The Happy Harris Blog

Retro 4s

2012-02-15T06:25:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines

2012-02-14T08:10:00.000-08:00

Bouquet de Boeuf love?....

Genius

2012-02-13T16:01:00.000-08:00

This is what we do with all the clothes I find all over the floor...just fold and stack...fold and stack..

Meme movie posters

2012-02-11T14:52:00.000-08:00

2012-02-08T14:11:00.001-08:00

safehouse

2012-02-08T14:00:00.000-08:00

Snow joke

2012-02-07T14:43:00.000-08:00

Stanleys project

2012-02-01T14:45:00.000-08:00

...rather than me tell you about it, (other than to say it was a pleasure to work with such nice people)
read all about how the Happy Harris girls ended up being shot by the wonderful Jonathan Minster from Vue. It's also worth a mention that our new buddy Emma also played a huge part in making this happen, and to think the whole thing started on twitter and we didn't know each other this time last year...

Flying People

2012-02-01T14:06:00.001-08:00

MillionPound Drop

2012-01-28T13:27:00.000-08:00

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"Girls playing #TheMillionPoundDropLive Loving the interaction and still having their mill"
(taken at Happy Harris Lodge)

Minnie's acting debut

2012-01-28T06:58:00.000-08:00

We settled down with our popcorn as a hush fell over the cinema. Never heard so many kids be that quiet.

It's a beautiful story, beautifully told, outside of the featured talent, you can tell alot of quality and experience has been involved in the making of the film, Chris Palmer the Director, typography by Andy Dymmock, great casting, brilliant music, congrats to all involved at Gorgeous film, a real little gem.

And most importantly Minnie had an amazing time and a valuable insight into the world of acting and movie making..think she's caught the bug now..

Got to dance

2012-01-26T06:58:00.000-08:00

Hey girls now you've started street dance lessons thought you'd like this (it's like the World Cup for breakers), you wont see these moves on Sky1, so Daddy thought he'd bring the noise to your living room direct, now pop it, lock it polka dot it....

you don't ask, you don't get...

2012-01-25T06:17:00.000-08:00

Supermarkets have far more important things to do than entertain silly questions from three year olds. Although it’s not really a silly question that Lily asked, and Sainsbury’s wholeheartedly agreed (click to see the full-size images).

This is the sort of simple customer service that wins over a customer for life. We’re off to buy a hat so we can doff it in Sainsbury’s direction.

Minnie acting Debut..

2012-01-25T03:23:00.000-08:00

Well on Film ast least, we think she's acting up all the time..
The Happy Haris crew are very excited to be off to the screening on Saturday of 'The boy with the chocolate fingers' Chris Palmer's latest little short.
Minnie had a fantastic time on the shoot and thoroughly enjoyed playing with all the Dog's she had to work with...which one made the cut though....we'll have to wait and see..

Old Friends, New work

2012-01-22T14:19:00.000-08:00

Cars Courtesy of F A CESAR

The....

2012-01-22T14:11:00.001-08:00

At the end of 2011 the continuity announcers on Channel 4 mispronounced The Simpsons as The Crimpsons, The Carltons, The Pimpsons ... and The Cheese and Onions. Why?...only they know

Thats the spirit!

2012-01-22T13:55:00.000-08:00

My friend/illustrator/Hotellier/Designer Azar Kasimir has been busy with projects involving posters for a Music festival in US, a soft drinks company, whilst getting his new site ready to be exposed to the world. I cant wait, especially if his early attempts for The Micheal Berger Hotel are anything to go by...seems to be able to turn his hand to a host of different fresh styles...I expect big things for him in 2012..

The work below is designed for a new off shoot of the hotel which is well worth a visit if you're ever passing through Berlin.

update on a previous post...

2012-01-22T13:33:00.000-08:00

We all remember the amazing demo video right?...so what could possibly go wrong with a live broadcast on Fox...

'Drawing is thinking'

2012-01-18T03:16:00.001-08:00

MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from SEECOY on Vimeo.

let's look through the round window..

