Oh boo. You thought this was going to be something entirely different than it is.
StruckAxiom came up with an interesting way to pull in Facebook and webpages into a framework that allows you to mess with them. This interesting piece of newness (to me at least) was created to help promote the film “How To Train Your Dragon.”
Another fantastic way to waste my time.
The French website Incredibox – a charming human beatbox mixer made of a human chorus of French slackers. Love the little bonus footage buttons that light up when they’re ready to give you a treat.
Here’s a video of one of my creations:
via Very Short List
Pentagram, the always amazing design firm, has been coming up with interesting, intelligent, and non-holiday-centric holiday cards, websites, books, and experiences for the past I-don’t-know-years. This year’s is a fun twist on the Personality Quiz by categorizing you as a TypeFace. The execution is simple and in good style, and the end result is a nice mini-tutorial on typeface. When you go to the URL – you’ll need the password: character.
And in case you were wondering, I’m Archer Hairline – the culmination of my emotional, understated, progressive, and disciplined personality. As if you didn’t know.
The latest Google Mashup, which actually I’m surprised it wasn’t the first, is I Just Made Love. It’s got everything – user-generated content, geo-targeting, community building, google maps, and sex. A sure-fire intertube hit.
Users can input where they last made love, what position, condom usage, etc. Who’s making their millions off this one?
Last weekend the last surviving soldier of World War I, Harry Patch, died at the age of 111.
Today, Radiohead has released a new song on their website in his honor and as a tribute to the soldiers of a gritty, brutal war. The song costs one British pound and all proceeds go to the Royal British Legion.
Taken from Radioheads website:
Harry Patch (In Memory Of)“i am the only one that got through
the others died where ever they fell
it was an ambush
they came up from all sides
give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
i’ve seen devils coming up from the ground
i’ve seen hell upon this earth
the next will be chemical but they will never learn”Recently the last remaining UK veteran of the 1st world war Harry Patch died at the age of 111.
I had heard a very emotional interview with him a few years ago on the Today program on Radio4.
The way he talked about war had a profound effect on me.
It became the inspiration for a song that we happened to record a few weeks before his death.
It was done live in an abbey. The strings were arranged by Jonny.
I very much hope the song does justice to his memory as the last survivor.It would be very easy for our generation to forget the true horror of war, without the likes of Harry to remind us.
I hope we do not forget.As Harry himself said
“Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims”.
Remember when you’d land on a page that was under construction and you’d see the icon of the little guy in the hard hat and the shovel? Then when things started getting fancy…he was animated.
Yeah – this beats all of that. With its fists.
So good it hurts from the digital (I think) agency Hendersen Bas in lovely Canada. Check it out while you still can.
A series of videos linked together of people doing the moonwalk, creating the Eternal Moonwalk.
The Australian government is looking to put a kink in the hose of the Internet. Apparently they want to install a nationwide filter to reduce – god only knows. Well I do know, actually. The free flow of information. F that!
GetUp! has created a campaign to raise awareness, get people riled up, and stop the current administration from succeeding. In addition to this commercial, they’ve created a website and a modified search engine to illustrate the effects of censorship. They’re trying to raise money to run the spot on the airwaves to reach the masses. So check it out, get mad, and help them spread the word.
Sweet Jaysus – save us from the hand-wringing, squeamish moral police state, already. And by the way – I thought Australians (except for the Aboriginals) were descendants of criminals. Hey Australia – I had greater hopes for you than this.