August 20th, 2010
The Wilderness Downtown
This is amazing: thewildernessdowntown.com check it out.
It’s the video for Arcade Fire’s track, “we used to wait” and has taken things to the next level. It uses Google maps integration to pull in pictures and create video of your home town and integrate it seamlessly into the experience. It massively improves the context and effect of the song by personalising the experience and bringing the lyrics to life.
It also exclusively uses HTML5, rather than flash. This means it’s safest to view this on Chrome, as many browsers are not supporting it fully yet. However, it does mean that it should run on iPads etc – as Apple has famously snubbed flash in favour of the emerging HTML5. Certainly, it’s is very impressive indeed. However, some of the visual effects would be a lot slicker if they were done with flash. Also, ironically, the accessibility of this experience is actually less because it doesn’t use flash. Far less people have an HTML5 enabled browser than a flash plugin installed.
That said, I’m totally blown away by this and it’s good to show people the potential of HTML 5. Doing things like this speeds up the support for HTML5 which will benefit everyone.
Hats off to Google, Arcade Fire and everyone involved in the project.
May 24th, 2010
ENVISION : Step into the sensory box
Video mapping effect with boxes & light rays at the Mobile World Congress.
This is beautiful. Go full screen and check it out.
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April 20th, 2010
Strukt Interactive Showreel Spring 2010
Some great work here and exciting technologies.
Strukt updated the interactive showreel with recent and all time favourite work samples. Enjoy the brief overview of interactive, generative and audioreactive installation projects realized during the past two years.
Featured projects in order of appearance:ATV – Program Line Up Presentation MuMoK ResampledMercedes-Benz – The design:project – Club VisualsBrennpunkt – Interactive Museum ExhibitsEnBW – Interactive Telescopes at Hannover MesseMercedes-Benz – The design:project – Letter UniverseTocaMe – Multitouch InstallationVienna Tourist Board – Tourism ConferenceStrukt – Digital WallpaperAustria National Tourist Office – Create A SnowflakeSchlossmuseum Linz – Multitouch InstallationMercedes-Benz – DLD Conference Media GlobeDetails about all the projects are available on our website: http://strukt.com/portfolio/Music:Radiohead – Everything in its Right Place (Gigamesh Remix)
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April 20th, 2010
(Video) Projector Displays Images That Interact With Real Objects
A new hand-held projector from Tachi-Kawakami Laboratory reacts intelligently to its environment.Looks pretty cool. Should be some great uses for this tech coming up soon…
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more info on this here
March 18th, 2010
The Future of Social Media and its implications for brands
On the 10th Feb I went along to the Facebook Developers Garage and gave a talk on “The Future of Social Media and its implications for brands“. This is the second time i have spoken at ‘the Garage’ and i really enjoyed it. It’s quite a a diverse crowd but always with a strong contingent of techies. The first time i spoke there was in May 09 and the details of this talk are on the saint blog here.
Here is a video of the presentaion at the FB Garage
Facebook Developer Garage London – Adam Graham – February 2010 from Newspepper on Vimeo.
Here is a write up of the version presented at the garage by @ThatGirl_Chloe
A couple of weeks later, as a result, i was asked if i could speak at the Social Media World Forum. I didnt have time to prepare a new presentation and they said that this one would actually fit perfectly into the section i was being asked to speak at which was about the future of social media. So, i gave it a little polish and basically presented the same thing. This time round it was better, as i had added in a few more bits, such as social search, and I just presented it better the second time round.
Here is the deck itself. The slides on their own dont tell you much, as most of the good stuff is what i said. the key points of this are contained in the notes section, which you can access if you view the prez on slideshare
The Future Of Social Media And Its Implications For Brands
View more presentations from Adam Graham.
As i said, the presentation at the World Social Media Forum was much better. Unfortunately, i dont think they filmed it. However, it did get some great reviews. Quite a few people said it was the best presentation of the conference, @pennypower, who was chairing the second day, said it was her favourite of the day & @socialpond reconed it was ‘the slickest’.
This blog also mentioned the talk and references the V&A work – Recode | Decode which i highlighted.
I met some great people and am sure we will stay in touch via twitter etc.
All in all, a success i feel. Looking forward to getting out there and doing a bit more.
March 2nd, 2010
Logorama
March 2nd, 2010
Neurosonics Live
Holographic Drumkit and Turntables test. No post prod – this is really what happened live. Holograms, samples, scratching and drumming.
My kind of shit
more about “Neurosonics Live“, posted with vodpod
March 2nd, 2010
Thinking for a living
Its a design resource setup by 5 people, and is a curation of thought-provoking design content – from long form features, to selection of the best on the web
http://www.thinkingforaliving.org/
February 14th, 2010
Regular Column in Admap
This year I have a regular column in Admap magazine. You can read February’s edition here
They have just re-branded, so my piece is in the first in the fresh new look.
The column is called “The Lowdown” and is a pretty straight feature which aims to give people an explanation on a variety of digital marketing solutions available to them nowadays.
This month’s feature is on Spotify, next month’s is Twitter and the month after that will be MMOGs. Beyond that, I haven’t written yet!
I think that Admap is a great magazine for people in our industry. It’s a lot more cerebral with a strong focus on planning. This month’s edition specifically is on “the future of planning” and contains a number of excellent articles from the likes of Jon Steele, MT Rainey and Simon Clemmow to name a few. Well worth a read, i would say.
I will also be blogging on their site. As soon as this is set up, I’ll post a link from here.
