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Month: July 2012

  • New blog – Beside the See Side

    Following on from a recent trip to the coast, here’s a mini review for a photo/travel blog by Samantha Edgley – “Beeside the see side“. In her own words the blog records “the sights and spectacles that intrigue, fascinate and inspire“. With a strong eye for the unusual and colourful Samantha brings you pictures from from…

  • Bending the corporate control of the games.

    I get regular emails from the London 2012 Olympic organisers about travel and ticket information but mostly trying to convince me to buy some official merchandise. It’s a collectors dream, everything you can think of can be sold with a London 2012 logo on for twice the normal price. There are very tight restrictions on…

  • Letters from leaves

    Hand crafted typography is quite an art, and some people with exceptional skill can make a business from it. I’ve seen paper and card used but not leaves before, and Twan van Keulen has given it a go with impressive results. Found on www.likecool.com, originally published by Twan van Keulen on his site at studiogloeilamp.nl

  • How far can you take TV merchandising?

    Following from my earlier post about a bloody bathmat, while I was looking for Dexter links I found the official “Showtime” website, the American network which premiers Dexter. You can buy merchandise for their TV shows, and I was intrigued by what merchandise they sold for a TV programme about a blood splatter analysis serial…

  • If Dexter was your friend

    I’ve been watching a lot of Dexter recently on my daily commute, and in my daily blog tour I noticed this:

  • The people make the picture

    Website www.likecool.com has featured artist Craig Alan‘s aerial photography using people to create portraits:

  • What do you share with who? Web 2.0 is slowly being locked down.

    I often go through phases of using different social networks to update different people in what’s going on and chat to friends and colleagues. Each of my main networks (twitter, facebook, instagram, Flickr, Google+) is used by different groups of people in different ways, and it’s partly this that gets me active on one and…