Unique animation

My friend Terry and I went to an exhibition celebrating ten decades of Edinburgh Art College at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh on Wednesday. The show features works from some of the colleges best known alumni including Bellany, Byrne, Inness, Blackadder and Peploe to name but a few.

But it this piece of haunting animation (actually it’s really puppetry) by a young American/Italian, Josef Feltus and his brother that stole the show for me.

The Simpsons it aint but stick with it. It is beautiful and won the Jim Poole award, amongst many others, last year.

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Latest online work

This is one of four virals that we’ve been working on for a New Zealand IT recruitment company at 60 Watt.  Just goes to show that the Scottish border is no object to doing good work.  Produced by MTP, animation by Colin Thomson and v/o  by Rodney Bewes.

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Careful now..

Some people really do not take the time to think of the impliactions of how their IP address reads when the spaces between perfectly innocuous words are removed as these real examples prove. And if you don’t believe me, click on the links.

I kid you not.

‘Who Represents’ is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is www.whorepresents.com

Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com

Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at www.penisland.net

Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at www.therapistfinder.com

There’s the Italian Power Generator company, www.powergenitalia.com

And don’t forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales, www.molestationnursery.com

 

The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is www.cummingfirst.com

 

If you’re looking for IP computer software, there’s always www.ipanywhere.com

And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site, www.speedofart.com

 

The death of email?

I am grateful to Mike Coulter for bringing this very interesting article to my attention. It argues the case eloquently that email is for us oldies and office workers.

Can you believe it is looking “old fashioned”?

Manc

It’s cold.  It’s grim up North and the Crispy Thai belly of Pork was not as good as Tony suggested.  But I’ve had a good day pounding the streets of Manchester.

When advertising was less strictly controlled…

You could run demonstration ads that were a little more…daring.

And more new work…

Once again, with 60 Watt, I’ve been doing some nice work for a new client, Edinburgh Carpet and Flooring Warehouse, and Floors 4 U (Which we are about to rebrand as Top Floor).

We came up with a new identity for the Carpet Warehouse and this will be rolled out into his two other brands, the aforementioned Top Floor and his professional services division, Elite Flooring Services.

We made six radio ads Edinburgh Carpet and Flooring Warehouse for him featuring monologues, rants really, by Leslie Phillips (he of “Ding Dong” fame in the Carry on films).

And this is the initial press ad featuring the new logo.

 

The Floors 4 U ads are fun, playing on the origins of the store as a trade counter.

Latest Work

With 60 Watt I’ve been developing a recruitment advertising campaign for The Scotsman Publications’ Telesales and Field sales people. It’s a big campaign with a whole load of executions, the first two of which are these.

They ran last week.

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Great art direction

Doug Cook is one of Scotland’s best art directors. But, not content with this he is setting out to become one of Scotland’s best photographers.

Check him out. Click on the photo to go through to his Flickr site.