The above images are out-takes from the production of an interactive projection mapping viral for Sony Playstation. The whole story was shot in one take and in one room with an impressive amount of supporting characters in seamless white suits to help assist with the overal effect. Pretty cool concept, pushing the bounds of what [...]]]>

The above images are out-takes from the production of an interactive projection mapping viral for Sony Playstation. The whole story was shot in one take and in one room with an impressive amount of supporting characters in seamless white suits to help assist with the overal effect. Pretty cool concept, pushing the bounds of what projection mapping is capable of. Have a look below.

Visit -> http://www.meorme.com/

Sony Realtime Projection Mapping 2 from Marshmallow Laser Feast on Vimeo.

I recall wasting away entire weekends playing Wipeout on Playstation with my friends when we were in college. It was a pretty amazing game back in the day when it first came out. The above vid is a ‘faked’ concept (according to my research findings) for a controlled quantum levitation mini version of the game. [...]]]>

I recall wasting away entire weekends playing Wipeout on Playstation with my friends when we were in college. It was a pretty amazing game back in the day when it first came out. The above vid is a ‘faked’ concept (according to my research findings) for a controlled quantum levitation mini version of the game. Like all sci-fi, it may not be real today, but the seed has been planted. Here’s an example on YouTube that is very real. Have a look.

The Future Belongs to the Curious from Skillshare on Vimeo.

Notes from Vimeo:

“From the moment we open our eyes it fuels our existence. We are on a mission to remind everyone to never lose your sense of curiosity or wonder. Long live learning!”

Visit -> skillshare.com

The new interactive video experience titled ‘Sprawl 2: Mountains Beyond Mountains’ coming from Arcade Fire feels really fresh and innovative, right down to the dismal, twitchy videography and art direction. In short you get to swing and sway right along with the track with either your mouse or with your own body via the video [...]]]>

The new interactive video experience titled ‘Sprawl 2: Mountains Beyond Mountains’ coming from Arcade Fire feels really fresh and innovative, right down to the dismal, twitchy videography and art direction. In short you get to swing and sway right along with the track with either your mouse or with your own body via the video camera on your device or laptop. Pretty inspiring execution.

Visit -> http://www.sprawl2.com/

Above, are two of my favorite old photos of the young, passionate, genius and relentless Steve Jobs. The second photo, with a young Bill Gates seated next to him, has blown my mind from the first day that I laid eyes on it. To me, it is amazingly revealing and says so much about the [...]]]>

Above, are two of my favorite old photos of the young, passionate, genius and relentless Steve Jobs. The second photo, with a young Bill Gates seated next to him, has blown my mind from the first day that I laid eyes on it. To me, it is amazingly revealing and says so much about the two of them, with so much foresight. Right down to their shoes… Just when I thought that Steve Jobs couldn’t possibly teach us any new tricks, or new ways of looking at things, he died today at at 56. It really hit me. Life is incredibly short, people. Here’s to the crazy ones.

photos found -> http://www.thisisnotporn.net/

A friend of mine (thnx! @catoosha) recently turned me on to the Oregon Manifest collaborative utility bicycle design contest. What a great venue to bring together some of the most innovative and accomplished design minds in the business. The results are pretty inspiring and impressive.

Notes from website:

“The Oregon Manifest Constructor’s Design Challenge is a one-of-a-kind design/build competition, [...]]]>

A friend of mine (thnx! @catoosha) recently turned me on to the Oregon Manifest collaborative utility bicycle design contest. What a great venue to bring together some of the most innovative and accomplished design minds in the business. The results are pretty inspiring and impressive.

Notes from website:

“The Oregon Manifest Constructor’s Design Challenge is a one-of-a-kind design/build competition, in which some of the country’s best custom bike craftsman and select student teams vie to create the ultimate modern utility bike.”

Visit -> http://oregonmanifest.com/

I’ve got to say, things were looking pretty grim for ol’ Facebook when Google+ rolled out. G+ seemed to offer up some pretty nice enhancements to the social networking space with ‘circles’ and being able to follow non-friends, similar to Twitter. For me though, it lacked in the area of visual presentation, other than the [...]]]>

I’ve got to say, things were looking pretty grim for ol’ Facebook when Google+ rolled out. G+ seemed to offer up some pretty nice enhancements to the social networking space with ‘circles’ and being able to follow non-friends, similar to Twitter. For me though, it lacked in the area of visual presentation, other than the ‘circles’ interface, the concept was pretty reminiscent of Facebook’s aging interface and overall layout/flow. Myself, being an extremely visual person, I was pretty underwhelmed by G+ in that respect.

