fish painting

48" x 24"
aerosol on hardboard

Merry Xmas everybody

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xmas greeting card: you are a big joke

Dedicated to my friends Carla and Hal. x

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unusual animal friendships: "Baboons are arch enemies of the leopard"

In continuing my interest in animal friendships (see my MySpace for more details) , here is a leopard and (baby) baboon, courtesy of the Daily Mail.

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fBBf Agency Christmas Party

We had a party in our kitchen where the theme was an 80s ad-agency agency party.

My favourite bit was a red-line-going-upwards-and-to-the-right-profit-graph-on-the-wall, which made me actually believe we had billed 80M in 1988.

more pictures here

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logitech mm28 speakers with pictures

I was shopping around for a portable speaker set, and ended up getting these, because they looked neat and much harder to break/get entangled than the other sets. They were £30.


logitech mm28 portable speakers

When I got them, I suddenly realised that because the entire front of the speaker is a plain piece of plastic, I could probably paint it or stick something on it, maybe without degrading the sound quality. I tested it by sticking stickers and tape over it and found that it didn't affect the sound noticeably.

I thought about painting it, but couldn't really be bothered, plus I can't paint nicely. So I printed out a photo from my flickr that fitted the shape well, scalpel'd it out and stuck it on. It was moderately fiddly, but not hard. I like them much better now.





The original picture is from our halloween russian doll fruit carving.

I wonder if they ever intended that. Because customised stuff is gaining importance now, products that are easily customisable are going to do better than those that aren't, so you should think about this when you design products. Start with a need, fget halfway toward a product solution, then brainstorm as many single other potential uses that your consumers might create for it - bookstand, flat surface for drugs, outdoors, etc, and see if this can take your design anywhere.

There's obviously a nice analogy to advertising here, with consumers co-creating meaning along with brands.

Adding fluff and colour to this grey box makes it appeal to a whole bunch of new people. If this product incorporated a photoframe somehow, as it could easily do, it would sell well to say teenage girls who wanted to put it on their bedside table and plug their music phone or iPod into it.

totally unintelliglble spam - no understand

I blogged before about stock alerts on spam. But now I have been hit by a new form, that I just don't understand at all. This spam has a multitude of products and brands, Morrison Bowmore, McLaren, Blavod, etc, but I'm pretty sure that the spam isn't for these. The text is just pieced together seemingly at random from bits of Internet. Is it just to probe for real email addresses?

Really no idea. Subliminal messaging? The attached picture url doesn't go anywhere, neither does the Chinese government sent address. Any takers?

How are they measuring the effectiveness of this spam?

from: goose bumps
to: anthony.goh@gmail.com
date: Dec 4, 2006 10:36 PM
subject: splendid

But not for Morrison Bowmore.
Well, scientists - obviously - may have the answer, according to an article I stumbled on the BBC. Surely, the industry deserves its very own showcase? Dude could make a killing over there. Last week, agriculture ministers from member states across the EU could not agree on what should and should not constitute vodka.
Blavod also distributes a raft of wines from Italy in the US, where consumer demand for Italian labels is growing.
I want you to give me your guesses for which European nation has the most breweries per capita. The key lies in what is commonly known as beer goggles.
However, this model relies somewhat on the wine consumer veering towards expert level. The moral of the story? '" Cold blooded, Matti! Their single, Patience, held its place at the top of the singles chart. He does bring up a good point about storing our priceless content an any of the formats du jour. And that, Keiller argues, is due to the power of UK supermarkets and their thirst for price discounts.
Local papers reported last week that another Belgian executive is to leave the company. Dude could make a killing over there. The premium vodka market is notoriously competitive, with a new brand aiming to meet demand for top-end vodkas seemingly launched every month.
The chart of European countries with the most breweries per inhabitant.
Last year, the UK drinks giant signed a sponsorship deal with Team McLaren Mercedes for its flagship Scotch whisky brand Johnnie Walker.
Shall I repeat all this? The crossover is not tenuous and, with Maxxium Australia helping out on the side, CCA is set for a whole new adventure.
De-emphasising that, while leading them through the wine maze will, one day, make someone very, very rich indeed. Blavod has also entered the fast-growing Tequila category in the US and its El Diamante del Cielo would bolster a Constellation portfolio that so far already includes Montezuma Tequila. Of course, our industry stirs pride and passion in even the hardest of hearts at times. McLaren Formula One cars, past and present, were parked throughout the building, which must have brought a smile to the face of Walsh, a confirmed Formula One fan.
At last - a foolproof plan. The strength of parent company Suntory in Asia should stand Morrison Bowmore in good stead, especially now that it is armed with a product in more modern, confident, premium-looking packaging. Their single, Patience, held its place at the top of the singles chart.
This place-dropping might work forwards, I reckon. The crux of the matter, however, is that the importance played by value runs right through the wine consumer. The chart of European countries with the most breweries per inhabitant. Indeed, at the meeting, the EU Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, offered to set up a blind tasting for Council members.
Blavod has also entered the fast-growing Tequila category in the US and its El Diamante del Cielo would bolster a Constellation portfolio that so far already includes Montezuma Tequila.

LONDON, 28 Nov 2006: they have torn out my heart

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