ASCIIvertising
Dante’s Inferno ASCII art has been planted in the source code of some internet sites on the pipe, including Digg, IGN and Kotaku. The art links to this Dante’s Inferno website – pretty dam smart if you think about it.
Wrangleraction
The beautifully engineered interaction on this Wrangler Collection site makes you wanna look at every page.
Very nice.
It’s a real shame you can’t just buy the stuff on site – leveraging this experience with a little instant retail gratification would generate a lot more revenue than making people search out the products.
Gamester Rap
There are several game-raps doing the rounds at the mo – this is the best I’ve heard.
CODMW2 Here.
adidas BasketBall YouTube Action
New work (and a YouTube first) from RIOT/adidas that rewards BasketBall fans for sharing and interacting with content on YouTube/adidasBasketball. It works by locking sections of a video until that video receives a certain amount of views (see below) at which point a new scene is revealed – and so on. The more views the more interesting the content.
As well as that the team have created a game type item that delivers content based on the skill of the user with a power meter (below)
and a cunning device that enables the viewer to direct the action (via 4 cameras) within a clip by simply using arrow keys.
Here (look for this bit):
PR here.
Kapitaal
Augmented Hyper Reality Vs La Vie Des Marques. Kinda way ahead of it’s time…
Via@crossthebreeze
Lost | Bingo
Simply print out SCI FI Wire’s Lost bingo cards, plop yourself down in front of the TV with your friends as the final season begins, and prepare to mark your card whenever there’s a smoke monster/someone has daddy issues/somebody finally punches Miles etc.
An oldy, but a goody.
Here.
Wiggle 3D | GIF
This (GIF based) technique creates the illusion of 3D by displaying two images in rapid left-eye/right-eye alternation. And the best thing is that you don’t need to wear special/silly glasses to see the effect – although I would recommend you avoid looking at the imagery if you are really angry.
The effect is pretty easy to achieve (just so long as you know a little Java Script and can read.
Tutorial here .
Massive Attack | Splitting The Atom
Directed by Edouard Salier.
Essential Mix Receptacle
Essentialmixes.net is a website where you can stream, download, view and rate every essential mix since it began in 1993. Search the database by year, genre or DJ name to find what you want.
Here.
3D Map Landscape Demo | Ericsson Labs
The 3D Landscape API & SDK’s makes it possible to create innovative applications with realistic maps rendered in 3D.
ViaMIUK
Still Moving | New York + London
This film was made using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation which I think is a kinda mix of Tilt Shift and Tracking..? It is an evolution of a technique called Still Moving.
Looks good.
Visual Videogame Timeline
Skynet Symphonic
Comprising nothing but small sounds recorded from the James Cameron masterpiece ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day‘, ‘Skynet Symphonic’.
Via@paulejgraham
HTML 5 Video Player
The beginning of the end for Flash?
Star Wars Galaxy
Sweet.
More here.