Davida Helmets

Buying a motorbike? Get a helmet. Get a hand made one by Davida.

(Caveat – in their retention of all the original design features of the 1950′s low dome racing helmet, they do not conform to modern safety standards…)

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Mayer Hawthorne

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New Mayer Hawthorne video, “Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin“. From the album “A Strange Arrangement” on Stones Throw. The girls in vintage swimwear look awesome, but dude can’t dance for shit, it seems. Thankfully his singing and production is still Mark Ronson next level Mo’Town shit.

Previous video, for “One Track Mind” is here and for my favourite track – “Just Aint Gonna Work Out“; here’s his love-song to absinthe (“Green Eyed Love“) and since the sun is shining, “Maybe So, Maybe No” is an hommage to California good times… as is this

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Testing International Relations Theory

Following a number of enlightening blog posts on what international relations (IR) theory has to say on the matter of zombies and zombie attacks (e.g. 1, 2, 3) Daniel Drezner (Professor of International Politics, Tufts University) has now got a feature in Foreign Policy titled “Night of the living Wonks” which is worth reading for anyone with a peripheral interest in politics….

He’s also got a book forthcoming: Theories of International Politics and Zombies (Princeton University Press, 2010)

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JJ Cromer

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JJ Cromer

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Bikeshed London – Find Your Stolen Bike

Ever had your bike stolen in London? There’s about 4 places that it could turn up: Brick Lane, London Fields, eBay or Gumtree.

A friend had his bike stolen and spent days scouring ebay and gumtree to try and find it. As a web developer, he decided there was a better way to do this so has designed a site that amalgamates all of the bikes for sale in London daily on ebay and gumtree.
If you have your bike stolen, go to bikeshd where you’ll be able to easily search for the bike and see if anyone’s selling it, and you’ll be able to call the police or confront the person etc.
Spread the word.
(It’s a pretty handy resource for anyone in the market for a new bike anyway, to be honest. Stolen or not)
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David Kassan – iPad art

time lapse of new york artist David Kassan painting a portrait with ‘brushes’ on the iPad. check the video – time lapse of just the on-screen action starts at 6’22 min – well worth a look!

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David Kassan website

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GET WISE

next Get Wise mix due out at the end of the summer. check the Get Wise tumblr for updates.

If you missed the first one, it’s available for download here

get wise volume 1

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Hey Ahnold! The 160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

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Yacht Rock

Can you be late on a trend that has already passed, even if it’s kind of (come) back again?

Who cares when the weather’s this good.

Yacht Rock. Music you could rock to on your yacht, natch. Or make a TV series about.

Mixes courtesy of The Lost Art of The Mixtape, though I’m still waiting for The Society of the Spectacle to hook us up with a new Summer mix. The Sunshine Bossa still gets rinsed when we get our boat on.

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Gatorade Wins Grand Prix at Cannes

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Gatorade’s amazing “Replay” idea won PR Grand Prix at Cannes Lions 2010. Re-unite the teams from a high school footbal rivalry match that ended in a tie and get them to replay each other… 15 years later! Clearly, thanks to the power of Gatorade hydration and training etc, this is a great idea that had AFPs, news network coverage, and sports fans talking to each other. Supporting work beyond the film included a social network to re-unite team members from former high school glory days and organise your own Replays.

Check the entry here and see how the results speak for themselves. Participants clearly lost pounds – as seen on TV! – and altered eating habits, grew muscle etc… But from a markting standpoint Gatorade’s Replay created news, not advertising. $3,415,255(US) worth of earned media from just $225K in paid media – a 14,000% ROI. Named as one of CNN’s Top Stories of 2009.

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