Noel Gallagher said something awhile ago about thinking it wasn't right for Jay-Z, a rapper, to headline Glastonbury, a mostly rock festival. Oh, Noel, leave the shit talking to Liam.
Wonderwall > 99 Problems (mixed with Back In Black)
Girls > American Boy > Umbrella
Big Pimpin' > Hard Knock Life > Heart of the City (over Sunday Bloody Sunday)
01 July 2008
27 June 2008
when in doubt, just spell it out
I'm assuming the creatives who made these new Honda ads basically just took lines off the brief and plugged them into a script. And I love them for it.
YouTube dump 27/06/08
This is the best thing I've ever seen on the internet. May take a few viewings to fully appreciate it. But it makes life worth living.
This pisses me off because I've had a bet going with a friend for awhile to see who would be the first one to make a TV spot with a centaur in it. This isn't the first to do it, but it pretty much ruins our chances for awhile. I also love the stupid line: "It's two things."
This is just really nice.
And now, two very different videos about whales:
This pisses me off because I've had a bet going with a friend for awhile to see who would be the first one to make a TV spot with a centaur in it. This isn't the first to do it, but it pretty much ruins our chances for awhile. I also love the stupid line: "It's two things."
This is just really nice.
And now, two very different videos about whales:
26 May 2008
02 May 2008
28 April 2008
22 April 2008
26 March 2008
25 March 2008
the vice guide to north korea
Part 1 of Vice's video guide to North Korea. Pretty amazing stuff. The other 13 (!) parts can be seen here.
And here's a little history of Kim Jong-Il from GOOD Magazine:
And here's a little history of Kim Jong-Il from GOOD Magazine:
17 March 2008
16 March 2008
southland tales
I finally saw Southland Tales. It's by the guy who did Donnie Darko. What a fucking trainwreck. It's terrible. But I've always believed that an epicc failure is better than mediocrity. So in that respect, I respect it. I'm not quite sure that it's so bad it's good, but it's definitely worth seeing. I'll watch it again to make more sense of it. The clip above with JT is actually one of the moments that I did like . There were a few good parts, but the sum of those parts amounted a bunch of nonsense.
Here's the first five minutes, which is actually kind of promising:
13 March 2008
12 March 2008
piñata
This ad is brilliant because they don't play down to us and explicitly tell us it's a piñata.
11 March 2008
10 March 2008
hercules
The video for "Blind" by Hercules & Love Affair, which, by the way, is a terrible band name but whatever. Song rules.
does a body good
Here's an Australian ad for milk.
And here's the video for that ridiculously catchy song by PNAU.
And here's the video for that ridiculously catchy song by PNAU.
06 March 2008
nifty sheilas
Here's something my place of business put together for a panel of judges for the ANDY Awards, which met in Sydney last week. So just keep in mind that this was played for some of the most respected people in advertising worldwide.
05 March 2008
04 March 2008
four capital letters
Here's the new video for "DVNO" by Justice. It's pretty similar to their "D.A.N.C.E." video, with just a series of designs. But it's pretty cool nonetheless. Kind of like some sort of retro 70s/80s futuristic "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
03 March 2008
DMC-12
I can't stop listening to Stainless Style, a new album by Neon Neon, which is a side project for both Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals and Boom Bip. It's a concept album about John DeLorean, famous for designing the Pontiac GTO, bangin' Ursula Andress and Raquel Welch, successfully accusing the U.S. government of entrapment, and, of course, the DMC-12, as seen in Back to the Future.
Here's a music video for the song "I Lust U", which is actually one of my least favourite songs on the album. Nice video though.
And finally, here's a lovely video about the first shipment of DMC-12s from 1981.
02 March 2008
the dying animal
Here are a few scenes from Elegy, a new movie based on Philip Roth's The Dying Animal. I enjoyed the book, but it's definitely far from his best. Interesting choice to make into a movie.
