Move to the Beat of London 2012.

I'm a little indifferent to London 2012. I hope it will do good things to London but there's a lot of pessimism both inside me and around me that says otherwise. London can barely handle two rush hours a day, yet there's an expectation that the transport system has the capacity to handle an extra three million journeys a day, just by making everyday commuters 'take a holiday', avoid London altogether or walk, not really good enough, especially when the trains aren't even nice.

Where I am concerned, transport is the tiniest issue as I hope to be based elsewhere, although never say never. Anyway although 'everything Olympics' is bound to be in our faces even once those two weeks are over, I thought I'd share Mark Ronson's neat, Olympic-inspired track (no pun intended) with you. Despite having been undoubtedly sounded pretty samey for the last four or five years, I think Ronson's really done something great with this one. I'm a big fan of things like 'STOMP' and the use of everyday items as instruments, so this was bound to please me. You may have spotted the Coca-Cola advert on television recently and obviously something as simple as this couldn't be related to the Olympics without being a bit commercial, but it's still clever and a definite must-watch.

Full-length 'Move to the Beat of London' Coca-Cola advert
Ronson has spent months working with athletes collecting sounds from their field and put it all to a beat to make something pretty catchy. Everything comes together as the Coca-Cola advertisement above, but has also be documented by director Kim Gehrig to show the journey from initial idea to finished product, and that's what looks like the really interesting part.

Even if the Olympics does end up making London look stupid, Mark Ronson, with his weird English-American'ness', will have gained a legacy, or at least acknowledgement that he isn't just all about trumpets. I might have left Katy B out of it though.

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Beat 2012 Documentary Trailer by Kim Gehrig of Some Such & Co.

Tuesday Tabs. #5

Wow, we're five weeks in already!

Just putting this out there as a quick warning, with exactly a week to go until Valentine's Day, this post might creep in a few heart-shaped things. When it really boils down to it, I'm in the crowd that believes that if you love someone, you should celebrate it everyday, not just because a date dictates as such. However, until the day comes when it's acceptable to put lovehearts on everything and the colour scheme of life is red, white and pink (not that I wish it to come to this either), I'll be enjoying Valentine's day with a heart-shaped box of chocolates, a mushy card and a mandatory evening meal out, sorry.

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Oh what a great life it is that I can rekindle my love for older episodes of New Girl now showing on Channel 4, while enjoying the even funnier second half of the first series. Zooey Deschanel has well and truly established herself as a legitimate girl-crush, despite the fact that I still don't get the appeal of 500 Days of Summer.

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365 Lucky Days is a 365 blog with a twist. Lucky Jackson has set herself the challenge to make a piece of art every day for a whole year. She's currently channelled this task into these cute embroideries, which are taking a film-theme at the moment. Definitely on my 'want' list. You can buy some of these unique pieces over at Lucky's BigCartel

Big Breakfast tray, £20, Urban Outfitters

So, maybe this isn't quite '£20 cute', but trays can be useful and although it doesn't go with my future kitchen's imaginary decor, I'm finding myself trying to find a place for it...

Altru Walking Leopards Tee, £30, Urban Outfitters

Forget the price and just look at it for what it is, a really cute t-shirt... *sigh*

(via The Dainty Squid)

Audiowood Chipmunk Turntable, £551.27, Audiowood

What hipster home wouldn't be complete without a record player? I'm definitely resigned to the fact that I'm well and truly dating a hipster and he's almost getting worse, but with this is my home, why would something like that even matter? It is a bit pricey but it's great inspiration for what we might want to be on the look out for in the future.

High-waisted knickers with a teal heart, £19.48, Knicker Rocker

Handmade knickers aren't something that have ever crossed my mind before, it sounds pretty silly actually, but some of these designs are super cute. I'm trying my hardest to resist the unnecessary spends.

Underground Wulfrun Green Suede Creepers, £85, ASOS

Creepers are hard to get away from right now, were these ones not so out-of-this-world-out-of-my-price-range, I'd be on them so fast. They're near enough my favourite colour, and what I am I to do now that the BRONX Dalmation brogues on the New Look website seem to be permanently out of stock?

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Everyone, ever needs to see this.

I found this photo while researching Charlie Chaplin at Shortlist last week. It's Drew Barrymore as the man himself, such a cutie.

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Some cutie down at Rounder Records in Brighton has done this wicked street art to mark the release of The Maccabees' latest album, 'Given to the Wild'. I certainly hope it was the same genius back in 2009 when 'Wall of Arms' was released.

(via Toothpaste for Dinner)

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Cute short film about a grumpy girl who finds her match in a equally downtrodden balloon.

