Watched yesterday on the train back to Lisbon, a film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet. From Clay Shirky to Don Tapscott, discussing projects like Couchsurfing or Zopa, the documentary is a fresh thinking on the future of democracy.

Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo.

Watch it on Vimeo, Youtube, download the .torrent or buy the full-length DVD.

Even with Vimeo launching their new categories feature, we still can’t say TV goodbye. A lot of great content still lives on TV, and when i thought this medium couldn’t think out of the box, Great Works Spain pulled a new trick: The first music video ever shown on teletext.

The video is being shown the next 2 weeks on Channel 4 (Spanish national TV), on Teletext page 899, promoting Pedro Marín’s new single “El día después“ with a stylish glam rock look. Enjoy the music video below:

At least, according to Microsoft Office Labs.

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Watch it here, if you’re looking for some free inspirations in UX design.

A big thanks to Nathan, for allowing me to share it.

Source: Oh, Hello, via Motionographer

Somehow related to last post’s theme of progressive enhancement, i found out via Johnny Holland a simple but effective video on “Designing for Mobiles: Users & Context”. The student work is based on the first chapters of Barbara Ballard’s book Designing the Mobile User Experience, depicting the increasing importance of understanding the newer platforms, where and how are they used, and how it relates to designing the user experience.

Designing for Mobiles: Users & Context from Niek Dekker on Vimeo.

Cadbury brings another delicacy, with some eyebrows techno crazyness.

Eyebrows brings to life the story of a brother and sister’s moment of mischief when backs are turned and they are left to their own devices. Feeling the rhythm, the children crank out a range of eyebrow dance moves for 60 seconds to the sound of ‘Don’t Stop the Rock’ by electro-funk superstar, Freestyle.

Rare Exports Inc, from the land of the original Father Christmas

A long, long time ago Father Christmases roamed free in Lapland. At some point in time, native people found out that these creatures could be caught, and trained to become well-mannered servants. In 1793, a group of native Laplanders set up a small company to export extremely rare Original Finnish Father Christmas ® all over the World. Today, Rare Exports Inc. is one of
the most successful companies in Finland trading with nearly 150 countries.

Rare Exports Inc, directed by Jalmari Helander and produced by Woodpecker Film (http://www.woodpeckerfilm.fi) shows the process of transforming a wild Father Christmas into a finished product, all the way from tracking and hunting in the wilderness, to the intensive training period and finishing touches made to the ready-to-be-shipped item.

Seems like Nokia is doing more viral stuff, with Bruce Lee on a ping pong challenge.

My friend Andre, and blogger at AdvertisingEtc, just directed a visual delicacy using a Phantom camera at 1000fps. The commercial announces the release of a new magazine: Relance.

On his own words “the concept of the ad is that the subjects are being compressed into the magazine“. And, boy, they look pretty good to me. Congrats Andre.

Credits
Agency: Uzina (Portugal)
Creative Director: Gustavo Suarez
Art Director: André Breda
Copywriter: Roberto Ferraz
Account Director: António Roquette
Production Company: Garage Films (Portugal)
Director: Enrique Escamilla
Photography Director: Carlos Lopes (Cácá)
Executive Producer: Miguel Varela
Editor: Marcos Castiel
Post-production Director: Marta Metrass
Phantom Operator: Raoul Rodriguez
Post-Production: Ingreme (Portugal)
Music Supervision: Level Two Music (Australia)
Song: QUA – Painting Monsters
Composer: Cornel Wilczek
Sound post-production: Ameba (Portugal)

You have to hand it to those bright minds at IDEO. They do know how to have fun and break the rules. Jay Kaplan and team have put together a modern time Rude Goldberg chain reaction, on eight worldwide locations, six time zones, and roughly fifty people involved.



The Boston team gets their machine ready amongst scenes of local history. Photo credits: Ideo Labs

The video below is 15 minutes of pure blend between engineering and creativity, with each office creating their own chain reaction masterpiece. Enjoy.

IDEO Global Chain Reaction from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.