Un top semnat de TIMES, bun de parcurs pana in rev chiar si de lucizii care si-au scris deja rezolutiile. Mai sus unul dintre entertorialurile mele preferate - “You Suck at Photoshop”. Un meritoriu loc 10 la categoria TV episodes.
Mai jos, locul doi la virale. De asta nu stiam iar faptul ca am aflat nu ma mai ajuta la nimic.
http://www.vimeo.com/1807754
In completarea postului de mai jos, iata si primul “First Person Painting game” (in jargon probabil FPP). Sistemul de joc e simplu si revolutionar. Ai in mana un tub inepuizabil de vopsea neagra cu care tragi rafale de revelator pe peretii albi ai mediului necunoscut, dar inconjurator. Prin martie 2009 se pare ca il putem deja pirata. Se numeste, cum altfel, The Unfinished Swan si e creat de Ian Dallas care se autointituleaza a reasonable man. Ma rog, un om care dupa ce a creat jocul asta, acum studiaza foarte atent populatiile de furnici.
I didn’t know that this war is taking place right now: advertising vs digital. Since when, we advertisers grew such long bears? Even though everybody agrees with the disease (that advertising as we know is it a couple of blocks away from disaster), the end never felt this near. But here comes Iain Tait the (very) young fouder of Poke (one of the leading digital agencies in UK) and puts advertisers on shaky ground. Speaking for the PSFK conference (Ten Reasons Why Digital Is Better Than Advertising) in London he names ten absolutely viable truths about the way digital is comin’ on the old masters. You’ve got the video presentation HERE (which, funny enough, is not available on youtube). Just one quote, to raise your interest: “A ‘just do it’ culture of entrepreneurialism - “The great thing about the web is you can fail fast and you can fail cheap”
...then we all must believe him. I've taken a look this morning, on Google Trends wondering what people are searching this particular sunny Sunday on the web. Well, it turns out, as expected, that most of us have pretty ordinary thoughts on the 24th of February. On the eight place there's, surprise, "ordinary people". So, the hotties this Sunday are the ordinary people, like me. Everybody is looking for them, try to get to meet them, have sex with, and do business with. Well, fuck me, that makes me feel special.
That made me wonder what were the people looking for on the New Year's Eve. And, guess what? They we're looking for "tcp/ip". That was at that time the hottest keyword on our planet. That's because the 1st of January was the date when the tcp/ip was developed 25 years ago. The funny thing is, and I found this on a blog, that Google made that day one of his logo shifts to celebrate this event, on which of course everybody clicked on that day wondering what tcp/ip is. Someone smart made a blog called “january-1-tcp-ip” that turned out as the second hit for this particular search. That meant traffic. If you add now Google Ad sense, which he did, that translates into a lot of money. So, with one free blog and one great insight everybody might get rich.
that’s what the astonishing website of Jonathan Harris - WeFeelFine has been doing for a living since august 2005. Now, this struck me as a revelation because it has such a simple idea but with so much insight on what is happening to the web these days. As he says in a TED presentation we, as human beings, are so much alike. We have many qualities that just put us together somehow. The problem is that between us there are also gaps. Religious gaps, social gaps, economical gaps, gender gaps, etc. One of the many common human qualities that the internet sets free and empowers is the need to express one’s self. Facebook, myspace, blogs and social networking are all about one thing - express. Well, WeFeelFine is not a voice, it’s a huge ear, listening to what millions of people are feeling right now. A machine, an anthropological algorithm harvesting thousands of human feelings every day, while providing one of the most moving glances into the human spirit that I have ever experienced .
Harris is the only person I know that uses the 2.0 tools in a proper way and one of the few that manages to weave universal science and personal mythologies in meaningful and plastic patterns. Simplicity, connection, dialogue they are all there.
He has a plethora of beautiful projects you can check up on his webpage.
You should also look into this, where he unveils the work behind one of his projects - Universe.
Sometimes I play a stupid game with my thoughts. When I catch myself daydreamin I hold the last thought (usually an absurdity) and try to track it back to the its source. Most of the times I don’t make it to the “trigger thought” but I always have lots of fun with the way the brain develops analogies. To some extent it’s just like the internet. You start with one googled thought and the hypertext takes care of the rest of the madness. So let me introduce you to my last series of unfortunate chain of links. I’m listening to the YeahYeahYeahs. Their vocalist’s name is Karen O, I start google, type Karen O and press the first link which brings me on the Wikipedia page of Karen O, where I remember that she made the soundtrack of an Addidas commercial made by Spike Jonze, so I look for Spike Jonze and see that that’s not their last project together, because Spike is currently in production with a movie based on a children book “Where the wild things are” designed and written by Maurice Sendak and published in 1970, so I go to the Amazon website to look for the book, I find it, browse it and look in the items other customers also bought, where I find The Polar Express and finally reach this blog about the polar movie where on the links on the right are “NORAD tracks Santa” and “NASA tracks Santa” I boldly go for the NASA tag and reach a place where the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is actually somehow tracking Santa with a world map and some funny messages like “All elves are reminded to be ready for the ISO 9000 audit starting this Wednesday”. This is where I stop and open my blog page.
Now play that backwards. Does it make any sense?
PS
The NORAD tracking of Santa has quite a funny story. Read about it here.
and the commercial….
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