ThomKo

http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Box-Presentation/There’s nothing more to be said. Other than ex-Imagineers are effing awesome. Definitely watch it til the end, big finish.

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AR demo by grad student Keiichi Masuda. I’m at both frightened and excited (kind of like a murder boner).

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Will Apple win the Notebook wars solely by means of dominant branding? It’s hard to see another reason they’ll be able to. So much of the web (ESPN.com, YouTube, Porno) uses Flash, I don’t see how you can market a device that pretends you can have a good web browsing while ignoring all that content.

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http://www.babelgum.com/4025663/vice-versus-wham-city.htmlOne of the more straight forward looks at my former city’s proud art collective.

Just for the record, they’re as crazy as they come off. Crazy Kool!

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It reminds me of Fallon’s Travels Airport Piece (first appeared in Minneapolis, it’s still up in Hartford, CT). Love the idea of responsive projection technology. Too bad any ad will be compared to the Fallon thing. Being first has it’s advantages; even if a particular execution, while elegant, kind of lacks any insight.

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Few places make it possible for you to dress your friends like historical figures, then have them reenact that six minute fight scene from They Live (if you haven’t ever seen that movie, definitely check it out). Having them fight wasn’t the idea for the ad we were making, but we couldn’t let the opportunity pass us by. Bethany Hall and I did this photo shoot for BBC.co.uk. I’ll post the actual piece when it’s done.

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Watch at your own risk.

In the mid 1980s this ad spurred a ton of urban legends after it first aired. Specifically, it was said that everyone involved in the production of the spot died ‘under suspicious circumstances,’ that is except for the women who appears in it. She merely gave birth to a demon child soon after shooting. People also claimed that the song sounded different at different times of the day. At night it was purported to sound like a raspy old lady was singing. Oh, and the lyrics sound like a German hex, too. While none of this is true, I, for one, would have been willing to believe anything you told me about this 30 second spot. It gives me the serious heebie-jeebies. The mix of dreaminess, innocence and motherliness totally remind me of Rosemary’s Baby (in fact does sound a lot like the title song from that movie).

Please post any comments if you experience unexplained tragedy, trauma or horror following the viewing of this commercial.

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I made this to host Jason’s Mustachioed Monsieur.

Mmmm… olive home…

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Grad Student Julia Yu Tsao’s proposed display product/design experiment just blew my mind. I’m not going to pretend to know what advertising’s going to look like in the future, just rest assured it’s going to look different. Fully immersive display, interactivity and 3D are going to continue to evolve and become part of the world in which we live. We just have to be wiling to accept it quickly, and with excitement.

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