The Olympics Begin!

Hello there and happy Friday everyone!


Today is a momentous occasion - it's the day my city hosts the Olympics! I know that people must be sick of seeing posts about it by now but I'm extremely excited. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity! I, myself, am attending two different games and I cannot wait to don my Team GB t-shirt and cheer everyone on. I hope you enjoy it as much as I will :)


It's very hot here in the UK at the moment though (I know, right?!). In fact it was so hot last night I couldn't sleep, so I set about using Illustrator to create this little guy: I call him Noah and that's his dog, Whale.

He's completely digitally drawn and I just wanted to share him with the world :) 
Fun Fact: Before I realised my dream of becoming an advertising copywriter, I wanted to be a cartoonist but I didn't think I'd make the cut! Let's face it, I'm no Akira Toriyama ;)


Anyway, I have a few vids to share with you as well today and so I shall start with this one:

*sniggers* you all saw that, right?? :P so that's where Spiderman comes from! Well, Batman has the Bat Cave ... I suppose it's quite similar!


This next video is awesome. I had a go once and just made plinky plonky noises - these girls show you how it's meant to be done!

How cool is that?! What a great job. "Oh, what do you do?" "Ah, I play the giant piano and FAO Schwarz." Amazing.


The last video I'm going to post is something that I can't wait for. Have you ever read the book The Life of Pi? If you haven't, maybe check it out because it really is a fantastic book - one of the best I've read. If movies are more your thing though, you're in luck, as they're now releasing it onto the big screen. This is the trailer.

Excellent stuff. This year has been great for films, I'm impressed, though I'm sure the film everyone is talking about at the moment is The Dark Knight Rises - am I right? :P
It was a pretty amazing film though!


That's enough rambling from me for today anyway. Whatever you're up to tonight, whether you're watching the Opening Ceremonies or not, have a good one! I know I will :) (it's take away night in our house so bring on the Domino's Pizza!)

Thanks for reading,
Robyn

Will you marry me?

Hello everyone! It's been a while.

Since my last post I've finished my course, graduated, did my degree show, did a placement, visited agencies, been to New Blood in London and much much more :) but still, apologies for the silence! It's official that summer has begun though so hopefully I'll be able to blog a bit more.

Just to make you all aware I have changed my blog a little and added my portfolio, CV and some others bits to pages which can be found above ^ ^ ^ so you can have a nosey at my work without even leaving the site! Which is much handier for everyone ;)

Over the last few weeks there have been a few videos that have stood out to me, some of which are pretty cool, check them out below --->




The first video is something I found totally weird but also totally cool which is this:

Wow. It must have hurt and when new technology comes out he'll most likely be kicking himself but it is still quite awesome. Although, to be honest, you could probably just change the animation over and over to make it even cooler so I thumbs up the idea :) though I would never get it done myself! Anyone got any cool ideas already on what to put in the animation - I'd love to hear what you think?

The second video is along the same sort of techy lines:

I think it's got some scope in it and I'd love to see what the first ad is that uses that kind of technology. I'm sure someone somewhere will come up with an ingenious plan for that!

These next two videos are something I couldn't resist posting as I laughed quite a lot at both of them:

Excellent. I think they're both great simply for the laughs; how they convinced Van Damme to do that I have no idea but it's brilliant anyway :D one of my favourite ads at the moment purely for s**ts and giggles ^_^

The final video I'm going to post is quite a mean one but something else I found quite funny:

Haha! I'd kill him for that but I think I'd still see the funny side and it is pretty original :) do you think he 'fell for her' big time? haha ... lame I know.

Well, that's me for now. Sadly I have to leave as I'm off to the pub for a big catch up with friends after all our hard work this past month. Have a good night everyone, I'll post again as soon as I can!

Cya! x