2012-01-17T10:38:00.000-08:00

Or out of a giant plughole...?

just because

2012-01-17T10:08:00.001-08:00

Beatles Evolution

2012-01-16T13:35:00.000-08:00

I remember...

2012-01-13T07:40:00.000-08:00

..many moons ago, long before marriage or children, we owned decks and played choons...and me and my brother and lots of friends used to put on parties...we even had an infoline?..an infoline! (I think it was just Mums phone) We got quite good at it despite these flyers...which are some of the worst bits of design I've seen, cant believe we let them go out looking like that...anyway, heady times kids, yes Uncle Lewis used to be a DJ called Grouch...

Stockholm’s School Without Classrooms

2012-01-13T02:15:00.000-08:00

the results of an Ikea / Einstein brainstorm...

Little drummer boy

2012-01-12T07:49:00.000-08:00

I'm really getting the urge to learn to play proper...(is there such a thing as a proper Drummer GaGa?)

King Eric

2012-01-12T03:26:00.000-08:00

Is there no end to the mans talent...it appears not..

Animalbet

2012-01-11T12:27:00.000-08:00

beautiful work by Mark Long you can buy me one here

Pebbleheads

2012-01-08T10:52:00.000-08:00

Happy near year Violet style

2012-01-08T01:51:00.000-08:00

DigiKid

2012-01-07T16:41:00.000-08:00

Tube mosaic

2012-01-07T16:39:00.001-08:00

Soon to be taken down to make way for the new station, the beautiful halls of tottenham crt road

'automobiles will be cheaper than horses'

2012-01-05T16:12:00.000-08:00

Published circa 1900...click to enlarge, well worth the read..

once more with feeling...

2012-01-05T15:53:00.000-08:00

brilliantly done. well done Grey London

Dotty idea

2012-01-05T15:47:00.000-08:00

Visitors to the Children's Art Centre at Queensland Art Gallery in Australia are handed coloured stickers as they enter one part of Yayoi Kusama's current show and invited to 'obliterate' a previously pristine white room...

Happy Harris New Year

2012-01-05T15:25:00.000-08:00

Ok with my only resolution firmly broken (to blog one post a day) we welcome in the Olympic year.
Here was Our (very) Happy Christmas 2011

Christmas card writing

Christmas lights

Christmas jumper

Christmas party

Christmas grins

Christmas leftovers

Christmas sculpture

Christmas Angel

Christmas catchphrase

Christmas kiss

Christmas candle

Christmas bubble

Christmas trouble

Christmas visitor

Christmas morning

Christmas Karaoke

Christmas duet

Mother Christmas

Christmas Recycling

Christmas cousins

Christmas bird (not angry)

Christmas cheekiness

Christmas lock in

Christmas games

Christmas party frock

Christmas necklace

Christmas present

Christmas interiors

Christmas warmth

Christmas skate

Christmas double

Christmas triple

Christmas closing

Christmas drink

Christmas quiz

Christmas dinner

Christmas lists

Christmas walkies

Christmas fully booked

Christmas opening

Christmas Gruffalo

Christmas poo

Christmas moo

Christmas performance

Christmas encore

Christmas hiding place

Christmas skate

Christmas antlers

Christmas tele

Christmas reflection

Christmas star

Christmas buffet

Christmas sparkle

Christmas shimmer

Christmas hat

Christmas headphones

Christmas Sgt.Pepper

Christmas needle

Twas the night before Christmas

2011-12-24T16:22:00.000-08:00

Tallulah's nativity curtain costume design

2011-12-22T07:52:00.000-08:00

Fish FishTank

2011-12-19T04:34:00.001-08:00

Dan Eatock

2011-12-16T04:16:00.000-08:00

I had the privilege of working with Dan for 18 months when his company at the time, foundation33, joined forces with an agency I was working at to form the start up boymeetsgirl.

the agency folded, but nearly all of the people involved in it have gone onto great things.
Dan is definitely one of those supremely talented thinkers who makes work which has a beautiful simplicity about it.

He also has a book which makes a great Christmas gift, and you'd be helping an old friend.
more of his work here

An alternative MTV Cribs

2011-12-16T03:05:00.000-08:00

IceCube describes the modern, green and resourceful building design of Charles and Ray Eames.
Visionaries of connecting nature and structure. Coming to a patch of grass in Hockley one day soon i hope.
All you need is a dream and a plan.

A dog's not just for Christmas

2011-12-15T08:40:00.000-08:00

A lovely interactive way for owners to contact and home dogs from shelters.
Sorry kids only in America.

my match was a greyhound/mastif cross. seemed pretty bang on if you ask me.

Help a good cause this Christmas

2011-12-14T07:37:00.000-08:00

A good friend has made this brilliant ad for a brilliant cause. just the thing to make you feel all warm and tingly this christmas.

Please Re-post, Re-blog, Re-tweet, just dont Re-order bottled water.
(yes that includes you MrsH)

Violet writing her own Xmas cards this year..

2011-12-14T06:10:00.001-08:00

Beautiful typography runs in the gene pool...

Muppet Alphabet

2011-12-14T03:32:00.001-08:00

Lovely short.

2011-12-14T02:56:00.000-08:00

by an intern at Partizan. all you need is a stills camera, imagination and a will to try things....

PROTEIGON from BURAYAN on Vimeo.

The seat that never forgets a bum

2011-12-13T10:07:00.001-08:00

idont

2011-12-13T07:53:00.000-08:00

believe they did this...

Hey Kids, lets go down the park...

2011-12-12T08:04:00.000-08:00

I hear the council have put a new slide in there. What's that?...Oh it's in Japan.

all I want for Christmas..

2011-12-12T02:15:00.001-08:00

Tallulah's Time Machine

2011-12-09T09:34:00.000-08:00

Kummerspeck

2011-12-09T08:21:00.001-08:00

The German word "kummerspeck" means "excess weight gained by
emotional over-eating"and translates literally as "grief bacon"

..food for thought this christmas

note to Santa : WANT!

2011-12-09T05:56:00.001-08:00

Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo.

Mucking (ab)out

2011-12-08T02:13:00.001-08:00

violet has been talking about Donkey's a lot this week, practising for her nativity....

They just get younger and younger...

2011-12-07T04:06:00.001-08:00

I can feel a load of Christmas Posts coming on..

2011-12-01T05:05:00.001-08:00

Girls look!...Toca have a Father Christmas edition of Hair Salon....a must for the HappyHarris ipad

Christmas is coming

2011-12-01T03:22:00.001-08:00

this will be me 10 times over....dont worry kids it'll still be fun!!...Promise.

For my little Minnie Mae..

2011-12-01T02:38:00.001-08:00

A film of a very talented spanish group of young Siblings....with a very Pushy Father/Mother judging by their Lo-fi production and Studio equipment...

Pixar's Avatar...

2011-12-01T02:22:00.001-08:00

Easily the best thing I've seen in a very long time...

2011-11-29T07:49:00.001-08:00

This 'bit of advertising' (teaser) for Charlie Brookers new series of programmes on Channel 4 made my jaw drop when i saw it (in it's real context during an actual ad break on a television), and weeks after seeing it for the first time, I still cant rid myself of the feeling that 'I wish I had done that'

awesome music choice too

Procrastinator Clock

2011-11-28T09:17:00.001-08:00

Track Laziness With Precision Quartz Movement

nice photo coincidence

2011-11-28T08:08:00.001-08:00

The obligatory Holiday Typeface

2011-11-26T14:30:00.000-08:00

Via @billymawhinney...

'I could never buy a Samsung, I'm creative'

2011-11-24T03:17:00.001-08:00

Our latest little spot

2011-11-23T14:22:00.001-08:00

Me and Cam are rather proud of this. No Money on a one day shoot. Shot for us by Owen Harris (no relation) at Outsider.

Eat well and be Merry

2011-11-22T08:24:00.001-08:00

My brothers Pub is Brilliant (the Observer said so) so book there for Christmas. We have!...

