Lovely long reads

I’ve started to notice some bloody lovely sites when it comes to reading. No tat around them, lots of thought gone into showcasing what’s really important - the words.

Reading All The Books has a lovely collapsing and contracting header, leaving you with a clean white page and plenty of room to read and no distractions: http://readingallthebooks.com

Medium.com has become a new favourite site, the content is great, always delivering something interesting to read from a broad range of backgrounds. The reading experience here again is super simple and works well on on all devices. Will be interesting to see this one develop and what happens if and when the platform goes more public and away from the closed curation. 

Narrative.ly is a beautiful idea wrapped in an even more stunning new blogging platform. Narative.ly is all about local stories, universally told with weekly themes and stories added around them. This time a visual header is used to introduce the piece and then again strips everything away to leave the reading. 

Six Second Strategy

I needed a little project to refine my Vine skills. Enter - Six Second Strategy. I like the name but will most likely vere off topic, with it becoming more like quotes by intelligent strategist types. It might work nicely after events to sum up the big points. 

Already, this little bit of practice has made me realise how much better it is having a tripod or stand for your phone when Vine’ing.

Damn fine Vines

Draw a carrot https://vine.co/v/bU1xpOa1IDA

Saw driver https://vine.co/v/bUjwx7aVl5h

Charlie Brown https://vine.co/v/bQiInhatpWK

Sketch https://vine.co/v/bQwO11KO6xh

Struggling artist https://vine.co/v/b0dVA9wmQI6

Eat cotton https://vine.co/v/bQHrXULBzUd

Playing with your food https://vine.co/v/bPWbDJVlPjT

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal: https://vine.co/v/bQWtXT2wPnz (more here)

Lowes fix in six
https://vine.co/v/bU61aqq2YOp
https://vine.co/v/bQimiuYgmDV
https://vine.co/v/bQ7BjB0Ugz1
https://vine.co/v/bx9iEFdwvJ0
https://vine.co/v/bPH2WPpnA7r

Winnres of the Tribeca/6-second-video comp

https://vine.co/v/bjVrEnwdOLz

https://vine.co/v/bphpbiKmKJw

https://vine.co/v/bjYvvwqPqET

https://vine.co/v/bTKDi6IKbdg

https://vine.co/v/bTJdVAn2q3p

Taken from: Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album
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Taken from: Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album

What the internet is doing to our brains 10 little known apps that entrepreneurs can’t live without What can we learn from how Daft Punk won the web A camera which makes real life GIFs The funny side of social The secret David Bailey eBay auction Arrested Development season 4 trailer Succeed at anything
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  1. What the internet is doing to our brains

  2. 10 little known apps that entrepreneurs can’t live without

  3. What can we learn from how Daft Punk won the web

  4. A camera which makes real life GIFs

  5. The funny side of social

  6. The secret David Bailey eBay auction

  7. Arrested Development season 4 trailer

  8. Succeed at anything

My most-liked Instagram photos from the past 2 weeks.

Uploaded via autosets.

THE TYRANNY OF ADVERTISING DIGITAL EXPERIENCE IS CONTENT BY ANOTHER NAME OVERESTIMATING THE POWER OF INFLUENCE, WHAT WOULD ASHTON DO? ANDY WHITLOCK ON NICE IDEAS VS GOOD IDEAS AN AMAZING USE OF VINE MARK EARLS ON THE ART OF COPYING
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  1. THE TYRANNY OF ADVERTISING

  2. DIGITAL EXPERIENCE IS CONTENT BY ANOTHER NAME

  3. OVERESTIMATING THE POWER OF INFLUENCE, WHAT WOULD ASHTON DO?

  4. ANDY WHITLOCK ON NICE IDEAS VS GOOD IDEAS

  5. AN AMAZING USE OF VINE

  6. MARK EARLS ON THE ART OF COPYING

A while back I went along to The Lost Lectures, an interesting evening of talks by people from a variety of backgrounds. This was one of my favourites - who knew there were so many mind controlling parasites out there?  

Nobody is watching your Facebook posts… 

Real nice talk and a great thought in there about curiosity as the bait for catching humans. Make your content as interesting, informative and useful as possible, capture those curious minds. 

Best of the Branded Web - April 2013

Best of the branded web this April. Websites, banners, videos, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and a whole lot more - there’s a lot of content on the internet. Some good and some not so good, here’s a round up of the best bits I’ve manage to notice this month.

Content Is Like Crystal Meth

My most-liked Instagram photos from the past 2 weeks.

Uploaded via autosets.

Get custom Nike’s based on your favourite Instagram pictures, alternative way to pick your trainers… but it’s a nice site and experience.  I went for a DoorDitch colour way, not sure I’ll be investing in them just yet though.  http://photoid.nike.com/shoe-detail/53017.htm
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Get custom Nike’s based on your favourite Instagram pictures, alternative way to pick your trainers… but it’s a nice site and experience. 

I went for a DoorDitch colour way, not sure I’ll be investing in them just yet though. 

http://photoid.nike.com/shoe-detail/53017.htm

Source: photoid.nike.com

Finished up the book - REWORK The most highlighting in a book I’ve ever done. Although it can’t all be directly applied it’s a great reference point on how the future of business could be, removing the politics, layers, policy and just getting on with things. 
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Finished up the book - REWORK

The most highlighting in a book I’ve ever done. Although it can’t all be directly applied it’s a great reference point on how the future of business could be, removing the politics, layers, policy and just getting on with things.