Bottle Shops - Australia

While travelling up the East Coast of Australia I found these bottle shops all over the place and they just crack me up. They are basically like a drive-thru McDonald's however your getting out and choosing your poison for the evening. These are dotted all over and one of the main reasons being that there supermarkets only sell food, nothing else, no gadgets or gizmo's like Tesco's has led all other supermarkets to do - a novel concept one would say. I found this drive through concept quite intriguing, purely on the basis that I cannot imagine a setup like this ever being introduced in England, no doubt because of Health and Safety Laws or something along the lines of promoting Drink Driving.

Home Sweet Home?

Well it's a good question, i have recently returned from a trip of a lifetime, literally, four months traveling, thorough enjoyment and no work. Who would not enjoy it, however i think i am starting to get the holiday blues in what i can now call average heat (bad when you have been places and it's warmer in there Winter's than our summer's...). To be fair it i a beautiful day but now I'm home it's back to reality, which means Job Hunt, how exciting in a 'recession'. Wish me luck, that or i will be off again :o)

On top of that very bad i have not blogged for way over a year, shocking, i'll be getting back on that!!

Over & Out.

Liverpool Station

Now i absolutely love this advert, every time it comes on it just makes me smile and warm inside. I first saw it at the cinema which adds to the whole effect of the advert, having the surround sound and you see the people dancing, its almost like your there experiencing it live. Its great how naturally it progresses that more and more people join in the dancing and how you even get a few people who have no involvement but start to boogy. The choice of songs are also classic having everything from pop to opera. It really gets the point across about 'Life's for sharing' moments like this you want to tell everyone about it and what you have just seen, you wouldn't want to miss it. Enjoy!

Words speak volumes

This is one i have had for quite sometime and is not so relevant from the sense that the election was nearly a year ago but enjoy none the less...


I love it!! Mainly for it's simplicity, the ad is straight to the point but has managed to create a double entendre with the product and current political news. Veet have managed to capitalise on this unique opportunity, it just goes to show how important placement is as well as the message itself.

V is for...

Ok so while away in Paris recently i saw these adverts mainly in the metro stations which i was undecided about. There are two versions but seemingly i only have the one -


so as you can see various famous French sports players are in the Nike wear and gesturing which we see as swearing but the copy backing up this symbolism as 'victory', some of the other adds feature stars gesturing the same thing but what we would normally interpret as the peace symbol. I find it an intriguing take, as its one of those things that is trying to go that extra bit, close to the line but not necessarily crossing it. It did make me laugh though as i thought they could get away with it on the subways but the photo featured was taken at the Nike store on the Champs-Elysees where its along shops like Louis Vuitton and Cartier.

Junky Styling

This company was brought to my attention by a friend at work who came in with quite an amazing jacket to say the least, Junky Styling is a company who basically gets clothes from jumble sales and charity shops and reworks them to a style that suits, and obviously unique. So what my friend had was originally a mans suit jacket now restructured to look nothing of the sort but inside they have kept all the original labels. On there website checkout the galleries for some great looks, and if you have some clothes you want to be altered you can send it to them with want you want doing and hey presto...


Junky Styling

Googlicious

Google are u to there usual tricks celebrating anything major in traditions, holidays, life and so on, googles recent adaptations of there brand are -

Celebrating Dr Zuess's birthday, the famous creator of stories like Cat in the Hat


And another one i particularly like is in celebration of the Hungry Caterpillar which is in its 40th year and sells a copy every 30 seconds amazingly, a childhood classic I'm sure most people have.


You can check out a range of all the adaptions that have been done of the google name over the years at more google the Lego brick in 2008 is a another favourite.