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June 26th, 2009 — 5:52pm

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Having just eaten an intern’s worth of company expensed Thai Friday food (alot) I’m going to use company time to blog.

Not a bad way to polish off my time at (untitled), a nice little digital agency in East London (cycling to work in 20 minutes?  Win).

Whilst I’ve been subjected to hours of radio 1 – not limited to but including the hour-long Michael Jackson stream helpfully continued throughout the day via office itunes – I’ve also been blogging (quite intensely), twittering, and blipping my little heart out (the latter not particularly difficult).  I’ve done some wonderful stats, report write-ups, research, and admin. I’ve watched a wonderfully creative design for an installation and website come together.  And I’ve also sat in on a creative meeting which descended into grown men playing neopets.

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I inspired Dudley to spend half a day keenly organising post-in notes which in some way was the start of a pool league (foiled only by hot weather and glue). We’re sticking with the new table football.

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I met Mr Fish called Rocket, and found an arty cardboard ‘christmas card machine’ lurking around the studio that Dudley’d made that got incorporated into a Christmassy website last year. I am a big fan of cardboard and nonsensical craft (combined) so this gets much love.

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The studio’s right by Whitechapel gallery which we had a stroll around during a lunch (with perplexing mannequins) and it’s also opposite Brick Lane so I’ll be nosing around the free range design show going on there later.

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The studio itself is pretty nice. It has the white walled, wooden floor look, with a couple of fat pillars around to hold the ceiling up. It should look ace with the illustrator Toby Triumph coming in next week to draw all over it. It makes me want to grab a fat marker pen and get busy on my walls at home (see awesome dinosaur design).

Beermaster on my last day, could be worse.
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Yellow buckets and street drumming

June 25th, 2009 — 5:13pm

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Some Street Drumming on Oxford Street I saw last week. Enthusiastically smashed a bucket halfway through and made a snare out of change in a bucket – can’t really have been doing that badly then.

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Toby Triumph and the diplodocus stegosaurus

June 19th, 2009 — 6:30pm

We work in in the top floor of a building that looks like it’s trying to be a warehouse. Perhaps it is a warehouse, and maybe I haven’t met enough warehouses. It has some wooden floors I like, big spaces, some pillars and white walls.

@tobytriumph is coming to draw on the walls. He has a website unsurprisingly called tobytriumph.com and did the illustrations for hopfarm.comwhich are nice. We got asked for suggestions. I would like a diplodocus stegosaurus. I have drawn him with some shoes.

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Art that is not art.

June 18th, 2009 — 1:28pm

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This is the result of a cultural enlightenment trip during a lunch break to Whitechapel Art Gallery.  The artist liked Mannequins.

Some were dressed in space suits and lay on the floor, and some wore other things and lay in other positions. One piece was very yellow and involved some netting, a trolley and some pipes.

I’m not sure I did.

Other highlights.

  • A baby-faced head with a helmet.
  • Stacked objects.
  • Brightly coloured plastic strips

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Nice things by Max

June 16th, 2009 — 6:41pm

Nice photos from this man, a Mr Max Dworkin. Fond of having people jump mid-air with regular expressions in front of big natural things. One photo (here) reminds me of my first car. I used to come home and sit in it because it was ever so exciting. I used to listen to music and fall asleep from excitement.

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