Vintage 80s Heart-Shaped Telephone, £25.32, North Star Vintage

Link Love: ♥

Tatty Devine's Valentine's jewellery

Alternative 'Drive' Posters

'The Avengers' Superbowl Commercial

2012 Superbowl Adverts — It's Nice That's compilation of some of the best Superbowl adverts this year.

14 Most Jaw-Dropping Opening Film Sequences

IKEA Kitchen Cart Makeover — Sibylle over at Funkytime has posted this cute craft/upcycle tutorial on how to revamp a kitchen cart, there's even a bottle opener involved. When I have the chance got get my hands on my own furniture I can wait to try and get crafty.

Funkytime Magazine, Valentines Issue — The first Funkytime magazine, full of neat recipes and lots of crafty Valentines tips to impress the one you love, including heart-shaped teabags

DIY Rhinestone Shoes — A lot easier than you think and amazing!

Tuesday Tabs. #2

I was getting mega worried that after deciding to make this 'a thing' that I then wouldn't have anything to show you this week, but then a ton of stuff made it to the hoarding list within the last couple of days.

Before I begin, exciting news! Yesterday I photographed with an organisation called Body Gossip while they went on an anti-diet march put together by Any Body. It was all about challenging the idea of 'the perfect body' and the importance of self-esteem whatever you look like, pretty empowering stuff. I found out about it thanks to one of the guys I met back in October on the Ready 4 Work walk, Jake. It was really nice of him to think of me, and I hope that he likes the photos I ended up taking, even if my camera committed suicide before the march even began! Photos will follow either later today or some time tomorrow, I've suddenly become super-busy and it's only the beginning of the week!

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SLR camera bag, Pixbag, €54.90

So Moon sent me to this great online German store which sells the cutest SLR bags. They're a bit pricey and my handbag doubles up as the perfect camera bag but this polka-dot case is pretty tempting. I've actually noticed there are a lot more padded standalone casing coming out for SLRs recently, particularly ones with pretty patterns, like the burrito lens cover Petapixel posted yesterday.

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This is so much fun! Yours and Theirs is an amazing photography project carried out each week sharing different people's ideas on the same topic. It's really interesting and pretty neat because there aren't so many people involved yet so it's easy to get your head around. This weeks assignment is a toughy as I've never truly believed in luck and am very much a circumstance, 'everything happens for a reason' kind of girl... Check out the Facebook group and blog.

Guest towels, H&M, £6.99

Who knew H&M had such bangin' homewares. I only came across these by chance in the catalogue, definitely something for the Someday Home wishlist, and they come in so many colours.

Shower Mat, H&M, £6.99

The only real question left is what colour scheme I would want...

Lemon duvet set, H&M, £14.99

I really, really, really wish this came in a double size, who even has single duvets when they're an adult? I assume that's who H&M market their homewares for? Why so stingy on you duvet sizes, H&M?

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Following up his 2010 Sheffield 365 project, Luke Avery has come up with another ritualistic challenge for himself, a teapot a week, photographed differently, for the whole year. He's uploading them every Thursday, I think it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
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Beginners, 2010

I would highly recommend this movie, it has everything; Ewan McGregor, a love story, a cute dog, sadness. It's beautiful.

Gemma Correll 'Pug on a Bike' temporary tattoo, Tattly, $5 for two.

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I know it's quite old now but I'd never seen it before and I think it's bloody impressive stuff, so there you go. To promote Dry the River's single 'No Rest', Xavier Barrade of creative agency, Foam came up with this amazing 3D horse poster to mimic both the artwork for the single. I only wish I'd seen one in real life, a great and beautiful piece of advertising.

Diana F+ Camera Mens T-shirt, Cotton Spaceship, £16.07

Not even that into Dianas but this is a sweet tee.

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Link love:

Goodnight Little Spoon — An amazing blog i found at the weekend though The Dainty Squid's Friday Favourites. Bianca is Australian and posts the best crafts, design ideas and collaborations I've seen in ages, she's given me so many projects to think about doing, I can tell that she's going to become a favourite, I'm already a little bit in love with her January Photo Challenge.

Keri Smith's 100 Ideas — Another neat collective project. Keri Smith, creator of the popular 'Wreck this Journal' has listed 100 fun things to do involving drawing, photography and even general collecting. I'm thinking of giving a few of them a go once I've done this 30 day challenge (not that it's going very well), it sounds like a lovely way to de-stress and keep occupied.

Gemma Correll's Flickr — Re-discovering her again, some of her illustrations don't half make me giggle.

Marchand & Meffre — Parisian photographers documenting abandoned spaces within bustling urban and suburban areas. An image from their 'Abandoned Detroit Houses' selection part of their 'The Ruins of Detroit' series was used as the cover for Dry the River's New Ceremony, and the band have since used additional images by them on additional artwork.

Closet Overflow — Ugly jumper overload, and great vintage finds for great prices.