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JESSICA GLIDDON
CONTENT CREATOR, WRITER & EDITOR
WHAT I DO
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CONTENT
Marketing, strategy, planning, CMS, SEO, email, social, analytics.
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EDITING
Digital, print, brand publications, editorial calendars, copy editing.
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WRITING
Travel, food, culture, history, art, design, architecture, environment.
1. CONTENT
Content Management
Email Marketing
2. EDITING
Custom Publications Editor
3. WRITING
BEIJING: RED LINING
UNDER THE glinting mid-afternoon sun, Beijing’s urban landscape is piled with the grey shapes of new developments. At its centre, the shining angular hulk of the CCTV building by Rem Koolhaas nudges against the imposing façades of old communist architecture. But beneath nearby railway tracks, a different kind of gleam emits from a cluster of deliriously grinning sculptures by the artist Yue Minjun; human forms washed in reflective silver. It guards the entrance to one of Beijing’s newest art institutions, the Today Art Museum, in a city that has become a serious arts devotee.
THE SERENE atmosphere of the Santa Cruz Mountains seeps into David Kinch’s cooking. The soft banks of fog, the shifting oceans and the Zen-like atmosphere of the area are infused into the culinary experience at his Michelin-starred restaurant, Manresa. “Great restaurants are not only reflections of who they are, but where they are,” says Kinch. “They have a certain time and place. If we were elsewhere, I’m sure we’d be cooking differently. I like to think that Manresa couldn’t exist anywhere else but where we are.”
SOMEWHERE between St Petersburg and Moscow, a train rolls to a pause. Then the train then pulls away with a grumble, and quaint dachas flit away into the wilderness. Over the course of Russia’s tumultuous history, train travel became a symbol of the people. So followed the metros, laid by Stalin. He tore down palaces and cathedrals, seen as symbols of elite extravagance, removing their most ornate fixtures and placing them in the new home of egalitarian transport: the metro station. These quickly earned the name: “the people’s palaces”.
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