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Boom Boom Boom
Sometimes, the Vengaboys played very loud on a car stereo in a town full of drunk blokes really hits the spot. It’s as simple as that.
Familiar Five
I love everything about this. Came out in January, but only just discovered it. Late to the party as usual. Amazing track by Marcus Marr. Massive chugging bass. Bizzaro lyrics. Super simple but lovely video.
My Search for an Interactive Music Video with Windows in it
Last night I was trying to find a particular interactive music video. I tried mailing a couple of people: “You know, the one where there’s a window in the middle, and objects come out of it in other windows, and I think you could buy them…
Dorian Concept – Trilingual Dance Sexperience
So many things for me to love. via: Justlikemusic And the guy who made the video also made this, which I think is cute:
In B Flat
This is great. http://www.inbflat.net/ Last year I blogged about the idea of doing something a bit similar. But this lovely chap took a different (much better and more realistic) approach, and made something that really works. It’s been…
A Walk and A Ruddy Good Book – Go Tim!
There’s this guy called Tim Wright. He’s a lovely chap. He did some planning and writing and things for a game we made a long time ago at Poke. Anyway he’s either become a nutjob or a genius (or maybe he was always both). I’m not sure if…
Robot Love Co-Incidence
Last night I watched Wall-e for the first time. And it was good. Then today I was pulling together a mix. I’ve included the Apparat Mix of Moby’s Pale Horses which I love dearly. I tweeted that Apparat was a genius. Then @tbuesing tweeted…
Scott Wayne Indiana – Nice Web Art
Scott Wayne Indiana sent me a nice email and a couple of links to his sites. The first one is his photo a day project – http://coinop.tumblr.com/. I really like them. That’s one of them above. He also sent a link to 39 Forks which is a…
Fast DJ Setups – Another Reason To Love YouTube
I just love the mini-cults that you find on YouTube sometimes. This is my favourite find for a while. Mobile Disc Jockey’s setting up their rigs time-lapse style… And (love his YouTube overlay at the start – we should all use that…
Kijkers by Kessels Kramer
I was lucky enough to speak at the Boards Magazine Creative Workshop in Amsterdam last week. It was really good event and I genuinely enjoyed all the other speakers. There were a bunch of highlights. From seeing the amazing preview of the…
The Most Amazing Training Video Ever
How to hand out a free magazine on the streets of London presented by Shortlist’s publisher Mike Soutar… I LOLed multiple times and had my mouth agog for most of it. Absolute comedy gold. You really couldn’t make that shit up. “It makes…
The Five Second Folio by This Studio
I really like this. I guess some people won’t. I know it’s kinda unusable, but that’s the point. I found myself playing through it 5 times to try and see what’s going on. Then I started trying to pause bits and rewind it. Then I figured I…
I Put A Donk On It
I spent my Sunday afternoon making this. Sophie said “why?”. I was really just using it as an excuse to learn a bit about how iMovie 09 works. And as soon as I stumbled across the beat matching feature I knew I had to do this.
Status Quo vs Scooter
Kind of like Walk This Way by Run DMC and Aerosmith. But the version that would have occurred if Satan was in charge. And just in case that leaves you in any doubt of Scooter’s genius. Check this. Kind of like a jumpstyle version of Where…
Samsung Go All Out in Cute Attack
How are you going to show off the big bright screen of your new mobile phone? Use it as the centerpiece in loads of scenes with super-cute animals. How can it not fail? They’d be better not having a mega-sucky website that has absolutely…
Donk Donk Donk Donk Donk
I’ve just been on a very strange voyage. A voyage into Donk. I’m going to rewind and retrace my steps so that you can join me. Come with me. Come to the Donkside. Take a trip to the heart of Donkness… Here’s where the rabbit hole opened…
Merry Christmas and Muppet Hip Hop
I’ve had a nice Christmas, hope you have too. This clip made me feel ready for NYE: via: Musiclikedirt
Before Trainspotting And Before Human Traffic
There was the mighty Weekender! An awesome extended rave chronicle / pop promo from back in 1992. I always thought Flowered Up were a little bit pony, but this makes up for every slightly lame track they ever put out. I’m sure I’ve got…
Urban Play Amsterdam – Moving Forest
I was in Amsterdam at the weekend and was lucky enough to pass through a bunch of things that were going on as part of the Urban Play festival. I particularly liked the mobile forest. I’m not sure it was supposed to be this mobile… But…
Father Ted Read My Blog!
