Unmas @MinesweeperGame on Instagram (2016) (Denmark)
Posted in: UncategorizedPodcasts Surge, but Producers Fear Apple Isn’t Listening
Posted in: UncategorizedThe podcast has soared in popularity. But there’s not much money in it for Apple, the genre’s creator, leaving many in the community feeling neglected.
What Do Consumers Want? Look at Their Selfies
Posted in: UncategorizedCompanies are paying to have people to take selfies with their products to learn about consumer behavior, and marketers say the insights are eye-opening.
Connected Hybrid Guitars – The Sensus Smart Guitar Blends Acoustic and Modern Sounds (GALLERY)
Posted in: UncategorizedCATS wants to fill a tube station with cats instead of ads
Posted in: UncategorizedThe kickstarter is created by The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service, ie: (CATS) – they’re confident that they can do ten posters with their £23,000 goal. If they get even more money, such as the lofty stretch goal sum of £75,000 “we could do Oxford Circus or something.”
We know this is a silly project. But what if we did this around the whole country, or in every major city in the world? Cats everywhere!
Dumb yes, but also this is about trying something, flexing our collective voice in the most idiotic of ways. From all this madness something amazing could happen. Perhaps we’ll start to realise that buying stuff isn’t making us happy.
Maybe cats won’t make us happy either, but it’s got to be better than insurance adverts. Maybe during this moment of cat related calm we might have a brilliant thought, or a dumb one or even… spend a moment thinking about nothing at all.
Do watch the kickstarter video, there’s a little blond girl with a guitar and the most adorable lisp I’ve ever heard saying but one word in it and I almost donated just for that. Creatives trying to change the world, by advertising, may seem a little ironic to some – but at least they’re ambitious. Taking over all of Oxford circus with cats. Why not? If you pledge £5 you’ll get an ad blocker that replaces all the ads online with pictures of cats instead. If you like that sort of thing you’ll love the chrome plugin make America Kittens again right now, as it replaces all images of Trump with pictures of cats. Since he’s all over the news lately, all I see all day is kittens.
ESPN – Movies Can Wait / Queue (2016) :30 (USA)
Posted in: UncategorizedIn this ad, a woman flipping through her movie queue, contemplating her options based on a recommendations algorithm. But then she realizes her team is about to play a potentially historic game on ESPN and unlike a movie, she must watch the game right then or be left out. This would indeed be the only reason I’d get ESPN, I’m a football (soccer to you US folks) addict.
Female cinematographers create International Collective of Female Cinematographers (ICFC)
Posted in: UncategorizedIn their official launch statement they explain: “The aim of the collective and web presence is to establish that female Directors of Photography are not, in fact, an anomaly…Individually ICFC members identify as simply Cinematographers — without gender qualifiers. However, as a group, they’ve found it useful to organize around gender until such time as women cease to be perceived as statistical anomalies or token hires behind the lens.
“Though they are indeed technical wizards, Female DPs are by no means magical or imaginary; our rarity is often overstated, while our under-employment is frequently overlooked.”
You can find some of the current members on the website already, such as Tarin Anderson (depicted above), Sandra Valde, Liz Yarwood and Savannah Bloch.
Letter to my dear – 3000 generations grand-child to visualize nuclear waste (2016) (Sweden)
Posted in: UncategorizedNuclear waste has to be stored for 100,000 before it becomes safe for people, animals and nature itself. 100,000 years corresponds to 3,000 generations.
“The time perspective is dizzying and our responsibility for what we do today becomes so very obvious when you make it concrete. Do we really have the right to demand that the citizens of the future shall guard our radioactive rubbish?” says Lennart Grebelius.
The art project Letter to my dear is based on Grebelius’ book with the same title. Most of Grebelius’ earlier art projects revolve around time, chance and numbers, which is also very much the case for Letter to my dear where the 100,000 years are physically made visible. The core of the work is a letter to a child of a future generation.
Red Cross – History lesson of crosses (2016) :30 (Belgium)
Posted in: Uncategorized#Predatorwatch – using Instagram to scare sexual predators
Posted in: UncategorizedI’m assuming predators don’t search on the tag #underage. I mean, do teens really post with that tag when they’re taking selfies? Really?
Monster Strike – Locker Room / Andy Samberg (2016) 1:50 (USA)
Posted in: UncategorizedOpulently Upgraded Cars – This Mitsuoka Special Edition Car Features Handmade Wire WHeels (GALLERY)
Posted in: Uncategorized180 LA's Snapchat geo-poaching vs the #FilterInfiltrator
Posted in: UncategorizedTop 5 mockup helpers Art Directors & Designers should know
Posted in: UncategorizedSpeaking of templates, with Bootstrap you will save yourself hours of work creating a mobile first responsive design for the web. Thank me later.
Icons? We need icons. The Noun Project will have all the icons you can think of and then some.
Invisionapp is a design prototyping tool where your clients can comment directly on your work. When collaborating on things, this is extremely useful.
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