I’ve just seen this on Iain’s blog and it blew me away. Some guy at the Glasgow School of Art missed the deadline for a competition Radiohead set to remix their track ‘Nude’. So this guy recreated the track using a ZX Spectrum, an Epson dot matrix printer, an HP scanner and a bunch of old hard drives converted to be speakers. It’s amazing. Enjoy.
I love this Orange ad from Publicis Conseil in France. The concept, the casting, the location and the music are just wonderful. It’s the kind of ad you would be very happy to see more than once. It’s a simple idea beautifully executed. Wish I’d done it.
I meant to blog about this last week - but better late than never. My fellow Poker, Nik Roope, has something else to be proud of at the moment. He has a product design company called Hulger which has a couple of pieces at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at New York’s MoMA gallery. This is a pretty prestigious exhibition. The two pieces he’s got in are his plumen lightbulb (above) and his classic phone design. Well done Nik. You bloody genius.
I love playing musical instruments. And I love food. This genius has combined them to create something truly special. My favourite is his broccoli ocarina. Yum!
The Art House Co-Op in Atlanta are doing a project where they’re sending out 500 Moleskine notebooks for people to fill in on the theme of “how to change the world”. You then post them back and they appear in an exhibition. Nice. I like this kind of thing (but judging from the lack of interest in my web 0.2 faxr.net project, not many other people do).
I’m considering asking for a notebook to fill in. If you’re similarly tempted, visit their site and complete their application form. They will be opening it up for non-Americans in the next few days, so keep an eye on it.
Find out more about the Sketchbook Project here.
I heard about this video days ago - so you’ve probably seen it already. I still think it’s pretty amazing. Over 200 people staying utterly motionless in a public place. Fantastic.
Advertising that communicates everything without any words. Laaahvly.
See the rest of the campaign here.
I’ve just been sent a link to The Overdub Tampering Committee’s website. It is absolutely genius.
They are a group of musicians who download early or leaked copies of albums, subtly overdub their own instrumentation over the top and then redistribute their work on file sharing networks. And they’ve been doing it in secret for 3 years. Which means that anyone with some dodgy mp3s in their collection probably has some of their music!
This is what they have to say:
We imagined a scenario where someone would get in a car with their friend, he would put on the new _____ album, and you would say, “Where’s all the piano parts?” to which the driver would say, “What piano parts? This album is all guitars and drums.” Finally, you would scratch your head and say, “Not my copy!”
Wish I’d thought of it. Brilliant!
Read their manifesto at the Overdub Tampering Conmmittee blog.
There’s a new street artist known as The Decapitator doing some pretty grisly stuff around London. And it’s not just me who’s spotted his work (I can’t imagine a woman being this gorey - sorry for being sexist!). It’s also been picked up by Wired’s blog. Basically, he defaces advertising by removing heads and leaving a bloody stump in their place.
See what Wired have to say about him here.
See some of The Decapitator’s work here.
And look out for more of it when you’re around London. He just seems to be getting started!
My fellow Poker, Cookie, has created some wonderful downloadable tools for your Christmas Shopping. Just print out his shopping cheat sheets - one for boys and one for girls - ask your partner to fill it out, then take it out shopping with you. Getting it right at this stage means there’s less chance of standing for hours in the returns queue on Boxing Day.
Good thinking, my man!
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