Having just become a father I guess I am sensitive to all things 'baby' at the moment... research has shown that babies respond to high contrast images - this book, Art for Baby, features work by artists that include Damien Hirst, Julian Opie and Bridget Riley. Certainly my daughter has a fixation with my girlfriend's zebra print dressing gown!... so at first glance I would agree with the theory... I'm going to get a copy when it's released on 2nd October...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/26/family

Cool Hand Luke - No man can eat 50 eggs scene.

RIP!

Why say it, when you can get others to sing it for you!...http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm

Image by Mario Mariotti: http://www.italian.it/mariomariotti/

Great new site from Uniclo... no big idea as such but a really nice way to show off their product range and guide users through to purchase... http://www.uniqlo.com/merino/

What with Lehman's going down the tubes yesterday, we can really say that the credit crunch is here.

So, after reading this article, http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2221575/credit-crunch-drives-sad-music, which reports that songs by the Smiths etc. are climbing up the download charts as a result of our melancholic state, I got to thinking...

What if I were to release a 2 CD album - CD1 would be '10 tunes to get depressed about the credit crunch to' and CD2 would be '10 tunes to beat the credit crunch'...

CD1 - titled - 'Pass that bottle of gin - I'm in a hole and ain't never coming out'

CD2 - titled - 'Fuck the credit crunch and pull yourself together - songs for the shamefully optimistic'

My initial thoughts were for CD1:

We go to get out of this place - The Animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP1w5Hl8D0E&feature=related

Nirvana-In Utero-Rape Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpfSKNUmIfY

Johnny Cash - Hurt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Beck - Nobody's fault but my own
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFWsGa88APM

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-48M-LPGo&feature=related

Billy Holiday - Strange Fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88

Depeche Mode-precious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXWVpg65Rs&feature=related

Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0dfd_L4tDk

The Streets - Dry your eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHOf3s70w-c

Thoughts and suggestions...?

A brand that has actually taken the time to listen to it's audience/customer and bothered to reply... this is great.

I shamelessly stole this link from:
http://www.freshenmeup.com/

Wait until September



IKEA has launched this site 'Wait until September' which features Nils sitting in a scruffy, partially furnished room waiting for the next IKEA catalogue to be released - presumably so he can do up his flat.

Beat Goes On - All Seeing I

I can't believe that this ad has caused offense to gay people at all, there is certainly no reference to homosexuality here - unless the implication is that anyone wearing tight shorts and participating in speed walking is a clear indication of being gay? Surely not!

I'd say this is more a case of projection by a small minority of busy body fuckwits, who don't live in the real world....

Just seen this great site that has archived all the great moments in UK TV history, from titles, public information films to idents and test cards... http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/

Be sure to check the Public Information films - I learnt a valuable lesson in this one...

http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/dsplus/m.php?p=fatalfloor1974.rm

"Polish a floor, put a rug on it. You might as well set a man-trap."

btw - you'll need to install Real Player, if you don't already have it

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...