Japanese obsessions continue
Most people that know me well know that I have a growing obsession with Japanese stuff. Tumblr have recently re-jigged their search functionality and now you get this lovely digital—and rather square—collage for each and every search result.
We like!
One of my sweet finds are below, it’s a diagram detailing how the smooth criminal shoes were made.
Courtesy of Gizmodo JP
Happy Fathers Day
This is Dad. He’s not quite your digital native, in fact he asked me to “stop wasting the film” that was in my digital camera.
He’s your real nuts and bolts kind of guy as he used to be mechanic. He’ll soon be attending his second college course that will teach him how to use them their komputers and t’interent.
After months of asking me to “Google” things for him, he’s now got his own laptop which he’s getting use to.
Wish him luck!
Gutted
Erm…I’m not sure how I feel about this ad.
I was in the gym trying to justify my membership fee for the first time in over a week. After my somewhat average workout I saw the above sticker-ad pasted inside a few locker doors.
It made me smile at first, our mick taking banter with the French never ends. I then became distracted by four loud French guys, stacked and cut like glass, giving each other jockesq, post-workout high fives.
It was a real right back at you moment. Judging by the way they looked I think they gave up their diets of chocolat chaude et croissant a long time ago.
Skins and Punks by Gavin Watson
Pic courtesy of @Rojo
This is one of those cliche books you’d expect to find in Urban Outfitters (and yes I did see it in there), but it really is amazing. Another must have for the collection.
Just like The Americans, there are some excellent examples of mono work in this book. I’m thinking of doing a more contemporary version titled Chavs and Nathan Barleys ;p
Pepsi Raw
At Paddington station today a small can collided with my foot whilst I was trying to find out a departure time for my train. This little brown specimen had rolled over from its Pepsi sample stand where the guys from Pepsi were dishing out goodies to the commuting masses.
Nothing unusual I guess, I suppose it was much better than the pilchard who was trying to give me Nicorette Whitening yesterday – ask me if I smoke first you plank!
What caught my attention about these little brown cans was the twitter URLs printed on them. Genius! First we saw MySpace URLs on ATL advertising, then “search online”, and now – a first for me – twitter URLs directly on product samples.
It’s a nice piece of integration, a good example for you brand guys looking for ways to integrate social networking into other aspects of marketing and advertising. This is how easy it can be!
As for the twitter account itself? I haven’t looked at it in great detail but can we please not have a re-hash of this.
Ps. Like the vintage design of the can, I’m glad Pepsi have gone all retro.
The game of my childhood
Hats off to Google today for recognizing the 25th anniversary of Tetris. As a kid the Gameboy was my first ever console and Tetris was my first computer game.
Remember that —now very annoying— music:
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