Growing up, I'd often hear my mother say 'Why must you break things!?'. It was a shame that she wasn't supportive of my ambition to become a world class indoor footballer. However, this Wired article is an excellent look at the science of why everything breaks - eventually.
Alan Partridge Pop Playlist
SHORT ARTICLE
Alan Partridge has been giving a mini-PR masterclass this week, appearing literally everywhere with different but fantastic content, whether in Time Out, Shortlist or The Times. This piece in The Guardian however, is probably the best one, and includes a Spotify playlist chosen by Alan - a very nice touch.
SHORT ARTICLE
Alan Partridge has been giving a mini-PR masterclass this week, appearing literally everywhere with different but fantastic content, whether in Time Out, Shortlist or The Times. This piece in The Guardian however, is probably the best one, and includes a Spotify playlist chosen by Alan - a very nice touch.
This is a bit different, but excellent from Honda. Ayrton Senna, the greatest Formula One driver of all time, raced in cars with Honda engines. This video tries to replicate the sound of a Honda with Ayrton behind the wheel. If you've got some good speakers, this sounds pretty fantastic.
This is a nice little use of Facebook Connect. These types of digital experiences are pretty established now (Fun Fact: The first awesome one to popularise the concept was Take This Lolipop. Check it out if you've never seen it), but this is a nice spin, which (shamelessly) pulls from the world of Anchorman.
Mad Men in 16bit
VIDEO
Mad Men in 16bit
VIDEO
8-bit and 16-bit style adventures are another popular trend, but this one for Breaking Bad breaks the mould a little bit. Instead of being a playable adventure (like the excellent Mad Men one, incidentally, made by the same TV company AMC), it's actually just a video. That should make it rubbish, but the power of the characters and the way it's created actually makes it throughly excellent anyway.
Buffy of Thrones
VIDEO
Another super-hot content trend at the moment is re-editing and mashing TV shows. This Game of Thrones opening title sequence, remixed to be like Buffy the Vampire Slayer's opening credits however, is very excellent. (Note: If you aren't fully up to date with GOT, maybe avoid clicking)
The History of Clowns Being Scary
LONG ARTICLE
Do you hate clowns? It's perhaps surprising how many people do. This great piece from The Smithsonian looks into the history of clowns as a force for evil or fright - apparently, they've been scaring the bejeezus out of us for centuries...
The Spanish Civil War
DOCUMENTARY
Documentaries are awesome. Not the ones called something like 'My Face Looks like a Smelly Dog Turd!' on Channel 4, but proper, intelligent, thought-provoking ones. I'm going to sneak one in to this every week until I run out of reccomendations. First up, is this documentary on The Spanish Civil War, produced by Granada in the 1980s. It's 6 parts, and 6 hours long, but I can't reccomend it enough, for an event which is barely remembered outside of Spain itself, and debunks the myths around the conflict as simply a prelude to WW2.
Sonic FPS
VIDEO
As much of my current digital work is in the world of videogames, I'm also going to sneak in something videogames-y every week too. This is what it would like if you played the first level of Sonic The Hedgehog from a first person view. Ahh, that music...
VIDEO
Another super-hot content trend at the moment is re-editing and mashing TV shows. This Game of Thrones opening title sequence, remixed to be like Buffy the Vampire Slayer's opening credits however, is very excellent. (Note: If you aren't fully up to date with GOT, maybe avoid clicking)
The History of Clowns Being Scary
LONG ARTICLE
Do you hate clowns? It's perhaps surprising how many people do. This great piece from The Smithsonian looks into the history of clowns as a force for evil or fright - apparently, they've been scaring the bejeezus out of us for centuries...
The Spanish Civil War
DOCUMENTARY
Documentaries are awesome. Not the ones called something like 'My Face Looks like a Smelly Dog Turd!' on Channel 4, but proper, intelligent, thought-provoking ones. I'm going to sneak one in to this every week until I run out of reccomendations. First up, is this documentary on The Spanish Civil War, produced by Granada in the 1980s. It's 6 parts, and 6 hours long, but I can't reccomend it enough, for an event which is barely remembered outside of Spain itself, and debunks the myths around the conflict as simply a prelude to WW2.
Sonic FPS
VIDEO
As much of my current digital work is in the world of videogames, I'm also going to sneak in something videogames-y every week too. This is what it would like if you played the first level of Sonic The Hedgehog from a first person view. Ahh, that music...
How to make Oreo cereal.
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