Awful Handwriting
Ad Ramblings and Web GuffArchive for March, 2009
Am Massive Twat
Note to self – do not accost bewildered admen on trains, especially when fully aware of utter social ineptitude.
Note to adman – Still learning the ol’ how-to-act-like-a-normal-person thing. Kudos for checking the blog out anyway, though. Er..sorry about that!
Skype coming to iPhone
It’s official – Skype hits the App Store tomorrow. It’s already gone live in Japan, and apparently it works like a dream – so keep your eyes peeled in the morning!
Smart little DM
Click above to check the fullsize – this one speaks for itself. Smart little idea!
Generation Movie Project
A nice new direction for user-lead campaigns from a European mobile network here – a stopframe animation where every frame, beginning as a lineart sketch, is replicated and replaced by a photographs of visitors to the website. It’s a long animation too – so it’ll be a pretty impressive feat if they manage to get the entire commercial put together with unique images. The whole thing’s been put together with a great interface that encourages interaction and shows everything that’s already been uploaded – so you know where you’ve got a good chance of filling a frame, and what the commercial will eventually look like long before it’s gone to air.
Have a fiddle (and get your face on TV!)
Olly Moss
I got a fresh batch of threadless shirts through my door yesterday, including this absolute beauty that I’ve had my eyes on for a bloody age:
This ruddy brilliant bit of chest-worn prettyness just so happens to glow in the dark, as do many lovely things – but it also does something genius in direct sunlight. Sit in a pitch black room and mr vampire’s eyes and teeth glow away merrily, but the moment you take the poor bugger into a sunbeam, he bursts into inky flame. I’ve been jumping into sunbeams all day, and I swear it’ll never get old.
Anyway – to point! The clever little bugger who put it up on threadless, Olly Moss, just happened to have a link to his design site along with the shirt, and so I took a quick peek – and spent the next 15 odd minutes remembering that I’m rubbish in comparison to an awful lot of people my age. I suggest to take time to look over the whole site, but this was my standout favourite from a series of rehashed classic movie posters.
Wanted Ads
Had a fun day at the Wanted Ads competition yesterday – stressful, but bumped into a few familiar faces and had a laugh with the brief. Look! There’s Wal! Wal wot’s from the internets! Starstruck twice in the same week, aren’t I a lucky chap.
Edit – Apparently we got shortlisted (top 5) so that’s a bonus, but they’ve gone and lost the work we put in so we’ve got to remake it for the online vote. So less bonus.
Let It Shine – Honda
Sweet, isn’t it? I thought so, until I watched this:
I was all ready to shout ‘Take that LED Sheep, this one’s for real!’ – until they showed it was controlled by a computer matrix. Why on earth did they cut it together with people in the edit, only to send out a making of with a decidedly non-human payoff? It’s a massive mistake if you ask me – either let the mystery of the stunt run, or let us think it was done digitally from the start. A massive collaborative idea destroyed by reality. Bad move, W+K Amsterdam. Shame.
At least LED sheep looked fake.
Skittles.com
I’m utterly floored by this one, and so upsettingly jealous. Skittles have just knocked their old website off the face of the earth and replaced it with…..other people’s websites!
Oh yes. Skittles.com is now nothing more than an on-top widget that provides the navigation, and all the content is hosted on social platforms. Products? That’s on wikipedia. Chatter? Over to Twitter with you! Media? Youtube and Flickr. All under the latest moniker, Transplant the Rainbow – it’s true Skittles tongue in cheek, abstract style and I’m absolutely in love with it.
Bastards. Click the Rainbow!
Oh, and…
It’s taken 6 months and a crappy dry spell. Celebrate 100 posts!
National Rail Monopoly
This is just fucking annoying. MyRail, a free app for iPhone that calls live train data from National Rail Enquiries and works very well is being shut down by 31st March – by National Rail Enquiries – because they’ve got their own application out, and they’re charging a frankly ridiculous £4.99 for it. On an internet phone. That has access to the regular, free, crap-on-a-phone National Rail Enquiries website.
Considering most apps are about 59p, and the premium ones barely break £2, charging a fiver for free information and crushing the people that already provide it for free is just shameful.
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