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chill with the still

Posted on by Becky Green (was McMichael)

You know sometimes when you feel the power of an ad/viral/wom campaign and just cannot help be pulled into finding more about it? Well the latest one to do that to me is the Oasis ad seen here on youtube and talked about on my Twitterfeed by Tom Nixon.

I just spent 30 minutes trying to work out where the music is from (finally settled on True Romance/Badlands – hat tip my husband for the latter) and numerous Google searches revealed people are already discussing it. Added on 2 July it only has about 2000 hits so far so I’ll enjoy watching to see if this one becomes a win.

why the whale is a win not a fail

Posted on by Becky Green (was McMichael)

I am loving the fail whale at the moment, despite it usually only coming into my life when Twitter has temporarily popped its clogs.

Thanks to a post by the apparently zen James Governor (very relaxed about the amount of Twitter downtime these days), I now know who created the whale and it seems like the artist has tapped into the current conversation too as the whale is now microblogging here and has its own fanclub with a range of pretty cool merchandise! The whale-a-razzi tag is taking it a bit far though, even for a geek like me.

Anyway, here‘s a link to some more work by the artist, Yiying Lu – it is ace, check it out.