Tweetwheel Good
This is nice. It shows which of your Twitter friends are friends with each other. Simple, but revealing and oddly engaging.
Light Graf Goes Mainstream
This lightwriting animation about The Very Angry Caterpillar was shown on BBC childrens’ TV show Blue Peter. More on it at Flickr. It’s nice.
ManBabies.com
GET MORE AT ManBabies.com!
The new lolcats? Perhaps not, but Manbabies feels like a pretty important moment in internet history.
Thanks to Nilesh for the tip.
The Perfect Music for Anything Ever
The world didn’t really need any more music after Africa by Toto did it? We’re just being greedy. Although there is a natty nu-balearic re-make by Rune Lindbaek which featured on his Klubb Kebab album last year, which I think I’ve got kicking around on vinyl somewhere round here… Maybe it’ll be on a Muxtape round these parts soon.
via the always musically enlightening http://www.cosmicdisco.co.uk
Sneakers - From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
For a window on the worlds ‘coolest’ sneakers check out the Japanese store Hangtime. Here’s some of my favourites. Not sure I could wear many of them though…
Nike Air Structure Triax:
Adidas Consortium Superskate Street:
An odd wasp-like Jordan version:
Crazy Lichtenstein Vandals:
Air Max 97 in some special colours…
Gourmet Diablo (what are these…?)
That’s as far as I go, but there’s plenty more if you’re a sneaker head.
Modern Toss Museum of Urban Shit-Naks
At the Inkd gallery in Brighton right now. It was closed yesterday when I went by. But I’ll get in there somehow…
Two Things I Thought Everyone Had Seen, But Turns Out They Haven’t, Yet
If you have seen these already, sorry. I thought that they’d done the rounds but I’ve mentioned both of them to a few people who’ve all looked at me blankly. So I thought I should share…
Facebook in real life:
And this guy who breaks out a cracking (if slightly politically incorrect) stand up routine at his high school speech thingy:
Although it doesn’t seem to have loads of views on YouTube on things like break.com it’s had well over a million views, and the scandal has been picked up in the media, Doc Searls has blogged about it and there’s a Facebook group supporting his right to free speech.
A Muxtape for Blue Skies
What a jolly nice day. Here’s a muxtape for the kind of stuff I’ll be listening to…
http://easygeezer.muxtape.com/
10 Things Google Found To Be True
I reckon there’s some gems in this list. Stollen mercilessly from the most excellent Core 77 Blog.
Portfolio Night
I was lucky enough to go to Portfolio Night 6 last night. Set up by the enterprising young dudes behind http://ihaveanidea.org/ it’s billed as a chance for young creatives to meet creative directors (for a fee of £10). I felt like it was a chance for me to meet young talented people (for a fee of nothing with a couple of beers thrown in for free).
Without giving away any personal details about people that I saw I was amazed at the disparity in skills that I saw. Some of it was obviously about talent. But there were a bunch of people who’d obviously been given a really rubbish schooling in what ‘advertising’ is all about. A shocking image with a quirky line and a logo (bottom left invariably bottom right invariably [thanks Ben for pointing out my stupid error]) can’t be the basic unit of advertising any more, can it?
I met a few youngsters that really stood out: if I thought I could hide Jai and Wal from the world and keep them as my little secret I’d be tempted. But they’re already out there, blogging with the best of them and doing placements at great places. So they’ll be fine whatever happens.
There’s another couple that I really really liked, but I’m keeping them secret for now whilst ‘discussions’ take place…
I hope my comments were useful to the people I spoke to. I’m not sure they were mostly. But I hope at least I was polite and respectful (unlike some of my contemporaries who I heard being a little bit mean if I have to be honest…).
