New Red Bike

Boone Oakley

2009-08-17T20:38:00.000-07:00

Not just a video. Their home page. Brilliant.

Art & Copy

2009-08-03T18:40:00.000-07:00

Can't wait to see this.

Eternal Moonwalk

2009-07-15T14:11:00.000-07:00

A fantastic example of "viral user-generated content" that is almost impossible to stop watching CLICK HERE

Nike Sportswear Stories

2009-06-22T21:44:00.000-07:00

Such a killer use of stop motion. Love how it allows you to get closer looks at items without yanking you out of the stories. CLICK HERE

IKEA - Come In To The Closet

2009-05-09T20:13:00.000-07:00

IKEA does it again. So many things make this site great, but it's the casting that really gets me CLICK HERE

Puma Lift site

2009-05-07T12:49:00.000-07:00

Cool site for Puma Lift that leaves no doubt what the shoes are all about. Really like the film (not the intro film, the dance film - click on menu and then film) CLICK HERE

Patrick Hughes "Signs"

2009-05-07T12:14:00.000-07:00

Adorable film for Schweppes by director Patrick Hughes. Product placement is right on the line. Good side, I think. You know it's for Schweppes, no doubt about it, but the story is about love, not bubbly. CLICK HERE

Male Copywriter

2009-05-06T05:50:00.001-07:00

Lawson Clarke, a 37-year-old copywriter (and former Arnold creative, like yours truly), gets laid off. So what does he do? He makes himself a portfolio site that shows off his best assets CLICK HERE

Welcome to the Crocodile

2009-05-05T05:18:00.001-07:00

This site has it all. Awesome film intro. Fun Rock Star-ish game. Scrolling store locations local to your ISP. Online store right there for you. All tied together with killer style. Love it. CLICK HERE

Bassomatic

2009-05-03T20:13:00.000-07:00

Hulu's got some killer old SNL spots.

Inspired Bicycles

2009-05-02T14:44:00.000-07:00

Gotta say. "Where the hell is Matt?" didn't make me want to buy that gum. But this makes me want to buy one of these bikes. Good vid. Good sponsorship.

Wingsuit Base Jumping

2009-01-08T17:46:00.000-08:00

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
So sick!

Happy Holidays from AKQA

2008-12-12T19:58:00.001-08:00

How can you not love these guys?

The "O" in Obama

2008-11-21T09:21:00.001-08:00

"At the end of 2006, Mode, a motion design studio in Chicago, approached Sol Sender, a graphic designer, to create a logo for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The resulting “O” became one of the most recognizable political logos in recent history."
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: CLICK HERE

Bike Hero

2008-11-20T11:37:00.000-08:00

Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women

2008-10-28T07:23:00.001-07:00

Wassup 2008

2008-10-27T20:39:00.001-07:00

Apparently, I lost the election for Obama

2008-10-26T12:54:00.001-07:00

Another attempt at "personalized video" that is, again, kind of lame.

SNL Palin Rap

2008-10-20T15:30:00.000-07:00

Star Wars in San Francisco

2008-10-09T19:47:00.001-07:00

Just love this.

The Stupid Vote

2008-10-08T07:34:00.000-07:00

By Goodby, for Obama

2008-10-06T15:31:00.000-07:00

The Great Schlep

2008-10-02T11:50:00.000-07:00

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Simple interactive game in YouTube

2008-09-25T10:11:00.001-07:00

Watch this through the end

2008-09-24T07:33:00.001-07:00

Awesome CLICK HERE

From "The Soup"

2008-09-21T20:39:00.001-07:00

Thank you, Kerry Skiles.

Mad Men

2008-09-17T21:06:00.001-07:00

Battles "Atlas"

2008-09-17T09:53:00.001-07:00

Crazy Sylvania spot

2008-09-15T09:02:00.001-07:00

Where are they going with this?

2008-09-12T07:20:00.000-07:00

How about now?

2008-09-11T11:04:00.000-07:00

To check if the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the world yet CLICK HERE

Kid Loco - Pretty Boy Floyd

2008-09-09T08:53:00.000-07:00

Old Spice Swagger

2008-09-08T08:31:00.001-07:00

The Website is Down

2008-09-04T12:15:00.001-07:00

Get The Glass

2008-08-29T12:33:00.000-07:00

Unbelievably fantastic game: CLICK HERE

Onslaught

2008-08-28T13:04:00.000-07:00

From the Dove Self-Esteem Film Gallery: CLICK HERE

Electronic Arts video response

2008-08-27T13:10:00.000-07:00

"As a response to a fan video from Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08, Tiger Woods and EA SPORTS demonstrate that the "glitch" Levinator25 thought he found in the game, is not a glitch at all."

