apologies again for the fairly long hiatus - moving and sorting through loads and loads of random stuff has left me with practically no spare time, hence the significant lull in musings. And to continue the hectic business, I’m off to the Bay Area for a week-and-a-half-ish tomorrow. But at least I’ll have some internets, and won’t have piles and boxes of crap to climb through to get to my computer.
Anyway, if you haven’t seen the first Ray Ban/Cutwater viral video yet, which I wrote about back in May, check it out. then watch the next one, released a few weeks ago. Regardless of your take on the Never Hide campaign, “viral marketing,” Ray Ban’s use of video view optimizerFeed Co., and all the fuss over YouTube and user-generated content, it’s still a pretty cool video:
So this week, I’m in the process of moving, hence the lack of posting over the past few days. I’m busy and driving several hours in a giant truck gives you lots of time to think about things - or think about absolutely nothing (which is the path my brain took this week).
One of the cooler things I’ve stumbled upon this past week that still gives me hope that there’s some brain activity out there is The Human Brain Cloud. Basically a simple word association game that compiles results and aggregates them into a visual cloud. Very cool - and a surprising time waster (unless my brain is just that fried). some of the associations are great, like “amino” to “amigo.” I could never think that creatively.
I’ll post other cool stuff I find intermittently until my brain (and muscles) recover fully.
That was quick. Just last week, I wrote about the rapidly rising popularity of Light Graffiti and how its quickly becoming a “trend” of sorts. Last night, I was at the movies and sat in the dark theater watching the usual commercials when up came the above commerical for the Sprint Ahead campaign, entitled “Dreams,” done by Goodby Silverstein in San Francisco.
Interesting ideas… not sure how well it really caters to the message that Sprint is trying to get across. In fact, I’m not entirely sure I’m clear on what that message is. But it’s still cool - and an exceptional stop-motion execution. Check out the behind the scenes “making of” video after the jump.
I’ve always had an affinity for using legos for photographic purposes, and back in high school, my terminal art portfolio centered around lego and lego-inspired works. That’s probably why these works of art by Flickr user Udronotto make me so happy. The Flickr photoset has lego creations based off of fine art pieces like Hopper’s Nighthawks (as recreated above) and The Last Supper and movie scenes like The Graduate and The Blues Brothers. Pretty ingenious use of legos - and pretty amazing collection of legos. Check out the variety and precise matching of lego hats in Udronotto’s take on Bluebird at Bonneville. see all of the images here. [via gizmodo]
Deleted Images is a website dedicated to just that - images which have been rejected, deleted, or otherwise tossed aside by the photographer. The site refers to itself as “the junkyard of art.” I’m in the process of preparing to move, and have been sorting through boxes and boxes of photographic work this past week, and I find photo after photo that’s poorly exposed, shot into the sun, or just flat out bad - but there’s something there that always prevents me from tossing them in the trash (and it’s not just my inclination to save everything). Deleted Images beautifully illustrates why I can care about bad photos.
I’ve been seeing a fair amount of this getting posted across the web over the past few weeks, and I’m beginning to wonder if it may turn into the next big thing - kind of like what happened with HRD images not too long ago. Check out a flickr photostream (complete with a how-to shot & description) here. Pretty cool stuff. And interestingly implemented - at the moment. Also has interesting possibilities for communication and advertising - but I’ll leave that speculation and discussion for another time.
I saw this earlier today and kind of fell in love with it. It might just be the fact that it reminds me a bit of the classic sesame street videos. It’s also a bit like the Nike basketball commercial from a few years back. But I like this a bit more, I think. the simplicity and unpolished feel make it stronger in the end. Which works for me.
just found this video via the Wooster Collective via Photojojo. pretty amazing. I’ll let you read all the specifics at their sites. I’m just marveling at the video itself, and the entire concept.
What I find even more mind blowing, however, is to think back a few years and remember what something like the above video would have taken to produce and make happen.
