After a conversation with a colleague, I was reminded of those old skool rave days - about 2 mins investigation on Youtube later, I've unlocked a box I can not shut!! Here's the tunes of my time...

I'd just started listening to Colin Dale's abstract dance hour on Kiss and this was the first tune I ever heard of it's kind... check the Led Zep sample and the 'alert' sound from Star Trek!

Joey Beltram
The Omen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbt2YybgVk8&feature=related

ACEN - Close Your Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8DjNtZLZUw
Check for Beatles sample!

Joey Beltram
Energy Flash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJG5XlQRmeI&feature=related

4 hero - where's the boy remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQvo6Z-mpNM&feature=related

Project One - Smokin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1EcsbVpRXk&feature=related

Project 1 - Smokin' Chalice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al0t8WJcekc

Human Resource - Dominator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGF7u6tjTg

I could be here all day, so i'll leave it that... remember 'hardcore you know the score!'

p.s. Last one...

Urban Shakedown -Some Justice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhcOD85EfsU&feature=related

Chanel.com












Just been looking at what fashion brands are doing online and the latest offering from Chanel really has to be the best in class... this site brings you a close as you can get to fashion show without actually being there.... both stylish, luxurious in it's scale and execution.

http://www.chanel.com/fashion/7#7-haute-couture-fall-winter-2008-9-chanel-fashion-show-7,0

Pot Noodle: The Musical


















Mother have extended their ideas for Pot Noodle into a musical.... brilliant!

http://creativity-online.com/?action=news:article&newsId=129816§ionName=from_creativity

World Vision Ad





Charity ads never really do it for me - all those pleading faces and tales of woe just don't evoke any emotion in me. Maybe it's because we've seen it all a million times before.

However, this ad for World Vision really got to me. Beautifully shot, it really brings home the message that 'Each day over 1.1 billion people have to wash with, bathe in and drink dirty water'. In fact it's because the ad is shot in the home that it creates such an impact. We're not thousands of miles away in some poor distant country, but in our very own kitchen... to close for comfort... especially the last scene!

Been thinking about Twitter and it's suitability for spontaneous prose... Burroughs, Kerouac and Ginsberg
were big on this so I'm gonna just post random lines of text from their work and see what happens...

http://www.twitter.com

Here's a great little invention... a jam jar with two lids. No more scraping around at the bottom trying to get that last little bit of jam out for your toast in the morning...

http://www.skforlee.com/independent_work/easy_pb.html

My thought for the day: Russell Brand should be the new Dr. Who... who better than the qucik witted, reformed junky to add a slice of risk and panache to the role!?

CHOOSE YOUR PATH - The game where YOU control my fate!

I really like this interactive movie on YouTube, reminds of those fantasy/adventure books that asked readers to turn to a certain page depending on what decision they made...

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!