Or is THAT DRESS, Fifty Shades of Grey?

That stupid colour changing dress! I see it as white and gold for about 30 seconds every time I look at it, then it's blue and black.

How about this, 50 shades of grey version.

...wait for it.

Jack Daniels | Bar Stories

http://barstories.jackdaniels.com

Take a moment of your day to admire the sheer beauty of design seen on the Jack Daniels Bar Stories microsite. It's so beautifully designed and so enticing that you'll want to waste your hours watching every little video on the page. I've watched one so far, 'The Babysitters Club', it was hilarious and brilliant.

You can also see here http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/how-media-monks-built-jack-daniels-stories-from-the-bar/ the behind-the-scenes story of how this site came to fruition.

Wonderful stuff for a monday!

Kris Wilson - more reasons why he's awesome

I posted a long time ago about Kris Wilson and his awesome comics. It has been my most popular blog post and he's produced even more brilliant and hilarious content since. Here's a couple of my favourite Kris Wilson comics I've seen recently.

Jar of Hate

Throw

To Kris Wilson I say thanks for the comics and keep up the great work. Always like seeing my Facebook wall pop up with a new work of yours. Make every day that little bit more hilarious/bearable/disgusting/outrageous/politicly incorrect/racist/sexist well everything really! Cheers!

Her (2013) | ★★★★

Took every megabyte of my breath away

Director Spike Jonze has taken the simple notion of a man falling in love with a computer and wrapped it beautifully this complex, intricate and charming story. It is a story that portrays a not-so-distant future where technology has advanced so far that computers now have an intuition and actually develop a personality based on their interactions and experiences.

So, take this notion and combine it with a man(Theodore; played by Joaquin Phoenix) who has just split from his wife, childhood sweetheart nonetheless, and needs some form of connection and companionship to bring his life back to order. This companionship comes in the shape of Samantha, a brand new computer operating system (O.S.).

Theodore is hesitant at first but soon realises that Samantha is much more than just an operating system and quickly becomes rather attached to his new friend. Samantha has a fresh and excited outlook on life, and through her eyes Theodore becomes much happier and positive as a person. This relationship soon develops and becomes much more, there are questions to be answered and in some cases they may not find the answer they are looking for. Is it really possible to be in love with an OS?

There are a few other little sub-plots in the story, one of my favourite little bits being Theodore's career. He works for 'hand-written-romantic-letters.com' *or something like that) who provide a service for loved ones to send letters to their darlings without having to actually write it. Not exactly a nice thought, that a service like that would be so in demand that it made a profitable business, but the silver lining is that Theodore's writing is absolutely sublime. The letters he writes are beautiful. I won't add in a spoiler here but this sub-plot has a sweet development later in the film that was a great little surprise, thanks for that one Spike Jonze.

This film makes you think, what is a 'normal' relationship anyway!? All we really need is to fill our lives with joy.

It's a medium-pace romantic film with a hint of sci-fi futuristicness. Defintiely watch it if that's the kind of mood you're in, it will not disappoint.

★★★★

Elysium (2013)

Intelligent, exhilarating, a brilliant sci-fi film.

Following District 9 Neill Blomkamp had to pull out all the stops on his next film to continue impressing audiences and cement his position as an excellent sci-fi direct. With Elysium he has done precisely that.

Based in 2154, the wealthiest of the human population now live on a space-station called Elysium. Disease and suffering has been eradicated and they live in a life of luxury. Earth itself is over-populated and ruined. What makes this film different and particularly interesting is the portrayal of both a utopian and dystopian futures.

The visual styling of the dystopian earth is instantly recognisable as a Blomkamp world, similarities between it and the scenes in District 9 can be seen right down to the design of the weapons. It is a style that makes for very believable sci-fi.

Matt Damon once again puts in a great performance, but it is Sharlto Copley(District 9) in the role of the baddie called ‘Kruger’ who really steals the show. Every time he is part of a scene he commands all of your attention as a viewer. It’s a starkly different character and personality to the role Copley played in District 9, and a credit to his acting prowess.

I was fully entertained by this film. A brilliant sci-fi and the best part is that it’s an action film too! What more could you ask for?

I fully recommend this film.

★★★★

(this review is from www.bigscreenbullfrog.wordpress.com)

What a BARGAIN!

You really don't get deals like you used to!

New Yellow Digital site

New site finally launched at Yellow Digital!

After months of planning and build our new (fully responsive) site is now live and kicking. And we're even going to make an effort to keep our blog up to date, so keep your eyes peeled for the latest news and going on in our news section.

Enjoy!

Monsters added to dull landscapes

"Mountain Monster" by Chris McMahon 

"Ropin Cowboys" by Thyrza Segal 

"Throat shark is looking for a good time" by Chris McMahon

One of the most creative thing to do after a car boot sale. Turn those tired, old lanscapes into brilliant monster pictures! Artists Chris McMahon and Thyrza Segal have each added a fantastic collection of monsters to dull landscape paintings that they found at various yard sales and thrift stores. Prints of the enhanced paintings by Thyrza (Etsy) and Chris (deviantART) are available to purchase online.

Google; Atari Breakout

Get yourself onto Google's image search today and type in 'Atari Breakout', you won't be disappointed. The Google team, have wisely spent their time making a version of Breakout using the images found in the search, it even has sound effects!!!
Once you complete the level it even continues by reloading the game with images from a random other search.

Enjoy everyone!

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Google Chrome - Replacement Icon

Put together a new Google Chrome icon for my dock last night. My fiancée Jess prefers the big G version, I think I prefer the lower case. Enjoy! Can send .icns file, simply request in the comments below. Cheers!