Well that’s not strictly true. But I was looking at my stats when I noticed some unfamiliar activity… That’s not strictly true either. But I did get some traffic from this lovely blog http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/ which is…
Sony Organic LED – Ooooh
I hope that this gets people wearing more latex gloves. They’re practical, and stylish
iPhone Accelerometer Turns Sadness into… More sadness…
Filmed on the Kodak Zi6 (on a train in poor light). I just loved the fact that the iPhone wouldn’t let dom be happy, no matter how hard he tried
Viral Schwag and the Kodak Zi6
I got a lovely note suggesting that I might enjoy this product. And that I could indulge my love of floating heads… Also in the package was a Kodak Zi6 HD video camera. It’s a small, lightweight cheap thing that can make videos and take…
Spacetime Fusion
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo. The science bits are pretty complicated. But who cares when it can make your videos look fucking awesome using the power of Spacetime Fusion!!!
5 Games You Need to Know About
I’m not a hardcore gamer. I play games very occasionally. I’d like to spend more time doing it. But I think I’ll save it till I retire. Games are bound to be super-awesome then and I’ll have loads of time to waste. Here are 5 games that…
Radiohead House of Cards on Current.com
I was just watching Current TV and this film about the Radiohead House of Cards video came on… It really is a bit good.
I Haven’t Got Anything Interesting To Say Today
I’m almost ready to write something marginally profound. But my brain’s a little too tired to pull it off, so I thought some of you might like this instead: I was going to say how it reminded me of Zip-a-dee-doo-dah but without the Acid…
At The End of the Day
Like shooting fish in a barrel. But there’s a bit in the middle that’s a minor stroke of genius (I won’t spoil it)… Originally found at jiggmiester’s Tumblr.
The Finest Sweatshirt in the World?
I bought me one of these Nike x Loopwheeler AW77 sweatshirts: From the Nike 1948 store in Shoreditch. I’ve been wearing it for 3 days straight. And I can’t take it off. It truly is the finest sweatshirt I’ve ever owned. I don’t normally…
Floating Heads In Movie Posters
As you might know I’ve got a thing about floating heads. So this made me laugh
Post It Note Experiments
By the eepybird guys. I’m not the first. And I won’t be the last to post it. But some things are just good… EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.
More AR Madness
Jason at work just sent me this: Wow.
Examples of Amazing Augmented Reality
I’ve been doing a bit of digging around the whole Augmented Reality thing recently and thought I ought to share a few of my favourite things… Carcade – cool! Micro Machines on AR acid Absolutely and totally mind-blowing game taking place…
I Don’t Normally Post This Kind of Thing
But then I don’t normally laugh out loud like a freak in the office either
Ramsay Gets Gamed
Jeez, is there nothing that can’t be turned into a video game these days – now Gordon Ramsay gets the video game makeover. Chef Ramsay watches players’ every move and judges them as they progress by yelling at them, praising them or…
Chaos on My Desk
I got in this morning and the cleaners had spilled some coffee/glue hybrid on my desk. It had gone all the way under a box file that I use to keep all my USB gadgets out of the way: It was very firmly stuck fast: Then I had to clean up…
Orange Unlit Tour – Welcome Hedluv
We’re putting on a tour with Orange. It’s part of the whole ‘I am’ thing. The Unlit Tour is about an artist going on the road and creating his own ‘I am’ story as he goes. The tour is going to be ‘made by everyone’. From the people who…
YouTube and Music
An odd thing happened to me on Saturday night. I was playing some music through the stereo via my laptop. Sophie started humming a tune that she wanted to hear and I thought I could recognise what it was. So I tried to find the track. But…
An Amazing Animated Gif Video
Absolutely incredible – also from http://www.perishfactory.com/. It’s just one long scrolling scene made up of thousands of animated gifs. I quite like the song too, it’s jolly. Whoops, almost forgot the track is by The Sea and Cake and…
Bomb the Bass Butterfingers Video
I love this completely and utterly. The track is amazing and the video is wonderfully simple… It’s Butterfingers by Bomb the Bass (featuring Fujiya & Miyagi). There’s a high quality quicktime version here with much better audio.
Lords of the Dance
It’s been a very very long time since I posted a Silly Moment in Techno. This made me laugh so hard that people around the office were concerned for my welfare. Thank you Andy, you made my day.
Making A YouTube Band
If you play solo clips from YouTube on the same page at the same time it sounds oddly like a band (kinda). I’ve got a project on the go to try and make an interesting random YouTube band maker. But I need some help. See what it sounds like…
The Girl Effect
The design of this charity site is really lovely. To my ill-trained eyes the typography is nice. And I like their promo film too. Everything about just feels like it works together. And they made sharing so easy I’d have felt mean not doing…
iPhone as VJ / DJ Controller via Midi
I know someone who is holding out on getting an iPhone because he was a bit scathing about them when they first came out. He’s scared of being shown up as a fool and a traitor when he gets one. This video is just another example of the…
Looks Like Carphone Warehouse, Smells (and Sounds) Like Minilogue
Minilogue video by Kristopher Storm (Music by Minilogue). Carphone Warehouse ad by Kristopher Storm (Music by Minilogue). I’m really confused. Everything in my brain is shutting down and I’ve got no idea what to say about it. My groove has…
When Balloon Races Go Wrong
Hilarious Balloon Launch Failure – Watch more free videos Thanks to Joe Wheeler for the link.
