I am going to a SurfCastle in Portugal.

Very well produced, very slick and, if viewed under the right circumstances, a little bit scary site - but what the f**k has it got to do with Doritos?

I don’t understand..?

PS, If you can’t get in - change your clock so it’s night time.

Social networking for members of a subculture favoring black clothing, white and black makeup and a form of rock music loosely derived from punk, typically with apocalyptic or mystical lyrics.

Slightly ironic?

Mail Goggles is a new g-mail feature designed to keep you from sending pissdy email messages. When you enable Mail Goggles (which, by default, is only active late night on the weekend), you’ll have to solve a series of sums before you can send your message.

Brilliant.

A full-body BuggyRollin suit that turns the wearer into a human luge/transformer that can reach speeds of up to 70 mph (on steep slopes).

Wow.

Nice Tilt/Shift film

“Other than the obvious play on words with Twitter it is a word we would like to associate with ranting, displeasure, disgust and if you’re just truly f**ked off. We wanted to provide a platform for you all to express yourself and remain as annonymous as you like. We like it and we hope you do too!”

Thanks Will.

My good friend Neil bought me a Stylophone for my Birthday. As I excitedly removed the device and thumbed through the instructions, I discovered that the apparatus now comes with MP3 playback as standard.

Impressive, not only is this an excellent addition to the functionality of the original pocket organ, it’s a great example of convergence. The brand has listened to the visionaries and re-invented itself in order to keep up with technological developments and consumer demand.

And it doesn’t end there, you can even Stylophone over the top if the tracks if you you feel the need. It’s almost like that Radiohead thing.

Awesome.

And thank you Mr Starr.

It’s the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain’s performing their rendition of the Isaac Hayes movie theme from ‘Shaft’ - played live at Cambridge Folk Festival. It goes a bit BBC4 at the end, but impressive none the less.

Here’s some Smells Like Teen Spirit:

rubbishcorp® is middle class.

Mark Ecko has unveiled his new collection of Star Wars-branded t-shirts and hoodies.

Buy here.

Gnarly etc.

The most ludicrous of these is an idea called “automatically placed overlay advertising”, which basically inserts advertising messaging directly into ‘white spaces’ on the actual video footage.

The technology works by scanning the picture for a suitable space, and then cunningly slaps a brand message in it. The messaging can appear on any clean area deemed large enough by the machines, walls and sky being the obvious recipients.

Look ITV, the simple reason people don’t want to watch ad’s isn’t because some technology is making it difficult, it’s because, mostly, they are shit. What you actually need to be doing is encouraging relevant people to find more interesting ways to engage and make cash from your TV. By continuing along the ‘lets force them’ path, all you’ll ensure is that ad’s are not the only thing people no longer want to watch.

Genius.

More here.

A well crafted campaign film/site for Austrailan soft drink Spring Valley, featuring a sort of Tamagotchi creature you have to feed with product.

It feels a little bit like two separate ideas, but I think that’s just the art direction. However, I like the film and I did check out Spring Valley (although maybe because I didn’t know the product) and I even (briefly) considered adding it to my Facebook.

Via Adverblog.

Styrofoam. Remote-control. Sheep shaped Lawnmower.

Brilliant.

*Firstly, this is not the original pun. That was ‘Lawnmooer’, however my pun nemesis Neil Starr (copy Tzar) suggested the above (which I hate to admit is better). Secondly, I am aware that this is mostly a cow related pun however, it made me laugh so I am going to stick with it.

Dirty Rabbit is a Belgium based design collective. Unlike Belgium, their blog/tumblr has some interesting things to look at and I have been back.

rubbishcorp® hits the heights.

Twitter is traditionally a place where people tell other people (that care) about what they are doing/thinking/seeing, etc. Basically a fairly flippant local/global “what’s happening now”. So it’s a little weird of Twitter to launch a relatively serious service monitoring the US Election, right?

election.twitter.com works by filtering hundreds of relevant Twitter updates ‘real-time’ to create a source that gathers public opinion about the presidential election. It’s a new(ish) way for you to share your thoughts on a topical item, and an excellent place to check out the zeitgeist of the election. If you’re are a twitter user, you can join the discussion by posting directly from the site, your Tweet not only goes to everyone who follows you, but to the automatically updating election time line (not unlike a chat room type set-up).

Politweets has been providing a similar service for a while already, but it has a limited filtering system. Twitter, on the other hand, uses a constantly changing set of keywords, which makes it more dynamic. Performing real-time algorithmic analysis on millions of unedited public reactions. election.twitter determines a set of ‘Hot Topics’ and displays any tweet that fits into those categories - creating a live ticker of continuously fresh opinion. Twitter’s Summize-based search does a similar job, only not automatically and not to a ‘live’ stream.

People have already started to use services like Monitter to track Twitter conversations, when there is a breaking news story, because again it updates automatically. The obvious value of a service like this is not so much in what’s being said in each tweet, but in the aggregation of opinion and the real-time view of global conversation.

As more and more people use Twitter, the company sits on an ever increasing goldmine of information and opinion. Now that they have the infrastructure in place, Twitter could easily create similar services for any event, or even allow its users to create their own Twitter-based memetrackers. As they so proudly say: ‘Twitter is the pulse of what is happening with the people, organizations, and events you care about—delivered immediately, wherever you are.’ This has finally proved compelling, shared events ranging from earthquakes to film festivals have already been covered, and now Twitter has introduced an engaging way to participate in democracy.

No longer quite so flippant…..

Dude.

Sweet.

Car?

Where?

Dude.

Sweet.