A good old fashioned desk job

A London-based artist, Ben Turnbull born in 1974 and expelled from two schools where he used to spent time drawing and carving out some exquisite caricatures on to a desk which today had led him to be one of the controversial artists with his controversial works, surely knows how to make strong impact with his art.

Bideford, New Years 2004/05

Shot by a friend of mine at New Years down in Devon - we loved this shot so much I had it blown up and framed. Me and @mscheeseontoast (My wife's Twitter name) on the left.

NB: Now I know I'm no size 0 but I did have a very big puffa jacket on and everybody else was about 7 stone - honest.

I'm always a sucker for some stop frame animation

Welcome to Logorama - Beware the Clown

Logorama from Robby Ralston on Vimeo.

Like watching a combination of Heat and The Dark Knight, while trying to be sold everything you ever wanted or needed - 100% full fat awesomeness.

01/03/2010
Update: Well it would seem the Vimeo boys have had to take it down. Well at least YouTube will let you see the trailer. Enjoy.

Drop everything...

Happy 0-90210 Day

Hope you all did as little as I to celebrate this monumental occasion

Ye Olde London town - circa 1903

You should really subscribe to the BFI's YouTube channel. There's some great footage from the past including locations, films and world events and it's really quite nostalgic. Great if you've got a spare 10 minutes to see 'how it used to be'.

Spot all the Ads featured in this short comical film

I've got 60 so far...

Hovis, 118 118, Citroen C4, Smash, Tesco, John Smiths, Milk Board, Hofmeister, ING, Skoda, PG Tips, Silk Cut, Road Safety, Irn-Bru, Guinness Penguins, Hamlet, Lynx, Sony Bravia - Rabbits, Sony Bravia - Clown, Nike - Wayne, Belly - Reebok, Polycell, Audi, Ford Focus, Levis, R Whites, Haagen-Dazs, Sudafed, Cadbury Dairy Milk - Eyebrows, Health Education - Pregnant Man, Boddingtons, Guinness - Fish, Honda - Impossible Dream, Captian Birdseye, Ready Brek, Skegness, Carling Black Label - Dambusters, Sony Bravia - Balls, Golf GTI - Singin', Heinz Ketchup, Shake'n'Vac, Pirelli - Carl Lewis, Kinder Surprise, Tango, Toshiba, McCains, Apple, Drench, Volvo, Cadbury Dairy Milk - Gorilla, Cuprinol, Dunlop, Durex, Quality Street - big wrapper, Kit Kat - Panda, Stella Artois - Priests, Guinness - Horses, Nimble Bread, VW Polo - King Kong, Honda - Freefall

Doesn't time Fly when you're having fun?

*I'm afraid I cannot quantify as to whether any Flies were hurt in the shooting of these photographs. On inspection, I'm guessing they probably were (if not already deceased) at the time of the shoot.

The truth is more harrowing than fiction

Now all we need clearing up is 'street corner Barbie' and the circle is complete.

Robot Wars - Japanese Style

http://www.verbatim.jp/senshuken/?id=1007278
Currently my favourite lunchtime web-joyment. Build your own monster from USBs, Memory sticks, Hard-drives and then fight against the best to create an all powerful, killing machine

Cadbury Wispa

Taking the thought that it was the adoring fans that brought back the Wispa, we thought it should be the fans who decide what went on the website too. We initially proposed what went on, but we wanted the fans to input on whether things should stay or go and submit their own ideas that we would produce and post up.

So with that in mind, we initially created a range of different playgrounds where people can just have some fun with Wispa and celebrate the love they all have for the bar.

This included creating zones where you can either personalize your very own Wispa wrapper, play with the Wispa soundboard (whereby you can also record your very own Wispa anthem) and a Room 101, where fans can submit items to be disposed of to make way for the Wispa. We've got a few other things in the pipe-line but look out for 'Bars in a Jar' which hopefully will appear mid 2010.

See the Wispa site for yourself here.

Finally, a rule we can all adhere to.

Misery Bear - I love his positive outlook on life.

Tokyo in a Blade Runner Stylee

Wonderful visual spectacle of Tokyo seen from its subway with a little bit of technological know how and spin.

Another Egg-pun-tastic start to the year - Creme Egg '10

2010 and another social media/online campaign for Cadbury Creme Egg kicks off. This year sees a small batch of eggs falling off the back of a delivery lorry, bumping their heads and loosing their memories.

Now it's up to the public to find them (dotted across the internet, plus my very first iPhone app, LAYAR and Augmented Reality executions) and remind all of the little gooey guys that their destiny is to get their goo out to win points and prizes - or something like that.

I'll post up more stuff as it evolves but here's how we started the campaign - We mailed this to the top 300 advocates of Creme Egg just before Christmas as a teaser that the Eggs were on their way and that Goo-ing season was just about to start.

See what's goo-ing on at www.cremeegg.com

2010 - The year of Random

#1 - the safety sign

Whoever said clowns weren't scary, had never seen this photo before...

kind of reminds me of this...

Lucky #7? I hope there's a bit of skill involved.

All in all, quite a successful year. Pleasantly surprised to be featured amongst the UK Ad industries finest for DM in 2009. Next year top 3. CMW also came 2nd in 'DM Agency of the Year'. So if the industry was a teacher, I'd hope I'd get one of these stickers:

Look a little closer and all will be revealed

After you see it you'll exhale a satisfied 'Ahhhhh' similar to that of the 'Aaahh' that is produced when the image becomes clear within a Magic Eye poster. I really hope this is one of a series of shots.

In the plastic army now

My mission (which I choose to accept) is to do this fancy dress costume just once in my life. This is amazing.

Only really any use for little Bat signals

If only there were bats in London. Saying that, if only there were trees.

I do love a toast related cartoon

Don't forget your...

to be purchased at http://www.hu2.com/

A new twist on an old grammatical question