Powerful Tools In The Hands of Idiots – Part 1: After Effects
I’ve just started messing around with Adobe After Effects. You might wonder why. I sort of wonder why too. Thing is I’ve been working with Keynote recently and getting a bit inspired at how it can do cool stuff with video. Then it dawned…
A $5 Laser Show – OMG OMG OMG!
I love lasers and music. I just do. So I almost wet myself when I saw this great video of a $5 laser show: Full instructions on how to make your own are here. Or Dr Altman will take you through all the necessary steps right here: Perhaps…
It’s a Kind Of Bally Foamy Thing
Further proof that all ads are rapidly tending towards a point of absolute singularity… By Publicis for Orange Slovakia as far as I can make out. Via Space Invaders.
What Advertising Can Learn From Radiohead
I wasn’t going to blog about the House of Cards video and it’s brilliant integration with Google and the geekosphere. I wasn’t going to blog it because everyone else has. It is bloody brilliant though. Yet another example of how Radiohead…
Creative Similarities?
On the David Elsewhere stuff Tim just commented: I liked spike’s version from a year or two ago. With a link to this video: It’s a different thing doing a different job. But I can see how one would perhaps make you think of the other. For…
David Elsewhere and Motorola
Here’s a new thing that Poke have just finished. Well it’s not completely new. It’s taken a bit of time to get out into the world for various reasons. in fact some of the very eagle-eyed amongst you might have noticed that I posted some of…
upl8.tv from Poke NY
The chaps at Poke NY have just spawned a new thing of total awesomeness. Basically it’s a YouTube viewer that allows you to browse YouTube clips using just the space bar. You visit the site and start watching. If you don’t like the clip…
Radiohead – Obsolete Hardware Remix
This is absolutely incredible. So nicely done. As I’ve said before I like the idea of Radiohead more than I actually like Radiohead. This is another part of that puzzle. Basically it’s a response to the ‘Nude’ remix contest that they set…
FHM Go Beatboxing – So Nearly Brilliant
A guy from FHM learns to beatbox. Then enters the UK Beatbox Championships. The video is really nice, fun and kind of educational. “Buh, keh, buh, keh, ts, ts. I’m getting it. I’m really getting it…” The clip above is basically a teaser…
Contact Juggling As I Believe It’s Called
I normally find this kind of thing a bit sort-of cringe inducing. But this guy is absolutely phenomenal. I also quite liked this clip of a bunch of glass-ball nerds just mucking around and having a jolly good time. UPDATE: I started to…
Red Bull Music Academy – Brilliant
I’ve not really looked into the Red Bull Music Academy stuff before. IT’S AMAZING. There’s some brilliant video lectures and an awesome podcast. It’s like TED for cool music. The lectures are full of heroic musical dudes from bunch of…
Spot the Bull is Back!
Orange’s Spot the Bull is back. And this time it’s bigger and better than before. Now featuring: team play allowing you to win up to 8 tickets per group live multi-cam video streaming from the field real time stats and bull-tracking…
ABC3D – The Most Brilliant Book Video Ever
Sorry if this is old hat, it’s been seen by quite a few people on YouTube. But it’s one of those things that even if you’ve seen it before, you’ll be happier after seeing it again
Light Graf Goes Mainstream
This lightwriting animation about The Very Angry Caterpillar was shown on BBC childrens’ TV show Blue Peter. More on it at Flickr. It’s nice.
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…
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…
Remixed Dancing Videos
I’ve had one of these saved for a while, but when I found the other I thought it was time to post them as a set. I don’t know why, they just tickle me. And this one from Romania (thanks to whoever sent this link to me via del.icio.us – I…
10 Reasons Digital Is Better Than Advertising – Remixed
This is all going to seem a little strange. Why on earth would anyone want to remix a presentation in such a fashion? Well it’s a funny story you see. I was mucking around with some basic VJing software. It’s a thing called Quartonian that…
Judging Viral – Viral in 5 Words
I’ve been doing some bits and pieces of awards judging for various folk this year. It’s all been interesting so far. The one I’m most worried about is the D&AD Viral Category. I’m the chairman of the jury and I’m guessing that there’s…
Art of Noise: Moments in Love
A classic bit of 80s Balearic tunage. What’s not to love. A proper classic. Not 100% sold on the video though
Please God Let This Be The Last…
The world can’t cope with any more toppling objects. Perhaps Pot Noodle can be the nail in the coffin of tipping stuff. (Oh, apart from the coffin-based domino rally that I’m going to do very soon…)
The Rise of The Ad Man 2.0
[I’ve written this post once already. I got to the end of it just as someone phoned me up. I picked up the phone. Fumbled it. And dropped it on my laptop which duly crashed in a spectacular fashion. The second revision is slightly shorter…
Techno Viking in Oil – Painting Internet Memes
This guy paints scenes from Internet memes. He used to paint scenes from video games. But he’s moved on. You can buy them at Etsy. Unfortunately Techno Viking has sold out, or else it would be mine right now. Thanks Jonathan for the
Scratching Hand
Nice inspiration for an ad. Anyone, anyone
Ohmygod Dancing
Sorry, last one of the day I promise. I just couldn’t not share this incredible body popping. Wow! This evening’s show has been kindly supported by StumbleUpon Video. Thanking you.
