Monthly Archives: May 2009

Barcelona v Man Utd (or, Unicef v AIG)

By Chungaiz | Published: May 28, 2009
Interesting post from a friend, Stephen Gill – Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Communications and Culture at York University, Toronto, Canada – who has expored the socio and economic backgrounds of the two football giants that met Wednesday night. UNICEF 2 AIG 0 (Homage to Catalonia) I was one of the hundreds of millions [...]
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DNOTS. Dark Night of The Soul

By Andy | Published: May 19, 2009
listen to the album here Found over at NRP: “When the first cryptic bits of news about Dark Night of the Soul began trickling in earlier this year, it all sounded too good to be true. Though the whole project was shrouded in mystery, it appeared that Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous, two of [...]
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Schweppes – SchYouKnowWho, Experience Matters

By Chungaiz | Published: May 12, 2009
Schweppes and MotherLondon are bringing back the dying art of political satire. Their blog captures the mood of the nation as viewed by Schweppes by collaborating creative, PR, and media agencies to create William Hogarth inspired ads every two weeks. Read an interview with the creatives from MotherLondon at It’s Nice That to learn more. See [...]
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Getty Images’ – 27Letters

By Chungaiz | Published: May 12, 2009
  Getty Images have a new toy – 27Letters. It collates the most used, referenced and talked about visuals in the media space, with top-level analysis. Pooling from 150 mainstream media sites and opinion-forming blogs and covering advertising, architecture, art, celebrity, design, entertainment, fashion, film, news, sport, photography and more. Looks rather interesting. Download it here.
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Star Wars Weekend at Disney MGM Studios

By Chungaiz | Published: May 7, 2009
Fun images advertising the Star Wars Weekend at Disney’s MGM Studios. Check them out at High Snobeity
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Shoot London – Tate Modern

By Chungaiz | Published: May 7, 2009
Take a trip around London & bring a story to life with your photos, exploring the local streets, finding your own inspiration, oh, and you can win prizes. Shoot London is the next installment of the Shoot Experience and it’ll be showcased at the Tate Modern. Illustrating a story written by Joe Dunthorne with photographs, teams of [...]
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StickyTwits – post your twitter name in the real world

By Chungaiz | Published: May 7, 2009
  What a stupid idea. I mean really. So StickyTwits was spotted by Springwise Trends who promote it as a niche but “fun example of entrepreneurs latching on to the latest buzz to launch a side business on the fly” and that’s all well and good, but it’s rather short sighted. Stickytwits isnt going to promote that [...]
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What To Do With Dead Business Cards

By Chungaiz | Published: May 1, 2009
  So you’re leaving your company, and managed to keep your mobile phone number, but what about those newly printed and now useless business cards the corporate giant gave you before you sheepishly handed in your notice? Cards of Change suggests that you recylce them! Actually, they suggest that you send in your business card with [...]
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Original Jams by Converse – US6.5 anyone?

By Chungaiz | Published: May 1, 2009
  Man, I wish I didnt have any toes. How cool are these shoes? Original Jams by Converse on ebay right now! Apparently TheScrapBook slept on the recent re-release of the Original Jams by Converse series back in Febuary this year, but you can check out those reissues at Hypebeast etc.
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Mike Giant & Cinelli

By Andy | Published: May 1, 2009
Antonio Colombo of Cinelli (his company gruppo also includes 3ttt, columbus tubing and cinelli) is an art collector and gallery owner. he has a long history of working closely with artists, the latest commission is with Mike Giant.
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