Posted in about ben, collaborate / participate, interactive, social on Aug 31st, 2008
Annoying that the embeddable button (above) doesn’t really work with my widget width (you know what I mean, right?). Enjoy this whilst its on my homepage (click play), which will probably be a while, as my publishing behaviour is far from regular so it’ll take some time to move to the next.
More importantly have a [...]
Posted in advertising, collaborate / participate, games / play, interactive on Jun 25th, 2008
I’ve exhausted my ‘booster can’ already, mainly down to the fact that I didn’t know what I was doing… just clicked away on the arrows. Unsure when the booster gets replenished, but I need some speed.. got a long way to go to win this race.
So far I’ve been across some odd blogs, mainly on [...]
Posted in artists / designers, digital, interactive, social on Apr 29th, 2008
Big fan of data exploration and what better social network to explore that the stream of conciousness that twitter empowers and delivers. Twistori is a project that explores twitter comments by instances of the words ‘I; love, hate, think, believe, feel, and wish. In much the same way that Johnathan Harris’s We Feel Fine does, [...]
Posted in collaborate / participate, design, games / play, innovation, interactive on Apr 17th, 2008
Its taken me forever to watch this TED clip, so its no doubt old news to everyone else. Johnny Lee, a human interaction researcher, show’s how the Wii remote can be adapted, at minimal cost, to become a 3d interface for learning and inventive game play.
I like the fact that he’s got a massive [...]
Posted in innovation, interactive, social on Apr 17th, 2008
Quick post: Google Earth 4.3 (beta) is now available, not only with more advanced 3d photo-realistic renderings of notable cities and builiding but with the ablility to simulate sunrise to sunset, with the aptly named ‘Sunlight’ feature. Watch this video to get a view..
Posted in about ben, advertising, interactive on Oct 12th, 2007
Yesterday, The Media Report, presented by Antony Funnell, covered The future of advertising online.
Antony interviewed two experts and me. The first Professor Duane Varan, he’s the Director of the Interactive Television Research Institute at Murdoch University in Western Australia. The second, Anne Parsons who is the Chief Executive of the media buying agency, MediaCom.
Its [...]
Posted in artists / designers, innovation, installations, interactive on Sep 10th, 2007
The Burble is a massive structure reaching up towards the sky, composed of approximately 1000 extra-large helium balloons each of which contains microcontrollers and LEDs that create spectacular patterns of light across the surface of the structure. The public, both audience and performer, come together to control this immense rippling, glowing, bustling ‘Burble’ that sways [...]
Posted in about ben, advertising, interactive, whatever on Aug 7th, 2007
I was asked to write an article for the August issue of Australian Creative on the Internet in 10 years. Sadly the whole thing didn’t get published (only up to 16.00, that’ll make sense when you read the following) so here is the full version for your pleasure.
If you get the actual edition you’ll [...]
Posted in about ben, collaborate / participate, interactive, web / phunk on Jul 18th, 2007
Finally we’re live! the time it takes to develop within MySpace is quite astonishing… baring in mind the speed at which the online social world moves. We’ve been working on Lion Nathan’s McKenna Bourbon brand for sometime and our strategy this year was to compliment their online presence with a destination in MySpace called The [...]
Posted in games / play, interactive on Mar 31st, 2007
Big shout to the Thaddeus for sending the link to this ‘graphical interactive music making tool‘ (gasp). By moving the coloured circles (each pertaining to a sound) within the main circle you can increase the volume and compose your piece. It looks good too.
Posted in about ben, design, interactive, web / phunk on Feb 27th, 2007
Resevoir Street in Surry Hills is the heart of my week day, every morning starts at Single Origin. So when they needed to take their brand online - we got chatting. This is the fruits of our labour, big round of applause to the Host team. Check out the website but most importantly try the [...]
Posted in about ben, advertising, interactive, web / phunk on Feb 26th, 2007
So the ‘Engage’ team at Host has been hard at work again. This time its for New Line Cinema and ‘The Number 23′ film.
The plot outline (from IMDB) “A man (Jim Carrey) becomes obsessed with a book that appears to be based on his life but ends with a murder that has yet to happen [...]
Posted in games / play, interactive on Nov 2nd, 2006
Posted in advertising, collaborate / participate, interactive, web / phunk on Oct 23rd, 2006
We’ve just launched a ‘viral’ (I hate that word), for McKenna Bourbon.
Recipients of the piece think their friend has called into Nova 106.9 (thats in Brisbane) and has miraculously answered a rather tricky question, winning an all expenses trip to NYC for two.
What actually happens is, they’ve visited www.double-trouble.com.au, followed the prompts to enter [...]
Posted in design, interactive, whatever on Aug 18th, 2006
Well the idea of ditching my mobile for this would be perfect, no more bloody ringtones, just turn it on when I want to be connected. Unfortunately Sydney is behind on the wifi networks around town, so you’d need an alternative connection channel.
No doubt this is the first of many devices that will bring these [...]