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Here’s a cool promotional game for the movie Poseidon, which will be launched in theaters on the 12th of May. All you have to do is use your left and right arrows to make the ship shake. The helium voices are very funny, and you’ve got to pay attention to the details when you’ve ’succeeded’. Look for the mini shark :) Shake the Ship.
Floyd Hayes from CunningWork has put together FiveOnFriday, which he says will become a weekly video update covering the world of advertising, marketing and cool stuff. In this debut show, Hayes highlights recent campaigns both online and off, recent news and Nike's iPod sneakers. You can view the debut episode here
Nanotech startup Konarka is working on a way to weave solar cells into clothing, tents, and backpacks. Konarka also builds a lot of other products that convert light to energy – anywhere.
The BBC has posted several alarming/depressing photos of before-and-after views of global warming. See also: Photographer Gary Braasch's World View Of Global Warming website.
A website warning of a tsunami has spread panic in Morocco, despite the government's assertion that the alert was merely rumour - and the dubious nature of its source..The Ufological Research Centre said on its website last week that a tsunami could hit the Atlantic after a comet passes close to earth on Thursday, May 25.
Here is a very well done interactive site for Levi’s, that lets you confess anything to yourself or to the world. Click here to record a message. Once the messages are recorded, they will be stored in the Levi’s 501 directory, where other people can listen to them and rate them.
Looks like our future is about to be different... and the company to thank for it is ProVision who have what I have to say is one of the coolest pieces of ad tech I've seen in a while. 3D holographic ads... I'm sure you're all very familiar with the Star Wars scene where Leia is projected by R2-D2 onto the table...click here to view the Flash video on the company website.
In a recent blogexchange concerning Morgellons Disease it has been suggested that the recent buzz about Morgellons Disease has all been part of a viral marketing ploy for the upcoming movie A Scanner Darkly which is based on the Phillip K. Dick book by the same name.
Tired of riding an old inner tube around a lake during the summer months? Think wakeboarding is too 1990's? Not enough patience for kiteboarding? Then maybe it's time to get your fat ass into "a Kite Tube", spread those wings, and fly like the wind. While the concept -- and not to mention the hilarious video -- seem like a smorgasbord of fun.
NoScruf stands for National Organization of Social Crusaders Repulsed by Unshaven Faces, headed by model Terry Tarentelli, that is sick and tired of the unshaven, male scruffy look. Women on the site appear unshaven with hair on their legs and under their arm pits. The site is purposefully designed to look like crap and just like yesteryear's sites, there's broken links, bad videos, cheesy graphics and really bad typeface. See NoScruf.org.
Think you're a badass for having a few tatts and your eyebrow pierced? That's so 1990s. The hottest new trends in body modification involve "adding and subtracting", with such pleasant eye-catchers as elongating fingers and attaching third arms to random parts of the body, as this guy did.
The Map of the Known Universe is a flashy 3d projection based on real astronomical data taking the viewer through a journey between the brightest stars in the nightsky. Plan your trip with this Map of the Known Universe.
The Art of Modern Rock is a projection engine creating a continuous random collage from a pool of over 40,000 posters. Surprising- and beautiful stuff.
Based on the success of its first web-only film, Meet The Lucky Ones (top 10 ad campaigns of 2004) carmaker Lincoln Mercury has launched two new films to promote two different models, the Lincoln Murcury and Lincoln Zephyr. With two separate websites showing two interlinking films. The film (lovelybysurprise.com) is a story about two brothers who live on a houseboat, but never come out. As the story develops, it turns into a thriller. Theneverything.com focuses on the brothers, who do live a strange life, eating only cereal.
To accompany the launch of its new super-perpendicular hard drive, Hitachi has released its latest cartoon. The first two were pretty funny even if they were filled with geek speak. This third one, which follows a 007 theme with a Spectre-like nemesis called E.R.R.O.R.
European high speed rail operator Eurostar has teamed with producer's of this summer's Tom Hank's film, The Da Vinci Code to create Join the Quest, a multi-lingual online treasure hunt game
If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next: "Morgellons Disease". A bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas. If you get is you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible. Patients get lesions that never heal. "Little black specks come out of the lesions, and sometimes even little fibers". "It looked like a piece of spaghetti was sticking out about a quarter to an eighth of an inch long and it was sticking out of his chest, I tried to pull it as hard as I could out and I could not pull it out." Yuk!
The online Frederick's clothing catalog doesn't have any of those weird costumes, though it's still teeming with plenty of slutty clothes and hooker shoes. Just check out this hot stuff.
Unlike other watercraft, this unique hydrofoil frame allows you to skim across water simply by hopping gently up and down, propelling you as fast as 17 mph (more than four times faster than some world champion freestyle swimming speeds). Buy the Hydrofoil Water Scooter here or just check out the video.
There's a nice little online game you can play while watching the trailer for Tom Cruise M:i:III movie hitting the screens May 4. In the game, cubes come flying out of the trailer which you drag to a box that explains their meaning. Arrange them in the order they appeared. After that, you proceed to level 2 which links you to Google Earth where you can find some sort of 3D model relevant to the movie. View the trailer and play Mi3 here.
Gone, but not forgotten. Visit the Logo R.I.P Graveyard to see a commemoration of logos withdrawn from the commercial warzone, though they are considered icons of their time and design classics. Includes a Book of Condolences.
Yeah! New conspiracy theories in the States!! Bush redently appointed Porter J Goss as new director to the CIA, who may have belonged to an assassination squad which was a joint CIA/Mob collaboration. He might also be a member of the secret society called Book & Snake.
mtvU and Reebok Human Rights Foundation sponsored a Darfur Digital Activist contest in which students created and voted for the best games created to create awareness the genocide occurring in the Darfur region of Western Sudan. The game illustrates the difficulties people must endure sumply to gain food and water while militia kill, rape and pillage. The winning game was released today at www.darfurisdying.com