KillerStartups.com

2008-08-19T10:02:00.000-07:00

Every day this blog reviews 15+ online start-ups: CLICK HERE

Finding paths through the world's photos

2008-08-15T13:06:00.001-07:00

eos evolution of smooth

2008-08-13T08:40:00.001-07:00

Great execution of a simple idea: CLICK HERE

Nike Courage

2008-08-07T08:57:00.000-07:00

Hey! You can still watch it here: CLICK HERE

Two killer agency sites

2008-08-07T07:14:00.000-07:00

BBH: CLICK HERE

Mutabor: CLICK HERE

Cars by Gary Numan

2008-07-30T08:46:00.000-07:00

If Gary Numan had been born 30 years later, he would have worked at an interactive agency.

Writer Giles Coren's letter to London Times subs about the editing of his article -- BRILLIANT

2008-07-25T07:51:00.001-07:00

Chaps,

I am mightily pissed off. I have addressed this to Owen, Amanda and Ben because I don't know who i am supposed to be pissed off with (i'm assuming owen, but i filed to amanda and ben so it's only fair), and also to Tony, who wasn't here - if he had been I'm guessing it wouldn't have happened.

I don't really like people tinkering with my copy for the sake of tinkering. I do not enjoy the suggestion that you have a better ear or eye for how I want my words to read than I do. Owen, we discussed your turning three of my long sentences into six short ones in a single piece, and how that wasn't going to happen anymore, so I'm really hoping it wasn't you that fucked up my review on saturday.

It was the final sentence. Final sentences are very, very important. A piece builds to them, they are the little jingle that the reader takes with him into the weekend.

I wrote: "I can't think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of rosé and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for a nosh."

It appeared as: "I can't think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of rosé and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for nosh."

There is no length issue. This is someone thinking "I'll just remove this indefinite article because Coren is an illiterate cunt and i know best".

Well, you fucking don't.
This was shit, shit sub-editing for three reasons.
1) 'Nosh', as I'm sure you fluent Yiddish speakers know, is a noun formed from a bastardisation of the German 'naschen'. It is a verb, and can be construed into two distinct nouns. One, 'nosh', means simply 'food'. You have decided that this is what i meant and removed the 'a'. I am insulted enough that you think you have a better ear for English than me. But a better ear for Yiddish? I doubt it. Because the other noun, 'nosh' means "a session of eating" - in this sense you might think of its dual valency as being similar to that of 'scoff'. you can go for a scoff. or you can buy some scoff. the sentence you left me with is shit, and is not what i meant. Why would you change a sentnece aso that it meant something i didn't mean? I don't know, but you risk doing it every time you change something. And the way you avoid this kind of fuck up is by not changing a word of my copy without asking me, okay? it's easy. Not. A. Word. Ever.

2) I will now explain why your error is even more shit than it looks. You see, i was making a joke. I do that sometimes. I have set up the street as "sexually-charged". I have described the shenanigans across the road at G.A.Y.. I have used the word 'gaily' as a gentle nudge. And "looking for a nosh" has a secondary meaning of looking for a blowjob. Not specifically gay, for this is soho, and there are plenty of girls there who take money for noshing boys. "looking for nosh" does not have that ambiguity. the joke is gone. I only wrote that sodding paragraph to make that joke. And you've fucking stripped it out like a pissed Irish plasterer restoring a renaissance fresco and thinking jesus looks shit with a bear so plastering over it. You might as well have removed the whole paragraph. I mean, fucking christ, don't you read the copy?

3) And worst of all. Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed 'a' so that the stress that should have fallen on "nosh" is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable. When you're winding up a piece of prose, metre is crucial. Can't you hear? Can't you hear that it is wrong? It's not fucking rocket science. It's fucking pre-GCSE scansion. I have written 350 restaurant reviews for The Times and i have never ended on an unstressed syllable. Fuck. fuck, fuck, fuck.

I am sorry if this looks petty (last time i mailed a Times sub about the change of a single word i got in all sorts of trouble) but i care deeply about my work and i hate to have it fucked up by shit subbing. I have been away, you've been subbing joe and hugo and maybe they just file and fuck off and think "hey ho, it's tomorrow's fish and chips" - well, not me. I woke up at three in the morning on sunday and fucking lay there, furious, for two hours. weird, maybe. but that's how it is.

