A Muxtape for Blue Skies
What a jolly nice day. Here’s a muxtape for the kind of stuff I’ll be listening to…
http://easygeezer.muxtape.com/
10 Things Google Found To Be True
I reckon there’s some gems in this list. Stollen mercilessly from the most excellent Core 77 Blog.
Portfolio Night
I was lucky enough to go to Portfolio Night 6 last night. Set up by the enterprising young dudes behind http://ihaveanidea.org/ it’s billed as a chance for young creatives to meet creative directors (for a fee of £10). I felt like it was a chance for me to meet young talented people (for a fee of nothing with a couple of beers thrown in for free).
Without giving away any personal details about people that I saw I was amazed at the disparity in skills that I saw. Some of it was obviously about talent. But there were a bunch of people who’d obviously been given a really rubbish schooling in what ‘advertising’ is all about. A shocking image with a quirky line and a logo (bottom left invariably bottom right invariably [thanks Ben for pointing out my stupid error]) can’t be the basic unit of advertising any more, can it?
I met a few youngsters that really stood out: if I thought I could hide Jai and Wal from the world and keep them as my little secret I’d be tempted. But they’re already out there, blogging with the best of them and doing placements at great places. So they’ll be fine whatever happens.
There’s another couple that I really really liked, but I’m keeping them secret for now whilst ‘discussions’ take place…
I hope my comments were useful to the people I spoke to. I’m not sure they were mostly. But I hope at least I was polite and respectful (unlike some of my contemporaries who I heard being a little bit mean if I have to be honest…).
YouTube vs Last.fm
Nicely executed mashup of last.fm and YouTube made by a guy called Tim Bormans. It looks slick and works pretty well - to view it click here. It’s easy to make your own personalised music video channel, as long as you’ve got a last.fm username.
via: Lifehacker
Hooray For The Design Police
I’ve been banging on to a couple of designers about how they need to start up something like this. They need to hunt down and bring to justice all of the horrible design that keeps creeping into some of our documents. Now someone’s done all the hard work. All we need to do is print out the stickers.
And it’s not just design crimes. There’s also stickers to highlight conceptual and stylistic crimes too…
Thank you design police.
2 Amazing Videos
Both entries to Radiohead related competitions. This first one was a D&AD brief last year for a video for a Thom Yorke track. It won. It’s quite dark. But it works it’s simplicity nicely.
And this from the ever stunning Flight404. Have patience with it, it’s a builder (and just so you know this was all generated using code - wow)…
Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.
He wasn’t going to enter this into a Radiohead video competition, but now thankfully it looks like he will. To find out more about the story of this awesome piece read about it on his blog.
Flowing Pixels from the 8-Bit Pool on Flickr
Some nice stuff in this Flickr Group of 8-bit stuff I particularly like the pixel pot plant too.
via: Wonderland
Roller Coaster Mini Game
This little Roller Coaster flash game from the University of Cambridge teaches you how to get the balance right in the design of big dippers. Too much thrill and people pass out, not enough and you can’t progress.
Although it’s incredibly simple on the surface there’s something stupidly addictive about the physics in this thing. Science is cool.
via: Metafilter
My Talk at Under The Influence
Here’s the talk I did at Iris’ excellent Under the Influence day. It’s basically about digital experiences and magic and how the two are interconnected.
Hope it’s OK - from my perspective I think it wanders a bit at the end (I sort of ran out of preparation time). As usual I can’t bear to watch it in order to tell if it’s rubbish or not. I need to get over my fear of seeing and hearing myself, it makes it impossible to do anything on YouTube or the like.
I wish I’d got to see more of the day’s other talks but I was busy writing my presentation and doing other work. But now thanks to the magical internet and the generosity of Iris I can see them all online. Hooray.
