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Google Chrome by BBH

December 12th, 2009 — 5:18pm

I absolutely love this from BBH for Google Chrome. Unpretentious, good designs with layered card, home-made sewn bits, Pong, big bundles of wool lying around in studio, and a plinky-plonky music box soundtrack. Yum yum.

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Acetate and Coke

December 3rd, 2009 — 11:47pm

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I love this concept from Marcus Walters/Mother from 2008, and I do not care if I’m a year behind the times. It reminds me of when I was in reception class [reception class where I come from is half a year of school before joining year 1] we used to spend sessions waving transparent coloured bits of acetate over our eyes and looking at windows. I’m not entirely sure for what reason. But it reminds me of feeling fun and childish and happiness. And really mesmerised, but that’s less of a Coke attribute.

He’s also drawn some nice pictures of hair.

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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

December 2nd, 2009 — 6:01pm

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I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs last night. They had a glitter cannon, I was happy. They remind me of a band I liked during college called Elle Milano who I loved to bits in an awkward sort of way. Perhaps they don’t sound too much like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs but they made me very pleased in an “oh god, music!” sort of way and they share similar hair cuts.

Anyway, Karen O was dressed like a butterfly and also a paper-based Indian. They did a great performance of Y Control – there’s a live version on YouTube that’s great but it doesn’t embed (Watch it here). They’ve polished up since some 2006 performances but haven’t lost anything. They’re so fun to watch. And it was all very, very good.

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Happy videos for the soul: Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”.

November 22nd, 2009 — 1:27am

How do you spell Summer Fate? One issue Google hasn’t been able to help me with.

Anyway, the new Vampire Weekend video is ace. It has lots of fun bright things including summer fate(?) flags and bright paint, and confetti, and bells. And coloured paper circles doing what they do best (falling and bouncing).

Not just any confetti either (not the church kind) – speedy swirling confetti the video zooms along its dolly tracks in to. (Use of running up and down the dolly tracks – another things I like about this). Cheap budget, crap props, ace video.

I wasn’t a massive fan of the song when I first heard it, but whilst watching it in order to compile the above list of fun and bright things it grew on me a lot. Actually I’ve had to restrain myself from bouncing around in my chair. I’m cool.

Made by Garth Jennings, the director of Hitchhiker’s guide director. It’s not the first interesting person they’ve had direct – Richard Ayoade did a couple too.

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Thumbprints for Charity

October 25th, 2009 — 11:19pm

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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.

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