Sometimes you just end up spending time on a site much like when you enter a library. You feel good, spend quite some time eyeing the shelfs for something good to read.
Visiting BibliOdyssey makes me feel just like that. Today I spent about 25 minutes just eye gazing the beautiful “historical” illustrations on the site. The site mixes old and new graphics, but they all share a common style. One of my favorites artists on the site is the work by Vladimir Gvozdev. Vladimir has this wonderful touch to everything he does. I first was amazed by the details in his illustrations like the one above. Then I found more of his work.
Oh how I wish I had a project right now where I could call this guys up and create some killer stuff using his skills. The stuff he does is just stunning.
Today I got a link from Ya-sin, leading me to a YouTube movie where Michael Jackson performs Billie Jean…with a HUGE white glove.
This is social networking at it’s best.
On May 4th, 2007, the White Glove Tracking team asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located by fans to the project.
This one will spread all over the place…that’s for sure!
I posted earlier on Stefan Sagmeisters new book Things I’ve learned in my life so far. Now he has followed up the book with a website/blog where he’s asking everyone to contribute.
It’s a smart and innovative way to create an integration with the book idea but also to invite everyone to continue the story. Apart from that I’m impressed with the speed the site let’s you upload a video…whats luring in the backend???
Stefan writes “What have you learned in your life so far? What is it that you are fairly sure about? What is it that you believe in by now?”
Not me!
That’s the title of Stefan Sagmeister’s new book. And judging by Stefan’s list of 20 maxims we should all have something to learn from his life.
Taken from Creative Review“The book is based on a list of maxims made by the graphic designer on his “experimental year” in 2000, where he took time out from working on commercial projects. While the maxims read as a mixture of wise pragmatism with philosophical reflection, they quickly became incorporated into projects for clients when Sagmeister’s office reopened, and it is 20 of these projects that form the book.”
Sagmeister’s full list of 20 maxims are as follows:
1. Helping other people helps me.
2. Having guts always works out for me.
3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.
5. Being not truthful always works against me.
6. Everything I do always comes back to me.
7. Assuming is stifling.
8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.
10. Money does not make me happy.
11. My dreams have no meaning.
12. Keeping a diary supports personal development.
13. Trying to look good limits my life.
14. Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
15. Worrying solves nothing.
16. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
17. Everybody thinks they are right.
18. If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first.
19. Low expectations are a good strategy.
20. Everybody who is honest is interesting.
That’s 20 to live by!
The book is not available until march. But it should be worth buying.
You all have heard of Banksy I’m sure. The other day I found some movies of him(them?) making art in Palestine.
This is so cool. Imagine how hard it would be for a commercial TV station to get hold of Banksy and get him in front of camera. And how hard wouldn’t it be for BBC, CNN or any other TV network to tag along in Palestine while Banksy is secretly putting his art on the wall between Israel and Palestine.
But Internet, in this case YouTube put’s Banksy in control. And suddenly we have a TV show where Banksy takes us along and invites us to his most secret and forbidden way of performing art that puts focus on political and humanitarian issues. On top of that the ruling TV networks has got news for free. Imagine this before YouTube…
I’ve seen quite many of these the last couple of months so I’ll expect something like this in a Swedish TVC anytime soon (Swedish TVC’s pick up trends fast)
We were looking for cool things on YouTube the other day in the agency. This movie with a puppet girl in oversized format controlled by a large group of people turned up.
On January 1, it was exactly 25 years since the precursor to the internet, ARPANET, switched over to TCP/IP.
Pingdom brought to my attention that Google celebrated by changing their logo. The cablers in the logo read “2008″. But added to that they’ve placed a almost not visible easter egg. It reads SYN SYN/ ACK ACK – a command line part of TCP known as the “three way handshake” to establish a connection. Clicking on that part led to the query “January 1 tcp/ip”.
Google is and has been in the forefront of celebrating holidays and events through the use of their logo. These are some of my favorites:
This is the blog and website of Johan Ronnestam - Innovative consultant from Sweden with Love. I’m a 37 year old, new media professional, creative director & entrepreneur from Stockholm, Sweden who loves to solve communication problems with ideas, creativity and innovation.
