Jim Shields on Clubhouse

Bio

Jim has had a 30-year passion for comedy filmmaking ever since he discovered that he could combine the images he was drawing (pastels mainly) with sounds he'd captured in jars. More recently he turned to making simple comedies for the "interweb" helping companies achieve notoriety despite their crushingly dull products and services.

He is a founder of Twist & Shout Communications, based in Leicester and, of all places, Dallas, Texas. His stand up career seems to have peaked at "reassuringly mediocre".

A self-confessed disciple of new-marketing Guru Seth Godin, Jim tries to spread the word at every opportunity that we, the people, have the means of production at our fingertips. We no longer need a mill owner to employ us – we can make things on our own out of zeros and ones.

He has written two books (one bestseller) about the relationship between creative individuals and the companies they work for.

Jim also likes to sing Karaoke when away from home of course, and continues his search for Arne Saknussemm's map to the centre of the earth, to prove his point that chocolate and gravity are, in effect, the same thing.

His musings:

He has a lot to say about handling clients, and when to take the idea off the table. The key is education – make sure you have a logical, robust process that solves problems and you’ll always be able to defend your creative decisions. In fact – he’d go one further than that, and encourage you to develop a cause. A crusade against the mediocre. Join him. If only because he looks a little silly in that ridiculous helmet all on his own…