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Totterdown arts trail

2010-11-22T15:59:00.001-08:00

The Totterdown arts trail was a huge success with hundreds of people flocking to see all the creative spaces in and around Totterdown on the weekend. There was some beautiful art and alot to see from video installations, sculpture, paintings, photography and theatre. Lots to see and some very inspiring people and things. Thank you everyone who made it possible and I look forward to and even bigger and better show next year! Big love and hi fives to all!
Here is a small collection of some of the work I had on display.

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PechaKucha presentaions from great creatives

2010-01-22T09:24:00.000-08:00

PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. I loved the few I've seen in London but they've just relaunched their site so now you can enjoy them from the comfort of your home. Have a look at some of the inspiring presentations from the world’s best at www.pecha-kucha.org/

A curious new dimention

2009-11-27T08:19:00.000-08:00

Some beautiful pure art direction, photography and design. Great flash effects and an augmented reality section. The link came via a piece of DM courtesy of Royal Mail which was a nice change, and gave the client a chance to send a sample of their beautiful papers. The user experience is confusing and seems to have no direction or sense but in a way I suppose that's the idea. Go explore a new curious dimension. http://www.curiousstory.com/

Mission to happiness via 206 different countries

2009-11-23T04:48:00.000-08:00

An interesting campaign by the Coca Cola crew has recently hit the internet. They are on a mission to find happiness in the 206 different countries that sell Coca-Cola products across the world.

With the Expedition 206 http://www.expedition206.com campaign, Coca-Cola is tapping regular people to be their “Happiness Ambassadors” and travel the world for the whole of 2010 and document their quest via blog posts, tweets, YouTube videos, TwitPics, and other social media mentions. A number of global markets are being forced to develop their social and digital media strategies as a result of the program, testing Cokes organisational flexibility.

Patagonia new shed- what an adventure

2009-10-23T01:51:00.000-07:00

I love this site for Patagonia, the outdoor adventure company.
Visit their shed deep in the mountains. Beautiful flash work brings together some of the most engaging content I've seen and heard for a longtime. The trailer for 180 degrees South, the movie, inspired me and had me wanting to get out there and start a new adventure. Great flash work but content is king.
http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/tinshed/

Fresh ideas, what do you think?

The fun theory

2009-10-13T02:42:00.000-07:00

Check out this great campaign for Volkswagen, The Fun Theory. Seemingly very boring objects are made a whole lot more interesting by a series of experiments, captured on video to find out if making the world more fun can improve people’s behavior. The top video, Piano Stairs, has achieved over 1 million views on YouTube. My favourite, the trash can that sounds like a 50ft-deep well, will make people pick up their trash. Subtle, charming, check it out and see if it improves your day.

2009-09-14T03:28:00.001-07:00

Love this Ad every step of the way

2009-09-04T03:30:00.000-07:00

Lovely Ad for Johnie Walker,
possibly the best this year.
Great stories make great ads.
http://tinyurl.com/ox397g

9/11 Ad for WWF reveals a wave of discontent

2009-09-03T07:10:00.000-07:00

For too long the ad industry has been responsible for running scam ads like some little art school purely for awards. We know it happens and its time that it ended. We're in this industry to be creative. That creativity, entails creating commercials that grab people attention via exciting art direction, engaging copy, be for a real client, and on budget and run regularily in mainstream press or similar. That is great creativity and something awards shows should be all making us aspire to.

Finally the Awards Show industry and agencies that pander to them have been revealed via the very medium that has made them 'so great'. An ad that ran once in a small Sao Paulo newspaper months ago has come back to haunt DDB Brasil and its conservation client, the WWF in Brazil. Granted it's beautifully art directed and already an award winner at the One show. It now turns out to have run once in some local paper purely for awards shows. The ad ricocheted around the blogosphere, getting horrified and often vicious posts, tweets and comments, and it landed the agency on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show as the villain of his "Worst Person in the World" segment.

