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Over the past few months I've gradually been honing my music library to the point where I now almost exclusively listen to Bruce Springsteen. His music holds an overwhelming sense of nostalgia and I often find myself longing to be cruising along Route 66 in Jersey with my old girlfriend back in '77.

This is weird for many reasons since I never grew up listening to The Boss (my parents were firmly planted in the Bryan Adams camp), I've never been on Route 66 or in New Jersey and, most importantly, I wasn't alive in 1977. Nevertheless, this doesn't stop me from hollerin' along to The River like a 19-year old blue-collared construction worker and really, really meaning it.

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One of my favourite illustrators, Lois van Baarle, just finished her final animation project and here is the result. Genius.

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Heck yes.

Commence.

Hey friends!

In this blog I'm generally just going to post stuff (and things) that I find interesting, beautiful or rad at the time. Pictures, music, movies etc. Hope you enjoy.

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Lately I've been really enjoying the new side-project of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon where he teams up with the instrumental band Collection of Colonies of Bees. The music is ridiculously atmospheric and the first time I listened to the album I just lay on the floor of my bedroom spacing out for the full 35.2 minutes.

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The new trailer for Halo 3 ODST is of a level unparalleled in advertising history.

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I know I'm late in the game here but I started watching AMC's Mad Men a few weeks ago. The quality of the show is astonishing with the 60's vibe bleeding out of the television. I've only been in the real advertising world for nearly 2 years but this harkens back to a golden age where advertising ruled the world as the new artform. Now we have to resort to cunning and trickery or just plain begging.

Additionally, never before has smoking and daytime drinking looked so appealing.

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And the images of the day.