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

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  

Known best for it’s Hobbits, New Zealand’s creative industry is an extremely diverse sector which currently contributes around 3.1% of the country’s GDP. Along with film making and screen production, industries include music, fashion, textiles, television, digital content and our favorite, design (to name a few).

NZ’s sporting achievements are well known worldwide and are backed up by a nation of new thinking and fresh ideas. An America’s Cup win in 1995 highlighted the country not only as a sporting nation but also as one of design and innovation with the revolutionary Virtual Eye 3D animated graphics that accompanied the television coverage. Over the years New Zealand has also become one of the world’s leading locations for super yacht construction, leading in naval architecture and interior design. Award winning vessels such as Fitzroy Yachts ‘ Salperton (which recently won Best Sailing Yacht in the 30-44 meter class at the World Super Yacht Awards ) have become the standard for high performance technology.

Captain Matt Sparrow

 NIGEL FOLEY

1. What are you wearing today?

Jeans and a cord jacket because I’m cool!

2. How many brothers/sister do you have and are you first born, middle, youngest or only child?

1 brother, I’m the oldest. 

3. Where were you born?

Jean Todd wing, Timaru Public Hospital

4. Tell us one thing not many people know about you?

I was dux of my school.

5. What are you like at parties?

I’m in between party animal and wallflower. What is that? A great mingler – can hold my own.

6. Tell us your favorite drink?

Margaritas!

7. Who is your ‘Go to’ person? 

Peter Davis

8. What was the last song you downloaded (or CD you bought)?

Amy Winehouse Back to Black

9. Tell us your pet hate?

Hate Passiveness…Hate whinging with no solution.

10. Vegemite or Maramite?

Vegemite

11. Best piece of advice your mother ever gave you?

Always have clean underwear and a clean handkerchief.

Plan your work and work your plan.

12. If you had a ‘shin-dig’ at your house and could invite 4 famous people (dead or alive) who would they be?

Jake Gyllenhaal, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Anika Moa, Hugh Jackman

13. What is your favorite place in the world and why?

Italy. Food, culture, vibe, attitude, style.

14. If you won a million dollars tomorrow, what would you do with the money?

Spend some of it…move to Melbourne…share some of it.

15. Do you have a nickname? (and if so what is it?)

No….but Tatt’s calls me ‘Foley Moley’…don’t know why!

16. And lastly who would you turn straight for?

Kate Bush….who would I stay gay for…Jake Gyllenhaal floats my boat.

 LYE 

 

MATT HERIVEL  

1. What are you wearing today?

Black T-shirt, Jeans, ski socks (gotta keep warm!)

2. How many brothers/sister do you have and are you first born, middle, youngest or only child?

1 brother. I’m the oldest and the smallest.

3. Where were you born?

Alderney, Channel Islands.

4. Tell us one thing not many people know about you?

I can wobbly my eyes.

5. What are you like at parties?

All good until the Tequila comes out.

6. Tell us your favorite drink?

Guiness, Lager, Tequila (not together).

7. Who is your ‘Go to’ person? 

My wife, Danni.

8. What was the last song you downloaded (or CD you bought)?

It’s been a while…Tim Armstrong, I think.

9. Tell us your pet hate?

Opening car doors in the cycle lane,

I know I’m gonna eat it soon!

10. Vegemite or Maramite?

Maramite (the UK stuff!)

11. Best piece of advice your mother ever gave you?

Don’t eat yellow snow.

12. If you had a ‘shin-dig’ at your house and could invite 4 famous people (dead or alive) who would they be?

Homer Simpson (drinking buddy), G-Love (for the tunes), Bill Hicks, Gordon Ramsey (For the F***in BBQ!)

13. What is your favorite place in the world and why?

Douglas Quay, Alderney. It’s beautiful….Danni and I were married there. (aaahh!)

14. If you won a million dollars tomorrow, what would you do with the money?

Take Danni surfing in Costa Rica…no, she’d love it!!

15. Do you have a nickname? (and if so what is it?)

At school it was ‘Plank’ due to the shoulders…kind of morphed into ‘Plankton’ – don’t know what that was all about….

16. And lastly who would you turn gay for?

Stay-Puff Marshmallow man. He works that sailor look!!

LYE 

 

ELIZABETH DAVIDSON  

1. What are you wearing today?

Mainly porridge.

