No Man’s Blog

This is just me. OK?

For all categories- in no particular order

Best albums of the year

1. The phenomenal handclap band – S/T
2. Fontän – Winterhwila
3. Rone – Spanish breakfast
4. JJ – JJ no 2
5. The XX -S/T
6. Jana Hunter – There’s no home
7. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
8. Fat Freddy’s Drop – Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW
9. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
10. Bibio – ambivalence Avenue

Best books of the year

1. The End of Mr Y / Scarlett Thomas (2008)
2. War World Z / Mel Brooks (2006)
3. Journey by Moonlight / Antal Szerb (1937)
4. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce / Slavoj Zizek (2009)

Best film of the year

District 9

Best commercial things – no categories, just brilliant work

1. Live Strong chalkbot
2. Caramel bunny digital pop up shops (am a bit biased, yes.)
3. Best job in the world
4. Philips carousel
5. Whopper Sacrifice
6. Love Distance
7. Maison Hermes by Tokujin Yoshioka

Best non-commercial things

1. Cardon copy
2. Hands from Above
3. Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ UBC video
4. TweenBots
5. Thru you
6. KideoPlayer
7. Learning to love you more
8. Alice and Kev

…and lastly as we did last year, the most hideous trend has to go this year to….Augmented Reality. In might change the game one day but last year 95% of the works were me-too-digs-technology-crapness. The rare exception here is the really great Hidden Park iPhone app.

Send me your stuff please

Happy 2010

Asi x