Facebook competition T&Cs

Currently working on a Facebook campaign for F1 sponsors Santander, who are sponsoring F1 :: Lewis & Jenson Santander .

The campaign includes some games (that's me), a video wall (me too), loads of information, and there are going to be some competitions (with great prizes!).

The Facebook guidelines for competitions are not entirely straightforward.
I found this very useful information at the bluedoor here.

Heritage barefoot shoes

The sun is out and so today is for shorts and VFFs.
The usual attention was stirred up by my toe pockets (neatly avoiding any leg comments), when a classic car fan told me that the founder of Bugatti cars had a pair of shoes "with toes as if they were gloves"  100 years ago or so!

Check Natural Stride Sports article, where I pinched the image from :)

Welsh Toilet Graffiti

spotted an article in the paper this morning about a toilet block on the Welsh island Skokholm that was being pulled down. perhaps not the most attention grabbing headline, but the workers found these artworks inside:
http://on.fb.me/kGChSP

as the block has been demolished, there is an appeal for any high quality photos that people might have and are willing to share and help preserve a record of this mini-wonder.
join in here: http://bit.ly/jLmIxv

Agency of the Year!

Saint, where i have worked for the last 3+ years have won Agency of the Year in the Revolution Awards 2011.
Feeling proud to have been part of it!

Mother's Day 2011

Nadine's first Mother's Day.

 We had flowers, a card and present,

special breakfast (chocolate fingers), champagne,

a walk the park,

and a big Sunday Roast.
A lovely day.
With lots of love.

Thank you for being a great mum.

Lilies

Working at learning how to use my new Macro lens.
Some wonderful lilies for Nadine proved a great subject.
Play full-screen and let me know your thoughts...

Digital Symphony

Thanks to Mark Sng for turning me on to Tristan Perich and his 1-Bit Symphony.

Perich has composed a symphony, and I have a copy of it.
Number 2769.
It is in a cd case, but it isn't a recording.
Rather, this is a rather beautiful (in a tech-geek way) physical object, comprising wires, switches, a battery and a chip, that plays the music live for you when you turn it on.

One of the consequences of this which I rather like is that unlike a normal cd, you cannot make a digital rip. If you were to want a copy of the sound, you would need to record it in real-time, in an analogue fashion if you like, even if you use digital equipment.

Of course to make a copy of the sound would be to miss the point. This is a unique hand soldered artifact, and joy is to be had handling it, appreciating the near liquid quality of solder, reading the code supplied in the packaging, plugging into the headphone jack, and letting the sound unfold.

The sound is hard.
1-Bit doesn't have much space for tonal depth. It won't be to everyone's (many people's...) taste, and I might not listen to it that often, but the object-ness of the whole work will ensure it doesn't get tucked in storage as a physical back-up to mp3s, like so much of my music now.

Listen to a clip, then order your own copy from here.