Bit late on this, but I love it. Androp music video that is funded by the  sale on eBay of the video’s toy star. Depending on how the the toy sells, the team plan to produce and sell the video’s other toys. A smart and pretty unique compensation model, as the agency keep the proceeds as part of the creative fee.

Nicely.

Here.

eBay.

Boss.

Comment Mixer enables users to take any YouTube video and mix it up like a record.

Awesome.

(hit CC on the play bar to switch to English subtitles).

Go here.

Awesome.

Tesco (Korea) has created a virtual store in the subway where commuters can buy their groceries off virtual shelves on the walls . Punters just scan QR codes on the products with their phones and the products are added to their cart. Once they are done the items get delivered to their homes.

Well smart.

ViaAdverblog.

‘Brands are no longer definitive. They are temporal. Brands are informed by multiple voices, and they exist in multiple mediums and through multiple contexts. The media that a brand inhabits is no longer fixed or linear, it is iterative, with no beginning, no end, and little permanency. Adherence to a big idea and endless repetition of centralized, fixed rules can make a brand seem unresponsive, mechanized, inhuman, and out of step with its audience. But without repetition, how does a brand create consistency? And without consistency, how does a brand maintain value.’

Marc Shillum and I worked together at R/GA on Nokia viNe, to which he brought the thinking about which I am posting. Marc is now Principle at Method, he works cross discipline to manage brand coherence, uniting behaviors, words, symbols and signifiers into brands capable of existing in todays agile and iterative environment. To some that may sound a little like bullshit, but I can assure you it is not, that is exactly what Marc does – Marc is an anomaly.

So, if you read one thing this year, make sure it’s this:

Proper.

Here.

Downloadable App that makes Facebook look like a spreadsheet.

Brilliant.

Not actually that stupid though…

Here.

WARNING: This video is annoying.

Kinect Graffiti™ is a digital graffiti tool using “Microsoft Kinect” camera. Idea behind this project is to use the kinect to track the motion behind graffiti. Visualizing the body and drawing trough different angles in realtime, understanding surrounding space, pausing the time, etc…

Built in processing & openGL, SimpleOpenNI, openNI and primeSense libraries.

Flickr here.

Site here.

I’ve no idea what’s going on, but this site is incredibly well executed.

Here.

ViaAdverblog.

Create your own version of their new album and then get a quid for each one you sell.

Well smart.

Here.

It’s just a shame everyone hates them so much.

GTA4.net have created custom views of Liberty City and added them to a Google Map enabling the exploration of the entire map of Grand Theft Auto IV, in Street View. The map shows all the important locations in the game, such as health & weapon pick-up points and all the important mission starting points and is, like, totally sick.

Nicely.

Here.

Your Better Life Index is designed to let you visualise and compare some of the key factors – like education, housing, environment, and so on – that contribute to well-being in OECD countries. It’s an interactive tool that allows you to see how countries perform according to the importance you give to each of 11 topics that make for a better life.

Here.

ViaDave.

Lovely interactive video.

Here.

ViaMyNewHero.

Wow.

By Physaliastudio.

ViaPC.

Chris Milk + Aaron Koblin follow up their previous Google collaboration for Arcade Fire with this new interactive “Chrome Experiment” for Rome,  a new project from Italian composer Daniele Luppi and US producer/musician Danger Mouse with Jack White and Norah Jones. Whereas the Arcade Fire’s Neighbohood Downtown manipulated Google maps and street views based on whatever address you inputted, “3 Dreams Black” is a trippy dreamscape through you which navigate. Or, if you wish, you can create your own elements to add to the dream for others to experience.

Brilliantly realised and an awesome showcase for Chrome’s OpenGL technology which enables 3D visuals without a plug-in.

Site here.

Tech info here.

Oh yes.

ViaOnDisplay.

Listen to the police sounds of a city set to a random ‘ambient’ soundtrack.

Feeds from New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Chicago and San Francisco.

Sweet.

Be sure to turn off the lights.

NYC Here.

LA Here.

You’ll find the rest.

Via@SamMatthews (who made me credit him).

Liking this Nike Better World site that uses HTML5, CSS 3 and JavaScript to create an impressive and pretty unique layered scrolling interaction. It’s a good example of a big player using HTML5 – although the site still relies on Flash for video? Kinda odd considering HTML5 video is probably the most common form of the tech on the on the web right now. Anyways, it’s not perfect (there are a few little code confusions) but overall it’s pretty dam sexy.

Here.

Nice work W+K Portland.

Using an algorithm which parses one million records per day, the MTV Music Meter provides a ranking of the internets most talked about and fast moving tunes. For each artist in the ranking, the Meter provides news, tweets, video and enables purchase.  The platform also provides a “Pandora-like” function which links to music suggestions and other similar artists. 

I think we’ll see an increasing amount of ‘real-time’ home pages start to pop up as brands and audiences begin to look for alternatives to the now (mostly) out of date .com depository. It won’t work for everyone, but for brands with big portfolios and most retailers this is a really smart way to represent their offerings online. Plus, as this example shows so well, you can easily add ecommerce into the mix, which could be a very clever answer to the ongoing .com Vs shop dilema.

Music Meter here (Available on iOS and Android devices in January).

Kinda like Sound Index from the BBC – which weirdly, for such a smart service, seems to be continually in and out of Beta..?

♥ it.

Here.

Just click listen.

“The clothes are designed as a silent protest against the new reality of being searched to the point where we’re basically naked. We don’t intend for this to be anything more than a thought-provoking way to fuel the debate about safety vs. civil liberties. If we sell a few items, great. But the main intention is to open more dialogue. It’s more of a conceptual piece than anything else.”

IV Amendment.

♥ it.

Here.

#singingtweetagram at the end of your tweet and the Rocabelles might sing it foryou to send to a friend. From a flaming hot Poke for Orange.

Here.

“When the album that is life finally reaches the end wouldn’t it be nice to keep that record spinning for eternity? We offer the chance to press your ashes in a vinyl recording your loved ones will cherish for generations. Record a personal message, your last will and testament, your own soundtrack or simply press your ashes to hear your pops & crackles for the minimal approach”

Genius.

Here.

ViaCollectiveDischarge.

This awesome TAT concept seamlessly combines maps in 2D and 3D. While 2D maps are great for getting a simple overview of a place, 3D maps show you what a place actually looks like. TAT Cascades makes it possible to create maps that combine both approaches, shifting dynamically between 2D and 3D.

Below is another use of the tech, in the form of Horizon Lists. Effectively a contact list in 2D that transforms into a simple 3D list showing more detailed information. While a simple 2D layout is useful when looking for a specific contact, the 3D layout can be used to check if anyone in the list has shared some news. With TAT Cascades, it is possible to create UIs that seamlessly and dynamically alter between 2D and 3D.

More here.

From the mighty TAT.

I think it’s pretty obvious that the limitation of current mobile devices is the screen – you just wouldn’t want a 40′ phone. Until that changes a mobile will never supersede a computer, TV or cinema…

Love it.

Here.

3D Vid here.

Tweet an item to lower its price.

Smart. Very smart.

Here.

Augmented reality and gaming.

Marvellous.

Brilliant.

Citizen – for awesome service – rubbishcorp® salutes you.

Link.

Sweet.

3 more here.

ViaTheCherryFlava.

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.

Good work.