Founder Dan Wieden donned a hard hat to visit the construction site of our rooftop extension this morning. It’s still two months away from completion but it’s taking shape now. 

The structure can now be seen from Hanbury Street. (Above.)

COO Dave Luhr is also over from Portland and allso visited the roof to have a look at how building is going.  Village People? Or is it Bob the Builder he reminds me of?

Wieden has a word with works foreman Big Lenny about construction progress.

Check out some new work from W+K Amsterdam for Electronic Arts – Burnout Dominator launch campaign.

The campaign is based round the global movement, Kah Ra Shin, whose guiding principle since its origination in Tibet in the late 19th century has been one of ‘Inner peace through outer violence‘. Exploring both its founding philosophy and its current day practices, the campaign shows the role Burnout Dominator has begun to play in practitioners’ lives as the ultimate form of cathartic anger release.

Here’s what they tell me: "What everyone loves about EA’s Burnout™ Dominator is its pure and unabashed celebration of destruction. The truth is, it feels good to smash into things at high speed. And after a stressful day at the office there is something even pleasantly cathartic about it. The Worldwide global phenomenon, Kah Ra Shin, and its mantra, ‘Inner Peace Through Outer Violence’ was born from this insight."

"We realized that in these angry, stressed-out times, there’s only so much that yoga, meditation or aromatherapy can do for you. What people really need is a way to release their rage, not contain it, through controlled violence against inanimate objects. Or put more simply, ‘to smash stuff’ ". You can visit the site here to upload your own screams.