Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Have a pub crawl right now.


This is a lovely piece of work from Russell over in Australishire.

A dead dead simple experience really nicely voiced over by the chaps who make the nice booze.

Awesome idea! Engaging, informative and of course brilliant because it involves beer.

Props dog.

Sing it loud loud loud.

I have joined a choir.

I had seen Ben twittering on about 'choir practice' this, and 'I've been singing' that, so i got in touch with Ben and he said that indeed he had joined a singing group, so, i got an invite, not an email or evite, but a verbal invite and decided to go along and have a sing with real people with voices and that.

It is marvellous!

I am a tenor, personally i thought i was worth more, but that's fine, then we have 3 or 4 altos, a couple of bass and a handful of sopranos.

And then there is the lovely Laura, she is our musical arranger.

She like tells us what noises and stuff we have to make and when. And then when it all goes right and we all sing together she smiles and claps.

It is lovely.

Anyway, we practice in Mother's offices - they are a big posh ad agency, and i saw this, their business cards...

...and it made me realise how the littlest thing can make the biggest difference.

Like i mentioned, get the detail wrong and i don't like you, get it correct and you are brilliant.

Well done Mother, thanks choir, heaps good.

Cat'll fix it.


Printer jam! Very good indeed.

Thank you Peter.

The Sun isn't as bright.

Monday morning's main back page story on The Sun was all about Jenson Button winning the Australian Grand Prix, well done Jenson, well done.

Anyway, the headline was 'The Brawn Supremacy', of course playing on the fact that Jenson drives for BrawnGP and his fellow driver, Rubens Barichello finished second giving them a supreme performance.

Then, this morning, we see this;

Now, forgive me The Sun, but i think this is very very lazy, simply using a film franchise to help write your headlines.

I think they now need to force a scenario where they can then use 'The Bourne Identity' as their main headline.

Perhaps they can uncover the name of a massive crustation living a fictitious life off the coast of Kent? Surely that would require a 'The Prawn Identity' headline.

Anyway, i think i'll leave it there.

Virgin on the ridiculous.

Have you seen this new ad from Virgin?

Whoever put it together obviously doesn't understand how a mouse works, a mouse, the thing you use everyday to operate your work station.

The cable goes in at the top, not at the bottom, or, if you have an optical mouse you don't have a cable at all, isn't that just clever.

Come on people, devil is in the detail, step up will you.

Official apology.

Dear reader,

I just want to officially apologise for the unsatisfactory quality of the content on this blog over the last 3 to 4 weeks.

I'm really sorry for any embarrassment I have caused.

I can fully understand why people might be angry and offended by this.

Quite obviously a claim should never have been made for these films, and as you know that money is being paid back.

Sorry, i went all Timney there.

Please be aware, the quality and writing of this blog will get much better from here on in.

Yours faithfully,


Richard Charles Hale.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I was flagon.


I went to the pub last night with some lovely people and we drank cider.

Nothing new there hey.

But, this cider was in a flagon, and what was great there was 14.6 units in one flagon.

That is the amount of units a lady should take in a week!

I love flagons.

Girls should have one on their bedside table, so on Sunday night, if they haven't had any booze, they can down it and be happy knowing they have had their weekly quoter.

Nokia dog.


A lovely piece for Nokia.

Really playful, lovely use of sound, lovely animations, a very very nice piece of work indeed.

Bravo!

Let's dance!

Have you seen these chaps?

They create magical experiences using light, lasers, projections and stuff that respond to the dancers movements creating some pretty surreal scenarios.

Good work Chunky, beats the truffle shuffle, or does it?

Monday, March 23, 2009

Let's have a Revolution.


Something i worked on at Republic has won a Revolution Award.

How awfully exciting.

I now understand how Phil Collins feels when he gets a royalty cheque every month for 'feel it in the air tonight'.

Thanks Phil, without you i wouldn't have these feelings, these feelings in the air tonight.

Byker Grove


Have you seen these wonderful things.

Bikes make me happy, motorbikes make me happy, motored bikes make me well happy.

I'm a real Derringer for love, a real Derringer for love.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Yes yes yallin.

Peter told me to read Yes Man by Daniel Wallace.

I agreed, Yes, i should read the Yes Man, so that is indeed what i am doing.

I am reading the Yes Man.

