Scary Pumpkin

This is one of the ways I've kept myself busy this week.

Limit to your Love

I have been refraning from posting this because it's done the rounds a bit already. But I've not been able to stop listening to it from the first go. It's now nestled in my top 10 songs of all time....I realise it's a big statement, but I think it's valid.

Dave Osborne

My favourite poem
by a friend of mine,
who I have not seen
in a very long time

Cheat Legal

Good ad - this is the long version

Panique au Village

You'll recognise this style of animation from the Cravendale adverts. I've always been a fan of them, but never known who did them. Now thanks to It's Nice That (not for the first time) my knowledge has grown.
This is the Trailer for a feature length film...if you can believe that. quite a jump from 15second shorts.

http://www.atowncalledpanic.com/

Chinese Swan Lake

Probably the most mental balancing act I've ever seen

iPad light painting - Making Future Magic

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

This is awesome...I can just about grasp making the words, but as far as making the abstract shapes spin, change and move in all directions, my head just can't bend that way.
This is waiting to be raped by a massive ad agency.

The Reluctant Father

Phillip Toledano's photographic diary of the first month he was a father. Genius funny. Here's the caption that accompanies the picture above:

Some men deal with their baby rage by drinking, or playing video games.

I made plates.

I thought this was high comedy, but Carla was not so amused.

For the longest time, when people asked to see a picture of Loulou, this was what I'd show them.

I liked not showing the usual cherubic photo. An adorable shot of Loulou poking her head out of a casserole pot, or something similarly bilious.

Does every baby picture have to be sweet and beautiful?

Crying is as much a part of it, if not most of it, at the beginning.


Read the whole thing, it's very good
found at: http://www.itsnicethat.com/
Phillip Toledano: http://theanthropologist.net/#/PhillipToledano/TheReluctantFather/

nendo: thin black line

A collection of black wire furniture by Japanese studio Nendo will be shown at the Saatchi gallery in London later this month.
The collection also includes a clothes rack and all are intended to look like sketches.....mission accomplished. The chair (above) certainly achieves this and I love the boundary it crosses between practical furniture and sculpture/art. I wonder how comfy the chair is?? but also in a wider context, does the fact that it's going to be presented at the Saatchi gallery make it more art than furniture? If they let you sit on the chair then maybe its furniture, if not....then art? Or if the chair isn't comfy, then does it become art by default as no-one will sit on it anyway? Or is it a case of what the intention was when it was originally designed/made; I guess it's still furniture if it was intended to be uncomfortable from the idea's conception.

http://www.nendo.jp/en/
taken from: http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/07/thin-black-lines-by-nendo/

Antidote

I'm currently on a month long internship at Anitdote. Just started my second week, and enjoying the challenges so far.

http://www.antidote.co.uk/
http://antidotelikes.blogspot.com/

Brew Dog

This is Brew Dog an experimental beer company and "A beacon of non-conformity in a increasingly monotone corporate desert" in beer world. Whoever got the job for branding this company must have had a lot of fun, not that I really like it that much. But its besides the point.
Above is their new brew, 'The End of History' in taxidermy packaging and is a head thumping 55% ABV and costs about £490 a bottle.

Found on DesignPorn
http://www.brewdog.com/

Everynone: Words

WORDS from Everynone on Vimeo.

I was told about this last week during an interview, and didnt think i'd seen it. Now I realise I had, but I wasnt paying attention. It's already been dong the rounds on various blogs, but i'm still posting it because this would have been the perfect place to take my dingbat typeface.....

Drugs Law Review

I've not actually written about my feelings towards the advantages drug legalisation would have on people, but I have had deep conversations with friends and family about the matter. Most of the time I have been shot down (especially within the family), but more and more we are reading about more high profile people than myself lobbying for at the very least, the laws to be reviewed. I also think you'll find Daniel Craig will back me up (as in Layer Cake) and Ben Elton puts forward a good case in High Society. Now the outgoing president of the Royal College of Physicians Sir Ian Gilmore also seems to have an opinion. There are also the documentries on Channel 4 at the moment by Angus Macqueen entitled Our Drugs War.
This fire is starting to get a bit more fuel...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10990921
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/our-drugs-war/episode-guide

Women are Heroes - JR

full trailer for 'Women are Heroes' by JR

Alexa Meade

These images blow my mind!....human canvases. I love them
http://www.alexameade.com/

found at http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/