VIDEO | The Worst Vines Posted by Brands Cringe, then go do better. Best of the not-so-great practices by some big-name brands on Vine. SEARCH | Thumbtack Buy your helper like plumbers and handymen using this cool, hyper-local service. LOCATION | What3Words There are 100s of ads in here: Everywhere on Earth marked with just three [...]
July 23rd, 2013
January 7th, 2013
Tom’s Ten 010713 | Stan Lee, Undead in the Midwest, Lego Robots, Silly People on Film and Social Flu
COMICS | Revival Need a comics fix between seasons of Walking Dead? Enjoy Revival, where aliens and zombies turn a sleepy midwest town on it’s ear (and possibly a new TV show on NBC). VIDEO | Stan Lee’s World Of Heroes Anyone else would be sued! Stan The Man (via his YouTube channel) has a blast [...]
October 27th, 2012
Election | Presidential Election Decision Tools Election + Mobile – decision making: Who needs debates and Saturday Night Live when this batch of apps and sites can make our decision for us? App + Gaming: The Silent History Books + Gaming + Tablet: Is The Silent History the future of kids books and the final chance to get children hooked on reading? Download [...]
October 15th, 2012
Social + Print | Happiness Machine Dot Matrix + Twitter + lo-fi: Press a button and find random happiness. How cool and simple is that? Weird Science | Translucent Soil Scary chemicals + Plants + water: see-through soil to observe the growth of roots and probably win a Gold Lion in Outdoor. Digital + Print | Foldable Me [...]
October 5th, 2012
Event | Toyota Tundra V Space Shuttle Endeavor Big Truck + Big Spaceship: Check out how this cool challenge can to be, then On Oct 13 2012, watch the Endeavor be lovingly taken to it’s new home by the bad-ass Tundra! Projections | Giant (Projected) Spiders Scary + Cool + Projections: Why have a watch [...]
September 25th, 2012
Categories: Starter 4 10, Tom's 10
Video | 10 ads to make you stop Texting n’ Driving Idiot Drivers + Advertising + A Top Ten List: You’ll think twice before you LOL and Drive… Web | Cirque du Soleil Chrome Experiment Anyone who knows me knows that I LOATHE circus-stuff, so this has to be good right? The latest Chrome experiment lets you [...]
September 19th, 2012
Video | What is Integrated Advertising? Well done to our office in Tel Aviv who made this fun video that explains what they do all day! Viral (shortly) | Romney again…. Mitt + Video Cameras = disaster – again! Upworthy continues to make me smile… Projection | Mercedes-Benz Aesthetics S Sculpture Motion Graphics + Projections + Hot [...]
September 11th, 2012
Social + Music | Songza Site and App Social-sourced streaming Music + Music Expert recommendations + Cool playlist categories: enjoy Songza on Mobile or Web - get in while it’s still free! Video | Stainless by Adam Magyar Slo-Motion video + consumers + voyeurism in this lovely clip from Adam Magyar Outdoor | StreetPong Proof of Concept + [...]
June 26th, 2012
Being on a Jury at Cannes is amazing. Being the President of a Cannes Jury is extra-amazing. Being the President of a FIRST Cannes Jury is a career-highlight and I had a blast. The Jury was a great bunch of people, hard on the work and not on each other. Perfect. As some of you [...]
May 21st, 2012
Categories: Tom's 10
Tom Eslinger is ECD Integrated Production / WW Digital CD Saatchi & Saatchi NYC. Tom’s Ten his picks of comics, videos, robots, fashion and generally stuff that catches his eye, posted most weeks on tomeslinger.com
March 26th, 2012
Greetings from sunny London with a round-up of stuff that I’m loving! Enjoy and have a great week! Gaming | Kara The Artifical Life by Quantic Dream Quantic Dream designed Heavy Rain and have created this creepy-cool video of Kara, an artificial life form rendered in real-time on a PS3, shows what it might be like [...]
February 20th, 2012
Mobile + Robots | Giles Walker Pole-Dancing Robots Artist Giles Walker creates very cool kinetic sculptures from junk. His recent project PEEPSHOW takes pole-dancing robots and a DJ from the RAW Art Fair in Rotterdam and lets viewers control their movements with a Nokia n900. Interactive + Social Installation | Shoot My Truck Machine Guns! Facebook! Sweary gaming [...]
January 30th, 2012
ReBrick: Lego Social Network Just in case you don’t look geeky enough playing with Lego as an adult, now you share share that dark, blocky secret with the world on ReBrick, the social place ‘for Lego fans by Lego fans (and nerds…) Eye-movement Graffiti: Tony Quan in Getting Up Tony Quan is an L.A. graffiti artist [...]
January 20th, 2012
VIRAL | Animals Being Dicks If you are following me on Twitter, I apologise for including Animals Being Dicks to this week’s Tom’s Ten. If you haven’t seen it, I apologise for eating up all your free time for the next two days. Rock On Thriller Cat! CUTE DOGS | SHAKE! A gallery of beautifully lit and shot [...]
January 6th, 2012
This time of year, there’s an InBox full of 2012 Predictions, mostly based on consumer and technology trends, consumption charts and even the occasional actual prediction. After watching far too many movies set in the future over the holiday break – Christmas classics like Terminator 2, Strange Days, Total Recall and Gattaca – I’ve cast [...]
December 19th, 2011
This week’s Tom’s 10 theme is Give and Receive: Links below to much free music (Christmas and otherwise) as well as some stocking stuffers for the geeky guy in your life. Have a great holiday wherever you are and kick some ass in 2012! Cheers Tom Saatchi & Saatchi LoveMix Our holiday gift to clients [...]
December 10th, 2011
This week has apps to make your work-out fun, a look at what Earth looks like from Santa’s POV, groovy new websites and social platforms and some very cool interaction with surfaces, video and more! For daily updates, follow @tomeslinger on Twitter! Fitocracy | Turn your work-out into a social game We should no longer [...]
November 29th, 2011
Tom’s Ten | 281111 | Fast Billboards, Drug Vending Machines, Edible Muppets, Mutants and Trippple Nippples! FT86 Live Art Digital Billboard To launch the FT-86 II, otherwise known as Toyota’s rad rear-wheel drive sportscar, Party Tokyo is creating an event/billboard/arty coolness live thingie which shows off the speed of the vehicle in a groovy installation/performance [...]
November 20th, 2011
ERLY: Organise Your Life on your customised Experience Graph Keep an eye on Erly: this site/app organizes your pics, videos, updates, check-ins and content by first creating canonical event pages within which we map people, time, and locations. Erly oganises your thought-stuff the way your brain does (eg: how it connects to YOU and not how Facebook [...]