Fun Fun Fun auf der Autobahn
Wowza. This 12 minute tripped out animation for Kraftwerk’s seminal Autobahn is quite something. Buy the DVD (or VHS) and find out more here.
If I Was 17 Again
Typographic Synthesizer – So Good It’s Magic!
You know sometimes when you see something so amazing that you almost forget to breathe while you’re looking at it. Well I’m just about finished hyperventilating after the end of this video. The guys at Meek.fm have created something that…
That’s a Mermaid?
It’s amazing what YouTube throws up in it’s ‘related videos’ section: For me, that’s not a mermaid. This is a mermaid: I’d have loved to see Tom Hanks fall in love with the top one though.
International YouTube Skate Cyber Haterz
This is one of the best little YouTube community dramas that I’ve ever seen. I’m going to try and tell the story as best I can, but I’m sure I’m not going to do it justice… It all starts with popininmyhood posting this video entitled…
Powerpoint Karaoke
All this Pecha Kucha stuff is starting to get a bit dreary. The idea of PowerPoint Karaoke seems a lot more random and challenging. Basic idea is: people stick real presentations ‘in a hat’, then presenters get allocated a random…
Shit Disco – OK
Simple, but effective… For some reason I kept imagining an interactive version of the video that acts a bit like a Guitar Hero style game
Who Needs Tripods?
This is far from an exclusive, it’s been featured in quite a few places. But it’s something that everyone with an interest in taking photos should see. It’s so simple. Brilliant. $1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera – Lose The Tripod – Funny…
Oh My, That’s Lovely
Magnetic Ink, Process video from flight404 on Vimeo. Beautiful computer generated art, made by the supremely talented Flight 404 using Processing. Personally I think the whole thing is really helped by the use of non-computer music. If you…
Hot “New” Dance Step
Forget jumpstyle. This is the hot new dance step (well it was hot and new in 1930)… Check the user ‘GoodOldDays‘ for loads of great vintage videos. There’s some amazing stuff in there.
The Curse of Circular Loading
I know these kind of circular ‘loading’ devices are very trendy. But they should only be used when the delay is likely to be a couple of seconds maximum. They are absolutely shit at everything else. I’ve just been faced with a screen which…
3d Video
Wow. This 3d flash video (using papervision) is simply stunning. I predict a lot of this technique being over-used a lot in the next year. But it’s perhaps a glimpse of what Google’s street level mapping might become in the not too…
Youth Trend Watch: Hardstyle, Hardjump & Jumpstyle
This started out being a silly moment in techno post. But it’s grown into something far more important. Something that trend watchers and marketeers around the world have to pay heed to. It started with this clip from Malaysia: A few…
The Rise of the Idiots
Dan Ashcroft on Idiots (from the post-retro-ironic-futuristic Nathan Barley). “They use the word cool, it is their favourite word… Thinking is rubbish and rubbish isn’t cool… Stuff and shit is cool…” See the rest here. Still painfully…
Lakai Fully Flared
Posts on graffiti and skateboarding. I’m so down with the kids I’m almost underneath them. But this trailer is stunning, it’s like the Black Hawk Down of skate vidz (and it’s got M83 as the soundtrack which would always make it a winner in
How To Do Digital Planning
I’ve been trying to post something like this for a few months now. But it kept morphing into a badly researched history of planning mixed with a poor how-to guide. And of course I kept veering off into bloody flag-waving about how digital…
More Electronic Music On Mainstream TV
Lord knows how these connections get made, but I stumbled on a second clip from ‘old TV’ featuring another seminal moment in electronic music. This time it’s Giorgio Moroder on German TV… (Amazingly good quality video clip too!)
Robotic Boogie, Metal Mickey, That’s Life!
Today I love YouTube more than I ever thought I’d be able to love a video sharing site
Nice Vid
The music of Whitest Boy Alive, I like. Optical illusions, I like. Videos that synch-up the noises and the pictures, I like. Therefore, this video, I like.
