Selected recent outputs:
In conversation with Chris Heathcote for Imperica magazine – we discuss positive and negative visions of the future, advertising, nostalgia and more (Jan 19th)
Preparatory sessions I’m organising in Feb, ahead of this year’s hotly anticipated apocalypse ThisistheEvent.com
Talking about the End of the World, on The Pod Delusion podcast (about 1 hour in) (January 2012)
John Fleming interviews me about some of my early comedy memories, in the Huffington Post (December 2011)
How To Become a Professional Gambler Online for WIRED UK (January issue)
Shift Run Stop Christmas Special, podcast hosted by Roo Reynolds and myself, interviewing Jon Ronson, Stefanie Posavec, Sound Diaries, and Lee Maguire (December 2011)
Quick Pummelvision of moments from Storywarp #3, storytelling conference I co-organise (December 2011)
Talking about time travel on The Pod Delusion (39:22) (December 2011)
My ‘Filming locations in About a Boy’ slides for Boring 2011 (November 2011)
Talking about Extreme Acts of Kindness for an altruism item on Monocle magazine’s radio station, (November 2011)
Hotline added to Extreme Acts of Kindness, via Twilio, (November 2011)
Video of my talk Hackers, magic and the problem of understanding too much – at mobile tech event Mr Mobbles Magical Emporium (October 2011)
Slides for Hackers, magic and the problem of understanding too much (October 2011)
The Opposite of Things – a summary of projects Duncan Gough and I have worked on separately and together (October 2011)
Storywarp #2 – Storytelling conference I co-organised, theme: “Characterisation” (October 2011)
Stop Telling Stories, a talk about the difference between storytelling and content (October 2011)
Interview with Sarah Angliss in WIRED UK (August issue)
Storywarp #1 – Storytelling conference I co-organised (July 2011)
How to hide messages in packs of cards – cryptography for WIRED UK (July issue)
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Who am I?
I am Leila Johnston (pronounced Layla) and this is my online portfolio. I work full-time as a digital copywriter for a creative studio in London called Made by Many, but I could also be described as an author, blogger, comedy writer, journalist of interesting countercultural ideas, speaker, newspaper editor, and broadcaster. I’m currently working on projects involving various configurations of comedy, publications, the internet, and events. If you’d like me to do some work for you then please get in touch - leila@finalbullet.com.