The Blendtec Guy Takes On Olympus…
Very clever episode of “Will it Blend?” where a selection of Olympus kit gets smoothified. Check it out.
Kompakt Label Party Hits Deep As F*ck
Some photos I shot from the Kompakt Label Party / 6th Birthday for Deep As F*ck gig at The Cross a couple of weeks back.
I wasn’t overwhelmed by the gig - a modest turnout on the Sunday, which was due no doubt the countless gigs (We Love Sounds for one) that had occurred across the long weekend. Musically though was where I was underwhelmed - it certainly wasn’t anything to adventurous and I have to feel that like the Kompakt label, it’s lost a little of it’s fresh edge that we used to see a few years back.
However, I was overwhelmed by the ‘flu which I came down with the next day and am still recovering from.
Pursuit of Happiness
Astronomy Class rocked it at the Annandale on Friday night. Go and buy the album - dope Australian dub hip hop. Enough said.
I Don’t Want You To Work For Free…
You’ve no doubt been involved in a conversation like this at some point in time.
The Break That Gave Birth To What You Listen To Today

This is a brilliant twenty minute video that narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the B-side of a chart-topping single from 1969 by The Wilsons.
This sample was pivotal in the development of early hip hop and sample-driven electronic and popular music, including genres such as drum’n'bass and urban today.
This drum loop, the “Amen break” - a six-second clip, gave birth to the music that prototypical for several subcultures, and has been used by everyone from NWA to Nine Inch Nails and Pharrel Williams.
Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, copyright, and overall - the history of a remarkable music clip.
Mark Communications Make Boobs Of Themselves In PR Fail For Hollywood Fashion Tape
Now there’s a headline, and I make no apologies for the pun.
It seems that somehow I’ve managed to become an “influencer” in the field of women’s fashion.
Not once now, but twice have I received press releases for Hollywood Tape in the past week. The first time I thought it was a mistake, I promptly tweeted it and forgot about it.
Today, I’ve received another press release from Fleur Peters of Mark Communications entitled “Hollywood Fashion Tape: Rescuing Women from Wardrobe Malfunctions!”
Avoid embarrassing fashion faux pas, with one of the many innovative products available from Hollywood Fashion Tape and Shapes. We’ve got you covered (from every angle)!
Quite amusing! Anyway, you get the picture. Now, last time I looked I noticed I wasn’t sporting C-cup breasts, nor am I candidate for manboob reduction surgery and need just a little bit of help in the mean time. So, I can only wonder why Mark Communications have considered to add me to a list of influential bloggers that they believe it’s OK to spam me with this material because I can be contacted through my website.
This is a great example of a PR FAIL. To get the right bloggers talking about the content in the right fashion is the desired effect and building that relationship is paramount. This just makes the communications firm look a little silly first and foremost, and one has to wonder if Trendtrade Fashion are aware of how their money is being spent.
Lastly, I’m not going to post a link to the Hollywood Fashion tape website because that would actually be helping the campaign from a search engine optimisation perspective - just another thing to be considered when working in this space.
The Only Thing That Cooks Better Is A Woman
No doubt this will raise a few eyebrows. Check out the cooking products on the website.
Let It Shine
Wieden + Kennedy’s Amsterdam office created Let It Shine - a Honda commercial in which a bank of cars (Honda’s, naturally) arranged in a grid, use their headlights as pixels to create an animated sequence.
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