STOP! Hammertime.

MC Hammer's new TV Series, "Hammertime" starts June 14th... SO to pump up this epic event, a flash mob was created! I think they're dancing in an H & M too, where there are only skinny hipster jeans for miles around.. no golden hammerpants for sale there, that's for sure.

Mix the Rainbow

This music maker by Agency.com is making me snack-happy. Is there a rainbow around here?

Extreme Sheep Herding

Do you have a flock of sheep with highly trained sheep dogs? Are you bored? Do you want to do something more artistic and creative with your life? Try LED sheep herding! 

Samsung Extreme Sheep LED Art
by sertanarig

Way to go Samsung on one of my favourite viral vids! 

Infatables.

GOOD street art is a rare sight in here in Edmonton. We have the "listen" bird and a couple of other genius-like taggers (who usually refer to moms, sluts, gays, 4:20, cronic or blunts). Sometimes we even have the odd shopping cart or Sun Newspaper box artistically thrown on top of bus shelter - that just takes my breath away... But what I really want to see here one day is something even remotely as awesome as this: 

Please? 

Bubblicious

This is just rad. Go Rex the Dog!

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

Make it pretty.

Allthough I am yet to be a proud owner of an iphone, I can still dream about it, right? Check out these gelskins for the iphone, your ibook and other digi-gear. 

My potential iphone skin would be.....

my girl, Tara McPherson of course!

More Gelaskins here.

Squeakytime.

Now, since most racy commercials are only in seen in Europe, and then subsequentially banned, here's a Durex ad that was straight to WWW. This newish "balloon" commercial is truley a piece of viral marketing genius! 

Outakes here!

Buraka Som Sistema!

Here's a new one for my ipod!

 

The boys of Barakas - AKA Lil' John, Riot and Conductor - have been playing in Lisbon clubs since the late 90's and are now touring the world with the release of their new Black Diamond ep. Taking the beats of Angolan Kudro music and melding it with 21st century electronics, they've created a whole new sound - complete with guest vocals from including guest vocals from Petty, M.I.A., Pongolove, Kalaf, Nolay and DJ Znobia. Their electro ghettotech take their favourite South West African music is definitely danceable in my books. Their music videos are pretty rad too.

First post!

So it begins. 

I've thought about starting a blog for some time now. Something to keep track of what I find cool and awesome on the interwebs, and something to keep track of me. I considered keeping this private, but I doubt I will even have many followers other than my mom, and sister, and a few others, so I figured, why not? 

To start, I want to explain how HARD it was to even come up with the name calico ice cream! I had a huge list of names and even had some input from Nathan. I'm quite finicky when it comes to things that are tied to me, like design and this name. I decided on calico ice cream for a couple of reasons: 1. Mine and Nathan's first cat is named Teika, and she's a calico, and because of that, my freelance design work falls under the name Calico Design. 2. Ice cream: it's good. it's cool. everybody likes it. and it's just so damn cute! 

I'm also in the process of designing my page's headliner. I debated on waiting until I had all my graphics in place before I published my first blog, but I thought I might as well get over the first post jitters, so here it is. The graphics are still to be determined! Shame on me!

So there goes my first post. Not too shabby I guess. Hell, I might as well throw in something really interesting in here while I'm at it – the newest Cadbury commercial. It's kind of following in the footsteps of the famous Cadbury Gorilla commercial. It doesn't make any sense - I guess that's it's charm.