Absolut Vodka Limited Edition Bottle Launch Events

I’m an fan of Absolut Vodka for a number of reasons (aside from the obvious!). Their advertising is consistently uber-cool and their design inspiration is mindblowing. So I was excited to hear that to celebrate the launch of the new Limited Edition Glimmer Absolut Bottle (which is a thing of beauty itself, more details here), Absolut are holding a series of events in the UK with the theme 'make the present exceptional'.

Absolut have collaborated with selected artists and visionaries to create an extraordinary journey through which people will see and experience seemingly ordinary events and situations from a very different perspective. Absolut promise that ‘it will be an interactive and personal journey’ and visitors will have the opportunity to explore a unique maze, dine at the one minute restaurant or add a word to the never ending story. Each event will include an Absolut drinks experience featuring the new Limited Edition.

The events will be held at the followings venues:

4 November 2010: Nicholls & Clarke building, SHOREDITCH, LONDON
11 November 2010: Bristol and Exeter House, TEMPLE MEADS, BRISTOL
12 November 2010: A disused office block, NORTHERN QUARTER, MANCHESTER
18 November 2010: PSL, WHITEHALL WATERFRONT, LEEDS
20 November 2010: South Pavilion, THE QUARTERMILE, EDINBURGH

You can register for tickets here: http://www.absolut.com/uk/seemore.

Happy Halloween: Bottles (1936)

It’s that spine-tingling, chain-rattling time of the year again folks! I hope that your pumpkin carving and other Halloween party plans are going well and your doors and windows are adequately bolted to stop the little buggers ringing your doorbell for candy every five seconds.

In the true spirit of the season, I thought that I would mark this year’s Halloween shenanigans by posting a full-length version of a 1930’s cartoon that always spooked me out as a kid. You can forget your Freddy Kruegers and Michael Myers, this is the real stuff of nightmares. Enjoy.

So what else has happened since we last spoke? Well..

The Henry Holland/Debenhams bag finally hit the shops,
I trained to be a qualified first aider,
I discovered that I can buy Reese’s Pieces as a breakfast cereal,
I turned into a tiger (left) and spent a lovely weekend in Camden with Rob from 616 Photography taking photos, drinking champagne mojitos and sorting through vinyls in dusty record shops.

Oh and I joined a band. More on that later…

And Vinyly: Live On From Beyond The Groove

If you ever worry about how to continue the legacy of your awesomeness after you have shuffled off this mortal coil, then I may well have found the perfect send-off for you.

UK-based company And Vinyly will press your cremated ashes into a vinyl recording playing a track of your choice, a vocal message or simply your own silent pops and crackles for your friends and family to remember you by.

The basic package (£3000) includes a 30 disc pressing of your record, plus an 'R.I.V.' artwork record cover with your name, date of birth and date of death. There are additional services available including backing tracks, ‘bespook’ music, the opportunity to have your record distributed worldwide and FUNerals: a musical send-off led by a team of event organisers. And if you still want to be buried after you cough, And Vinyly accepts cremated body parts in addition to whole cremated bodies.

Feeling a bit peaky? More details here: http://www.andvinyly.com/