Celebs and their historical doppelgangers.

National Geographic photos of the Year.

The wonderful YouTube films of food preparation.

The most expensive cars on Earth.

Directors’ favourite films of 2016.

The Bauhaus Ballet turns 100 (thanks, O):

50 people having a worse day than you.

Lots of fascinating interviews.

1970s New York was horrible.

Andy Warhol’s wrestling analysis (thanks, T):

RIP, Carrie Fisher, script doctor:

This will be the last post before Christmas, so Happy Whatever It Is Doesn’t Offend You (thanks, D).

On the podcast front, I have some great stuff ready to go but would rather wait until next Sunday to put the next one out. There are far fewer people listening over the Christmas break, so I don’t want a good conversation to get lost in the quiet period.

Thanks very much to those of you who have listened to the episodes. I’m getting as much out of these chats as any of you, but if you are enjoying them, please spread the word. I couldn’t care less about the listening stats, but I do want as many people as possible to receive the substantial wisdom imparted by my guests.

That’s it.

Here’s to a 2017 that’s better than this turd-filled dumpster fire of a year.

Much love.

Ben x

How The Royal Tennenbaums set Wes Anderson’s style (thanks, T).

50 funniest movies, chosen by comedians.

Football Bohemian Rhapsody (thanks, J).

Great photos.

Insane photos of deep sea fish (thanks, J).

Ghana’s hand-painted movie posters (thanks, T).

YMCA, Finnish-style (thanks, T):

And I’ll leave you with my favourite Christmas carol. Merry Christmas, or whatever you celebrate, one and all!

First, an apology.

The eagle-eared amongst you will have noted that there was no episode last week, and, even worse, no word of an explanation.

Here’s what happened: on Saturday I drew a large glass of delicious water from my kitchen tap and placed it on the table. Then, with a quite awesome degree of clumsiness, I knocked the fucker all over my laptop. Optimistically, I followed the internet’s instructions for these situations and turned it upside-down with the keyboard open and waited for two days. On Monday I asked my lovely IT chums if they could salvage any of it. Alas, the whole lot, including files for all my past episodes and two that were ready for air, was lost.

Bugger, I said.

I then sent two very apologetic messages to the poor sods who had given me their best chat magic. Fortunately, both were very understanding,so we arranged for another go and all was well again.

So huge apologies and thanks to Dave Dye and Nigel Roberts. If any of you are planning to massively fuck something up, hope and pray for the generosity and kindness of those guys.

I could continue to bore you with tales of how I couldn’t get back into my WordPress dashboard to leave an explanation, but I imagine you’re already skipping on to the point where I introduce this week’s guest.

So here he is; back for a third time, and we’re still in the 1990s. This is Dave Dye’s BMP DDB years. Scroll down to see the work, click on the iTunes and Soundcloud links or the thingie below to get the audio.

ITIAPTWC Episode 11 – Dave Dye Tranche Trois

Then play the episode to discover…

How playing football can help make decisions about which agency to move to

Why you should just write your way out of problems.

The benefits of having a hands-off CD

Why building a creative department is like organising a dinner party.

How to spin gold out of a campaign that another team doesn’t want to do.

Why a client’s trust can lead to much better work.

Roger Hawes or roger whores?

Why you should take on the unfanciedbriefs and accounts.

How to commission a great photograph.

How you end up shooting a man balancing on his nose.

What John Webster was like.

Why a disappointment for the creative department can also be a disappointment for account management.

Why you should move to an agency because it’s ‘better’.

How dividing and conquering can be a good move for a team.

And here’s the work we discussed:

A fine project and cool idea in aid of wounded veterans (thanks, S).

And a project to promote female creativity (thanks, M&D).

Cool global radio thing (thanks, S).

Interesting tattoos.

Ten best opening titles of all time:

…And the best closing shots:

Trumpqueen (thanks, W).

RIP AA Gill. Here are his best quotes (thanks, T).

Knockoff toys that could have tried harder.

Live a day by doctor’s orders (thanks, B).

50 amazing pictures that might teach you something.

Why did we love gangsters (thanks, A):

The Gyllenhall.com (thanks, D).

Funny tweets (thanks, T).

Police motorbike chase in Brazil:

Bizarre vintage album covers.

Bodybuilders argue about how many days there are in a week.

Am I pregnant? (Thanks, G.):

Eerie portraits of cars in 1970s NY (thanks, T).

Walmart rockstars (thanks, G):

Black and white shots of soldiers with colour restored.

Map of all the rude place names in the world (thanks, M).

Science experiment gifs (thanks, G).

Human population through time:

A couple of creative have made a short film. Give it a watch (thanks, C&C):

Funny wrong captions (thanks, G).

One Tumblr user sent her toe to another. Surprising positivity here.

Eleanor Rigby rhyming tweets (thanks, L).

Visual puns to guess (thanks, L).

Amusing Trump photoshoppery (thanks, P).

Some paperbacks that might not be 100% real:

Bad lip reading: Empire Strikes Back:

Doctor Strangelove documentary: