birthday
(on July 3rd) He’s going to hit 30 and he wants one of these:
if anyone wants to get his one or just send him a birthday card email me here.
ENIGMA LONDON: WIN TICKETS via Twitter
Yes that’s right folks you heard heard it right. We’re giving 3 couples (6 tickets in total) the chance to win tickets to what has to be the greatest show in London on Earth!!!
How to win: simply log on to TWITTER and Re-Tweet the message – @BrownTowers – Derren Brown #Enigma London.
You can then insert your own message afterwards about how wonderful Enigma is, how Coops should be the next Batman or proposals of marriage to Phillis/Abeo/Coops/Iain/Jennie/Andy.
Please no foul language and you can enter all 3 weeks (please don’t pollute twitter with 10 entries – it WON’T give you an edge) – we will choose just 1 of you each week (so you’ll need someone to take with you). Dates are as follows: Monday 22nd June, Monday 29th June, Monday 6th July.
We will hold a draw each Friday before and I will contact you directly (so you have 3 chances to win). If you are a winner (I will contact you via twitter and you have just 4 hours to respond) email me and I will arrange a pickup at the box office in your name. The prize is the tickets on the days available above – if you can’t go we’ll give them to our second choice – no cash refunds or “favors for sailors” in return I’m afraid.
Good luck.
Truck Stop
We did a Truck Stop!
I put 50p in a fruit machine and won £5, THAT WAS BRILL!!! If only Derren paid me THAT much per week.
Much Love
Coops
THANK YOU HASTINGS
Big-up’s to Mini-Me his brother Mega-Me and the whole crew at the White Rock Theatre Hastings, you guys are awesome and I can’t wait to go back, thanks for all your help, I wish every tour date could go so smoothly.
Coops
Can you tell if someone is lying
You wouldn’t know it from the claims of companies like No Lie MRI, but we’re a long way off being able to use brain scans to detect reliably whether a person is lying or not. Nonetheless, cognitive psychologists are busy beavering away in the background, testing the ways that brain activity varies when people lie compared with when they tell the truth. One such study has just been published, claiming to be the first to investigate deception in the context of face recognition.
Sujeeta Bhatt and colleagues scanned the brains of 18 participants undergoing a simple task designed to simulate a police line-up. The researchers compared brain activity across three conditions: when the participants pointed out truthfully which face from three they’d seen earlier; when they lied and pointed to a new face rather than the one they’d seen earlier; and finally a condition where all the faces were new but the participants lied and pretended to have seen one of them before.
No single brain area was active when the participants lied compared with when they told the truth. However, a network of frontal and parietal regions were more active in the lying conditions. This network included the dorso- and ventro- lateral prefrontal cortices, the superior frontal gyri, and the anterior cingulate gyrus, all of which are found at the front of the brain. These areas are known to be involved in working memory, response selection and error monitoring. In the parietal lobe, the precuneus - an area known to be involved in visual imagery- also showed increased activity during lying.
5 Million hits later
So we hit 5 million hits today (wooowee!). Yes we’re well aware that’s not 5 million individual, rampant Derren Brown fans only visiting once (we’re a bit more clued up than that) – but it does represent a lot of traffic. Hits/visits/stats are a weird thing – you can’t get an accurate number from them – but you can work out an average.
So we’ve filtered out the spam bots and bogus traffic and it roughly translates as around 650k+ actual “visits”. We’re now up to 10-12k “visits” a day – that’s counting IP visits – and I know things like 500 AOL IP’s only show as one but we’ve taken this in to consideration – it’s certainly NOT lots of repeat visits from one super over-enthusiastic uberfan called… say… Flapjack!?.
We have 37 countries on the list (see Derren’s birthday post for an idea), links from over 100 sites – huge blogs like Boing Boing and awesome websites like iTricks and all this without 1 single advert in under 6 months; we have yet to step on the gas. There’s plenty more to come and when Derren has finished the tour there’s talk about getting a dedicated person involved rather than the fleeting moments we spend on it at the moment. (Not to mention Coops & Phillis’ new 6 hour, non-stop Transcendental meditation chants broadcast live) and we’re even looking in to competitions that don’t totally and utterly suck.
So a big pink lipstick smothered thank you to all the people who help spread the word and come here regularly (and bad luck to the ones who seem to think we’re failing or that there’s no interest – sorry). We’re so pleased so many of you email us saying you like what we’re doing – along with things you want us to change, great ideas, links and what you do and don’t like. It’s all appreciated and means that you guys help sculpt the content on here.
Keep up the great string of links you all send in (massive thanks to Benji, Brian, several Chris’, Claire, Damon, Dr Wiseman, Ekaf, Greetje, Harriet, Houdinia, Hogg, Ian, Ishtar, James, Jenny, Joanne, several Johns, Katherine, Katie, Liz, Marc, Mark, Maura, Michael, Michelle, several Roberts,Neil, Nicosia, Po, Phil, Richard, Robert, Sabina, Sam, Sara, Siobhan, Spasm, Sue, Sy, Tash, Theo, Vicky and Will – and all the other regular contributors who need to be thanked too! – sorry if I missed you here – this is a scan from my email inbox early on a tuesday morning with a hangover the size of Chatham). We hope you keep sending in links of what you like and hope in the future we can organise a special party – just for you – where you all get to sleep with Derren in a giant 40 foot bed whilst Coops, Alex and Phillis perform Latvian songs about how our love lives amongst the stars in the night sky.
Thank you all – Next stop 10 Million.
Thank you Chatham
A big thank you to all the crew (monkey included above) at the Central Theatre Chatham for a brilliant and unforgettable few days, it’s been a pleasure.
Coops
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