national rail app

never having to stand like a zombie in front of a departures board ever again. Even tracks the train real time from station to station. really solid utility app.

Chore App

raven row

Best Job article in The Guardian

Cannes away from the beach

Freddie and the pride of Sapient Nitro lions

Remember the teams back home

I had a long chat last night after the awards ceremony about not all creative teams win awards. I have worked in a few agencies where awarded teams are shuffled to the top of the pecking order and others are over looked or pushed out because they don't win awards.

I think this is a stupid way to think of your creative talent. Not everyone needs to win awards, yes it's great to win and get the metal but its the 80% of the hard work on the not so glamorous accounts that pays for the 20% to go to Cannes and win the awards. Teams that work on well paying, effective campaigns should be remembered and share in those awards back at the agency. They should also be invited to Cannes to celebrate the year after as well.

So when you get back with your Lion don't stick it in a box or shelf in your room. Place it in reception for all to share and see, with out the bread winners there would be no Cannes at all.

best job in world clearing up

Congratulations to Nitro on a great clutch at Cannes.
I can see this picking up media and Titanium GP as well. Maybe the BBC will make a documentary of the documentary of the campaign.

Zumpthor Architour

http://www.mimoa.eu/




archilogical
Im Feld
CH-7306 Fläsch
Switzerland

vineyard
Seilerbahnweg 17
7000 Chur
Switzerland

Das gelbe haus by valerio olgiati.
Via Nova 37
7017 Flims
Switzerland


Chapel by zumthor
Caplutta Sogn Benedetg
Sumvitg
Switzerland

How to get there? Take the car to Sumvitg in the canton of Graubünden. In this village is one road up to San Benedigt (different ways to write). It's about a km tough climbing for the car. In San Benedigt it is easy to find your way to the church.

Barn house by zumthor
Gugalun
7104 Versam
Switzerland

sapient buy nitro

Sapient buy Nitro and move all in one week what ever next.


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Highline is OPEN

after a very long wait the highline is now open all be it a small section of the intended plan. If you go to NY you must see this.

waitrose essentials campaign

really like the simplicity of this Waitrose campaign. I noticed it the other day when I looked at my orange carton and then bottle of milk in the fridge. The illustrations are really 70s in feel and basic but work.

The digital posters and billboards just show lots of these simple items to communicate a strong range for essentials and reasonable prices. Good example of product to advertising working together.

boone oakley

TIM on HBO

where the wild things are trailer

The Internet is Killing America's Free Press

Really good debate by Jerry Bowles to get going. Andrew Keen touched on some of these points at Next09 in Hamburg. I really fear for the loss of quality in depth reporting. I think there are a few models that could work but the US may need to change it's mind set around only free market only funded news.

I believe we need 3 models for a free press.
1. State funded news. Here in the UK we have the BBC one of the most respected news sources in the world. There is a debate right now that some of our tax payers license fee should go towards supporting other local, regional and national news away from the BBC. I think this could be a good thing as long as it is monitored and audited away from state control as the BBC is. This keeps the BBC impartial, non-political and non-commercial.

2. Ad funded free market press. We have both right and left leaning press here and its a good thing it challenges the BBC and each other so we have a good healthy 3 points of debate going on constantly. These guys are struggling to find new ad models but they will get there. I would be looking at a syndication model across all news websites, pay as you go model like News Corp are thinking about but across all titles. Similar to my twitter feed set up of, WSJ, FT, BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, NY Times, Fox, Aljazera, Rueters, Times and the Economist.

3. Social Media - Letting people have their say is a good thing, it builds traffic and healthy debate like this one we are having now to discuss fact, fiction and the in between. I don't see social press as being a replacement for professional journalism it's un-checked, under-funded and to subjective. All the ref of stories built from social media always lead to the mob angry or sensational tabloid headlines, swine flu (turned out to not be a pandemic) landing on hudson river (it's a miracle) but as Bowles points out indepth dangerous reporting that takes money and a crack team to report on. This un covering the truth and not making more noise is what professional journalism is about. I think social media has a role to play in the debate, traffic and adding more insight (Mubai twitters good example) to the stories but as the Telegraph here in the UK has proved with the bomb shell of MPs expenses, good solid investigation and reporting drives readership and truth.

This is a great debate I hope it will continue.

Quality costs, it's as simple as that

Telegraph: Shane Richmond at May 13, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/q5okpc sparks another debate on paid for news.

I think this is a huge issue that needs to be debated and quickly. Newspapers are struggling to find a viable business model online and it should concern us all. With out quality professional journalism our democracy will fail. bloggers and amateur journalists are not an answer to the well funded and resource strong news papers.

Reading news online is very different to paper format. users have a fragmented approach to their content. One minute they could be on The Economist website, then off to Telegraph, Guardian, WSJ, Washington Post, NY Times and so on Regular subs for one paper doesn't work as who wants their online news from one source.

A good model to look at would be a portfolio subscription model. So the more you consume the more you pay. Some users dip into a few articles a day and others read lots. The subscription could work against link models and a reimbursement model for each paper.

I do think that some of our license fee should go towards funding journalism and local news and not just to the BBC. This should be monitored and controlled by an independent press authority away from the BBC, government and media companies influence.

Like the credit crunch we now have to pay for the free content binge we have all taken for granted. I always hear people saying good riddance to old media, well be careful what you wish for as new media is uncontrolled, under funded and a poor substitute for professional journalism.

Andrew Keen's key note speech at Next09 Hamburg

Sorry no embeddable video so click on this link

Top 10 British video game developers

Doritos Triangle

This is old now but still makes me chuckle.

