On The Ground Looking Up

Outdoor Ad That Responds To Your Watching It

Interesting technology using facial recognition to change the ad as people look at it. Not sure where this ran, but looking into it. Anyone experience this?

Interference, The Magazine

Well they do share our name after all. Interference Surf and Kayak magazine and film. Hello brethren!

The Video Of Marco Brambilla

Marco Brambilla is a video artist who creates innovative and spectacular visual experiences.
He recently did one for The Standard hotel in Manhattan. These are in the elevators and the video collage moves up or down depending on which the direction the elevator is going. It is outstanding.  While it should be seen in person, here is the youtube version.

The Anti-Social Networker

Call it what you will, but these anti-social networking items may come in handy these days. Here here for the days of privacy! Who am I kidding, just follow me on Twitter already.

Cafe Press: Anti-Social Networking

MJ's Death Almost Breaks Interwebs

At least according to CNN. And it supposedly caused Twitter outages. Yeah, his personal brand was just that big.

The Infomercial Remix

Not to be confused with PressHop, We bring you uhh....SlapChopHop? A remixed, auto-tuned version of the Slap Chop infomercial. If they had run this late night, now we are talking sales baby.  Slap your troubles away...

I think I should put this on my party mix and see what happens. How about a party where all the music is about, mentions, or remixed versions of brands? hmmnnn...

Social Art

It is always interesting when you get a little surprised by how the world has changed. To me it is not always in the large sense of revolutions but in the smallness of how things people like get passed around. How shared interest explodes in our digital age.

Case in point.

@Iri5

An artist based in the south, whose work I saw on some art blog and then posted here. One of her mediums is old cassette tape. She whirls the tape into magic artwork, generally around the subject of musicians, she calls the set Ghost In The Machine.

So I sent her an email, and asked her to do one for me, based on my favorite of all bands, The Clash.

She produced this:

London Calling. Which I love. And it appears, so do many others.

She posted it on her flickr page about a week ago. To date she has close to 140,000 views on the image along.  Well not only am I happy that so many people saw it, and that the general sentiment is very strong for her and her work. But I also think of it in context of being an artist.

Imagine 20 years ago, being an artist trying to get your work out. You show at a few coffee shops, maybe in some group shows, etc. But unless you really break out big on to the scene you are lucky if your work is seen by 1000 people much less hundreds of thousands of them.  But these days interest and discovery take us down very different paths.  Does Pop culture x innovative idea x retro medium x blog/digg/facebook/twitter = attention?  Hard to say for sure, but as for getting the name and interest in the talent of  iri5 out there, it really seems to work.

The find, clip, share, discuss, comment world is upon us and the more we pay attention, the better we will be poised to do so on behalf of ourselves, our clients and our interests.

Random Images From My Desktop 8

Is XBOX's Project Natal Trying To Be Wii2.0?

Interesting future video for XBOX which shows how some see gesture and motion/face/voice recognition as the possible future of interactivity.Code named Project Natal.

Pretty rad ideas here if they can make them happen, though there are some weird little elements that sort of freak me out.

Sample Maps (Music Sampling That Is)

Ethan Hein's maps of which songs were sampled for modern urban music are amazing. I love re-thinking how data inter-connects and gets pushed along to new things.