Monthly Archives: August 2006

New Design

Stan Lee suggested that maybe I should consider a new web 2.0 logo, and pointed me in the direction of the Web 2.0 logo generator.

What do you reckon?

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Amazing Video – Rendezvous

I was leafing through a copy of American GQ and I spotted a short article on a video that’s become an online phenomenon. A French art film of someone driving through Paris at breakneck speed. Made with no post production or additional sound effects this is one of the greatest driving films I’ve ever seen.
There’s [...]

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Crackunit gets a tidy up

It was time for a tidy-up. My blog template was starting to break in places. And I’ve found that I was writing longer posts. Which may or may not be a good thing depending on your point of view. But it meant that the big type was getting a bit tiresome. So it was time [...]

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Digital Frustration

Just in case it gets lost in the comments. I thought it was worth blogging the fact that Tony Davidson left a comment in response to my ranting the other day. Thanks. It’s always nice when a monologue turns into a dialogue. Stops you feeling like a nutter talking to yourself.
Anyway, Tony used an interesting [...]

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Digital Creativity Revisited

Yesterday I posted this: Tony Davidson on Digital Creativity
I got into a bit of a rant about it. You’ll find it’s easy to bait anyone who works in digital in this way. In fact there’s probably a good sport in there somewhere. It’d be interesting to go blog-baiting and see just how much noise and [...]

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Join the Darknet

The Swedish Pirate Party has launched a service that lets anyone send files or information over the Internet without fear of being monitored or logged. Technically they say, this is called a “darknet”. I could spend a lot of time discussing who’s going to use it and what they’re going to do with it, but [...]

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Tony Davidson on Digital Creativity

The above image is blatantly stolen from the excellent DigitalAgency blog. But short of retyping the whole thing I couldn’t think of any other way of doing it.
It’s from the D&AD Student Annual, written by Tony Davidson (Creative Director at Wieden + Kennedy London) and it starts off well. It’s positive and upbeat, and the [...]

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Clerks 2 – A socially networked film

The Social Customer Manifesto: Silent Bob Speaks
I liked Clerks when I first saw it. I liked its low-budgetness, especially the fact that the store in the film had a broken shutter (to hide the fact that the only time they could afford to film the interior was at night when it was closed).
So I [...]

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Bully – The Game

2 posts about game related things in one day. Perhaps I’m turning into a wannabe gamer without even knowing it. I just had to post this trailer for the new Rockstar game ‘Bully’, it looks amazing. Given their history with games like Grand Theft Auto you’d expect things like tuck shop extortion, lunch money muggings [...]

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Goggles

You know those thigs that seem glaringly obvious once you’ve seen them, the ones where you go: “Damn, I wish I’d thought of that”. Well here’s one: Goggles :: The Google Maps flight sim
Take Google maps and turn it into the landscape for a flight sim. Choose your city and away you go….
Apparantly all done [...]

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