Having said all that, I am really excited about Facebook’s new ‘timeline’ layout. I followed the simple steps to activate the invite via this TechCrunch post and am having a lot of fun with it (screen shots from my ‘timeline’ above). The timeline functionality offers something beyond just a ‘nifty interface’ that I really value and I’m certain many others who have been using Facebook for many years will value as well. It’s an amazing capture of your life, friends and the memorable milestones, all in one place. It’s a display of Facebook’s built equity, our loyalty and years of engagement that makes this ‘timeline’ so powerful and enjoyable. Something very special that Google + will have to build and earn on their own, over time, if they can keep up. Nice job Facebook.

I love the branding and design work around Amsterdam based innovation and creativity festival PICNIC (September 14th – 16th). Everything from the poster to the site experience is buttoned-up and feels nice and fresh. I wish I were able to attend it this year, the lineup of speakers is pretty amazing. Be sure to have [...]]]>

I love the branding and design work around Amsterdam based innovation and creativity festival PICNIC (September 14th – 16th). Everything from the poster to the site experience is buttoned-up and feels nice and fresh. I wish I were able to attend it this year, the lineup of speakers is pretty amazing. Be sure to have a click around the website.

Visit -> http://www.picnicnetwork.org/festival

Spike Solutions #2 from Jacob Niedzwiecki on Vimeo.

I really like the innovative thinking behind with this generative compositing video exploration by Jacob Niedzwiecki. It’s this kind of tinkering that gives birth to new ideas and trends, hungover or not. Have a look.

Notes from Vimeo:

“In this screen test, the video in any zone of the left half [...]]]>

Spike Solutions #2 from Jacob Niedzwiecki on Vimeo.

I really like the innovative thinking behind with this generative compositing video exploration by Jacob Niedzwiecki. It’s this kind of tinkering that gives birth to new ideas and trends, hungover or not. Have a look.

Notes from Vimeo:

“In this screen test, the video in any zone of the left half is sampled (from that same zone) from the video in the same location on the right half. All the videos start almost in sync, with a slight offset, so you can see movements ‘ripple’ from the bottom right to the top left in the grid.”

Al Gore’s new iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch app looks to be nicely designed by UI designer Mike Matas, co-founder of Push Pop Press, and is certainly getting a ton of positive attention this week. The ‘Our Choice’ app is being praised as the “the future of interactive books” by some highly accredited experts. I’ll be [...]]]>

Al Gore’s new iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch app looks to be nicely designed by UI designer Mike Matas, co-founder of Push Pop Press, and is certainly getting a ton of positive attention this week. The ‘Our Choice’ app is being praised as the “the future of interactive books” by some highly accredited experts. I’ll be clicking through this one for sure this weekend.

Get the app -> http://www.pushpoppress.com/ourchoice/

Visit -> http://www.mikematas.com/

Al Gore’s Our Choice Guided Tour from Push Pop Press on Vimeo.

This is a very interesting and futuristic eCommerce touch interface concept for use as a way to bridge the gap from an in-store experience to an online sales experience. The design was created by a Swedish mobile production company called B-Reel and the product is called ‘TRE’. I think the interface, as ‘minority report’ as it [...]]]>

This is a very interesting and futuristic eCommerce touch interface concept for use as a way to bridge the gap from an in-store experience to an online sales experience. The design was created by a Swedish mobile production company called B-Reel and the product is called ‘TRE’. I think the interface, as ‘minority report’ as it seems, definitely has some very practical aspects to it and could be used for a variety of things outside of just eComm… e.g., home schooling, B2B product demos and even for social use. Have a look.

Visit -> http://www.b-reel.com/

Microsoft created this designer/developer community site as a way to promote IE9 and also to showcase creative use of HTML 5. I like the overall ‘Tronish’ site design, the bold color palette and the general idea behind it’s purpose… It will be interesting to see what people submit.

Visit -> http://www.frameratefest.com/

I first heard news of these fascinating and newly discovered stereo photographs this morning on the local news while getting ready to head off to work. Taken to be viewed through a stereo-optic viewer, these images were captured by color photography pioneer Frederick Eugene Ives in 1906, about six months after the massively destructive ‘Great Quake’ [...]]]>

I first heard news of these fascinating and newly discovered stereo photographs this morning on the local news while getting ready to head off to work. Taken to be viewed through a stereo-optic viewer, these images were captured by color photography pioneer Frederick Eugene Ives in 1906, about six months after the massively destructive ‘Great Quake’ in San Francisco. I’m amazed by the overall clarity and color accuracy. 1906! Think about that!

Larger view -> MSNBC

QuaDror from Dror on Vimeo.

World renowned designer Dror Benshetrit spent four years developing the innovative structural joint above called QuaDror. The design is not only strong, supporting up to 86 QuaDrors on top of itself, it’s also incredibly compact and able to be flat shipped from place of development to place of assembly, saving valuable [...]]]>

QuaDror from Dror on Vimeo.

