I’m Toast

Hello new year… why don’t we start out slowly with a gif?

And then maybe a song… one of the best from last year.
The Rural Alberta Advantage _ Edmonton.

And for the dataViz_heads Feltrons 2009 Annual Report is out.

It’s book, no a macbook, no it’s a bookbook.

Banksy McBanksy. Exit through the gift store.

Cute. Neat.

I don’t think of them as checks anymore… they’re pixels… why the fuck am I blogging about ties?

Mouse pointer track…

That’s a couple of hours of mouse action in PS. Try it. Via: Iain. Via. Ash.

Here’s mine from doing this post…

Some pretty RAD tatts from Aamanda Wachobt. Via: Made In England.

Great site for interesting iphone APPS>

Kinda in the same vain as creative applications.

Which brings me to this puppy…

Listen to this (from Creative Applications) A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter is… a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay. Every ten minutes this black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself. If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself. AWE_THEN_SOME.

Yoda of the design world. Mr Rand.

+ McRad… From Public Domain… is…

Then Lady GaGa became Creative Director of Polaroid.

Totes makes sense.

+ The answer once and for all

Now this is creative…

+ The always rather good Charlie Brooker

Just in case you weren’t clear…

The Rules of The Internet. (Via: Something Changed)

Procrastination is…

This is that kinda annoying good. Nokias “The Worlds Biggest Signpost” (By FarFar)

But the duck nuts at the moment seems to be the trailer for “Machotaildrop”… it seems like so many different references blended into a smooth brew…

Time will tell…

True Dat.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwxrxcuyPR1qz5r5lo1_500.jpg

The “Three Stripes” gets it’s AR on…

+ Youtube went disco…

Now this is the type of art that makes me happy… Harsh Patel.

And this sure is pretty too.

(Via: RubbishCorp)

+ Read this blog “gathering of glimpses”

It’s awesome… and she’ll hate the fact more people are reading it…

+ Can we all just watch this again… Ji Lee: The Transformative Power of Personal Projects.

And then let’s call it quits with… the “I’m here” trailer… Spike Jonze & Absolut’s collab. Robot Love is still love.

Anyway… Later Bro.

Says it all.

Google Reader (1000+)

Too busy for 2.0…

Err… last month was the first time since the crazy days of November 06 that a month has passed without a post… so now I’m going to do a little overcompensating…

So the DROID is here… is it the one we are looking for?

Highly renowned US Agency Cliff Freeman closed it’s doors. The agency was famous for producing TVCs that were actually funny (well for advertising at least). I heard a rumour somewhere that when presenting work to one of the Creative Directors, you would know if he liked it not by getting a laugh out of him… but by him just saying in a monotone voice “Laugh”…

Here’s one of the “classics” they produced for outpost.com during the day…

Giff o the day…

Burger King / CP+B does AR… of course they do… they always do the thing… while the rest of us just talk about the “thing”

You doesn’t love a good flow chart…

Pretty “off the wall” interface… yep.

wonder-wall.com

Remember when this was the shizzle for interfaces?

Illustrator Emma Kelly and her site… iliketodrawthings.com

This is a bit of all right… Kasabian Football Hero… Underdog is a pretty good song to boot! (accidental)

So. True.

VIA: SwissMiss

Pretty neat idea for a desktop:

eh?

Mitten scarfs… another good idea:

mmm… theme… good ideas?

The Dyson Air Multiplier…

How about lip gloss that can help detect date rape drugs?

Or a syringe that can only be use once.

Mainly flogged from PSFK.

Want to learn how to dress like Don Draper?

And for the laydeez… a Tetris dress

How about smart artist James Hopkins and his Spirit Level?

Or what would happen if the internet disappeared for the day? (Via: Ray)

Pretty Stupid stuff…
Now this is pretty much the opposite…

shockingbarack.com

So basic idea is… one guy from the company (Brammo) and one guy from the agency (CP+B) ride the new electric motorbikes (the Enertia) they are both trying raise awareness (sell) for… all the way from Detroit (Motor City) to Washington (D.C.) They will (have) couch surf, tweet, glide silently and stop to plug these pretty machines in every now and then all the way in hope of not just raising awareness but also raising the attention of the Barack Obama whom the goal is to give the bike to… now because it’s taken me so long to write this they’ve already made the trip… (listen to the story here: http://www.justin.tv/fearlessqa) and whilst they may not have succeeded… they did get meet with the US Secretary of Energy and get their message across. Not bad.

The route was chosen as it was the journey the big boys from the car companies took with their hats in their hands to ask for bailout money from the prez.

These are the keys to the bike and the bike lock they have left somewhere if Washington for the Prez tho pick up when he has a spare 5mins.

Great idea.

Another?

How about The Editors hacking/mashing streetview in a promo for their latest album…

Now everybody has been posting this… but that’s because it’s petty rad…

Mick Jaggers letter/brief to Andy Warhol…

From the site: lettersofnote.com

There has to be a TED video in here somewhere now doesn’t there… how about this one from Rory Sutherland? WATCH!

