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 30th, 2012
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 [...]
November 9th, 2011
Creative Social, Creative Looting and Comics Last night I gave a 10-min, rapid-fire presentation for Creative Social here in London. The overall theme was ‘Creative Looting’ and my take dived into my shameless pilfering of 40+ years of comic collecting to inspire my work and the teams around me. The presentation I gave is here [...]
October 3rd, 2011
Warning: this installment of Tom’s Ten uses the word “awesome” 16 times. 8-Bit Me | Mobile Check-in Gaming, 80′s Style 8-BitMe kicked off as the spot to make an 8-bit avatar of yourself just like your fave 80s video game (I always wanted to be in Berzerk …). Wouldn’t it be cool if you could actually be [...]
September 26th, 2011
Mind-Reading is (nearly) here: Reconstructed Movies from our memories Researchers have started working with computation models which let them record memories from your brain. The quality isn’t great – yet. Anyone who’s seen Strange Days knows that were just seconds away from black-market brain pattern swamping, a completely new market for porn and Juliette Lewis [...]
September 15th, 2011
In a nod to the various Fashion Weeks’ that are popping up around me at present, enjoy the apps, the clothes, the runway shows and some affordable fun from JLO and Kohl’s and the groovy 1969 denim from Gap. As well as my usual pile of dorky, geeky, ad-y, design stuff! Enjoy! Jennifer Lopez, Kohl’s [...]
September 12th, 2011
Co-creating stories on the web has been around for ages, from scripts for movies to virals using ‘exquisite corpse’-style additive narrative techniques, like Nike’s football passing clip which went round and round the world. With social media, fan pages have become a virtual campfire for sharing tales and myth-building. My (risky for Macy’s) pick to [...]
September 2nd, 2011
The big event for me this week is the relaunch of 52 comics from my Lovemarks, DC Comics. You can geek out on it, and nine other picks of the interesting, ingenious and just plain i from the last week. Enjoy! Ariel Shoot-Out Kicking off this week with a cool new event / digital / [...]
August 30th, 2011
A round-up of great mobile, social and creative thinking from around the world. Share with your office, team and clients. Enjoy! Macy’s Backstage Pass Mobile AR Customers accessing video content while they shop to enhance the experience – it’s a cool and is helping drive sales in a slow back to school retail season. Video [...]
January 6th, 2009
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Massive Multi-player Mobile Outdoor Trivia Game How can you not just LOVE Megaphone? I met them at Wired NextFest a couple of years back and we have been looking for a project to do together since. Their latest is a massive trivia game played on the bigscreens in Times Square. Up to 500 people at [...]
January 27th, 2008
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Pretty On The Inside | Microscopic Cameras You Can Swallow Remember the guy in ‘Pretty In Pink’, who was stuck in detention, and was drawing a picture of his girfriend, but without skin? This is how he did it! Puts an entirely new and interesting category in Cannes once people can direct films inside of [...]