*sigh* My old art director Daryl has showed me up again. He’s had a rather smart idea for Qantas: they’ve sent their frequent fliers a set of books of different lengths that will last for the exact flight time of their most popular routes. They’re all by excellent Aussie authors and the covers have been [...]
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Posted 20 May 2013
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Famous authors’ outlines of classics (thanks, T). London in colour circa 1927 (thanks, G): Point Break as directed by Wes Anderson, David Lynch and two guys I’ve never heard of (thanks, T): Excellent movie trivia (thanks, G). Commentator sings Eye Of The Tiger with Paul Scholes lyrics when he scores (thanks, G): Bet you can’t [...]
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Posted 16 May 2013
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When I buy a Mars Bar (admittedly not that often these days) the newsagent doesn’t pester me with weekly phone calls about the other chocolate bars I might be interested in. And when I get off a bus I’m not concerned that the rest of my life will be littered with visits from the driver, [...]
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Posted 15 May 2013
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I literally have no idea what that means, but it’s great that some cider-guzzling tramp had a good go at explaining it to me. If ‘now’ is a good time, what about that good time I had several years ago after one too many margaritas when I jumped into a bin in St John’s Wood [...]
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Posted 14 May 2013
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PS: if you’d really like to think in the way he suggests, why not try this? I can’t recommend it enough. Drop me an email if you want to find out more. You have nothing to lose but your pointless frustration. x
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Posted 12 May 2013
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As a football fan and writer I’d say that they’ve got the football fandom bang-on and the writing is pretty good too. I normally check out of these things after about 30 seconds, but I saw this through to the end. Best shot: the Booby Moore sculpture.
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Posted 10 May 2013
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Unnecessary quote marks (thanks, S). The history of typography (thanks, D): Google Streetview hyperlapse (thanks, G): The McBain movie hidden throughout Simpsons episodes (thanks, J). The very funny textastrophe (thanks, G). What Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wishes he knew when he was younger (thanks, D). Saul Bass: a big part of Hitchcock’s success (thanks, D). Jeff Bridges [...]
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Posted 09 May 2013
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Someone’s definitely been watching Wes Anderson movies, but in this case that’s a good thing.
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Posted 08 May 2013
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Read the article here. Interesting theory that throws up a couple of interesting questions: Does Sir John believe his own agency’s creative output has deteriorated in recent years? If there’s been a problem with advertising getting to grips with new technology, how come truly great TV work was still being a produced a long way [...]
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Posted 07 May 2013
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