Dec. 30th good stuff

Ogilvy/Mattel's beautiful Scrabble viral videos:

Sumo: http://bit.ly/xqTkP

Hula: http://bit.ly/4yKT0

Yoga: http://bit.ly/5HXm9f

clever innovative campaigns

Nikon Helicopter Boys promotion:

"The Nikon Coolpix camera has a projector that allows you to instantly project images that you have taken on your phone onto a nearby wall or screen or whatever. Nikon recruited popular Japanese pop duo, the Helicopter Boyz to promote the projection technology.":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKrv_BDTbPQ

UK youth twitter messages transmitted in Parliament via Robot:

http://voicebox.vinspired.com/our_robot/

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-09/04/robot-set-to-invade-the-houses-of-parliament.aspx

Dec. 29th - key 2009 webisode/digital TV projects

Simon Fuller & 19 Entertainment to launch global reality show with Hulu, Clear Channel & MySpace:

http://bit.ly/66LrnP

Easy to Assemble = over 1.9 milllion views Oct. 2009:

http://bit.ly/66LrnP http://bit.ly/SvXtf

NewTeeVee's top 10 webisodes of 2009:

http://newteevee.com/2009/12/28/top-10-independent-favorites-from-2009/

Dec 26th gorgeous creepy find of the day

Rodrigo Blaas' Alma:

http://www.vimeo.com/4749536

Dec 26th cont.

Mirrorshade's retro game video for Holy Fuck:

http://vimeo.com/7310744

Frank Chimero's video on the American penal system 'there are now more prisoners than farmers in the US'

http://work.frankchimero.com/#34211/Transparency-Prisons

Dec 26th cont.

gorgeous b/w video for Danish post-punk duo Raveonettes:

http://www.blind.com/work/music-video/gap-sound-of-color-bw

Happy Entrails video (cute carnage):

http://www.blind.com/work/web-content/specialized-happy-entrails

gorgeous animation:

http://www.blind.com/work/commercials/kyocera

Rorshach video for Gnarls Barkley's Crazy:

http://www.blind.com/gnarls-barkley-crazy

Dalmiro Buigue's videos - cool paper play -

http://www.vimeo.com/user2161651/videos

Dec 26

Pocko/Magma animated sequence for their touring exhibition of customized Russian Matryoshka dalls entitled, Pockoshko:

http://www.wearecaptive.com/animation/pockoshko.php

We are Captive's campaign for Wii:

http://www.wearecaptive.com/animation/WII.php

Ninjatune Promo video:

http://www.wearecaptive.com/animation/ninjatune.php

Very cool montage for sci-fi thriller Bits & Pieces:

http://www.blind.com/work/film-titles/bits-pieces

Dec 15

Responsive environment installations:

http://messymix.com/showvideo/veniceevx07.php

http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/ramsgard_thomsen/portfolio

Dec 14 cont.

The Design Gene - blog on excellent websites:

http://thedesigngene.com/

Coraline Campaign:

http://coraline.wkilab.com/work/coraline

The Hyper Factory's Listen to Me United Nations integrated campaign:

http://210.48.79.22/awards/voices/

Very Smart Absolut campaign:

http://kungsgrillen.se/iaawcampaign/

Greenpeace Send an origami Whale to the Japanese government campaign:

http://www.send-a-whale.com/sendawhale/landing.php?

Dec. 14

Film co. worth looking at:

http://www.2929productions.com/?#/about

Interactive website for Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute:

http://www.magicflutefilm.com/

Tobi's augmented reality fashion site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1T0egGgc5E

Geo-tagging software:

http://simplegeo.com/

Gowalla - geolocative social networking:

http://gowalla.com/

And of course, Foursquare:

http://www.foursquare.com/

Dec 10-13

Mashable's 8 companies that are reinventing TV online:

http://mashable.com/2009/12/13/future-tv-online/

Dec 5-10

Paper - The Mobile City: How can architects relate to digital media? TMC keynote at the 'Day of the Young Architect'

http://bit.ly/6sHb5w

The Projection Project:

http://bit.ly/5UcBe9

David Lynch's Foundation Television launches short film, Pathlights:

http://dlf.tv/2009/pathlights/

Henry Jenkins on 'Applying Methods of Participatory Culture to Traditional Civic Activism

http://spotlight.macfound.org/btr/entry/henry_jenkins_participatory_culture_civic_activism/

Lego Matrix Trinity Side by Side Comparison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR4xDeiHrfA

Dec 5-10

Ken Rinaldo 's Augmented Fish installation

http://accad.osu.edu/~rinaldo/works/augmented/augmented.html

France Cadet's dogLab 0.2:

http://cyberdoll.free.fr/cyberdoll/index_e_doglab02.html

Joe Kahne on civic engagement on & offline:

http://www.vimeo.com/7688312

Henry Jenkins on applying methods of participatory culture to traditional civic engagement:

http://bit.ly/6sblF7

Nov. 30- Dec 4

Vancouver surveillance project (Olympic wind-up):

http://www.surveilproject.blogspot.com/

CNN's 10 Trends for 2010:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/03/cashmore.web.trends.2010/index.html

