Gneborg

Weird & wonderful.

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Spam on toast

OFFI Mag Table

Gorgeous and i want one - two actually.

Get one here.

13km from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

Lovely way to waste some time on a friday afternoon - i have a traveller IQ of 113 apparently.

You can find it here

How to waste an hour or ten

As addictive as the wonderful Line Rider. Which by the looks of it has grown up a little since i first played around with it this time last year.

"Beware the devil woman, she's gonna get you"

CLIFF SAYS….

“Devil Woman”, one of the most sultry and moody of all my hits, was released way back in 1976. Today, what more apt a description for our new heady and alluring evening fragrance, so evocative of the song’s sentiment."

Well, that's my Mum's Christmas present sorted - genius!

How high is your brow?

Get involved in some intelligent debate with the guys and girls of the space collective.

Ghetto Grannies

Sweet way to hold a surreptitious street party - you can get one from here

Chucking one up in Legoland

Slammed in via the excellent Wooster Collective

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is an Icelandic Photographer - and if i looked that good i'd be taking lots of self portraits too.

More excellent work here.

Some Christmas Reading

Nice tree - seen on SwissMiss

Lee Miller: Snapper or Slapper?

Went to the Lee Miller exhibition at the V&A the other night. What a truly remarkable woman she was too, i wish i'd had the opportunity to meet her. She got about a bit mind you - she knock off these two chaps for a start.

If you can, you should go.

Walter Potter & The Guinea Pig's Cricket Match

I've just had a crafty squizz at today's Guardian and there's an article in G2 about Walter Potter. Potter was a Victorian Taxidermist who's work is trippy to say the least. Apparently Tripmaster General Damian Hurst wanted to buy a load for £1m.

I'd love to see this for real.

More here.

Photo Comp

Ever since i went to the Hockney exhibition last year and saw his amazing Polaroid composites i've wanted to have a go at it myself. This stuff from Patrick Winfield is also excellent. Not sure i'll get results as good as these but the crossbow bolt of inspiration has been fired and i'm off to buy some film right now!

Charity means:

Great site for a copywriter with a conscience, or anyone else for that matter. Improve your vocabulary and donate rice.

Pieter Hugo

Strong, occasionally humorous and often harrowing work from South African Pieter Hugo

Tattoo-ine

If there's one really cool thing about blogs and bloggers it's the number of niche interests they cover, something that even the hardcore traditional publishers couldn't hope to fulfill.

Take The Force in the Flesh for instance - a blog dedicated to Star Wars inspired body art!

Weird Science

Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment

(Satish Chandra Mishra; Charak Palika Hospital; 2005)
A quick, simple and non-traumatic approach to penile zipper entrapment

"Entrapment of penile foreskin is quite a distressing situation for the child and the parents and can be a frustrating management problem. Any overzealous intervention would simply worsen the situation. Also, attempts to cut open the zip fastener are time taking and may not be either helpful or feasible in all the situations. The approach to the zipper manipulation should be quick, simple, non-traumatic and reproducible irrespective of the age of the child, mechanism and site of entrapment, presence of the local edema and zipper size or design."

More rather odd scientific papers here

More Radiohead Home Recordings

These boys really know how to embrace the internet.

Curiously Incongorous

Really, really nice stuff from all four corners of this fair city of ours. I strongly recommend every Londoner spend some time on this site - excellent work Eric.

Hook, line & sinker

I go fishing quite a lot when i can be bothered. So this caught my eye when it was sent to me (thanks Jim). The thing i like best about this $1,000,000 game fishing lure is not the 'just over 3 pounds of glimmering gold and platinum, encrusted with 100 carats of diamonds and rubies (4,753 stones to be exact)'

It's the fact that you can actually add it to your cart and buy it online - as if!

Roadkill

Web 3.0 is here...

... bask in it's power and effervescence

Sean Kenneday Santos

More remarkable stuff here

Think you know how to have fun?

D.I.Y.

Radiohead doin it for themselves.

Snoop doing an Outcast

Ice Ice Maybe

Lovely stuff from the appropriately named Camille Seaman

Muggin me off

Better than the bikini-clad stripper pen.

