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“Puss” Means “Kiss” in Swedish

Posted on May 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

Do you like weird facts and knowing what time it is? Great! You should go to Factoclock – you learn something new every minute.

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Tagged album covers, blogging, cats, communication, cool, creative, digital, entertainment, fun, funny, Gene Simmons, internet, Kiss, kittens, language, Leonie Cumiskey, meaning, music, puss, rock 'n' roll, Swedish, technology, website, weird facts

Write It In Your Own Voice

Posted on May 14, 2013 | Leave a comment

Brilliant series of adverts from Uniball which highlight the merits of sending a handwritten letter and cleverly illustrate what misused fonts say about your message. An advertising campaign which is all about communication and implicit meaning – so meta! My favourite one is ‘Pappy Is Dead‘, which makes fun of Comic Sans (the underdog of all fonts) and there is also quite a camp skit deriding the Broadway font, too. The ‘Bust You Out’ version is probably the most effective, because obviously slang sounds so ridiculous when it’s read out in the Queen’s English! It reminds me of the time when James Blunt had to read out some Sean Paul lyrics on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Great work from TBWA South Africa.

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Posted in Advertising, Comedy, Design, Lifestyle, Writing

Tagged 2013, accent, advert, advertising agency, advertising campaign, blogging, brand, Broadway, Bust You Out, comedy, Comic Sans, communication, creativity, design, Edwardian Script, entertainment, font, funny, handwritten letter, internet, language, Leonie, letter writing, meaning, media, messages, music video, Pappy's Dead, pen, silly humour, slang, South Africa, stationery, style, Swapped At Birth, TBWA, TBWA South Africa, tone, typography, Uniball, verbal communication, video, voice, Write It In Your Own Voice, writer, writing, written communication, Youtube

The Black Angels Tour Posters

Posted on May 13, 2013 | Leave a comment

Gorgeous gig posters for The Black Angels – so many different variations for each location on the American tour. These are all by Matt Cliff, who got in touch with me after I originally posted about how much I liked the branding for the new album and The Black Angels’ Facebook cover.

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Tagged 2013, advertising, arts, band posters, blogging, branding, colours, cool, creative, creativity, design, drawings, entertainment, Facebook, Facebook timeline, fun, gig posters, graphic design, ideas, illustration, Leonie Cumiskey, Matt Cliff, promotional posters, psychedelic, social media, surreal, The Black Angels, The Black Angels posters, The Black Angels tour, USA

Reasons To Be Cheerful: Bass Drum Of Death

Posted on May 12, 2013 | Leave a comment

It’s May and the weather is still awful and a whole load of other stuff isn’t going so well for me either, but I am seeing Bass Drum Of Death at The Black Heart – a tiny venue in Camden – on Thursday. I’ve loved these guys for two years and I haven’t seen them yet so…yay!

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Tagged American band, Bass Drum Of Death, Black Heart, blogging, Camden, crappy weather, entertainment, exciting, Fat Possum Records, fun, garage rock, gig, indie, John Barrett, Leonie Cumiskey, London, May, Mississippi, music, Print Chouteau, rock 'n' roll

David Bowie – The Next Day

Posted on May 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

Another amazing new video from David Bowie! Once again, he’s teamed up with Floria Sigismondi - the same director who did the video for ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’ - and this time Bowie plays a prophet. Gary Oldman co-stars as a priest and Marion Cotillard is the leading lady, portraying a prostitute who develops stigmata. The cinematography and styling in this video is brilliant – so many frames make amazing images in their own right.Love this demonic nun look – definitely doing something similar for Halloween this year!When I first saw it, I thought it was a bit of a shame that people are so jaded these days that it probably wouldn’t be recognised as being particularly scandalous. But then I read some headlines about how it had already pissed off some Catholics and I took comfort in the fact that of course religious zealots and Daily Mail readers are still so easy to shock! Normally I would post the video here, but to enjoy it in its full glory you should probably watch it on Vevo – then you don’t have to see an annoying logo, or watch it on a tiny screen. Enjoy!

