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Fist Of Fun

Silver — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:39:38 +0000

I’m pretty sure they don’t make good comedy sketch shows anymore do they?

Fist of Fun was written by lee and Herring, and in my opinion was one of the best and forgotten about shows ever to grace our screens.

Enjoy!

P.s- Don’t forget to check out there famous character Simon Quinlank

Animatus - Hyungkoo Lee

Kai — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:27:51 +0000

Animatus is an exhibition of reconstructions of 3D skeletons of classic cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry oder Donald Duck. A bit odd, but I like it.

above: Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote (source: hyungkoolee.net)
South Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee is exhibiting his Animatus show in the Natural History Museum Basel until the 31st August 2008.

MUST SEE - Repo Man

Andy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:46:24 +0000

Rubbish weather = film weather, and seeing as the rain is forcing us to stay in, what better way of spending an evening than a decent film!

So, i’ll start the ball rolling, and i’ve started a new category called ‘must see’, so we can all share film tips.

I’ll commence with the classic ‘Repo man‘ which stars Emilio Estevez & his on-screen mentor Harry Dean Stanton as a young Los Angeles Punk who becomes a Repo man (debt collector) but becomes entangled in a riduculous alien-invasion type plot. Classic 80’s counterculture punk-rock sci-fi alien invasion type weirdness. Highly recommended!

Exploding Whale

Kai — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:48:32 +0000

This is a little bit older, but a brilliant bit of reasoning by the kiwi’s - disposing of a stranded eight ton dead stinking whale which can not be burried or cut up: easy, blow it up and “let the scavengers, seagulls, crabs and what-not can clean it up”.

Evolution of the #1 Foam Hand

Chungaiz — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:06:55 +0000

DesignBoom has a nice article about the design and evolution of the #1 Foam Hand, made by Geral Fauss, one of the most popular pieces of US sports merchandising.

‘I saw the students in the stands holding up an index finger, and shouting ‘we’re number 1′ at the playoff games… Students rallied around the team and kept a fevered pitch during the playoffs. I knew that they wanted something ‘big’ to show their spirit…..so I thought , why not a large hand sign.’

Genius. Read the full article here or visit Spirit Industries, Geral’s company.

Drum’n'Bass, where did it all go wrong?

Chungaiz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:58:13 +0000

Breaksblog looks like an awesome resource for free Drum’n'Bass, but most particularly it’s an opportunity for me to relive my youth.

The first club I ever went to was Blue Note for the Sunday night MetalHeadz sessions. I used to rock a suit and glasses to make myself look older than the 16 years that I was - anything to get in at the end of the day, but I fully looked ridiculous.

I do however remember the visuals above, and was delighted to access the Doc Scott mix from 1997 that Breaksblog have for us (and maybe more to come from MetalHeadz themselves!)

Download the set via the link below.

Doc Scott feat. MC Justyce @ Blue Note - 20/01/1997

What went wrong with Drum’n'Bass though? “Too much focus on getting the loudest pressing, most tearing midrange and a mis-educated crowd that will only respond to obvious rave signals are the main issues in my opinion” say Breaksblog.

Toy cameras

Andy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:48:49 +0000

i’m a big fan of toy cameras, and this new one performs well outside its price bracket and has bags of character… got it in the post today for £4.99, that’s a ridiculous eBay bargain!!!:

You may remember the Lomo Diana which was posted about a couple of times:

Diana photos

Lomo Diana

the results i’ve seen with this one look surprisingly good. there’s a flickr pool dedicated to the vivitar wide & slim here.

i’ll report back when i’ve had a few rolls through it!

How do you read yours?

Chungaiz — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:48:12 +0000

Spotlight Ideas have a list of the top 100 branding, design, SEO, strategy, marketing, PR, media blogs. Totally based on their own opinion by the way, there’s no data or rigour behind it, and indeed some are more interesting than others, but it’s a good selection for all of us in “media land”, whatever your discipline. It is perhaps focussed on those who use words and phrases such as ‘marketing mix’, ‘integrated’, ‘holistic approach’, ‘communications’, ‘brand conversations’ or something equally appropriate for the 2008 version of Bullshit Bingo!

TOP 20 BLOGS

PSFK - Cultural and business trends
Seth Godin’s Blog - Branding / general business ideas
Branding Strategy Insider - Branding: general
Russel Davies - Account planning
Jaffe Juice - Marketing: general
One Degree - Digital marketing
Micro Persuasion - Digital trends
Pronet Advertising - Online marketing
BannerBlog - Online advertising
AdRants - Advertising news
Search Engine Land - SEO and affiliate marketing
Richard Edelman - PR: general
PRBlogger - PR and technology
Social Media Explorer - Social media: general
Centre Networks - Social networking
ProBlogger - Blogging
Copyblogger - Copywriting
David Airey - Graphic design
Logic + Emotion - Design: general
Ads of the World - Advertising ads archive

The rest are available to view here though I warn you, I steal many of my entries for TheScrapBook from these so it kind of undermines my postings… ah well, in the interests of the new media age and all that!

Garnier Fructis “Flow” - WTF??

Chungaiz — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:03:18 +0000

Wow. This is exactly how NOT to do it. Garnier has taken the embarrassment stakes in advertising to a whole new level. Memphis Bleek, by the way, has taken hip hop to an even more disgusting level. In contrast to the more subtle moves that Chris Brown and Wrigley’s made, this new “music video” (sorry, but it’s an advert through and through) for Garnier Fructis has really riled me.

I thought that the worst thing was in fact that it was getting so many plaudits from the YouTube community… what’s even worse is that now I’m actually suspicious of them; they’re probably planted comments:

“ahh, id put this on my ipod, and upload the video–this video is freakn amazing! [sic]”

“Awesome!!!! 5 stars! This is the most creative ad I’ve ever seen. The song is something I’d buy for my iPod. Te video is great. I want some Garnier. [sic]“

I think the agency involved should be shot. I wonder if it was Translation Advertising… Memphis Bleek is on Rock-A-Fella after all. How funny if that were the case…

As ThreeBillion says, “Fructis? Fructdat.”

Thanks Ruby.

Here’s some much better music and marketing - N.E.R.D, Julian Casablancas and Santogold.

BMX Soundsystems - Made in Queen’s

Andy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:26:52 +0000

Slow posting this one!
My good friend Amar pointed ‘Made in Queens’ out to me yonks ago and it looks most excellent! The picture above says it all really - NY kids strapping speakers to BMXs - ingenious.

Read more over at the daily read - Creative Review blog.