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23.12.2007 by Zoltan 
Off the air…
Just a quick note to say Merry Xmas and all the best for 2008. If you get a chance, check out DoubleYou’s 2007 xmas card, posted in the comments here. Otherwise, enjoy the holidays and see you all in the second week of January :)
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20.12.2007 by Zoltan Ahhh to be an evil henchman
Since Blair Witch redefined the way movies are marketed, they’ve only grown more sophisticated in harnessing the viral power of the interweb to their (economic) advantage. Currently leading the field is Warner Bros. with their campaign for the new Batman movie due in 2008, The Dark Knight.
To sum up, there was a game on the movie’s unofficial official site, and if you won you got a virtual teddy bear (no big deal). But each teddy came with a real physical address and a note (OK getting interesting). Each address was a bakery in a city in the US, and if you were the first one there you got a cake with a phone number written in the icing (this is getting very cool). But it gets waaaaay better… Inside the cake was “an evidence bag – complete with Gotham City Police printing – that contained a cell phone, a charger, a Joker playing card and a note” with instructions to wait for a phone call, from The Joker himself (now that’s a pretty fucking amazing campaign stunt).
Get that, a REAL cake with a REAL phone and the REAL possibility that whichever fanboy who bothered to go to the effort to get it in the first place, will no doubt carry out to-the-letter, whatever finally comes through in the phone call…
So The Joker’s Army comes to (real) life. Read more here.
via poke NY
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20.12.2007 by Zoltan A photographic heartbeat
Beautiful interface design and typography define the work of Jonathan Harris, and his latest piece The Whale Hunt is no different – though it is more about defined narrative than his previous (mashup) work.
Harris explains: “I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant “photographic heartbeat”. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat… Each viewer will experience the whale hunt narrative differently, and not necessarily in a linear fashion, constructing his or her own understanding of the experience.
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20.12.2007 by Zoltan A year of ideas…
Every year the NYTimes releases the year that was edited by (good/bad depending on your POV) ideas. If you’ve got some time to kill there are some interesting reads, like the one about vengeance via craigslist that’s especially entertaining.
via the NYTimes
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20.12.2007 by Zoltan Talking digital marketing
Nu-rave just got into the web 2.0 act with this neon-high and slightly-surreal exposé on digital marketing through to 2025. I love the disembodied talking lips – like it or not, they’re the perfect metaphor of the decentralised digital identities we are all developing.
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20.12.2007 by Zoltan Nothing, but nothing, is new…
Its certainly not the walkman logo at the end (although its waaaay cool, with those little shoes!), so it must be the long tracking shots, and the peaceful visage that reminds me of another, more recent, simian talent? I wonder if this one is actually real? If not it must be one wee little guy in there ;)
via hi-res!
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan This is fucking loco…
Scarface, everyone’s favourite movie, right? You reckon you know a few of the lines huh?
Well you don’t know shit compared to Joseph Leibovic, founder of L.A. Pop Art. Why? Because you didn’t take the entire 300 page script and painstakingly handwrite it out in different colours to form not one, but several, scenes from the movie (and other’s such as the Godfather), using a technique known as Micrography. Well did you?
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan Spam can be beautiful
Who ever knew spam could look so good? I love Linzie Hunter’s typographic illustrations of spam message titles. Her style nods to Parra, but is softer and better suited to the more down-to-earth content that she so wonderfully brings to life.
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan God’s eye view
Mash-up Google Earth and the Bible and what you’d end up with is something along the lines of “God’s Eye View”. These deceptively simple, yet immensely powerful representations of the biblical stories we all know bring them aesthetically up-to-date for the internet generation. Fantastically simple work from Australia’s Glue Society.
via CR
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan S4/C’s idents are voice-reactive
I have no idea how this works but the concept is that good that I don’t care. The new SC/4 idents by Proud Creative are voice-reactive which means the edit changes each and every time a new voice-over is laid over it. Theoretically this means that no one will ever see the exact same ident twice, which is nothing particularly new online, but quite something in the world of broadcast.
via CR
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan 1% of Christmas
99% of the time, Christmas cards are shit. So shit in fact that just the thought of them makes me cringe. Thankfully here’s two brilliant examples of that 1% of the time we all look forward to…
The first is a game by Framestore CFC and its as addictive as it is simple, and as is it well executed. I’m not a massive gamer, but this isn’t really a concept I’ve come across before, and just the fact that its a polar bear flying through the air makes the whole thing perfectly surreal.
The second example comes courtesy of AKQA and their little webcam-ified furry friends Cheese and Biscuits. Their (in)decision to run on the wheel controls the electricity supply to a lovely (and possibly very tiny) neon light message. Oh and they only work M-F, 9:30 – 5:30. Whoever said that AKQA worked everyone into the ground?!?!? ;-p
via Big Joel
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan Pollock was a neuroscientist
The boundaries between art and science became quite a bit more blurry today with the release of the image above. Its a CGI representation of the 10,000 neurons and 30 million connections that make up a single neocortical column (the really complex backbone of any brain) of a rat.
You can read more here, but the really interesting part is how much it resembles Pollock’s series of über-famous action paintings, like the “Blue Poles” example shown just below. These paintings were (supposedly) based on jam dripping down the wall, and if that turns out to be the same pattern as the make up of the most complex super-computer ever, then what exactly does that say about us vs. all the aliens out there in their fancy time-travelling spacecraft?
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan Lie-ins and tigers
Lie-ins and tigers (aka Sam, Walter and Russel) are a collective based in London and although they could use a shiny new website, they do really nice illustrations, like the ones above. Oh, they’re also really nice guys, and if you were at Designer’s Block in Holloway this year, you’ll surely remember their cowboy/old geezer/dick combo!. Anyway go and check them out.
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15.12.2007 by Zoltan Call for support
Those of you also writing blogs might know of Project Wonderful, a newish ad network, favoured by fashion/t-shirt blogs. With adsense being totally shit, I’ve decided to give the wonderful project a whirl…
So please support me, and throw up an ad!
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