Pani Puri – Food 2.0 @ Slideshare
I love Pani Puri. So I was really delighted to see this presentation on SlideShare. | View | Upload your own My prediction for the day: Online viewing of slideshows set to overtake video by 2010. Nah, not really. But there are some really…
The Internet (now in handy book form!)
David McCandless has been doing bits and pieces for Poke as long as Poke’s been around. In fact he’s written lots of the funnier words on the funnier projects that we’ve done. So it’s nice that someone gave him a book deal. And if he can…
The Frat Boys Are Back
For me Frat Houses were always a thing of great glamour and mystery. I guess it’s the teenage viewings of films like Animal House and Porky’s that make it all seem so exciting. But this film really changed my mind about all of that. It…
Fire Video Gets Honours, But Why?
The video from yesterday of the fire got a link from the Guardian’s News Blog. Their embedding of the video in their blog meant that the clip had over 6,000 views yesterday which meant that it got the following ‘honours’ on YouTube. I was…
How Stuff Dates
I kind of love this track. But it sort of doesn’t seem to make sense any more. And the video has aged really really badly too. The original (E2:E4 by Manuel Gottsching) has aged much better in my humble opinion. It might be the cheesy…
Making Good Shit Stick Is Tough
Don’t get me wrong. I love the meritocratic world of the web. Good stuff floats, average stuff gets suspended in the sea of mediocrity and bad stuff sinks without trace. And that’s the way it ought to be. It used to be really easy. Back in…
Great Explanations of Wikis, RSS, etc…
Common Craft have created a bunch of interesting explanatory videos, they say: We’re interpreters. We present your products and services in plain English using short, unique and understandable videos in a format we call Paperworks. Theres…
This Busker is Well Good
Saw him in North Laine on Saturday. This epic psychedelic trance improv was just part of his set. A proper one-man-band with mad skills. Again sorry for the video quality. I think I might have to invest in some kind of camera that can do…
Mini – Lunchbreak Moonwalking
Yesterday I blogged about theotherlunchbreak.com – Mini’s really nice lunchtime learning sessions. I managed to get along to the ‘Learn to Moonwalk’ session and it was great! Sorry about the rubbish quality – my phone video camera just…
Sony’s RecYou
There’s been mutterings of recyou.jp around for a few days. It’s a very slick Japanese flash site for Sony Walkman. It’s quite hard to navigate your way through it, I managed by trial and error rather than a knowledge of Japanese…
Investing in Content
Jib Jab – US peddlers of funny animations and stuff (my description not theirs) have just raised another $3m in funding from VCs – in total they’re reported to have raised $6m. Read/Write Web have more on the story. I found myself nodding…
Drive Thru Rap
I’m late to these judging by the dates that the videos were posted, but I’m not sure how widely they’ve been seen. Just another one of those ‘funny’ ‘little’ online things that feels really odd and not particularly outstanding (to me), but…
Google Vanity Ring
Too good. An project that looks at jewelery and status in the digital age. The creator Markus Kison says: Update of the ring as a status symbol. It shows the number of Google hits you get, when you search for the name of the person who…
Nike, is it Supersonic?
Right now you can’t move in London without seeing some kind of ad for Nike Supersonic. According to the blog spam I got the other day: “Nike is launching an exclusive invitation only event for 3,000 people in London to push their pace…
Saving the World One Design at a Time
Ben’s blog is always great. But here’s a bit of greatness that you should make a special effort to read: I’m a designer, use me better – it’s Ben’s presentation from the Applied Green conference. It’s just dead good. It shows that…
Techno Viking
I’m not sure if this qualifies as a Silly Moment in Techno. It’s undoubtedly a rather odd moment. But I’m too frightened of The Viking to call it silly. All Hail Technoviking! – Watch more free videos The guys at Break.com say: This guy is…
Courses I’d Love to Do
I’ve just been helping out with a D&AD / IPA talk about ‘sharpening your creative skills’ for wannabe Creative Directors. Not sure how much help I was, but hey ho, I told a few stories and gave my opinion on some stuff. (The image above is…
Skate – Nice Game, Nice Campaign
There’s a new game coming out called Skate. I think you should be able to guess what it’s about. It looks absolutely stunning, not sure that this clip will do it justice. I think they’ve also done some cool stuff with the control system by…
Social Networking Invitation Tips
Tim O’Reiley gives some good concise (much-needed) advice on Social Networking invitation etiquette. I remember when people first started using email, and there was a flurry of publications on “netiquette,” the etiquette of how to use…
Another Interesting Use of Online Video
Not necessarily the most user-friendly way to show your new collection. But you can see how it kind of works. Alakazam Label have twisted prints, t-shirts and more stuff – you can check out their wares here. I like the fact that people are…
Sharing Audio On YouTube
