Alain, Rik & Ade.

Take pictures of Rik & Ade, overlay them with aphorisms from Alain De Botton, stick them on tumblr & voila. Alain De Bottom! Genius.

PS. Bottom was fucking awesome.

 VIA ITS NICE THAT

The ABC of architects

The ABC of Architects.  A lovely little animation all about architecture.

The Fast and the Furious: Abridged!

Whether you're a fan of 'The Fast and the Furious' films or not, check out Scott Coello's abridged version of the first film. Personally, I would rather stamp out a forest fire using only my face than watch another one of these 'epics'.

New Nike McIIroy Woods Ad

Apparently young Rory is getting paid between $100 million and $125 million to be a Nike brand ambassador over the next five years. He could buy a fair few alarm clocks with that bounty. Maybe it's me, but this slapstick and knockabout new ad featuring him and Tiger goofing around on the golf course feels so tonally off the mark for both brand and the level of investment in what Cindy Davis, President of Nike Golf calls the "epitome of a Nike athlete".

 Caddyshack, it ain't. Talking of which...

Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley

"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind."

Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley. 
- the first person to photograph a single snowflake.

Rejection can be a funny thing

Not a day seems to pass without us receiving a speculative application or three from someone looking for a job which we do not have or internship which we do not run.

Believe it or not, a shockingly large percentage of these are untailored blanket emails addressed "Dear Sir or Madam" banging on at length about why it would be great for them to work at Sell! Sell! rather than succinctly explaining why it would be great for us for them to work here.

We tend to ignore any fruitcakes but we do try to courteously honour all reasonable approaches with a polite one or two line reply  However, nothing we've ever written comes close to these masterpieces of rejection.  I think we need to up our game.

Bonkers and encouraging

Rejection of rejection

Hunter S Thompson classic [more of an objection than rejection]

Stock response with a twist

Pulling no punches

Poetic and cutting

The miniature worlds of Gerry Anderson

At Sell! towers we were all very sad to hear of Gerry Anderson's death over the festive season. A wonderfully talented creative and meticulous craftsman. Whilst reading some of the many tributes I came across Fred's amazing flickr set containing photos of the incredible miniature worlds and environments Anderson created for his shows and films. The sets look like they were all built to 1:24 scale to match the model cars and the attention to detail is phenomenal. Check out all the distressing, aging and tyre marks, particularly in that moody back alley shot. Wonderful stuff.

Who needs CGI, eh?

All the lettering, like the DALGO sign above, was created with letraset rub downs apparently.