April 2009
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The Visual Art of Julia Sonmi Heglund →
Everyone loves Chris Moyles →
It’s a video. It’s an OTP. Perfect interaction of content with media for Honda. Click to watch it on Vimeo and check how the background interacts with the player.
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Meet Akinator, the Web Genius →
Pick a character, anyone in the world, real or fake, and Akinator, the Web Genius, will guess it after a few quick questions. The mechanics of Akinator are brilliant, accessing user generated information in its database.
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Origami artist Sipho Mabona for Asics footwear. (via Mabona Origami)
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Sell out and score a free coffee →
The Dutch coffee chain ‘Coffee Company’ has come up with a brilliant promotional idea targeting uni students. To get a free coffee, students simply insert the above image into their powerpoint presentation and get their friends to capture a photo or video of it for a free coffee. Check out a video of it in action.
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Zappos.com sales visualised in realtime. →
Online retailer Zappos has built a Google Maps application that shows orders coming into their website and being mapped to the location the order is being shipped to, in real time. Seems to be alot of people buying shoes!
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Louis Vuitton brings style to QR Codes →
A colloboration between Japanese designer Takashi Murakami & Louis Vuitton has produced this funky QR code that actually works.
( via I lvoe lv )
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Marketingsherpa Blog : » Twitter is Growing–and... →
crikey a 365% increase
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Jenny Holzer Interview →
“Truisms” (1977–79) Spectacolor electronic sign. Times Square, New York, 1986. (via Jenny Holzer)
Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist best known for her work ‘Truisms’ where she compiled a series of statements and aphorisms (“Money creates taste” & “Protect me from what I want”) publicising them in a variety of ways including posters,...
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Spreadtweet. A Twitter app that looks like a... →
Does your office policy forbid you from using Twitter? Concerned that you boss might think you’re spending too much time on Twitter
Introducing Spreadtweet. It’s Twitter disguised as a spreadsheet. ( via @elliottkember)
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Hitwise studies Oprah's effect on Twitter →
Share of US Internet visits to Twitter increased 24% on Friday, April 17, the day of Oprah’s first Tweet. Comparing visits with the previous Friday, visits were up 43%. (via Hitwise Blog)
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Historical Tweets : The Gensis of All Tweets →
”Most people think Twitter was “created” in 2006. These are same people who think Richard Gere created Buddhism in the 1990’s. Just before Madonna created yoga.”
Brilliant Twitter satire (via Historical Tweets)
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I find your lack of pants disturbing.
– Top 278 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With “Pants”
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Ólafur Arnalds - 'Found Songs' (Erased Tapes) →
Icelandic songwriter will release a song per day for a week. Know when the next is released on his Twitter page.
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Study: CPG ROI May Be Measurable in Facebook,... →
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Kutiman mixes YouTube →
Israeli born Ophir Kutiel, otherwise known as the musician / composer Kutiman created a music project by sampling YouTube videos. The piece went viral after he sent it to just twenty friends and earned over 1 million views in a week. (via Wikipedia)
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Have you seen a Tweenbot? →
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Check out the website to see the results of this great social experiment. Created by artist Kacie Kinzer at the Tisch School of Arts
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Grab a scanwich for lunch →
The tastiest blog you’ll ever come across. A new sandwich is scanned daily. (via Twittersphere)
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The Subservient Chicken Turns Five →
(via Creativity Online)
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The Horrors Music Video →
Brilliant music video with a creepy announcer. (via The Horrors)
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Hate maths? Solution : →
Maths can be funny thanks to Craig Damrauer and his ‘New Math’ blog.
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Mathieu Gerard a VFX artist / director produced this stunning film titled ‘Steel Life’ for his Masters Thesis. Music by French composer Mathieu Alavado. (via Vimeo)
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World's first music video in an Excel Spreadsheet →
Looking for an innovative way to launch a new album? This wins hands down.
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Tavi the 12 y.o fashion blogger →
How much style can a 12 year old girl have? Interview Magazine has the low-down on this tween blogger.
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NRMA Unwinding Road Game →
Beached Tamarama Beach shot using a tilt-shift video technique. (Keith Loutit via Vimeo)