It’s interesting that people are using YouTube as a way of sharing audio. Obviously it’s not designed as an audio sharing site, but it does the job pretty well. I’m guessing that people are using it this way because: 1. YouTube has a…
Cravendale Do a Very Very Good Thing
W+K London and Unit9 have made a really brilliant thing. It’s part multi-player interactive game/muckabout. Part UGC. Part video editor… http://www.milkmatters.co.uk It follows on from the really nice Cravendale ads that are on TV. You can…
Weinberger vs Keen @ Supernova
Really interesting 50 minute presentation and discussion by David Weinberger (Cluetrain Manifesto, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Everything is Miscellaneous) and Andrew Keen (Cult of the Amateur). I’m not going to try and sum up the…
Shift Happens – Watch This Video
The second thought provoking animation of the week… Watch it. It’s good. Makes me realise that understanding and appreciating bits and bytes is really important. And maybe one day I’ll be able to apply it to something that makes a…
Faris and Me on TV
Well not really TV, but it is sort of like TV on the Internet… This time I’ve actually managed to watch myself, so I’m making progress. I didn’t like it, but I did manage to stomach it. It’s from the Ideas Forum thing that Faris and I…
Great Climate Change Video
Forget about An Inconvenient Truth, it’s all long and boring and stuff. Watch this instead… To my mind this deserves to have a lot more views than it’s had – so I’m going to make it my mission to get more people to see it. Please blog it…
Prison Dancing
The clip of prisoners doing the Thriller dance has been featured all over the place, in case you missed it, here it is: But I looked about and found these two which are less impressive from a choreography point of view. But somehow I found…
The 7 Deadly Sins of Digital
There’s a bunch of things that people who are just getting into digital always seem to propose at some point or another. I guess they’re things that are part of the learning process. Things that a lot of us have done, and hopefully learned…
I Can’t Watch…
This is me presenting “10 Reasons Why Digital is ‘Better’ than Advertising” at the PSFK conference in London. I can’t even bear to hear recordings of my own voice so there’s no way that I’m going to be able to watch this… (I tried watching…
Wiiiiiiiiiiii
My Nintendo Wii has been in a box for the last couple of months. But this weekend I had some mates over and we played it for a good few hours. It really is a very good thing. When glancing down my RSS feeds this morning (I think I was…
World of Warcraft vs The Proclaimers
I didn’t think I’d ever post anything about The Proclaimers on here. But then I didn’t think I’d ever laugh out loud at a World of Warcraft video on YouTube either
Daft Hands
You have to give it a minute or so before it gets going, but have patience, it’s worth it. It’s just really simple and charming, but a great bit of technique and something someone’s obviously put a lot of work into. I can see it getting…
Vimeo Ads
Vimeo have just redesigned their site (they’re a video sharing site a bit like YouTube). They’ve always had a nicely designed site and I think I quite like the new version too. One thing I really liked was their approach to ads – they’re…
Chemical Brothers ‘Shop’ in London
Not sure quite how I feel about this. I like it. But I’m not sure it’s a very good use of money. I’m trying to make it a better use of their money by blogging about it. The Chemical Brothers have taken over a disused shopfront to promote…
The 2012 Mashup Olympics
Thanks Cookie. Update: Weds 13th – the video is ‘unavailable’. “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited”. They aren’t liking mashups then
Prank Call
Prank calls are sometimes just a bit rubbish, they’re just too easy. But this one made me laugh out loud. There’s no video just sound.
Kate Moss for TopShop
A new Poke project (nothing to do with me really): Kate Moss for TopShop. I like the fact it mixes up old style web stuff with flash video and things. It’s all a bit ‘fashion’ for me, but I still quite like it. Plus you know it’s going to…
Searchmash (from Google)
I think I’ve found the perfect search engine. Or pretty close anyway. It’s SearchMash. If you look at the T&Cs it’s a product of Google Inc. If you do a search you get Google-like results. Apart from a couple of handy little differences…
10 Reasons Why Digital is Better Than Advertising – Number 2
OK, you have to know some stuff to put things on the Internet, but not that much. Just look at the people in 80% of YouTube videos, do they look like they know how to do complicated computer stuff? Or use a VCR? Or open a tin? In spite of…
10 Reasons Why Digital is Better Than Advertising
Photo borrowed from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurelfan/46008873/ I started writing this list of 10 things after I chaired a debate at the D&AD about ‘Consumers In Control’ which basically turned into a mass venting of frustrations…
ZeFrank on Waves
I liked this. I’ve been thinking about the notion of ‘surfing’ a bit recently, and this just felt good
Joost on the Mac
Joost for the Mac got properly launched on Saturday (well into public beta anyway), so like a good little nerd I rushed off and downloaded it straightaway. First impressions… Very slick piece of software Very intuitive Video quality is…
Plundering UGC Cash, Who’s In?
