Run 4 Cover (Starring : Nigel Sylvester) from 13thWitness™ on Vimeo.
The latest offering from the multitalented 13th Witness, who I’ve been harping on about for a minute.
The guy definitely knows how to use his camera. Nigel Sylvester is pretty nice on a bike. Their talents combine to beautiful effect. Watch and learn.
We All Need Words is one of those ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ companies that aims to help people articulate what they’re all about, both personally and professionally, ‘without the branding bluff.’
Here are five of their writing ‘Unrules’ via the The School of Life, and here’s the link to their site. Worth a look, even if words aren’t your thing. (After all, we all need them.)
Five Unrules:
5. Write short or ‘fragmented’ sentences. Ignore Microsoft Word’s green squiggly line. A sentence can have seven words. Or two. It’s up to you. Play with the length of your sentences to add pace and rhythm to your words.
4. Split infinitives. They can be clunky but they’re not grammatically incorrect.
3. Use contractions (eg that’s instead of that is). They’re a good way to make your writing sound more personal.
2. Don’t sign off letters with ‘Yours Sincerely if you know the person you’re writing to or ‘Yours Faithfully’ if you don’t. ‘Yours Sincerely?’ It’s 2010. You don’t need to use stuffy formality like this anymore (or start letters with ‘Dear Sir’ or ‘Dear Sir / Madam’ for that matter).
1. And you can start a sentence with ‘and’ or ‘but’. We just did.
And a bonus rule from Kurt Vonnegut:
‘Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.’
Brilliant idea, beautifully executed. I’m a fan.
I told you lot about WAH Nails before. In fact, I told you twice.
In case you missed those posts, the moral of the story is: Best nail salon in London. I played it characteristically safe with the Shellac and nail art I had done today (see above), but these women can literally do anything. Yep. Anything.
DELS – Shapeshift from us (design studio) on Vimeo.
DELS makes hip hop that he describes as “raw and honest”, and which I’d also describe as thoughtful, refreshing, imaginative, well-executed and unexpected. He also conceptualises phenomenal music videos like this one, for his new single ‘ShapeShift’. Produced in collaboration with the sickeningly talented us design studio (the team behind this very website) this pretty much blows every other contemporary UK urban music video out of the water. DELS recently signed to Roots Manuva’s Big Dada label, so expect more high-calibre music and visuals from him in the near future.
Taking the hazardous practice of drunk shopping to new levels, Freak City LA is a vintage clothing shop that also hosts regular jams in its huge warehouse space on Sunset Boulevard. After dancing like a crazed maniac for about four hours, I wandered upstairs to the club’s shop and ended up walking out with a polo Ralph Lauren crew neck and a vest by the brand’s own label, LA Rap (see below). Genius concept – the sales assistant could’ve talked me into buying the whole shop, such were my levels of inebriation – great selection of retro clothing and one of the funnest, sweatiest, most raucous parties I’ve been to in a long time as well. Oh, and they serve free booze. Can’t go wrong really.
Check them out here.
The very lovely Sharmadean Reid and her very lovely nail salon WAH Nails were featured on Mistajam’s new BBC series ‘No Hats No Trainers’ today. See Sharma talk nailz, and then watch Kid Sister getting hers did in the salon, from about six minutes in.