As a proud owner of a Sony Bravia 40inch TV I thought I would share with you some of the adverts that enticed me to buy one.
Bouncy Balls
Bouncy Balls – Making Of
Exploding Colour
Exploding Colour – Making Of
Play Doh
Play Doh – Making Of
Domino
Sony Bravia Dome
Sony Bravia Dome – Making Of
This really appeals to me for some reason.
Voyage from Marco Aslan on Vimeo.
It’s actually been a while since I put anything personal on here, and that has mainly been down to a lack of time. With summer in London, comes late nights, lots of parties, and many many weekends spent drinking in the park having a braai.
So given that it’s now winter and I have a lot of time on my hands, I thought I would give you an update.
Firstly summer was good. After a late start it kicked into high gear, only to fizzle out quite quickly.
That was kinda to be expected. It’s been a funny year weather wise. Spring was early, summer was later, autumn came and went in a flash, followed very quickly by winter.
What did I get up to in Summer? Well honestly, I cannot remember. I know that I made some very good friends, and had a really good time with them. I ended the summer getting to know Nandos incredibly well. Amazing and awesome.
Oh just one thing: Unless you are very very serious about a girl and think you are/could probably marry her, then do not, I repeat, DO NOT go to Italy on a holiday with her. I have spoken to 4 or 5 guys about girlfriends and holiday in Italy, and no matter the city, none of the trips ended well. We all seems to have “lost” the girlfriends during or right after a trip to Italy.
But that does lead me on to another story. Florence - what a beautiful, awesome city. I have never been a “lets walk around a city all day, visiting museums, looking at the sites” type of guy, but Florence is different. Florence is full of old Roman architechture with its grandious scale. Full of great museums with ancient history, breathtaking sculptures like David. They know how to eat there, they know how to drink wine there, they just have it right. Now that not to say that I could live there, I would definetely get very very annoyed with tourist like myself walking around taking photos of everything and eating at all the good resteraunts and forcing Italians to speak English. But to go and visit, I am up for it anytime, everytime.
And now I am 36 days away from some fun in the sun. Yes thats right, its annual lie on the beach after a awesome morning ski time. 37 days on pure sunshine. And saying that now will probably jinx it, and it will rain. But who cares, it will still be warm. HOT HOT!!!
Plans for the next few weeks, lets see. I have a few christmass parties to go to, I have a brand new brand communication idea to put into place and launch, a few countries local sites to rollout, I might even have to go watch South Africa vs England at Twickenham. As an aside, taking Nandos along too. Think its the first time Nandos has watched rugby at Twickers. I’m sure we can both do this. And then I fly.
“I’m leaving on a jet plane, kinda know when I be back again. ”
UPDATE:
So we went to the rugby at Twickers and WOW what a game. We won and by a large margin. Such a great time. Yes we managed to go to the rugby together and it was fine.
So some of you might know that I am also on twitter – hence the lack of updates to this blog.
@thorks – for you looking for me
But this had to be left for prosperity
Nerd Pick Up Lines: (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=nerdpickuplines)
Things like:
I’ve got the right plug-in for your API
your place or my mom’s
Wanna fork()?
I’d be the photon to your electron and take you to an excited state.
and the list goes on and on and on and on and on ……
I love office toys. I have loads of them, from nerf guns to balls, remote controlled cars to wireless rabbits, R2-D2 to bop-it. Anything to make the day pass quicker. So this clip really tickles my fancy.
The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo.
And this one is no exception.
Not sure who the agency is, but client is Nokia, for a limited edition Nokia N96 phone.
It reminds me a lot of the Volkswagen “Signing in the Rain” ad.
Sometimes technology can be beautiful. Take for example this post. This was written from my iPhone while sitting on the tube. That’s not to say that actually submitting it happened until I was in a wifi area that I could access. Why? Two reason, I only have a first gen iPhone and secondly becuase if that very reason I font have a data package as part of my cell phone package. BUT that’s not the point of this post, the point is to how that technology can be very cool. So cool because I am always connected to the net in some form now. Never without a link to the big wide world web.
That’s It, That’s All. – Trailer from Collaborative Media on Vimeo.
New Dodge Challenge Site
Sometimes flash sites work well, and this is one of them.
To promote the Dodge Ram truck, BBDO has created a kind of reality show exclusively online. This series is divided into five episodes of six minutes each, which show several races on different circuits.
Four teams participate in the “Dodge Ram Challenge”: cowboys, firemen, military and manufacturers, facing challenges on specially built course with a myriad of obstacles.
The footage is directed and edited by Tony Scott, brother of Ridley Scott. He directed films like “Top Gun”, “Red Tide”, “Enemy of the State,” “Flames of Vengeance,” among others.
The first episode is now available on the site ramchallenge.com. Watch the promo below: