Future Rock Band
Augmented reality and gaming.
Marvellous.
Thank You Citizen
Just over week ago I broke my watch strap in a comedy stair based tumble. I emailed the the manufacturer (Citizen) about said incident/broken watch strap and they requested I send in the item. They’d quote me and then go ahead and fix the watch providing I was happy with the repair cost. Today, a week later, I received my lovely shiny fixed watch – without any apparent repair charge. As you can imagine I was pleasantly surprised, but being a bit of a cynic I checked the enclosed invoice just to be sure – I found this:
Brilliant.
Citizen – for awesome service – rubbishcorp® salutes you.
Link.
Suitcase Stickers
Sweet.
3 more here.
ViaTheCherryFlava.
Tim Hearn | Gallery
My good friend Mr Tim Hearn takes photo’s of wildlife. He’s been travelling the world for years taking said photo’s and he’s actually got pretty good – as you can now see on his new blog item which is here.
Good work Mr Tim Hearn.
FlightPhase
‘Flightphase is a small art and design studio based in Brooklyn. We are dedicated to creating work that is engaging and evocative, creating a custom design solution for any challenge. We develop a variety of art and commercial projects, embracing emerging technologies, interactivity and new media as well as all the traditional tools of creative expression from pencils to film to product design.’
Site here.
ViaTom.
Previous here.
Copa Mundial Dial 2010
Awesome.
Here.
Thank you Paul.
Up There
Smashing.
I ♥ Mother.
I ♥ Google Vs. Pac Man
Google has unveiled its first-ever interactive doodle to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man – which you can play straight from Google home.
The game was first released on May 22, 1980 in Japan by Namco Bandai Games. Originally called Puck Man, the name of the game comes from the sound of eating, according to the official Pac-Man website. “Paku” is the Japanese sound for “chomp.” Pac-Man is listed by Guinness World Records as the world’s most successful coin-operated game.
Insert coin here for just 48 hours.
Arcade Fonts
Here.
Awards + New Project For rubbishcorp®
Today has been a pretty special day for rubbishcorp®. Not only did I discover that Nokia viNe scooped 2 Webbys at this years (prestigious) ceremony, but I’ve also accepted an offer from a company I hugely admire and have been talking to for several years. Obviously it’s too early to divulge any further details – other than to say I am pretty frakkin’ happy.
As John ‘Hannibal’ Smith would say: I love it when a plan comes together.
viNe Wins: Experimental & Innovation and Best Use Of GPS/Location Technology.
Comic Sans Destroyer
Comic Sans Destroyer, download and watch it destroy.
Here.
Darth Navigator
When you have an awesome product (like Star Wars Tom Tom), you don’t need to do that much to sell it. You certainly don’t need an idea that gets in the way of simply explaining the value of such a product. You simply need a straightforward ‘look-over-here’ style message.
Like this one.
rubbishcorp® On iPad
I’ve done a complete 180 on the iPad. I’ve gone from ‘that’ll never work – it’s just an oversize iPhone,’ to picking the thing up every few minutes, switching it on and caressing it lovingly. It feels good, it looks good and it’s smoother and faster than you think it will be. And it’s lovely. From the moment you pull it out of the box, it’s another brilliant apple experience. The screen is awesome, big, bright and crisp and, of course, the interface follows suit. It’s fast too, just like they said, the chip whips along at pace, in and out of apps with the greatest of ease.
Much like (a big) iPhone, simply hook the iPad up to your iTunes to get it running and then you can sync your existing apps (which are the same only smaller on screen) or just get some new (HD/bigger) iPad specific ones. The built in apps like Email, Maps, Safari, Photo’s, iPod etc are much the same as they are on the iPhone, only bigger and tweeked a little for the larger format. This is enough to make then feel new, better and special – Maps and email being my clear winners. But it’s the new ones you’re interested in, right? To be fair I’ve only managed to add a few as I’m running a US machine on a UK mac account based in the Netherlands, which is more complicated than it should be (apple – I love you, I hate you… etc). The iPad apps I’ve got (beyond that of the built in set) are actually a bit disappointing and I’ve not got iBooks access either (UK store not up yet), which is a bit part of the deal. I can, of course, see the potential, and a few are great, but the reality is that a lot of apps have been rushed out and do not fully exploit the machines capabilities yet.
gamesTM is the perfect example. It’s a magazine app that is effectively a photocopied PDF of the magazine stuck on the store. Lazy, uninspiring and full of bugs, which results in continual crashing. Tweet deck is OK, but it’s all in the details and such massive howlers like not linking the links is unforgivable.
On the up side the Marvel Comic reader is pretty sweet, it actually feels like it was made for the device, as does the New York Times - which is genuinely a good experience. My pick of the bunch however is Geometry Wars – it’s awesome, and I mean awesome.
I could go on all night about the apps but the stores only just up and running and inevitably good apps will come in droves soon enough. It’s the device that this is all about and while not perfect, apple have, even to a cynic like myself, done another wonderful, wonderful job.
Mint.
I ♥ New Work
This is rapidly becoming a daily favorite.
Augmented [Hyper] Reality | Domestic Robocop
‘The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.’
A film produced by Keiichi Matsuda for his final year Masters in Architecture, part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality.