unfortunately nikki

The idea is quite simple and has been done by others before me.

Simply do a Google search on your name preceded by the word “unfortunately”.

Example results:

• Unfortunately Nikki didn’t get much chance to get on stage during secondary school as she was always commandeered for the school orchestra to play the flute.
• Unfortunately, Nikki seems to sense that she’s about to be replaced, and that doesn’t sit well with her.
• Unfortunately, Nikki’s going to have to be confined to her crate for the next 3 weeks.
• The ball was headed towards the net but unfortunately Nikki got her head in the way.
• Unfortunately, as Nikki becomes more delusional, she also becomes less engaging.
• Unfortunately Nikki has returned to Uni.

All well and good (or not, as the case may be), but I was wondering if this might be expanded to construct more of a narrative.

One day Nikki…; happily Nikki…; unpredictably Nikki…; unfortunately Nikki…; and then Nikki…; with the result that Nikki…

fuggy fuggy and the brothers mcleod

No, not another Japanese post, just some nicely pitched ninja animation.

I was immediately taken by the combination of ‘analogue’ background with simple computer graphics over the top. No, wait a minute, those computer graphics look quite analogue too…

Here are some skillls sorry, stills from the fuggy fuggy movie

Simple concept (different aspects of a young ninja’s training); simple style; simple colour pallette; all off set by a nice gentle sense of humour.

Anyway, in posting these stills I was wondering how to approach the whole copyright/credits thing, but then I remembered the fuggyfuggy home page:

After watching the movie I can get some desktop art, download to my mobile and then signup for the newsletter…

Maybe the intention with a site like this is to play off the whole viral marketing thing. I mean, that’s how I came across the thing in the first place, right?

I’m not being cynical, I just think it’s a neat little package and done well: something to bear in mind for the future perhaps?

Anyway, I ended up at the creators’ website www.brothersmcleod.co.uk/ and if I wan’t supposed to be doing other stuff right now I’d probably have a good ol’ dig around…