Archive for June, 2009

Farewell To Al(together) That

Well, it’s official. I no longer work for Altogether or The Engine Group. In fact, for the next 11 days I guess that I’m officially unemployed. But a week on Monday I’ll be starting in a new role at the global media agency Mindshare.
I’ve had an amazing time at Altogether and am really quite conflicted [...]

Seriously, I’m spoilt rotten.
Every time I see, or am sent, another lost glove, I convince myself that it will be the last one till winter rears its ugly head again. And every time I’m proved wrong.
This time I was doubly spoilt as I didn’t actually spot this particular lost glove myself - it was actually [...]

Like many of the amazing gifts that my parents have given me over the years, the music I was exposed to served to set me up nicely for later life. Whether it was The Beach Boys, Isaac Hayes, Bread or the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, the tunes I associate with my long-lost youth are [...]

Well, I really wasn’t expecting this. It’s June, winter seems like a lifetime away (though the weather has been verging on autumnal for the last couple of days) and yet I’ve just seen another lost glove.
This time I almost missed it - as you can see it’s partially hidden under a car in the car [...]

Baby’s Got Back

My good friend Jethro spotted this and sent it on to me. Truly, a great bit of signage and worthy of joining my other all time favourites: the plumber, Napoleon Boiler Parts, and the cleaning company, Spruce Springclean.
Anyone got better than these?

Congrats To Jon & Lisa

So Jon (below, with me in the white shirt posse) & Lisa (above) are getting married in Italy today and I’m gutted that I can’t be there to celebrate with them (I have another wedding in Dorset tomorrow and for some reason Jon & Lisa, selfish buggers that they are, wouldn’t move theirs back by [...]

Following some misunderstandings around past rounds of the t-shirt tournament I want to make sure that people don’t think that I favour one t-shirt over another. So, here’s the skinny:
Above, a Teenage Millionaire t-shirt showing The Party Crasher (who bears an uncanny resemblance to a member of Run DMC in their prime).
Below, Stevie Wonder by [...]

Socially Sneezing

I’ve been working on several Twitter project for clients recently and the first of these went live this week: it’s a map, powered by Tweets, to track the real-time effect of  hayfever on sufferers in the UK.

To populate the map people just have to send a tweet with the tag #atishoo, the first part of [...]






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