Vex Appeal is a weblog and collection of projects by Guy Parsons, a game designer, online community and digital strategy dude in London, England. Read more about the saucy butcher boy here.
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law 37 / sleeper cell / lets change the game
101 things in 1001 days
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dan hon
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naomi alderman
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previously on vexappeal:
Back soon... Free Moshi Monsters Codes Spokeo... or spookeo, more like I'm Prove Very Where J.C Leyendecker and Team Fortress 2 Train of thought "Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin..." Links for FAME people They Tell Stories Ffffudging it slightly
Every time I look up at the everpresent office BBC News 24, I see a sad woman holding up a bunny. She is very pointed about it, as if the presence of the bunny speaks for itself. Look, look at the bunny. I don't think I need to explain to you gentlemen what you're seeing here.
I do not know the story behind the sadness, or the bunny.
[Also, this "storm" is pretty disappointing innit? It's basically dampness with attitude.]
Labels: 24 hour news, bunny, sad, storm
Daily links
Thursday, July 05, 2007
- Storm clouds over Centre Point
Great photo from a Chinwagger of the south London storm clouds gathering over Centre Point, hideous Central London 'skyscraper' (read: tower block.) - Streetwars: London 2007
The watergun assasination tournament returns to London at the end of July for another three weeks of splashy carnage. Haven't yet worked out if it's practical/possible to participate myself, though... - Global tour of graphic design
Dutch, Italian, Russian Constructivist, Cuban, British, Polish, Swiss, Japanese, American... and so on, and so forth. Yum yum! - Steorn demo postponed...
Steorn are a company that claim to have invented a source of free energy, initially via fullpage ads in the Economist, more recently via fancy websites. Their first public demo was meant to be last night - but got axed due to tech "problems." - Awesome obituary
"Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies." Doesn't everyone secretly long a little for 'an exotic life of gilded aimlessness'?
Labels: graphic design, steorn, storm, streetwars
The Great New Media Smiting
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Yesterday's freaky weather gave the Mind Candy environs a thorough beating. Our office mysteriously survived, but the rest of the complex got distinctly leaky, and the atrium was transformed into a cascading water feature. Pretty exciting - lots of Blitz spirit in evidence, and to quote Bill Bailey, we're British, and as such, we crave disappointment.
They had to turn all the power off eventually to stop things shorting out, so it was early hometime for a sleep-deprived me, and an early pubtime for everyone else. There should be more of this sort of excitement-without-actual-danger - hopefully, someone will let a moose loose aboot this hoose some time soon. (Note to self: nothing like a minor disaster to build community.)
This also reminds me of a great story that Jack told me the other day about a kid who, for a prank, let three pigs loose in his school. The genius part was he painted numbers on them: 1, 2, and 4. That's the kind of attention-to-detail that takes it to the next level.