Why not literally?

What a process it must be when you are in a band and need to come up with a name, you would be sitting there in your dramatic mood, thinking what do we stand for, what defines us, or maybe you were just high and had the munchies and all you had in the fridge was mammas nasty meat loaf, and decided that’s a genius name. I was just thinking what it would look like if you took their names literally and made up some art with what ever the words meant.

Here are some of my interpretations:

Green Day

The Doors

Right Said Fred

Dance like nobodies watching!

Why can’t we just start dancing? Sitting on the tube, listening to music sometimes I get this urge just to stand up and make some moves. I know people would look at me and think WTF! So is this what it has comes down to, what people think? Well I am going to do it one day, at the moment I have got as far as tapping my foot and fingers at the same time, and the odd occasion, when sonny j – cant stop moving is on I slightly move my bum around. But this is disguised by the movement of the tube. Hears a thought, maybe we are all dancing, its just we can’t tell because of the movement of the tube.

Dr Dolittle is in town

Heaven is a half pipe

“Heaven was used in the acclaimed skate film Fully Flared directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. The collaboration inspired the directors to take footage and re-edit a sequence of shots that shows the Lakai skateboarding team demonstrating their considerable skills as they navigate through and around various exploding obstacles.”


A performance, a piece of work, an idea, you get this little overwhelming feeling inside that stops everything for a second and allows you to feel. This is my take on this piece of beauty. That feeling when you have conquered something, finishing that last piece of writing or finally figured out the next step. This for me is when my little explosion goes off.

Roll it Up

When I was a kid, I use to roll my jeans up, only because I grew so quickly and my mom would buy me jeans that would with stand my growth! But now it’s a fashion thingy, and it looks cool! But I want to know how much is too much, it’s ok to roll, but how much is too much?

OTT – Over The Top

Thinking big is sometimes how we work, but what happens if it isn’t realistic, should we still go ahead and try and make it. Recently we had a book crit and showed our work to a CD who suggested we should put our “business heads” on! WTF, now I know we should be working to a realistic goal, but why should we limit ourselves, if we don’t think the unbelievable is believable where is the creativity?

The new Bravia TV ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP-IeWCVmio


Ok so Zoetroping is the next big thing? It’s a good idea because it takes us back to what TV and motion graphics use to be, but saying that they haven’t made the right connection. TV today is supposed to be fast and smooth and above all clear, but by showing it through a Zoetrope we almost see the faults that TV has. The ad would have worked better if the end line was ‘bravia is so much better then this we cant show you on a regular TV ’ well maybe not better but might have made sense.

I once saw a live model of Zoetrope; it was at the Pixar exhibition in London. It was one of the most impressing things I have seen. To be able to see these characters from Toy Story move like they are real. I am now wondering if this will be what we will see after 3D comes to life. Will they make some new break through we can actually see the characters in real form. I’m not talking about holograms, it would only work if it wasn’t transparent and we could be our own directors and view the film from any direction we felt necessary.

Maybe that should have been the ad. Watching something on a Bravia screen is like seeing it there in real life. Wait a minute that sounds like it has been done before.