I’ve just been flicking through New Media Age. And after my earlier comment about User Generated Content, I was dismayed to see how many column inches have been given over to terrible UGC ideas – but with MASSIVE cash prizes. I did a quick…
Website with Semacode, Why?
Semacodes are pretty cool. The all knowing Wikipedia with it’s dazzling array of cross-links describes a semacode thusly: a URL can be converted into a type of barcode resembling a crossword puzzle, which is called a “tag”. Tags can be…
Venice Project Becomes Joost
The project formerly known as The Venice Project has now turned into Joost. It’s the latest venture from the guys behind Skype and in a nutshell it hopes to do to television what Skype did to telephones. As they put it: ‘taking the best of…
Tag-5-things-o-rama
OK! OK! I’m going to do it. I’m gong to succumb to the blog tag 5 things meme. Thanks to the following for tagging me. I might have missed some others (if I have let me know and I’ll add you to my thank you list). Oakie Dan Burgess @ Tap…
My Top Stuff of 2006
I’ve been thinking about doing a post on stuff I’ve liked in 2006, if you’ve got a blog it seems like you have to. But I didn’t know what to put in it or how to organise it. But I got re-inspired by The Design Conspiracy annual (a thing of…
Breaking the Cycle of Depression
A couple of days ago I mentioned that I was de-motviated. Then I got some lovely comments (and a couple of emails) from nice people, which re-motivated me :-) Then I posted something over on Faris’ blog about how certain trends (like…
The Value of Experimentation
I agree with Russell when it comes to the value of experimentation and play. Asi also brought it up in relation to the video-fronted search engine I mentioned yesterday. I’m all for play and doing new stuff. But there is a degree of…
Amen to That
This is a long video clip. 18 mins in total. And it might bore you if you’re not a music geek. It’s all about how a 6 second drum loop from the B-Side of a single by The Winston Brothers, released in 1969, has become a cornerstone of…
Aaaargh!
Could this be the most pointless thing ever? Probably not. But it’s a massive folly of some description. Someone has spent a whole heap of money creating a video based ‘human face’ to a search engine. Type in your search and Ms Dewey makes…
Second Life Primer
This video makes Second Life look pretty interesting (although I do sense a bit of hyperbole in there…). Personally I still can’t get my head into Second Life. Changing my outfit was by far the most interesting bit. via Big Picture
YouTube Haters
Asi who writes the excellent No Man’s Blog left a comment yesterday about the fact that slating YouTube is very much the in-thing to do right now. And he left me a link or two. Having read a bit more around the topic it seems to be shaping…
Trains are cool
Came across this yesterday: The London to Brighton train ride in 2 mins. Reminds me of the Star Guitar video for the Chemical Brothers by Michel Gondry. I’m not sure if the music almost sounds similar too, or whether that’s just…
Top 10 Presentations
Great list of the Top 10 Best Presentations Ever, a pretty tough list to compile and they’ve done a nice job. There’s a few in here that I’ve seen before, and a few that I haven’t. For Apple geeks of particular note is Steve Jobs launch of…
Steal this film
Following on from the Darknet post the other day, here’s some more on piracy in Sweden (and beyond). This 30 minute film gives a view of the P2P landscape (and especially the ‘bust’ on PirateBay – a major bittorrent site). Visit the Steal…
Yoga Today – Karma Rich Video Podcasting
Yoga Today – Start each day with a new Yoga lesson (for free). That sounds nice doesn’t it… If you’re using a PC you can get the lessons in HD, if you’re on a Mac they’re in lower res iTunes format. If only i could figure out a way to rig…
Amazing Video – Rendezvous
I was leafing through a copy of American GQ and I spotted a short article on a video that’s become an online phenomenon. A French art film of someone driving through Paris at breakneck speed. Made with no post production or additional…
Tony Davidson on Digital Creativity
The above image is blatantly stolen from the excellent DigitalAgency blog. But short of retyping the whole thing I couldn’t think of any other way of doing it. It’s from the D&AD Student Annual, written by Tony Davidson (Creative Director…
Clerks 2 – A socially networked film
The Social Customer Manifesto: Silent Bob Speaks I liked Clerks when I first saw it. I liked its low-budgetness, especially the fact that the store in the film had a broken shutter (to hide the fact that the only time they could afford to…
I lied
I know I said I’d shut up about a certain topic, but… Kevin left a comment asking what I thought of his opinions on the Agency.com thing. So I thought the least I could do is take a look. He makes some very good points, however, as I said…
Microsoft Brainwash
Whilst watching the demo of this interesting new Microsoft product: Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth – Video I noticed that the guy had a bottle of Microsoft Brainwash on his desk. Surely a funny gag that’s been put in there by some kind of…
