JUNG typology test

I’ve taken a few personality tests in my time, sadly none of which has been administered at a Church of Scientology (It’s on my to do list), but I found the JUNG typology test to be not only accurate, free and informative but…. Really, really accurate, shockingly with out cost and jam packed with information about why I do things the way I do them.

After answering 72 Yes of No questions that ranged from whether I felt involved when watching TV soaps (No) to whether I thought that objective criticism was always useful in any activity (Yes) I had my answer. I was a proud, unabashedly social ENFP, the “Inspirer”.

E= Extraverted

N= iNtuitive (I don’t quite understand that one, shouldn’t I be an EIFP?)

F= Feeling

P= Perceiving

The following description is from http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html and is…  well… For those of you who know me, you be the judge.

ENFPs are charming, ingenuous, risk-taking, sensitive, people-oriented individuals with capabilities ranging across a broad spectrum. They have many gifts which they will use to fulfill themselves and those near them, if they are able to remain centered and master the ability of following through.

To take the test yourself and find your type visit: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

How much I love LOVE

The free iPad LOVE issue 4 app for the iPad has had me in a tizzy of high fashion montage love.

Not only is it free (did I mention how free it is?) but this interactive, video version of the magazine features top models in underwear, brushing their hair and teeth, Victoria Beckham performing a monologue in the role of a bunny named “Victoria Bunwin” and various visually stunning pieces of madness.

If you have any interest in fashion, videography, photography, or art you simply have to download the LOVE app to your iPad.

Fashion hypnotism is guaranteed to occur.

Top 5 iPad games

Sooziz HD $1.99

This gravity defying and very cute platform game has a similar feel to Super Mario Galaxy with its planet hopping fun. Simple game play and adorable graphics make this a great option for kids and adults alike.

Mirror’s Edge for iPad $9.99

My favorite game discovery by far for the iPad is this exciting free-run platform game. It gets top marks for beautiful graphics and innovative use of the iPad touch screen.

Angry Birds HD $4.99

Every one knew this one had to be on the list. The best-known and most popular iPad game made my list as well. With so many levels and addictive, bird-chucking fun, you can’t help but fall in love with this game.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars $9.99

If you have an interest in making sweet drug deals and driving recklessly, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is a must buy. Extremely similar to the same title for Nintendo DS, this game takes an above car view that can be confusing at first for those used to Grand Theft Auto for the PS3.  The graphics are awesome and game play is extremely smooth.

Babylonian HD $2.99

Super addictive, puzzle solving fun is how to best describe this game. Navigating two brothers through various mazes, you use each brothers special skills to get a little closer to unlocking the next maze. Extremely fun and quite challenging as well.

Blogger’s block.

Closely related to the common “Writer’s block”, blogger’s block occurs when a 19-year-old advertising student just doesn’t know what to blog about. 

Said student finds herself avoiding visiting blogs of any sort, pushing guilty thoughts to the back of her subconscious and averting her eyes guiltily when others talk about recent blog posts and activities.

Luckily an easy remedy comes when the advertising student realizes that she has evaded posting a blog for weeks, kicks her self in the proverbial butt and reminds herself that she is letting down her grandma Dorothy every week she doesn’t post.

Grandma didn’t save her blog address in her site favorites for nothing. Time to start posting again.

The Game Layer

Ever since my friend and fellow layout editor for The Projector, Glenda Ollero, first exposed me to the world of TEDtalks I have been addicted to the innovative talks and peeks inside the minds of some of the worlds most brilliant innovators.

As a communicator and advertising student my main goal is to persuade and motivate my target audience to a response or action. Understandably enough my favourite TEDtalks are often hosted by communicators and those who aim to persuade an audience using new and innovative techniques. One of the best TEDtalks that I have watched features Seth Priebatsch, a 'proud Princeton dropout' who's goal is to build a game layer on top of the world.

Rather than to try to explain what this means I'll post the video below,

After watching the video I began to see FarmVille and it's equally addictive FaceBook game counterparts as the completely genius pieces of work that they are and to examine my own gaming habits. I have been an avid user of roiworld.com since discovering the Korean fashion dress up site (think paper dolls meets Asian street fashion) in high school. Formerly only designed for the Korean market, Roiworld.com has in the last few years transferred over to an English language format and transformed the simple dress up concept into an addictive money maker by adding a game layer on top of the site.

