June 2010
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The Bloggiest Bloggy Blog has moved home
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...
May 2010
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More staples art by Baptiste Debombourg
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.
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Innovative newspaper wrap around ad for Sex & The...
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...
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So who won my shoes?
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...
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Awesome staples city by Peter Root
The making of Ephemicropolis from Peter Root on Vimeo.
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Win the shoes that I'm wearing right now
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...
April 2010
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Pencil Vs Camera
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...
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Spray paint vending machines
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.
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Creativity is in your imagination...
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.
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Upgrade your iPhone to an iPad for FREE.
Ahhh sucker! There you were living out your very own iPad fantasy and it’s not true!
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Erika Iris Simmons' cassette tape art
Awesome art work from Erika Iris Simmons using cassette tapes. She’s got loads more awesome stuff using other recycled materials on her flickr profile. I love seeing art work using old or disused materials and have always thought there’s something quite nice and vintage about cassette tapes. Check out my previous post about cassette tape art too
Thanks to Fubiz for pointing me...
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I like that Nike just do cool shit...
I like that Nike just do cool shit…
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Do not feed the pigeons... they're mine!
The worst thing about working in London is having to go into the filthy underground to get the tube on your commute. Seeing as the weather is getting nicer and the days are getting longer my girlfriend and I have been getting into the routine of skipping out the tube section of the journey and walking instead.
From London Waterloo (A) we can walk to our places of work (B) in central Soho in 30...
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Shred up the pavement, stop motion style.
Skateboardanimation from Tilles Singer on Vimeo.
The most freaking awesome skate video I’ve seen all week. I’ve been talking about wanting to get back into skating, which I stopped doing about 5 years ago, and this video has just given me that little boost I needed to get my deck out the shed and go shred some park.
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iPads are indestructable because they're too big...
I really can’t believe how quick it was until someone blended an iPad. Enjoy it.
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Pocket Tube Maps are fucking good.
I’ve had one of these pocket credit card sized tube maps in my wallet for about a year and although I know much of the tube reasonably well it has been INCREDIBLY useful for those times where I just don’t know where the fuck I am.
Mine has been all tatty and broken for ages so when I saw some brand spanking new FREE ones in a pop-up shop on Carnaby street I took about 10 of them. I...
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Pencil Art by Jennifer Maestre
Came across this cool art made from pencils by Jennifer Maestre. I’d like to pick one up and see what I can draw with it. I bet it filling in a colouring book without crossing the lines would be well hard.
Images are from a very bored Panda.
Anonymous asked: What is your favourite CAKE?
March 2010
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Weight Watchers iPhone App
This post was mostly written way back in January and after a conversation about Weight Watchers at work I thought it was about time I finished it off and published it once and for all. Enjoy…
Every now and then I go through a phase of eating like shit and drinking a lot of booze. Along with my severe lack of exercise (apart from walking up a couple of escalators each day) this tends to...
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Skateboarding rocks!
FUCK FUCK FUCK!!! I just wrote a whole god damned blog post about these stupid fucking skate decks and didn’t arsing press save! Fucking hell I’m an idiot. So here’s a shortened version (because I can’t be bothered with writing out the whole bloody thing again) of what I wrote before…
The other day I found these old boards in my house from when I used to skate...
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My ideas for improving Yelp
Since meeting a few guys and girls from Yelp recently I’ve become a (slightly addicted) Yelp user and enjoy writing reviews a few times per week. As a result I’ve begun to notice some areas for improvement and thought I’d start a blog post to list my ideas to see if any other Yelp users agree?
Filtering
- When browsing in map view I want to be able to filter the results by...
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LVPO Bar tries but unfortunately fails...
Last week I went to a bar in Soho called LVPO to meet a few friends that were having after work drinks. We ended up staying there a while and, although my friends really liked it, I had some reservations about it.
It takes a lot for me to like a bar that serves cocktails because they’ve always got really slow service but there’s some exceptions that make up for it with experienced...
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We Are Social is We Are Sexual
Jordan from my work noticed that you can find my company’s website by googling ‘wearesexual’…
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LVPO Bar does great customer service
On Tuesday I went to LVPO Bar on Dean Street in Soho with some friends and was unimpressed for various reasons and I tweeted my opinion. Impressively, the guys at LVPO Bar picked it up and responded asking for feedback and our conversation on Twitter continued.
Below are screenshots of our conversation and I have to commend them for encouraging me to return, when I had promised myself that I...
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Thirty festivals. Thirty weeks. Thirty thousand...
So I’ve just entered Trident’s Perpetual Festival competition (with only 4 minutes left before the deadline) where the winner (hopefuly me) will go to 30 festivals around the world in 30 weeks. They’ll also get £30,000… How cool is that? Very, that’s how.
As I only had about an hour to submit my entry I didn’t have enough time to film a decent video about my...