It strips me of all confidence in writing for the magazine. No exaggeration. i've got a review to write this morning and i really don't feel like doing it, for fear that some nuance is going to be removed from the final line, the pay-off, and i'm going to have another weekend ruined for me.

I've been writing for The Times for 15 years and i have never asked this before - i have never asked it of anyone i have written for - but I must insist, from now on, that i am sent a proof of every review i do, in pdf format, so i can check it for fuck-ups. and i must be sent it in good time in case changes are needed. It is the only way i can carry on in the job.

And, just out of interest, I'd like whoever made that change to email me and tell me why. Tell me the exact reasoning which led you to remove that word from my copy.

Right,
Sorry to go on. Anger, real steaming fucking anger can make a man verbose.
All the best
Giles

LINK TO THIS COLUMN ON GUARDIAN'S SITE: CLICK HERE

The Making of a Version

2008-07-23T07:49:00.000-07:00

space150 changes its identity every 150 days. This is Version 21.

The Process

2008-07-22T09:11:00.000-07:00

"What if there were no stop signs ... and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?"

The Intern Project

2008-07-21T08:47:00.000-07:00

Every 150 days, space150 completely changes its identity: website, business cards, candles, etc. Every year, space150's interns are assigned an Intern Project. This year's project was to predict what space150 will be like at Version 100 (we're currently on Version 21).

Extinction Timeline

2008-07-15T09:41:00.001-07:00

When will blogging die? Desktop computers? Google? CLICK HERE

House of Cards and the making of

2008-07-14T15:21:00.000-07:00

Zero lights. Zero cameras. One Radiohead music video.

Where the hell is Matt?

2008-07-10T09:22:00.001-07:00

This has nothing to do with writing, but it's a great example of viral. Check out the 5 million-plus views.

Like a bad sci-fi novel waiting to happen

2008-07-08T14:14:00.001-07:00

CLICK HERE

This is rock and roll.

2008-07-07T08:04:00.000-07:00

A little Monday morning inspiration. Thank you, Peter Judd.

TED - Benjamin Zander

2008-06-30T14:22:00.000-07:00

Gringo

2008-06-27T13:33:00.000-07:00

Record your own
Brazilian agency Gringo's site.

Man Vs. Banner Ad

2008-06-25T07:46:00.000-07:00

Toe Jam

2008-06-24T13:40:00.001-07:00

THE BPA - THE BPA 'TOE JAM' FEAT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL from Fabio Resende on Vimeo.

Do your research

2008-06-20T13:54:00.001-07:00

Chris Matthews destroys radio talk show host Kevin James

NIKE iD

2008-06-18T11:06:00.001-07:00

"Digital Agency AKQA and Nike have got together to release a new concept to Nike iD. Nike PhotoiD is a new campaign using mobile phone technology to enable consumers to choose the colour of their iD Dunks from a photo of their environment on their phone. Nike iD simply extracts the 2 most dominant colours to embedd into the iD system. The concept is being released throughout Europe only at this stage."
CLICK HERE

Lazy Bastards

2008-06-16T08:16:00.001-07:00

"How we read online" by Michael Agger. CLICK HERE

The old FedEx Pirate spot

2008-06-13T07:48:00.000-07:00

It's Friday the 13th. Why not?

Mentos Kissfight

2008-06-12T07:36:00.000-07:00

CLICK HERE

David Blaine (not really)

2008-06-11T14:27:00.000-07:00

Pork and Beans

2008-06-10T08:17:00.001-07:00

The official video for "Pork and Beans" from Weezer starring some familiar YouTube faces.

Rap Lyrics Explained with Charts and Graphs

2008-06-06T11:39:00.001-07:00

CLICK HERE

Copywriter goes insane

2008-06-05T07:53:00.001-07:00

Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane - Watch more free videos

Pictures of Bacon for Karen

2008-06-04T08:03:00.001-07:00

A book described as "a look back at a year of meetings through bacon doodles given to Karen.” CLICK HERE

Fallon Moving Sale

2008-06-03T07:38:00.000-07:00

You won't believe the deals. CLICK HERE FOR DEALS
Or read about it. CLICK HERE TO READ

Cuss-o-Meter

2008-06-02T08:35:00.000-07:00

OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

Justice "Stress"

2008-05-30T07:05:00.000-07:00

Justice - Stress from Netsky on Vimeo.
Behind on writing assignments because of the short week? Stressed out? Here's the new Justice video in honor of you.

