This blog is dead
I will no longer be posting to this blog.
Instead, I have launched a blog con sesos. Here lies the shit.
Archive for Interactive
Release of con sesos vol. 2 mixtape
I decided to compile my second online mixtape using imeem and I was well-surprised by how many full-length tracks were available on the site. Anyway, you can listen to the mixtape here — a little bit of the old stuff (Billy Idol! The Church!) and some newer stuff the kids are listening to (Klaxons, Rapture, PBJ).
mii and you and everyone wii know
… will be turned into mii’s eventually. or that’s the objective behind ‘wii are the world’. so get with it. go here and make a mii, take a screenshot and submit it to this flickr group. or email it to me.
pizzatime’s doing it down in LA.
As is K Chan…
keempoo the OG is reppin’ Amsterdam.
Wii are the World
We begin this project by wiifying the fine folks at Publicis Seattle.
Someone made a mii configurator in Flash here. Don’t like it as much as the proper wii version, but it’ll do for when I make mii’s away from home.
TED redesigns and posts more talks
Method redesigns the site for TED, an annual conference dedicated to technology, entertainment and design. One of the best things about it is the easy access to the talks, 20-minute presentations by some of the world’s most interesting minds (e.g., Al Gore, Bono, Goran Levin, Nicholas Negroponte, Julia Sweeney, and many many more). Here is the talk by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert on the synthesis of happiness.
And this vid of Stefan Sagmeister about designing for happiness is worth a looksy as well.
Make art not war
Join other pixel pushers on this compulsively creative site where you can collaborate on multi-user, real-time art projects. You can be a buddy by helping with an image or you can be a royal dick by pushing stuff out of the way. Entertaining to see how people behave in groups.
W+K go all dot com (and Visual Thesaurus-y)
From my ACD re: wk.com
is it just me, or are those branches a little TOO deep? I clicked on one of the subjects, and after the third level down of exploding menus (leaving at least 100 choices hovering out there) I gave up trying to actually see work…
I prefer the BBDO approach (even though it takes FOREVER to load), similar idea, but you get to see little pictures of the content and the depth levels are grounded by the background map …
My Response:
ye of little attention span.
timeline navigation allows you to explore by topic and links that take you to work appear in red with a little “open” tag next to it.
if you want to be less adventurous, navigate by client.
i think while you’re right, the volume of links/work is almost overwhelming (they’ve done HOW MANY jordan basketball spots?), one thing you get is that w+k didn’t just make a couple ads, they big-banged a universe of work that’s drawn from and infiltrated culture ranging from Air Force 1s to Daisuke Shimada.
the other amazing thing is that an agency can have 25 YEARS of work indexed and viewable on their site. that’s marrying an understanding of what can be done with current technology with a philosophy on how to express who you are (you are the work).
bbdo’s site is great. in fact, it’s a classic (it’s been around for 3 years which online is like dog years, meaning it’s practically an antique)… but wk’s taken that idea and taken it about 100 steps further by cataloging and, in a way, opensourcing their archive (how legal let them show all those TV spots online is beyond me) and by allowing you to navigate through the work based on talent and thematic tags (a la YouTube).
will it be that cool a year or two from now? probably not. will it be frustrating to some visitors? sure. will it be rewarding to others? hell, yea. does it sound like something w+k would be willing to live with — to make something cool that doesn’t necessarily please everyone? of course.
there you go. a site that tells me very clearly who the agency is.
TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year
Everyone’s going gaga over Web 2.0… the bestest, brightestest, smartestest, funniestest, insightfulest person is sitting right where you’re sitting. It gets pimples where you get pimples. It laughs just like you do. It smells like you. It chats blogs posts flames + rolls its eyes like you do.
What channeling John Hughes sounds like
Went to the Yule Benefit thrown by KEXP last weekend and pangs of some serious mid-80s adolescent anxiety shot up my spine when I heard the synthy, heavy breathing sonics of a Canadian band called Junior Boys. I’m telling you there’s something in the water up there. The Canucks have got pop music on lockdown. Witness here.
Also they’re sponsoring a music video contest through social networking, harnessing the collective creativity of their fans…
Goodby and Droga pontificate
AdCritic’s featuring a talk between Jeff Goodby and David Droga*…
Look beyond the egos, skip episode 1, tune into episode 2, and they cover a lot of the stuff ad folks are all busy thinking about (e.g., traditional vs. interactive, relevance of big agencies, what agencies get paid for)…
* You need an AdCritic login to view.
Karaoke Smackdown 2006
Karaoke contest we held at the agency for the holidays. Much Flash animation wackiness.
Draw 3D animated characters
This is really pretty insane. Draw in 3D, watch your character dance, and check out everyone else’s.
