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).
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 Vimeo to get the clip to display correctly (16:9 rather than 4:3) – note to Quicktime Pro users: click options in export and choose the dimensions you wish (1280×720 HD in this case) then select ‘Deinterlace Source Video’. When Vimeo receives the file it maintains the aspect ratio.
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
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.
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 for a smart airline that wants to raise its green credentials… why not help your Twitter customers offset their air travel. Create an app or # tag that allows users to log their trips. Said airline could then offer to go halves on the carbon offset. Loyalty, talkability, value return – the planet is saved :)
Not to mention the fact that the whole initiative could be brought to life with individual ‘twitter travel stories’ showing a users travel overtime. The stories could be similar to the above – but personal – showing me where I went and ‘what I was doing..’.
User-data-generated clips that I can embed… send to friend and so forth. I mean, I could even merge my photos with the data… and put the whole thing on my mantle piece for the family to see!!!
I want my twitter, flickr, worldmap, gps, realtime data visualising picture frame – or similar.
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 Cable got the full comment hack.
Thanks to Rob G for the email.
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.
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.
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. You can make your own ’spoof’ video here. Its really quite convincing the first time round.
Thanks to Tom (creative director & a brand defender at Google) in London for the initial surprise.
Google Latitude is coming soon to Australia (the iPhone, Android etc.) – no idea when… that’s just what the mobile link says when I click it.
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.
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 and music. Gold. Remember observing this from afar.
Mentos intern campaign. With a media budget of $0 see how BBH New York created an idea and execution that became more than the media ever could have been… (be good to know if the original media budget was merged into the build?) archive website here.
Again, credit to CASEMOVIES for doing the hard yards on finding these.
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.
Creative idea, channels and execution explained for the ‘Problem Playground’ campaign for Honda by Wieden + Kennedy London. Visit the campaign website here – which is slow, but worth the wait. Another good idea from the team at W+K – that is clearly delivered in all channels and brilliantly executed – beyond the special build!
Thanks to CASEMOVIES (my new favourite creative resource).
…and if you think the soundtrack is familiar… well it is. Remember the rescue scene from Life Aquatic? (its below) and the track is called Ping Island.
Update: zoomable version of web trend map here, thanks to Jax
Who has an A3+ printer so I can actually read it without scrolling back and forth and up and down? Not that I’m complaining – thanks for the hard work and genius IA – keep up the good work.
73mph jet cyclist
Found these great pictures and article on WIRED