Chris Harrison's Visualization Projects

2008-05-29T07:45:00.000-07:00

Check out this guy's cool graduate projects. Word Spectrum and Word Association are perfect posters for a copywriter's office (and you can download them as free PDFs). CLICK HERE

A Few Too Many

2008-05-28T07:25:00.000-07:00

Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on hangovers. Enjoy, writers. CLICK HERE

Beyond Blogs

2008-05-27T10:59:00.000-07:00

" Three years ago our cover story showcased the phenomenon. A lot has changed since then." CLICK HERE

Brand Tags

2008-05-23T13:27:00.000-07:00

"The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people's heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is. 740,000+ tags and counting." CLICK HERE

If MySpace were a country

2008-05-22T10:04:00.000-07:00

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Polcarstva

2008-05-18T22:14:00.000-07:00

Gorgeous point-and-click Russian Flash game with music by Zazie and Sigur Rós: CLICK HERE

Understanding Games

2008-05-14T21:02:00.000-07:00

"Understanding Games is series of four games explaining the basic concepts of video games. The tutorial-style episodes deal with rules, motivation, learning and identification in video games. The player is guided through each episode by the narrators Bob and Bub, who explain core concepts of games to the player. The player can experience these concepts directly while playing the integrated games."
CLICK HERE TO PLAY

Why shit matters to design

2008-05-12T09:31:00.000-07:00

This applies to writing too.

Pixel Perfect

2008-05-10T22:03:00.001-07:00

Fantastic New Yorker article about master photo retoucher Pascal Dangin CLICK HERE

Now is the time when we dance

2008-05-07T08:24:00.001-07:00

Because life is more than writing.

Where we find the time to spend online

2008-05-02T08:39:00.001-07:00

One Day Poem Pavilion

2008-05-01T08:12:00.001-07:00

View a time-lapse movie of it: CLICK HERE

You make me touch your hands for stupid reasons

2008-04-30T07:12:00.000-07:00

I'm not exactly sure what this is, but it made me laugh so hard I shot coffee out my nose. Turn up your sound: CLICK HERE

Texting your way to love

2008-04-29T08:11:00.001-07:00

Social networking on the rise

2008-04-28T08:36:00.000-07:00

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This is a little "techy" for me, but it's interesting. Basically, YouTube and Facebook are taking over the top spots from Google and Yahoo! as social networking grows in popularity.

The Beach

2008-04-26T20:04:00.000-07:00

Just spent a spectacular week on Sanibel, so how about a link to Corona's cool new site THE CORONA BEACH

41 hours in an elevator

2008-04-18T07:45:00.001-07:00

Lifted from Ryan Burk at Superbeast:

"... staff writer Nick Paumgarten uses this man's ordeal as a starting point for his piece on elevators in this week's New Yorker. It's pretty interesting, but the piece de resistance is this time-lapse security camera footage that captures all 41 hours glorious hours of what had to have been a terrifying ordeal."

Video footage CLICK HERE
New Yorker article CLICK HERE

Subway Crush

2008-04-17T07:18:00.001-07:00

People who ride the NYC subway post messages to their subway "crushes." CLICK HERE

BMW's new film

2008-04-16T07:28:00.001-07:00

Bjork's Wanderlust

2008-04-14T10:14:00.001-07:00

High quality version POSTED HERE

I love the internet

2008-04-11T08:16:00.000-07:00

passiveaggressivenotes.com

2008-04-10T07:36:00.000-07:00

CLICK HERE

Photoshop Disasters

2008-04-09T07:25:00.001-07:00

So funny. CLICK HERE

ABC3D

2008-04-08T07:17:00.001-07:00

Thank you Peter Judd.

Brilliant marketing idea

2008-04-07T10:29:00.000-07:00

Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? CLICK HERE

Stuff white people like

2008-04-06T22:04:00.000-07:00

Click here.
(Thank you Kerry Skiles)

A complete nightmare

2008-04-03T08:26:00.001-07:00

Couple of classics

2008-04-02T08:50:00.000-07:00

Happy April Fool's from the BBC

2008-04-01T08:57:00.001-07:00

Goodby's 25th Anniversary Party

2008-03-31T13:11:00.000-07:00

National Archives Digital Vaults

2008-03-31T08:22:00.001-07:00

Click here.