World renowned designer Dror Benshetrit spent four years developing the innovative structural joint above called QuaDror. The design is not only strong, supporting up to 86 QuaDrors on top of itself, it’s also incredibly compact and able to be flat shipped from place of development to place of assembly, saving valuable time and energy.

Visit -> http://www.studiodror.com/html/

I thought this well-filmed video and the actual idea of enhancing one’s bike with an automatic rainbow generating machine was pretty clever. I love that there are people out there spending time building things like this, reminds me a bit of Nike’s Chalk Bot. Makes for a fun view.

Interaction designers have their work cut out for themselves these days, for sure. We’ve got a multitude of iPads, tablets, E-Readers, a bazillion different mobile phone devices, internet TV and many other untapped experimental multimodel, voice and gestural interactions to think about and design interfaces for. In addition to all of that, there’s this intriguing projection based interface [...]]]>

Interaction designers have their work cut out for themselves these days, for sure. We’ve got a multitude of iPads, tablets, E-Readers, a bazillion different mobile phone devices, internet TV and many other untapped experimental multimodel, voice and gestural interactions to think about and design interfaces for. In addition to all of that, there’s this intriguing projection based interface called ‘Skinput’, ideated by Chris Harrison. I love this concept mostly for that fact that it’s NOT another screen that I have to carry around with me. I love it for the fact that it’s a more sanitary interface, especially for public ATMs and Kiosks. I love that it’s so much more of a sustainable interface, in that it re-uses a nifty hi-tech preexisting surface that we always carry with us, our skin! There’s so many reasons to explore this direction… very inspiring. Check out the video below.

Visit -> http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/skinput/

Moscow based digital artist Vladimir Shelest has sculpted and rendered this ultra sci-fi experimental graphic environment for a mobile phone release called QderoPateo Ouidoo. The particle effects, lighting and transparent layers are pretty much falling within the category of memorizing. Makes for a dreamy and inspirational view, be sure to check out is site via [...]]]>

Moscow based digital artist Vladimir Shelest has sculpted and rendered this ultra sci-fi experimental graphic environment for a mobile phone release called QderoPateo Ouidoo. The particle effects, lighting and transparent layers are pretty much falling within the category of memorizing. Makes for a dreamy and inspirational view, be sure to check out is site via the link below (check your volume – auto-play video).

Visit -> http://www.e-sh.ru/

QderoPateo Ouidoo. Video presentation. from Vladimir Shelest on Vimeo.

To me, there is nothing better than a well visualized concept. You can put something down in words, discuss it or wireframe it out for months, even years, but until you render an idea in a way that’s true to life it’s difficult to fully understand the potential. The ‘iWatch’ concept by Naples based ADR [...]]]>

To me, there is nothing better than a well visualized concept. You can put something down in words, discuss it or wireframe it out for months, even years, but until you render an idea in a way that’s true to life it’s difficult to fully understand the potential. The ‘iWatch’ concept by Naples based ADR Studio is well done and very inspiring. It makes me wonder if I’ll have to carry around a bulky phone at all in the future?

Visit -> http://www.adr-studio.it/site/

I find Ujin Lee’s ‘Dust’ series of photographs to be incredibly creative and innovative. I love that he chose to experiment with different environments, I feel each space exaggerates the already obscure  subject matter and then hits me in profound ways that I have difficulty placing my finger on and explaining. In short, to me [...]]]>

I find Ujin Lee’s ‘Dust’ series of photographs to be incredibly creative and innovative. I love that he chose to experiment with different environments, I feel each space exaggerates the already obscure  subject matter and then hits me in profound ways that I have difficulty placing my finger on and explaining. In short, to me it’s an interesting collision between the everyday and the surreal. More beyond the link.

Visit -> http://www.ujinlee.com

I have become incredibly inspired by Kevin Cooley’s ‘Light’s Edge’ photo collection. Kevin Cooley is a Brooklyn based photographer and video artist who often collaborates with the talented photographer Bridget Batch. He beautifully captures obscure lighting events in places of dramatic scenery and isolation that to me, seem alien and otherworldly. Myself being fascinated with long exposure night [...]]]>

I have become incredibly inspired by Kevin Cooley’s ‘Light’s Edge’ photo collection. Kevin Cooley is a Brooklyn based photographer and video artist who often collaborates with the talented photographer Bridget Batch. He beautifully captures obscure lighting events in places of dramatic scenery and isolation that to me, seem alien and otherworldly. Myself being fascinated with long exposure night photography, I find that his subject matter and experimental works open up my mind to new ideas and possibilities that I have not yet considered. Do yourself a favor and visit his site to view the rest of his brilliant work.

Visit -> http://www.kevincooley.net