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Doll House gallery on Beak Street, Soho
On my lunch break the other day I walked round the corner from my work to Alphabet and on my way I noticed this great big mass of hair cascading down from the first floor window of a neighbouring building. It flowed diagonally across the building and re-entered the building via the front door.
When I walked over to get a better look I peered in through the window to see a shop window filled...
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Screening of "I'm Here" by Spike Jonze and Absolut
Last week I was lucky enough to get hold of a couple of tickets to the screening of “I’m Here” by Spike Jonze, a 30 minute produced for Absolut Vodka (a client at my work).
I’d seen a couple of snippets from the film and was excited to see the whole thing, particularly as it was being shown in Brewer Street mulit-storey car park of all places.
We arrived early and...
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Premier of Banksy's film 'Exit Through The Gift...
Last week my girlfriend and I were amongst a lucky few to get hold of premier tickets to Banksy’s new film ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ which is out in cinemas today. Although we had seen a snippet of a trailer for the film we didn’t quite know what to expect, particularly as the screening was in a tunnel underneath Waterloo station in London.
My plans always end up...
February 2010
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Prisoners dancing to MJ make me smile
These have been seen a million times before but they’re always worth a re-visit to put a smile on your face. Watch and enjoy.
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Calvin Harris' Humanthesizer.
It’s not particularly new but I like the creativity behind making the music differently.
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Turn your website into music with Codeorgan from...
DLKW has created a site where you can enter any URL and it turns it into music using a webby codey thingy that identifies letters written on the site that appear in musical score. I typed in the URL for this blog and it sounded like this
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Nicolas Roope on 'Things' Vs 'Advertising'
I saw this on Buscuit Barrell a while back but after watching it for the second time I wanted to share on my blog too.
Nicolas Roope, CD & founder of Poke London, talks about the advertising being wasted on internet audiences and that ‘things’ are more successful. Watch his 5 minute presentation and you’ll soon agree with what he’s saying.
Out of about 7 examples of...
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I like cool typography.
By Sean Freeman
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3D. Like. No. Other.
A pretty neat installation in a gallery in Australia using bouncy balls.
This would have made a cool stunt for Sony Bravia TVs back when their Bouncy Balls ad came out. They could have erected a huge Sony Bravia TV with suspended bouncy balls (as above) and viewing members of the public could have stepped inside and walked around the suspended, pixel-like bouncy balls. In fact, they should do...
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Eric Daigh's push pin portraits.
Photos from Booooooom Blog
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“Burger King, if I BUY a burger from you with MY money I will NOT feel like I...”
– Tom Harvey, 2010.
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Right at your finger tips... BOLLOCKS.
I saw this ad in the tube the other day and couldn’t believe the sheer bullshit I was reading…
Since when has a huge mother fucking Yellow Pages given me information right at my fingertips???
It’s MASSIVE, and no-one in their right mind would carry one around with them. Now I could understand if this ad was refferring me to a website or to an iPhone/blackberry app or...
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Yelp's Burst UK Birthday
On Tuesday I went to Yelp’s first birthday bash at Islington Metal works with my girlfriend and it was A.W.E.S.O.M.E.!
The venue is situated on a back street kinda directly behind Angel tube station (as you come out of the station take a left, then left again) and it’s made up of 3 distinctive and unique areas.
The first space was decorated like a garden party with REAL grass,...
January 2010
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Floppy disk & Cassette Tape canvas.
Ages ago I saw some cool cassette tape art similar to this at the Saatchi Gallery. If I remember correctly it was done by a student and it had a really poor position in the gallery which was a shame because I thought it was great.
These are by an artist by Nick Gentry using floppy disks as well as cassette tapes. Truly awesome stuff, I love it! See more by clicking on one of the pictures, or...
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New advert against cyber bullying.
Click the picture, or here, to see the ad.
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Ad Agency Carat Steal Man's Facebook Identity.
thecoolcommentator:
This is bad, really bad. The man’s name in question is “Harman Bajwa” — Remember his name is literally Harman.
He was happy with his facebook URL, http://facebook.com/harman … until one day Ad Agency Carat sends this e-mail to him:
From: Tyler Bahl To: Harman Bajwa Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 11:25:21 AM Subject: Harman
Hi Harman,
Thanks for accepting my friend...
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New Barclaycard ad with rollercoasters by BHH
Love it. More than the prequel too.
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I still love photoshop because it fucks with your...
Here’s some more examples of Photoshop fucking with your head from YesKafei that I didn’t include in my previous post below.
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I love photoshiop because it fucks with your head.
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Bluetooth in new Ford cars is knot a problem
I’m not sure if this is an old campaign or (k)not [insert laughter at my hilarious pun here] but I thought I’d share it. Really like it but would have preferred to see the copy a bit bigger and also to see the knots re-named with places or situations that your headphones might get knotted such as ‘Back pocket knot’ or ‘Between the sofa cushions knot’ and so...
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Dude gets RayBan sunglasses tattoo on his idiotic...
I hope this guy regrets getting a tattoo of RayBan sunglasses on his face. Idiot.
Read more.
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