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Lucky Country site live
Footprint Films engaged us to develop the digital strategy for their upcoming “Australian western thriller” release Lucky Country. Today we launched the first part of that strategy – the website & blog. Courtney, Cate and Nick (at Liquidshape who designed and built it) have all put in the hours to turn it around in record [...]
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73mph jet cyclist
Bob Maddox bolted a dual-exhaust pulse jet engine to the side of an ordinary bicycle, donned a leather jacket and helmet and then held on tight as he peeled off a 73-mph run down a deserted back road. Found these great pictures and article on WIRED
Posted in cycling, innovation, journeys / adventures 2 Comments
WWDC 2009, Live from App Store visualisation
what you’re looking at: over 3,000 apps-and growing-are downloaded every minute from the App Store. This is a live feed showing the activity of 20,000 popular apps currently on the store. Every time a customer downloads an app, its icon lights up (5-min delay).
Posted in data visualisation, games / play, installations 7 Comments
Short film feeling_lonely? by Rachael Turk
Watch this short film (10mins) in HD. It’s with great pleasure that I finally share Rachael’s film ‘feeling_lonely?’ which she wrote and directed. feeling_lonely? : Rob is “the man who has everything” (and everyone). But when 45-y-o ‘Mother Manchester’ catches his eye online, he gets more action than he bargained for. I’ve been fighting with [...]
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Quote of the day…
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. Brendan Behan, quoted in the Illawarra Mercury Source: Wit & Wisdom, The Week 29 May 2009
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Don’t go here…
I’m sharing my photos not the location. A piece of heaven in the countryside. Wood burning stove, my lovely lady, uninterrupted views, dancing birds and chilled out baby cows. Keep it special – don’t go there.
Posted in about ben, architecture, photography 1 Comment
Just landed in… data visualisations from Twitter
Twitter posts containing ‘just landed in…’ and ‘just arrived in…’ inspired this data visualisation of the worlds air traffic. The origin of the user is obtained from their Twitter bio. This shows 61hrs of the Twitterati traveling the world. Part inspired by a chit-chat with Katie Chatfield and Ian Lyons this morning. Here’s an idea [...]
Posted in artists / designers, data visualisation Tagged data visualisations, ideas, twitter data 1 Comment
Seek’s ‘Credit Superhero’ job post – it’s since been removed
Hilarious job post found on Seek.com.au (I think it featured yesterday). Sad that Seek can’t work out that this would be a great way of driving traffic to their site – instead they remove it – it’s doing no harm. Reminds me of the Amazon.com comments – that go that much further – this Denon [...]
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Frozen fly-through of shootout scene… NUTS
Created by Stink Digital for Philips new 21:9 cinema TV, commissioned by Tribal DDB Amsterdam. Must be watched, full screen and in HQ. First found on BoingBoing.
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The Internet Symphony playing now in NYC
They did it. The Internet Symphony is complete. Nice work by my mate Tom Uglow at Google in the UK – who’s at Carnegie Hall NYC right now. See my original post on the project here.
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My name spelt out on the streets of San Francisco…
Using Google Latitude a team of people ran around San Fran and, via their mobile phones, positioned themselves to spell out my name – viewable on this Google map. Of course that’s not strictly true. Its a ‘viral’ from the chaps at Google to showcase Latitude – real time positioning of friends on a map. [...]
More twitter data visual tools…
Via @art_s discovered Twitter Stream Graphs (screengrab), Twit Arcs and Twitter Spectrum. All provide data visualizations for twitter profiles and keywords – tools created by @JeffClark.
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Three case studies worthy of your time…
Uniqlo – Uniqlock by Projector. Undeniably one of the most innovative and creative uses of the web to date. Evident that technology didn’t get in the way – only enhanced and took it further. Tate Tracks by Fallon London. My favourite art space, the Tate Modern, reaching a new audience through the intersection of art [...]
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24hrs of geotagged photos on flickr
64,000+ photos highlight cities and countries on a moving globe over 24hrs. Best watched full screen. First found on FlowingData and the clips author is here.
Thoughts on augmented storytelling