2D Photography Rude Goldberg

The future of photography

Tescos Subway Virtual Store

Simple and brilliant campaign launched by Tesco in South Korea which uses QR codes in an innovative way. The campaign just won Grand Prix in Media, and Gold Lions for Direct and Outdoor. Check out the video.

The 4E’s for the social media marketing world.

I stumbled across this post on linkedin by Brian Fetherstonhaugh who works for Ogilvy & Mather.  It's partially an advertisement for the company and the work that they have done lately but it does show some insight into how companies need to begin marketing themselves in todays changing environment.  No longer is everything based off of the 4P's but I wouldn't fully agree with him that everything is dependant upon the 4 E's.  The way that he's titled his blog does make sense though saying they are 'in' as many topics now adays are only trending for a short period of time.

Check it out http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=598339366&gid=3257585&type=member&item=59406211&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eogilvy%2Ecom%2FOn-Our-Minds%2FArticles%2Fthe_4E_-are_in%2Easpx&urlhash=unVT&goback=%2Egde_3257585_member_59406211

Dana Tanamachi – Custom Chalk Lettering

Dana Tanamachi is a graphic designer who creates beautiful custom chalk lettering for businesses and homes. Her work is amazing and she doesn’t use stencils or a projector to aid her drawings. And to think at some point it all will be erased!

Ace Hotel Room 1021 from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.

Ontario Competitiveness Dashboard

Recently we built the Ontario Competitiveness Dashboard on behave of the Certified Management Accountants (CMA).

Please check it here

The tools we used are:

1. PHP and MySql
2. Google Chart API For the line and bar charts
3. gchartphp – PHP Object wrapper for the Google Chart API
4. Jquery Tooltip Plugin for the rollover box
5. jqGrid for the backend editing
6. CKEditor for editing the rollover text

Google +1

Google +1 was released yesterday to compete with Facebooks 'Like' button.

The idea and concept behind the Google +1 is that when your doing a search you can see items and websites that your friends have found useful to them in the past.  These friends or contacts would be thoes whom you have listed within your Google account already.

The positives behind this are that people trust the opinions of their friends and co-workers over anything else so by having someone you know say that the website provides useful information will more then likely cause you to take a look at it vs. something that may be ranked first overall.  Goodbye to SEO as it is now turning towards social optimization.  Instead of focusing on key-words to hit for search engines again companies are now going to have to re-look at their sites to provide the best information to the customer as possible.

As the world is changing to 'listing' vs. 'telling' this is just another step towards the information revolution.  Companies are going to have to listen to what consumers are looking for on their sites and not the unimportant information that they aren't.  I'll be waiting to see if company policies begin coming out telling employees to +1 their page and write a positive review so any of their contacts will choose them over a competitor.

This could turn into a much more useful tool then just a generic Like button on your site…but really, who uses their google account and has transfered all of their contacts there? I'm not one of them….

BATTLE AT F-STOP RIDGE

Just a fun video about nerdy photographers and videographers (something I would do actually)

Google Wallet Coming Soon.

Unveiled this week was Google Wallet, a feature which allows Android users to use their device as a virtual wallet, swiping their phone instead of their credit card in order to pay for things.

You can tap to pay using Google Wallet at hundreds of thousands of MasterCard® PayPass™ merchant locations.

More details at :http://www.google.com/wallet/

Xperia arc time-lapse video shows off photo quality

 A very impressive and creative video, check it below.

This is what's been used for the video:
1. Xperia arc
2. Vignette app (from the Android Market)
3. Almost 2,000 photos
4. Just two battery charges :)
5. Blu-tack!

Sony Ericsson Xperia arc Challenge the Driver

Another brilliant commercial from Sony uses only the Exmor R camera sensor on the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc for driving around a dusty road, covering the windshield and windows with sheet metal…

HD GOPRO Avalanche Cliff Jump

Not only is it impressive to see manufacturers make smaller and smaller form factors these days (5k resolution in the EPIC or 1080p inside the  tiny HD GOPRO), but it is absolutely amazing what kind of footage these smaller cameras are allowing to be captured.  For most of us:  smaller cameras are clearly the future.

GoPro HD: Avalanche Cliff Jump with Matthias Giraud from GoPro on Vimeo.

GoPRO HD in Space

Pretty incredible stuff made possible by ever-shrinking camera technology that is able to produce higher and higher quality images.

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

Vincent Laforet Creative Live Promo

Vincent Laforet Promo on the upcoming HDDSLR workshop that will be streamed out to the web for FREE

Heineken Social Media Stunts

Heineken Bluetooth Bottle Opener Creates a Facebook Event for You 

Chase Jarvis Live: We Are Augustines

Chase Jarvis (Photographer) welcomes Brooklyn based band We Are Augustines to The Garage to discuss overcoming the struggles in making a living as an artist and to perform some songs from their upcoming album.

Volkswagen – Pleasure Before Business

The creative thinking behind Volkswagen continues to deliver on campaigns that clearly demonstrate how they make that human connection with their customers.  Volkswagen owners are indeed in a class of their own and the auto maker knows how to tap into this. Das branding…

Also check out the websites that we developed by Drupal

Please also check out the websites that we developed by Drupal 6+ – another very popular CMS.

embassyflavours.com

ONFC.ca

Tony Orrico – The Human Spirograph

Artist, dancer, human spirograph. He creates remarkable large-scale mock-mathematical drawings with a savant’s focus and a marathoner’s endurance, sometimes drawing for up to four hours continuously. What makes Orrico’s art most remarkable is the complete grace and fluidity with which he renders seemingly mechanical drawings, transforming the human body at once into a precision instrument and a delicate paintbrush of the abstract. Watch him work his magic at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C.: