I wanted to write about a charity wall I saw at Bestival. At the time I thought it was great – very simply adding your support by a thumb of finger print in blue or red. I say wanted to, I can’t remember the company which I suppose takes away quite a lot of the point, but it was a really nice idea and section of the festival. Adding to the wall gave a nice sense of community and group. Without the aid of alcohol.

I feel like I’ve done a lot of new things this summer, so I made a big list (all with tedious links to relevant posts) because lists please me.

Lived in a big city
Cycled in london
went to barcelona, rome and naples
Saw two lots of prostitutes (Naples)
Saw dead bodies in pompei
Went to a wedding reception as a grown-up (conclusions: danced better as child)
Went to Lovebox and Bestival
Saw Florence and the Machine a lot accidentally
Went to first Tweetups – Cozytweetup in St James’ park, Ale 2.0 and Twestival,
Became a paid blogger,
Started writing for Bitchbuzz,
Went to pretentious grad and grown-up design shows
Went to my first company party (Moo). Stole balloons.
Went to a press conference
Did my longest placement to date.
Walked my soles out in london.
Saw my favourite comedians: Bill Bailey and Eddie Izzard
Was excited by seeing the countryside (felt horrified by this since i come from the countryside and clearly need to leave the city.)
Went to Ben and Jerry’s festival and did Press Pit runs. In front of the crowd is good.
Made candles.
Learned to cook more.

I haven’t made Naples sound great. It was very prostitue-ridden and a restaurant hunt ended in McDonalds. Also best driving at crossroads have ever seen in life – may not be of interest to those who do not like 6 minute videos of driving (I am mystified as to where the 102 views came from: Youtube search must be gold). I would love an aerial view of this:

I love the way people use words, especially the last line.

Leading on from my love of Summer Heights High, “Ikea Heights is a melodrama shot entirely in the Burbank California Ikea Store without the store knowing.”

Killings and ‘stuffing box’ chat-up lines. Learnings: film an over-acted 80s plot in an ikea store on the sly and you’re sorted.

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/4921692]

IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo.

More here – www.ikeaheights.com

Just seen this: Wendy’s site is aggregating conversations about cooking, bacon, eating and hunger, in text, photos and videos in real time on its main site. I like it. It holds my attention for a bit, though it probably won’t make me go back. I think it was more that I don’t have much respect for Wendy’s, and whilst it’s not staggering it’s a nice move by the brand it and surprised me in an “oh gosh” sort of way.

I watched this, a lot:

Last month I also wrote wildly educational pieces on Snoods, Polaroids and a Frog for Bitchbuzz.com. This made me happy. And now for October..