There's no way DDB did not know about this ad. Its beautifully art directed and produced, with amazing CGI and special effects. The campaign even includes a TV commercial probably so it can be entered into numerous awards sectors) DDB knew, but they just got caught. They are not the only agency that is responsible for this sort of thing. Believe me I have worked at a number of agencies in the past where this sort of thing was rife! Its time it stopped. We should stop CHEATERS from dominating our industry with NON ADS. Cannes, the Clios, the One Show, the D&ADs, the Andys and every other award show out there, as well as the agencies, get real.
This needs to be a watershed moment for the industry. Clean up your shows.

What do you think?

WOULD YOU!?

2009-08-25T02:53:00.001-07:00

I can't believe how big http://www.datewithtyrone.com/ has got! BBC Bristol and now an article in The Evening Standard! eek!

New visuals and teaser for Alice in Wonderland

2009-07-29T06:52:00.000-07:00

Alice in Wonderland director Tim Burton released the first look at this wonderful story. The visuals are fresh and beautifully art directed. Check out the trailer and more pics at Alice in http://tinyurl.com/ne329z
Starring Jonny Depp, its only to be release in 2010. Unfortunately a long wait but its already shaping up to be the hit of the year! Stunning!

Fresh ideas? What do you think?

Car, controlled typography

2009-07-24T03:29:00.000-07:00

A superb little campaign by Toyota for its new IQ car. Creating a new font made by its small little motor. That's right car, controlled typography!? Master minded by a Dutch agency who got an unlikely collection of people, including font designers Pierre&Damien from PLEASELETMEDESIGN, software developer Zach Lieberman and professional race/stunt driver Stef Vancampenhoudt together. A camera was mounted high up in the vaults of the airport hanger filming and transforming the movements of the car into a digital font. It's a surprising friendly, cute little font now available for free download and should you want, you can also take a test drive from the same place. Sweet. http://vimeo.com/5233789

Youtube is now the new Flash

2009-06-12T07:58:00.000-07:00

There is a lot of talk at the moment with regards to what is the best way to create your site. Flash, HTML, Wordpress etc? Well how about Youtube! Is This The Best Agency Website Ever? Maybe not, but it's got to be one of the most creative in terms of the executional media. We've seen interactive Youtube videos for a while now but a whole site? Brilliant! BooneOakley has created their full agency website on YouTube through a whole series of interactive videos to showcase their agency. Check it out, love it! http://tinyurl.com/kpjcac

Lacoste Red collection

2009-05-01T07:24:00.001-07:00

The celebrate the launch of the Lacoste Red collection, the clothing label has come up with this little beauty… A great site full of beautiful people, clothes and great music, put together with some seamless video / flash work, and a few other neat little tricks… The site includes blogging tools which will help send it viral, a little device which checks your ISP connection (I presume) and works out which area you are based in. It then gives you a selection of shops which sell the range in the Bristol / Bath area for instance. A neat little idea we should be including in our sites to drive sales. Check it out at: http://www.lacostered.com

2009-05-01T02:04:00.001-07:00

Cool Coca-cola site

2009-04-27T03:14:00.000-07:00

It all started with an animated spot made by Psyop for Coke and agency Wieden+Kennedy. Since launching in 2006, the original "Happiness Wieden+Factory" has gone on to become the highest rated global spot The Coca-Cola Company has ever tested. Winning several awards including a "Silver Lion" at the 2007 Cannes advertising awards, the "Grand Prix Gold Prize" at the 2006 Epica Awards and most recently a nomination for a primetime commercial "Emmy" in the United States. Now a fantastic site chock a block full of stunning animation, videos, games and a very catchy little tune.

http://hf3.coca-cola.com/

Integrated multimedia campaign that delivers the goods

2009-04-08T03:32:00.000-07:00

The execution is a great example of interactive video served as a rich media ad, and has just gone live on Weather.com, About.com and several other sites. A 45-second version is running on Nike.com’s homepage, and in NikeTown stores across the country. If I worked as hard down the gym as this little banner I'd be HUGE!
http://tinyurl.com/8uoc3r