The best copywriting is often not by copywriter's

2011-11-22T06:44:00.001-08:00

serious book worm

2011-11-22T06:43:00.001-08:00

2011-11-20T12:38:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas to me

2011-11-20T12:35:00.001-08:00

2011-11-15T09:08:00.001-08:00

...following on from my Boosh research our friend Emma made this amazing Vince Blanc

available for commissions here

that awkward moment when your highfive gets dissed....

2011-11-15T08:50:00.001-08:00

the blueprint for success...old vs new

2011-11-15T08:44:00.001-08:00

Chris Espinosa, one of Apple's first employees, recently found a hand drawn sketch of the company's floor plan at 10260 Bandley Drive, also called "Bandley 1." The floor plan was sketched by Espinosa on January 30, 1978.

The building had four quadrants: Marketing/Admin, Engineering, Manufacturing, and a large empty space that we did not know what to do with when we moved in. That's why it's labeled "Tennis courts?" Needless to say that within two months it was our warehouse, and within six we had leased a building across the street and the one next door to expand into. "Advent" was not a religious sanctuary, it was the demo room with the $3,000 projection TV that we used for demos to Important People.

There are twenty names listed:
● Jobs, founder
● Mike (Markkula), VP of Marekting
● Gene (Carter) & Phil (Roybal), Sales department
● Mike (Scott) & Gary (Martin), CEO and Finance
● Sherry (Livingston), Cindy, & Eleanor, receptionists/secretaires
● Jim (Martindale), Manufacturing
● Dana (Redington), Marketing/Demo writer/programmer
● Bill (Fernandez), lab tech
● Dick & Cliff (Houston), hardware enigneers
● Clive (Twyman), industrial designer
● Wendell (Sanders) & Rod (Holt), analog engineers
● Randy (Wigginton), software engineer
● Woz

and here are the plans for the new Headquarters...

The proposal includes:
● An Office, Research and Development Building comprising approximately 2.8 million square feet;
● A 1,000 seat Corporate Auditorium;
● A Corporate Fitness Center;
● Research Facilities comprising approximately 300,000 square feet;
● A Central Plant; and
● Associated Parking.

Shame the big man himeself wont be around to see it realised..

ref are you blind!!!

2011-11-15T08:42:00.001-08:00

Um, yes.

World's most expensive Photograph

2011-11-11T09:00:00.001-08:00

It's called "Rhein II" and was photographed by Andreas Gursky, and it sold on Tuesday night for$4.3 million at Christie's. That easily broke the previous record set by Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #96" which sold at a $3.89 million price point in May.

via my friend Ben (a great source of all things inspiring)

a B.I.G (Notorious) Pacifier..

2011-11-11T08:54:00.001-08:00

wonder what would be in the window of the future today?

2011-11-10T04:29:00.001-08:00

ahhh so thats how they do it...

2011-11-09T07:39:00.001-08:00

Bye Sir Jim.

2011-11-02T14:47:00.000-07:00

Part of my TV childhood, , it's a sad thing to hear that Jimmy has left us.

On Jim'll Fix It he made dreams come true for almost 20 years so it is fitting that one of his final wishes will now be honoured. Sir Jimmy Savile, who famously wore a lot of jewellery, is set to be buried in a gold coffin.

The plans have been unveiled ahead of his funeral which is to be held next Wednesday in his hometown of Leeds.

Aunty Lisa was lucky enough to have her letter answered by Jim in 1986. (and very sweet and charming little girl she was too.)

*The Saville legacy will live on in many ways, one of which always makes me smile when I see them around London.

The Puntastic Cement firm...

Boo!

