Jim Wolff, man

Fitting start to @hotdeskers day (Taken with Instagram at...

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:27:36 +0100

Fitting start to @hotdeskers day (Taken with Instagram at Avalanche Records)

:: Planning, Creativity and Joining The Dots Excellent...

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:45:03 +0100

:: Planning, Creativity and Joining The Dots

Excellent presentation on the dark art of planning and divergent thinking. Whatever that means.

By @uberblond

Introducing Yarnspinner: Augmented Readality

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:25:00 +0100

Bill Hicks On Marketing and Advertising The late great man...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:15:15 +0000

Bill Hicks On Marketing and Advertising

The late great man himself tells it like it is.

SOWING THE SEED FOR PLUM :: The music video for Plum’s new...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:24:42 +0000

SOWING THE SEED FOR PLUM

:: The music video for Plum’s new single The Seed, which I helped write and produce, is now live on Vimeo. At the time of posting it’s seen over 1k views in a couple of days.

Using 70 metres of cardboard, a few boxes of audio cables and a lot of patience, the video uses stop-motion animation to create an eerie dreamworld, with a dark twist.

Featuring the The Seed single - released 29th February - from the Scottish Songwriter and Producer’s forthcoming concept album of the same name, Plum sees a mystery box delivered to her front door with equally mysterious instructions as to what to do with it.

Using a stop-motion style meant production was a slow process - it took one day to shoot only 10 seconds of material - but all in all the film took 2 weekends to build and shoot, 4 days to prepare and edit, and involved no post-processing. And all on a budget to cover a lighting rig and few packs of crisps.

If you like it, please share it far and wide. We’ve entered it into Vimeo’s Music Video Awards, so trying to give it the best possible chance.

And super-chuffed to see that it’s been featured on Design Taxi. Hopefully The Seed will grow into great things!

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Music: Plum - The Seed // plumtunes.com

Directed, filmed and edited by Greg Hoyna // greghoyna.com

Written and produced by Jim Wolff, Jordan Laird and Michael Kinlan from Leith Records // leithrecords.com

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Reblogged from Leith Records

The New Vimeo I’m in.

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:01:30 +0000

The New Vimeo

I’m in.

Full Fat Valentines Love For Guardian Weekend

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:32:05 +0000

Full Fat Valentines Love For Guardian Weekend

Full Fat feature in @guardianweekend. Nice. (Taken with...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:33:01 +0000

Full Fat feature in @guardianweekend. Nice. (Taken with instagram)

CLEARly a unique UI :: Sweet bit of user interface design from...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:27:27 +0000

CLEARly a unique UI

:: Sweet bit of user interface design from this Clear app, making other To Do apps (like even the wonderful Wunderlist - which keeps me at least 123% more productive) look a bit clunky and out-dated. Which is what all great design should do.

But whether it’s a new paradigm remains to be seen.

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Hat tip to @bbhlabs

Plant Me. Filming #theseed for @plumtunes // @leithrecords ...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:36:15 +0000

Plant Me. Filming #theseed for @plumtunes // @leithrecords (Taken with instagram)

Six-20 Brownie D. In homage to #Kodak RIP (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:23:44 +0000

Six-20 Brownie D. In homage to #Kodak RIP (Taken with instagram)

Coke’s Brand Strategy for 2020 :: In spite of all the...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:03:47 +0000

Coke’s Brand Strategy for 2020

:: In spite of all the wanky marketing guff, this is actually a pretty nice way of summing up how Coca-Cola plans to talk to their customers, plug in to social spaces, and embrace new technologies.

Beats joining a weird cult and staring doe-eyed into the distance.

Location-Aware Music App Plays A Soundtrack For Central Park ::...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:31:05 +0000

Location-Aware Music App Plays A Soundtrack For Central Park

:: Great bit of music creation and geo-location app tinkering by musical brother duo Bluebrain. Another reason / excuse to go to New York on the list.

Sweet. New laptop’s arrived. #unboxing (Taken with...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:26:38 +0000

Sweet. New laptop’s arrived. #unboxing (Taken with Instagram at The Leith Agency)

How The Real World Feels About The Digital World :: A neat...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:45:00 +0000

How The Real World Feels About The Digital World

:: A neat infographical overview about the Digital Life research carried out by TNS Global. Apparently other people use the Internet too.

The UK's Top Digital Trends vs Tomorrow's

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:56:03 +0000

It was a surprise for me, but according to the excellent Digital Life research study by TNS, the UK digital audience spend more time Internet Banking than doing anything else online. Probably figuring out how to navigate antiquated banking websites, if my own choice of online banking is anything to go by.

And here’s where the future is …

Location-based services look like the ones to watch, though it’s unclear whether this means more growth for check-in based apps like Foursquare and SCVNGR, or services about locations like Yelp and Qype.

The research also includes a neat segmentation of digital lifestyles, whether brands are well received on social networks, how people comment in different sectors, and the online path to purchase. Well worth a play around on tnsdigitallife.com. Heaps more nuggets of infographical goodness.

TuneTug: Crowdsource Music For Your Party Nice little app for...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:14:57 +0000

TuneTug: Crowdsource Music For Your Party

Nice little app for putting together party playlists and getting your mates to vote on them. Welcome to social clubbing, where the people are the DJs.

Tunetug.com

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Via @stumac01

Real nice. On the Christmas wish list. Part instrument. Part...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:16:44 +0000

Real nice. On the Christmas wish list.

Part instrument. Part light play. Part information design. Esquire invited Hush to design a media installation on behalf of one of its sponsors, Acura. They made people touch, hear and play in unconventional ways. - Hush (via Fast Company)

Reblogged from altnytterfarlig

It’s @theoksocialclub #hogthestreet (Taken with...

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:48:10 +0000

It’s @theoksocialclub #hogthestreet (Taken with instagram)

Spotify Do Apps :: It was only a matter of time… Soon...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:36:00 +0000

Spotify Do Apps

:: It was only a matter of time… Soon we’ll get apps within apps within apps, and disappear up our metaphysical appholes. But can’t say I’m not a little bit excited about the prospect.

You can download the beta version and have play.