Hamlet: The Facebook Edition
by Muhammad on August 14, 2008
in Social Media
The king poked the queen.
The queen poked the king back.
Hamlet and the queen are no longer friends.
Marcellus is pretty sure something’s rotten around here.
Hamlet became a fan of daggers.- – - -
Polonius says Hamlet’s crazy … crazy in love!
Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends.
Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not.
Hamlet thinks Ophelia might be happier in a convent.
Ophelia removed “moody princes” from her interests.
Hamlet posted an event: A Play That’s Totally Fictional and In No Way About My Family
The king commented on Hamlet’s play: “What is wrong with you?”
This recently came up on McSweeney’s: Hamlet (The Facebook News Feed Edition. Absolutely hilarious. This is what would probably happen if Facebook was around during Shakespeare’s time.
Muhammad is worried about people who have too much time on their hands…
: Shakespeare, Hamlet, Facebook, Funny
Radiohead’s “House of Cards” First Ever to be Premiered by Google
by Muhammad on July 16, 2008
in Uncategorized
Check out the first-ever music video to debut courtesy of Google and also the first to be shot without cameras. Only lasers and scanners were used in the production and, which is why Thom Yorke looks kind of like a sonogram.
So… “interact” with the video on Google. There’s also a making-of video that talks about Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR, the technology used to capture all the imagery in 3D.
The video is directed by James Frost of Zoo Films.
Link
: Radiohead, House of Cards, Music Video, No cameras, Google
Design: The Surf Chair WorkStation
Now this is want in my Office…
The Surf Chair Workstation brings some ingenious ideas to the table. First, the monitor is suspended smartly in front of the user’s eyes, at a perfect distance. This design also helps you maintain a healthy back and a comfy position while spending hours and hours in front of your computer.
This cool design is called the Surf Chair Workstation and is designed for ergonomic support for your back at the same time being very comfortable as well as suspending the screen at a suitable distance so you don’t get what Masseuse’s call “computer neck” or fry your eyes. So now you can spend hours and hours in front of the computer, comfortably :)
: Design, Ergonomics, Chair, Technology
Why the New iPhone is So Damn Great…
by Muhammad on June 11, 2008
in Social Media
Yes, you have standalone GPS devices; yes, you have phones that support GPS. But tell me, how many third-party applications have you used on either? Not many, I reckon, because the platforms weren’t very tempting for developers, and the screens and GUIs of most devices other than the iPhone simply aren’t good enough. Standalone GPS devices, on the other hand, were closed affairs; what the manufacturer put in, that’s what you got.
GPS can do so much more. In its most basic sense, adds another dimension to your life: it knows where you are. It knows where everyone is. Geotagging your photos? That’s just the surface being scratched. Think social networking; in fact, we already have that, and it’s called Loopt. It’s an application that alerts you when your friends are nearby and allows you to share your location and photos with them. Yes, we’ve had such applications before, but now the location is going to be very precise – you’ll be able to know which club, street, or coffee shop they’re in.
It’s not only about social networking. Everything: event recommendations and reviews, weather, traffic and flight info, gaming – all of it will have a “location” component from now on.
Whoever is listening… I want one! I want the new iPhone. I’m so excited about it I’m gonna go hysterical! wow.
: iPhone, GPS, Tehcnology, New, Cool, Location
Brilliant Ad for Kill Bill Premier on TV
A ‘Kill Bill’ TV premier spills blood on the streets.
: Kill Bill, Advertising, Marketing, TV Premier, Blood, Streets
Creative Design: Read at Work
A very creative campaign from Clemenso BBDO, an Auckland based Advertising agency, for the New Zealand Book Council is the launch of the site Read at Work. What this flash site does is mask your entire screen as a Windows Desktop and fill it with folders of faux Powerpoint presentations (which actually look like real work documents! but are works of literature by some of literatures greats such as Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Wilde and Emily Dickinson.
So for those who would like to do a little reading at work but don’t feel comfortable kicking back with a paperback, here’s the site for you to do just that… Read at Work.
P.S. The Windows desktop might arouse more suspicion if you work on a Mac :P
: Read at Work, Creative, New Zealand, Clemenso, BBDO, Books
New Era Citizen Journalism – The Instablog Video Initiative
by Muhammad on June 5, 2008
in Social Media
Instablogs.com has launched a new initiative taking advantage of their wide “citizen journalist” base which blog on its site on a daily/weekly basis. What the new initiative entails is a call to one of these “citizen journalists” who will answer the phone and immediately launch into a news report of whatever news happened to have occurred in their respective countries.
This call is recorded in MP3 and Instablogs.com edits it ad inputs it with relevant video clips they have of the situation in the country or even an image or slideshow. The end result is a video show of sorts aggregating news from all over the world for that day/week and instantly downloadable from their site.
This is an example of some real creativity and utilising all forms of media for the aim of spreading news. I think this formula is similar to that used by major news organisations, however, this is raw and its opinions are not from seasoned journalists who speak in that instantly-recognisable tone in which news reports are characterised. This is from the grass roots, people who have an opinion and all this is aggregated, not in text, but in audio and video. Absolutely amazing, I can never cease to be amazed by human creativity and the application of media in Web 2.0.
: Citizen Journalism, blogging, instablogs.com, Media, Video, Audio, News, reporting, journalism
Let the Government Pay for Your Music Video
by Muhammad on May 29, 2008
in Uncategorized
What a Brilliant idea… the unsigned UK Band, The Get Out Clause, wanted to make a music video but couldn’t afford the high cost of all the camera crew and equipment. So they spotted suitable sights all over Britain which were covered by the surveillance cameras – Britain has about 13 million of these cameras so suitable locations for the band were not hard to come by.
They set up their sound equipment and began to play at the different locations… then they wrote to all the security companies asking them to hand over the video footage under the Freedom of Information Act! Brilliant!
Source: The Telegraph
Technorati Tags: The Get Out Clause, Cool, Music, Britain, Surveillance, Camera’s , CCTV, Music Video
Get Yourself Into The Propaganda Business
by Muhammad on May 23, 2008
in Activism, Social Media
In an ad bluntly called “McCain, Fire Charlie Black,” MoveOn tries strong-arming John McCain into dismissing his lobbyist, whose firm allegedly made millions by aiding dictators, terrorists and sundry other villains.
$25 helps get it on the air!
Technorati Tags: McCain, Propaganda, Charlie Black, Fire
Prince of Persia, The Movie!
by Muhammad on May 21, 2008
in Uncategorized
Disney is about to create the first installment in a Prince of Persia Trilogy. The first movie is Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Jake Gyllenhaal was just set as the male lead taking the character of Prince Daston.
Work for Prince of Persia:The Sands of Time begins on June 19 at U.K.-based Pinewood Studios, with location work in Morocco.
I’ve personally been a fan of Prince of Persia since the game was initially launched. This is a very exciting development in terms of game adaptations especially when you look at all the 1980’s cult series, cartoons and movies being re-made. Even the A-team is being re-done with a look at Bruce Willis taking the role of Hannibal “I love it when a plan comes together” Smith. I just love this stuff.
When I first played Prince of Persia it was on an IBM AT 286 Home PC with a 10MB hard drive, an astonishing 256k RAM, a CGA monitor and no soundcard (just the motherboards beeper).
This is how the game looked back then…
And the trailer for the re-launch of Prince of Persia Classic for Xbox in 2007…
