The sky is falling
Needs more BWOON.
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Johnny & Angus are hiding under your bed
Help End Cat Boredom
This could so easily have gone too far. But it's got just the right amount of cack for internet silliness - from Parnell's brown suit, to the precarious perch on the scratching post, to the cat watching the water dripping. Nicely written too. So it looks like Friskies and NY-based AFG& have sicked up a neat little hairball of an idea designed specifically for the cat-loving internet generation. And we like it.
Shame the Facebook page is total gash.
(via Adweek)
1,000 years of conquest
What a thoroughly fascinating view of European borders over the last 1,000 years. Educational friday omgs.
Transformers are real and you are not normal
Told you they were real. Small, but real.
And here's a not entirely unexpected infographic from SF agency, Heat, on why people who work in advertising are not normal:
CHeck the maths there though. Surely the percentages are scewed. Whatevs.
(via FastCompany)
There are easier ways to send a postcard
But few are more lovely than this way: Who said direct mail was boring?
Swanzilla anyone?
We're long time fans of King Creosote, so we obviously enjoyed the track. But the promo - directed by Blink's Elliot Dear - is pretty wonderful too. The world needs more giant monster animals/birds/things.
LG provides a new perspective on movie posters...
Y&R Sao Paalo's new campaign for LG's 3D sound system claims you can hear "every side of the sound".
A smart idea that really stands out. And it's very well executed too.
The question now is, will it become a meme? Or, more pertinently, is it already a meme that's been nicked? Meh.
(via Ads Of The World)
Digital Spam: Could vs Should
Occasionally, we send emails to our account handling department to help them grab life by the digitals and spin it round their twitters. We call it 'Digital Spam' because it's basically spam about digital stuff. Sometimes they're interesting. Here's one with an unfunny cartoon and a dinosaur idiom:
DIGITAL SPAM: COULD VS SHOULD
Here’s an eerily familiar ‘toon from the marketoonist, and it accompanies a typically ranty blog post about how clients are so obsessed with ‘doing digital’ that they’re forgetting to ask the right questions. Read it here.
For my part, I’ll just leave you with this short piece of dialogue from Jurassic Park:
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you, you've patented it, and packaged it, you've slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now ... [pounds table with fists] ...you're selling it. [pounds table again] You want to sell it, well...
John Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things nobody's ever done before...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
(article via @badgergravling)
Double Take - Hot Problems
The best thing about this whole thing is the video description:
"Old Bailey Productions did not create any of the audio or lyrics for this video. We produced the video as a favor."
Happy Friday you hot, hot people!
One of the best interactive videos around...
This site for fashion brand ONLY popped into our inbox earlier, courtesy of one of the fashionistas here at work. It's by Swedish digital über agency North Kingdom. And it's fuppin' brilliant:
http://onlybecausewecan.com/ <--- GO PLAY
Just beautifully shot. Great music (and use of music). First time we've seen a Pinterest 'pin it' button integrated into a site (clever stuff when your audience is teh ladies). You should go and look at it now. And then go look at more of North Kingdom's stuff. And then go to johnnyandangus.com and 'like' us. And then go get lunch. Cool yeah?
