Kapil’s Korner

What happens when you use a camera to get a few friends together and offer them free booze and food?
(Image copyright is Craig Giffen) 
Craig Giffen just managed to do that and made himself the Human Calendar - the story of which he explains in detail here. It’s nice but I wish they could have [...]

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From today’s Mid-Day - Carlsberg beer’s promotion campaign.
Read the PDF file from Mid-Day’s website.

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During my last trip to Singapore I picked up a very neat piece of stationery - Monologue notebooks. Crudely put this is a cheaper version of the famous Moleskine. But I like to call it the more “affordable version”.

I had a black and a brown notebook and this time I have added the two [...]

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Times OOH is organising the Outdoor Advertising Awards 2008 and sent out mailers to agencies calling for entries.
 (yes, that’s a sexy piece there so go see the full size image)
It’s common knowledge that most of the award entries are scams and made at the last minute with very little actual consumer exposure.  I think [...]

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Life is fun if you can plug in “creative solutions” rather than just solutions. Here are 100 simple ways to be creative shared at The Heart of Innovation. I am going to start practicing a few so that I can put in more interesting stuff in my “idea piggy bank”.
11. Turn on a radio at [...]

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For some strange reason I have been thinking “radio” all of last week. That’s maybe because I spent three sick days last week listening to a lot of music.
— from inframan - (?)
Idea #1: You’ve got TV channels dedicated to religious talks - Aastha, Sanskar and a few more. How about having Radio [...]

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This week’s Monday Mumble has been kind of stuck due to a technical problem.
The Idea: I have set up a MumbaiTraffic twitter channel to which people send in updates based on their traffic experiences. For example, if you are driving to town and notice a large procession at Mahim Junction - you could leave [...]

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This has recently caught my attention and I think anybody who spends hours reading would love to own one of these. This is a product of Nobody & Co. who seem to work on such funky designs, but none as exciting as this one.
Image from TrendHunter Magazine

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Often, there are thoughts, ideas or just sparks which don’t justify a complete blog post for themselves but need to be shared in this space to collect an opinion. Monday Mumble is an attempt to share such bizarre but probably exciting ideas out loud here. Let’s hope I can keep the date every Monday. Here [...]

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My uncle from the US sent me this link and I had a hearty laugh watching the video which Bill Gates showed the audience at CES 2008 show. It’s a small video he created with his office colleagues and some industry experts on his retirement plans.
It became more interesting to post it here, when [...]

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