At E3 2009, Microsoft announced that Xbox 360 users will be able to update their Facebook & Twitter status through their console. In addition to this, they’ll also be able to use services like Last.FM to listen to streaming video. According to Microsoft Rep, “we’re not oly extending the walls of your living room beyond your home to your friends in different corners of the world, we’re creating the definitive social network.”
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Twiike, an unofficial Twitter App from Jason Wiener will automatically post any run you sync from your Nike+iPod to your Twitter account. With Xbox 360 soon to include Twitter & Facebook integration, functionality like this will fast become the norm for brands looking to tap into social media.
Louis Vuitton goes into space for it’s latest campaign.
Louis Vuitton commemorates the 40th anniversary of man’s conquest of the Moon, elevating the theme of travel as a personal journey to a celebration of a voyage of unsurpassed significance for all mankind. The campaign features astronuats Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell and Sally Ride discussing how the experience of space changed their lives. The film is shot in zero-gravity style and compliments the print campaign by Annie Leibovitz.
He who keeps company with wolves will learn to howl
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PROJECT NATAL
Microsoft announces new generation Xbox 360 with full body motion sensor. No controllers are needed to play. To be released in 2010.
Twiike, the Twitter from Nike. Sync and post your runs.
From low-budgets to rush jobs to piss-poor project management, every designer has one time or another faced the inevitable, “I need a logo (brochure, website, etc.) done ASAP” scenario… But for many full-time designers, this “rushing creative” is a very real and necessary part of their job requirement.
By Stephanie Orma.
Last Day Dream by Chris Milk. A man watches his life pass before him. The film was shot on the Canon 5D II - a hybrid still/movie digital SLR shot with Lensbaby lenses to create the selective focus effect.
Clever guerrilla action to an online bookshop. Twitter posts become QR codes that become books.
