AWKWARD FAMILY XMAS GREETINGS

Inspired by the 'Awkward Family Portraits' book I got for Christmas.

MERRY XMAS ALL

From me and KC

Merry Sproutin' Christmas! from Casey Hennessy on Vimeo.

PHOTOBOOTH ANNUAL

As anyone who knows me will know, my boyfriend, he lives a long way away. And because of this, sometimes I send him a pic of where I’m at or what I’m up to. Other times me and my fellow comrades, we like to pass the time out-nerding one another over email via the medium of photobooth. Occasionally I’m just plain drunk and feel I need to document that fact (much to the amusement of my own tiny mind). The rest of the time I just like playing with the booth. The result though of all this non-sensical self-portraiting, well it’s whole load of random photos which – not even mildly amusing on their own - when put in a sequence, like some kind of unintended time lapse, make for quite an amusing summary of my year.

POLE DANCING BUNNY

Was a very funny get well soon present from Sam ^_^

IT'S XMAS. TIME FOR SOME OBLIGATORY FUN

This week has been non-stop. It's been a lot of fun. There's been fake dancing, costume making, UV painting, fake reporting and advert making, shooting, a fair bit of laughing, even a Jaffa-Cake-meter eating. But no matter how much you're enjoying yourself, you still end up knackered. And inevitably it's always the worst kind of timing.

Tonight is our work's Christmas do. That's right. It's time to don ridiculous costumes, down a great deal of what tastes vaguely like complimentary ethanol and dance like you've never done it before. I shouldn't be such a scrooge about it, but my legs hurt, my head's pounding and I've got shed loads of Christmas presents to buy. But then this morning everything changed.

It's nothing spectacularly creative, but it's certainly not short on good spirit. It's HMS OCEAN's christmas vid. A few watches of this and suddenly, the rain begins to look like the first snow of December. The beeping of machinery around the office becomes the jingling of bells. And that distended whooshing sound of paper making it's way through a photocopier, well, it's the sound of the wind rushing past the window, whilst you're all warm and cosy inside...

Plus it's MEN IN UNIFORM ^_^ (although the fourth guy - the one in the shorts and deck shoes - that's questionable. I'm not sure that's a REAL UNIFORM)

Enjoy and merry christmas.

(The guys wearing nothing but a present are priceless)

HEROIC EFFORT

Despite being incredibly busy lately, it seems I'm finding more and more time to spend letting my mind wonder, my fingers type and my eyes feast on, yep, you guessed it, VIMEO. So it was at something like 2 in the morning, yesterday morning, I came across this. Super spectacular effort (hence the title). Beginning to wonder whether I couldn't squeeze doing something like that in as well. Does anyone really need sleep. And how much sleep - or should it be how little - is bad for you? 

RATHER BE BUSY THAN BORED

Hero from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.

NOVELTY

It's officially worn off. Going to go back to a traditional layout. Why am I so easily distracted by all things 'shiny'? 


And this season's the worst for that kind of things baubles, tinsel, sparkly, sparkly lights. Must focus. But I have good news. My request to Christmas-ify the filth machine at work have not fallen on deaf ears. I have been reassured by several sources, they will be putting some form of chocolate coinage in the fat machine. Even if it's not quite the little golden net sacks I had initially envisaged, I'm not going to complain. The question is what do we do for Easter. Real live chicks? Not sure the dry roasted nuts in there would last long if we did that.


Watch this space for photos.

I THINK THIS IS WHY I LOVE ADVERTISING

Not simply because it gives you an excuse to sex things up - even washing machines - but because anything really does go. Never seen a washing machine sold like this before. Not even in the market for a washing machine, but I certainly won't forget LG's 6motion machine now

Movember's finally here

And whilst I totally forgot my moustache necklace like a right rookie, I have however fashioned myself a tasty tache (not to mention the one I'm hiding behind that).

Doodledujour update

Here's another little blog I've been working on. 


DOODLE DU JOUR


It's a doodle a day. Obviously- as you'll see from the timeline- it doesn't always work out like that. But it's just another way for me to put down on paper my mad little mind.

