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Friend and colleague Vicky Simmons writes:

Hi Ben, 

I’ve just launched my first Kickstarter. I’ve designed a range of travel bags that poke fun at the ridiculousness of the Kate Moss / easyJet story. I think she’s a bit of a don for slumming it, being herself and having a good time. It’s tongue in cheek but what the hell. I had fun writing them.

Here’s the crucial info and a couple of photos. If you like the project, I’d be thrilled if you could share it with whoever you think would be interested.

Thank you,

Vicky 

No, Vicky, thank you.

…They’re just such a massive collection of thundercunts that anything they now come out with just seems like a giant pair of fingers being shoved down your throat:

https://vimeo.com/130232144

Eg: when the man is sad on the floor of the lift I just wonder if he’s feeling some guilt at being connected to HSBC laundering money from Mexican drug cartels. And when he’s laughing with those Asian gentlemen it might be because they all benefitted from HSBC’s illegal tax avoidance schemes in Switzerland.

Disgusting.

Fuck off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDP1e17qDU4

And another tip of the hat to the ridiculously pleasant and talented folks with whom I work.

This is a great idea:

(Interest declared: the creatives, Amber and Lovisa, are friends of mine.)

But if you know anyone who might be interested in buying a poster (or ten), point them in this direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-7uXcvOzms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNUC6UQ_Qvg

Nice one, all you lovely, talented people.

Read all about it.

…I assume you’ve already read this.

But there it is anyway.

x

Posting sporadically.

Someone who did a brilliant thing for me in 2011 writes:

It’s Hayden, the guy who worked on the Water Water Everywhere iPhone app for you (quite a few years ago now I think).

I wanted to see if I could take advantage of the side projects posts that you sometimes run.

While, strictly speaking I don’t work in the ad industry, I’ve been working on what’s essentially a side project for the guys from an advertising agency out of my home town Melbourne.

Actually, the story goes like this. Josh Schooling, who’s 15 years old, came up with an idea for a mobile game. Then, in what could win him father of the year, his dad put together a team of people who work for him or have worked for him to get the game made.

Today, Spring Cat has been launched for iOS and Android. It’s an endless runner mobile game for iOS made by people who work for Bravo Tango Bravo Advertising in Melbourne or are freelancers who do work for BTB.

So, check out the game, it’s been great fun making it and I honestly thing that it’s great fun playing it as well.

Thanks, Hayden!

Good luck with that.

Worrying items sold in 1902 (thanks, T).

How Game of Thrones is written every year (thanks, J).

Rejected poster designs for The Shining, complete with Kubrick’s notes.

Superhero alphabet (thanks, J2).

Mad Max editing (thanks, A).

Tourists can go on Cocaine tours in Colombia (thanks, T):

Tom Hardy’s old MySpace page (spookily he claims, ‘I’ll crash the motor’ and ‘I am a goldfish walking through a desert’).

Cube dogs.

What’s inside toys (thanks, S).

Cassetteboy fun: