Filton. A photo essay.
on Mar 25 in Bristol, Random tagged by Peter BlackmanFor two of the contributors to this blog - Filton, in Bristol, means work. Where they think. In the hope that people will give them cash monies in return for their creative ‘output’. When the cruel client doesn’t cough up cold currency, you see their thoughts here. For free. Damian and Peter work together at the grandly titled Media Centre. Here it is.
Lovely isn’t it? So squat and solid. Oh and secure. It has to be - because Filton can be a little, well, challenging in terms of its visual aethestic and its local community. So both Damian and Peter (that’s me) thought it would be fun to load a black and white film in the old SLR and share some images of the streets that surround us. On the Double Art blog this will be positioned to clients as being yet further proof that the team spend all our time at our desks - because who in the right mind would want to go out around here?
Lady Chique RIP
on Mar 25 in Bristol, Culture, Random tagged by Peter BlackmanToday The Free Thinker is upset.
We’re upset because it looks as if one of our favourite landmarks on our journey into work might be closing. Lady Chique is up for sale.
Penolo.com sketch and share
on Mar 25 in Culture, Digital, Frivolity, Random tagged by Peter BlackmanPenolo.com is a new sketch and share website where you can, well, sketch and share .
It’s been developed by Dan Zambonini - who we’ve got to know (albeit only online) through our involvement in Ignite Bristol. Dan helps organise Ignite London.
Anyway - here’s our attempt. Quite where the inspiration to draw a ruddy cheeked country squire came from we don’t know. Perhaps it was the Cheltenham Festival. We certainly wore the same expression as our sketch when Denman fell away in the Gold Cup. So Penolo. Sketch and share. It’s fun.
MOD acronyms. We’re all a bit weak on CONEMP
on Mar 24 in Culture, News, Random tagged by Peter BlackmanIs this real?
Who cares - iz funny
To find your perfect Ministry of Defence acronym, click here - modacronyms As we said, we’re all a bit loose with our CONEMP. Will we get in trouble for posting this? We’ll have to wait and see…..
Butterflies
on Mar 24 in Random tagged by Chris WaklingWhen a person you don’t know comes to your door you have to act the right way, which means stand up straight and look at them, and you have to say the right thing, which is hello can I help, but there are two things about that. The first is that it’s incredibly hard to say things to somebody you don’t know while standing up straight and looking at them in the eye, because you always actually want to say nothing and go away. And the second thing is that it is even harder to speak to them normally if they have a knitted flightless butterfly stuck on them, and lips which are a quite gentle pink, like the clematis, because then it’s impossible not to get distracted and start thinking of more interesting things instead, like hey that butterfly must be incredibly disappointed because there’s no way at all that it’s ever going to flap up high enough to get at the nectar in that clematis lip with its probosc-thing. Actually there are three things about saying hello how can I help to strange adults, not just two, I was wrong. The third thing that makes it hard or even pointless is that you know what they’re going to say back to you anyway. They’re going to say can you fetch your Mum or Dad please, or something similar, and that is exactly what this woman with the butterfly goes and says.
––Hello. Is Mum or Dad in?
––Yes.
Twisted Biscuits
on Mar 23 in Bristol, Culture, Random tagged by Peter Blackman
Ouch. My biscuit has become twisted.
It’s a blog by our friend and neighbour Darren Dubicki of Aardman Animations
We strongly advise that you check it out.
Here’s our favourite post - which not surprisingly is about some creative work he did which a Danish TV channel did not then commission - the fools!