Link: The True Love Project

[thanks AD]

Who have you offended today? :)

Think of the potential! Brands can now put their twitter feeds on garments… distribute a feed via a badge, sticker or pen. Really brave? Twitter tattoo! My mind is racing.

Now all we need to do is figure out how to make the viewer mainstream. Have a look:

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<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&#038;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&#038;showPlaylist=true&#038;from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

Oh… and I think Microsoft forgot to mention that Google will own them by then… and that Silverlight will be long dead.

Read more: istartedsomething.com

If we had that in The Valley, there’d be a brick through it within 24 hours. Very cool, though.

[thanks Nick]

Link: Nordpol+ Hamburg (the Agency)
Link: Mabona Origami (the artist)

[thanks Kappa]

Video advertising is about to take an evolutionary step forward…

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Where do you fit in the scheme of things?

Link: The Seven Stages of the Programmer

It’s very likely that the plot and theme are striking quite close to home - but let’s move beyond that. The crafting of the characters and materials, the simplicity of the storyline and the obvious style of the artist combine to create a truly enjoyable experience.

I find stop motion animation to be a curious beast - shunning technology to, quite literally, add texture to the story - the medium seems out of place and somewhat outdated. Nevertheless, I think producing this work in any other way would have been an injustice. The execution exhibits a purity and innocence that mirrors the magic of the story… what a pleasant surprise.

Make sure your sound is on and click through to have a look.

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It’s an interesting case study as BigBrownBox.com.au is a new brand so there was a significant opportunity to make an impact - and an obvious requirement that we deliver the message in a memorable fashion.

I’ve done my best to balance the excitement of a competition site with the potency of the brand icon and display the key messages in a friendly and intuitive fashion. Have a look and tell me what you think - after the jump is a brief discussion of some of the key screens and technologies used… yes, we’re talking Papervision3D… you know me too well.

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I highly recommend this site!

Watch the whole video - and pass it on.

Link: www.whatdavoloves.com

I’ve always been a quality-over-quantity guy… I prefer to not have something for another week or year until I can afford the exact thing I will treasure forever. I now have a TV that I think makes the act of watching TV more enjoyable. I drink from wine glasses that help me to enjoy the wine. I have furniture that I look forward to sitting in/at/on… yada yada yada.

I also throw out a lot of stuff… most of it is packaging. Sure, we recycle - but I’m starting to question whether I’m doing enough… whether we as a collective are doing enough. It is a crazy, mind-bending problem and whilst I’m doing my best to figure out how I can minimise my impact, I can share the message with you.

Check out this site: www.storyofstuff.com. I’m sure you’ll learn a few things; if nothing else, it’s a first class example of viral marketing.

The Collision Detection kit by Corey O’Neil certainly has a wow factor and has me scratching me head, trying to figure out where I can make use of it first.

Head over there and check out the demos… for some reason I absolutely love the TextField example.

Link: Collision Detection Kit
Link: Google Code Repository
Link: Corey’s site

[via Evolve]

Well played, Nintendo.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

I don’t want to give too much away here because I think much of the fun/experience is in the discovery of the concept. Click through to watch.

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Zupko, you’re truly the fairest of them all.

Link: The demo
Link: Andy’s Post

Take a dodgy old video and spice it up with some high-res photos using this revolutionary software.

From the site:

The work presents a system for automatically producing a wide variety of video enhancements and visual effects. Unlike traditional visual effects software (e.g., After Effects, Shake, Boujou, etc), the system is completely automatic and no manual labor is required from the user.

The demos that really made an impact on me were the last couple where he experiments with synthesising alternative textures within the 3D scenes.

Something in this for everyone:

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From the site:

The work presents an interactive system for quickly creating alpha mattes for objects in a video. Unlike previous techniques commonly employed in the visual-fx industry (e.g., rotoscoping) our system can help novice users create professional quality mattes with very little manual effort.

These alpha mattes can then be used to cut out objects from one video and composite them into another video. Alpha mattes can also be used to apply image filters selectively to objects in a video.

Even if you’re not into video, you’ve got to check this out.

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