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I’m guessing fresh sausage?

Maybe this postage meter is good to use as a murder weapon?

So maybe this isn’t entirely like Twitter, but think about it, a telegram was a way to send a quick, short message to one or more people. Imagine today telling someone that you’ll probably be home this weekend, it would be a 15 second ordeal between a text, tweet or phonecall. But with a telegram, you had to go to Western Union or some other wire service, give them your message, they’d wire it, print it on the other end, then track down the address finally delivering it to its intended recipient. This could take hours or days just to communicate about 140 characters to someone. Now you can send out a message like this to millions of people and they all get it within seconds. That part of Twitter is amazing; what it actually gets used for, usually, not so much.

Anyway, cool old telegram from Cabell’s dad.

Can I cuss on this blog? Cause I just did. I mean, we’re all adults here, we can deal with the s-word(I’m waiting for a celebrity Jeopardy reference here…). It’s not like I’m using that word to be all sensational and just trying to get hits. Anyway, I like this carpet, but it’s way too much money, even if the guy does adopt a sheep if I buy it.

I’m not exactly sure the breadcrumb trail that I followed to get to this carpet, but it appears to be made by Dan Golden, Inc.

At least that’s what I think this is…

HP – invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

From the Vimeo page,

“Response to D&AD Student Awards brief set by Hewlett Packard.

‘Present an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive.’

Filmed, edited and directed by Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth


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Music: Hold Me Back by Round Table Knights


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Thanks for the help and support from Kenny Evans and Kingston University Moving Image Department.

A band called Sons of Maxwell was on a United Airlines flight last year and they witnessed the baggage handlers throwing their guitars out on the tarmac. When they arrived and checked their luggage, one of their $3500 Taylor guitars was broken. After United denied paying for the guitar, the band vowed they would make songs and videos. From the singer, after being declined compensation for 9 months, “So I promised the last person to finally say no to compensation (Ms. Irlweg) that I would write and produce three songs about my experience with United Airlines and make videos for each to be viewed online by anyone in the world.”

Check the story on Fark here and check out the video below.

Not really the best song I’ve ever heard, but I love the motivations.

Can’t remember if I posted this or not, but either way when I was cleaning out some old emails I found one from Logo Lounge that was letting us know that the Berg logo will be in there next book, which I have no idea when it will be out.

Nice idea for a notepad. Crumple up your bad idea and then you’ve got a basketball to make a shot at the garbage can. Or a baseball, tennis ball, or really most other types of balls. From Trapped in Suburbia in the Netherlands. Apparently they won an award in 2008 for this, so I guess I’m a little behind on discovering this, but I bet you didn’t know about it yet anyway, so, yeah, take that!

From the same website as the zoo ads below.

Saw a few zoo ads this morning and it really makes me want to go to the Richmond Zoo. Back when I used to work at a photo lab, at least once a week during the summer I’d print a roll of pictures of people petting giraffes. I want to pet giraffes and feed penguins.

But anyway, these are the ads I saw, there’s more if you click here.

Where the Wild Things Are, directed by freakin’ SPIKE JONZE.

Alice in Wonderland, directed by the incredible Tim Burton.

Much to Paul Simon’s dismay, the day has finally come, Kodak is taking Kodachrome away. In their defense, they said it only represented less than a fraction of 1% of their film sales. And most of that was probably National Geographic photographers. Either way, it’s a bummer since I’m one of those people that still believes film gives you a better image than any digital camera ever can. Check out the link for some of the iconic images that have been shot over the years on Kodachrome.

Dig the concept for Moleskine. From Ads of the World. The comments section on AOTW seems to be full of haters. I say let ‘em hate.

This spot is freakin’ hilarious.

Apparently, this high school year book cover is supposed to contain the f-word. The student that designed it “cleverly” hid it somewhere in the illustration, and no one figured it out until after they were printed. I’m guessing that because the resolution on this image is so low, that’s the reason you can’t see it. But either way, it’s an interesting story.