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Terrace Tweets – Umbro FA Cup Final campaign

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:33:03 +0000

Terrace Tweets measures the support of football fans on Twitter. Mention your team or the FA cup in your tweets and watch your team’s support during the match.

Nice idea / design / execution. Campaign on a page with a bit of product at the bottom.

Have a look:

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The Sun copywriters hijack Facebook blog

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:50:38 +0000

Making the Google Chrome Speed Tests

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:49:19 +0000

More work for Google Chrome from the gang at BBH New York and 1st Avenue Machine.

Full copy and paste below if you really wanna nerd out.

(It’s worth it)

These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times. If you’re interested in the technical details, read on. Equipment used:

- Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed
- 15Mbps Internet connection.
- Camera: Phantom v640 High Speed Camera at 1920 x 1080, films up to 2700 fps
- Monitor: 24″ Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the monitor 180 degrees to eliminate a shadow from the driver board and set the system preferences on the computer to rotate 180 degrees. No special software was used in this process.

“Why does allrecipes.com in the potato gun sequence appear at once, and not the text first and images second? And why does it appear to render from bottom of the screen to the top?”

Chrome sends the rendered page to the video card buffer all at once, which is why allrecipes.com appears at once, and not with the text first and images second. Chrome actually paints the page from top to bottom, but to eliminate a shadow from the driver board, we had to flip the monitor upside down and set the system preferences in Windows to rotate everything 180 degrees, resulting in the page appearing to render from bottom to top.

“Why does the top one third of the page appear first on the weather.com page load?”

Sometimes only half the buffer gets filled before the video card sends its buffer over to the LCD panel. This is because Chrome on Windows uses GDI to draw, which does not do v-sync.

“The screen wipes are so smooth – how was that achieved?”

The screen wipes up in a gradated wipe because LCD pixels take around 10ms to flip and gradually change color.

And here’s the final film.

IBM The Internet of Things

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:23:34 +0000

More smart thinking from IBM.

LastHistory – Interactive Visualization of Last.fm Listening Histories and Personal Streams from Frederik Seiffert on Vimeo.

LastHistory – interactive visualization your Last.fm history, obviously

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:27:26 +0000

Takes a while to initalise the first time, but once the data is in there it’s loads of fun to play with. It’s also got a really nice ‘personal mode’ that hooks up to iPhoto to display pics taken at the time you listened to the music.

It’s free to download and try for yourself: http://www.frederikseiffert.de/lasthistory/

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Lady Gaga performs “Telephone” on Chatroulette. Midly NSFW

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:23:31 +0000

Brutal.

Digging in the Crates

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:39:51 +0000

Digging in the Crates from WE AIN’T PLASTIC on Vimeo.

Digging in the Crates is an interactive installation by designer / developer Roland Loesslein which attempts to explore Sampling as a production technology of modern music using modified turntables and information graphics to understand the relationships between the sample and composition.

Created using Flash Actionscript3/Adobe Air as part of his diploma thesis in the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg.

Really nice work. And I get to post photos of 1210′s. Double Win.

More here: http://www.weaintplastic.com/

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FaceFlip – more fun with Chatroulette

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:45:16 +0000

FaceFlip from Max Hawkins on Vimeo.

Nice bit of geekery here. I’ll try and leave Chatroulette alone now. I’m in danger of boring myself.

Chatroulette Piano Improv

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:39:30 +0000

Yes I know that everyone is pinging Chatroulette stuff around the moment – but this deserves the limelight. I’ll spare all the waffle but if you haven’t seen it all you need to know is:

1 – Merton creates Chatroulette Piano Improv.
2 – Ben Fold creates Ode to Merton.

Enjoy…

Bens Fold Five performs “Piano Ode to Merton”

The Original Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv