I am not sure I would call this a trend, as WIRED does. But it is true that for every mainstream movement there is an opposite idea catching on: like collecting vinyl instead of downloading music, customising bikes instead of cars, slow instead of fast food.
Printer with circuits on display. Image courtesy of James Adam
The smartphone evolution and its myriad of apps has given us instanteneous access to news and life organisers. Instead of flipping and swiping through those programs, there is now a niche developing tiny thermo-paper printers, steered via the web. Born out of hackerdom and good old tinkering, these tiny printers can leave notes, summarise news of the day or print out handy to-do lists. If you feel like waking up to the characteristic ’snap’ sound of the paper cutting off, then these tiny thermo-buddies are for you.
Read a nice (short) history of these cuties after the jump.
Australian Hugh Atkin, creator of the famous “Barrack-Roll” is at it again and launches “Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up” featuring Barrack Obama as Eminem. Great political rap in the age of the mashup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE
Hugh seems to have increased his prowess of pasting those snippets together. Here is the Barrack Roll again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzSVOcgKq04
and with McCain caught in front of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HioPyCID6RI
and if you care for the grand dads of that video genre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDR9RckfEU
Australian Hugh Atkin, creator of the famous “Barrack-Roll” is at it again and launches “Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up” featuring Barrack Obama as Eminem. Great political rap in the age of the mashup.
Hugh seems to have increased his prowess of pasting those snippets together. Here is the Barrack Roll again.
and with McCain caught in front of it
and if you care for the grand dads of that video genre
Yes folks – it’s YouTube Klubi Time, and this week is a Valentine’s Day special, mmm-mmmm.
Naturally, Valentine’s Day kicked off with a Google Doodle all about love, which was just as easy to watch as it was to interact with, i.e. click and enjoy. I especially liked the simple charm of this wee ditty, and it goes to show that even if you don’t have a Gwyneth or Cameron Diaz-level megastar, you can still break a few hearts – all you need is a little whimsical animation.
Speaking of love and animations: Chipotle’s take on the animated genre really won me over. Have a watch and a bit of a think…
Speaking of thinking: if you’re an Australian guy you might want to think about the fact that YouTube Trends for Valentine’s Day suggested you were far more likely to be watching romantic stuff than the Australian girls were. Yes, while you were dreamily being inspired by the classic hand-held reality mush that is Real Men Surprise Their Dates (oh yes you were!), the girls you’re all after were busy watching GloZell lose her shit in the Cinnamon Challenge.
So, let’s say you’re an Australian girl. You’ve watched the Doodle, and been inspired by GloZell to just get out there and do stuff, and so you’ve gone looking for love. Whether you found it or not, here’s your chance to express your disappointment or delight. Yes folks, in a video version of the good old Hot Or Not, it’s the latest YouTube Slam: Romantic Proposals!
And let’s say you were re-inspired even more by those turgid displays of lo-fi love to head out to the nearest bar and, er, bump into someone you like… well I really, really, really hope they weren’t vegan:
Eeew. Subject matter notwithstanding, I cannot think of a world in which this kind of not-quite-funny, fakely-shot, weirdly scripted and poorly acted nonsense will get views for any reasons other than “can you believe what they’re trying to get us to share?!”.
I wonder what lonelygirl15 would have thought of this?
Whenever you bump into an old colleague (now working at a competitor agency), you might go: ‘Hey, what a small world!’.
That’s what we think as well and were therefore inspired to create these 20 small agency planets.
A big help was Ryan Alexander’s web app ‘Street View Stereographic’. It creates a “little planet” using photos from any Google Street View. Simply type in the geographic location in the search bar. As we did in the below for our own ‘little’ agency Publicis Mojo.
So you think you know the agency scene in Sydney? Not like this you don’t. Try to recognise as many of these 20 creative agencies’ neighbourhoods and buildings. Write them with their # into the comments section and be recognised as a real connoisseur of our small agency world.
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#5 (it is around the corner – no Streetview exists)
The Fin Review recently interviewed 34 CEO’s from Australia’s top companies on their views of the upcoming year and their priorities for 09. The article shone a bright light on the corporate lingo our clients will be speaking coming into the new year and if you were thinking it’s all about innovation, consumer focus, creativity, differentiation, being brave and taking risks. Think again.
The rhetoric centres on caution, risk management, cost cutting and improving productivity. Many CEO’s dwell on the time they are taking to identify and manage risks, risk reporting, reducing personnel costs, tightening costs across business, sound risk management, cost reduction programmes, managing expense bases, cost control, driving efficiencies, cutting waste, and so on and so on. Only 3 of the 34 interviewed alluded to their brand strength/value or having a customer focus as the central pillars of their business strategy coming into ‘09.
Gail Kelly, Westpac’s CEO was the only one to talk about the business focus being centred on the customer.
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