Describe your worst drunk experience in six words (thanks, J).
Death-tribute cartoons are a special kind of awful.
What the fuck is my social media strategy?
Salvage:
https://vimeo.com/channels/bestofthemonth/254932961
Honest trailers: every Wes Anderson movie (thanks, B):
TSIRKU:
https://vimeo.com/channels/bestofthemonth/249579173
Tommy Wiseau’s Joker audition (thanks, J).
Cool/funny urban graffiti art (thanks, D).
Pendulum wave demonstration (thanks, T):
Log Cabin timelapse (thanks T):
What is beauty? (Thanks, J):
What’s the Dark Net like? Here’s a primer.
Mountain halos (thanks J2).
Nile Rogers on Let’s Dance (thanks, J):
Make a real Viking double axe (thanks, T):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2cKiq_Is0
Pictures from the Australian Mullet Festival (thanks, J).
Deconstruct There Will Be Blood, or any other movie:
Eyes Wide Shut – The Game:
AI is not as worrying as you might think.
very cool tape art:
The best wood joints ever:
The cool sounds of skating on thin ice (thanks, T):
Bird’s eye view of geese (thanks, T):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfafOjbTuTM
Incredible miniature airport (thanks, T):
Concussion protocol (this is a hard watch. Thanks, S).
How everyone in The Wire was cast.
10,000 classic movie posters, digitised (thanks, A).
Headbanging:
Underwater dog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBv8ea8vS8Q
300 hours, 3 million dots (thanks, D):
Cool colourised photos (thanks, B).
Einstein’s Camera (thanks, R).
Excellent poem:
Natalie Rap 2:
Bright: the apotheosis of lazy worldbuilding:
Great street performers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6SC37kMlkI
All of Saul Bass’s movie posters.
Double acts and how they (don’t) work.
Lee Child on his writing process (thanks, R).
When rappers hear new beats:
Coppola Vineyard short film (thanks, J):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MF2mF7Xfok
If you’ve ever been to LA you’ll know that it’s a town full of billboards. This is partly because of the number of films advertised here, but also because of the low-built, widely-spread landscape – full of gaps and sides of buildings that work well for outdoor advertising. We also drive everywhere, so there’s plenty of opportunity to check them out.
Which delights me for two reasons: first, because I live there and second, because I love a good poster. In my opinion it’s the purest form of advertising; if you can make your idea work there, you can make it work anywhere.
And that brings me to the subject of this post: the new Postmates campaign.
For those of you who might not have noticed, 180’s LA branch has been steadily acquiring Cannes Grands Prix and other awards for its excellent and often ‘for good’ work on proper clients.
The latest example of this are these excellent billboard ads. All I can say is, I wish I’d written them, they’re really well art directed and they work brilliantly in real life (here’s another article about them). Congrats, all!
What six billion nights of FitBit sleep data tells us (thanks, D).
Find what’s number one all over the world with a simple map (thanks, S).
Crazy giant sculptures (thanks, D).
Pissed-up Cook, Cleese etc. in a thing about The Secret Policeman’s Ball 1976:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-UvHaroYhE
A brief history of hip-hop:
Vince Gilligan on selling Breaking Bad:
How they made Starship Troopers.