Jack Kerruish wites: Hey blog readers, We all love music right? And we all love videos. Well how about I share some of the best musical videos that I’ve stumbled across this week.
Fist up is Sex by Slugabed.
Second is Are You Gonna Waste My Time by Zeus.
And last but by no means least is 3 Second Rule by Lisa Gail Allred.

Enjoy.

And its a D+AD yellow pencil at that. That’s right folks last thursday the Street Tag app that we produced for our friends over at Channel 4 picked up a pencil in the Multi Media and Promotions category.
The app now has over 100,000 downloads and is still being used by people from as far away as Moscow, Hawaii and Cleethorpes so if you don’t have it download it here for free and get tagging.

Jack Kerruish writes: I absolutely love GIFs, they never cease to amaze and amuse me. Which is pretty astounding as the file type was invented way back in 1987 and only supports 8-bits per channel. Boring technical info aside the humble GIF is experiencing a renaissance of sorts with dedicated blogs ranging from Senor gif to Pixel fucks, as well as popping up on every message board and chat room under the sun. The beauty of Gifs lies in their strict file limitations and as we all know it’s boundaries that inspire great creative solutions. Below are a selection of some of my favourites, ranging from the low art ‘LOL GIFs’ to the high art ‘Cinemagraph’.

Titanic – for BBC History from After the Flood on Vimeo.

Ivan Ivanovic writes: Last week we saw lots of activity marking the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster.

The thing that caught our eye was this brilliant Titanic Videographic made by After the Flood for BBC History.

The end result is a beautiful and most importantly relevant and informative data visualisation.

Definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it already.

For the past 2 weeks we have had Samiat and Ruky doing work experience with us from the Generating Genius scheme we mentioned a while back. They came, they saw and it seems like they had a great time because they filmed this little thank you message.

We’re glad you enjoyed the experience, girls and wish you luck with your future careers.

Thank you.

Final blog from Mr Elliot Harris:

It seems right that we end the week as we started, by talking about Draw Something. After a full week of game play it continues to sweep through the agency taking everyone in its path. I’m wondering how we’re getting any work done.

We’re gonna have to put in a bit of practice before we get to this standard though…

Mr Elliot Harris writes: “I’d love to see these on a massive format.

“Worthy of any gallery I’d say.”

Come rain or shine, 88-year-old Bermudian Johnny Barnes devotes 6 hours every day to an endearing traffic ritual that has made him one of the island’s most cherished citizens. After the success of another personality found by the roadside, I’m wondering whether we should tap up Johnny as the new face of Café Direct?

I think he understands the idea that even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.

‘Something’ happened to my family over the Bank Holiday weekend, which I thought would be interesting to share and, at the very least, may act as some kind of therapy…

If you already play, you’ll know how the rest of this post goes, but for those not in the game yet, a quick intro…

Draw Something (also known as Draw My Thing on some platforms) pits your drawing skills against your game partner’s ability to guess your scribbles and doodles.

…it’s basically Pictionary for your phone.

So, on Friday night I casually introduced it to Mrs H – by Saturday morning the ‘no phones at the table’ rule had been forgotton, like addicts to a dealer, we both woke up gagging for another go, only now it was me and Mrs H plus 4 out of our 5 children who picked it up instantly. (The only reason our youngest wasn’t playing along was because of her own ‘Bejewelled’ addiction).

All 6 of us, sitting round the breakfast table on various devices not speaking, but frantically sending pictures to each other, we didn’t realise we were in the full throws of Draw Something addiction. Hugely unsociable, yet very social at the same time. Hugely annoying, yet so much fun and sooooo goddam addictive.

We played on through the day like one big conjoined gaming family. It was as gross as it sounds.

By this point I’d also started games with friends in every far flung corner of the world I could think of… just to add an international flavour to the gaming mix, putting the whole thing on multiple timelines which meant I woke up to whole fresh batch of green ‘ready’ buttons.

It was interesting to see the change in mood over Saturday into Sunday, as the initial excitement suddenly turned to resentment towards this app that had entered our lives and slightly taken over. We were supposed to be enjoying a nice family orientated weekend, but I’m not sure whether this new activity qualified as spending quality time together? The kids continued to start up games with other family members, friends and random strangers around the world.

Me and Mrs H started talking again as we spent the rest of Sunday trying to prepare for friends and family arriving for the Bank Holiday Easter Party we had planned before addiction had kicked in. Little did we realise that what was about to arrive was a tidal wave of Draw Something users…

Monday – some ‘quick draws’ were squeezed in between hoovering, food prep and trying to convince the children that they needed to wear clothes when people came round.(Yes, I bribed them with more Draw time). By the time the afternoon was in full swing we had 15 (of the 26 people in the house) playing, we were a flashmob of Draw Somethings. (If I was a copywriter at this point I would insert a really funny phrase for the collective noun for a group of Draw Something users).

People would slope off to to other rooms in the house to privately send their next pic for fear of over the shoulder sabotage.

It got quite serious. Then we remembered Easter, chocolate and Jesus (all difficult to draw-Jesus. Definitely a 3-coiner). I’ve never experienced anything like it socially, my Nan was playing a friend’s 6-year-old daughter, my wife playing with her sister in New York, me playing with friends in Australia, while all still playing each other, and the games on the go with ‘others’, I’d put the wider circle of players from the visitors we had to be around 100 people interacting in those few hours.

This app is ageless, peerless, classless, I think that’s what put it at the top of the iTunes chart this week (in both paid and free charts).

So did it ruin the weekend? Or did it strangely bring a large group of people together in a conversation which they would never usually have? I’d like to think it did have a positive effect, but like all drugs, there’s a come-down period.

This is what we’re all living through this week as we return to work/school/life. The great thing about apps are the way they enter your life, you may use them for a day, a week, a month, a year or never use them again after your first try, by this time next week there will be another new must-have app (I did chance across this HTML5 drawing app someone has put out for free which already turned my head).

Anyway, my phone is showing the magic red dot with 5 new draws to do, so I’ll have to leave this here. Now… how do you draw the word ‘Addiction’?

The lovely Easter Bunny was beavering away at B&S last week, leaving lots of little delicious treats for us around the office. The infamous Easter Egg Hunt / frenzy took place last Thursday, with an angry-mob-like ferocity and a few folks risking life and limb to grab the treats stashed in those hard to reach places.

Click the link below to see the frenzy. All very Hunger Games.