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IBM: The Art Of Data Video

20. August 2010

This is a beautiful behind the scenes video for IBM’s Data Campaign that was release earlier this year, I don’t think it made it to Australia, so it’s the first time I’ve seen any of the campaign creative (sorry if it’s old?!). What I really love about this video isn’t just the fantastic insights and [...]

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Facebook Integration At The Coca Cola Village

18. August 2010

If you’ve been wondering how to seamlessly integrate an experiential event with Facebook, here is how to do it, in real time! Again, the guys over in Israel are doing some amazing work, this time it was Publicis (E-dologic) and Promarket who have developed an innovative experiential event for Coca Cola Israel that synced everyone who participated, live [...]

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Stop Motion Film By BLU: Big Bang Big Boom

16. August 2010

You probably remember Blu’s last stop motion painted film called COMBO, it was an amazing creative piece. Well this one 12 months on is probably even better, and has almost 3 million combined views between YouTube & Vimeo in just 4 weeks. This time, the animation is BLU’s view on how the world might have [...]

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Precious: The Bike With A Brain

11. August 2010

Meet Precious, the bike with a brain that’s riding across America to raise funds for Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG charity. So what do I mean by bike with a brain? Well, it’s a bike with all sorts of sensors attached to some pretty cool code and a few silicon chips to bring the bike to life. [...]

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Microsoft’s New Street Slide Mapping View

29. July 2010

If there is even just a little bit of nerd in you, you’re going to love this. Microsoft’s research team is working on a street mapping view called “Street Slide” and by the looks of it, will eventually provide you a whole new experience and some serious visual perspective in comparison to the way you [...]

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Cannes Interview With Chuck Porter Of CP+B

13. July 2010

I thought this was quite a good interview with Chuck Porter, founder of Crispin Porter + Bogusky on the agencies success among other things. Now, the interview starts off a little slow but there are some great take outs around how they’ve managed to hire young talent (because they couldn’t afford anything else) and then [...]

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The Social Network “Movie” Is Coming!

29. June 2010

I was wondering how long this would take! It’s official, Sony Pictures are making a movie called “The Social Network” and this is the teaser video, visually it’s slightly underwhelming, but if you listen, I guess the storyline could be quite interesting, in fact you don’t even need to listen… It’s easy to imagine the [...]

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Unilever’s Smile Activated Ice Cream At Cannes

27. June 2010

If you can take your mind back 12 months to Cannes 2009 you’ll remember Coke’s Interactive Vending Machine won a Gold Lion, and in 2010 this time it was Unilever with their Streets “Share Happy” ice cream vending machine on show, but this time for the guests at Cannes and not actually in the awards ceremony. [...]

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Social Movement: Stop The Vuvuzelas!

19. June 2010

The guys from Mayo Draft FCB Chile sent me an important email today, so important, I thought I better share it with you guys as soon as possible! They’ve started a new social movement to ban Vuvuzelas from the world cup final so we can actually enjoy it as it should be, and to do [...]

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Eye Candy: Universal Everything Show Reel

12. June 2010

It’s Saturday, so I thought I’d post another piece of Eye Candy for everyone to enjoy over the weekend. This time it’s a very nice show reel from Universal Everything, a studio that blends design with art in an amazing way. Check out the show reel above, it’s a 6 minute piece, but worth every second of [...]

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Eye Candy: Animated Optical Illusions

6. June 2010

Here is something a little fun for a Sunday, an eye candy treat in fact! This video has been up for just a few days and is closing in on 1 million views already. It’s a series of animated optical illusions created in Photoshop and Lightwave 3D, all very simple, but very cool indeed. I’m hoping there will [...]

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Advertising: The Work Life Balance Battle

31. May 2010

Anyone who knows me, knows I work some pretty crazy hours, that’s digital, in fact, thats the entire advertising industry so I thought it would be interesting to post this video from TEDx in Sydney by Nigel Marsh, our Regional Y&R Brands Group CEO on how he faced the battle of a decent work life balance. [...]

