eyes wide shut

Damon Rose: oh how I'd love to be able to sit here and tell you that blind people are without prejudice. It's not true.

"a blind friend of mine fell completely head over heels in love with a girl he thought the world of. They started dating. He talked about her all the time and, as mates do, he stopped going down the pub and started to prefer homemade meals and a nice bottle of wine with his loved one.

I remember him saying how much he liked her soft voice and her perfume. They had similar politics, liked the same films, read the same books - a match made in heaven.

Then, his brother met her, unpleasantly told him she looked "a right dog" and my friend dumped her."

get me a wife

the Chinese spouse market is flourishing...hang an advert on a piece of string and hope the parents are enticed to give you a try...

i got an envelope

i got an envelope is the newest project from the people who brought you "photochaining".

it's simply really. write your name and address on an envelope, put a stamp on, leave it somewhere public...and see what gets sent to you.

that's a whole lot of trust right there...

sad panda

Sad Panda: The Story Of An Obsession

Sad Panda hangs out near Wall Street in lower manhattan.
why does panda do this?

adtisveirng arunod teh wolrd

Australia: if you really want to touch someone...send them a letter

Germany: Loewe. Extremely realistic sound

Brasil: Global Warming

extreme shepherding

what do you get when you cross Welsh shepherds with an advertising agency?

This...


The people are real...and no animals were hurt in the making of this video ;)

news to music

auto-tuning the news.
hamid karzai serenading hillary clinton.
katie couric warblin on cuba.
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word up

what does the kid on the street
think bout politics?
fusty old men in suits
spending money on things
spouting "change" but then
not doing anything
to bring it about?

maybe.


but who knows?! oh, hold up. here we go.

Rap Log. Aiming to bring some hip-hop panache to the world of political blogging .

Recognise

the beginnings of something

it's got a kinda clunky name, "meatless monday". but it alliterates, so it's not all bad. is this the first Flexitarian ad campaign?

great news!

this is some of the best news there's been in ages . yahoooo. stupid shoe-like things.

soda tax

ingenious way to raise some money #74498 - levy a tax on all non-diet sodas.
Brilliant thinking there, batman. You go for calories (which can be burnt off through exercise), you get charged more. Choose the one with questionable chemicals that you don't really know what they do to your brain...bingo!

xylopholks

the quirky xylopholks like nothing better than dressing up in furry costumes and playing the xylophone. ragtime style. in public places. like the NY Subway. Brilliant. Here's an introduction to the group...

and here's a performance they did in the subway.

Know Your Meme

Those crazy kids at Rocketboom have gone and gotten all scientifical about those annoying/amusing* mini-crazes that fly round the internet. Very simply, Know. Your. Meme. The ridiculously-appropriate costumes are a bonus, for sure.
* delete as appropriate

guess what happens next (2)

so, more Britain's Got Talent. Greg is a waiter. He decided to sing a song on TV to try for the chance to perform for the Queen. If you correctly predict what happens...congratulations. You are perhaps the only person on the planet who did.

add break

out of all the Fanta teachers in these subtitled Japanese adverts , I think "Mr Blackbeard" is my favourite (known in the UK as "pop up pirate")

If you can work out what this Little Red Riding Hood commercial is for, give yourself a medal. I have no clue.

and finally, a cookie sings the blues . Poor thing.

bert + ernie go street

the muppets are classic. and their relatives who can tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street are also up there in the halls of fame. I have a feeling Bert + Ernie may even be overtaking Oscar the Grouch after this attempt...

rudo y cursi

it has gael garcia bernal and diego luna in it. I'm in.

if world leaders used facebook...

is this what a week would look like for them?