Bleed Orange

By Drakon Sirakovit
March 9th, 2010

From Creativity Online.

Orange is the color of insanity, among other things.

A spot from Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam for Nike Holland that uses national pride to get blood pumping.. especially before a World Cup.  

 

The People of the Internet

By Iain White
March 8th, 2010

Are you one of the “people of the internet”?

The Beeb might not take paid advertising, but they do promote themselves.  Good on ‘em!

Skinput

By Iain White
March 5th, 2010

Who needs a keyboard when we’ve got skin?

Check out this video of how our skin can be an input mechanism to control other devices.

… and if you enjoy this check out our post from last week on SixthSense, the amazing TED Talk.

A Little BIG Thing

By Iain White
March 3rd, 2010

In a week’s time, Tom Peters, coauthor of “The Pursuit of Excellence” and urber-guru of Management Consulting is releasing a new book … The Little BIG Things.  In it is outlines 163 ways to pursue excellence.

Here’s one of them.

 

Tom is great about making the complex simple, and the simple vital.  Guess that is what a little BIG thing is.

Iain

ps: If you would like to know what the 163 little BIG things are before getting the book, contents are listed here: http://www.tompeters.com/docs/TOC_LBT_5P.pdf

The Next Internet Revolution – Mobile

By Iain White
March 2nd, 2010

A good read and summary film from Simon Silvester of WPP’s Y&R company.  The film is in two parts.  The book is highly readable and entertaining too.

 

Or read the book at:

http://pubs.yr.com/mobilemania .

Enjoy

Iain

SixthSense Technology … Ok, Just Watch It!

By Iain White
February 23rd, 2010

Here are a couple of videos which together make a TED Talk – this one by Pranav Mistry of MIT on SixthSense Technology.

Am for a rare moment a bit lost for words.

Its Open Source and will be made available to developers in a  few months.

Staggering!

 

Find Your Great Work

By Iain White
February 23rd, 2010

Yesterday we shared Michael Bungay Steiner of www.boxofcrayons.biz video “The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun”.

Today another from Michael, entitled “Find Your Great Work”.

Its full of great quotes, two that go together very well are:

“If everyone’s happy, then you’re not doing great work” and “To fly we have to have resistance”.

Lots more goodies inside.

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

By Iain White
February 22nd, 2010

I love this quote from the Eight Irresistible Principles:

“When all is said and done, more is said than done”.

How true!

This has very little to do directly with communications, marketing or business.  Just life, joy, fun.  The other important stuff.

Hope you enjoy.  Hope you are having fun.

 

Augmented Reality Meets iPhone and Helicopter

By Iain White
February 19th, 2010

Interesting little video of where video games step off off the computer screen and meet “real life”.

In this case the iPhone controls a helicopter using Augmented (aka Hyper) Reality.

Have seen lots of remote controlled helicopters in Bangkok, but nothing like this, yet.

Feel The Pain …. or Not

By Iain White
February 18th, 2010

Sweet, little, inexpensive, but bet it got a lot of people talking!

Here’s the video of a New/Innovative Media approach taken by Motrin, an analgesic (painkiller) brand in Canada.

Made me feel better.