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Torrent Raiders

Dynamic network visualization through arcade-style video games

De Pong Game

More arcade games, this time projected in buildings

Sonar 2007

Installations at the electronic Barcelona festival

Long Now

A Brian Eno inspired foundation, to promote “slower/better” thinking.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

String theory explained through animation

Born Magazine

Art and literature together for 10 years.

The Minister of Information

Edward Tufte interview for NY Magazine

Flip Book Deluxe

Drawing game by Benetton, allowing simple people to create simple animations. Warning: serious time waster

CNN Youtube debates.

On a less serious political claim, check Obama girl.

Boca (aka Marcos Ceravolo), a Brazillian designer living in Vancouver, produced “Typographics”, the ultimate lecture on typography.

Link to h.264 mov (19 Mb)

Together with Ryan Uhrich, they picked a quotation from graphic designer Jeffrey Keedy and illustrated it with some exquisite motion graphics.

Our objective was to use type as the main aestheic and design element
to create awareness about the evolution and main characteristics of
typography. Both the music and voice over used in the piece make
reference to 1950’s TV and Radio advertising.

Source: cpluv

I’ve been doing some YouTube digging after my late discovery of the fullscreen option, and the recent related videos dashboard. Now, it’s time for a new video page interface:
Update: the embed code can now be customized, and finally is XHTML valid !

It was about time they dropped the amateurish look of the original version to a more streamlined and less cluttered (dropping the quicklist banner) approach. The “Report” link has more visibility, in compliance with their recent initiative of providing a video fingerprint tool to publishers such as Time Warner Inc. and The Walt Disney Co.

If you want to find out more future YouTube features, visit youtube.com/testtube, their version of Labs from parent company Google.

Extra geek points for the Invaders pieces.

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Being accused lately of lack of transparency, Google is releasing today detailed URL reports for AdWords. Advertisers now have more information where their ads appear, optimizing their campaigns accordingly to their performace, with metrics such as domain, URL, impression, click, conversion and cost.

The improved feature is named “Placement Performance”, is one step closer to true contextual advertising and will surely benefit from insights brought by the DoubleClick acquisition.

More at Clickz

As a tribute to Lynette, i’m posting here my favorite quotes of the Future of Online Advertising Conferece, in the form of interesting snippets.

Heather Luttrell (IndieClick)

Who are we to say what the future of advertising is? What we can do is provide a framework to analyse which sites are up and coming for advertisers/marketers.

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This is the kind of thing that Pedro will dig, as he’s so interested in creative collaboration.

Adam and Dessi Price, inspired by their trip to the 11 Spring Project, turned a downtown building they owned over to the art community in Utah. They started this project only knowing one local artist and every artist that joined after came from word-of-mouth. In the end, over 144 artists participate in the project. Over 7,500 people toured through the building.

Learn more about this project here.

Source: Wooster Collective

DDB Istanbul sent me some interesting online advertising pieces a few days ago, and i didn’t had the time to post them. I already knew one of the ads, but the other 2 are as thought provoking and to the point as the first one. Choose wisely any of them.