Taking a bite out of Apple

Here's another nice little piece of physical art... Instead of simply photoshopping an image of a MacBook to make it look like the corner had been cut off, IDEO Labs actually had somebody saw off the corner and then set up the shot for real. Nice to see that people still can do things by hand

For photos of the whole process and the story behind the shot, visit the IDEO Labs...

Yes, it could happen - but only if you are prepared to brave the early-morning temperatures of a November morning in London AND are able to identify his work cleverly enough when faced with an array of anonymous postcard submissions.

Want to know how?

Here's how:

RCA Secret 2009

But don't tell everybody - it's a secret!

PS: Last year I arrived an hour and a half before opening and queued for 4.5 hours. Be warned. I also can't guarantee that Damien Hirst has submitted any works this year - the entries will be on their site tomorrow...

I happened across some photos from "the Decapitator" on Flickr today and also found a link to this video there. Awesome stuff and a great example of a "guerrilla" street artist at work.

Watch the video and see how he (?) carried out a hijack of the London Paper (alas, but a memory now) back in 2008:

Take a look at some of his other work, including a headless Shakira on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in New York's Barnes & Noble (Union Square) in Flickr here

Anybody have a copy of that London Paper or the very limited edition Rolling Stone mag?

Now there's a thing. Time waits for no man, as they say...

Even if you've found the time to read this small blog post, you'll probably know the scenario. Since my last post and, in fact, since the last session of Flash on the Beach in Brighton, I've been so busy with client work, re-organising and tidying up that I've not had the time for a blog post. I even haven't been my usual active self on twitter (shock, horror!).

SQLiteWrapper desperately needs some work to complete the logging for the various variable substitution methods and my website hasn't progressed either.

The good news is that this is all going to be catching up very soon. There are some exciting projects happening at the moment and ideas for a concrete implementation of database synchronisation for the SQLiteWrapper are coming together.

Watch this space... the blogging break will soon be over...

so, here it is: The video of my 3-minute Elevator Pitch at FOTB09, courtesy of Peter Elst, my SQLitewrapper "partner-in-crime":

Elevator pitch - SQLite goes heavyweight from Peter Elst on Vimeo.

Thank you for filming this Peter!

Apart from the fact that the top and bottom edges were chopped off my slides, all went smoothly.

Our first rehearsal on Sunday wasn't quite so smooth. Bear in mind that this session involved 20 speakers, all with their own laptops, and add in audio and microphone-swapping and you're faced with a real logistics challenge. We found that nearly every laptop (some windows, some macs) needed adjustments to match the resolution to that of the lovely 16:9 projector on the stage in the Brighton Dome. Mine didn't want to talk to the projector at all at first, until about 20 minutes' worth of power had been pumped into it.

Monday evening's rehearsal was another story: an initial logistics talk-through and then we worked through all of the presentations, including microphone-swaps and all. Around 5-10 minutes longer than the session needed to be, this set us up for Tuesday.

08:45 on Tuesday and we were all ready, lined up on our 20 chairs behind stage and ready to go...

The rest is history, as they say

Thanks again to John Davey (@FOTB ) for the opportunity and to the audience for their support, despite tearing themselves away from their beds after Monday's party