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ABC Media Report. My first radio interview.
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. [...]
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Burble London: Audience controlled LED balloon installation
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 [...]
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Australian Creative Magazine: Future Shock Article
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 [...]
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The Urban Spirit in MySpace, and yours
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 [...]
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Graphical music tool
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.
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Single Origin Roasters
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 [...]
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23. Pass on the paranoia!
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 [...]
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Host causing Double-Trouble
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 [...]
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Sony Mylo – I want one, I think
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 [...]
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Goggles – Google Map Flight Sim
This is brilliant. Goggles is flight simulator using Google Maps. Wish we’d thought of this, such a simple and engaging use of maps… the whole studio here in Sydney is likely to not do any work this afternoon. You can fly around most major cities in the world, Mars and the Moon! You can crash [...]
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We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion
The interface of WeFeelFine.org has some subtle references to the Sony Ad with the balls, but thankfully is nothing to do with it. In fact maybe I shouldn’t of even said that… but it was a first impression. The above image is of the opening interface, named ‘madness’, which is rather apparent as emotions sourced [...]
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Sunlight on (Google) Earth