SPINNING AROUND: SEVENTY SEVEN THINKING OUT LOUD

PITCH MUSIC INSPIRATION

Sorry ... another really busy week this week. Pitching again, y'know? Lots of music-related bits and bobs at the moment, so thought that I would take rare advantage and blog some of the bits and bobs that have been inspiring me in that very field ...

Largely, these are thanks to pitch colleague, Chris Reed, who has been diligently collecting them in expecation that their time will come at some stage ... and lo it has.

First up, the Williams Fairey Brass Band's Acid Brass ...

Then there's this absolutely cracking track. I particularly recommend it from about forty seconds in ... by a group called Frumptarn Guugenband.

The other two chaps who have been really rather blowing me away are these two: Nathan "Flutebox" Lee and Beardyman, both of whom have a totally different and individual take on all things beatbox. Has to be watched to be understood, really ...

SOUTHWEST STEWARD ROCKS THE PLANE

Southwest (forerunner of all things easyJet) is a brand that is the stuff of legend in branding circles. Watching this, you can understand why ...

DAMN UNIQLO FOREVER

I am now sorely irritated. Uniqlo have done another really, really good thing. This time around (the latest in their range of digital branded widgetty content campaigns), they've created a calendar.

Alongside the weather for a range of international locations, there are cute short, time-lapse films of Japan. By all accounts, "tilt-shift techniques" are what has distorted these mini-movie masterpieces to make them look like man-made models ...

Do feel free to pop the sound on ... I muted it because it kept playing evertime I loaded the page and got a bit annoying.

THANKS, ROB!

Having another bugger of a week with a pitch or two and lots of fun client stuff to be working on. So a quick one to say "thanks Rob" for making Spinning Around his blog of the week this week. Too kind, sir, too kind. A star and a gentleman indeed, I would say.

APPLE'S WALL OF FUN ...

For their world wide developer's conference, those clever people at Apple made a rather crazy cool representation of the top 20,000-downloaded apps from the iPhone app store.

It's actually a seriously interesting thing ... with icons lighting and creating little ripples everytime another is downloaded live in the store. Clever stuff, I thought ...

LITERAL VIDEO MARVELLOUSNESS

You really do learn something new every day as it turns out.

I'd not come across literal videos before. So being sent this one by the missus (who in turn got it from the lovely Sarah Schofield (former colleague and good egg) was rather marvellous. If a trifle barking. Who's going to use it as an ad creative first, then?

BEATLES ROCK BAND TRAILER: STUNNING

Our Lucy is out in LA at E3 at the moment (actually, she'll be on her way home shortly). However, before she left the big city, she thoughtfully knocked over the trailer for the Beatles Rock Band game. What a stunner ...

MORE NON-ADVERTISING SHENANIGANS

A film by Chris Gavin. Which just goes to show that there are many lo-tech ways of creating great work ...

THE UK'S TOP MARKETING WEBLOGS

Hello lovely people ... For once in recent times, we've sorted out the charts on time (more-or-less), So this month's tables and all that are all below. Hope that they find you well and generally having good months of it. Without further ado, those charts in full ...