Been a while

But here's a little something I'm working on at the mo. It's Stitch & Bitch a new crafty project. Like the logo? I did it me sen.

Oh, and my new moustache keyrings courtesy of yummypocket on etsy.

hee hee sleepy

Source: youtube.com via Heather on Pinterest

I'd like to introduce you to Steven Seagul

And whilst away down south, I took a some proper photos. Well, by that I mean with a real camera not just pinhole ones. One of the best characters captured in pixels has to be Steven. Steven is the cheeky chappy with a beakful of ice cream. Before Steven arrived on the scene there was another gul making the most of the dropped Whippy-cream. But Steven (with his muscles) was much bigger and better at gobbling and so deserved a photo. That said, Nigel- the man on the rocks- also has a special place in my heart. I don't know that he is a Nigel, but I think he looks like one. 

Solar Perranporth

Some solargraphs from a Cornish garden. The last time I did some solargraphs was in the Lake District. The weather was not particularly forgiving. And the sun rarely appeared. Rendering said photographic experiments rather redundant. But these showed up. Maybe I can squeeze a few more in before summer leaves us for another 10 months or so.

Some 

Challenge accepted

Thinking caps on chaps. If, like me, you've been a little lax of late- what with holiday season looming large over all of us- here's a chance to dust off those synapses. It's time now for pulling your woollen foot gloves up, all the way over the knees, put pens to paper, noses to screens and to break the back of some interesting problems. An impossible problem seems a good place to start.

http://www.theimpossiblebrief.com/

The 91,583 pound (as in sterling) life project

A smile for your ears

Found this yesterday. A very nice playlist for working too. Makes me want to go on a roadtrip. To nowhere in particular. In the sunshine. 


Full playlist here
http://www.asmileinthemind.org/music/


Sample of the list here
How To Dress Well - Ready For The World by futuresoundstemporary

Something for Sunday

The sun's shining here in Brum and Sunday so far's been exactly what a Sunday should be- time to catch up. And it's been a while since I've done that, so here's just a short post. It's about something I've had on me for about a month now, but have only just stopped to look at. Kijjaa! If you, like I, find yourself torn between the warm fuzziness of analogue and sheer spectacle of digital, then this, dear friend, may be the thing for you. It's like 8bit and AR collide and fantastic holographic pixel graphics sheer off in every direction. There isn't actually any AR  to it, but my point is it's old school with a high tech feel to it. Enough already though. The app. Kijjaa! Basically it allows you to use your iPhone as a wireless controller for an arcade 8bit-esque game that plays out on your computer screen. Got to say stuff like that, makes me just a little bit happy. I'll even forgive them the exclamation in the name simply because it's such a cool little app. And it just looks super cute too. Check it out here.

The last of the Cannes cam stories

Type-tastic birthday gift

N.A.T.O. Productions wishes me a very happy birthday

This, I know, is the worst thing to do with a blog. But I'm going to claim this is a showcase of fresh talent, disguised as a massive thank you for my Indienne anniversaire. Thanks to my little big bro (N.A.T.O. Productions) for this cracking card. Thanks also to Sam Taylor for his photography and capturing the goofiest shot of the evening. And a mention should also go out to Rog for the lend of this sweet little Canon lens.

Debrief

It's strange. Since being back we've talked a lot about Cannes. But we've hardly discussed the competition. Perhaps it's because there's a certain amount of trepidation about what you produce when you're so sure on an idea and then hear no feedback. To work so cut off, unable to test your idea, completely out of your typical working context. And ultimately to have only a handful of rough run outs rescued from the competition booth as proof that you were there, the evidence that you did in fact produce work that day. But today, I found the print offs. I brought them to work. And we started to discuss it. And had a proper chance to see what won. Our brief was to create a DPS print ad to raise awareness of Pump Aid. As part of our task we had to include a direct debit form on the ad (something that when initially mentioned threw most of those sat in the briefing room). Australia took Gold. But I have to be honest and say hats off to Silver and Bronze winners below, Italy and the UAE respectively. Two great ideas. 

Cannes retrospective: competition day

Cannes - Competition Day from Casey Hennessy on Vimeo.

Cannes on camera