The Chaos Computer Club published the fingerprint of German Secretary of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble. The club has been active in opposition to Germany’s increasing push to use biometrics in, for example, e-passports. Someone friendly to the club’s aims captured Schäuble’s fingerprint from a glass he drank from at a panel discussion. The club published 4,000 copies of their magazine Die Datenschleuder including a plastic foil reproducing the minister’s fingerprint — ready to glue to someone else’s finger to provide a false biometric reading. The CCC has a page on their site detailing how to make such a fake fingerprint. The article says a ministry spokesman alluded to possible legal action against the club.
Using ASCII art in your PPC ads. Brilliant. Via Advertising Lab.
Ventured to the Golden Plains festival held at the wonderful Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre last weekend. It was lots of fun. We got there early (8AM) and already most of the camping spots were taken, we did however eventually manage to find a clear area for us and a few mates. Borrowed Kristy’s brothers ute (including bogan stickers) and had a great camping setup including a plaid couch (nice one Kristy).
The crowd was nice and small (7,500), the sun was out all weekend (thanks to the old school firetruck spraying water on everyone we were kept cool), they actually served good food (I had 3 milkshakes - thankyou Illawara dairy - and as many curries & koftas - thanks Hare Krishnas) and it’s a great setting for a festival surrounded by farmland and with a natural ampitheatre meaning you can always see the stage.
The music was good (even if i didn’t know many of the artists who were playing). Sharon Jones, Beirut and the Bamboos were my favourites.
Even managed to sneak in a swim at Torquay beach afterwards to wash off the dirt, followed by the obligatory fish, chips and potato cakes.
On Saturday, Whitestock took place. An annual event a guy at work holds this time each year. The theme was villains - Ange and I went as cops. Couldn’t find a pig mask though!
Very fun and drink-fuelled night. Far too much photographic and video evidence at work today (damn media people). It would be OK normally, except there is lots of incriminating evidence of myself.
My memory is slightly hazy, but there was some great costumes - tsunami, monica lewinsky, blue girl out of X-Men and a cigarette. I came home covered in red paint, glitter and bruises - the result of a series of tackles into the drinks ice bath. Well played all.
Easter this weekend (3 x 4 day weeks in a row - woohoo).
The Glue Society, an Australian based creative advertising agency who I had never heard of until now were just featured on the Creative Review magazine blog. Some very nice work:
Moses Parting the Red Sea, from God’s Eye View, a series of scenes from the Bible re-imagined via Google Earth.
Image by artist John Isaacs for Knowledge Keeps Like Fish book, The Glue Society’s unofficial first project. CR used this image on our December 97 cover. Complaints followed
Campaign to promote the new timeslot of Australia’s satirical TV comedy The Chaser. Due to a limited budget, the posters ran on the cheapest billboards in the world - including in India, as shown above. Images of the posters were then circulated online and used as idents on TV, which led to huge, free press coverage and doubled ratings.
