Typographic Bob

Lovely.

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Cunningham eat your Heart out

If only Cunningham had access to one of these. Actually, Fuck Cunningham - I want one to play with. I'm thinking some sort of sworded music video short film mash up with a web interface and in some freak-out live situation with unsuspecting reality TV style protagonists.

Wyld Stallyons do Lingerie

Those crazy guys, Wyld Stallyons have done some neat work here for Lascivious: The Doll. This is a great example of a small company, working on a what I imagine to be a very modest budget, producing class A, professional looking work. The idea however leaves a few things to be desired. It's been done before, but then, these are pop promo dudes and hence they've essentially made a pop promo as a piece of advertising. Style over substance, but is that really a bad thing? It's sexy and dark... and I like sexy and dark... oh and fembots.



Below I've posted their behind the scenes doc. It shows the modest array of off-the-shelf hardware and software that they've used effectively to create a real cinematic look for this piece. Another example of getting the right balance between creative minds on the ideas front, and a creatively led production team to bring the thing to life. Maybe if they'd spend a bit more time thinking about the idea it would have made something more compelling beyond the fist viewing. Nice going guys....got any jobs going? haha

Strutting my Stuff in Second Life

Well, Here I am at aprox. 00:12 on 5th June, strutting my stuff as a paid by the minute podium dancer at a beach club in second life.

As if my first life isn't busy enough, with about twenty ongoing projects outside of my 9-late job as a creative at Dare. Humm....

When second life started, I signed up straight away with the promise of a fully interactive, virtual world rendered in high definition 3D; of the ilk of Doom or Unreal Torurnament 2004. What I found was a half realised community with a few geeks hanging out not really talking to each other. People would walk up to you and say:
"hello? are you real?"
very much like the Dareschool project when we ran it for a month this time last year at Dare. People rang up our lady Marjory with stupid questions:
"Hello....are you real? Would you wave at me with your left hand while cocking your right finger and putting your left thumb up your nose?"
Alas there's something in us that makes us suspicious of anything new, and seemingly too good to be true. Not surprising really, think of all the fuss over subservient chicken - was it real, was it truth of lies?

And so it's the geeks who are left to pick up the pieces, and start to make it work. And after the wave of geeks, then it becomes a new thing (think of user generated content - first it was only the geeks who actually contributed to the web, now it's like cooler than cool to have your video on youtube).

So...Second life... Here I am crapping on with a head full of Rum while watching my amazingly rendered, 3D realtime avatar Donshades Korobase dancing away and I'm chatting to the girl next to me on the dance floor and she's pretty cool...

It is us geeks who shall inherit the earth.

Inneresting MP3

Here's a link to an interesting mp3. Basically it's Flo and Mike sitting in Flo's garden crapping on about the state of Digital advertising and turning over some very interesting ideas about the state of Digital, where it is and where we may be going over the next few months.