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Tagged 2013, anti-religion, beautiful, Black Dog Films, blogging, blood, Catholicism, celebrities, cinematography, cool, creative, David Bowie, demons, drama, dramatic, entertainment, Floria Sigismondi, Gary Oldman, gore, gothic, iconography, Leonie Cumiskey, lighting, Marion Cotillard, media, money, music, music video, prostitute, religion, sex, shocking, stigmata, surreal, The Daily Mail, The Next Day, video

HAERTS – Wings

Posted on April 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

HAERTS are female-fronted band of four guys and one girl, who hail from Brooklyn, New York. Their first single is a beautifully tender piece of lo-fi pop, set to a montage of home video-style clips. I’ve looked for other stuff by them, but this song is the only one I can find. I’m guessing that as it’s on Vevo, they are already on the brink of mainstream success. Judging by ‘Wings’, they sound pretty great and I hope the rest of their songs live up to expectations. Lead singer Nini Fabi’s vocals are sweet, but powerful – like a mixture of Gwen Stefani and Stevie Nicks.

This song is sort of what I was hoping for when I first listened to HAIM. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed.

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Tagged music, indie, childhood, nostalgia, video, lo-fi, creativity, sunshine, cinematography, romance, entertainment, New York, pop, USA, Leonie Cumiskey, music video, female vocalist, home movies, sweet, opinion, memories, Youtube, gritty, small town America, Americana, Nini Fabi, Ben Gebert, Garrett Ienner, Derek McWilliams, Jonathan Schmidt., HAERTS, Haerts band, Brooklyn band, home video, video montage, harmonies, Stevie Nicks, Gwen Stefani, yearning, tender, love song, summer sound, HAIM

Cardio Cinema

Posted on April 23, 2013 | Leave a comment

I so wish that they had this in my gym! Instead, they play Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj videos…

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Tagged America, bad music, cardio, Cardio Cinema, cinema, entertainment, exercise, film, films, first world problems, Gold's Gym, good idea, gym, Justin Bieber, Leonie Cumiskey, Nicki Minaj, poor me, productivity, sports, USA, weight loss, white girl problems, workout

Dead Gaze – I Found The Ending

Posted on March 30, 2013 | Leave a comment

Love this song. The accordion in it reminds me of ‘This Is The Day’ by The The…except I think I actually prefer this song by Dead Gaze.

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Tagged 2013, cool, Dead Gaze, entertainment, guitar music, I Found The Ending, indie, lo-fi, media, Mississippi, music, music video, new music, single, song, surreal, USA, Youtube

UNKLE – Hold My Hand

Posted on March 14, 2013 | Leave a comment

One of my favourite UNKLE tracks has a brand new music video featuring performance artist, Miss Crash. I hadn’t heard of Miss Crash before I saw this, but her act is pretty unique! I don’t want to spoil the video, so just watch it and you’ll see what I mean. Don’t play this at work though – it’s got generous helpings of tits, latex, leather and tattoos. If any of your co-workers see you watching it, they’ll just think you’re one of those weirdos who watches porn in the office.

The video was co-directed by UNKLE frontman James Lavelle, and is part of an ongoing creative partnership between him and Black Dog Films.

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Tagged alternative performance, backstage, Black Dog Films, burlesque, creative partnership, dance music, electronic, entertainment, fetish, Hold My Hand, James Lavelle, latex, latex leather, leather, Miss Crash, music video, NSFW, nudity, pain, performance art, rock, sexy, stage show, suspension hooks, tattoos, UNKLE, video, Youtube

Stoker

Posted on March 7, 2013 | Leave a comment

This film looks like it’s going to be amazing – and already comes highly recommended from some of my friends. The Daily Mail gave it just one star, which is surely a good thing, considering that the people at The Daily Mail know fuck all about anything that’s worth knowing about. I love that they used ‘Dirge’ by Death In Vegas for the trailer – so perfect for this twisted feature film. ‘Stoker’ is the latest release from Park Chan-wook, the acclaimed South Korean director of 2003′s ‘Oldboy’.

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Tagged 2003, 2013 films, dark, Death In Vegas, director, Dirge, drama, entertainment, horror, Matthew Goode, Mia Wasikowska, modern gothic, Nicole Kidman, Oldboy, Park Chan-wook, South Korea, Stoker, The Daily Mail, thriller, trailer

Tag Archives: entertainment

“Puss” Means “Kiss” in Swedish

Reasons To Be Cheerful: Bass Drum Of Death

David Bowie – The Next Day

HAERTS – Wings

Cardio Cinema

Dead Gaze – I Found The Ending

UNKLE – Hold My Hand

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