Was clearing out my camera and spotted this photo I took in Sainsburys a couple of weeks ago. Now you can watch your kids at nursery from a webcam. It’s the first in the UK according to the ad.
Which made me think…
It’s only a matter of time until we get Twitter Nappies (or Twitter Diapers for some) – it’s got to be the same technology as they used for the Twitter Plant Watering thing. Just in reverse.
Big up the Danish company Yakkay. I’m so glad that someone’s made cycling helmets that don’t look like some piss-poor Tron rip-off or a bit of Super Mario fancy dress. It’s been on my list of things to sort out in the world for a while.
With the Yakkay system you buy the base helmet, and then you can choose nice covers for them…
I’ve got a couple of reservations though…
They might just look like really big comedy “It’s A Knockout” hats. How do I know this model hasn’t got a massive head that makes the helmet look OK?
And also I’m not sure that this looks like the most robust and safest type of helmet in the world. I wouldn’t trust myself to get the pads in the right places to save my life…
If you play solo clips from YouTube on the same page at the same time it sounds oddly like a band (kinda). I’ve got a project on the go to try and make an interesting random YouTube band maker. But I need some help.
Sorry if the page looks funny in some browsers, I built it with iWeb to see how good it is – I’m sure the code is minging but just wanted to see if it could do the job – I’ve only tested it on Safari and Firefox 3 on Mac (shoddy I know). If the page doesn’t look like the image above I’d love to hear the details in the comments below.
I never thought I’d be ranting about chocolate eggs. It makes me feel unclean and slightly deranged. I’m hopefully going to manage to fend off the voice in my left ear going: “you’re just like one of those people you hate, the ones who (supposedly) campaigned for the reinstating of the Wispa” for just long enough to finish this post…
Small child. Me. Kinder Eggs. Sweet AND fun. Exciting. And those ads…
The design of this charity site is really lovely. To my ill-trained eyes the typography is nice. And I like their promo film too. Everything about just feels like it works together.
I liked this poster set. You get a love poster and a hate poster. And 3 sheets of Letraset based words and phrases.
Without wanting to be a wanker about it, I like the fact that it forces you to make a simple binary decision about a bunch of things and commit your opinions to paper via the act of rubbing.
Below is 1 of the 3 sheets. I already know I like Stanton Warriors and Sheds, but some of the other things are harder to figure out.
And another thing that’s nice. If you actually complete one, photograph it and send a photo back they’ll give you a free t-shirt from their catalogue. That sounds to me very much like a circle getting completed. Hooray.
I know someone who is holding out on getting an iPhone because he was a bit scathing about them when they first came out. He’s scared of being shown up as a fool and a traitor when he gets one.
This video is just another example of the kind of thing that becomes possible if he just swallowed his pride. Nik, it’s time. It really is.
And if that wasn’t enough, this video showing an iPhone controlling Ableton Live nearly made me wee with excitement:
One of the best things about StumbleUpon is that sometimes it’ll serve up a smashing slice of retro-web pie. Like this chuckleworthy strip called The Trancecracker.
Actually, it’s probably only funny if you’ve ever witnessed trancemonkeys in the wild and/or received a similarly informative and entertaining religion-based graphic mini-novel from a well wisher.
Minilogue video by Kristopher Storm (Music by Minilogue).
Carphone Warehouse ad by Kristopher Storm (Music by Minilogue).
I’m really confused. Everything in my brain is shutting down and I’ve got no idea what to say about it. My groove has been well and truly freaked.
I saw the Carphone Warehouse ad on telly and thought this is quite a nice advertisement. Then something twitched in my brain and I thought “Fuck me, that really reminds me of that Minilogue video”, then I heard the music at the end and though “Fuck me, it even sounds like bloody Minilogue”.
Then I went and looked both of them up and realised that they’ve been done by the same guy: Kristofer Strom.
Here’s why my brain almost imploded:
I’m glad that it’s not a ripoff or ‘homage’
I like the fact they’ve gone to the source to get it made – I like the idea of people being ‘discovered’ on YouTube then being given decent budgets to make more of their ‘art’
I think it works well as a ad, I think it’s nice
It’s taking something that’s been seen by 3m people globally (on YouTube) and whacking it all over the ad breaks on UK TV where it will be seen my millions more (don’t know if I feel good or bad about that – probably just neutral)
BUT CREATIVELY IT FEELS LIKE THE LAZIEST THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD EVER, doesn’t it?
Or does point 5 even matter? If it’s a good ad that tells the right story and engages the target market (and the creator is getting duly rewarded) why should I be such a stuck-up creative fuckwad about it?
I don’t know how anyone else feels about it, but it’s certainly raised a debate in my head that’s not dying down…
Is this the future? Does it even matter? Do I really care?
