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In my day, they used to call it dicking around. Parkour...gone wrong





An aggresive greyhound, massive fat pig, and a cat eying up a a squirell - yep it animals in the news -

















And possibly the greatest ever cat based internet thingy - Kitlers...cats that look like Hitler

Interesting Thursday 8...0 8 state

Another Thursday, another 3 glorious bits of interestingness

The legend that is Saul Bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfDCNpaPBiA&feature=player_embedded















These are hactually tiny model landscapes: http://twistedsifter.com/2010/02/how-to-make-small-scale-super-realistic-model-landscapes/



















Jeff Nishinaka does some ridiculously good stuff with paper: see more here

Interesting Thursday 7...11

Another Thursday, another dose of finger lickin' niceness

Nice ad from DDB Turkey:


















Holy ballsacks Batman, these are paintings? Yep, by Jonathan Wateridge:

'Nam. See the striking gallery here

Interesting Thursday 6...66

Another Thursday, another round of nipple tingling greatness.

Everybody loves a monkey pic eh? How about a whole series of them. Tremendous photo's from Jill Greenberg























Long exposure photos...mystical. More here



















More animals, this time in the form of dog portraits from Gandee Vasan. More here

Interesting Thursday 5

More juicy balls of sexyness for Thursday.

First up, a music video where an inbred with a flame thrower fights another inbred with an extinguisher - with a slow-mo camera thrown in




Next - nice nice nice illys from Draw the Line - http://drawtheline.posterous.com/heroes-396

























Finally - walk across America in under 2 mins

And that ladies & gentleman, is craft

Craft.

Remember it?

That thing that takes ads from good to great?

It's still around.

Not as much these days, but it still can be found.

It's becoming a lost art.

Why?

Budgets being slashed more often than a hot blonde in a shit teen horror movie?

Nobody gives a shit?

Creativity not highest on everyone's list?

Craft not highest on creative's list?

There's loads of reasons.

A good way to think about your craft is:

How many times you've wanted to use Alison Carmichael but then had to use a handwriting font? A photographer rather than stock shot? The list goes on...

But all is not lost, I give you This is Real Art and Coy! photographer Sean de Sparengo.

In a nutshell the brief was to get shots for fashion label Sibling's horror themed clothing. The idea being get various shots of the models wearing the clothes and get them to look scared.

The easy approach would be to get the models to act scared and the take the shots.

The 'craft' way is to build a special blacked out booth to surround the photographers camera. Then commision Adelphoi music to custom make some spooky sounds to give the models a bit of a twitchy anus.

The result - models that are actually scared and shit hot shots.





And that ladies and gentleman, is craft.

You can see the making of here - http://vimeo.com/21370360

Creatives were Sam Renwick, and it comes as no surprise, the Belford was involved. That man is fucking genius.

Interesting Thursday Fantastic 4

More greatness beginning with:


Fancy Lunch? May I suggest the Selleck Waterfall Sandwich

















Tough client - Batman never seems happy with his logo



















Photographer that can make empty rooms look beautiful - Luke Zanier

Interesting Thursday number 3

Welcome to another Thursday of shit-pantingly great stuff...

If I could marry a photography style it would be The Horse Races by Kalle Gustafsson

















Like sex, booze and advertising? Take the MadMen job interview
















And a nice campaign from some young upstarts called Saatchi&Saatchi

Interesting Thursday the Second

More Thursday goodness:

Mad as a Russian van it's - http://meowmania.jqln.org/














Great Showdowns by Scott C - http://greatshowdowns.com/




















And the greatest image ever seen:

We need a writer

New ad i've written and art directed for Propaganda. We need someone who appreciates great copy - can you spot all the references?

Interesting Thursday

A few weeks back my copywriter Simon Griffin left the agency to start a new project (can't tell you what it is yet but all will be revealed etc etc). As well as leaving a legacy of great copy and eggy butty smells he left the legacy of Interesting - An all users agency email where we post up anything that we think other people might find, well, interesting. I thought it would be nice to share this, so, from this day forward, every Thursday (memory permitting) i'll put up some interesting things - it might be an ad, it might be some sweet design, it might be a small bird with a hat on. Here's your first lot...

Photography from Gregory Comollo
















Alternative Olympic mascot designs from Aaron Miller
















And some Nike Air Goldfish

Hair

I worked with Victor Albrow a few years ago - great photographer. Liking his new project entitled Hair. See more here

Ruffling Feathers

Bold and balls out ad from Vince McSweeney at McCann Central. Basically an ad placed in The Drum featuring creatives that are on their list to work with. I'm 4th on the list. See more of the story here.

Got to say I think it's a great move from a a new creative director - great way to make your mark and signal your intentions - plus a good way to get potential freelancers, creatives etc to get in touch and say why they should have been on the list.

Hats off and all that.

Union Jack

Nice project from Stuart Griffith - former soldier turned photographer. See more of his work here

Great work - nuff said

Doodle everyday

A Lovely project from Lim Heng Swee. See more here.

New Work New York

I've just done a really great project with New York based photographer Kareem Black.

He shoots amazing stuff - as part of his repertoire he had a section on his website called LIFE - which documented...well life - in New York, cool shit, party people, energy, music, drinking, more cool shit, hot girls, cooler shit, backstages, cooler than the cooler shit and basically everything else in between.

We got chatting about this and he said how he was changing the name of LIFE to FEELSGOODLETSGO.COM - and that he need a logo.

So how do you embody all the above? - Music, drinking, parties, cool shit? Well by using a lightening bolt my friends:

And then we talked about getting the website name out there. We came up with this great idea to sticker all of New York - using, as Kareem says 'other people's shit' to promote FGLG. But this just wasn't any old sticker - it needed something different...and boom - if we're gonna use other peoples shit to promote the message then lets make that the idea - and so: Speech bubbles. Easy. Stick it on, and it looks like people are talking about you - we have are very own spokespeople without them knowing.

And what's more - we give the stickers out and get other people to be creative in there placement of the stickers - awesome.







So if you're in New York look out for the stickers - and if you do see one, take a shot and send it.

Minimalist Super Hero Posters

Liking these - see more here

The Golden Glassy

Great exhibition by Sroop Sunar - 'a visual history of England, using the traditional pub sign to explore our national identity and reinvent our visual heritage'. See more of his work here

Graphs

Yeah yeah we've all seen stuff like this before but I liked em, so i'm putting them up.

See more here