house of cards

House of cards ad for Shelter from Leo Burnett and Framestore featuring the music of Radiohead

A very simple idea, very well executed.

bed stop-frame animation

Check out this beautiful stop frame animation, a collaboration between Yuval and Merav Nathan. So many ideas using such a limited aray of bed props. Nothing saucy.

Keeping it real

Impressive waste of time. Well it made it to my blog so…. here

I don’t see why not

I’m a car park geek

Whether it’s a good thing or not I love the architecture of car parks (there are many in Birmingham) to the extent that I once thought about doing some work based around these fantastic spaces.

Someone beat me to it

Android

Google’s new open source operating system for mobile phones. Perhaps this means that Apple may not be able to justify £269 for a phone in the future!?

Wayne White

Saw this on Sleevage link courtesy of comrade Steve State. Wayne White is the artist behind the Lambchop ‘Nixon’ sleeve. He paints 3d type over thrift store paintings. Kitsch dreams come true… More here

Before the 17th century, carrots used to be purple

Ever since the very first balls came into shot over the brow of a San Francisco hill, I have (like most people) fallen completely in love with the execution of Colour. Like no other.. The latest Play Doh offering is up to the usual headscratchingly how the…?? standard, though to be fair I think neither paint nor this one have ever matched up to the balls.

I checked out Bravia online for the first time in a few months and was completely mesmarised. What I especially love about it is the way it follows the brief… exploring and celebrating colour in simple and emotional terms. The resulting interactive explorations really remind me of the early Anti-Rom work that first got me interested in interactive media.

Great use of Flash 3D.

Infinite Oz

An infinite world of oz. A hypnotic, rotating, evolving journey through beautifully illustrated scenes from the Sci Fi channel series Tin Man

The control panel lets you speed up, slow down and reverse the motion through infinite oz and stop to explore video content related to each of the scenes.

God bless the maiden voyage of the booth

So we built a photo booth.

In the age of social web usage through the likes of Facebook and Flickr, we decided that creating a physical space to socialise, communicate and express oneself seemed a fitting way to demonstrate the connection of the real life with the digital.

We built a very DIY looking photo booth which masked our highly innovative user interface. People were able to throw together an outfit from our prop bin outside, choose a background via the interface/croma key wizardry, and pose for their very own passport strip. To complete the experience the customer was then able to tag the strip with their name and add a short message before the printing out using our new splamfy printer installed in the side of the booth.

There were two copies of the photo strip, one for the person to take away with them, the other for them to stick on the booth itself. At the same time the image was automatically uploaded to here

Whether it be the thirst of the general public to express themselves or a national obsession with photo booths, the project was a huge success. With over 360 photos taken printed and uploaded and a booth covered in photo strips, the exhibit surpassed all our expectations.

The festival was great, albeit cold, stressful and tiring. Special love going out to Clusta, Small Japanese Soldier, Heavy Object, Jasper Goodhall, 383 Project, McFaul Ltd, Second Home, Si Scott, Stereograhic, Bryan Loke, Steven and Jesson Yip (too many links to add)

Photobooth and expo on flickr here

Photobooth website is here