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Elfie Clementine Gleeson joined the Scenestealer Team on the 13th of July at 8.48am. New Daddy Dan is wearing a constant smile and keeps pulling out his Iphone to show us new pictures. For Legal reasons we can’t have Elfie on payroll for another 16/18 years but we already think she’s a budding video producer.

Congratulations to Dan and Alice.

All together now, “Awwwww”:

Virgin is celebrating 25 years in business this year by launching a new advertising campaign. The advert is a nostalgic look back at 1984 with brick-like mobile phones, yuppies, a Rubik’s Cube, the Wimpy burger chain and headlines about the miners’ strike.

The TV ad was created by ad agency RKCR ahead of Virgin’s 25th birthday in June. It shows a glamorous red-suited cabin crew and the pilot walking through a dreary and colourless airport.

Representing the first Virgin Atlantic crew on the inaugural flight to New York in 1984, they walk past 1980s icons to the soundtrack of Frankie Goes to Hollywood classic Relax.

What a fantastic ad! Bouncy, cheerful and pretty daring. A pastiche of all things 80’s.

Virgin are following up this campaign with the soft launch of Vtravelled on 28th February. Vtravelled will be a community site which allows visitors to organise and share their travel plans with friends and family. The public roll out will follow in June.

Vtravelled will certainly be filling a gap in the market- organising you travel plans and finding travel content isn’t always easy. Personally I find it frustrating having to look through multiple websites to filter out the information that I need.

Virgin Atlantic is targeting the site at people who take holidays more than three times a year, with a focus on the UK and US audiences. It will include Trip Pods where individuals can put together their travel plans and then invite friends to the area, share photos, notes and chat.

So far Virgin’s 25th birthday looks pretty cool to me…

Slightly off topic today- but I have to mention that Lost season 5 is out tonight and I’m very excited.

I can’t really talk much about the spoilers I’ve been reading because some people in the office aren’t completely up to date (Tim and Dan- tut tut). However, I can mention that there has been talk that the flash forwards and flash backs are going to stop this series. Apparently there’ll be an unspecified new format, reminiscent of the episode “Ji Yeon.”

Anyway…if you are up to date- watch this spoiler on YouTube and sit tight until this evening. Horrah!

I remember seeing this game a while back and now an official version has been released for the Iphone and the PC. Crayon Physics is a puzzle game designed by 25 year old Petri Purho in 2007.

The object of the game is to get a ball from point A to point B. You move the ball to the star by using (virtual) crayons to draw the physical objects that make it possible to transport the ball to its goal. The player does not have control over the ball, but can interact with it by drawing shapes (like ramps, barriers).

What makes Crayon Physics so much fun is that there are a number of different ways to solve each level. Players can be as creative as they like and solve each puzzle through whatever means they can come up with.

The game is also quite captivating. The visual presentation is meant to look like a folded up piece of paper complete with childish crayon drawings. And the music is extremely unobtrusive and calming.

Check out the website here, or watch the demo video below.


Crayon Physics Deluxe trailer 2 from Petri Purho on Vimeo.