Monthly Archives: July 2008

When Balloon Races Go Wrong

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

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All Comments Are Not Created Equal

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 … Continue reading

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Love’s Powerpoint Website

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 … Continue reading

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Lovely Sandwich Photos

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 … Continue reading

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Custom QR Velcro Patches

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 … Continue reading

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Hitchcockian Copyright Message

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.

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

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 … Continue reading

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July Mix From The Loft

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 … Continue reading

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A $5 Laser Show – OMG OMG OMG!

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 … Continue reading

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Making Art With Microsoft Office

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 … Continue reading

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