Filed under: advertising, family, humour, jokes, life, photography, Rants, Scotland | Tags: bass ale, Belfast, farquar gaylord, mark gorman, the troubles, think hard
I have been striking this ridiculous pose for at least 20 years as this photo testifies.
Shot outside The Europa Hotel (the most bombed hotel in Europe) in about 1988.
The equally unattractive human being in the photo beside me is Damian McElholm. A keen country pursuits hobbyist.
He’s famous for replying to Gerry Farrell when he was asked what the shooting was like around here (Belfast, at the back end of “The Troubles”) replied “accurate.”
Fuck sake
Jeana took this incredible photo of her dog, Tara, in the mid 1980′s.
Why?
David bloody Bailey
Filed under: bbc, football, humour | Tags: fighting, fisticuffs, football fighting, francis lee, lee v hunter, leeds utd, man city, Motty, norman hunter
Absolute quality fisticuffs.
Norman Hunter (bights yer legs) v Francis Lee (one pen).
The Rumble in the Jungle.
Northern style.
I’ve just realised that you can grab and share music from Sound Cloud to WordPress which gives me an excellent reason to share an amazing song with you by one of my friends who performs under the name The Son(s).
He’s a three person one man band and this is his greatest song.
There are many. But this makes my hair stand on end. (What little I have left.)
The Son(s) brilliant eponymous debut
Filed under: creativity, music | Tags: block rockin beat, Chemical Brothers, default and picassio, mighty mouse, song for ellen
Jack might kill me for sharing this but he did post it on a public website.
So let’s hear it for Default and Piccassio.
It’s a mash up of Block Rockin’ Beat by The Chemical Brothers and Song for Ellen by Mighty Mouse. Absolutely cracking.
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Originally uploaded by jimbodownie.
Jimbo on fire. Great ebony and ivory shot. Slightly staged mind!
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Originally uploaded by jimbodownie.
You’ve got to love this shot by Jimbo. Class.
Filed under: Arts, creativity, life, photography, Scotland | Tags: basking shark, Edinburgh, edinburgh photography, free events in edinburgh, great white shark, shark, shark photos, sharks, st andrew square, underwater photography, what's on in Edinburgh
Filed under: Arts, creativity, photography, Scotland | Tags: auld reekie, Edinburgh
Edinburgh and its many layers…
Filed under: advertising, business, creativity, humour, photography, work | Tags: 80's ad men, 80's fashion, advertising, mad men, mark gorman, mark gorman think hard, think hard
OK, so David Reid was given a Fashion Police type doing on this very page not a week ago.
He took it like a man I have to say so it’s only fair that he gets the right of replky.
Here’s my own fashion disaster of the 80′s when I had hair, oh boy did I have hair, and specs.
My God did I have specs…
Filed under: advertising, business, Rants | Tags: bullshit, jargon, marketing bullshit, video
It is the scourge of most industries and is anathema to great communication.
Take this for example…
Filed under: advertising, business, creativity, humour, life, photography, Scotland, stories, work | Tags: 1576 advertising, advertising, because brands matter, david eid, fashion police, gok wan, mad men, the leith agency
If the TV series Mad Men positions the ad industry as one of the great bastions of style in the 50′s and 60′s, what on earth happened in the 80′s?
This is what happened in the 80′s.
One of Scotland’s leading creative directors turned up for a Bass Ale shoot in the Crown Bar, Belfast, looking like…
Actually, words fail me.
Certainly some sort of Kajagoogoo reject.
I mean, where to start?
The shorts probably.
The T shirt?
The haircut?
The come to bed expression?
The boots?
And I then went on to form a business with this Gok Wan nightmare.
Ooooffft!
