Cool use of QR codes in Charlottetown.

A local video store making nice use of QR codes by giving customers the ability to check out trailers for certain films. They've only put them on a handful of movies, but it's a great example of leveraging the technology to enhance the customer's experience.

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Personally, I'd love to see QR codes become more common in North America, but if it hasn't happened yet, I'm not so sure that it will.

Subway's clever coffee lids.

While Subway certainly wouldn't be first on my list of places in Charlottetown to go for coffee, we found ourselves there today and in need of caffeine, so I got one.

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The coffee's okay, but what really got me was the lid. While it's made with about twice as much plastic as a coffee lid ought to be made of, it has a nifty slider to open or close the drinking spout. Cool.

Mad monkey or (very) happy monkey?

Apparently, this picture of a monkey was taken down because someone (i.e. someone who actually knows a great deal about monkeys) pointed out that, according to his face/stance, he must either be angry or aroused.

This has naturally generated some discussion in the office as to which it might be.

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If anyone out there is a monkey doctor and could offer some insight, that'd be real cool.

It's not very often an orange juice commercial makes me want to be a better shooter.

But this is no ordinary orange juice commercial.

I saw this Tropicana spot for the first time a few days ago. I think
it's one of the most beautifully filmed Canadian commercials in a long
time, and Patrick Watson's "The Great Escape" is a perfect track for
the ad.

Kudos to DP Chris Mably (http://chrismably.com) and Director Samir
Mallal (http://www.samirmallal.com).