Simon’s posterous

At the Coolhunting talk in Sydney last week, their editor Tim Yu talked about an ad network they are setting up amongst like-minded sites. Putting the  media potential of this to one side, it was a pretty interesting bunch of sites that ticks all the boxes for staying up with what’s going on in fields that we’re all interested in - fashion, music, graphic design, product design, art, architecture etc. I dropped Tim a note to get the list of sites, and here it is. Probably worth bookmarking a few of them:

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It launched a couple of months back, but the GoogleVoice platform is certainly an interesting innovation from the Google team. The video explains it better than I can, but in essence it's doing for voice calling what cloud computing has done to data accessibility. Neat little animation too.

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This music video was shot for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album ‘Water Flavor EP’. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam. It looks simple on the surface, but the more you watch it, the more you realise how cool it is, and how complicated it (probably) was. I think it’s a pretty cool example of being creative with a pretty everyday item, like a webcam.

Enjoy

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Interesting idea for a fundraising campaign - http://www.theuniformproject.com/


The woman running it has pledged to wear one dress for one year as an exercise in sustainable fashion - with different adornments to keep some variety going. She’s also requesting donations of accessories to help with the project.
At the very least I think all our wives and girlfriends could learn something from it.

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http://welovetypography.com/

Got onto this site via the tweeter FFFFIND courtesy of FFFFOUND: a place to bookmark and savour quality type-related images and quotes. 

Handy search function too. Check it out.

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The guys at Watermark sent this around in their newsletter

" Graffiti artists in Australia are replacing the usual graffiti scrawl and have upgraded to 'street art' with the arrival of some unusual framed work on street walls.

Phillip spotted this unique artwork in Surry Hills and thinks it might be a piece by artist Philip James Frost who recently exhibited in the area. It’s painted onto a piece of pigskin (at least we think it’s pig skin “tan me hide when I’m Dead Fred!), framed and glued onto the wall with industrial adhesive."

Betcha a few people have tried to get it off the wall to take home with them.

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Found this awesome flickr set courtesy of Brand DNA - http://branddna.blogspot.com/ - classic album covers reworked as vintage penguin paperbacks. Love it, want the whole set, but especially these ones.

     

Click here to download:

Cover_versions.zip (1119 KB)

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Many people might be familiar with T-mobile Dance event from earlier this year – 11 million views might not be Susan Boyle level, but hey, it's still pretty good.

On the weekend they had their second event – a massive singalong of "Hey Jude" in Trafalgar Square.

My thoughts? Well, it’s ... sweet, and I’m sure was wonderful for the people there - here are some of the reactions

But has it lost a little of its joy by shifting from a “spontaneous” event to something they’ve spruiked beforehand – even if it was a surprise what they were going to do?

Watched the teaser/invite not sure how I feel about the epic s’track/big event feel. Kind of smacks of trying to wring more branded value out of it, when they should have kept it low key and surprising.

And what’s the deal with Pink? Has she signed up a deal with a Telco in all the major markets or something?

(If they’d got Paul McCartney there that would have been something.)

Hey, it’s Monday - I’m feeling a little cynical ...

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Noticed these bill posters around over the last few days and I have to say I was quite intrigued by them. Very bold, simple graphics - and quite arresting statements (no pun intended). Finally got around to following up on them and having a look at the site - http://joehunter.com.au

   

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Cops_cant_solve_your_problem_j.zip (260 KB)

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