Monthly Archives: December 2009

Christmas Miracle

Posted on December 24, 2009 | Leave a comment

This will be our last post of the festive season, so we thought we’d end on something uplifting…

The following film is from fellow ad agency Mother. It features them sending a ‘spam’ email promising $10,000 to anyone who replies… the difference is this is for real. We love the email, as well as the fact that someone actually responded.

And then the winning guy goes and does something philanthropic with it all just to complete the truly magical Christmas story… lovely stuff.

And a very Happy Christmas to you all…

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Amazing Light Painting Photography

Posted on December 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

This isn’t the first lot of this stuff we’ve come across, but light painting photography always looks pretty cool, and this is good even by the standards of the genre.

It’s done basically by just waving a light source around whilst a shot is taken, but the results are much more impressive than they should be… This particular lot is from Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza from Bremen, Germany, who have a whole host of the stuff at their website.

(source: Notcot)

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Origami Christmas Tree Decorations

Posted on December 23, 2009 | Leave a comment

We’ve always been a bit mystified by origami. After all, it isn’t that interesting, and the stupid things never look like anything even in the unlikely circumstances that you do manage to follow the instructions successfully.

Or so we thought… we love these origami decorations from the American Museum of Natural History, which are now hanging on their Christmas Tree.

There are twenty-six of them in all, one for each letter of the alphabet, meaning there is in fact a Xylotrupes Beetle among other things. This lot were our favourites…

(source: TimeOut New York)

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Satellite Photography

Posted on December 22, 2009 | Leave a comment

This may not be our first post of this stuff, but we couldn’t resist when we found this particular collection. The images are from the Landsat 7 Satellite, and are put together from eight spectral bands to form these particularly vivid images.

We particularly love the fluid looking image of what is in fact the Iranian desert, and the incredible geometry of what used to be pure Bolivian rainforest, and is now a series of small fields… Take a look here for the full collection.

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Our Man in South America

Posted on December 21, 2009 | Leave a comment

One of our more adventurous account men is currently trekking around South America. Much as this may sound like a bit of fun, he’s nevertheless keeping us posted with some thoughts from the ground on all the things Baby holds dear. So here is part 1, and there will no doubt be more to follow…

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Glass Christmas Tree

Posted on December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

Having spent most of the weekend putting up a Christmas Tree, we now feel somewhat inadequate due to finding this fantastic effort from Shanghai.

The thing sits outside one of China’s bigger malls, and is comprised of over 1000 empty bottles of Heineken, making it not only huge, but also nice and environmentally friendly, since it’s made from waste.

Now, if anyone can find us the world’s biggest bowling ball, we reckon there’s some fun to be had here…

(source: Chine via Notcot)

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Modernist Dolls’ House

Posted on December 18, 2009 | 2 Comments

We’re really not quite sure what to make of this; a dolls’ house from German design company Sirch, which looks rather different to what we’re used to.

On the one hand, it’s certainly funky, minimalist, and appropriate for the modern age. On the other, we feel like a piece of our childhood has been spolied. Dolls’ Houses, it seems to be us, should be Victorian and Georgian throw-backs, decorated with wood panneling and rugs.

Anyway, how’s a child meant to play in that thing?

(source: Notcot)

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The Known Universe

Posted on December 18, 2009 | Leave a comment

This has to be one of the more impressive pieces of visualisation we’ve come across. The American Museum of Natural History has reconstructed the entire universe (as far as we know it) in computer animation. Starting from a shot of the Himalayas, the shot pans out further and further until it reaches a point 13.7billion light years away from earth.

And every single star, planet and quasar is accurately plotted. Now that has to take some doing. Still, it’s very pretty, especially on the way back in, and it does make you feel very small for a while…

(source: Urlesque)

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Merry Christmas (everyone) from Red Sofa

Posted on December 17, 2009 | Leave a comment

Our friends over at Red Sofa recently put together this video as their ‘christmas card’ this year.

The video pretty much speaks for itself, so we won’t go into too much detail, but we love it for proving that you can still make great films for under a fiver. As long as you don’t take yourself too seriously…

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Cardboard Baby High Chairs

Posted on December 17, 2009 | Leave a comment

When we found this we nearly fell out of our seats. You see, this is a concept which combines our three greatest loves; design, the environment, and of course babies.

Yes, this in fact a high chair made out paper. From Australian designer Anthony Dan at Paper Tiger Products, they consist entirely of recycled and recyclable material, and are apparently surprisingly strong due to their use of triangular folding.

And just for a bit of extra excitement – they fold down into flat pack form.

(source: a+.29 via Notcot)

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