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So we're talking about a big building. Now at 636 meters (not completed yet), it should stand at more than 800 meters. A 160 floors building, 517 240 sqm, 1 200 000$. That's almost 3 times the Empire State Building and 1.5 times the CN Tower.
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Advertising is now as big a part of movies as actors or special effects – it's a cold, hard fact of life that wherever there are eyes trained on a screen, there'll be some pen-chewing dickwad executive willing to cram a commercial on it. Product placement is all well and good, but what's the next logical step? Instead of forcing directors to sell your products in their movies, why not pay them shitloads of money to direct your commercials? The results are odd little mini-movies; an experience akin to hanging out with your favourite directors while they try and pick your pocket. We've picked the best of the bunch as an example of directors that have at least tried to turn advertising into art. Bend over and enjoy some corporate shaft: it's the future.
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JWT created an installation in Grand Central Station using 25,000 roses, to promote that diamonds, unlike roses, last forever.
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I like the part where they actually call you ..
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Awesome read:
"The centre of Wikipedia is: 2007. From this article, it takes on average 3.45 clicks to get to any of the 2111479 articles reachable from it. The top 10 articles are 2007, Deaths in 2004, 2006, 2004, List of accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft, Star Alliance destinations, 1990s, List of town tramway systems in North America, 2005 and 1967.
If you skip past all of the articles that are just lists, years or days of the year, the "real article" closest to the centre is: United Kingdom at an average of 3.67 clicks to anywhere else.
By the way, it takes an average of 3.98 clicks to get from Kevin Bacon to anywhere else."
*Star Alliance destinations*??
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That's an awesome interactive map showing historic trips like "around the world in 80 days", "Columbus 1492" and Pequod from Moby Dick. And I'll check it up but the Pan-am highway seems like one hell of a roadtrip..
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Bored?
"HowNotToGetLaid.com provides a forum for stories about all those amazing sexual encounters you almost had but didn’t. It is a place to learn from the mistakes of others, a place where we can share our most intimate tales of angst-ridden rejection, humorous heartbreak, and dirtiness deferred"
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An experiment into connecting the Web with language.
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FFL follow up with their outdoor campaign with this fabolusly twisted tv ad
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great website to get the latest polls from the upcoming US elections
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If you ever need a UPC
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This is a little bit genius. One of the new features of FriendFeed (a Twitter-like thingie) is "fake following". That means you can friend someone but you don't see their updates. That way, it appears that you're paying attention to them when you're really not. Just like everyone does all the time in real life to maintain their sanity. Rex calls it "most important feature in the history of social networks" and I'm inclined to agree. It's one of the few new social features I've seen that makes being online buddies with someone manageable and doesn't just make being social a game or competition.
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Burning Man is about to kick off, check out their blog
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Daytum is a home for collecting and communicating your daily data. Begin tracking anything you can count and display the results immediately..
From Nicholas Felton, known for his "annual report" on his life
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Canadian think thank
The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan research and educational organization. Through studies and conferences, it informs public policy debates in Quebec and Canada by suggesting wealth-generating reforms, primarily on matters of taxation, regulation, health care and education.
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Canadian think thank in Quebec (1/2)
L’IRIS, un institut de recherche sans but lucratif, indépendant et progressiste, a été fondé à l’automne 2000.
Sa mission est double. D’une part, l’institut produit des recherches, des brochures et des dépliants sur les grands enjeux socio-économiques de l’heure (fiscalité, pauvreté, mondialisation, privatisations, etc.) afin d’offrir un contre-discours à la perspective néolibérale. D’autre part, les chercheurs offrent leurs services aux groupes communautaires, groupes écologistes et syndicats pour des projets de recherche spécifiques ou pour la rédaction de mémoires.
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You gotta dig EA.
"YouTube user Levinator 25 thought he had found a glitch when he played EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. He posted a video on YouTube (which can be seen here), showing Tiger Woods walking on the water within the game to take the nicknamed `Jesus Shot’. Now admittedly this is quite funny but not as funny as the response that EA have given. They have posted their own video shown above stating “Levinator 25, you seem to think your Jesus Shot video was a glitch in the game”. They have then produced a real video of Tiger himself walking down the fairway, onto the water reaching the middle of the pond to take his next winning shot. Golden. It is one thing for brands to actually use tools such as Twitter and Google alerts to see what is being said about their brand, however this is a prime example of tackling potential negative publicity and turning it into an opportunity of getting talked about in a positive way amongst the hard-core EA fans."
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Color is the ultimate tool a designer has at his or her disposal to communicate feeling and mood. Cymbolism is a new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.
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This is mostly like my website, but from the New York Times. ;P
“Ideas” is a daily blog by Tom Kuntz and other editors of the Week in Review featuring brief posts on interesting articles and other stuff we've come across lately on the Web, in print and elsewhere.
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Based in Fremont, California, GrandCentral provides an innovative web-based voice communications platform that helps you manage all your phones and phone numbers through one simple interface. You get a single phone number that forwards to all of your phones, giving you one number for life.
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I've seen a video about photosynth earlier this year (or was it last year? whatever). Using it is just awesome
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Based on the data gathered by Hoeckstra et al. in their study »Water Footprint of Nations« German designer Timm Kekeritz created this double-sided poster. One side visualizes the water footprint of selected nations, emphasizing the im- and export of virtual water. The other side shows the virtual water content of selected foods and commodities.
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Drinks, drinks and more drinks.
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Lowe Sydney made noise around a low-interest football match between the Socceroos and Ghana by creating a fake Ghanaian fan club, which goes on a desperate mission to recruit people to be their missing 'H'
Awesome idea, great execution.
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Zimbabwe's inflation rate has soared in the past three months and is now at 11.2 MILLION percent, the highest in the world, according to the country's Central Statistical Office.
11.2 MILLION. I mean, between the time u get paid and the time u arrived at the store, u you lost every purchase power u had ;P
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I blog earlier this month about James Powderly, his L.A.S.E.R. Stencil/Graffiti art and his involvement with the graffiti research lab. Well, he just got arrested in China for doing his thing…
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It seems, it's all the craze in India
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One week into the Olympics, 27 different nations have won gold medals. In their honor, we present below the national anthem of each of them.
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"We present a framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene. For example, our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. Additionally, the user can quickly modify the video by editing only a few still images of the scene. Finally, our system allows a user to remove unwanted objects and camera shake from the video. "
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swedish illustrator/ designer olle hemmendorff was commissioned, together with 7 other creatives
(patrik söderstam, hanna wieslander, marguerite seger, jonas wiehager and fredrik skogkvistby)
by nike to interpret a nike sportswear icon. hemmendorff created a burger sculpture of nike's 'air max 90'.
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Parenting gone bad …
