Jesus I feel like such a flake with my blog lately. I’ve been pretty pre-occupied with other stuff like drinking alcohol, trying not to drink alcohol and watching Luther on the telly but now I’m back on board with it.

To kick off this spurt of bloggery enthusiasm I’ve moved home, from pre-pubescent Tumblr to a fully grown adult Wordpress blog (well, not quite fully grown, it’s still a free Wordpress blog for now).

This is the start of a new beginning, where I aim to write at least 2 or 3 blog posts per week and try to vary them about a bit from week to week. There’s a cool new look, sexy looking buttons linking to my social profiles, an about page and a contact page.

I’ve even imported all the posts from my somewhat dormant travel blog and sorted all the posts into neat and tidy categories to make it easier to find what posts you’re interested in:

Advertising: Campaigns or ads that have caught my eye that I want to share

Art: Cool stuff I’ve seen at galleries, on the web, in the street, or hanging around elsewhere

Ideas: Usually after looking at lots of art and thinking about advertising I come up with ideas, these are shared in the aptly named ‘Ideas’ category

Reviews: I’ve become a big fan of Yelp and as a result have got myself into the habbit of reviewing anything from bars, clubs and restaurants to parks and products

Travel: Whenever I go away, whether it’s on holiday or backpacking, I’ll write descriptively about it in this section

Other stuff: Everything else that doesn’t fit into a category but deserves to be blogged about

So, you can now find my bloggy blog at www.bloggiestbloggyblog.com or if you want a short link it’s http://bit.ly/Bloggiest

This obviously means that this is my last post on Tumblr and all future bloggy stuff will be published over on bloggiestbloggy.com

So go take a look, save it t your bookmarks, subscribe to the RSS and why not set it as your homepage while you’re at it.

A little while ago I blogged about Peter Root’s cityscape staple art after seeing it on Fubiz. Now, after exploring more of the Fubiz archives I’ve fond some more staples art that I think I might enjoy even more.

It took the French artist, Baptiste Debombourg, 75 hours and 35,000 staples to create the pieces and you can see loads more of his awesome installations on his website.

I can imagine using this technique to make a nice TV, Print or Guerilla campaign for a stationary brand or chain like Rymans (or Staples of course!). I can see a stop motion TV spot with quirky music and an artwork or logo being created with staples in this technique. 

This morning as I came out of Waterloo station there was a gang of glamorous looking women handing out what appeared to be free handbags. Of course all the female commuters crowded round trying to find out what was going on and if they were actually able to get their hands on a free handbag, which then attracted more attention.

Once my girlfriend managed to get her hands on one we quickly realised that these handbags were actually a wrap around Sex & The City ad for the Metro newspaper! Makes a change from the usual ink heavy wrap arounds that mess up your hands when you hold them.

Bon idée.

 On Monday I came to work with my new shoes on. All was good and I was doing that thing where you check out your reflection in shop windows and think “check me out with my new shoes”.

But then, disaster struck, as I was walking through Trafalgar Square I realised that god damn did these bad boys rub my skin and hurt like hell! I persevered and continued walking to work which I eventually reached as I writhed in miserable pain.

At this point I launched a full scale investigation into the cause (and motive) behind my shoes’ torture upon my soles. It was then that I found that I had bought a size 9 pair of shoes and not a size 10 which would surely have been more comfortable for my annoyingly sized 9.5 feet.

So, in a moment of anger and frustration I decided to give them away to whoever wanted them. I wrote a blog post explaining that the person that sends me the best picture of a tiger will win my shoes and I would walk home barefoot.

So, here’s my favourite (cough and only cough) entires to this miniature competition followed by the one that I am now declaring as the winner.

This entry from @callumsaunders was sent by Twitter within about 60 seconds of publishing the post. Full marks for speed of delivery and releasing the inner copywriter, it was almost as fast and growly as an actual tiger.

This one from @halfapair was also sent by twitter and gets extra points for thinking so far out the box that the box is barely visible any more. What box people will say when it gets a pencil at D&AD.

Now I was torn between this bad ass tiger by @fitby30 and the winner because of it’s attention to detail and actual resemblance to a tiger but it was picked to the post by the winners injection of comedy.

And the winning entry goes to for making me laugh like an adulterous woman being tickled by a multi-millionaire golfer.

No points go to @ImJustMike because he cheated by sending an OLD picture that’s NOT EVEN A TIGER! In fact he was disqualified.

That’s all folks. Next time I’m wearing uncomfortable underwear I’ll give that away too.

The making of Ephemicropolis from Peter Root on Vimeo.

Okay so last week I stupidly bought a pair of shoes that were too small for me and over the weekend I’ve realised that they hurt too much to just wear them anyway. Now this week they’re pissing me off even more and I want to get rid of them.

That’s where you come in…

Send me a picture of your best tiger drawing now and you can have the blasted things. You can post a link to your drawing in the comments below, send a twitpic to me on Twitter or fly it through my office window on a paper airplane.

They’re a size UK 9 and that’s what they look like in the picture, you can also see them here. I’m wearing them now at work so if you win and wish to collect them from Golden Square I WILL walk home bare foot (thus adding more reason to put every effort into your drawing).

Any entries will be judged by me and if you don’t win it means you need some serious practice on your tiger drawings.

Love x

Just found these cool drawings from Ben Heine on the Daily Obsessional blog and thought that they were well worth sharing. I’m surprised I haven’t seen this technique used in some ads for an art shop or something. I think it’s a bit of a shame about the blatant Photoshop work though, I’d prefer if it was a little more subtle and realistic or if the pictures were actually being held up in front of those views.

I saw this an instantly thought it was awesome… it’s a freaking vending machine for spray paint! Then I looked at the awful, awful dub in the bottom picture and realised that it would make walls look like shit. Check out more of Graffomat for yourself here or on Fubiz if you speak a little Français.

I saw this picture a while back but didn’t save the link to look back on another time. So now I’ve found it again I’m not letting it go. It’s staying right here on my bloggy blog for all to admire and reminisce about when they were a child and everything they saw was truly inspiring. Long live imagination.

In case you’re wondering, I found it here.

Ahhh sucker! There you were living out your very own iPad fantasy and it’s not true!