She Says - The latest viral

James Cooper from Dare gets all dolled up at Marketing Week for our fourth viral film.

The Wind - Brilliant energy company ad

You've just got to love this splendid film for Epuron, a wind energy supplier.
This TVC won a Gold Lion under the film category in the 54th edition of the Cannes International Advertising Awards.
CREDITS:
Country: GERMANY
Advertising Agency: NORDPOL+ HAMBURG
Director: The Vikings

the monsters are upon us...

Scenes from the first round of nursery decoration...
Help sticking the vinyl up courtesy of Crina.
Artwork courtesy of Tado, Geneviève Gauckler and Rolito, by Domestic.

seismic tremors - Casper moving at 32 1/2 weeks...

There's not as much movement here as I'd hoped (damn boy won't behave ;-) ) but you can see a little!

a prominent protrusion...

Wondering if my tattoo can stretch any larger? Well, you're in good company because so am I... This is it so far, at 32 weeks...

its a veritable variance of vegetables!

Scenes from the Children's Vegetable Display at the Lambeth County Fair in Brockwell Park, just up the road... The turtle got first prize...

has my pregnant brain warped my sense of humour?

...and is it just me that thinks that being taught how to breastfeed on this knitted wonder is just a little bit kooky?
This looks so much like a kids toy that you can almost imagine them in the toy basket... hand-knitted by grandma... or bought from the church féte...
Couldn't stop giggling at this brilliant teaching tool, courtesy of Stockwell Community Centre.

She Says viral films #2 and #3

Starring Nicke Bergstrom from FarFar and Flo Heiss from Dare...

Our first She Says viral goes live!

Entitled Cannes Party - Check out Sebs crazy dancefloor moves ;-)

bumper to bumper - 30 weeks and counting

Every morning I wake up and its just a little bit harder to fit into anything... Im glad my bump is pretty compact and up-front, but my goodness is it getting bigger...
Dan made me laugh last night - I was talking about how I couldn't believe we'd made Casper 1/2 and 1/2... and he said "You did the manufacturing, I just did 50% of the design work and I'm sitting back waiting to see the prototype..."

Strolling in style

This is the genesis of a great idea - done by the company that build my stroller (thanks mum!). If only they'd expand it so that other people could add their own trips and there was more of a community built around it.
Its always a little disappointing when an idea isn't "completed", but left like this - functional but without the killer "app" that would transform it into something really special.
Web 2.0 anyone?

My interview on FWA

This took me so long to write and rewrite - It's just never good/funny/relaxed enough when you're writing about yourself - Every time I rescan this I feel like a knob...

The debacle that was the Online Marketing Show

I spoke at the Online Marketing Show at the Design Centre in Islington last week - and it was perhaps the most shambolic presentation I've ever did.

• Firstly, though I arrived with an 1/2 hr to spare as requested for technical run-through, the session before me was running late. This meant that the speakers entered the room at the same time as the audience, and with no checks.
  
• Secondly, two out of the four speakers were a no-show (Chris was getting married so thats a pretty good excuse but still...)
  
• Thirdly, Flo (Heiss, from Dare) and I were met with a technician who's exact words were "No one told ME that anyone needed a computer". This for a talk about Best in Show - cutting edge online marketing. I wonder what he thought we were going to be up to? I had already been told there was no internet access (at an Online Marketing Show?!) and had spent hours compiling a presentation that would have taken 10 mins to put together if it could have run live.
• Next, the machine he dredged up from under the stage didn't read my memory stick, so I had to copy it to an audience-member's machine and then to the said laptop.
• Finally thinking that I could start unhindered, I clicked on my first link, to find that Windows Media Player had never been installed, and the PC was to old to play .movs, so I had to jump out of my presentation, install the software and play the MPG1 format vids I had brought as a backup.
• So, there I was playing the videos, and then I came to the 2nd part of the presentation - only to find NO Flash Player installed, and no internet connection to get me some.

I ended up describing the pieces of work through the power of animated hand gestures and verbal diarrhoea...

Lucky Flo just had JPGs.

Happily for me, Flo found a review of the talk online which cheered me up a lot...

Brixton High Street Flooding

Trapped yesterday in this deluge and managed to wreck a pair of shoes, and make it back home, from what is usually 3 minutes away, covered in welts from the hail...
All this a week after the longest day of the year - the middle of midsummer...

these little piggies went to market...

Place:The Royal Agricultural Show at Warwick.
Reason: To spend some time observing children on the McCain Potato Story bus, before getting started on the site design proper.
It reminded me so much of school - the smells, the men wandering around with farm coats and wellies... and with jousting to boot it was a pretty spectacular day trip - just a shame it was dumping down for most of the day...
Had some great sausages from Thirsk in Yorkshire, and brought home 3 packets for a fiver. Highly recommended, from Debbie and Andrews.
It was an incredibly grounding experience, standing in the drizzle, with sausages in hand, looking at these gorgeous little piglets and thinking about the importance of understanding and respecting where your food comes from...

Adam Neate doing it for the kids

Heres a great video of my mate Adam showing off his stuff on CBBC

The Bumblebeez Dr Love

A wonderful video for the Aussie band The Bumblebeez. Just shows what you can do with a little bit of imagination, and without the usual 5-figure music video budget...