Why don't we see more tilt-shift around?

This has very quickly become my single most viewed image on Flickr. It's a fake tilt-shift using photoshop. I can only attribute this level of interest to two things - the popularity of the tilt-shift group and to the faddishness of tilt-shift.

I'm just amazed more ads don't use the technique - or maybe it's too mainstream to be cool anymore. Creatives - what do you think?

Expression or the anticipation of expression?

The Slides.JPG
Originally uploaded by alt.planning.

What is art in a commercial context? The Tate Modern was absolutely heaving, which is great, slides are a great thing, but are they art?

There's a lovely story about Leo Burnett in Sydney who kept inflated the emergency evacuation slide in the building's atrium, just for the fun of it. Good for them.

Should advertising be more arty or more fun - or are they not mutually exclusive concepts?

Brand expertise.

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Originally uploaded by alt.planning.

A nice example - of a sticker on the side of an escalator, away from public view, of something the brand (Tate Modern) knows that we might not.

Art envy

There's an exhibition of Moleskine notebooks by artists, film-makers, architects and so on. I saw this one in the Conran Shop but I think they're at Waterstone's in Piccadilly too.

Now I like the surprise of seeing something a bit unsual like this. But I don't know if Moleskines are just analog blogs - and therefore why can't they be digital instead? - or whether to feel envious because I can't paint.

My work Moleskine has a few mind maps in it but it's just too dull by comparison.

(PS this is now my 4th most viewed shot in Flickr. Memo to self - take more Moleskine shots)