darth vader doing the dance from thriller

just as soon as it started, my search for meaning is over.


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Dear Ant,

Dear Ant, originally uploaded by dead insect \ /.

I've had mega week this week - been flat out. Working on some really exciting stuff though. Anyway I was just tidying my room and found this. At first I couldn't work out why I'd kept it - it's just a cover letter to an all-agency xmas gift of some bubbly - then I realised, it's because they've tried to write "Ant" in a hurry, and it looks like they've written a really really rude word instead.

I love that as a way of addressing your staff - Freudian pen-slip I think.

new Gmail feature for addicts - block yourself from checking it

Following on from my long and boring post about how our constant need to check our bleeping things lead to a loss of creative potential, Gmail have introduced 13 new features, but the only one that really caught my eye was this:

Email addict: A tool that lets people lock themselves out of their e-mail account for 14 minutes.


Neat! Google once again lead the way in productivity, by ironically making a block for their own product.


(Phone rings) Hey Anthony, I've just sent you through the artwork to your gmail - can you check it and forward it to the printers? It has to go in the next 10 minutes.

Hey yeah sure. Erm, I've just locked myself.. hmmm... we're having Internet problems here, can you send it to my other address?

Coke Unhuggables Ad(s)

Very funny ads, exactly what americans do best, great use of media, but nothing to do with Coke whatsoever - should be a beer brand - Bud Light or Miller etc etc.



Also I feel it's kind of a shallow idea - it's a running gag executed in an obvious way - I wonder how well it would extend into other media?

Having said all that, I think it's doing good things for Coke.

recycled junk jewellery: tower hamlets safety glass earrings

I've just started doing evening classes once a week in silversmithing and jewellery making at the community college in Bethnal Green, just for fun.

I plan to make a series of 13 pieces of jewellery - one representing each Inner City Borough of London, using items I find on the floor in each Borough.

The first piece is these Sterling Silver earrings made from chips of car glass from an accident next to a bus stop on Grove Road, Bow, Tower Hamlets, London.



It was my first time trying to use silver wire like this. I was hungover as hell, and they took about 2 hours to make, but if I did them again, it would would take much less time. Pretty pleased with the result, the safety glass really blings well - much brighter than I thought it would be.

These ones aren't for sale, but I could make a new pair if you want, or even something different. Any ideas for the next pieces also welcome.

PS
I found the silversmithing course via the Tower Hamlets Learning Ladder scheme which is brilliant, has a range of courses in all kinds of different stuff, from cooking to languages, and cheap too - a 10 week course is £85, compared to fees of £400+ for doing it at a name like St Martins.