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Nemesis: The Champions coming to a bad cable channel near you
Oh joy upon joys, relaxing on the couch and suddenly before my eyes one of the maddest and baddest ’secret organisation’ genre TV shows I’ve ever seen, The Champions. I can’t believe Ive never seen it before.
Originally only running from September 1, 1968 to April 1, 1969; it charts the adventures of three ‘champions’, Craig Sterling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett.
“Endowed with the qualities and skills of superhumans – qualities and skills, both physical and mental, to the peak of human performance. Gifts given to them by an unknown race of people, when their ‘plane crashed near a lost civilisation in Tibet. Now, with their secrets known only to them, they are able to use their fantastic powers to their best advantage…as The Champions of Law, Order and Justice. Operators of the International Agency, Nemesis!”
The episode this morning was all about strange witchcraft and secret uranium mining in Cornwall (a nice crossover I thought). Absolute bloody genius.
All I want for Xmas, Glug! London style
“More Notworking than Networking”, Glug! is a brilliant organisation set up by old glue compatriot Nick Clemant (he of the inexhaustable font collection).
I helped judge the inaugral Xmas competition, and never have I felt so dwarfed by the judging talent – Vaughan Oliver is just my absolute hero for his great work for The Pixies! So much more daunting than jusst having agency bods on the panel!
After finishing the judging only yesterday (over 150 entries!) I’m heading to the event tonight, where I’ll finally get to see the winners!
Fantastic illustrator – Serge Seidlitz
Wandering the Colombia Rd Christmas market tonight and dropped by Nelly Duff, heady with free mulled wine and cheap cava. Bought some great prints here for presents, but this one in particular made me fall in love all over again… Ilustrated by Serge Seidlitz and entitled “Heaven Sent, Hell Bent”.
FontShuffle – the new iPhone app from FontShop
This application is perfect for geeking out to.
Not entirely useful yet (the app contains a few hundred fonts, but its a bit fiddly to see the full range, and it still feels a bit empty) its still a really cute way of viewing and selecting fonts. Especially sweet is the use of the iPhone’s inbuilt movement detection to shake-and-shuffle the fonts on screen.
A full review (and thanks for the pictures) is at FontFeed.
D&AD eat your heart out! A real yellow pencil artist…
Jennifer Maestre is a South African artist who uses pencil stubs to create lush organic (and slightly fleshy and vaginal) sculptures. I’ve seen this kind of thing before, the technique isn’t new, but the finished pieces are stunning.
Our Inaugral She Says Golden Stiletto Awards
Thanks to Getty Images for a great night – in excess of 200 women at the event, and some incredibly high-quality pieces of work entered for judging.
Yasmin (Dare) has won a place with me on the Hyper Island She Creatives course in February ‘09 for her Sony Walkman site. Runner-up was Cherie with Hyperhappen’s BBC Culture Show site (my favourite), with all three commendeds going to Lean Mean Fighting Machine – including my equal personal favourite ‘Non-Stop Fernando’.
Bring on 2009!
Here are some pictures of the event.
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- At the awards
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- Yasmin from Dare – the Award winner!
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- The audience
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- The Lean Mean girls with their awards
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- Emma and Jo – two of the She Says crew
The Decapitator is back!!!
My favourite secret squirrel, the Shoreditch Decapitaor, is back doing what he does best. This was taken on Great Eastern Street this morning, on the way to work…
Similacrum Lucida: Yundoo Jung and the kids come to life
Just came across this MOST fabulous artist – Yundoo Jung.
Currently living in Korea, he studied here at Central St Martins and Goldsmiths about the same time as I was at uni in Sydney.
This series in particular, “Wonderland” from 2005, are just gold dust. He’s recreated children’s drawings as photographs, with all their abserdities and surreal strangeness built in.
Also loved the title of one of the articles written about his work:
I’m a bandit, and I shall take away thy pride.
-Yuko Hasegawa [Chief Curator, Tokyo National museum]
Gigantic wooden GIF…
Just picked up a headsup on this great piece of work from Designboom…
The Wooden Mirror by Daniel Rozin uses 830 square pieces of wood which are hooked up to an equal number of small motors which move the wooden blocks according to a built in camera. the camera picks up movement in light and transfers the signal to the wood… changing them like pixels to represent the camera feed in real time.
