one last thing before I quit

I came across a cool initiative the other day. It's a project called CitID and it's these guys who are trying to get a different design/identity for every single city in the world. They're hoping to 'harness creatives' loves for their cities and create a global visual anthology of city identities'. Ambitious, much?

LONDON, EnglandBORDEAUX, France

With over 150 cities already done up, there certainly are some unique ones. There's also many places that you may have never heard of. Anyway, I think it's a very creative idea that designers around the world can take part in, be it from the big city, or a basement of a cabin in the woods.

The most surprising thing thus far? There are no entries for ANY Canadian city. There's not one for Toronto, Vancouver or even Montreal. Here's a few more examples:PORTLAND, United States of America

BERLIN, Germany

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands

I encourage you to check out more. Maybe even spend a lazy day drawing up one yourself.

In 2008, I was blessed to see a god on stage. I am fortunate enough to get the chance to see him once again. Neil Young is coming home in July to play back-to-back gigs at the wonderfully fitting Centennial Concert Hall.



I am unbelievably stoked for this show. After seeing him in '08, I never again imagined that he'd make it back to Winnipeg. There's too many words that can be used to describe Young and his imprint in music and politics. He's fought through polio, diabetes, epilepsy and divorce. He's compiled 46 studio albums, 6 live albums, 43 singles and has even directed 5 movies. I'm forever grateful that I've been able to share in part of his 5 decade shining career.

These couple of videos are from his Heart of Gold DVD. Without a doubt, this is the best concert DVD that I have ever seen. It's truly a showcase into his heart. I could no recommend enough for everyone to watch the whole concert.

I have to say that I had mixed feelings over the NHL's series of 'History' playoff commercials. I loved the first batch that features some of the most iconic plays, may them be saves, hits, goals, in hockey history and simply asks 'What if so-and-so didn't do this?'





Now I lost interest when they started taking relevant plays in this year's playoffs and put them in the mix. We'll have to wait many years to actually know if these plays were actually memorable, which I can't imagine the case being. Especially since I don't remember any of these plays, and it's only been a few weeks.



But, I do believe that they have redeem themselves with a new ad. I feel like it truly showcases the emotional and physical toll that it takes on a person. Having been fortunate enough to win a few small things in my lifetime, although the scale is clearly not as large, I can relate to this.



Congratulations Blackhawks! Nice to see the Cup come back to Winnipeg for a bit.

Thanks to Alan Cross for sharing this with us today...

This band is called Rudely Interrupted. They're a six piece from Australia. Their singer, Rory Burnside, lives with Asperger's and was born without eyes. And it gets better. four of the other five members have a kind of disability, including blindness, deafness and Down syndrome. CRAZY!

There's a documentary being made about them. This is the teaser for it. I'm not too sure how much of a release the movie will get.



Then there's a couple live videos. This band is for real folks!

Close My Eyes - Rudely Interrupted from Scope Victoria on Vimeo.

Just saw this the other day. It's a public bathroom in China. It looks fairly nice, and is apparently really busy every day.


Now, I'm very open to new ideas and directions in advertising and awareness. Taking chances are how some of today's best works have been made. But the signage that they use in this bathroom just throws me right off.

I was one of the lucky people to see Arcade Fire play here in Winnipeg back in 2005. I paid $20 for something that I would now pay $100 for. I knew very little about them going in, but they easily won me over right away. I've never been to such a high-octane show before. I was also then introduced to much loved Wolf Parade and Bell Orchestre. It was awesome.

Their 3rd album comes out sometime in the mid - to - late year and they just came out with a teaser for their first single Suburbs as well as it's b-side Month of May. I wouldn't really call this a teaser more as a crumb of a teaser. Click play to enjoy and the song names to switch tracks.



I remember in 2007 when my beloved Foo Fighters covered them. It just melded worlds of awesome together. Good on ya boys!

Happy birthday... YouTube!

5 years ago today, the 2 billion daily user site was born. It's certainly changed all of our lives making the dumbest things ever popular. Here's the first ever video that was uploaded from co-founder Jawed Karim.



Fortunately, it also allows us to see rare gems, like this Pearl Jam cover of a Van Halen song. In all of their cover song glory, I don't know any other time that they've done VH.