WE transfer: send your files in style

March 24, 2010
By Marc Petersen
WE transfer: send your files in style

There exist many transfer services to transfer big amounts of data across the internet. The dutch We Transfer shows on its branded background a diversity of art from an even more diversity of artists like Nalden. This is what WE writes about themselves: We are the people you only read about in magazines, see in movies. Girls...
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Arion - the start of a 3D rendering revolution

March 23, 2010
By Metin Seven
Arion - the start of a 3D rendering revolution

Since the early days of 3D computer-generated imagery a lot has changed. In 1982 the cult movie Tron was one of the first mainstream productions that showed the potential of 3D CGI, in the early 1990s the world witnessed the breakthrough of realtime 3D games, followed by Pixar’s first feature 3D animation: Toy Story. Nowadays...
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The Amazing Paperart of Yulia Brodskaya

March 22, 2010
By Marc Petersen
The Amazing Paperart of Yulia Brodskaya

Look close, look very close! Is it what you think it is? Yulia’s art is not done on a computer. All of Yulia her art is made with paper and shows a rich like silk richness of the imperfect perfection of working with real materials. Yulia Brodskaya was born in Russia (Moscow); prior to moving...
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Music video entirely made with Streetview

March 20, 2010
By Marc Petersen
Music video entirely made with Streetview

This music video is entirely made with Google Streetview with some enhancements. The whole video was produced using Printscreen, a freeware screencapture program, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Apple Quicktime and Google Street View. “The most frustrating thing about producing this video was Google. The way the Street View vans work is they go in shifts and...
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Daniel Adel’s caricatures

March 19, 2010
By Marc Petersen
Daniel Adel’s caricatures

Daniel Adel (1962) graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984 with a degree in Art History. He continued his studies at the National Academy of Design, and at the Hunter College MFA program in New York City. While developing his own work, his commissioned projects have been featured in the pages of The New Yorker,...
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VIV magazine online rich media concept (+video)

March 18, 2010
By Marc Petersen
VIV magazine online rich media concept (+video)

Viv Magazine has made a wonderfull concept for enabeling rich media on devices such as the Apple iPad and HP iSlate. The feature concept, created by Alexx Henry and Andrew Grant together with co-directors Cory Strassburger and Ming Hsiung, redefines the art infotainment. And make no mistake: as mainstream media fights for eyeballs this is...
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Pixlr online easy Photo(shop) tool

March 18, 2010
By Marc Petersen
Pixlr online easy Photo(shop) tool

Pixlr is the creator of online cloud-based image tools. Today we have two applications in our suite, one we call Pixlr Editor and the other is Pixlr Express. They are built in Flash and you need to have a Flash plug in (get flash) to get it to work. The pixlr services is built for both non-professionals, the...
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Painting in the real world

March 17, 2010
By Marc Petersen
Painting in the real world

are these real or fake? Alexa Meade paints real life people to look like paintings in the real world. Alexa Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of political communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality. Alexa Meade’s innovative use of...
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CRM innovation 2010: Social Media

March 16, 2010
By Marc Petersen
CRM innovation 2010: Social Media

Social media is all around us in our daily lives. Terms like Web 2.0, CRM 2.0, VRM, co-creation, crowdsourcing, etc. are used in everday communication. How do we handle this and how does it fit in your CRM strategy? CRM is evolving into an interactive experience with your customers. With Social CRM at the core of...
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All you need is HTML5

March 16, 2010
By Marc Petersen
All you need is HTML5

HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) started work on the specification in June 2004 under the name Web Applications 1.0. Youtube as well as Vimeo have an HTML5 player version as a choice to see. What are...
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The HOW? succes of FarmVille (+video)

March 15, 2010
By Marc Petersen
The HOW? succes of FarmVille (+video)

No fancy 3D engines, no real life caracters. Farmville on FaceBook  is a game that could have been run off from your 90’s game platform. The game allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, trees, and raising livestock. Since its launch in June 2009, FarmVille has become the most popular...
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User Interfaces in the movies

March 14, 2010
By Marc Petersen
User Interfaces in the movies

User intefraces in feature films are continually getting more elaborate and complex. Meanwhile, though, real-world interfaces are getting more simple and intuitive. It seems an odd contradiction that the futuristic UIs we dream up for movies follow one path, while real world ones are heading down another path. I collected a few examples of user...
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