What do the Bahamas and Cannes have in common?

Well me. I’ve been to both and uploaded my photos to flickr. The Bahamas were taken 5 years ago, December 2003 and Cannes was this year July 2008 at the advertising awards show. Enjoy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21073784@N07/sets/

Tweet! Tweet!

I’m on twitter! So now the whole world can know immediately how I’m living my life. 30 years from now I’ll compile the one-liners into a memoir called “140 characters”. chuckle.

I’m torgnyhylen on twitter so look me up and get a sneak preview at the eventual book.

web standards rap

Seriously funny… but also true.

I’m fucking Matt Damon (Sarah Silverman)

This is damn funny.

Jimmy Kimmel is an American talk show host. He’s been making playful digs at Matt Damon for a long time. Sarah Silverman is a female comedienne who is also Jimmy Kimmel’s girlfriend. Matt and Sarah conspired and got their revenge on Jimmy during his live talk show by airing the below clip. It’s now been made famous by Youtube.

I’m fucking Matt Damon – youtube link removed.

Not to be outdone, Jimmy Kimmel replies with a video of his own. His has a bigger budget.

I’m fucking Ben Affleck – youtube link removed.

For more info, read this article from People Magazine.

Reggie Watts

This guy is unbelievably cool. I was there at Design Indaba Cape Town 2007 when he did his thing. We were all blown away. The audience wasn’t expecting anything like what he did, thanks in part to a bogus biography in the conference notebook. He was the last speaker of Design Indaba 2007 and he started his talk as if he was some deep thinking creative with angst and big words. Then he started doing his “normal thing”. Watch.

On Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/134034

Tales of Mere Existence

Lev Yilmaz is a genius. Not only has he cottoned onto the cheapest form of “animation” possible (filming himself drawing on the opposite side of a back-lit sheaf of paper that “hides” his drawing hand sufficiently for it to appear that his simple line drawings are animating into being – just watch the youtube clip to understand) he also is a genius in his droll monotone delivery of a human insight. Be it about procrastination or getting a girlfriend; there’s truth (and sadness) and humour in what he has to say. Its only a matter of time until he’s either ripped off or gets paid some serious dosh for a very cool technique to deliver dry commentary on the human condition.

Visit: Youtube listing page for all his shorts

Daft Hands

Simon Waterfall ( Creative Director and co-founder of digital agency Poke, and newly-elected D&AD Deputy President) came to South Africa later last year (2007) and gave a talk about the Internet. In that talk he said that there has never been more creativity outside of the creative industry as there is now. He gave this Youtube video as an example.

It is called Daft Hands.

Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack

I’ve just watched Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure on DVD and what a blast! I don’t know how I’ve managed to muddle through my life and not know who this guy is. He’s a complete Nutter! With a captial “N” mind you. But insanity is often crossed with genius and he has a lot of that too. Somehow he manages to go through life attracting the absolutely ridiculous and has the enviable ability of being able to tell the tale on stage in front of lots of people with a slide show to gales of laughter. The DVD is a 2 hour one man show that is absolutely captivating, hysterical, unbelievable and strangely comforting. He sincerely asks that no part of his act be discussed out side of his act, so as not to ruin the plot – and I obey: just find it and watch it.

You can buy the DVD from amazon here. He has a whole bunch of other DVDs that look interesting too… especially the one that has him looking for other people (54 of them) that share his name.

Incidentally, if you don’t know what a Googlewhack is, here is a definition:

A Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of two words, that returns a single result. Source

www.googlewhack.com

This has inspired me to become a googlewhack somehow. I need to find a way of being able to produce a googlewhack result. I’m not entirely sure I know how I intend to pull this off, but I’ll set myself a deadline of February 29. Let’s see.

Jeff Bridges’ Blog

 

I first saw Jeff Bridges in Tron sometime in the early eighties. Man, I loved that movie. Before I could truly appreciate what art direction was I was amazed at the luminous clothing, strong colour palette and abstract constructs that defined virtual space. It was ahead of its time.

Then came (with significant gaps) Starman, Jagged Edge, The Fisher King, White Squall and The Big Lebowski. I’ve always liked him on screen… he has something that captivates you. That’s not to say I’m a stark raving fan, but I like his work.

Unfortunately I have a misconception as to actors and their online creativity… I assume they have none. So it was with absolute wonder and amazement that I stumbled across Mr Bridges’ Blog. It’s astoundingly beautiful and unassuming. It’s the best site for an individual that I’ve seen. And its personal, it’s truly him expressing himself.

Check out Jeff Bridges’ Blog.

Thursday Night Poker (TNP) 17th January

I won! Woohoo. Earned R300, while a very close second place went to Lucie who doubled up in the last hand. I had pocket 8s, she had Queen Ten… I moved all in after the flop of 6,7,9. I figured I’d only need a 5 or 10 for the straight. An 8 for a set or a 6,7 or 9 for a two pair. Don’t know what the odds were… but I’m thinking they’re good. She got lucky and hit the Queen on the turn… and the river was something useless like a 3. So she beat my pair of eights and cleared R280.

Interestingly… the more Jack I drank – the luckier I became. Well its a reason to not stay sober at these things.