Anyway, i went to the book shop and said i would like to read the Yes Man, and could they point me to where i could find it please.

The man did, he pointed to where it was.

Without looking i picked up the book and took it to the counter where i purchased the book the man told me to get.

I started reading it, it is very very good.

Anyway, only after reading it for about a week did i realise that the front cover was infact the same image used to market the film that has been made out of the book.

I feel robbed! My status in ruins!

There i am reading a book that probably did well in The Guardian - thus raising my status, to people thinking i am reading the adaptations of a rubbish film by Jim Carey!

I'm in tatters!

Anyway, i then got over it and had another thought.

Advertisers should pay people to put jackets on their books selling their products!

This might even help to get more people reading.

Right, I'm done. Thanks for reading all these words, there were an awful lot after all.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Yoga flame!

I saw this this morning in the paper.

So, this poor poor lad was just playing rugby, perhaps just about to score his first try, Mum is there watching - smile on her face, Dad has popped to the loo, or to get some crisps from the garage, and BANG, he spontaneous combusts!

Fire everywhere! Balls in tatters! Number 12 slightly scorched! The pitch is ruined!

But then, i read on, that didn't happen!

This lad, plays rugger, sees people in house fire, runs to window, catches them as they jump out the window.

How boring is that!?

If you are a teenager, and you play rugger, can you blow up please in some fireball of pain so that this headline can be used again in the right way.

Thanks everso much.

Holy BatBus!


I like this.

I makes me smile!

And i imagine it makes people on the bus smile, even the youths at the back burning the seats.

Just a shame that it really should be for Spiderman of Superman as Batman really didn't fly like this.

Anyway, more positive Richard!

Love it!

Thanks people of ZDF in Hamburg of Germany! Danke schön!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Radio 4 goodness.

Lush piece for Radio 4.


Nicely written, nicely produced, nice bits of detail.

Good show, good show.

P.S. I am sorry that my last 3 posts have simply been YouTube clips, that is not good enough Richard! Sorry.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Concentric Circles!



Rather funny piece of work from The Onion.

I thought onions made you cry, this one made me laugh, like LOL laugh, and i hate LOL laugh.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Fucking hell!!


Sorry if the title of this post offended you, but i have just watched this, and it made me say the title of this post.

This well clever dude has found masses of clips of people doing things on You Tube, mainly singing and playing instruments, then he has stitched them all together to make magical music, very much like what DJ Shadow does.

Amazing i think you will agree.

Thanks Bim Bimmer.

I've got my period.


This is everso nice.

The Periodic Table Of Typefaces.

I actually think this might be rather useful to have pinned on ones wall.

My god, why did i ever think that, that is horrible Richard, you geeky twat!

Friday, March 13, 2009

Clothilda Wilfred.


For many years now i have kept my Hotmail account free of dirt and smut, a thing i am particularly proud of.

However, recently i have started getting a right rum old lot getting in touch.

And it got me thinking.

Who makes up the names of the people who apparently send these emails?

What a job!

Ok Mike, we want you to sit there for a week and come up with as many names as possible, think Mike Edgar, think Domingo Casy, think Leslie McCain, think Michael W Goins!

MICHAEL W GOINS!?

My word, Darnell Dotson would have a thing or 2 to say i can tell you.

Oh, and by the way, Hunter Craft, if you are reading this, i don't want any /!agra, I'm fine without it.

Ski dump!


Brilliant little idea from Japan.

Toilets around the land made to look like you are at the top of a ski jump sitting on the loo, cuh, its enough to make you poo yourself, just as well hey.

Infact, this would be a great campaign for a constipation tablet brand.

Thanks Rubbish.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Lloyds TSB'Boy.

Generally advertising doesn't normally do it for me.

But i very much like advertising when something wonderful happens as a result.

So, i give you.

Without the cack Lloyds ah ha ah ha ah haaaaaaaa, this would not have happened.

Thanks advertising, i like you for this short moment in time.

Monday, March 9, 2009

BeatXbox©


Last month i had a thought for the Wii which i found had already been done.

I was to late. My fortune was still on hold.

I have another, which i don't think anyone has done yet.

Xbox need something awesome to rival Singstar. I know they have 'Lips' which is their equivalent, basically a total copy, but they need something new.

Something better.

So here it is.

BeatXBox©.

