Noted by flow14
Looking at the title of this video, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what I was in for.
I was wrong… so so wrong.
If you’re brave enough to associate yourself with the video (and fight the good fight for net neutrality), you can nerd it up with your very own cotton billboard.
After a loooong hiatus (about 2-1/2 years by my watch) Sean’s reinvents reinvigorate, one of the best analytics tools I’ve had the pleasure of using. Like most things these days, it’s a closed beta. I got my invite out of the blue today — can’t wait to get the code going and check out the new features.
Don’t write any new posts over the holidays. Done and done.
The regular reader of this blog may have noticed a downshift in posts. I took a refreshing little holiday break and I’m ready to get back to business, and I’m back with a posse. Well, one guest author; my friend, fellow designer, and safari organizer, Dean Olufson. Dean plans to pontificate on all manner of things related to design and creativity.
Be sure to check out his first post – a look back at an olde tyme digital photography technique, Quicktime VR.
Funny how you forget some of the creative venues you used to pursue. One huge one struck me on the head on a recent trip to Chicago. How in the world did I forget about Quicktime VR? I had the perfect opportunity to use it but, didn’t have anything suitable to create it. Dang.
I bought my first digital camera back in 1997 (dang, was it really that long ago?) The Apple Quick Take 200 with a whoping .3 megapixels. I started to get a little nutty and veered off into the world of photo VR courtesy of the Kaiden VR rig.
Ah, then I remembered why I forgot about it. It was a huge pain in the butt. The camera was all but useless and the stiching software was a nightmare. The camera eventually broke and the VR rig ended up in some box somewhere.
Fast forward 9 years and I was kicking myself for not having that rig with me. Funny what 9 years of technology can do. The cameras are wicked easy and I’ve been using them for years but, for some reason it never dawned on me to try the VR rig out again. Heck, even the software has gotten easier. Alot of cameras even ship with stitching software. The things they are doing these days with VR are absolutely stunning. Here’s a few links to some of the better ones. Find any more? Post the links in the comments. Now, if I could just find that Kaiden rig?…
http://www.panoramas.dk/
(click the pull down menu in the upper right corner to go directly to the panoramas. credit to nctrl for pointing this one out.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramic_photography
(wikipedia entry. alot of great links at the bottom. Includes description of film based panoramas as well as VR.)
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/qtvr/
(yup, an Apple plug. Imagine that.)
http://www.panofx.com/gallery.html
(comes in flash and java as well.)
Peculiar anti-drug spot from Wieden + Kennedy. Read a little of the backstory on their blog. Edit: they removed the post.
As a teenager, I never found anti-drug messages particularly compelling (although I said no to drugs in high school). This seems to follow in that tradition; it’s very well made, entertaining, and it gets the message across with a little humor and a bit of ‘ick’, but I don’t have a big emotional reaction/a-ha moment by the end. I’d like to know if the concept was shared with the target audience and how they reacted…
*Update: Learn more about SLOMing here.
Nice viral-type campaign for the Nissan Qashqai. There are some interesting comparisons to be made here:
1. Compare the viral effort with the corporate effort.
2. Compare the 2004 concept and 2007 production models
There’s a notable dilution of the styling on both counts.
John Stossel breaks it down, 20/20 style.