October 30, 2007, 2:38 am : Version 1.0
Viral iPod Touch ad become ‘Real’ Ad for Apple
From the ‘That Kid Is After Your Job’ Department, here’s a student-made iPod Touch commercial set to the CSS tune ‘Music is My Hot Hot Sex’. Apple picked this up from YouTube and flew in the kid who made it to produce a broadcast quality version.
SuperShorts
An imaginary world of pop-up wild beasts feature in this vivid new animation by The People’s Republic of Animation. It is the first chapter in a series of six ‘supershort’ films for Mitsubishi Lancer and Sony Tropfest.
Green Graffiti
Eco-minded street artist, Edina Tokodi, in Brooklyn
UVA
Matt Clark, Chris Bird and Ash Nehru formed United Visual Artists in 2002. Using bespoke software, LED, projection technologies and traditional lighting they create real-time, immersive, responsive experiences and environments for clients and collaborators in the music and fashion industries, as well as installation art, interiors and music videos.
The Gaping Void
An oldie, but still a goodie. Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist and professional blogger, known for his ideas about how “Web 2.0″ affects advertising and marketing. After a decade of working as an advertising copywriter, Hugh started blogging at gapingvoid.com in 2001. He first started off just publishing his cartoons, but as time wore on he started blogging about his other main interest i.e. marketing. Check out his single ideas on back of business cards. Nice.
MASP Posters
If you like your graphic design freshly beamed-in from the 50s, you’ll love this…
Custom 52: User Generated Playing Card Designs
It’s Threadless, but without the t-shirts and you can’t wear it (unless you’re Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate…). I might start playing cards again….GO FISH!
SweatyFrog
I still love this site. Very cool toy shop which promotes smart young toy designers from around the world, as well as groovy design of printed and filmed variety. Check here first, they probably have what something yr looking for…
LISTENING POST | Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin
One of the projects that inspired ‘WeFeelFine’, Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens. It is also rules.
Channel 101
TV isn’t dead, it’s just moved addresses….I really love this site. It is pre-YouTube taking over and actually has an idea behind it – think Project Greenlight meets CurrentTV. Channel 101 calls itself the unavoidable future of entertainment. Anyone can post a pilot episode for a show. The clips are shortlisted online and then voted on by a live audience. The five surviving shows become ‘Prime Time Shows’ on Channel 101.