2. How many brothers/sister do you have and are you first born, middle, youngest or only child?

I was meant to be an only child, but sadly my sex crazed parents ruined that for me.

3. Where were you born?

In the Falkland Islands, a small barren wind-swept archipelago off the toe of South America. Good training for lots of things.

4. Tell us one thing not many people know about you?

I can milk goats

5. What are you like at parties?

Usually, asleep in the corner, very occasionally, awake and interactive. 

Whiskey helps…I’m not allowed whiskey right now, so am asleep.

6. Tell us your favorite drink?

Ooh, that’d be whiskey…

7. Who is your ‘Go to’ person? 

Dr Whiskey.

8. What was the last song you downloaded (or CD you bought)?

Dudley Benson, The Awakening…it’s choice bro, oh and Martha Wainwright’s latest, which I’m still deciding whether I really like not

9. Tell us your pet hate?

The New Zealand Media…. busily taking lazy journalism to a new low. gahhh let me at them!

10. Vegemite or Maramite?

 It’s got to be Vegemite for the taste, even though I hate buying anything from Kraft

11. What are 3 things you could not live without? (excluding people)

An unending supply of books. Good food and drink, I’m a terrible glutton. A beautiful place to look out on every day.

12. Best piece of advice your mother ever gave you?

It’s ok not to be liked by everyone

13. If you had a ‘shin-dig’ at your house and could invite 4 famous people (dead or alive) who would they be?

I’m cheating here because I can’t narrow it down to only four. Here’s a few of my top picks. 

Mary Queen of Scots, Dylan Thomas, Marilyn Monroe, Oscar Wilde, Lilith, King Arthur, Fanny Craddock and Aleister Crowley.

14. What is your favorite place in the world and why?

Right now it’s Lyttelton because I live there and it’s beautiful and I’m very happy

15. If you won a million dollars tomorrow, what would you do with the money?

Buy a house in Lyttelton and take time off to write a novel.

16. Do you have a nickname? (and if so what is it?)

Wiz, because my little brother couldn’t say Elizabeth and had to shout something after me as I ran away from him, and also because of my terrible speed habit.

17. And lastly who would you turn gay for?

I see it as my civic duty not to limit my sexuality to one gender, it seems so unfair, after all, so many hotties, so little time…so theoretically  I’d make out lezebelle style with anyone I fancied, so long as my darling partner was comfortable with that

LYE 

This is a new category I have introduced to the friday blogging, think of it as “entercation” for your weekend. Brought to you by the dance floor disaster himself.

Most of the creative team will be practising these moves to some whitesnake and starship on the balcony eagerly awaiting Kim’s Birthday party on saturday. I hope the same is goin on in the business team as we are a global company, we should all be skilled in some “couger” hunting manouvers.

Moves of the week: “The Bacon high speed foot shuffle” and “parrellel arm rocket lift”.

This video in my opinion is pretty much what turned Kevin Bacon, from a nobody, to one of the greatest actors/dancers of the millenium, or dare I say greatest of all time.

Does any one feel an ad coming on?

Brett “the freshmaker” King

“Fresh” plays a big part of TimeZoneOne’s language and being a member of the creative team here at TimeZoneOne, involves coming up with “fresh” new concepts for worldwide brands and campaigns.

Apart from checking out ads, cool design things and following worldwide trends such as “what’s hot” and “whats not” I like to get a healthy dose of weird stuff.

By that I mean bizarre nuggets (© Elizabeth Davidson) which you don’t know what it’s for, or maybe even what it is. It’s just generally good to feed your brain some random snippets of randomness to get the creative juices flowing and there is no shortage of weird stuff on the internet.

So if your thirsting for more crazy weird but goodness here’s a few of my personal, funny, bizarre, curious, delightful , outlandish, quirky, favorites.

Brett “the freshmaker” King

Who loves mowing lawns? Anna loves it but the petrol mower is too big and heavy which means yours truely has been the mower guy until now!
Introducing the Victa Enviromower chargeable battery powered mulch & catch mower. 14″ (36cm) cutting width. Powerful 24V Motor. Push button start. Easy fold away handles. Inbuilt auto-stop safety control. Suit small-medium size lawn.

Model: ECO500Y

* Cordless & Battery-Powered
* With Push Button Start
* It’s Light Weight and Very Quiet
* Up to 80 minutes mowing on a Full Charge
* Overnight Recharge (12-16 Hours)

Anna is stoked, great design benefits our lives.

Andy