Friends don't let friends build a a motorized bar stool with a lawn mower engine and then drive drunk.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Motorized Bar Stool
Friends don't let friends build a a motorized bar stool with a lawn mower engine and then drive drunk.
The Biathlon
The biathlon is a sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, believed to have its origins in Nordic hunting. In the U.S. there are 800 registered athletes and 20 biathlon clubs. Clubs around the country are pushing hard to get amateurs to join the sport.
Obamas Plant Vegetable Garden at White House
In an effort to help children learn how to plant, harvest, and cook their own vegetables, and to encourage her own family to eat more healthy, Michelle Obama is overseeing the planting of a vegetable garden at the White House. The garden will have 55 varieties of vegetables, all grown from organic seedlings.
Cyclone Dairy
When you drink milk from Cyclone Dairy, you know you are getting only the best product because Cyclone's milk only comes from cloned cows. Is this for real?
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Soulwax: Part of the Weekend Never Dies
Soulwax Web site marketing their "Part of the Weekend Never Dies" album and CD release. Loops together concert footage to make beats and lets users click to switch through looped series.
Scout Urban Escape and Evasion
Learn how to get yourself out of the toughest situations. Then get "kidnapped" and use your newly learned skills to escape. From OnPoint Tactical.
UNKLE: "Heaven"
Spike Jonze directed again. Cool skateboarding and blowing things up is fun. More fun when combined.
Pink Lights Put Off Spotty Teens
BBC story explains how using fluorescent pink light has kept teens and drug users away from loitering in areas because it exposes acne and disables people from seeing their veins.
Twouble With Twitters
Current shows why Twitter isn't necessarily the greatest human social interaction.
Mother London
Web site of agency Mother London. Consists almost entirely of video showing what the inside of the agency looks like and tells viewers what Mother London is--a really cool, creative place to work.
Aviary Creative Applications
Aviary develops creative applications that allow users to edit everything from photos to music (much like Photoshop or Garage Band) online with their web browser.
My Life With Cables
What writer Christoph Niemann really thinks of the cables and cords that inevitable come with the rise of technology.
Modern Interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood
School assignment to reinterpret Little Red Riding hood. Inspired by Royksopps "Remind Me."
Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
iPhone Lego Mindstorms NXT Robot Demo
This is a demonstration of iPhone to Lego NXT Robot communication via the Safari browser and Lego's Light Sensor.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Interview with Pac Man Designer
Interview with Toru Iwatani, the designer of the video game Pac Man, from a book called Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers.
Drug Bracelets
Thanks to the creative executions of Ground Zero, parents can now talk to your kids about drugs by sending them a talking bracelet.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Diesel.com: Heidies
Diesel viral marketing campaign where 2 girls named Heidi kidnap a delivery man and photograph and record their actions in a hotel room with their hostage. Developed by FarFar in Stockholm.
Electric Stimulation to the Face Dance
Daito Manabe applies electric stimulation to friends' faces and syncs the movements to music.
Bus Stop Scale
A bus stop ad for Fitness World in Rotterdam, Netherlands shows an electronic reading of a person's weight when they sit on the bus stop bench.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Daft Punk: Even Further, Wisconson, 1996
Rare video of Daft spinning--Bangalter without the robot costume.
iDaft: Our Work is Never Over
Work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger. If this is the beta version who knows where it could go.
Tecktonic
Tecktonic, an electro dance and fashion style that developed in the middle-class, white suburbs of Paris is a registered trademark that includes merchandise such as clothes, energy drinks, and energy drinks. But the creators are also looking to own the rights the Tecktonic image and brand lifestyle as well.
Yelle's "À Cause des Garçons" Tecktonic remix:
And in response to Tecktonic becoming too commercialized, many have turned to a new development--The Melbourne Shuffle:
Yelle's "À Cause des Garçons" Tecktonic remix:
And in response to Tecktonic becoming too commercialized, many have turned to a new development--The Melbourne Shuffle:
Cardboard Nothing Office
Ad agency Nothing, founded in Amsterdam by ex-DDB ECDs Michael Jansen and Bas Korsten, has an office made of cardboard.
Generation OMG: Children of the Great Recession
NY Times article examining people who come of age during the current Great Recession--where they have been, where they are going, and how they compare across the young vs. old ends of the generation.
Sent From My Mobile Phone
Blogger recommends making your email signature "Sent from my mobile phone" in email if you want to keep email replies short but don't want to come off as rude. This ceases to work when it becomes apparent you have been at your desk all day, not out of the office.
10 Best Uses for RFID Tags
The 10 best uses for RFID (radio-frequency indetification) tags--tracking tags--according to Wired.
Includes surgical sponges and clubbers.
New iPod Shuffle
The new iPod Shuffle comes in 4GB, has a voice-over feature that tells you what song is currently playing, and requires an Apple headphones set that has the controls built into it for use.
TV-B-Gone
Mitch Altman, the creator of TV-B-Gone, a $20 device capable of turning of almost all televisions simultaneously, is still developing open source innovations, including glowing lights that respond to hand gestures and an electronic dog that spins its tail in response to sunlight.
Monday, March 9, 2009
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