Data viz of web usage:

http://www.globalwebindex.net/

Story Corps - story archive project that's been around awhile:

http://www.storycorps.org/

How to make $ with social media:

http://www.nextmediaevents.com/banff/slideshare.coverage.php?id=0

Inside Social Games: Tracking Innovation:

http://www.insidesocialgames.com/

David Lynch's Foundation Television:

http://dlf.tv/2009/pathlights/

Henry Jenkins on participatory culture & civic engagement:

http://bit.ly/6sblF7

Nov 29-Dec 1 sundry sites

visualizing Amsterdam's future:

http://bit.ly/2jtg7s

Raise the Cloud - London Olympics project:

http://raisethecloud.org/

Irina Troitskaya - beautiful art:

http://irtroit.com/category/personal/rearrange

Eyewriter project for people with ALS:

Making Maps with Sound:

http://makingmaps.net/2008/03/25/making-maps-with-sound/

Making Psychogeography Maps:

http://makingmaps.net/2009/06/22/making-psychogeography-maps/

Augmented reality game you play with your brain - yet to try it:

http://spadsandfokkers.sourceforge.net/

Johnny Chung Lee - cool things with Wii remote:

http://johnnylee.net/projects/

http://www.eyewriter.org/

Nov 24-27 sundry sites

Gorgeous hand cut street maps of world cities:

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/11/hand-cut_maps.html

The Cloud - massive data viz with people generated energy (is this possible yet?):

http://bit.ly/22fV9z

Stella Artois' in situ painting installation in NY:

http://theritualproject.com/home/

stunning title sequence for Cirque de Freak:

http://www.boardsmag.com/community/blogs/behindthescenes/index.php?p=654

Lego Matrix!

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/blogs/popculture/2009/11/the_matrix_relegoed.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR4xDeiHrfA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe4v318f64

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dj1V_qHC8c

Madmen avatar generator:

http://madmenyourself.com

Nov 24-27 kid's science sites

http://www.molecularium.com/kidsite.html

http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/pagegen/wok/index_f4.html

kid's environmental site:

http://treeofpromise.org/

cool science for kids:

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/

National Gallery of Art for kids (US):

http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm

MOMA interactive art safari:

http://www.moma.org/interactives/artsafari/index.html

Keith Haring for kids:

http://www.haringkids.com/

Nov 19-21 - good stuff

Inside Social Games- Tracking Innovation:

http://www.insidesocialgames.com/

5D conference - Peter Frankfurt on Narrating Space:

http://vimeo.com/5585842

X - graphic novel online:

http://exoriare.com/

Ulyana Kalashnikova's beautiful website:

http://www.themixhead.com/

I'm a Cyborg but that's OK - best online pop-up book ever!

http://www.d-o-e-s.com/collection/cyborg/

Origami twitter viz:

http://toriseye.quodis.com/

Play with the constellations:

http://www.rulethestars.com/

Nov 17-19 - good stuff (catching up)

Google launches interactive video ads on iphone:

http://mashable.com/2009/11/17/interactive-video-ads-on-iphone/

History of the Internet in a Nutshell:

http://bit.ly/1ARYI

Kelly Chapman's Transmedia keynote at SPAA Fringe 2009:

http://www.vimeo.com/7193477

Punk Heart of London's Notting Hill - interactive map:

http://bit.ly/fqwcz

FlashForward's transmedia social network site:

http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward/mosaiccollective

UK LittleLoud's interactive Bow Street Runner online game:

http://www.littleloud.com/work/bsr/

Fun Theory's #3 - Bottle Arcade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCt_MzsnIUk

Nov 15-17 - good stuff

New Sixth Sense demo video:

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Amazing use of lego for ideation at ArtLab UK:

http://www.artlab.org.uk/

Reboot Britain's Lego Landscape:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzUhp2b-x3o

Nov. 14-15 2009 - good stuff

Hybrid iphone book:

http://ebooktest.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/hyrbrid-iphoneprint-book-glimpse-of-the-future/

Hopehagen environmental initiative:

http://apps.facebook.com/hopenhagen/?_fb_fromhash=bac685ade5a992421edd67fb01e2d9d0

Avatar: the Game:

http://avatargame.us.ubi.com/agegate.php

Environmental storytelling - old Gamasutra article:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3186/environmental_storytelling_.php

Maybelline's Candace Bushnell's webisode:

http://thebroadroomonline.com/husbandhijinks.php

A brief history of gestural interfaces:

http://creativity-online.com/news/a-very-very-brief-history-of-gestural-interfaces/139976

Nov. 11-13 2009 - good stuff

Beautiful urban shadow puppets:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRI5-xu3a4M

Adidas' Online Augmented Reality game:

http://www.adidas.com/campaigns/adidasdfb/content/?strcountry_adidascom=de

Online Vampire game:

www.cityofeternals.com

NFB's Waterlife website - beautiful:

http://waterlife.nfb.ca/

Colleen de Courcey on creating emotional connections:

http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/tvfilm/8375

Atelic motion control video:

http://vimeo.com/7393690