The History of the Internet (in a nutshell)

Here it comes. Wave geekyness.

I have a wave account by the way. But only two contacts. So it’s not terribly exciting yet.

Just Divorced

The duckt tape on the camper van reads “Just Divorced”.

Know your memes. A Study of internet virals.

I came across this site; Know Your Memes. It is really good, and a must see for people wanting to understand the cause and origins of online virals. I had a good time this sunday going through all these mini dokumentaries (about 4 mins a piece), giving me the back story on virals such as; the keyboard cat, starwars kid, rickrolls, lolcats, numa numa etc. They also coverd some virals that I hadn’t caught on before, which was very interesting. But what I found truly interesting was when they explained how the market and the media tried to get in on the virals and make a profit, and how this affected the different virals. For example the Christan Bale Rant. This viral was heavily pushed by the media and thus peaking very quickly but then again fading away equally fast. This shows that in this example, for a viral to be long lasting it has to come from a more underground independent source.

A must see, for all online marketing people.

linky

Fresh Balls

A real product. With a proper website. I think this guy found a corner in the market.

Check out his introvid on the site.

 

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8-bit trip

For all our stop-motion afficionados…

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

From the trend of detaching heads from bodies (previous Diesel post), here’s a smashing video from scratch perverts!

AR from Moving Brands

A beautiful example of showcasing stunning work.
Thanks to Moving Brands.

Detlef the Project Manager

A current fun side project I’m doing in my coffe breaks at work. I brought Detlef to work one day and one thing led to another. So now I present to you. The life of Detlef The Projekt Manager. Its a work in progress and more pictures to come.

Linky

Inspired by a project I did with Andreas originally, here.

Bert & Ernie tries Gangsta-Rap

Which is easier to understand?

http://easiertounderstandthanwave.com/

Please, be patient!

This site is under construction!

Berlin is fucked up…

Google Maps Link

One of the reasons we use Away 3D over Papervision 3D

Ralph Hauwert annonced his departure from Papervison on Flash on the beach. As we are doing a lot of 3D projects at the moment we where happy with our choice of using Away 3D rather than Papervison. We started using Away 3D in september, to us it has been easier to work with than Papervision, for example we used it to create the augmented reality on Sunnivasverden.no (augmented, marker). I just hope they get a new website soon, its hard to recommend someone with a wesite like Away3D.com. However i feel obliged to give Papervision credit for their open-source development of a technology that has allowed so many great websites!

Here is a really nice example of the technology by Toyota IQ.

Another example of nice Away3D: http://ow.ly/sklV

Cheers
Andreas

Modern advertising

Thanks to @nicksmith

Japanese iPhone App

It’s great!!!

http://www.appbank.net/2009/09/30/iphone-application/53812.php

(thank you @mrmanson)

Quique the head

This viral, for Diesel, is simply genious:

Find ouy more at http://www.quiquethehead.com/

German T-Mobile tilt shift add.

I’m back!

After a well deserved break, I’m back with my useless posts!

Fake tilt shift photography.

Here are some stills from a stop motion video I am in the process of making.

The effect on these photos are as follows=

A light s shaped curve in the curves option

+40 saturation

Quick masked gradient to mask out the lens blur

and a bit of surface blur to create that plasticy feeling.

Even tho I am certain you clever clogs know all of this already, I learned some of these things from this very simple tutorial.
Obviously this is not how it is really done, tilt shift photography originates from way back when you had those cameras that came with a black cloth which the photographer would wear over his head, all that you can learn more about here.

Cheers

Andreas