WhenWeRollWeRollBig.com
A response from the Agency.com camp regarding the Subway video. It’s basically saying: “we did it, we got people talking, that’s the whole point”. I’m sure the debate will rage on around whether this is just a good piece of…
It was viral…
Now it’s a phenomenon! The immortal line from the Agency.com Subway viral comes alive. Check out the “if we roll, we roll big” t-shirt. With snappy, “corner office, now” detail on the back. Printed on high quality American Apparel garment…
Agency.com ‘viral’ pitch video
OK, I’m going to give credit where it’s due: hats off to Agency.com for nailing their colours to the mast (in a very public way) and for using web stuff to talk about web stuff. Credit over. Maybe it’s just a cultural thing. But this video…
More Viral Stuff
Faris from Naked talks about the fact that viral ‘just is’. Also uses the nice ‘real world viral’ example (oh, hang on, that’s just a virus isn’t it?) of the 118 vests. Also mentions a foul Coke example of labelling videos as ‘viral 1…
What's hot on YouTube
Really useful breakdown of the 100 most viewed clips on YouTube. Nice work: No Man’s Blog: YouTube trends report #1 The top line is that of the top 100: 58 are user generated content 31 are music videos 4 are commercial adverts 3 are…
Mentos Do Good
Mentos Turns Coke/Mentos Geysers Into Video Contest – this article says it as well as I could, so I’m not going to repeat it. But I suppose you need to know what it is, so here’s a quick summary. Put Mentos in Coke. Booooooosh. Quite…
Scalextric World Record – Zootube
Here’s a little site I’ve been working on. I’ve been keeping it a bit quiet because it’s a bit laddy (well a lot laddy in places). But it is appropriate for the target audience. It is for Zoo Magazine after all! The site documents the…
I Hate Viral(s)
I’ve grown to hate the term viral: I hate the fact that it’s overused. I hate the fact that it’s misused. I hate the fact that ‘viral’ appears as a line on media plans. I hate the fact that people now call them virals. With an (s) as if…
How hip hop changed
Modern hip hop videos don’t look like this… Thought it was interesting as a social snapshot of the early 80s in New York. Plus there’s some great fashions and urban landscapes in there.
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy Video
Cool Hunting blog the Gnarls Barkley video for UK chart smash number one hit – Crazy. It’s top. A really simple idea beautifully executed. Based around a morphing set of Rorschach ink blots it’s a worthy accompaniment to the track. I don’t…
Stephen Colbert – Amazing Video
There’s been lots of stuff in the press about this address from a Whitehouse dinner. Stepen Colbert gives one of the funniest and most cutting speeches I’ve ever heard. Absolutely ripping into George W. – who’s sitting right next to him…
YouTube’s Big Bill
In the last 6 months video has really started to take off online. There’s a whole host of new video sharing sites springing up. But hosting video costs money. Lots of money. This article: Your Tube, Whose Dime? – Forbes.com estimates that…
Videos From the Googleplex
Google have released a heap of videos from their internal archives: In addition to helping distribute content from across the world, Google would like to share videos featuring our company. Some great stuff in there, especially the…
Aaaaargh!
Virgin Radio have another one of their infuriating but brilliant ‘see how many artists you can spot‘ thingies. This time it’s moving video not just an image. Unfortunately I can’t keep up, it’s too quick for my puny brain. I’m a big fan…
Fashion Vs Style Vs Pop Video
Compare and contrast: French Connection’s new advert is not a million miles away from this pop video from last year (damn, that song is really really bad!). Thanks to Emil for the tip – came up in an IM conversation about originality in…
LED Throwies
Simple, cheap and pretty. These LED Throwies stick to any metal surface and make it look pretty. Can imagine some really nice interactive type applications with these at the core. Check the video at the Graffiti Research Lab (their re-use…
The Postal Service vs Apple
I like the The Postal Service a lot. Their album is great. I also like Apple a lot. Their products are great. As has been well documented the latest Apple Intel Ad looks a lot like the video for “Such Great Heights” by the aforementioned…
Directions on your iPod
Mash-up alert, it’s not perfect, but an interesting service combo nonetheless. Get directions onto your iPod (video, photo or nano). http://www.ipodiway.com/. Unfortunately is US and Canada only (for now).…
BlockJam
I was checking out a BoingBoing post on LED puzzle blocks which look pretty awesome in themselves. But there’s a footnote that links to a Sony project called BlockJam which just blew me away. (Check the video of the prototype). It’s a…
Backstreet Mime-a-long
Who? Why? 2 Chinese dudes, sing along to the Backstreet Boys. It’s funny. It gets funnier as you watch it for longer. The guy in the background appears to be just going about his business, unperturbed by the maniacs freaking out to boy-pop…