Data visulisation

2009-03-23T03:42:00.000-07:00

Particularly relevant in our business where we so often have to make sense out of all that data our talented team of planners, and data analysts glean from consumers and target markets. We've all watched bleary eyed pie chart after pie chart (obviously in other agencies), well now we can all be inspired to bring it to life and make it relevant to us and our clients.
Enter the new "visual scientists" ( http://vizlab.nytimes.com/) who are turning bits and bytes of data -- once purely the domain of mathematicians and coders -- into stories for our digital age. Read more on advertising age: http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=135313

Great advertising in the credit crunch

2009-03-13T10:49:00.000-07:00

Doom and gloom all over the place. We've all seen them, marketing campaigns that skirt around the subject, trying to allay our fears. Well I love the honesty of this campaign, the art direction is simply superb and at the end of the day you can't fault the fact that it's pretty convincing that my savings will be all nice 'n cozy in Banco Financiero with an interest rate that can survive anything. Including the apocalypse! I love it but I'm sure it will have a mixed response:
http://tinyurl.com/bs6qrg

Tasty krafty Iphone Application

2009-01-26T01:45:00.000-08:00

With the credit crunch well and truly here, cooking at home and dinner parties in 2009 is the hot thing to do apparently. Kraft entered the iPhone branded application fray with the iFood Assistant. They are proving, in true branded utility stylee, that if you make something useful enough, consumers will be happy to not only be marketed to, but even pay for the privilege AND exchange personal information along the way. Tasty little app, if only I could stop losing my phone!

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/iFood.aspx

Goggle Ad words fumbles

2009-01-19T10:18:00.000-08:00

Whilst just on Goggle/You tube feed I was watching the latest footage of
the plane crash in NYC.

Goggle ad words whilst usually a great idea for a brand,
somehow did not quite get it right this time!! Hilarious!!
Well it made me giggle!

Whopper virgins wows

2009-01-19T02:06:00.001-08:00

This one is courtesy of Burger King, which has a new campaign called "Whopper Virgins" with a short documentary that has people in remote areas of the world taste-testing Whoppers and Big Macs.

It has received mixed reviews. Marilyn Borchardt, development director for Food First, calls the campaign "insensitive" and points out, "The ad's not even acknowledging that there's even hunger in any of these places." According to ComScore, Burger King reports that the site has had 727,075 total visitors and 698,149 unique visitors, who spend an average of nearly four minutes on the site so it seems very successful as a piece of marketing to the non vegan, sandal wearing, hippies amongst us. Exactly the objective I presume - so a great viral idea worth sharing and definitely left me looking forward to my next visit! Lunch anyone? http://www.whoppervirgins.com

Viral goes pop

2009-01-06T11:04:00.000-08:00

As it’s the list-making season, The Guardian has ranked the top ten viral ads of 2008: http://tinyurl.com/5wg2bd

But who won the race to be Christmas number one?

I’ll spare you the Jimmy Saville-esque run-down and jump straight to the top of the pack. There proudly stands the Obama campaign’s exceptional update of Budweiser’s most famous spot. And rightly so; it’s a brilliant remake and surprisingly poignant. The original campaign was so popular that the cry ‘Wassssssssup?’ could be heard from space – it was old-school viral.

The new school, though, shows the remarkable benefits of online viral marketing: its affordability; it’s humanity; the freedom it offers; and the debate it provokes. Good viral campaigns show the creativity and innovation that all adverts should aspire to achieve. And it’s good to see that TV adverts are rising to the challenge. Last year, Cadbury’s Gorilla was a YouTube smash and this year it’s Nike (number 5 in The Guardian’s list).