What's the hype?

LINK TO MASHABLE ARTICLE

Today on Mashable is a post about the amazing revalation of Nokia releasing a phone for only $20! Wow! What value, what a genius idea by Nokia, if only phone companies had thought of this before, finally we're saved from the extortionate prices of smartphone! No.

Great, they've released a new phone, but it's not the first time they've released a cheap starter phone and I'm sure won't be the last. Other companies do it to, even Tesco have one, although it's more like a pocket calculator and is I'm pretty sure it's made from bio-degradable cardboard!

This is not an awe-inspiring, incredible new release and I think Mashable might be scraping the barrel here trying to make an interesting article. The phone doesn't even look that good, just a re-hash of old tech in a slightly newer looking case. 35day battery life? Well for anyone who wasn't already aware, welcome to the world of cheap Nokias, battery life and reliability are generally what they're known for.

So Mashable, stop trying to manufacture hype for a product that really couldn't be less intersting!

Stevie Wonder vs Metallica

Some mash-ups are just worth sharing.

One of the best I've heard, Stevie Wonder vs Metallica

Kudos to Wax Audio for this gem!

Grey London

Grey London are a digital advertising agency based in Hatton Gardens in London. This is now just round the corner from our new Yellow Digital office.

When posting a birthday card for my mum last week it was hard to miss the big, fancy office building of Grey London. They definitely don't do things by halves these guys! And that certainly goes for their advertising campaigns too. I knew I'd heard of them before, and their online portfolio proves why I recognise them.

Being a Westcountry lad my favourite out of their campaigns is definitely Bill Bailey's role in the FACE campaign. Horse eggs, genius Bill, just genius.

The other favourite has to be the space chair, a fantastic concept and the final footage they gathered was incredible. Stunning HD video of a chair in space, very impressive. It's a big backhanded compliment when you do something so well people think it must be fake and just CGI.

Check out Grey London's website for a great injection of inspiration today! You won't be disappointed.

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Tinke Literally Takes Your Breath!

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Singapore agency Kilo took on the project of giving local product developer Zensorium a presence on the global marketplace, and boy did they do that!

Firstly, the product itself brilliant. the Tinke is a quick and easy way to check your fitness by simply putting your thumb onto two sensors and plugging the device into your iPhone. It's the only one of its kind on the market and is so simple yet so effective. It's bound to spawn many copycat devices, but this is the original and therefore the best. Check out the website for more info on the Tinke.

Now to the design! I was absolutely amazed at the sheer beauty of the site. They use the vertical scroll to animate the Tinke from one section to another and smoothly transition each step of the process with a beauty and simplicity that is simply breathtaking. I have seen this technique used before but never this comprehensively and well designed.

Check out the Web Designer Magazine article for a full interview with the Kilo team who are the genius behind the site. Full respect for them and this wonderful piece of design. Inspired... and then some!

Jessicas Organics

Looking for a something for her? Well look no further! Jessicas Organics has just launched and is a fantastic store offering a whole range of organic pampering products and hand-made jewellery.

I can personally say that the products are all of fantastic quality and all natural. No artificial shit here! Nice to know we won't have to put some unknown chemicals and crap on our skin, who knows what processes they go through these days for mass produced products. Jessicas provides you with the peace of mind in knowing exactly what you're putting on your skin.

I'd definitely recommend the Bee Beautiful Bath Bomb, it's a great way to relax after a long day and your skin comes out feeling super soft! As for Christmas gifts, the Gift Set is perfect, affordable and comes beautifully wrapped.

Overall its a fantastic new shop. Not only will you be supporting a small business start-up, but you'll get some of the best all-natural products out there, the quality is incredible.

Check out Jessicas Orangics HERE

100,000 Stars Web GL

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This is an ambsolutely amazing WebGL built site. Much like one I previously featured where you could look through objects of different sizes by scrolling, this let you zoom in and out of our known universe. I've always been facinated by astronomy and to see this really pulls on my heart and brain strings! Knowing that we are a tiny spec in this gargantuan universe spreading across thousands of light years, and the fact that we know all of this exists is simply phenomenal. Makes you feel so very small, yet so very special. If we really are the only life in this vast space then we are an incredibly lucky little planet.

Web lovers and astronomy lovers will enjoy this incredible site. Check it out NOW!

I bagged me a shark!

Everyone's A Winner!

Latest illustration

I wouldn't mind winning this guy at the fair!

Angry Birds Star Wars

Angry Birds Star Wars was released today! The next Chapter has now begun, may the force be EMU!

Follow this link to download it now!

RIP Ceefax

At 23.30 BST tonight, Dame Mary Peters will turn off the analogue tv signal from Northern Ireland, meaning the end of 38 years of service for BBC Ceefax.

The idea when it was conceived was to give the public free access to the latest news as soon as it hit the BBC newsroom. It was named Ceefax after the simple basis that it enables users to 'see facts' from the day.

It's a sad departure to a well loved feature of analogue tv's. I still remember the 3-digit code for the 'non and next' programme viewer (606) and used to love the old quiz game Bamboozle!

Goodbye Ceefax, our big-pixeled friend! You will not be forgotten.


Click here to see the full BBC article with even more interesting facts about Ceefax!

** CORRECTION -- Bamboozle was on Teletext, not Ceefax**

We Love Digital

Quite simply a beautiful online presence for this fabulous digital agency based in Kent. Also check out one of their latest site designs, drippinginfat.com

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