Archive for January 2009

Bed Head After-Party

In Design, Odd, Things on 28 January 2009 tagged Design, hair, packaging with Comments Off

I have a packaging thing. I love packaging design. This comes in especially handy to pass time when doing something I really don’t love, like having my hair cut. All that sitting still and not fidgeting and making small talk about Christmas (come on, people, it was a month ago. Try harder.) and having to sit in front of a mirror for an age when, for the most part, I’m vampiric about mirrors.

A big chunk of hairdresser income comes from selling overpriced hair product, and overpriced hair product generally has brilliant packaging in order to make people like me buy some overpriced hair product they won’t use but will gaze at lovingly.  Depending on the target market,  packaging ranges from classy to fun to, err… this:

… oh come on, it’s not just me, is it? Is it?

‘We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence’

In Photos and Videos, Websites on 25 January 2009 tagged photo, photography with Comments Off

This is an awesome project: ‘We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence’.

The images is 100 metres long, and there are 178 people in the picture. All were shot from the same spot on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer of 2007.

T-Mobile at Liverpool Street Station

In Odd, Photos and Videos on 19 January 2009 tagged advertisment, video with Comments Off

Well. That just never happens at my bus stop…

Like, embarrassing.

In Quotes on 15 January 2009 tagged guardian, Quote with Comments Off

I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven’t succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

- Peaches Geldof

On the buses – Leith Walk to Newington

In Photos and Videos on 15 January 2009 tagged bus, edinburgh, video with Comments Off

Edinburgh from the number 14: from the top of Leith Walk to Newington, via North and South Bridges.

Dropbox = Awesome

In Websites on 5 January 2009 tagged 2008, software, website with Comments Off

Dropbox is, perhaps, the single best website ever. Everever. Even more so than Tesco.com and they bring me food, so you know this isn’t a decision I’ve reached easily. Sync documents on different computers, with a web-based interface for those pesky computers that won’t let you install anything, and a deleted document recovery facility for those important documents/essays you may possibly, potentially, perhaps have deleted in a fit of insanity and can’t recover from your OS even with the aid of various document recovery tools. Not that I would ever do that.

Additionally, the public folder allows you to drag in any document and get a public link to share in seconds – perfect for those moments you just need to share a photo of a sleepy hamster but just don’t have the energy to type in a URL and click an upload button.

Get Dropbox