Month: November 2007
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On Being Small
I once worked at Tower Records in Picadilly (when there still was a Tower Records at Picadilly, or indeed a Tower Records for that matter). I remember it rather fondly. I met my best mate there (19 years later we’re still mates). I served Morrisey (he bought a Mott The Hoople album). When Prince visited…
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Terminus
Amazing short film from Trevor Cawood. Click here to view it. Via the excellent RubbishCorp (who has been particularly excellent of late)
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2007 Best Magazine Covers
The ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors) have just run their annual "Magazine Cover of the Year". As usual it’s a real feast of visual delight and there’s some pretty special work included in the entries. Visuals of the full list can be seen here. Below are some of my favourites: The actual winner is…
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Typographics
Abbott and Costello’s ‘Who’s on First’ routine done in Typographics. If you like this check out: Pulp Fiction in TypographicsOceans 11 in TypographicsEleanor Rigby in Typographicsand a ‘What is’ Typographics courtesy the Vancouver Film School HT to
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Embracing Failure
Rather like this quote from Thomas Edison: "I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work" Seems strangely au courant.
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New Guiness Ad Unlocked
Here’s the new Guiness ad. A couple of weeks ago they hid it online and posted this video hosted by Juan Ramon, the ‘wise mayor’ of the village. This, in keeping with the ‘good things come to those who wait’ theme, pointed users at a site which was the start of an alternate reality game…
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Students Today
More good work from Michael Wesch, Asst Professor of Cultural Anthroplogy at Kansas State University. "A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience…
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Zeus Jones Hits The Spot
The Zeus Jones blog is always a good read but there’s a couple of posts which have been particularly excellent of late. This one on how the web "isn’t just a communications medium, it’s a services medium": "I think the real revolution, the real disruption if you will, is that this is the first time…
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How We Met
Nice little film from Samsung for their G800 phone. More here Thanks to Luca