Bye bye Sophie!

This evening, I got a call from Sophie. She's decided to move on and pursue a profession outside advertising.

Fair enough. We had a fab time, created some cracking concepts but it was time for change.

Bring on the future, a new partner and a fab career in digital ad-land.

The Thames

Oh River, we gaze at you each day,
During the Spring, Summer and Autumn,
And the cold, Wintery haze.

Comforting our fears, with a timeless sound,
You, Thames, are always the same,
through life's ups and downs.

Where have all the copywriters gone?

Marie's been sharpening her pencils down at the Poetry Library. It's a treasure-chest of all things poetry- from books, anthologies and magazines, down to little children's bags filled with music instruments and puppets!

Seeing as copy is on the up, what with blogs, SMS and websites, it's time to crank our copy up a notch. www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/events/ is a cool place to be to meet poets and read your poetry to each other.

Marie's gonna give it a whirl. Watch this space!

What's black, white and foamy? Obama coffee!

To claim yours all you need to do is enter a participating Krispy Kreme shop and say, "YES WE CAN" to the barista! It's that simple- honest ;-).

Hurry though, as the promotion ends at 7pm this evening!

What the hell is digital?!!?

A short history of marketing from Michael Reissinger on Vimeo.


If you're a tecnophobe, this cute video will give you a peek into our beautiful, complex, 011111010100101-filled world ;-).

Is free making us more free?

D&AD runs awesome Presidents' lectures where you can hear the experiences and opinions from figureheads in advertising, design and digital. We were watching one, by the big cheese from R/GA, Bob Greenberg, and it did occurr to us- why bother paying for a ticket to a President's lecture, when you can now watch His Digital Highness from the comfort of your own bedroom? Bob mentioned amongst many things, http://www.silverscreenmovies.com/. We love free (we're eating tinned beans at the mo), so you can imagine our ecstatic whoops of joy, when we realised we can watch any film, for free, by streaming it from this site. He also postulated that in the future ALL films and TV, like music, will become free. Wow! Imagine that! We've got our fingers and toes crossed that that comes true ;-)

The business models of the 20th century are surely hiding under their duvets, afraid to come out to face the bone-chilling cold, that is change. On top of the changes brought about by the digitalisation of our world, The British Chambers of Commerce is stating that the "frightening deterioration" of the economy(BCC) will not ease until at least 2010. They reported that the it's been the worst December for UK retail sales, in at least 14 years.

We, The Digital Explorers are refusing to cower in the background. We'd prefer to embody the philosophies of Aikido, and 'blend with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it head-on'. In other words, roll with life...


The inside of Marie and Sophie's heads.

MUUUUSICA!

Sick of high-street pop-slop? Get your self down to Hypemachine. It cherry picks the newest and sparkliest tunes for your ears.

Google we love your Cloud.

We have been busy, busy, busy, putting together a new portfolio. Our New Year's Resolution has been to be more organised. In a moment of pure luck, we clicked on every single Google application and found Calender and Docs. They are AMAZING! Calender, does what it says on the tin, and it's become a firm favourite because you can ask it to send you a text message reminding you of an appointment etc for free. Docs has been, dare we say it, 'revolutionary' because you can save a Microsoft Office style document to the web, and work on it at the same time, from different computers. We don't thank God for many things, but we do thank it/he/she/they, that we were born in the 80s and not the 1800s. Although it's felt like the world's falling down around us of late, at least we have Google Apps a.k.a. Cloud Computing. Long live the Cloud! :-D.


Google giving a detailed explanation of 'Cloud Computing'.

Boo! Hiss! It's January.

We had hoped Prince Charmings would appear and whisk us off to romantic, sun-drenched paradises, but the only thing that's been drenched recently, is us.

If you're feeling a bit fed up, try online karaoke. Marie's been singing her heart out, in public, much to the surprise (and delight) of passersbys.

We found this great little site the other day and thought it deserved a post.

Cooking By Numbers comes up with a handy recipe for whatever items you've got left in your fridge or cupboard.

You even have the option to click 'I feel lucky'- go on- click it and see what happens... ;-)

Unfortunately the flu has put Marie out of action. Fear not, she is firmly tucked up in bed and getting lots of rest. To anyone else whose caught a cold this winter, "GET WELL SOON!"

The Walking Map

Courtesy of those clever folk doing the MA Applied Imagination at Central St Martins College. ;-)

Ha ha ha!

Their Facebook application is hilarious!!!

For cat lovers only.

This made us laugh so much, we had to post it. It features such a lovely animation by Simon Tofield. Soph's cat Pebbles, departed to kitty heaven last week, so seeing this cheered her up. Long live cats!

What a pile o'...

beautious delight: http://www.thoughtpile.org/

One of those sites that is simple and great in equal measure.

Brill for when you've been staring at your screen for more than two hours, emptiness and boredom filling every brain cell. The prospect of a sugary, fat filled lunch filling you with hope.

Thought pile. Thoughtful and fun.