I love this outdoor media piece for Nokia... a simple interactive idea, executed in a place where people often have a couple of minutes to spare... at the bus stop.

Social Storytelling
How long can branded stories last in the digital landscape?

It's all about the conversation...

http://creativity-online.com/?action=news:article&newsId=131936§ionName=pov

This week's power play... heavy dubstep... good for losing yourself in your headphones and getting work done

Doing some research for a new brief just recently (I was looking for some images of 'chintzy' gold taps, gold baths and other examples of decorative bad taste, for a villainous character I was creating)... I found this image from Saddam's palace... Apparently, this painting depicts a series of scuds launched towards Jerusalem. Saddam would sit in front of this mural and entertain guests! Now, I'm no psychologist but... something tells me this guy was not of a fun loving, easy going disposition.

GSK Contemporary at the Royal Academy is showing this installation by T.V. Santhosh called Counting Down - a series of fibreglass dogs (wish they were made of solid stainless steel), with timers around their necks and a running LED ticker showing quotes from Yoshitaka Kawamoto, a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima.

I found this piece really impactful - maybe its that the dogs look like T1000 androids, (from Terminator 2), and that there are many of them repeated in a squad formation, poised, waiting... waiting for what, I don't know? Maybe until the timers run to zero and they all come to life savaging anyone that happens to be there at the time?.... It's like the frozen moments before the apocalypse kicks off.

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/gsk-contemporary-season/

Just found these ads for Alka Seltzer... cute idea, well executed

My heroes... Eric Cantona, Alberto Giacometti, Ronnie Barker, Burger King King, Michael Caine, Delacroix, William S Burroughs

I was left feeling rather indignant when I saw this sign in the toilets at Waterloo Station

Death Penalty Map











Found this map today and was shocked and appalled at how many countries still use the death penalty.... Aesthetically, I also found it interesting that information graphics (maps, diagrams etc.) by nature are quite passive and non-expressive - the message is serious and aggressive yet the map is visually placid and nonpolitical - I found this juxtaposition quite compelling.

I think this is quite interesting as an idea - Doritos allow you to remove all the unwanted banner ads on a web page and replace them with images you like.... although, the replaced images are subtly branded so in effect it's still an ad!

Baptazia.... this probably the funniest thing i've seen in ages, the similarities between these god fearing folks dancing in church and those e loving folks dancing at a rave are phenominal...