Absolutly great site

2009-01-06T11:00:00.000-08:00

Absolut have done it again. A fantastic site with a unique yet intuitive graphic interface, lovely flash work, great content, and Web 2.0 interaction. A portal that delivers a variety of sites in one beautiful hit. My favourite was the Absolut vision - a site that delivers the visions of some outstanding people and makes them a reality. http://absolut.com

Peggy Pounce

2009-01-05T04:00:00.000-08:00

A number of family members have contacted me regarding her passing on. I am very sorry for your loss. She was a wonderful women who touched many lives. A few of you have asked for copies of her videos 9particularily her son Martin Pounce), I have no way of contacting you unless you leave me details. Please contact me with your email details and I will forward a DVD/cd to you. Warm regards - Tyrone

Microsoft: I'm a PC

2008-09-30T03:03:00.000-07:00

Microsoft is now taking action against the series of "I'm a mac" ads from Apple. The spot, http://tinyurl.com/3vlynq , via their new agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami aims to repair Microsoft's brand image by showing how people are proud to be PCs. I quite like the ad, even though its for the personally lesser preferred PC. Microsoft seem to be doing some things right with the new agency appointment. Saying that, the blogs are going mad with the news that the ads were created using Macs! Nice try though: http://tinyurl.com/3wlkcp

Mobile Marketing-The worlds first mass direct marketing tool has come of age.

2008-09-09T05:36:00.000-07:00

A brilliant marketing initiative from NIKE. PhotoID allows fans of customised footwear to seek out interesting colourways from their own environments and see what they would look like when transferred to a pair of NIKE DUNKS. Users simply send a camera phone image of a particularly appealing 2 tone colourway (strong contrasting colours work best) to a shortcode (via MMS) and are then sent a link to the photoID mobile site where they can view their customised footwear and original photo. By entering a unique code at Nikeid.com users can order their personalised shoes. Try it now and text your image and the word 'DUNK' to 88247 and then wait for the link... The worlds first mass direct marketing tool has come of age.

Darkly beautiful

2008-08-05T10:00:00.000-07:00

I couldn't resist the launch of the Batman movie and this site to support it. Check out http://tinyurl.com/5e35he. The campaign is supported by a viral initiative and a site for Verizon that promotes the mobile carrier's Dark Knight branded 6205 phone.

Along with wallpapers/screensavers,ringtones, a mobile game and an exclusive DC digital comic download for V Cast phones, the site features a viral video called ‘Commit Your Friend’. The clip which was shot by director David Bruckner with a RED One camera, guides visitors through the dark, ominous halls of Gotham's Arkham Asylum. After you take a gander at the criminally insane, you can customize your own video and commit a friend. So, just like the movie, I'll give this 5 stars.

Lazers, closets and feel good ideas from around the world

2008-07-24T02:46:00.000-07:00

This week there was a raft of great work I came across. Director James Frost lends some tech wizardry to Radiohead, another first for them with a music video made without using cameras. Lazers, that’s where it's at: http://tinyurl.com/6e5e47.
The latest site for Ikea, once again is completely inspirational, as Sweden's Forsman and Bodenfors asks us to step inside Ikea's closet http://tinyurl.com/245ljc
I also loved this idea for Credit Union of Washington, it gave me a nice warm fuzzy feeling about a bank for a change, excuse me a Credit Union. Check out http://tinyurl.com/5d57zq and sign up for your daily dose of inspirational musings from Carl Weathers.

Grass art for HSBC and the Wimbledon tennis tournament

2008-07-04T01:49:00.000-07:00

For all you Wimbledon fans, this weekend’ finals with be further enhanced with a bit more culture.
Presenting grass art, artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey create “grass photographs” for HSBC’s partnership with the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Harnessing seedling grass light sensitivity, Ackroyd and Harvey, who are known for similar work worldwide, record photographic images by projecting black and white negatives onto grass as it grows in a dark room for 12 hours per day for more than a week. The grass grows in accordance to the modified light exposure, thus the photo “develops” on a living canvas. Personally would have casted Maria Kirilenko rather than the frumpy linesman, but a great idea nevertheless.

Check out some great advertising from around the world.

