March 29, 2006
OMG Clothing
I would happily receive an RSS feed of submissions to this site. My own gems include 'Never ever bloody anything - ever', and 'in a chimp's cock'. Genius, I'm sure you'll agree.
September 10, 2005
Moor Music Movie
I've finally got around to uploading the short film I put together from footage taken at the moor Music festival - the one where Jake gets a soaking. I like the ability to add notes to photos in Flickr, and I wanted to do something similar for video - so this provided a good opportunity to get reacquinted with After Effects (it's still pretty much the same six years on.) I used an MPEG4 codec for Quicktime during encoding (thinking it was fairly ubiquitous), but since had a few problems running it on certain machines. Let me know if you have any playback hassles.
Moor Movie (24Mb, right-click on link to save target.)
NB SUnday 11th - link disabled as movie not running on Windows.
March 19, 2005
50 People See...
Flickr continues to impress, to the point where I'm sick of talking about it anymore. But when someone uses the service to make images as beautiful as these, it once again demands and commands my attention. To paraphrase the 'artist': he wrote a program to blend 50 Flickr photos which share the same tags, and create an "average" image out of them. No human is involved in choosing, positioning, or blending the images. They remind me of Turner's paintings...
July 27, 2004
Brands buy into the Creative Revolution
An interesting article from yesterday's Media Guardian discussing, amongst other things, the role of user-generated content in online marketing:
'... Consumer-created content offers advertisers other opportunities, Edwards adds. "The potential here is for brands to help consumers create more content - either as facilitators by offering authoring tools, or by providing the creative stimulus or a showcase for consumers' own entertainment content."'
'49% [of those polled in the advertising industry] identify consumer-created media as significant new advertising opportunities.'