MK12 Typographic Motion Graphics

Couple of Animated Typo experiments by the guys at MK12

Song:Streetlight Manifesto from Point Counterpoint


Song: From The Hush Sound [Work in progress]

Softspace: Contemporary Interactive Environments

On Saturday 8 September 2007, 14.00–18.00 the Tate Modern is holding a talk/discussion around the area of Physical Space Interaction. The talk/discussion will be chaired by are Lucy Bullivant and the speakers will include Jane Burton, Jason Bruges, Usman Haque, Lev Manovich, Despina Papadopoulos,Daan Roosegaarde.

The physically permanent identity of architecture has helped to define society for centuries. Now some practitioners have disengaged from tectonics as we traditionally understand it and are taking their discipline into the realms of ‘softspace’, a more fluid, ephemeral form of digitally-enabled design based on personalised experiences and responses. Softspace deploys new spatial systems including wearable computing, wifi, RFID and custom-designed digital software incorporating light, heat, sound and electromagnetic fields. These not only rely on people’s individual ways of interacting with them, but are enriched by narratives people contribute, creating new metaphors of use. Responsive environmental strategies of this kind have increasingly colonised museums and galleries like Tate, the Science Museum and the V&A.

While the notion of a fantasy world made possible ‘on demand’ by new technologies is the theme of films like Minority Report and ExistenZ, contemporary softspace projects play a more subtle and open-ended influence on contemporary socio-spatial dynamics and our sensing abilities. Architects Usman Haque, Jason Bruges and Daan Roosegaarde and designer Despina Papadopoulos discuss the cultural implications of their work with Tate Modern curator Jane Burton and curator, author and critic Lucy Bullivant, guest editor of 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments (AD/Wiley, 2007). Lev Manovich, the ground-breaking new media art theorist, is a keynote speaker.

If you want to read some more or book tickets click here.

gPhone - Google's phone launching soon

Apparently its only two weeks away from launch!!
Click here to read more

World longest visual website

The "longest visual website in the world" on which visitors are asked to submit a 300x700px image to contribute to a continuous vertical banner, now approximately 18665.64cm long. Great for those times when your needing a bit of visual inspiration.

CLICK HERE to be inspired

Virtual Me

Real time 3D rendered avatar face over your own via a web cam - looks like fun :)

see more clips here

All hooked up

Intel's UMPC [Ultra-Mobile PC] vision
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New Coca-Cola Happiness Factory

A great second release of the 'New Coca-Cola Happiness Factory' TV ad, created by Wieden + Kennedy and animated by Psyop

The agency actually premiered it in Second Life last week at a “glitzy event attended by nearly 100 glamourous avatars dressed in red carpet fashions, including reporters from all around the world”

Below I have also posted the “mockumentary” based on 'life inside the Happiness Factory' - for those who have not come across it yet.

Philips - Digi Graf Wall

Lil kid drawing on a digital wall.My parents would have loved to have one of these in the house when I was a kid growing up - would have saved LOADS of re-decorating:)