Imagine it. A sing-a-long style game where you simply phlegm all over your mates as you take down Killa Kella or Big Terry. (i have actually made that name up, that is not his real name)

They need to do it, and they need to do it now.

Again, if you know anyone at Microsoft then please pass this on.

I don't want much for the idea, couple a pints!?

Drumlin.


Mother Hale and i spent the weekend in Northern Ireland.

It was a truly wonderful thing.

Originally it was a road trip to ride the spectacular Antrim Coast Road which runs along the east coast of Ireland ending up at The Giants Causeway.

But, we landed back in England having experienced more than just the Antrim Coast Road.

For we both learned a new word.

Drumlin.

A drumlin is a rather small hill which looks a bit like a whale out of water.

They are simply fabulous.

I am now going to go out of way to see more drumlins across the globe.

I might become a Drumlin Spotter, i'll let you know if i do, you might want to join in.

Anyway, Drumlin, an elongated whale-shaped hill formed by glacial action.

Keep your eyes open, you might be closer to one than you think.

Nokia 7110 update.


I am thrilled!

For i am now the proud owner of my very own Nokia 7110.

It is a glorious, marvellous thing.

The ringtones are the best bit, really taking you back to the good life.

I am even going to start WAPing instead of surfing.

The past is present once more!

Thanks past and thanks present.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Nokia 7110


I had a simply wonderful evening last night.

I was in the pub, sharing a few pints with lovely Paul when something astonishing happened.

A young lady walked in and stood at the bar. She had a nice hat on, and a very colourful skirt, i don't think it was a dress.

Anyway, she was just hanging around, minding her own business, when all of a sudden i attacked her!

Why did i attack her you ask?

Well, i attached her because she had just pulled out a Nokia 7110 from her pocket!

BOOOOOOOOM!!!

There, in the pub with me was a Nokia 7110!

I loved that phone, i had one, enjoyed it, infact, you could say it was one of my most favourite things ever.

Anyway, i got over excited, approached the lady and asked if i could have a go. She said of course, i played with it, it was great.

Thanks pub.

Thanks Nokia.

Thanks lady.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Matchbox Jumbo Jet.

This is totally awesome.



It doesn't crash or kill or hurt, it's just totally ace.

I would love to put some little hamsters or mice on board and give them a ride, give them some little cocktails and pasta or chicken.

Ride on!

It's all about the trains!

I was back in Gloucestershire at the weekend and darling Mummy has purchased darling Bessie a train set a bit like this one here;



So it was of course my duty as an Uncle to sit for hours making the best layout i could, of course then offering Bessie fun and enjoyment that perhaps other Uncles wouldn't have been able to offer.

It was awesome!

It is so addictive! It is the new drug, I've heard Doherty is all over Geo Trax!

Anyway, then i was reading The blog of Ben Harris and he was talking about the trains too.

Apparently Paul Smith has a train set in his brief case, bravo Paul, bravo other person.

So, it would appear train sets are right now, happening, 2.0! If you have one, get it out, let it make you happy, let it make others happy.

I'm off down the shop to get me a Dee Double Oh Gauge!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I see little dead people.


You might well have seen Thomas Doyles work, but if not then have a good old nose, it is amazing.

I love the despair and pain in alot of his pieces, really dark and mysterious.

They are kind of real life versions of Amy Bennetts paintings.

Anyway, well done Thomas.

Thanks.

C Fiddy.

Have you seen that 36p (50 cent at today's exchange rate) has a new game out? Blood on the Sand?



You basically roll play a moment in his life when he is going around shooting shit up with his mates G Unit. You even get a dedicated taunt button where you can just cuss people before Fiddy takes them down.

Anyway, i think it is a super idea to get musicians in games. You get to listen to unreleased tracks and ting, perhaps get extra content, and if you are like Fiddy duff people up.

I really think this could be a great franchise for a developer.

Imagine playing Gary Barlow in his game - Man down in Frodsham. He goes around Cheshire serenading older women and punching people who say he is fat and can't dance.

Then you could play Ronan Keating in From Deathzone to Boyzone where he sits at home playing with his DS as his attractive wife gets a pedicure. Every now and then he would walk around waving at people maybe spitting on people who look like Mikey Graham.

Let the games begin.

And i would just like to apologise for the quality of my blogs recently, i have in no way dedicated enough time to you, i feel like a bad Father and i hope you can forgive.