Monthly Archives: April 2008

Walk to Work Day

Last week I got given this flyer for Walk to Work day. Now I’m all for walking to work days, they’re a great idea if you ask me.
But these flyers were being handed to people who were walking to work. On Walk to Work Day!
Definitely a case of going after the ‘low [...]

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10 Things I Learned from Mental Detox Week

If you’ve just arrived here from AdBusters you might also be interested in what I got up to this weekend – I did still use the Internet a little bit – but it’s primarily a bunch of offline stuff that I did started by an online thing… Might be useful if you’re thinking of turning [...]

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Crayon Madness

This is the kind of thing you miss when you’re away from the Internet:
Color + Design Blog / All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts by COLOURlovers
All 120 Crayola crayon colours in Hex and RGB along with their original names and loads of other crayon related facts and stuff. Aaaah crayons.

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Allez-Allez.co.uk

Here’s a link to a site that posts lots of great mixes of the greatest music in the world. If I was younger and lived in London town I go to all these guys’ parties and be like their total groupie. They’ve even got a mega Kompakt party this weekend.
So many great mixes. I’m listening [...]

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Some Things I Saw Last Week

When I wasn’t blogging last week I saw some things:

Nu-rave extreme fashion in Brighton (they’ve got some amazing Sun Microsystems sunglasses in there – perfect for the Skins obsessed-geek in your life)
A road that looks like a sex organ
A vinyl outfit that looks very odd
A New Era hat that looks like a brain
A Stylophone with [...]

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I’m Almost Back

It’s hard to get back into the swing. I’m almost there.
But my first day back was a big old day of Fast Strategy at the IPA surrounded by way-clever people. I feel a bit scared about starting to re-blog after that. And tomorrow I’ve got a day of big pitching.
I really want to share the [...]

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Mental Detox Week: Thought From Last Night

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Mental Detox Week: Day 2 Observations

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Mental Detox Week: Fear

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Mental Detox Week: Something I Read

I’ve not been doing any kind of web-surfing or anything screen based. So all my new info is coming from books and mags. Here’s a favourite bit from the excellent Ocean of Sound by David Toop:

And that’s how dub is made ;-)

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