They're not real

Hyper-realist sculptures from Ron Mueck - who's a YBA according to my GF.

Arse Probe

Wonderful table lamp

Brake Fast

I cycle to work in central London on a regular basis. A wild, overly competitive environment where getting to work in second place just will not do. I hate almost all other cyclists during these frantic 45 minutes.

Perhaps we could all do with one of these on our handlebars?


More on the BikeFast here

And...

i'm back in the room.

Forgot i was meant to be blogging for a week or two there.

Go Go Uni Qlo

Addictive and totally rad site for Uniqlo - basically make your logo dominate everyone else's. V. cool, but as Athila the Thrilla says, How do these things get sold to the client?

Good work all round.

Christmas Presents with a difference

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Moleskine skin

Keep your idle scribblings warm and dry - i want one.

Loan Moose

Wonderful photography from Loan Nguyen

The art of drinking

Beautiful stuff from designer Lei Xue.

Chain Reaction

Nice, albeit rather cheesy, website which is a clever digital take on Honda's Cogs campaign below.

Interactive marketing circa 1950

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Cheers Jim!

Drink-driver fleeing police soils himself

The best headline i've seen since The Day Today

Here's the story.

Watching us, watching you, watching us...

I've just been watching someone walking their dog through this park in Ostersund - from my desk in London.

We all know that CCTV is pretty ubiquitous in many areas now but i didn't realise that there is such a thing as CCTV networks online that anyone can look at.

Go here and start clicking on the links - strangely compelling viewing, especially considering nothing is really going on.

FFFFOUND!

Nice and easy image bookmarking site. You can't subscribe yet as they are in 'Private Beta' but it's gonna be dead handy when you can.

Chema Madoz

You can see more of Chema's beautiful and rather clever work here.

Shame the website is a bit naff though.

Oh Lordy!

This is why street art is quite often the most imaginative art form you'll see.

Orange Smoothie

Addictive, engaging and truly wonderful stuff from Poke London for Orange. One of the many reasons why digital is so much better than any other medium where branding is concerned - who in the hell needs TV ads anymore?

Sweet Ts are made like these...

You can buy one at Urban Outfitters if you want.

Corey Arnold

More animal and fish based snaps here

Cover Art

Until i started working with my main man Manuel, i would have never thought Data Visualisation is cool. Well it is and the above proves it.

The above print by Peter Crnokrak shows the relationship between Joy Divisions 'Love will tear us apart' and the 85 or so subsequent cover versions of the same track.

I want one but can't afford 70 notes just yet - maybe next year son.

Watto Wattoo

This little fella just popped into my head and pretty much no-one else in the office remembers it.

Watto Watto is a super bird, he's (or She's) French and is still as trippy as when i first saw it approximately 25 years ago.

Christophe Huet

You can see more of Christophe's wonderful wacky world right here.

Mississippi Techno*

Saw Seasick Steve last night at The Scala in Kings Cross. Charming, engaging and hob-nail boot stomping it was too. Shame some of the crowd were complete dicks that couldn't stop shouting shit out like they were at Kylie concert.

Here is he on Jules Holland.




* I told you i'd nick it Jase.

Leggit!

More lovely (and slightly mad) furniture design from Gareth Neal here

Hand Job

I've been to plenty of gigs in my time and had a crimson smudge branded onto the back of my hand by a miserable looking goth girl as a mark of entry.

Well our 'Kinda friends but we wished they'd stop being such a pain in the arse and try to get on with everyone rather than constantly rubbing them up the wrong way with their loud voices and painfully conservative view points' from across the pond have taken the branding part of that exercise to a new level.


What a waste of time. As pointed out on their website these images have been photoshopped. That's because your brand will be a sweaty unrecognizable smudge within seconds of it being applied (by the miserable goth) and of no use to man or brand marketer.

That's about the size of it...

what would digital be though?

Brilliant on so many levels

The T-shirts that never were

Not true in my or pretty much anyone else's case, but still an excellent thing to have emblazoned across one's chest.

More indie non t-shirts with a difference here and here.

Unusal ad for a bank...

Another lovely print...

that will go rather well with the one i got my hands on a few weeks ago.

You can get one from here

Pneumatic Anatomica

Fat boy