It’s always nice to end the week with a little bit of Queen. So before you shut down tonight, watch this. From the lovely and clever people who brought you Common People back in 2010.
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Hungry for the weekend
We stumbled across a fantastic recipe site this week whilst working on a brief, and what a happy stumble that was.
In case you need some inspiration for what to cook this weekend, or you love a bit of food porn, gojee is really worth a look.
It’s a food and drink recipe aggregator with absolutely luscious photography. But there’s a lot more to it.
As a site it’s very smart. You can filter your recipe searches by a variety of means. Tell them the types of food you hate and it won’t ever show you recipes with them in. Or, if you love something and have a glut of it in the fridge, it’ll show you ingredient-focused recipes.
It’s the same for the drink section of the site. Tell them what booze you have in the house or what you dislike and it’ll filter the restuls.
Or alternatively, go virgin and search for healthy juices and smoothies.
As well as the stunning images and intuitive way of searching the other thing that stands out is the tone of voice. For a foodie site, it’s really quirky.
When I was hovering over whether to join it said ‘we swear on our finest bottle of scotch that we won’t spam you.’ Brilliant. Then instead of ‘click here to join’ it just said ‘indulge’.
And when I was waiting for a page to load a silly little comment about not trusting men that eat skinny ice cream popped up.
You can also add in your supermarket loyalty card so it knows what you’ve got in stock. Very clever.
Here are some of the delectable pages…
That’s all. See you later aggregator.
Rekindle your love of books
I know these days everyone’s into tablets and readers and ebooks. And that yes, they have their obvious advantages. But I’ve still not got one for various reasons (one, I like to scribble in the margins, two I like a book you can smell and three, I don’t trust myself not to end up starting 147 books at once, the temptation would be too much).
So as a devout old-skool book lover (OK luddite) I wanted to share these two wonderful examples of unabashed book porn, which prove that as heavy and un-eco-friendly they may be, books still are beautiful objects.
This lovely film from Toronto, the Joy of Books. And bookshelfporn (thanks Donnadoescopy for finding it).
Alternatively you can be like this pair who I spotted on the beach in Mexico, and travel 2 thousand miles to some of the world’s most beautiful coastland, to stare at a screen.
On a similarly bookish note, I’m delighted to see that Waterstones have come to their senses and snapped out of all that sans serif nonsense. You can read a friend’s interesting blog about this, brilliant new film The Artist, and the transition from old and new technology here.
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