UK	Global
1 (5)	29 (20)	Chris Garrett on New Media
2 (1)	38 (5)	Econsultancy's Internet Marketing Blog
3 (-1)	40 (-1)	russell davies
4 (0)	43 (1)	NevilleHobson.com
5 (0)	44 (2)	David Airey
6 (-5)	50 (-16)	Blogstorm
7 (1)	91 (8)	Crenk
8 (1)	94 (17)	FreshNetworks Blog
9 (2)	108 (6)	SEOptimise
10 (2)	125 (3)	Nick Burcher
11 (5)	139 (31)	PR Blogger
13 (7)	150 (44)	This Is HERD
14 (-4)	152 (-40)	adliterate
15 (-2)	164 (-6)	Social Media Trader
16 (45)	173 (347)	Only Dead Fish
17 (10)	186 (72)	Interactive Marketing Trends
18 (1)	188 (2)	Rubbishcorp
19 (29)	190 (224)	Technobabble 2.0
20 (-6)	191 (-31)	UK Affiliate Marketing Blog
21 (1)	196 (36)	SEOCO Blog
22 (-4)	197 (-14)	FeverBee
23 (-6)	205 (-32)	Event Manager Blog
24 (-3)	211 (6)	The Engaging Brand
25 (-18)	215 (-124)	Crackunit
26 (12)	222 (114)	Blendingthemix
27 (13)	228 (122)	A PR Guy's Musings
28 (-13)	231 (-69)	Welcome to Optimism
29 (1)	253 (12)	That Canadian Girl
30 (-4)	271 (-19)	HERD
31 (-2)	272 (-8)	Collective Conversation
32 (-9)	290 (-57)	50-Plus Marketing
33 (-8)	304 (-64)	Modern Marketing
34 (0)	319 (-23)	Drew B's take on tech PR
35 (-11)	321 (-82)	Faster Future
36 (17)	323 (113)	Mediaczar
37 (-6)	340 (-56)	Spinning Around
38 (4)	342 (12)	UK Internet Marketing Blog
39 (-3)	345 (-29)	SEOgadget.co.uk
40 (-1)	346 (1)	renaissance chambara
41 (16)	365 (115)	Brand Strategy Magazine Blog
42 (-1)	368 (-17)	Make Marketing History
43 (-8)	371 (-72)	Apple Pie & Custard
44 (-1)	375 (-4)	Andrew R H Girdwood
45 (-13)	377 (-92)	PR Media Blog
47 (13)	400 (105)	The Renegade Agency Confessional
48 (-11)	401 (-77)	Life Moves Pretty Fast
49 (1)	411 (12)	London Calling
50 (-17)	416 (-128)	The Way of the Web
51 (4)	417 (36)	livingbrands
52 (NEW)	423 (NEW)	Hobo UK SEO Company Blog
53 (-25)	429 (-167)	Brendan Cooper
54 (-10)	433 (-51)	greenormal
55 (-4)	437 (-10)	Liberate Media blog
56 (2)	445 (43)	Shiny Red
57 (27)	467 (255)	Sturgeon's Law
58 (-12)	468 (-77)	Simon Wakeman
59 (-7)	472 (-42)	never get out of the boat
60 (19)	501 (152)	PPC Blog
62 (4)	525 (38)	Real Fresh TV
63 (13)	531 (115)	Wadds' tech pr blog
64 (-5)	538 (-46)	Simonsays
65 (8)	540 (80)	The Web Pitch.com
66 (NEW)	548 (NEW)	further and faster
67 (-18)	565 (-148)	The Ad Pit
68 (1)	568 (26)	Measurement Matters
69 (-6)	574 (-39)	Beyond PR
70 (-14)	575 (-101)	Fraser's Affiliate Marketing Blog
71 (-1)	578 (26)	From PR to Eternity
72 (3)	583 (55)	10 Yetis PR Blog
73 (8)	596 (69)	Confessions of a Wannabe Ad Man
74 (4)	608 (40)	General Marketing Blog
75 (10)	615 (113)	(Almost) Always Thinking
77 (-23)	643 (-196)	Rock Star PR
78 (2)	647 (15)	Digital Marketing from Cheeze
79 (-5)	649 (-28)	Nicola Davies
80 (6)	659 (83)	PR Voice
81 (-34)	660 (-252)	Indolent.com
82 (5)	663 (84)	The Rosemont Loving
83 (-11)	675 (-64)	Brandgym Blog
84 (-16)	678 (-90)	middledigit
86 (-22)	697 (-138)	mediations
87 (-20)	698 (-118)	Digital Examples
88 (2)	701 (73)	Organic Frog
90 (-19)	715 (-110)	25 letters in the alphabet
91 (0)	733 (63)	Freshen me up
92 (-10)	737 (-33)	Raw Stylus
93 (-1)	740 (66)	Ginger and Proud
95 (-33)	763 (-240)	Living in a digital world
96 (-8)	764 (-12)	The New Marketing
97 (NEW)	769 (NEW)	Curiously Persistent
98 (4)	786 (110)	Nitmesh
99 (-5)	795 (45)	Unleashed on Marketing
100 (-4)	810 (56)	Vincent Thome's Blog
101 (0)	811 (83)	Pudding Relations
102 (-7)	818 (29)	[Bluurb] stuff and things
103 (-6)	820 (56)	Norton's Notes
104 (-15)	839 (-86)	A Mountain Dweller in the Thames Valley
105 (-40)	852 (-291)	One Size Fits One
106 (-23)	853 (-133)	Buzz Attitude
107 (-30)	856 (-209)	CarbonGraffiti
108 (-9)	862 (17)	All Things PR
109 (-9)	874 (9)	Engage: the Carve Consulting blog
110 (-7)	879 (33)	The Red Rocket
111 (-18)	890 (-77)	DaveChaffey.com
112 (-14)	897 (-19)	noticing
113 (-68)	920 (-532)	Creative in London
115 (-9)	941 (-15)	In the Cowshed
116 (-12)	944 (-23)	Punch Blog
117 (-9)	960 (-17)	PRwordSmith
118 (-9)	973 (-12)	From the Cowshed
119 (-12)	975 (-46)	Offer and Acceptance
120 (-15)	987 (-63)	Yet Another Planning Blog

For those who may be interested, this chart is based on the AdAge Power 150, the top UK bloggers on all things advertising and marketing on 1 August 2008. If you feel that you should be included, you can get in touch with AdAge here, who will sort you out. As soon as you're in, I'll pick you up in this filleting of the AA chart.

BECAUSE NOT ALL CLIENTS ARE GOOD

LIONS IN TRAINING

Has to be said, this is some SERIOUSLY smart work for the Lions Tour idents. Shame that the team aren't performing quite up to the standard of this hype if their first performance is anything to go by ...

As knicked from the excellent IFTABTWIC?