Jun/10
16:58 1
In praise of Beau Bo D’Or
Cartoonist cum graphic artist cum video creative Beau Bo D’Or produces some of the most ingenious and skilfully executed visual satire full stop and the best on the British blogosphere by a country mile. It was therefore with some sadness that Scrapbook read he is taking a short break from blogging, which has been light recently owing to a health problem.
It was the stop-gap ‘best of’ post announcing his hiatus that drew this blogger’s attention to a year-old video given new relevance with the news of the now impending fraud trials of four parliamentarians. Cleverly linking the sarcastic materialism of Renton’s “choose life” monologue in Trainspotting to MPs’ expense claims might well be worth spending an hour photoshopping Peter Viggers’ head onto a film poster:
Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics.
But what BBDO produced was truly remarkable, superimposing the faces of MPs onto footage from the film frame-by-frame. Unsurprisingly, “it took ages”:
Should you still need convincing to follow @beaubodor check out Lord Ashcroft won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Get well soon.
Feb/10
00:09 4
Their ad isn’t working
Firstly, sorry for being a very bad blogger. With one thing or another this hasn’t been updated in too long and in the afternoon when fewer people are paying attention. Scrapbook’s New Election Resolution™ is to post every weekday morning at some point between 9 and 10am (best intentions blah blah).
Stay tuned for some Tory PPC action tomorrow. But in the meantime check out these beauties from Beau Bo D’Or:
With a difficult-to-reproduce tombstone font effect and the absence of a badly airbrushed Tory frontbencher, CCHQ are making lefties work that much harder to spoof their latest advert. This, however, is a work of total genius:
To join in the fun play with the template from MyDavidCameron.com.
Apparently an automated version is in the works.
Jan/10
18:45 6
We is all in dis ting together, yeah?
Expect a veritable torrent of poster spoofs (from all sides) in between now and May. mydavidcameron.com have set the bar very high with their mixture of home-grown and reader submitted material. Here are Scrapbook’s choice picks:
Those of a creative bent can try their hand with this template (the font is Franklin Gothic Demi).
More over at mydavidcameron.com!
Jan/10
00:03 1
The Labour Party, January 2010
Another Goya painting, A Procession of the Flagellants, is probably a better metaphor but the above evokes well the appropriate emotional response to senseless cannibalism.*
Normal breezy humour and taking the p*ss out of Tories will be back tomorrow.
*For something less hysterical check out Alex Smith’s sage advice over at LabourList:
These revelations – no matter how harsh – should be lessons for the party as it prepares for an election that cannot be called off. They shouldn’t be allowed to distract from the important tasks, and will be forgotten as quickly as this week’s other events.
Jan/10
12:08 2
#Lolplot (or Lolcats meets general Hoonery)
Politicos whose brows furrowed at the twists and turns of yesterday’s abortive coup should permit themselves a laugh today courtesy of Liberal Conspiracy. A hilarious combination of Lolcats (say what?) and political incompetence spawned Lolplot, available to view here with more here. Here are two of the best:
You don’t seriously expect this blog to watch from the sidelines? Here is Scrapbook’s effort:
For a regular doses check out Lolitics, where u can haz birmingham politics.
Jan/10
17:56 1
A message to the progressive blogosphere
An extremely witty email from a lefty politico set the old grey matter going yesterday:
By the weekend nobody apart from Tory Bear will be talking about #KerryOut. Bar a few diary mentions, this is a story that even ConservativeHome can barely manifest enthusiasm for. The reason why most are ignoring it is the same as why my office ignore entreaties to discuss the status of my bowels with them: they are not interested in talking sh*t.
In this vein, many thanks to a contributor for the following good advice:
Scrapbook was party to some of the anti-tweeting on this but has come to the view that a full on blogwar is exactly what Harry Cole et al want. The progressive left should get back to what it does every day with increasing efficacy: derailing narratives from the right and exposing the Tories with verve and wit.
Let’s not get distracted by this ridiculous sideshow.
Dec/09
13:51 1
Advertisement feature (coming up next on QVC)
Wondering what to blow the rest of your Additional Costs Allowance on? This stylish beverage receptacle is £3.98 for two on the QVC shopping channel:
With thanks to the Urban Gorilla.
Dec/09
09:25 4
Those conspiracy theories in full…
And for a brilliant, albeit less funny, debunking of the recent controversy surrounding emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, check out the latest Climate Denial Crock of the Week.
Sorry if blogging is light for the next couple of days…
Scrapbook is off to see the Loch Ness Monster in one of the UFOs captured at Roswell.
Nov/09
15:13 4
Tory bloggers react to Labour Party political broadcast
Tory fisking of Labour’s latest party political broadcast has reached new heights (or depths) with a video from the libertarian triumvirate of Guido, Tory Bear and [swoon] Emily Nomates:
Rather than engaging in a tedious fiskback(?) – e.g. the fascism clip mentioned above was from the Battle of Cable Street where Moseley’s fascists fought with, erm, socialists - there’s something poetic for Scrapbook in reposting this gem from Liberal Recess Monkey having been the receiving end of a TB cartoon earlier this month:
Nov/09
09:17 3
Osborne has the Ex-Factor
Some say he once wrote an episode of Last of the Summer Wine, some say his children are half simian. All we know is that he can’t see in the dark. So thanks to Gavin Trait (whose fame precedes him) for this one on P45s:
