We just finished this rather unorthodox project to promote “Black Ice”, the latest album from giants of rock AC/DC. The idea came about because we realised that many people work in offices where there’s a fairly heavy internet usage restrictions in place, and we loved the thought that we could subvert those policies with AC/DC’s music.

We decided to use the Excel format as it’s almost universally allowed through corporate firewalls. The result is the world’s first (and probably only ever) music video in Excel format, which plays back as ASCII art directly in the fields of the spreadsheet. You can download the spreadsheet here and try it out yourself.

I’ve been staring at my 1200s for years and never thought of doing this. Bah! Found at the always excellent Monster Munch

The 80s–tastic “Video Killed The Radio Star” by Buggles.

Following on from the sleeve art remix posters, John put me onto this brilliant collection of vinyl sleeve heads. David Essex (below) made me laugh. A lot.

My colleague Neato's brother came up with this fun and often hilarious way to come up with your imaginary band's first album. Follow the steps below and you can go from zero to debut–album–hero in under five minutes.

First visit this random Wikipedia page and take the entry title for your band name.

Now go to this random quote generator, and take the last four words of the last quote for your
album title (you may need to generate a new list from the button at the
bottom).

Finally go to this random selection from the most interesting pictures of the last seven days on Flickr and take the third image for your album cover.

Here's the “voluminous” debut album from my hot new two–piece:



Enjoy and please feel free to post links to your creations in the comments!