Give them a big pen and a big bit of paper and it all goes tits up. Take a bow Dare Senior Planner Jane Hovey.
Filed under: Madness
Thanks to Tony Wilson for making my days in Manchester ’sound’. RIP. His legacy lives on though with a cracking comeback from the Happy Mondays, looking forward to a completely stupid madchester night out when they tour with this one.
Filed under: Madness
The Wife dragged me along to see the little purple fella this weekend, the one who has given his album away, ‘for free’ to all in-sundry. ‘Free’ with the Daily Mail, ‘free’ with every concert ticket bought (although you get it on arrival, as opposed to with ticket delivery – how can you learn the words?!)
So if everything was so ‘free’, how come there are venue police running around trying to stop people take pictures? Do they actually think no one else will go as soon as the piccies are up on the internet?
Was he any good? I would love to say he was amazing, because he should be. He was OK. I did have very good seats though, with direct access to the bar. The trick is, to drink.
Oh, and the official glossy A4, 25 page concert programme, with pictures, was £15 a pop. That might be something to do with it.
I saw this ad at lunchtime yesterday on a phone box from the Home Office, to try and curb mobile phone crime. The image is made from a text message, I think it is mint.
Nice touch too, on the unfinished line ‘You never know when a stolen mobile will stop worki’. I don’t know who did it, but well done anyway.
Filed under: Advertising
Ok, the delivery is really poor, but the method has legs, ‘Crowd Gaming’ is a a collaboration among SS&K, Brand Experience Lab and MSNBC.com, and has been used for the first time in a cinema in Los Angeles instead of the boring trivia, that is before the adverts, that are before the trailers, that are before the film. It is technology that utilises cameras around the cinema that tracks audience movement and converts that to motion on the screen in front of them.
Here it has been used to control a game of ‘Breakout’
I guess it doesn’t have to be limited to a cinema though, maybe it could be used at a football ground before the game and at half time, and the home fans could play against the away fans. Or maybe cross track advertising on the Tube?! That wouldn’t work, people are too moody, somewhere less repressed…primary schools, it could be used to get kids to interact with other kids in other countries on big screens in the gym and across the internet.
Ideas on a postcard please……
Filed under: Design
A tough days parenting at Legoland today, my highlight was these cool bursting for a waz toilet icons. I did look a bit of a weirdo taking pics of the toilets in a predominantly kiddie establishment though.
Filed under: Art
Just seen this on telly, I think it is awesome, it is called ‘Turning The Place Over’ and it is ironic that it is situated in Liverpool where most places get turned over at some point
It is a sculpture by local artist Richard Wilson that utilises engineering usually used in the nuclear industry to rotate a section of a derelict building in a dramatic fashion, turning it inside out. It has been done to herald the 2008 Liverpool City of Culture.
I like a bit of big art, but I am also too northern not to mention the cost, and this was set up at £450,000. The installation will only be up for a few months until the building is demolished, and I just think someone has made a shed load out of this, because I know as a piece of engineering, that didn’t cost nearly half a million quid. Maybe Richard Wilson did really well out of it.
Wasn’t Richard Wilson that old git who kept moaning on telly and said “I don’t believe it?!”
Filed under: Internet
Sir Tim Berners-Lee gets an honour for exceptional contributions in arts, sciences and other areas.
The ‘other areas’ is giving us lot a job and keeping us off the streets and out of trouble.
The static logo is still crap, it’s that Comic Sans type font what bugs me the most, but the animation is cool, if you haven’t got epilepsy that is.
Apparently Ken Livingston has called on the Olympic Committee to withhold payment from Wolff Olins in light of the epilepsy debacle. Well done Ken. You’re still a twat though.
