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Smell-O-Vision, Spaghetti Trees and Left Handed Whoppers
Posted by komodo-admin March 31 2010 08:35pm
In anticipation of 1st April, the day the media run wild and pass off fabrication and absolute nonsense as hard news, we have trawled the internet looking at the best hilarious hoaxes published in the media. As we had such a giggle doing it, we thought we would share some of them with you.
We don’t like to think that we are gullible but unfortunately it would appear that we are as year after year, the media take advantage of their position and our naiveté and show us up with an April Fool’s Day prank. Pure genius if you ask us – nothing wrong with laughing at ourselves! more
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Meet Merton, the Chat Roulette superstar
Posted by Adrian March 19 2010 01:03pm
One of the latest social phenomenons to hit the internet is Chat Roulette. Brands, including FCUK have already been playing with it and it is exactly as it sounds – one logs in and an interweb robot randomly selects someone for you to have a video chat with. Of course, it will not be long before moral hygiene vigilantes get their pitch forks into this, but it has spawned at least one digital creative masterpiece.
The video below features Merton (and has a few swear words, but try not to let that put you off). He’s a piano improvisation superstar. Watch and laugh as he surprises his random chat partners with his genius. It’s also interesting from an anthropological point of view – his chat partners provide an fascinating pencil portrait of the various sub cultures of online chat. I especially love “chinstrap” man and the three teenage girls who make love-hearts with their hands. (Yes, they really do do that).
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When is a delicatessen not a delicatessen?
Posted by Lucy March 9 2010 10:58am
Whilst us Komodos were mulling over our morning intake of newspapers last week, we spotted something brilliant that we just had to share.
Last week, it appeared that a run-down empty shop unit on Whitley Bay high street, had been transformed into a luxurious and thriving delicatessen…or so it seemed. In actual fact, the apparent makeover was part of an experiential campaign to show the potential of the shopping centre and so attract new business to the recession-hit town. Not an organisation you’d expect to be associated with bucket-loads of creativity, North Tyneside Council had covered the empty window with a fake shop front, stirring up heaps of attention from passers-by and the media in the process.
A public sector job well done. Genius!
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