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09.01.2008 by Zoltan 
Call for contributors
2008 is going to be a big year for many things, and if I have my way, Boredom Is Your Fault is going to be one of those things. But I need your help!
BIYF is a labour of love, born out of my curiosity of all things creative / digital and my ever widening appreciation for the art of advertising. But with the increasing pace of everything, this is certainly a task that is too big for one lone mind. So I ask you, readers, to help me. I’m looking for people that are willing to help me write BIYF. It can be about anything creative at all - there are no boundaries.
If you see something cool, then write about it here! If you’re interested, email contribute [at] boredomisyourfault [dot] com. C’mon, you know you want to ;)
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23.12.2007 by Zoltan Off the air…
Just a quick note to say Merry Xmas and all the best for 2008. If you get a chance, check out DoubleYou’s 2007 xmas card, posted in the comments here. Otherwise, enjoy the holidays and see you all in the second week of January :)
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan Pollock was a neuroscientist
The boundaries between art and science became quite a bit more blurry today with the release of the image above. Its a CGI representation of the 10,000 neurons and 30 million connections that make up a single neocortical column (the really complex backbone of any brain) of a rat.
You can read more here, but the really interesting part is how much it resembles Pollock’s series of über-famous action paintings, like the “Blue Poles” example shown just below. These paintings were (supposedly) based on jam dripping down the wall, and if that turns out to be the same pattern as the make up of the most complex super-computer ever, then what exactly does that say about us vs. all the aliens out there in their fancy time-travelling spacecraft?
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07.12.2007 by Zoltan Only in Italy: Part 2
Yet again, it seems the Italians just love to go one step too far. I’m not sure why anyone would want a coffin calendar in the first place, but I guess if you’re dead set (sorry, couldn’t help myself) on making one, and you’re Italian, then drape it in women… Unfortunately the Pirelli girls were busy the day of the shoot.
I’m still not convinced that a calendar is the best form of marketing for a coffin maker, unless of course the concept is that old people have nothing better to do than site around and count off the days??? Then again, if you’re making a coffin calendar, I don’t think a good concept is top of mind…
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06.12.2007 by Zoltan Customisation is damn expensive
You can actually imagine guys lining up for their favourite basin! via the new shelton wet/dry
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06.12.2007 by Zoltan Vive Cool City
This is one for all the Aussie expats missing home… Vive Cool City was begun to “to provide our generation with non polictical or self indulgent bullshit, but rather content that gets us thinking and talking.” Yeah well I’m not sure about that but its nice to get a dose of dry humour ;)
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04.12.2007 by Zoltan specialten.tv
specialten.tv is the online channel of the specialten magazine which dubs itself as “the broadcast of contemporary culture. A quarterly publication on DVD featuring short films, music videos, and interviews.”
Basically if you’ve got some time to kill, it’ll serve you up something from the archives and 9/10 its always good. And although isn’t new at all, its always nice when you come across something again and it still makes you smile like it did the first time…
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29.11.2007 by Zoltan Simplicity
In communication, simplicity it fundamental to people truly understanding what you’re trying to say. Wrap an idea in the wrong words and no matter how good or incendiary that idea might be, there’s a good chance no one will end up listening. If you’ve been reading this blog for sometime you’ll know that its often only the simplest ideas that I bother to write about. Let me therefore bring your attention to a recent article on the re-launched advertising for peanuts.
They argue that due to the digital nature of everything, complexity has become du jour and the easy fall back position. Why? because simple is very fucking hard. Shit John Maeda, über geek/artist and father to much of what we take for granted nowadays, made it his mission to develop the tools and mental framework we all need to deal with our overly-complex digital world - and he’s called it the “Laws of Simplicity”.
So simplicity is hard - hard to concept, hard to capture and even perhaps harder to sell - but it must be our end goal every single day we sit down to communicate. To quote from Chairman Jimmy at Peanuts, “If easy is one end of the continuum, simple is the other”. I know which end of the spectrum I’m aiming for. I hope you join me…
BTW if you don’t already read peanuts I can highly recommend it, especially since the re-launch. Its become an outpouring of ideas and discourse rather than the customary creative showcase of so many other blogs. Well done guys!
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05.09.2007 by Zoltan Kuang Grade Mark Eleven
Oh man, this is so good. If you’ve read William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ you’re going to fucking LOVE this! Apparently the PLA (aka the Chinese military) have been infiltrating the world’s most secure (read everyone else’s military) IT networks and causing a general ruckus. I wonder if they leave any mention of Kuang in there digital footsteps? That would be soooooooo cool ;)
via the guardian
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03.09.2007 by Zoltan Original Mac Manual
Check this out - the original Macintosh manual from 1984. Get past the nerdy men and the idea of carrying around a desktop, and what’s really interesting is that this little book had to explain an entire paradigm shift. Concepts like ’scrolling’ and ’saving’ digitally simply didn’t exist, and had to be explained from scratch… The entire book can be found here.
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21.08.2007 by Zoltan Downtime
Seems as though I didn’t pay my domain name bill :-p Anyway, we’re back up and running now, so you can return to breathing normally. Phew.
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31.07.2007 by Zoltan Pictures of walls
Lovely little treasure trove of random, funny, inspiring (and otherwise) wall scribbles. Gives some insight into the vernacular creativity bubbling away in people all over the world - whether they make a living off of it or not. via Leigh
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26.07.2007 by Zoltan Thriller, Phillipines
OK, I’ve written about Thriller spoofs before, but this is goes “straight to the pool room” aka the G.O.A.T. archive! I couldn’t stop laughing ;) Absolutely brilliant, even down to the shitty effect they did over the original footage… And the drag queen - OMG hilarious! Certainly some soap dropping going down in this Philipino prison, but what I’m really wondering is how on earth they chose MJ?
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19.07.2007 by Zoltan Temple to the Dukes of Hazard
One for all the never-grown-ups out there… Remember the car in Dukes of Hazard? You know the one you just had to have a model of to play in the dirt? Of course you do…
Anyway, artist James Ford decided it would be cool to make his own - by covering a real car in little models of real cars. Kinda like that scene with the factory that makes models of little factories in Austin Powers! Either way, the result is certainly impressive.
via CR
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