The title says it all really, but English graf artist 'Moose' creates his art by removing dirt, rather than adding paint...

http://www.reversegraffitiproject.com

The Sweeney Titles

A Ford Granada, Jags, big side burns, wide lapels, revolver pistols, (not Desert Eagle's), police brutality, and a massive dollop of sexism... I happened to catch an old episode of the Sweeney this weekend and was reminded how iconic the title sequence was... were the 70's really like this!?

It's been a long time since I have posted... largely due to the amount of work I've got on at the moment, and once you get out of the habit of writing it's damn hard to get back into it... so my pledge to myself is to get back on it again!

Writing the word Honda in free falling skydivers is not that inventive - but the notion of a live TV ad is a real innovation... award winning in fact! However what is most significant about this ad is that my mum text me to ask me whether or not I had seen it!...

The Selecter - On My Radio

I've been listening to the new Santogold album and was reminded of this ska classic...

I went to the National Portrait this weekend to see the Vanity Fair exhibition. Overall all it was pretty good, I wasn't aware of how early editions of Vanity Fair were responsible for creating so many iconic images of famous people. I was also unaware of the long list of photographers that worked with the magazine to really define those iconic images, like Annie Leibovitz and Herb Ritz.

This image of Mick Jagger, Madonna and Tony Curtis is fairly unique in the sense that it has a spontaneous feel to it whereas many of the other images are far more staged.

I particularly like the photograph of Margaret Thatcher, her power and enormous stature is captured brilliantly, so much so that I even felt a pang of nostalgia for the 'Iron Lady', and was reminded of the Brighton Conference speech, which feature the immortal line 'U-turn if you want to, this lady's not for turning".... then I remembered how much of a dictatorial warlord she was and moved swiftly on.... go along, but go during the week, it's far too busy at the weekend.

This what the internet was made for.... DJ bloodhound! http://www.beatbox.tele2.se

Sleeve Face

As seen this morning's Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk a site that celebrates album art by allowing people to upload images of themselves obscured by their favourite ablums...







http://www.sleeveface.com

The humble Christmas is the tree - during the festive period families unite around it, giving and receiving gifts. It's role is significant, but come the new year...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/christmas_treeson/

Great quote for the day...

Chaos does this amazing thing that order can’t: it engages you. It gets right in your face and with freakish breath issues a challenge. It asks stuff of you, order never will. And it shows you stuff, all the weird shit, that order tries to hide. Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative. Demands that you be creative.
Dan Wieden

These little tiled space invaders have been around for ages, however I never grow tired of discovering one! I found this little one just on the corner of Bishopsgate and Artillery Street.

I love the way that they actually blend into the architecture of the city's surface - they're much less imposing than traditional spray painted graffiti. These little pixelated icons actually enhance the urban experience rather than degrade it like the usual mindless tagging that goes on. I would imagine that many municipal cleaners probably pass these things everyday and wouldn't even think to clean them off, so integrated are they into their surroundings.

To me they represent the retro, (those atari games systems were the coolest of the cool about 25 years back - I was never allowed one - bollox!), and they demonstrate how far we've actually come over those years -think X-box, Wii etc. But there's also something really modern about them as well... this one here has mirrored eyes!...They are indeed little invaders, sneaking up on us, watching us until the alien uprising!! Ha, Ha

hhttp://www.space-invaders.com/

It's a new year, and we're in a new office... here's to 2008!

This is a great site for visual research - a social bookmarking site just for images...
http://ffffound.com

I'm currently reading Paul Merton's new book 'Silent Comedy' and have been reminded about the genius of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton...

Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen

This idea from Lean Mean Fighting Machine has left me feeling like I've been hit over the head with a shovel! The piece for Emirates airlines, promotes their non-stop flight from Dubai to Sao Paulo which takes 14 hrs and 40 mins... so LMFM have produced an 'ad' that features 'Fernando' talking for no-stop for 14 hrs and 40 mins... brilliant!

http://www.nonstopfernando.com

A stark message, well communicated....

Once again, Agency Republic have done a piece of work for o2 that is so brutally simple, I couldn't help think "I wish I'd come up with that!"

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2341278532

(If this link doesn't work - just type o2 in the search field on facebook)

This is a great example of a brand infiltrating an existing media channel and delivering a message that is totally relavent to the audience that use that channel.

... proving he's the best