Archive for July, 2011
For a Friday: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand Business
Posted on 29. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
New Ok Go: ‘All is not lost’ video
Posted on 29. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
For the full Google Chrome experience – check it out here.
What’s the big song and dance about Walmart?
Posted on 28. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
As Walmart starts mission to ‘enter’ the South African economy – back over in the US citizens who have been exposed to the practices of the retailer for many years decided to show their displeasure through the vehicle of a flash mob.
Rumour is that in a year or two, Walmart employees will be doing something similar outside stores here too, whilst burning tyres and waving traditional weapons.
Oh happy days lie ahead.
Further reading: Walmart is a threat to SA – Fin24
&Union: What is craft beer?
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
More authentic, home-crafted, in-house advertising goodness from our favourite second office, Brewers & Union.
What is craft beer? It’s the only beer you should be putting in your body – cause it’s very tasty.
Nice one guys.
Can bicycles be the catalyst to revive our modern cities?
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
You experience a city very differently when you’re exploring it on a bicycle. Cars promote a sense of aggressive, anti-social behaviour where urban commuting on a bicycle opens your eyes to see your city in a refreshingly social way.
Genre De Vie is a documentary that focuses mainly on city’s that already promote a pro bicycle lifestyle. This coming from a viewpoint, that the bicycle is a positive development on the social and environmental structure and hence of profound effect on the living quality of its inhabitance. [via]
So can the simple bicycle be the sought after catalyst to revive the social fabric of a city like Cape Town? We think so – and there are some exciting, soon-to-be-launched developments that we are involved with that you may find right up your street too.
Check out the Camissa Bicycles Facebook page – a Cape Town-based single speed / fixed gear bicycle brand.
VW Toureg ‘Sleepwalker’
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Fall in luxury.
Think the fuel bill alone for this bad boy would give us sleepless nights.
[thanks Matt]
F*ck you – Pay me
Posted on 26. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
In South Africa [perhaps more so than elsewhere in the world] creative input / insight / work is not valued very highly.
So if you are a designer or find yourself in the creative services industry, you’ll understand and enjoy this video. If needs be perhaps send it on to somebody that doesn’t.
3D Printer
Posted on 26. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Think we may have spotted this on TV a few weeks ago, but between images of the world ending and other disturbing news items that sell newspapers and get high viewership on television, we were in no state of mind to fully absorb this information.
Mercedes Benz Portraits: Kelsey Brookes
Posted on 26. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Mercedes Benz as a brand has really changed in the last year. Our perception of the brand was very much of a stuffy, old brand that appealed to a more ‘established’ market.
But with recent TV ads and this ‘story-type’ film series entitled Mercedes Benz Portraits that isn’t the case any longer. What’s going on? This guy doesn’t appear to be Mercedes Benz material at all.
Tactile technology
Posted on 25. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Using RFID and modern technology – just about any static display can be turned into an amazing interactive surface that can make any bland information entertaining.
Create a Chemical Reaction is an interactive exhibit in the Science Storms wing of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Using specially-tagged pucks, visitors can grab atoms from the periodic table and combine them to cause chemical reactions.
Wish they had one of these at school when we were trying to understand chemistry.
[thanks Sam]
