Entries from August 2008
Bumped into this one via a email forward and I thought it was really interesting to have one in the bag when out shooting. Quik Pod - the EXTENDABLE handheld tripod. [website]
It’s a great “hand extension” as defined in one of the TV reviews displayed at the website. I am thinking of putting this on [...]
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Tags: Photography
Go to ideamumbai.com and test your knowledge about Mumbai and it’s lingos to earn yourself the Jhakaas certificate. I earned mine with a score of 10/10.
A good viral activity which creates curiosity and is done in a very interesting and interactive manner.
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Tags: Branding · Internet/Blog
August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Happened to see these two tvcs in the past few days and I thought they had a strong similarity. Sports was the theme and the fact that they both try and talk about the fusion of music from non-conventional instruments.
See if for yourself - Sony Ericsson W350i and Samsung F480. Let me know what [...]
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Tags: Advertising
Tags: Photography
A vision is something you can never achieve, otherwise one will die of short sightedness. We always have a challenge to face up to.- Colvyn Harris, CEO of JWT India.
The Germans and British no longer believe anything you say in an ad,” he said. That makes advertising pretty pointless. You have to think of [...]
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Tags: Thoughts
Few years back the entry of low-cost airlines had made the dream of flying a reality for the common man in India. But with rising fuel costs the experience maybe a short-lived one.
However there is a certain class of people for whom we should sponsor air-tickets so that our train journey is a better [...]
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Tags: General · Travel
August 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Membership to a DVD library really tempts you to call for a movie every night. But I guess getting one movie a week is what I manage. Just finished watching Death at a Funeral (absolutely hilarious) and The Bucket List (ok!).
And this is how my current have-to-watch movie list looks like:
Orange County
Almost Famous
Shattered Glass
2 [...]
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Tags: Entertainment
Wordle, the new buzz online. I first saw it on Thomas Hawk’s blog and then Saurabh put one on his blog too.
What’s Wordle?Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your [...]
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Tags: Creativity · Internet/Blog
From the Sunday edition of DNA.
Click on cartoon to enlarge image.
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Tags: General
August 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
My office has 3 printers on which we print our daily documents. One of them is right next to my table and every morning I see a bucketful of trash which has been printed and ignored without bothering to either dump the waste or even bother to use the other side of the paper. And [...]
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Tags: Workplace