Gorillaz do Monkey Magic

Jamie Hewitt & Damon Albarn’s new play of Monkey Magic, Monkey: Journey to the west is going to be amazing.

“The launch event of the first Manchester International Festival is a circus opera for the 21st century, based on an ancient Chinese legend but reworked as a dazzling spectacle involving more than 40 Chinese circus acrobats, vocalists and performing martial artists.”

Bit of background on the story here. Some more pictures here.

Update: Check out the Virgin Train that Jamie Hewitt has painted.

Encyclopedia Pictura

Some bizarre but beautiful B-movie style video production going on over Encyclopedia Pictura. Their Grizzly Bear video for Knife is amazing.

Flags by colours

Some interesting pie charts of the proportional usage of colour on flags. Above is the colours of all flags combined.

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I want to be sectioned

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Ooooh lesbians, just imagine that...

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I like it better with my headphones on

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I look like a monkey, look at my fucking ears!

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Can we predict the effect of viral advertising in advance?

Spot the Bull

Client: Orange | Agency: Poke | URL: Archived version

Basically there’s a Bull called Derek in a field, at a secret location in England with a GPS device strapped to it. Every day for a month if players can guess exactly where Derek will be in his field at 3pm then they can win much sought after tickets to Glastonbury. The site became a mini-phenomenon and with no media or PR support it ended up generating masses of online coverage as well as pickup in mainstream press and TV.

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You fuckers are going to pay. It's gonna hurt!