2008-07-01T09:47:00.000-07:00

Uniqlock wins 2007 Cannes Digital what will it be this year!?

2008-06-20T04:00:00.000-07:00

2008-05-20T04:49:00.000-07:00

AMD Live Film

2008-05-20T03:44:00.001-07:00

PORTFOLIO

2008-05-20T03:21:00.001-07:00

2008-05-19T04:34:00.000-07:00

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

This years Cannes Grand Prix?

2008-02-19T00:49:00.000-08:00

Proof that the best ideas are the simplest…
I just love this beautiful integrated idea that cost next to nothing to produce and received approximately $6 million in spontaneous free media coverage. Especially clever since traditional outdoor advertising is banned in Sao Paulo - Check it out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04goq0u_Uo&feature=related

2008-02-18T09:13:00.001-08:00

Interactive drama to hit the digital screens in a week...

Heeey someones listening!

2008-02-18T08:43:00.000-08:00

Ok the experiment worked and I have an audience. Rights its not going to get Google ad words excited but its a start and I feel that I just couldn't let her down!
Randomly I got a message from someone in Austria who saw the Peggy stuff and is looking forward to the latest installment! hhm well you will have to ask Dell I'm afraid. It seems they have pulled the budget to continue that little drama. If only they knew how popular it has become!
An international audience of me , my mum and uurm a lovely lady in the Dell offices in Austria...

Moving swiftly on as you have to in this industry. I have a new little project that you should keep your eyes peeled for on the Microsoft site in the next few weeks.. Search Life journey is all I can say for now. It should prove to be a little more popular and I expect my aging step dad to learn how to blog via Microsofts wonderful bundle of programmes available on skydrive and MSN..Thus making my blogs audience expand by nearly 30%! LAters

Oil painting of the ex

2007-01-26T17:05:00.000-08:00

I did this painting of her a while ago, took me a couple of months after we had broken up.I didn't keep it.

peggypounce is comming

2007-01-26T17:03:00.000-08:00

Its been a crazy few weeks shooting and developing concepts around this wonderful charcater.. expect to see lots more of peggypounce.

Heres the crazy mist...

2007-01-26T16:55:00.000-08:00

Peggy pounce

2007-01-26T16:43:00.000-08:00

Been working on an interesting project with a sweet old lady called Peggy. She's 85 years old and will be launching her website in a few weeks.. I've been shooting some films with her which are turning out to be lots of fun and quite a giggle.. Keep your ears and eyes searching the net for the Great dame...

crazy mist

2007-01-02T11:52:00.000-08:00

This stuff closed down heathrow and most of the uk over christmas. . Pretty tho

Photos, drawings and other silly things that won't interest anyone

2007-01-02T11:08:00.000-08:00

Well here I sit wondering what my first blog should be about.
Well as a creative person I take the odd photo and do various bits of creative stuff. Some of it I get paid alot of money for, some of it gets put in bins around the world.
Creative stuff.. advertising, design, I've done a couple TVcommercials, websites, direct mail or as my mate calls it, junk mail, illustration etc Some good , some bad, some I can't decide.. Well nevertheless that's what I spend most of my time doing... so I might as well spam the net with it.. Welcome to my blog this is where I express myself not the views of my clients, company and any brand. I'm gonna dump it here.. Just me, all of me, my photos, drawings, postcards, ramblings.. because my Mums garage is way to small and so is my shitty bachelor pad. This way I'll have a record of it, someone could sue me for it, maybe it will make sense one day..

Just about evey painting I have ever done has been lost, stolen, distroyed,misplaced, trashed by the school board so at least here it should find at aleast one other viewer besides me and my mum. Hey give us a shout if anyones reading this, cos I don't believe it works yet.
I mean who the hell would be interested in my life and why aren't you having one now anyway? Go on piss off and get a life. MMmm still here, I wonder maybe I'm onto something. The new frontier? Is this the gallery space I've always wanted? My first solo exhibition? Well we will see....