A must try for any one interested in fashion and trends or simply anyone wanting to see a perfect example of the persuasive game layer that Priebatsch talks about in his TEDtalk, roiworld.com is well worth signing up for and completely addictive.

Try it out, sign up! And mention my username (prettyjimmy) when you do, so I can get 50 tokens to spend on avatar clothes. I really need to get that handbag to complete my look...

Nine Lives Fashions Grand Opening and Family Night in the park

Five days till the big day!

After one month of mad and incredibly hectic planning the Nine Lives Fashions Grand Opening is only five days away. 

Come shop the amazing selection of affordable, previously-loved, woman's and children's clothing and for Family Night in the park, featuring a free LuLu and the TomCat concert, prizes and face painting.

See you there!

The good, the apps and the ugly.

From the moment my hands parted the sleek white packaging and touched it, I knew.

I knew I was going to have to try really hard not to break this expensive and very beautiful piece of technology know as the iPad. It's only been one week, but so far my baby has remained unblemished and unharmed despite my general clumsiness and I have to admit, I am completely addicted.

Apps, apps, apps, apps, apps, apps, apps. Great apps and tacky apps and apps that cost more than I generally spend a day on food. Muddling through this jungle of apps has allowed me to discover more than a few of everyones favourite kind of apps, free ones.


1. Flipboard

An app built like a customized magazine, specially formatted to be filled with your interests and passions. This app takes your Facebook, Twitter and your choice of seven other contributing sources and mish-mashes your friends status updates and latest TEDTalks videos into the coolest magazine, online or print that I have ever seen.  Did I mention that it's visually stunning and sleekly designed with great photography from across the net? Seriously people, go get this one.

1. AppShopper

On the prowl for free and on sale apps? Then this free app is for you. It does all the searching for you, automatically updating itself with the newest and cheapest apps the iPad has to offer. Very useful and a great way to save a little cash while shopping for Apps.

3. Aurora Feint 3

The best free game I've found for the iPad by far is Aurora Feint 3. It takes full advantage of the iPads beautiful screen with some of the most gorgeous and well-done graphics I've seen in a free or bought iPad app. Along with beautiful graphics the game is addictive, fun and challenging with a format that could be the love child of Bejewelled and World of Warcraft. Very fun, very free and very addictive, be prepared to spend some time on this one if you get it.

4. NET-A-PORTER Magazine.

By far the best free fashion publication I have found online or in the apps, this magazine acts as free entertainment for the fashion obsessed and 47 pages of advertising for online luxury retailer, net-a-porter. The magazine is filled with gorgeous editorials and photo spreads, video content on almost every page and the fun ability to shop the issue. Every item featured in the magazine can be bought at net-a-porter.com by simply touching the provided link. It's fun, free,  and as high quality (if not higher) than the best paid for fashion magazine apps available.

If you're interested in more information on the best free apps as I find them, let me know in the feedback below.

Vampire Weekend just blew my mind.


I am about to have an epileptic seizure from repeatedly watching Vampire Weekends music video for "Cousins".
Montage inspiration anyone?

Mom in the media

Julie Hesketh, nurse practitioner and my mother, is telling her story in today's Winnipeg Free Press. Check it out here.


She was also featured on CJOB this week, resulting in several excited texts from my fellow Cre-Comms asking 'Is your mom on the radio?'. I was proud to text back, 'Damn right she is!'


I love you mom.

Twit-book

For many of my friends, Facebook and Twitter are simply a part of the daily routine. Check your friends latest pictures on Facebook, receive news about Marc Jacobs Spring, 2010 line via Twitter, all before breakfast. The two sites offer similar alerts and services for the busy, young, thing on the go, and its rare for anyone under 30 not to have an account at one or both of these sites.


This huge audience of receptive and easily accessible young people is a tempting demographic for the PR professional. The challenge that PR professinals face is that they don't want to be sold anything. The users of Facebook in particular are much more likely to use the site for entertainment and recreational purposes. Unless you're offering them something, they would rather not listen.


Twitter is a slightly more receptive audience, with a format that is better suited for promotions and reaching a specific target audience. Twitter users readily sign themselves up to receive a streaming feed of profile updates, news and semi-disguised advertisements from the people they follow. 

Facebook is most useful to PR professionals for its fan pages and events. Many companies and organizations now have Facebook profiles with a huge audience of 'friends' from all around the world. Facebook offers a slightly more personal and friendly promotional approach to PR that while tricky to navigate can lead to impressive results.

