happy new year

I can't seem to log in to blogger.com, but thank goodness for smart mobile devices and their apps :)

Something new for you for 2011...

You may look at Facebook’s new profile layout and wonder why they bothered, but someone looked at it and saw inspiration…

When Facebook launched their new profile layout, French artist Alexandre Oudin saw it as a creative opportunity. Using Photoshop, and one can only assume a lot of time, Oudin cut himself a profile picture that fit in to all the available spaces – the traditional profile pic as well as the five new “recently tagged” photos. His resultant profile is pretty cool.

Schweppes have taken this idea and turned it in to a nifty Facebook app, the Schweppes Profile App, helping you to get the same affect but without the tedious Photoshop time. It’s quick, simple, sexy and – best of all – isn’t Schweppes branded. The user gets something they enjoy out of the application and Schweppes gains fans for their fanpage that they can communicate with at a future date.

Win win.

Source: we are social

Written for Hit Refresh.



- Posted from my iPad

seriously? seriously.

An ad from the 50s for a new style of coffee... Um. Yeah.

a legend

I saw this for the first time last night, and it's truly amazing. One of the best pieces of video i've seen in a long time - how to tell a story in 30 seconds or less...

an urban dweller

Discovery have a lovely set of promos on their channel - random little two minutes pieces about a person of interest. They never tell you who they're featuring so unless you recognise them or their work, you're in the dark, but intrigued.
The first one I saw was of a night club owner, the next a local artist Gregor Jenkins (him I recognized). Last night's was of Jackie Kwan, a young Asian guy living in Johannesburg practicing that strangest of all sports, Parkour. It's beautiful to watch, and you can't help but be in awe of him. And with that, I also felt a certain sense of pride in Johannesburg, the bustling edgy city that it is.

It's a simple video of a small piece of urban culture tucked away in an enormous city where only those who are looking really hard, will find it.

Unfortunately, the only version I could find online of the vid has been dubbed, but you get the idea: