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These ads often manage to pull a tear of two.

 Andy

Ruba and Rose going to the islands

Anna creating a new bedroom

Andy chief wall paper cutter

I love random crap and I love the internet.

I think it is the most powerful tool for inspiration and possibly destruction, so to round the week off (or get it started) heres a few things that excite and inspire me:

Sweet gifs, those annoying flashing ads on the web have been turned into somthing “sweet “. Bands performing in the back of londons black cabs. French guy making people in the 3rd world famous and happy. Stories advertised on a stove. Random fun things and random fun vending machine. Make things. Photography things. Typography things. Emotional user fed interface We feel fine. Drain pipes in dresden. Animals on the underground. And some great flickr groups, plastic mascots , neon signs and my favorite entoptic phenomena.

Brett King

Its winter over here in NZ, and what a winter it has been. Canterbury has been the place to be! With fresh snow dropping weekly, most little canterbury clubbies boasting triple the amount of snow than the Queenstown massive.

Right up there on my inspirational hero’s list, along with “Kevin Bacon” is “Frank Bare “, who in 1983 completed the first quadruple tiple twisting backflip on skis. Truly inspiring, he doesnt muck around, and nails it on his first attempt.

Make sure you check out his trademark “goggle pump” and pre jump ninja moves. I often immitate these stretches in front of my computer each morning before creating amazing graphics.

Interesting facts currently quad flips are not legal in competition and a great event we all miss is Ski Ballet , its no longer a part of competitive freestyle skiing, (I wish it still was) but was conducted from the late-1960s until the mid-1990s. Ballet involved a choreographed routine of flips, rolls, leg crossings, jumps, and spins performed on a smooth slope. After the mid-1970s the routine was performed to music for 90 seconds.

If you are feeling the chilly winter fingers ravaging you, Simon has just informed me of a good supply of “under one’zies ” (complete with comfort flap) to keep you toasty.

 Brett “airblaster” King

In keeping with my sporting theme week I would like to remind everyone of this fanatstic TVC.  Oh wouldn’t we love for this to be reality….

Folksey

And here is the Pink Batts print campaign that follows the TVC.

Blogmistress Liz

My current favorite TVC at the moment is Pink Batts here in New Zealand. For those of you who don’t know, Pink Batts are thermal insulation for keeping your home warm. Really quite a boring and unattractive product, a pink fluffy square. A problem a lot of good TVC’s face is you watch the ad, think it’s great but can’t recall the company or product. Somehow Pink Batts have made a heart-warming, emotive commercial that leaves you with warm fuzzies and clearly remembering the product being advertised. A TV commercial success. They have been nominated for many upcoming awards and I for one will have my fingers crossed for them. 

Here is some stunning photography  showing a side of China you don’t get to see everyday. 

Here’s a great example of internet television production and distribution. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a 43-minute tragicomic musical produced exclusively for Internet distribution. It stars Neil Patrick “doogie howser” Harris and tells the story of Dr. Horrible (Billy), an aspiring supervillain, Captain Hammer, his nemesis, and Penny, their mutual love interest.

The movie was written by writer/director Joss Whedon, his brothers Zack Whedon (a television writer) and Jed Whedon (a composer), and Jed’s fiancée, actress Maurissa Tancharoen. The writing team penned the musical during the WGA writers’ strike. The idea was to create something small and inexpensive, yet professionally done, in a way that would circumvent the issues that were being protested during the strike.

The results were ground breaking with 200,000 hits on the site in the first hour…so much activity that the server crashed! You can enjoy Dr Horrible’s sing-along blog at http://www.drhorrible.com/

Dr. Nigel