I never really got into Goodie Mob, but ever since I picked up his debut album, Cee-lo Green and his Perfect Imperfections, I’ve loved Cee-lo Green’s music. Blessed with a voice that stirs the soul like an evangelical baptist minister and a body that has the exact same proportions as a snowman, he’s one of the most criminally under-appreciated artists around.

I doubt his first album sold much, and consequently his second was an obvious attempt to sound a bit more mainstream with unnecessary collaborations with Timbaland and Pharrell. But then came a more left-field collaboration with Danger Mouse as Gnarls Barkley, and suddenly the world took notice.

Here’s his latest AMAZING song, Fuck You, from his as yet unreleased third album The Ladykiller.

Although Virtual Barbershop is three years old, I only came across it last weekend. And it’s one of the most interesting things I’ve seen – or in this case, heard – in a long time.

The technology required to create this kind of immersive 3D surround sound (called binaural recording) doesn’t appear to be used much, so I’m guessing it’s either prohibitively difficult or expensive. Either way it opens up so many creative opportunities for experiential events, and this new iPhone game sounds amazing:

Entering the Palace of Bones by Papa Sangre

Entering the Palace of Bones from Papa Sangre on Vimeo.

I spent the whole of yesterday filming skaters going around a skate park on the outskirts of Liverpool. Had I known that all I needed to create an x-treme gnarly dude sweeeet dude sweeeet sports video was a piece of tarpaulin and a wide street, I could’ve stayed at home in bed a bit longer.

This ‘can you head it in the net?’ challenge for AT&T is the first time I’ve seen an AR game hosted within a banner. And whilst it’s nicely executed, the copy is dreadful. It sounds like it was written by someone who has never played or seen football in their lives, and then translated it into English via Babelfish. Which is a bit of a shame really.

(By the way, the reason that there’s a picture of Robbie Fowler at the top is because he was my footballing idol when I was at school – a true goal machine with despicably greasy hair.)

A couple of games-related videos that I’ve stumbled upon today.

First up is Super Mario Bros by Andreas Heikaus. It goes on for a bit too long, but it’s a pretty cool mixture of live-action and CGI:

And secondly, If games had super-easy mode courtesy of College Humor:

In a country rammed to the gills with weird things, the Japanese spider crab scores pretty highly, reaching up to 3.8m across and weighing up to 19kg. If I was out snorkeling one day in downtown Osaka and saw one of these bastards, I’d need a new pair of Speedos quick-smart.

Soiling aside, here’s a pretty cool time-lapse video shot over the course of six hours in Fujisawa, Japan. It’s the kind of thing that HR Giger probably dreams about, but is bound to give most sane people nightmares. So watch it now, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

via Pink Tentacle.

After the operation I took a couple of weeks off work, and then worked from home for an additional week. Since then I’ve tried to carry on with life as much as normal, and here’s a few things that I’ve learned:

• Six pints on a night out is my current limit. Beyond that, crutch-based travel becomes hazardous.
• If you’re flying on a pikey airline, pack some crutches and a spaceboot. It gets you straight to the front of the queue, skipping past the numpties who bought Speed Boarding tickets. You also get to travel on those little buggy things around Gatwick.
• You can still go to festivals. I managed to go to Glastonbudget, and drink and party till the early hours. Only downside is that camping in a field full of feral Midlanders is a sure-fire way to get an infection.
• Finding a good place to put your crutches once you’ve sat down in a pub/bar/restaurant/train carriage is nigh on impossible.
• Dressing up in a suit and going to a wedding isn’t very comfortable. Particularly when the spaceboot has to sit over the suit trousers.

And so, after nine weeks of speeding around on one leg and crutches (faster than 98.94% of all pedestrians), I’m now fully weight-bearing. This means that I now walk slowly and more weirdly than before whilst my withered Mr Burns leg attempts to grow some muscles and man-up a bit. I’m still wearing my ridiculous Iron Man spaceboot outside the house (as seen below, enjoying the luxurious comfort of Easyjet), but I think I’ll ditch it forever this weekend.

The only complication so far has been when the wound became infected in a field in Leicestershire, and the subsequent 17-day course of Flucloxacillin (Penicillin) which I’m slowly coming to the end of. And I had my first physio appointment this morning, although it seems that they don’t actually do much other than give me a list of exercises and stretches to do. Basically, it’s up to me to do as much as possible to rebuildthe muscles and tendons, which seems a bit of a fiddle, but hopefully they know more than me.

In the meantime, I have already begun construction on a time machine so I can travel back to make sure that Achilles’ parents dip his heel properly in the Styx. Twice, just to make sure.

Yet another annoyingly simple but brilliant idea. This time it’s for a Skoda ad airing in Poland, where apparently they have more than one TV station. With advertising and everything. Who’d have thunk it?

Anyway, the ad takes a product benefit – a remote controlled boot (yawn) – and brings it to life in a clever and (slightly) interactive way. I’m guessing the media placement was fairly pricey, but the end result is pretty impactful.

Very cool idea. Very cool video.

“FREE FALL: World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier.”