Amy Winehouse

Golden performance from Grammy Award Winner, Amy Winehouse! performing "Rehab" for her American television debut on Late Show with David Letterman. Setting new trends, this chick really knows how to pull things off, I like her style!

"JUMP" The new Honda TVC

I hate heights, I really Do! But when I saw this ad, it made me love free falling! This is one awesome TVC from Honda under its "Difficult Is Worth Doing" Campaign, made by 4Creative. It was aired in the UK broad casted live via Channel 4. Though it's not the first "live" commercial in TV history but this is friggin' amazing! Hmmm, I wonder what would the competitors do...




Wieden + Kennedy chose skydiving formations for the accord launch campaign because of their delicate precision moves in the air. Human engineering. A metaphor for the Honda engineers' work on the ground.

Cool illustrations

Okay, now here's a little something for you artists out there, I stumbled into these pretty cool illustrations, a combination of traditional and digital, Nice treatment and composition! I better get my sketch book and sharpen my pencil! Time for some serious drawings, Get inspired!

World's Biggest Self Portrait

Check this story out, Erik Nordenankar, who wanted to make the biggest drawing in the world (very brave idea, huh?!) who took a suitcase with a GPS tracking device, gave exact instructions to DHL of where to ship this suitcase and in what order. By tracking the device through 62 countries and six continents and recording the travel route on the map Erik made a self portrait of himself! Now isn't that a crazy stunt?



Erik claimed it would be an art project, his graduation project indeed. It's kinda hard to believe it and suspected it to be one of the coolest digital campaigns/virals of our time. Done by DHL. A shame that DHL didn't sponsor him to do it for real. Kudos to Erik for the idea and for the very convincing fiction.

The extinct Philippine script (Babay, Baybayin!)

In 1571, the Spaniards found the people in Manila and other places writing on bamboo and specially prepared palm leaves using knives and styli. They were using the ancient Tagalog script which had 17 basic symbols, three of which were the vowels a, i, and u. Each basic consonantal symbol had the inherent a sound: ka, ga, nga, ta, da, na, pa, ba, ma, ya, la, wa, sa, and ha.

A diacritical mark called kudlit modified the sound of the symbol. The kudlit could be a dot, a short line, or even an arrowhead. When placed above the symbol, it changed the inherent sound of the symbol from a to i; placed below, the sound became u. Thus a ba with a kudlit placed above became a bi; if the kudlit was placed below, the symbol became a bu.


It was a simple and elegant system that was called baybayin. In 1914, the newer term alibata was introduced by Dean Paul Versoza of the University of Manila. He claims the term comes from alif, ba, and ta, the first three letters of the Maguindanao arrangement of the Arabic letters. He did not explain why he chose a totally unrelated writing system to name the script.

The Tagalog script was a syllabary, which means that each symbol represents a complete syllable. This is in contrast to our Latin alphabet where each symbol represents a phoneme, the smallest unit of the sound of speech. It is this distinction that makes it difficult for many people steeped in alphabetic systems to understand the correct way of using the Tagalog script. (By Hector Santos)

(I found these pretty cool, imagine if we're still using these today?)

Kuwait Pictures

Here's some breathtaking pictures of Kuwait at night. Absolutely Awesome!






Pictures by Stefan Edwards, Fadibou, Mr. Ian, Felicityq8, Snap.

DMC-Technics World DJ Finals-GCC Division

This is my winning 6 minute set at the DMC-Technics World DJ Finals - GCC Division, Held at the MYX, Hyatt, Dubai, UAE. There were a total of 14 DJs from 7 countries that competed in the finals. World Champs were there, gracing the first time ever event in the middle east (DMC), World Battle DJs, Co-ma, Akakabe, Sarasa aka Silverboombox from Japan, DJ Lethal Skillz from Lebanon and the world-famous Dj Qbert showed off their turntable wizardry!

Who Do You Wanna Be?

If you have the chance to be a superdude or a superbabe, who'd you wanna be? I was cruising around when I stumble into this site, Check it out and find out for yourself. Well, I got myself into it and this is what I am gonna be, The result is awesome!
This is the order, If I am to be a superhero:

#1 - The Green Lantern (75%)



#2 - Superman (75%)


#3 - Hulk (75%)

#4 - Spiderman (60%)#5 - Iron man (60%)


Not only that, you can also find out which Villains you'd be when u check this site. So Enjoy!

Why So Serious?

I really like this poster for the Dark Knight where it shows a vandalized wall (probably done by the joker himself), with the bloody bat sign and those couple of charcoal swirls that forms the Joker's face, pretty cool eh? Creative! Well, I'd say Batman 2 is probably one of the most awaited movie of 2008, not to forget the award-winning performance of Heath Ledger (RIP), Damn! Can't wait for this to hit the big screen! Warner Bros. Pictures has set the release date for the The Dark Knight, the sequel to 2005's Batman Begins for July 18, 2008. The film will star Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman.


Synopsis:

Christian Bale once again embodies the man behind the mask in "The Dark Knight." The film reunites Bale with director Christopher Nolan and takes Batman across the world in his quest to fight a growing criminal threat. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman has been making headway against local crime...until a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker (Heath Ledger) unleashes a fresh reign of chaos across Gotham City. To stop this devious new menace--Batman's most personal and vicious enemy yet--he will have to use every high-tech weapon in his arsenal and confront everything he believes.

D&AD Winners

The creative industry’s most elusive prize, the Black Pencil, was presented to six creative teams at the D&AD Awards Ceremony in London. Fallon’s “Gorilla” for Cadbury won in TV & Cinema Advertising, “The National Gallery Grand Tour” by The Partners in Poster Advertising, “Get the Glass” by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, and Projector Inc, for “Uniqlock” in Online Advertising. Apple won two Black Pencils for the iMac and the iPhone. This makes the multi-national design company the biggest single winner of Black Pencils in D&AD’s 45-year history with six won since 1999.