Mardi gras
I found out that we won’t have access to our building during the parade this weekend, which will be interesting. I will have to get over my disgust at the exposed urinals and enjoy the night out.
This week I have seen a lot of closed mindedness. One example of this is people in the gay community who exclude heterosexual couples from Mardi Gras events (seriously, Mardi Gras is stemmed from a Catholic tradition). Another example is this website > which provides a list of gay music that you will go to hell for listening to. It includes two of my favourite bands Cold War Kids > and Death Cab for Cutie.
Anthony & the Johnsons some how skipped the list:
Enjoy. I will try to take some pictures at the parade to put up, hope there’s another Hillsong float. Lols
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.
For someone special
Sign for a restaurant just down the road from my house… we should start a social club so we can get a private room!
31 things
On Wednesday night I dragged myself along to 31 things, an event for young creatives, in the hope I would meet some like minded people and perhaps learn something.
There were three speakers with the idea that each one would share 10 tips about advertising. First speaker, Mel from Lowe, was pretty awesome. A lot of her work was original and used digital well.
Similarly Cameron from the Campaign Palace said a lot of things which were actually useful. Including his story about spending the 8 months after uni not actually being a creative – which gave me some hope that I can get back on track.
And then there was the lady in the middle, Andrea from Play – who seriously didn’t give any useful tips, but rabbited on about her campaigns. One of them was for Tourism Victoria (no not one of the amazing TVCs – it was a PR stunt), and she played a little video of the media response with the CSS song “Music is My Hot Hot Sex” – YES that’s right, the song which became famous from Apple using it in an iPod ad where the song is actually relevant to the campaign!
Anyway the only people I meet where rude graphic design students, so the night was a bit of a loss.
Funny wifi names
This reminds me of when we first moved into our 48th floor apartment in the middle of Sydney and the net wasn’t connected yet. There were plenty of wifi networks, but the only one which wasn’t secure was called “FUCK YOU PEOPLE STEALING MY INTERNET”. Lol.
New home in surry hills
Our new apartment is awesome and filled with bookshelves. The only part which wasn’t looking pretty was the electronics shelf. However on the weekend I found the perfect solution! Four beautiful old (hat?) boxes – does anyone know what they actually are? – and now all the electronics and cables are in their own pretty boxes.
Tupperwear party where you all get naked
I just got invited to a lingerie party by someone I used to talk to on the ferry to work. Can I get past the awkwardness of going to someone’s house to look at bras, and actually attend this?
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.