Monthly Archives: January 2008

Real-Time Interactive Video

By admin | Published: January 31, 2008

A discussion at work prompted me to revisit an article I read in the Creative Review. We were talking about interactive video and I immediately thought of the SC4 Idents Article in the December CR where Minivegas worked with Proud Creative to produce identity videos for SC4. The trick with SC4 is that they broadcast [...]

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It’s So Beautiful It Hurts My Eyes

By admin | Published: January 29, 2008

By: Spike Jonze, Lakai Fully Flared Intro

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Bush’s Final SOTU as a Cloud Map

By admin | Published: January 28, 2008

Bush’s SOTU Visualized: Check out Bush’s State of the Union as a word cloud — the larger the word, the more often it was used:

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Great Data Visualization

By admin | Published: January 28, 2008

Infographic for ESPN Magazine showing origin of Basketball talent. By catalogtree: The Basketball Talent map shows where 5 coaches of top college basketball teams have found talented ball-players in secret places. The shape of the graphic was largely dictated by the dimensions of the page. We somehow had to combine an index of names with [...]

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Hyper-Local Catching On

By admin | Published: January 25, 2008

I’ve posted here in the past about hyper-local content and its potential power & usefulness. I’ve also linked up one of the original hyper-local sites out there (one I’ve contributed to): Outside.In. As well as pointed out a very thought provoking essay by Steven Johnson, The Pothole Paradox. Well there’s a newcomer to the party [...]

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Navigation Inspiration

By admin | Published: January 23, 2008

While doing motion research for a project I’m working on, I found some navigation inspiration in Kurtz Media’s reel. Now that may sound silly – since I, and almost every other interactive designer, turn to motion reels for inspiration – but this time was different. I usually look at the art direction/aesthetics in motion reels [...]

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With Football Season Almost Over…

By admin | Published: January 22, 2008

With Football season almost over I’m preparing for a long cold slog of a winter. This is my light at the end of the tunnel:

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BuzzWord

By admin | Published: January 21, 2008

Buzzword is a web-based document editor owned by Adobe. Now that Microsoft Office 2008 is out in Universal Binary for Mactels, users are realizing that there are many many alternative options to the shackles of Word/Office. I’ve been a iWork user (+ Sun’s Open Office for spreadsheets) because of the dismal performance of Office 2004 [...]

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The Year of Radical Improvement

By admin | Published: January 18, 2008

P.J., a brilliant Flash coder and expert wordsmith, coined this year’s title when it was just days old. This is the Year of Radical Improvement. Things you can do to make Radical Improvements in your life include (in no particular order): Read a Book Go to the Gym More Elect a New President Be a [...]

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Hot Hot Heat is Tearing it Up

By admin | Published: January 17, 2008

At Terminal 5 Tonight: I have to say this venue is pretty cool. It’s somehow small and big at the same time and the lighting/sound is fantastic…

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