Archive for September, 2011
Which tablet to choose?
Posted on 30. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Tablet consumption should never be done from a emotional starting point. As they say – you should compare Apples with apples.
The new Kindle Fire is looking like a great choice.
The best design advice
Posted on 29. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Designers really seem to be an angry lot. Surely there is something wrong with a professional platform where a poster of such forthright language finds an emotional home.
If it’s such a struggle – perhaps the effort isn’t warranted.
But if you insist – you can buy it here. It’ll cost you $35.00 – about a week’s wages.
Is corporatism under threat?
Posted on 28. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Main stream media has been feeding us sound bites and neatly packaged stories of events that now, have pretty names. Things like the ‘Arab Spring’, the ‘Euro debt crisis‘ and the ‘Double dip‘ may sound like something you may wanna order for a kids party, but are we getting any real sense of what the hell is really going on right now?
Now there is a new thing – called ‘Occupy Wall Street’, which isn’t really being spoken about in polite circles, but it appears that the appetite for public protest in America is emerging once again from the 60s.
So what’s going on? Traditional media seem to be offering half truths and whole lies. People who turn out not to be who they say they are, make outrageous statements on tv platforms who then say they have no idea how that individual got onto their channel in the first place.
So what’s going on? In a word – FEAR! The fantasy is manifesting as reality. Is the debt crisis real? Who knows – they say so on TV, but we haven’t counted the money ourselves. Just because you’ve been told the sea is blue doesn’t make it so.
So with a world constructed on emotion – do people still feel warm and fuzzy about a corporate system that they don’t trust and are prepared to take to the streets, in protest and with potential of arrest, to rid themselves of? In truth radical progress only comes as a result of widespread destruction.
Today it’s Goldman Sachs tomorrow Pick and Pay. The birth of the future of commerce may just be starting right now.
NoMU’s new Rugby World Cup / Braai Day / Awesome range
Posted on 27. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Springbok spice
We’re a little slow on the draw here, but all the same we’re rather enthralled with the idea of spicing a rack of ribs with Patrick Lamb spice.
We hear that Kiwi and Wallaby also tastes mighty fine with a combo of these spices. Don’t think the product actually exists, but there may be such a demand that it just might in time to come.
Moer hulle, bokke. Die poppe gaan dans!
Formula One heads to Texas
Posted on 26. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Wonder what the Texans are going to think of motor racing that involves a couple of right hand turns?
F1 heading to Texas – the world really is coming to an end.
In today’s ‘videos that go viral’ lesson…
Posted on 26. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
It takes a while for this dude to get cracking, but what he eventually produces as far as movement goes is unbelievable.
Tactical: Braai Day
Posted on 23. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
…on the contrary, tomorrow the boerewors will be very much alive.
[thanks Steve and Tim]
Jan van Riebeeck gets a much-needed Heritage Day makeover
Posted on 23. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Early this morning we followed the trail to take a few snaps of a Heritage Day yarn bombing that that we got wind of happening in Adderley Street.
We think a World Design Capital nominee city is a little lost without a splash of colour on it’s old statues now and again…especially on the occasion of Heritage Day. Jan van Riebeeck even seemed to enjoy his South African flag warmers.
It’s all part of Virgin Active’s Leg Warmer Love guerrilla yarn bombing campaign.
Visualising rhino slaughter
Posted on 22. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Today is World Rhino Day – and with so many of these animals getting slaughtered in Southern Africa for their horns it was about time somebody contextualized what these numbers look like for us all. Fact is, if it carries on any longer – a rhino will be something you only see in a Disney cartoon – and we hate Disney cartoons.
Nothing contextualizes better than 282 white wooden crosses on an open public field in Sea Point.
[thanks Michael]
