Unboxing videos on YouTube are everywhere – fact. I took it one step further. I unboxed a sandwich. ...
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You may have come across one of these ‘gig’ sites in one form or another. Like a manual labour eBay, people pimp out their skills (term used loosely) to you the general public. Now, some of these ‘gigs’ are obviously spammy black hat SEO techniques; 5 million facebook/twitter/pinterest fans in an hour. Others include backlinks to your website or blog from .edu domains etc etc. I’m not interested in any of that. That may be borderline useful to some people. I’m after the funny stuff. I’m most certainly willing to pay someone five english pounds for someone to make a fool out of themselves. But it has to be on my terms. It’s a game – I haven’t quite thought of what the perfect ‘pitch’ is yet. But i’ll get there. That’s part of the beauty of fivesquids, the fun of seeing what you can get people to do for ...
Read More →RIP Adam Yauch As I’m sure you are aware, Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys fame passed away age 47 last week. It was only till this week that that I read the extent of Yauch’s work in independant film with his production company Oscilloscope Laboratories who produced the Banksy film ‘exit through the gift shop’. I thoroughly enjoyed the storytelling in the film and I urge you to find a copy even if you have only a passing interest in street art. I was part of the generation that was introduced to the Beastie Boys from their classic hits; sabotage, fight for your right to party and intergalactic. So when ‘To the 5 Boroughs was released It became lodged in my CD player for months. That’s a lie. What I actually mean is that I ripped the CD to MP3 and then listened to the that for months. One of my ...
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