OK-OK, I hear you loud and clear blogoshpere. It has been 2(+) weeks since the inaugural post for the much celebrated, the much vaunted 76 Top Five, and the response has been boggling to the mind.

Let’s keep this congo line going, I give you…El videos de musica!

**Please note the low turnout this week, I am looking at you southern-end of the office.**

John:

1. Bjork - “Cocoon”
2. Bjork - “Pagan Poetry”
3. Martha and the Muffins - “Echo Beach”
4. Bran Van 3000 - “Astounded”
5. Johnny Cash - “Hurt”

Steve Bennett:

1. Unkle – “Rabbits inYour Headlights”
2. Radiohead – “Just”
3. Tool – “Aenima”
4. Squarepusher – “Come on my Selector”
5. Michael Jackson – “Thriller”

Julie:

1. Radiohead – “Just”
2. Björk – “All is Full of Love”
3. Pet Shop Boys – “Being Boring”
4. Røyksopp – “Remind Me”
5. Men Without Hats - “Safety Dance”

Rob:

1. The White Stripes - “Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground”
2. Beck – “Sexx Laws”
3. Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”
4. New Pornographers – “My Slow Descent Into”
5. Tool - “Sober”

Travis:

1. Tool - “Prison Sex”
2. Death Cab for Cutie – “Title and Registration”
3. Foo Fighters – “Everlong”
4. Metallica – “One”
5. Queens of the Stone Age – “Go with the Flow”

Dom:

1. Billy Ocean - “Loverboy”
2. Beastie Boys – “Sabotage”
3. Radiohead – “Like Spinning Plates”
4. Justice – “D.A.N.C.E.”
5. Røyksopp – “Poor Leno”

We work in an open concept work space, the lack of privacy is a negative agreed, but it really facilitates the expression of opinions — whether they are requested or not. The thing about spouting your opinions within your peer group, you best be ready to hear how much your thoughts sink or soar.

In the middle of our ‘pit’, we installed a ginormous whiteboard, it’s intended for brainstorming sessions, working out silky smooth code, drawing obscene doodles and other collaborative exercises. Now every week, starting last week, it will also house the 76 Top Five. What is the 76 Top Five? I am glad you asked. A theme is picked, and people (participation is optional) list their all-time top five (usually under a barrage of comments such as, ‘Are you serious?’ and ‘Nice choice pointdexter‘).

Think of this whiteboard as a window into the plethora of personalities who fill out the 76design corps.

So without further ado…

Week 1 Theme: Cinema

Brett:

1. Donnie Darko
2. Gimme Shelter
3. Almost Famous
4. 28 Days Later
5. High Fidelity

Jeff:

1. Goodfellas
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
3. And Now For Something Completely Different
4. Rollerball
5. Cable Guy

Jordan:

1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Dumb and Dumber
3. True Lies
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Ocean’s Eleven

Julie:

1. Blue Velvet
2. Kill Bill Vol.2
3. Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amelie Poulain
4. Lost in Translation
5. Adaptation

John:

1. Seven Samurai
2. The Night of the Hunter
3. Rhapsody in August
4. The Last Picture Show
5. Kill Bill 1 & 2

Rob:

1. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
2. Fubar
3. American History X
4. Forrest Gump
5. Pulp Fiction

Dom:

1. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo
3. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
4. Rushmore
5. Jing wu men

Tune in next week for…76 Top Five: Music Videos!