Yep.

‘Bear 71 highlights how our increasingly heavy dependence on technology separates us from nature even though it allows us to keep closer tabs on it. It also forces us to confront how we view ourselves in relation to technology and nature, and makes us question the validity of surveillance both in the wild and in human society. Since it’s launch this past weekend the site has been attracting up to 30,000 visits a day without any paid media directed at it.’

Very impressive and beautifully crafted.

Here

ViaTheFool.

A fun game for type-geeks.

From Canadian Interaction Designer Mark MacKay for Method of Action.

Here.

ViaNW.

A platform for making cash offa fans.

Here.

Lovely work from photographer Romain Laurent.

Here.

Game engine utilizing a pseudo-holographic effect by enabling Kinect to “see” the position of the viewer so a 3D engine can adjust an image to give the illusion of a real 3D object. A simple WP7 app controls the application and the helicopter using the accelerometer.

Interesting.

Lovely interaction from Stink for Wrangler.

ViaAK

Here.

Pretty interesting, aside from the name and the bloke presenting it who seems to be the love child of Mr Burns and a Coypu.

More here.

‘Benefits galore…’ I thought to myself – this is going to be special. Intoxicated by excitement I flipped the card to reveal just to what extent Starbucks will go in their endeavour to reward loyal customers for the liberty of regularly relieving them of around £2 for what, although in several different guises, is effectively a cup of dust, hot milk and/or water. Was I to be disappointed?

According to my calculations to make Gold* I need only spend around £50, provided I buy only the minimum on each visit and I always remember my loyalty card. Which, of course, I will as I think about very little else (aside from content obviously). Anyway, if I do make Gold* it looks like I will certainly get at those ‘benefits galore’, one of which appears to be free soy. Yep, I shit you not – free soy. For just £50, and a small amount of space in my wallet I can get my hands on (amongst a few other shouldn’t-they-already-be-free items) free Starbucks soy. I might have got it completely wrong (not being a coffee aficionado), but when was the last time anyone put soy sauce in their coffee? I understand it is à la mode to put all sorts of odds and ends in coffee these days – but soy sauce?

Really?

I can only hope to assume that by offering their loyal customers something that is difficult to consume in any quantity (particularly in a situation in which it isn’t really required) Starbucks are saving up their cash to provide us all with some new banded content.

Win-win.

Look out for the ”Feds’ / a fat bloke being followed by another fella in a high vis jacket.

A friday treat.

ThankyouHarry.

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.

More here.

ViathemightyHero&Theory.

Student short.

Lovely treatment.

Play loud.

From AnnisNaeem.

Storywheel from Soundcloud enables users to create narrated, retro-looking slideshows with their Instagram pictures.

Big barrier/s, and I was well disappointed when I discovered that I couldn’t just pull in a filthy d&b track – but there is something in there…

Maybe.

Here

Handy.

Here.

An interesting site for a clothing company that kinda creates a game out of shopping.

WTF.

ViaPlayfool.

A video to show how you can use Google’s Real-Time Insights Finder to support the planning process. An insights tools can be a window into the attitudes, perceptions and needs of punters to make you be cleverer.

Pretty helpful.

Here.

Jordan live action street court. 17 Epic Red cameras captured 100 streaming videos which are swapped in and out the fly as the user gets to control change angles and speeds.

Here.

ViaAVB.

From Google:‘Search has always brought you information from across the web. Now, search gets better by including photos, posts, and more from you and your friends. When signed in with Google+, you’ll find personal results and profiles of people you know or follow. You can even expand your world by discovering people related to your search.’

It’s a pretty significant blurring of the line between the web as we know it and the web as you and your Circles of friends know it.

More here.

And yes, the presenter is, like, totally, like, annoying.

**LIKE**

Think Outside In is an excellent blog by a fella called Paul Adams who works in the product team at Facebook, helping the platform support marketers and advertisers. Prior to Facebook, Paul led social research at Google, and his work was the foundation for Circles in Google+. He is also the author of Grouped which talks about how small groups of friends are the key to influence the social web.

The things Paul talks about on this site make a lot of sense.

Nicely.

Link.

A collaboration between Laura Marling, Shynola and Studio Juice .

Here.

Is the best blog ever made on the information superhighway.

Here.

Today The Design Museum announced it’s Design Awards, or ‘the Oscars of the design world’ as they say on their pipe. The awards showcase the most innovative and progressive designs from around the world, spanning seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics and Transport and Product. This years the nominations includes little things like the 787 Dreamliner by Boeing, The Duchess of Cambridge’s Wedding Dress, Xbox Kinect and the Olympic 2012 Velodrome. Oh, and this – from us:

Wow.

Um.

Wow.

A high profile judging panel will decide the best entries in each of the seven categories. Category award winners and the overall winner of the Design of the Year Award 2012 will be announced at an Awards event in April 2012. The winners will be announced at an Awards Night held at the Design Museum on 24 April.

Link.

Nice work Alfred Keith, Kevin, Teagan + Unit9.

Sweet.

Introducing Chaotic Moon Labs’ Board of Awesomeness — a longboard powered by movement. Using a motorized longboard custom rigged with a Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect device, Samsung Windows 8 enabled tablet with full voice control, a phidget interface module and all terrain tires.

More here.

A project put together by Big Spaceship and Adobe to showcase some of the most creative and expressive features being added to the web today. In addition to highlighting and providing information on twelve new HTML5 and CSS3 features, the site itself makes extensive use of new features such as CSS3 transitions, CSS3 transforms, web storage and more to provide a visually compelling resource for learning more about HTML5 and CSS3.

Here.

“Two Against One” from the album “Rome” by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi featuring Jack White and Norah Jones directed by Chris Milk and Anthony Francisco Schepperd.

Smashing.