When Balloon Races Go Wrong

by Iain on July 31, 2008

Hilarious Balloon Launch Failure – Watch more free videos Thanks to Joe Wheeler for the link. Obligatory buttons:

All Comments Are Not Created Equal

by Iain on July 30, 2008

Sometimes blog posts just write themselves. Today I got two comments that obviously resulted from smart, online-aware people seeing what’s been written about a topic on the web. One of them is fantastic. The other one terrible. The fantastic one (…)

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Love’s Powerpoint Website

by Iain on July 30, 2008

I’m gutted. But impressed. And glad. Love have made their new website in Powerpoint: http://www.lovecreative.com/ I’m gutted because I’ve been whanging on about doing a website in PowerPoint for the last couple of years. But impressed because I couldn’t figure (…)

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Lovely Sandwich Photos

by Iain on July 29, 2008

I was playing with Flickr Storm and I stumbled on these brilliant lunchbox shots. Taking lunch to work is apparently the thing to do now the credit crunch is biting. I hope that reduced budgets don’t lead to reduced creativity (…)

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Custom QR Velcro Patches

by Iain on July 28, 2008

There was quite a bit of interest in the Facebook QR Code T-Shirt that I featured a while ago. So I figured this velcro QR code patch might be of interest too. Each patch is a unique QR code that (…)

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Hitchcockian Copyright Message

by Iain on July 24, 2008

It’s rare you see a creative interpretation of an anti-piracy message. I felt that this was one of them… The text alignment is superb around the finger. Obligatory buttons:

Powerful Tools In The Hands of Idiots – Part 1: After Effects

by Iain on July 23, 2008

I’ve just started messing around with Adobe After Effects. You might wonder why. I sort of wonder why too. Thing is I’ve been working with Keynote recently and getting a bit inspired at how it can do cool stuff with (…)

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July Mix From The Loft

by Iain on July 23, 2008

It’s been a little while since I climbed the ladder into the loft to put some more tracks into a mix. But that’s what I did at the weekend. And here’s the result. I struggle with genres these days and (…)

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A $5 Laser Show – OMG OMG OMG!

by Iain on July 22, 2008

I love lasers and music. I just do. So I almost wet myself when I saw this great video of a $5 laser show: Full instructions on how to make your own are here. Or Dr Altman will take you (…)

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Making Art With Microsoft Office

by Iain on July 21, 2008

It’s kind of ironic that the only Microsoft tool that has an ‘art’ mode is Word. Who could miss its amazing ‘Word Art’ feature – if you’ve never played with it, go into the ‘insert’ menu and choose ‘picture’, then (…)

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