Andrew Keen talk

R Crumb Album cover tribute

haus der kunst

richter videos from NP Exhibition

Richter's portraits at the National Gallery is excellent. The wet into wet technique is by far the best I have ever seen in the world. As he has got older the painting has become more and more refined. It almost has a water colour consistency to the surface.

Currently also abstracts are a refreshing alternative top this on in Munich.

Talk at Next 09

I will be talking at next09 in Hamburg. 5-6th May.

Betsie Van Der Meer

Betsie

samsung disconnect

I really like the new viral work Samsung are doing but there seems to be a huge disconnect from the viral piece to the bad experience on their site, they even call this infotainment makes you want to puke just hearing the name.

Furry animal number campaign had great idea to be a good UGC on rails concept where users could have written their own video ideas for animals to use the phone for. Instead we get more muzak and infotainment. Samsung wake up.

HD camera phone link to article


Viral Factory



Viral Factory

Then the online experience (brace yourself) samsung

visualisation

Open publication - Free publishing - More aesthetic

Jimmy Wales on marketing

Jimmy Wales tells marketers to get real

Philips Carousel

And follow up making of

e-trade super bowl ad explained by CMO

e-trade puking baby ad and follow up.
CMO explains why they did it here

why internet data delivery is moving on

The internet is a messy pot holed network of roads.
Companies like Akamai are building their own new flight paths and leaving the clogged up
roads behind.

Users don't wait for things to load they just move on. Brands need to learn that the delivery is just a s important as the message.

Here's a good video from Paul Sagan that sums things up.

helen turner

See more at the HQ Galery

college humor

Strangely hypnotic but bad.

Media/Marketing Chaos in action

The New York Times. TV Guide. Clear Channel. NBC, Boxee, Yahoo.

They tell the story. There is no longer a need to warn of a gathering Chaos Scenario, in which the yin of media and yang of marketing fly apart, symbiotic no more. There is no need to seed doubt about the internet's prospects as an advertising medium, nor otherwise be a prophet of doom. By Bob Garfield | Published: March 23, 2009

In free fall, it amazes me that so many people are prepared to accept mediocrity news. Free papers and news groups that publish visual shit and people just eat it. Is this the end of objective in-depth reporting.

Poo App

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- After nearly a decade of providing free, clean public restrooms everywhere from state fairs to Times Square, Procter & Gamble Co.'s Charmin wants consumers to find their own -- via a free mobile social-networking utility, SitOrSquat.

More and more marketers are realising that service is the new advertising. When you've gotta go just think of Charmin.

seasons design

For All Seasons (iPhone) from Andreas Muller on Vimeo.

Andreas Muller

connectivity

Everything's amazing video link here

Geoffrey Holder link VO



Internet traffic link

tesco v denmark

jimmy johns freaky fast

Xylem Digital and Oddcast bring you freaky fast

Generation AD (Attention Deficit)

Facebook and Bebo risk
infantilising' the human mind

Greenfield warns social networking sites are changing children's brains, resulting in selfish and attention deficient young people

Patrick Wintour, political editor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 February 2009 10.52 GMT

This rings true, interestingly so for social networks. Most people's aim is to boast about the quantity of friends like its a race to the end. I feel there was a difference on IM back a few years where you were honored to be on the buddy list and those IM chats could last for hours.

Facebook feels like your at one big long boring dinner party that never ends and everyone's bragging about going Skiing, City breaking or eating shit. They can't even be bothered to talk directly to you so you just get a status update, but it's pretty much rattling the stick in the swill bucket as Wells called it.

I'm sure we will see the rise of social network detox counsillors coming to save the day. Maybe they can just add it as an app.

playboy uk over haul

cooking trainer

eat drink man woman

RIP John Martyn

LARPs

Interesting post on TMTYL
on Live Action Role Players (LARPs) Just a block away I managed to find a giant chicken and a person dressed as a pepper pot or it could be a drum stick, I'm not sure on that one.

unchained stores

A great way to find those indy shop keepers
Dave Birss started this with Lea and Pedro.
Very good idea which will be great to see it grow over time.

at last some good floor media

ffffound

last fm video campaign

Really smooth video delivery and simply roll over or off to start and stop the video playing. This is a great campaign, some dodgy interviews but that's musicians for you.
last.fm

blu

Guess Who and Wall animation videos

Guess Who from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

one piece of technology

After 16 days of no email/work/web/desktops/files/crashes I feel detoxed from the world of technology I've even been using a old dial face phone which has a better audio quality than those annoying mobile digital home phones. OK so I have been using my blackberry storm but not much. Convergence of technology is a core thing for users and mobile offers the chance for people to do this. I'll see how long my 'only use one piece of technology' lasts when I get back to work on Monday.

The wonder of the world

Thanks Alistair, CK sums it up in this video, Everything is amazing, nobody is happy.

Make me something good please

Good article by Freddie (TMTYL) here in Ad Age
I worry about the 'it's really hot right now' marketing discussion. The word marketeers need to remember is relevance. Is this message relevant to my audience. Brands would do well to spend more time building tools and services online that are useful to customers and stop making lengthy campaign creative that is irrelevant. Read more

putting up the fairy lights

Christmas sprout game

hours of christmas fartnastics.
Thanks Valter. Mark Burvill work

verticles

Anthony Sheret Poster

m/m

m/m always make things incredibly complicated or like their website and emails incredibly simple using html the old way, just like their posters lovely.

howies

their winter catalog is here to download with food recipes to back to nature campaign using huge plant care cards that you get in those garden centers.