Terrorist attack on sydney (almost)
A rip off of the controversial WWF ad (below)?
Also only 12 people a year die from bowel cancer? Why would you even make an ad about that when 1,700 die of skin cancer in Australia every year. Cut the ad budget and send out some SPF30 sunscreen and a bag of apples to everyone in the country.
Flinders lane
Flinders lane is probably one of my favourite places in the world. I first went there when I was about 17 and it’s always first on my list when I get to Melbourne. The coffee there is terrible, but probably the best you will find in Australia, but the turkish sandwiches and graffiti are fantastic! I like the paste up (pictured above) so much, as until recently my trips to Melbourne have usually been to escape from boys.
I was delighted (and yet sadly nostalgic) to see guest blogger Lucy Feagins blogging about Flinders lane on Design Sponge >
Here is the Nicholas Jones map:
Raising the IQ
I like that MR Vintage have put this Muldoon quote on a tshirt, it has been my motto over the last couple of months and it’s even my Skype status. Someone should probably buy me the tshirt.
Need recipes to use that avacodo you bought?
If so then you are an idiot!
However, a lot of Australians are which is why they have created a widget with handy recipes using avocado to put on your desktop.
I’ll give you a helpful hint, avocado goes with everything, savoury and cold. Don’t put it in soups, don’t put in milkshakes, but feel free to put it in a salad, sandwich or taco. Heck even put it on some corn chips! Did you need to download a widget to tell you all that?
(painting by Craig Stevens)
Talk of the dinner table
Anyone who’s had the misfortune of hearing about the Kyle and Jackie O radio saga in australia can probably appreciate this fantastic ad from their competitors. Sorry about the bad quality pic ( taken on iPhone )
Storm of terrible ads
Of course the dust storm was going to send creatives into a frenzy of ads for their cleaning product clients. But seriously, these ads are terrible. Insert any one of their logos or pack shots into the above ad and the terrible pun works. The only one which I think has any merit is the following from Telsta:
More from (not so) theinspirationroom >
Anyway my new house is covered in dust, I made the mistake last night of walking onto the balcony with no shoes.
Apocalypse in Sydney
Woke up early this morning, sirens going and the sky was bright orange. It’s calmed down a lot now (colour wise) but there is dust settled like heavy fog. This is a photo of the harbour bridge from my office – usually I can the opera house and the city behind it but today I can barely see the harbour bridge only a few kms over the valley.
It’s funny seeing SUVs which have never been out of the city now covered in dust like they were meant to be.
For sale : Established Brothel in Sydney
When I saw this in the window of lj HOOKER (of all the real estate businesses out there) I thought, they must be joking right?
Nope, buy it here if you have always wanted to be a Madame or take your Pimping business to the next professional level.
Kid feeding mating kangaroos
Doing some research for a new project of mine and found this amazing photo.
fully sick ad, bros
It’s not secret to anyone who knows me that I love Darryl Parsons, he is my hero in every sense of the word. Why did he have to go start a burger joint before I could ever be his apprentice?
Another Beautiful ad by Tourism Victoria
Flip the lost honeyeater
This poster has boogled me for the months and months in has been up near my work.
Fie months have gone past and I don’t think Flip is still a half sized baby, but I have spotted hundreds of honeyeaters around the area in varying sizes. Every single one of them looks like the bird in the photo.
So what makes this one bird stand out? She’s friendly the poster claims, which is definitely true of most hand reared birds. Unfortunately for Flip’s owners it also seems to be true of wild honeyeaters I’ve encountered in Sydney, especially the ones which sit outside my window at work and gawk at me.
Until tonight I thought this poster was a joke, some art school kid setting up a massive honeyeater conspiracy where every bird could be “Flip”. People frantically trying to catch birds as they swoop too close so they can be returned to their owner.
However curisoty + the internet has killed my imagination. I hope Flip is safe and has found her way home by now. I would be very sad if Starkey and Larry had left.