I‘m loving these cut out reminders that Lazyholic has made. Reminds me of something similar I used to do at university with pictures of Clint Eastwood reminding me to do stuff, but much less weird.. I think Nicky might come home today to find our house covered in something similar, I’m definitely feeling the lazy bug at the moment.
You should also check out her blog & Flickr, all full of good stuff.
Via: How Magazine.
Well if it is you’re in luck, you can vote for me in the BIMA’s Best blog award! (almost pains me to link to that site, kind of hurts my eyes). No pressure, but if you bother, you might as well fire up a diffrent browser and vote for Nicky too :)
But out of interest, what are your favourite blogs?
Heading up to Surenenpass, the first pass of the holiday. The first few hundred meters of climbing were pretty easy because we took the cable car to Brusti :)
Lovely little pet project – New Math, by Craig Damrauer. Also check out his web design portfolio, pretty impressive.
Via: One Floor Up.
Some wise words about getting shit done – The Cult of Done Manifesto by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark, illustartion by James Provost.
Via: Frank.
Kevin looks like he’s been busy drawing his 007 inspired character Kimiko Suzuki (Yuki 7), he makes up his own wonderfully titled (I’m sure Ian Flemming would be proud) fictitious movies and illustrates the posters, generally with a good amount of bikini clad Bond girls in ;). I’m loving – The Deadly Bikini Girls of Shark Island, Mr. Broccoli should take note and put a bit of sauce back into the Bond franchise. Check out his illustration portfolio & blog here. Also you can buy his prints from Fleet Street Scandal.
You can tell from his style that he used to work as a background artist – he did the BBC Olympics 2008 indents (the ones with Jamie Hewitt’s Monkey).
He’s working on a book of his Yuki 7 movie posters (not released yet) and is doing a unique poster style for each regional release. I love this French version, which he says was “inspired by an exhibition about street posters from the Paris rebellion of 1968, as well as a bit of Saul Bass.”
I‘m sure you’re aware of bizarre postcards submitted at Post Secret, I ramdomly went back and this made me laugh »
You may of noticed the new style of pagination I have at the bottom of the page, well it’s a WordPress plugin called – Paginator. It’s probably my favourite plugin, so simple, but when you got quite a big archive of posts, very handy indeed. It’s based on Paginator 3000 by Karaboz (all in Russian) and was made into a wordpress plugin by dzhus.
I fist saw it used on The Strange Atrractor and thought I’ve got to find out how they did that! A bit googling later I found it and was surprised it was so easy to impliment (for wordpress blogs anyhow).
The next thing on my list is to find out the best was to impliment those tabbed sidebar widgets I’m starting to see all over the place.
Cadbury Dairy Milk is going Fairtrade! I’m sure you’re all aware what Fairtrade is about and that’s it’s a good thing. So far I’ve seen it as a bit of a niche, with the odd logo on expensive bags of coffee. So it’s good to hear that Cadbury are annoucing that it’s mega mass market flagship choccy treat is going to be using 100% Fairtrade ingredients (in about 6 months). Find out more on their blog »
“Fair trade means products are purchased directly and at a fair price from small family growers and co-operatives that do not rely on hired or illegal forced labour. Growers receive a minimum guaranteed price that covers real production costs, regardless of how low world market prices fall.”
Cadbury is a big dirty corporate company, but it does seem to have a history of doing nice things, such as – Back in 1879 Mr. Cadbury didn’t want his chocolate factory workers to live in city slums, so he built it out in the countryside (Bournville) along with a model village which would ‘alleviate the evils of modern more cramped living conditions’ for them to live in. No pubs though, Mr. Cadbury was a Quaker, well you can’t have it all ;)
How come I know so much about This Cadbury Fairtrade thing? Well I was pulled in at the eleventh hour last week by Hyper to re-design the blog after the client rejected previous work. There wasn’t much time (the announcement date was set in stone) Started on Thursday morning then 27 hours later without rest or sleep the blog was finished. I think Guy Bowden who built it must have been burning the midnight oil over the weekend too.
Anyhow, check out my late-night chocolate & caffeine (I don’t they were Fairtrade) fueled efforts our on the Cadbury Fairtrade blog »
Well sorry folks if you tried to visit my site over the weekend, it’s been down for about 2 days… My hosting company, Media Temple had some major problems with it’s storage segment on cluster 2, which my data resides on. There was talk at one point about restoring from back-ups and all sorts, had the fear about losing my site for good, but thankfully I’m back with no data loss.
My confidence is a bit shattered though, going to get everything backed up myself straight away just in case…
Photo via: Library of Congress.