More reasons to love the internets. You ramble around it and find lovely creative people just doing stuff for their own amusement.

First up, Three Frames. Hypnotic.

Next, Ilovehotdogs. A film captured in a few screen shots.

(Skatetown USA)

Movies In Frames. One movie, four frames.

(Point Break)

Screenshots. Someone who has screen-grabbed the title of every movie he’s ever watched. Wow.

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When asked (at some imaginary dinner party) for my favourite quote my prepared response is Wilde:

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation”

Wry hey? Not really. Just pretenious.

I’ve got back into ffffound again and have been drawn to the recent mass of quotes made pretty that have been popping up all over the place.

Here are a few of my favourites.

a real design nerd one

and my absolute favourite

find them all on ffffound

No escaping it, we are as beautiful and easily led as cows. Dancing cows. Moo.

Thanks to Mattyboomboom and @herdmeister

Today I’ve listened to 21021 tracks since I joined last.fm. And the 21021th was I am an astronaut, the most loveliest Snow Patrol track. Isn’t that nice? I like symmetry. Symmetry in numbers makes me especially happy.  Small pleasures.

1995. What a year. A year when the internet didn’t really exist. No mobile phones. No iPods. No email. No nothing really. Just a soulless existence where you had to actually be on time to meet people and where Blur were preparing to do  battle with Oasis.

Well I’ve been forcibly transported back to that happy year as my iPhone has been sent to hospital.  Apparently they don’t appreciate being watered and my insurance company insists on inspecting its damaged carcass before asking Apple for a new one. For two long weeks I will be incommunicado via a mobile telephony device.  This is the first time for 10 years I have been without a phone for more than one day. This may get difficult especially given I am addicted to all things internets and insist on having a constant soundtrack to my life piped directly into my earholes. Instant cold turkey.  Probably in 5 hours I’ll be curled up in a corner shivering and covered in my own vomit. Or I’ll feel strangely liberated. Maybe this is the very push I need to stop checking twitter every 5 minutes?

Only a very long two week time will tell.

I entertained myself greatly for all of today when I changed my facebook language to pirate.  Everyone should do this. Or rather everyone probably did it for a day way back ages ago (like, so last year duh) when everyone heard about it.  I’ve been blissfully unaware of the delights of checking your ‘bottle o’messages’ or liking a link by saying ‘it be pleasin to me eye’. They’ve translated everything, it’s brilliant:  adverts be ‘hawkin’; events be ‘grog fests’; you can scrawl on people’s planks (haha), or share by ‘divving the spoils me hearties’.  There is nothing that is not amusing about this me mateys.

Arrrrr.

My clients Vodafone have dun and gone something nicey…

No more silly prices for calls when you’re on holiday this summer.  Now you can blabber away like you would normally whilst lying on a beach.  Probably shouting down the phone:

‘I’m on the beach…. ….it’s rubbish’ 

It’s nice working on a brand that does something that’s easy to market.  Everyone likes holidays, everyone likes blabbering on their phones, therefore everyone will like blabbering on their phones on holiday: WIN.

Just had a quick renewal of my faith in humans.  The fact that Ow Charlie you bit me is ranked top youtubes ever is just so utterly lovely. Well done world.

I’m not entirely sure what I would do if I ruled the world. Probably make David Tennent my boyfriend and have the rivers made of tea.  We at Dare with Vodafone have been busy asking facebook what they would do if they ruled the world and it seems that everyone has lots to say.  About 4000 comments in 2 days.  Some barking mad, some with dreadful spelling and shouty capitals, some heart warming, and some stomach churning.

What would you do if you ruled the world? Join the thronging masses and let Vodafone know.  The good (and doable ones) Vodafone will actually set about in making happen. Nice hey?