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Stop Motion: My Desk Is 8-Bit

29. May 2010

This is pretty cool. So here is a little eye candy for a wet day in Sydney. Alex Varanese has created a catchy little stop motion version of an 8-Bit video game, its well produced and I particularly like they way the depth in the game is used (would surely have been tricky to do!), with my [...]

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Toyota: The iQ Mouse Project

29. May 2010

You may have already seen this, it’s the new iQ Mouse Project from Toyota and Saatchi & Saatchi NZ. A different kind of campaign for a different kind of car, where they turned the new iQ into a mouse by tracking its position and converting that to the standard X-Y coordinates of a computer screen. That position [...]

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Apple Gets Special Google Street View

25. May 2010

I thought everyone might like this! We were testing a street view app this afternoon and stumbled upon this interesting little “update” to Google Street View. Even though there is a lot of talk about how Google made some pretty heavy comments about Apple in their latest keynote presentation at Google I/O, and every second person is talking [...]

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Google Pac-Man Anniversary Logo Game

22. May 2010

This might just be the best Google Logo yet! Created to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Pac-Man, Google has launched a Pac-Man style logo game and it will be available for the next 48 hours at Google.com. The game lets you insert a virtual coin (or two if you want to play multi-player) and then you [...]

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Projection Mapping: Step Into The Sensory Box

19. May 2010

Projection Mapping is going off right now. Over the last two weeks I posted a few fantastic examples like the Iron Man 2 vs ACDC projection and the Nokia Ovi Maps piece which was an interactive projection mapping installation. The video above is by Superbien and was created for Alcatel-Lucent at the world mobile congress [...]

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GUVERA Launches Free Digital Music Platform

28. April 2010

My very good friends from Guvera (an Aussie startup) have just launched their free digital content platform that covers music, video, movies and eventually games! Guvera works with advertisers creating branded channels and offering free downloads in return for channel interaction or essentially brand engagement. They’ve got 10′s of thousands of people registered for free [...]

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YouTube Opens Video Rental Store

27. April 2010

Last week some time Google quietly opened it’s own online video rental store, with most titles at $1.99 and ofcourse its Google Checkout only! Unfortunately, like most new things, particularly around media content, it’s only available in the US for the moment but if you want to check out the store, just Google it, click on the cached version [...]

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Nike Grid: Experiential ARG Campaign

20. April 2010

I’ve been trying to track this video down for the last week to show everyone (finally succeeded), it’s called Nike Grid, an experiential campaign meets ARG about to be launched in London that is all about running. Street running, infact. The Grid is London, North, South East and West across 40 postcodes, the entirety is your gameboard. The [...]

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The Google Speed Tracer App

20. April 2010

I’m sure a lot of you are like me, you’re building web apps week in week out, and one of the hardest things to do is realistic performance testing, identification and evaluation. The app is built, it’s working, and your loading it to see how it performs, you’ve noticed a little lag, but you can’t always see if [...]

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MOB: A Near Future Social Fiction Story

19. April 2010

This presentation by Tom Scott at Ignite Week in March has to be one of the best I’ve seen from Ignite Week. This is a 5 minute video you really want to take the time to watch, make sure you are uninterrupted, complete with headphones on or speakers up, then Simply enjoy! Share This Digital Buzz Post:

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Google Earth’s New Hi-Res 3D New York City

16. April 2010

Google Earth has just launched a new hi-res 3D version of New York City by utilising better textures and higher detail models to improve the quality of New York City in Google Earth. You’ll now see shop fronts, residences, sidewalks, parks and hi-rise towers in much greater detail! Google has also posted a Full HD [...]

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KAPITAAL: Advertising Is Invisible Video

16. April 2010

Here is an interesting, award winning typo-animation by a Dutch design studio called Studio Smack. It aims highlight how advertising has become almost invisible in our day to day lives, to achieve this, they’ve created every scene in black, with only advertising and attention seeking elements highlighted in white. Share This Digital Buzz Post:

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Invasion Pixels: Short Film By Patrick Jean

9. April 2010

This is a very cool short film from By Patrick Jean called Invasion Pixels. It’s new world meets retro pixel game in an invasion of earth, a great piece of eye candy in under 3mins! (thanks Mitch) Share This Digital Buzz Post:

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