New media has given us a unique opportunity to forge relationships and dialogue directly with our customers. By creating strategies that take advantage of both Twitter and Facebook, PR professionals have the chance to reach a young, ready to listen audience and get great results for their clients.

DIY studded dress

Materials

A large pyramid studded belt. You can usually find them in the back of your tween sister/brothers closet or at your local Value Village. I found mine at a Salvation Army on Pembina highway for two bucks, and it even has different tones of studs for my other DIY projects!

A little black dress/shirt/jacket/etc. Make sure its made of a strong but piercable material such as a rayon knit. The fabric can not be too delicate or else the studs will have no support and fall off but there is nothing fun about trying to force blunt studs through impenetrable leather either.

A pair of needle nose pliers. I don't have a picture of the ones I used but if in doubt ask your local handy man/woman. 



Directions

Flip over the studded belt, exposing the uncovered backs of the studs. Use the needle nose pliers and your fingernails to lift up the steel backing and pull out the studs one by one. For the project I did I used twenty studs, but according to what look you're going for you can go for more ore less studding.


Once you have lifted out your studs lay out your dress on a flat surface and plan out your pattern. I wanted a tribal/bib inspired neck line which I achieved by laying the studs out in a symmetrical pyramid based pattern.


Next use the needle nose pliers to peel up the stud backs so that they stand up straight and easily pierce the fabric. The final step is simply pushing the studs through the fabric of your dress, lining up the stud and using the pliers to fasten the studs in place.

The end result will be something like this handsome dress:

 Dance time!

My internet habit.

I've noticed a certain repetitiveness to the time I spend on the big, bad internet.
According to my computer history I need to stop looking at...

1.  facebook.com

2. roiworld.com

3. jakandjil.com/blog

4. watch-movies-online.tv

5. audrey.buzznet.com

6. lookbook.nu

7. tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com

8. thecoolhunter.net

9. streetpeeper.com

10. icanhascheezburger.com

What are you doing online?

In The Chamber

Maybe it was the giant red and yellow antibiotic dissolving in my stomach or maybe it was the residual fever still pumping through my body but I think even in the most perfect health a Friday night spent "In The Chamber" just wasn’t going to be my cup of tea.

This year is the fifth installment in the edgy series and features two well performed but preachy performances by Gordon Tanner and Steven Ratzlaff. Both Tanner and Ratzlaff wrote and acted in their individual pieces and while there performances dragged on, the passion both felt for their labor of love remained obvious throughout both performances.

The first monologue was "Last Man in Universe Alpha - 11," an hour long rant against factory farming punctuated with inside jokes and a slide show featuring photographs of fire charred pig carcasses. I’ve been a vegan, a vegetarian and a piscetarian but even the animal rights activist in me felt that the performance had more than a sprinkling of PETA fueled rage coating it.

The second performance “Last Man in Puntarenas" was drier and slide show free but equally long winded. As much as I tried to follow Ratzlaff’s characters retirement speech about the flaws in Canada’s health care system and his own marriage follies I found my eye lids drooping with fatigue long before he reached the end of his speech.

Walking out of the Rachel Browne theatre I didn’t feel uplifted by new knowledge or inspired by the actors passion for their craft. Simply put, "In The Chamber" was a play that I just didn't like very much.

I love you 1987

While creeping on several blogs I came across a link on Kenton's Infotainment Scan that would forever changed my life.

Portage Place circa 1987. I don't know which is scarier, Portage Place then with its muscle flexing and shoulder pads or Portage Place now with less perms but noticeably more muggings. Watch the video below and decide for yourself.

Now for extra laughs fast forward six seconds into the video. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat...

I have a new favorite YouTube video!

 PR: The best pseudo event of 2009

T-Mobile Dance

The above video shows what happens when T-Mobile has 350 casually dressed dancers transform from dull commuters to synchronized dance machine in the middle of London's Liverpool Street Station. All I could think while

The pseudo event was part of a campaign by advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, London. The campaign focuses on viral marketing as well as more traditional television advertisements in which hidden cameras take in dancer and crowd antics. The buzz generated from the memorable event has made the viral video of the event a YouTube sensation with over 16,841,116 hits over the past year making it one of the most watched videos on the popular site.

To see how T-Mobile made this train station version of High School Musical check out the video below.

Amazing much?