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.

photoshop CS4 ad

too pissed to drive

Nic Spic found this one.

Hyundai

This is a great campaign and goes a long way to getting people to rethink a brand that might not be at the top of your shopping list.

Agency - Goodby, Silverstein