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Typewriter Nostalgia

Recently on a trip to New York, we had a chance to swing across the bridge to Brooklyn and check out the Brooklyn Flea. Wow am I glad we did. We discovered a whole world of people who are casting aside the trappings of the digital age, and returning to a time when things worked [...]

January 6, 2012 | 2 Comments

Run, little green man, RUN

The design of everyday objects that surround us on our streets and therefore in our lives make such a huge difference to my mood when I visit a new city. Something that we all spend a lot of time looking at are of course the indicators for when we can and should not, cross the [...]

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January 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

What Happened on my Blog in 2011

Actually quite cool, and following on from my much clumsier effort in 2010 where I tried to summarise my year in review. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 60,000 [...]

December 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

Magic from Space

Wonderful time-lapse footage from the International Space Station. There is so much to see here, my favourite at about the 1:20 mark, where you can see the top of thunderstorms, with hundreds of little mini lightening strikes dotting the skies.

December 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

Walk of Shame

This is either genius or failure. The new Harvey Nicks christmas viral ad is all about the walk of shame. OK, so all girls of have done it. Guys generally have too, although not as conspicuously (given that we lack the imagination and need to wear significantly different outfits in the day or in the evening (Jeans? Tick. [...]

December 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

The New 747 – A Legend Reborn

Among all the hype of the Airbus A380 and the smaller Boeing Dreamliner, that Boeing had pretty much changed strategy and ceded the idea of long range, large capacity travel to its rival. Not so. Today marks the day that the 747-8 received its wings (so to speak) by being given its certification by the [...]

December 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

Bunker 1/2

A picture tells the story of a thousand words. This one is incredibly poignant. It was taken and sent around on twitter by an al Jazeera reporter called Gregg Carlstrom (who is well worth following on twitter by the way). The VIP rows, waiting for the arriving VIPs are in front of the US army [...]

December 14, 2011 | 3 Comments

The Best Way to Advertise a Push-up Bra

Clearly, what you need is someone sufficiently feminine, yet also sufficiently flat chested to show off the mega-ness of your mega push up bra product. Model Andrej Pejic fits that bill perfectly. Hot sultry looks, perfect figure. And he is flat chested. … wait a minute, did you say HE? Yep. This is Andrej in one [...]

December 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

Awesome Superyacht: SeaForceOne

With summer behind us, I feel its only fair to keep spirits up with a little series about superyachts. Of course I have written here before about, amongst other things, Mukesh Ambani’s yacht. But lets focus on some more. The first is called Sea Force 1. She is owned by a London banker who wanted [...]

December 5, 2011 | 0 Comments

This is Not a Swimming Pool

There are many pools that I have seen (or not seen) that I want to swim in. These and these are great examples. I have also written here before about a fabulous HSBC outdoor ad for Climate Change. Now an installation in a Japanese gallery has taken the idea of a fake pool to a [...]

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