Then how about a little bit more digital / outdoor/ realtime / nonsense?

Via: Creative Review

How about an alternate to lorem ipsium?

and… if only this existed…

fueledbycoffee.com

And please!

Done.

Maybe one last thing…

Nup.

Where did September go?

Jackson Pollock, August 11, 1956

An exhibit by Dean Rogers focusing on locations of fatal car crashes featuring famous people. Cars suck sometimes.

TWADGES

This works on so many levels… made up tweetesque mash-up name, merit badges and massive ego strokes… from them smart monkey @ Soap GET SOME.

There was a flood of tactical stunts after the Sydney Dust Storms… this was my pick… VIA: JWT …I think

Not amazing, but pretty neat little twitter / banner integration… VIA: The blog of banners

I like notepads in the context of their intended use… like the browser pads… here we have notepods

This seems pretty neat… 52 suburbs

Louise Hawsons study of Sydney suburbs… one a week… guess the postcode of some of these…

“Hangman’s Blood” Now that’s a serious cocktail…

See retail can be clever (M&C Saatchi in London).

Want a google wave invite? Make a video about it…

Now this is some big time storytelling…

hbo imagine

By those crazy barbarian folk.

And for the Helveticans… Helvetimail… gmail all gone swiss type nerd.

So true… So true…

Douglas Adams… I could listen to him for  hours, and now you can.

Not wurd @ all…

Spike Jonze directed spots for Softbank?

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The “how we made it” behind the scenes whodat from Sour’s “Hibi No Neiro” webcam video clip thingo…

Both from the well awesome We Love You So.

For the thinkers>>> TED and Reddit joined forces to ask creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson any question… and he answers them.

How about Cluedo…The Office version.

More advertising douchebags talking about advertising… (douchebags = legends in this case)… Man I’m glad this movie is finally coming out it has been hanging around forever //// Art & Copy.

hmmmmmmm… bet your followers…com  Viacom… RBSHCRP

This looks neat.

imandalart.

Freshjive drops the looogoooo…

SITE of THE year… so far. Keggers of Yore.

That was then,this is now…>>> history of the Australian web. Via: australianedge.net

Annnnd that personas thing everyone been banging on about.

Yep.

Hello Stuff 3/3

Of interest: Ten landmark albums that created landmarks, starting with the B-Boys Pauls Boutique Via Sleevage.

Same vein kinda:

Joy Divisions Unknown Pleasures cover in… FLASH. Yup.
By Mr Doob.

A Stone Roses fan? This is pretty nuts, funny … and sad.

And as I tweeeeted, John Hughes was partly responsible for my marriage… so RIP & RESPECT Mr Hughes.

Looking for a massive collection of film titles? Course you were…

Here’s another great resource for titles, actually it’s much better… Art of the title.

Love a good TED talk? Here’s a behind the curtains look. Via: Swiss Miss

Another talking thing with a bit of cute thrown in…

Now this is pretty neat… a 3D line drawing tool with a cute name… Rhonda

Over.

Hello Stuff (Again)

Sure is pretty bugs fly’n round… Back atcha’ Anguswhines

+ Stop saying lol… douchebagnamegenerator.com

Digital agency Double You drops the website… but have they?

How about 10 things to do for digital agencies if you like words n stuff

Still want more words… WHY I LOVE THE INTERNET…

From the well of well awsome somethingchanged

So what are you doing?

More lists? Yep.

From Wired.

And of course advertising is to blame.

Oh wait, one more list…

10 Things your kids may never know about.

Oooooooooohhhhhh Oooooooooohhhhhh

How to eat open a banana like a monkey… almost as mind blowing as when somebody showed me how to peel off a post it note correctly.

The White Agency – Numero Unos

McWoot. B&T Magazine ranked The White Agency (my place of work) No. 1 in its Great Big Website Review of Australian digital agencies… and they used my homepage for the inset pic.

B&T Rankings

1st The White Agency
2nd The Farm
3rd Geekdom
4th Soap
5th Viocorp
5th RMG Connect
7th Amnesia Razorfish
8th C4
9th Profero
10th Tigerspike
11th Bullseye
12th Citrus
13th Tequila
14th M.Net
15th Ad2one

The Tshirt Diaries

I’ve started a new bloooog. The Tshirt Diaries. Basically we got a whole bunch of tshirts printed up at work in our “corporate colours” Red, Green, Blue, Black & White… as a bit of a thank you / launch gift / milestone thing. One each they said. I as I do, got a bit a carried away and grabbed the whole set. In order to make it look as I wasn’t just being a greedy bastard came up with an elaborate story that it was serious experiment to test colour theory in the advertising workplace (About: Do more concepts get approved when you are wearing a green shirt on a Tuesday? Do more Art Director hissy fits happen on a red shirted Thursday? What should I wear tomorrow? Lets find out….) I’m going to wear a different coloured shirt to work every day, I said. And record the results, I boasted. Well I’m up to day 12 now…