2011-11-02T14:25:00.000-07:00

We had an amazing Halloween surrounded by friends and family, and those who we love and couldn't be here still made the effort to celebrate with us in images... (Hilditch crew in Istanbul and Gardner Posse in New York. Loved Ottilie's Dumbo outfit- Congrats Jo on winning the fancy dress prize too- loved the Mummy!) It was like a scene from E.T round here with hundreds of kids out on the estate Trick or Treatin', there were smoke machines and actors in gardens as Grim Reapers pulling out all the stops to terrify the Harris girls, but all came back beaming with bucket fulls of booty, they all said that they had the best Halloween 'ever'. so no pressure on next year then.

the paper monster comes to life...

the angry frenchman

Aunty Lisa Spotted this Awesome store in New York..

with an Awesome name...

GaGa and the Scary chicks (scary at how old Eva & Lula look)

CaveGirl Minnie...love the bling

Pumpkin carving

2011-10-27T15:36:00.000-07:00

and then there's these..

It's nearly Party time

2011-10-27T15:34:00.000-07:00

Violet explaining how to play a game..

2011-10-25T03:39:00.000-07:00

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old media meets new in VW launch

2011-10-25T03:11:00.001-07:00

big head, always showing off!...

2011-10-24T08:12:00.000-07:00

Amazing 14 ton MOVING mirrored sculpture by David Cerny –

Steve Jobs

2011-10-24T05:26:00.000-07:00

We give our thanks to Steve Jobbs....he died October 5th and we miss him sooo much, he has made our lives so happy!!!! I can't imagine what our house would be like without apple products....?

we got a nice email.

2011-10-24T01:47:00.000-07:00

Made Mr & Mrs Harris very Happy...

go Eva!....Ohhhhh we're halfway thereeeeeee, ohhhhh oh Living on Prayer...!

From: "Welton, David" <DWelton@greenswardacademy.org>

Date: 20 October 2011 12:29:36 GMT+01:00

To: Eva Harris <mummycarla@gmail.com>

Cc: "Gore, Mike" <MGore@greenswardacademy.org>, "Forbes, James" <JForbes@greenswardacademy.org>, "Glyn, Lloyd" <Lglyn@greenswardacademy.org>

Subject: Eva

Mrs Harris, hope you are well.

Just a quick e-mail to let you know Eva’ term 1 Music assessment was outstanding.

Her composition and performance technique is excellent.

Eva achieved a year 8 National Curriculum level in her first assessment!!

Eva is a pleasure to teach.

Regards

Dave Welton

Teaching and Learning Leader - Music

You're twisting my melon man

2011-10-24T00:38:00.000-07:00

Up Up and away..

2011-10-23T14:54:00.000-07:00

...into the cloud

following on from earlier trampoline film..

2011-10-20T08:15:00.000-07:00

50 years later these guys are still reinventing ways to bounce off stuff...This is from the rehearsal for Cirque du Soleil's "Dralion" show. (they don't play this horrible music during the show)

playing the fool ain't as easy as it looks

2011-10-20T07:44:00.000-07:00

Larry Griswold world's greatest comedy diver & inventor of the trampoline

Salvador Dali meets Andy Warhol at Studio 54

2011-10-19T08:22:00.001-07:00

this weeks fav Tumblr blog

2011-10-19T07:37:00.001-07:00

Shopping for Puns

Make tea for the one you love

2011-10-19T07:32:00.000-07:00

via this site which i think MrsH will like..

Cushions to Munch on

2011-10-18T15:40:00.000-07:00

Lovely stuff always found here

Composite ipad App

2011-10-18T09:28:00.001-07:00

whadayathink of this Lula?...

Composite from James Alliban on Vimeo.

book your hotel on route..

2011-10-18T08:59:00.001-07:00

to the hotel.

Water brings it's own rewards

2011-10-18T08:44:00.001-07:00

nice ad campaign for...

2011-10-18T08:42:00.001-07:00

Well you can see what it's for...by http://lisazeitlhuber.com/

Kids, Eat Your Greens...and Yellows, Purples

2011-10-18T08:39:00.000-07:00

Judge Tesco However you want, but anything big brands do to encourage healthy eating has got to be a good thing...even if you think Carrots should stay Orange..

but does it float?..

2011-10-14T07:59:00.000-07:00

my new resource of all things interesting...