Reggie Watts vs My Little Pony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJfZTr8zMsc

And possibly even better is Wu Tang vs My Little Pony:

And Sleeping Beauty And The Three Lesbians:

T2 trailer animated (thanks, J):

And something similar-ish: it’s like the Bunny Suicides, but with a human. It’s the Suicides! (Thanks, K.):

The five funniest Monty Python sketches.

Waste a ton of time (thanks, S).

Watch someone eat a massive jar of Nutella all in one go (thanks, J).

Well, the guy is Steve Jobs, the premises are the new headquarters of Apple in Cupertino and it’s really damn interesting:

Do you get the impression the Cupertino council members like Mr Jobs?

(Thanks, S.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJNk-80lsE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_VtqtxCHY

Happy Tuesday.

I often find myself writing that I often find myself writing something that I’ve already written.

Well, here’s something I’ve written about a few times, but this time it’s backed up by some proper analysis by some actual clever people (who don’t just pretend their stuff is all true just because they’ve written it on a blog, like what I do).

Anyway, here’s an article about Speed Up.

It’s the concept of companies making huge amounts of money by laying off lots of employees then making the people who are left work much harder to cover the shortfall. So they take loads of cash off the wage bill but still get the same output.

Ever worked very long hours?

Ever worked weekends?

Ever wondered if you could stop doing that if only your boss employed some more staff?

That is Speed Up, my friends, and it’s killing people.

And now I wonder if that’s another reason for the ‘ageism’ of advertising (and other jobs): perhaps it’s just the industry compressing a 40-year career into 30 years. Perhaps people end up so burnt out by what they’re asked to do that they’re too shite/disillusioned/resentful to carry on.

Or perhaps we’re all big jessies and if we had to go down t’pit for 18 hours a day for 2 and 6 we’d know what real work was.

One of the two.

Pornographic images of Terry Wogan (thanks, T):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr7IJCdqZ-Y

Someone who is better than your kids (thanks, J).

Diesel turns Facebook into an Excel spreadsheet so you can be stupid at work (thanks, M):

The 25 gayest animals (thanks, M).

Great behind the scenes pics of Taxi Driver.

An excellent idea for Summer (thanks, P):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-PG_OKjw4o

Bulgaria’s Banksy is braver than ours (thanks, P).

UPDATE: I meant to put this priceless cat video in, but I forgot:

I’ve been writing this blog for about five years with nothing to show for it (nothing tangible, anyway. The feeling of warm satisfaction I get from connecting to four or five readers through cyberspace is a thing of utter wonder).

Well, that all changed a few weeks ago when I received a 3M PocketProjector MP180.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: whore.

And you’d be right.

Except, I wouldn’t witter on about something I didn’t like (Jesus, you should see some of the ads people send me that I don’t pass on to you. Like someone’s put a turd in bag of vomit and flung it at my inbox), so I’m kind of like a nymphomaniac whore. Does that make sense? Maybe I should use a different analogy.

Anyway, I had a go on it and have to say that I was very impressed. The darn thing is conveniently light and Wi-Fi connected, so you can just splash the interweb onto the nearest wall without the need for a computer. Hooray.

But the thing is, I don’t need it as much as the local primary school does, so I’ve donated it to them (tart with a heart). I did explain to the lovely George at 3M that I wanted to do that and he was fine about it.

That aside, if you’d like one (and they are very good), you can use the code below to get a discount and an iPhone/iPad connector cable.

Discount Code : 3M12

Link: http://www.personalprojector.co.uk/index.php/mp180icablebundle.html

Text : “3M have teamed up with Personal Projector, the Pocket Projection specialists, to offer an exclusive £29.99 discount on the 3M MP180 pocket projector. Additionally this offer also includes a £34 3M iPhone/iPad AV cable to connect to your projector. Enter the code supplied before August 31st”

Hi

I hope you are well – we have seen you cover alot of marketing and advertising stories and thought you might be interested in the following marketing story for your blog.

Coors Light, ‘The World’s Most Refreshing Beer’™, has signed Hollywood legend Jean-Claude Van Damme to front its latest TV and online advertising campaign.

I have attached an image incase you would like this to accompany you piece – but if you would like anything else such as the ad embed code just let me know and I can provide this for you.

Many thanks,

Danielle

Well, Danielle, it’s a slow day where I’ve had to resort to writing about cartoons, so, yes: I am interested.

Having checked out the ad, I find it mildly diverting (mainly because I’m wondering how much it costs to get JCVD to do something like this. Not a great deal, I’d imagine).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdHocrK59bo

What do you think?

I guess there are some downsides to being born in this century: you missed seeing Star Wars before George Lucas flushed it down the loo; you only know the dominance of two football teams; and the ads are shite.

But there is a massive upside.

If you don’t have kids (or smoke dope) it’s unlikely you’ll have tuned into the Cartoon Network lately. You’re probably aware of the insane genius that is Spongebob Squarepants, but are you familiar with The Regular Show?

I quote Wikipedia:

‘Two 23-year-old friends,^[3] a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby, are employed as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to slack off and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson (a high-tempered living gumball machine), along with their co-worker Skips (a yeti); but to the delight of Pops (a naïve, lollipop-shaped gentleman whose father Mr. Maellard owns the park). Their other co-workers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and High Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head) serve as rivals to Mordecai and Rigby.^[4] As stated before, the show usually revolves around Mordecai’s and Rigby’s attempts to avoid work and enjoy themselves; however, they oftentimes have to pay for their irresponsible actions, as they always get into more trouble than they thought. This typically results in Mordecai and Rigby going through bizarre and surrealistic misadventures.’

That’s right, a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head.

But they left out Coffee Coffee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AC0uvU0jQ

Then there’s Adventure Time. Here’s description of one of its characters:

‘Beemo is a sentient video game console that lives with Finn and Jake. His appearance contains elements of Vectrex, Game Boy, andAtari 2600 game hardware. The letters on his side spell “BMO”. He speaks with a Korean accent. Beemo also has magical powers that can put people into whatever video game that is wanted, but its extremely dangerous and monsters could come out into reality just by a push of a button, but only he can press it. Although Finn and Jake often refer to Beemo as him, Pat McHale, creative director, says that Beemo is more of an it.’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp6mU0RYPXU

And last but not least, the Emmy Award-winning The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack:

‘Flapjack is a young boy raised by a talking whale named Bubbie. Flapjack leads a peaceful life until the duo rescues a pirate by the name of Captain K’nuckles, who tells Flapjack of a place called Candied Island, which is made completely of candy. Inspired by the adventurous pirate, Flapjack, Captain K’nuckles and Bubbie get into strange predicaments and “misadventures” in search of candy, Candied Island and the coveted title of “Adventurer”. The three spend most of their time in Stormalong Harbor, their place of residence, and home to many strange characters.’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GogsawI6oxU

I mean awesome in the slightly post-modern way that Brits use it, rather than the way Jack Black uses it as some kind of desperate indication of a wacky personality, but with no hint of irony.

Skittles Brand Book.

(Thanks, M.)