And apparently American Pastoral is in pre-production, which is exciting. That could be an amazing movie, or a colossal failure. The film adaptation of The Human Stain was mediocre. Of the two other books that have been made into movies, I've only see one. Goodbye, Columbus is pretty decent, but extremely dated. I haven't seen Portnoy's Complaint. It's hard to find and only available on VHS.
And apparently American Pastoral is in pre-production, which is exciting. That could be an amazing movie, or a colossal failure. The film adaptation of The Human Stain was mediocre. Of the two other books that have been made into movies, I've only see one. Goodbye, Columbus is pretty decent, but extremely dated. I haven't seen Portnoy's Complaint. It's hard to find and only available on VHS.
27 February 2008
helvetica
This is a great documentary. Sure, a movie about a font doesn't sound all that exciting, but it's pretty cool.
This here blog is in Arial, which is basically the poor man's Helvetica. But believe you me, if Helvetica was an option, I'd choose it.
Below is a trailer for it. The trailer is just a collection of images, but the movie itself has a lot of surprisingly entertaining interviews with designers.
http://www.helveticafilm.com/
26 February 2008
summer in sydney
26 types of animals
I believe this is a graphic design student's thesis. Fonts based on animals. A different animal/font for each letter of the alphabet.
Here are a few:
See the rest here.
makeshift bookshelf
This Penguin ad has stickers that you can peel and put anywhere, giving you a bookshelf wherever. Cool idea/design, but does it suggest that having books (and displaying them) is more important than reading books? Or is it just saying that you should have books around at all times?
Found here.
24 February 2008
21 February 2008
20 February 2008
god bless wikipedia #1
List of fictional South Park species
1 Crab People
2 Gelgameks
3 Genetic experiments
4 Goobacks
5 Jakovasaurs
6 Joozians
7 Lice
8 ManBearPig
9 Marklar
10 Scuzzlebutt
11 Sea People
12 Towelie (Genetically Modified Towels)
13 Underpants Gnomes
14 Visitors
15 Woodland Christmas Critters
16 Xenu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_species_in_South_Park
1 Crab People
2 Gelgameks
3 Genetic experiments
4 Goobacks
5 Jakovasaurs
6 Joozians
7 Lice
8 ManBearPig
9 Marklar
10 Scuzzlebutt
11 Sea People
12 Towelie (Genetically Modified Towels)
13 Underpants Gnomes
14 Visitors
15 Woodland Christmas Critters
16 Xenu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_species_in_South_Park
19 February 2008
cadence weapon - the t-shirt!
I just got this shirt sent from Cadence Weapon's label in Canada.
It shows Ghostface Killah fighting a shark.
"Swim Starks, Sharks!" is a lyric from a Ghostface song. "Stroke of Death" off of Supreme Clientele. And Tony Starks is one of Ghostface's aliases.
It's taken from the real name of Marvel superhero Iron Man, Tony Stark, which, incidentally comes out as a movie in a few months, starring Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man/Tony Stark. I'm not a big comic guy by any means, but from what I know and have seen/read of Iron Man, he's one of my favourites. Tony Stark is a raging alcoholic. Great stuff.
If Ghost's fellow Wu-Tang Clan member RZA can score movies these days, I hope they asked Ghostface to do the Iron Man soundtrack, or at least gave the man a cameo.
philip roth's indignation (part 2)
I found this description on Amazon.co.uk. Sounds like it'll be along the lines of American Pastoral and I Married A Communist, but from the perspective of a young narrator and/or characters. Of course, I could be quite wrong. After all, we know this was written by Philip Roth in 2007, not Philip Roth in 1951. But it'll be interesting to see the perspective from which it's told. At first glance, it seems like it could be about an older Zuckerman/Roth (the father) and a younger Zuckerman/Roth (the main character, Marcus Messner). Also, trying to analyze books based on a paragraph written 8 months in advance of its release is stupid. I'll be back with more on this later this year.
"It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad - mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the Midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, tells the story of the young man's education in life's terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions. It is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual."
240 pages. Due 2 Oct 08.
"It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad - mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the Midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, tells the story of the young man's education in life's terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions. It is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual."
240 pages. Due 2 Oct 08.
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