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A funny and ingenious use of 3d to portray (an imaginative?) reality. This ad for Wilkinson is constructed in the same manner as a recongnizable movie-trailer. And they have followed the “trailer” up with a site familiar to that offered … Continue reading
Years ago you perhaps had casett tapes of Genesis and enjoyed their music. I did at least. A couple of months ago in one of our sound production lectures one of the examples our teacher used I beliave was this … Continue reading
The popular TV-show crime series CSI:NY from CBS will include an investigation in Second Life in its next awaited episode, that viewers can also participate in, TechCrunch reports. I find this is a very exciting new step in the social … Continue reading
I had not seen the WWDC (Apple Developers Conference) keynote. But I eventually stumbled over this short-clip somewhat resembling the “Get A Mac” ads, which I started to feel were becoming old and have stopped covering their releases. This clip … Continue reading
Are you wondering what this is? FogScreen projects an image, using a standard projector onto a screen of fog created from tap water and ultra sonic rays. Lasers attached above the screen allows a touchscreen functionality as well. Although the … Continue reading
Whats great about YouTube is some of the old commercials that are being uploaded. A couple weeks ago I mentioned Apple 1984 Behind the Scenes, and here is one from Panasonics. Advertising their brand new Portable VCR from 1983. I … Continue reading
Just a quick heads up that Apple just official released their Apple TV ad online, although the commercial had been aired earlier on TV before hitting the web. The Apple TV Ad can be seen in Hi-Quality here. In my … Continue reading
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Adobe is officially launching Adobe Creative Suite 3 on Tuesday in New York, and CS 3 will ship later this spring. However the bundles seem to have changed since CS 2, with a new range of applications. From what I … Continue reading
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Towards the end of January I wrote about the initial UK Get A Mac Ads, since then Apple UK has added six more ads. I still don’t know if these really reach the potential of the Official US ads, but … Continue reading
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This Flash based board game: Get The Glass, caught my attention. A nice combination of some cute cartoon characters and 3D special effects. It seems to be a continuation of the Got milk? campaign I first heard of a couple … Continue reading
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After a rather interesting lecture on sound, especially regarding modern pop-music our lecturer demonstrated the so-called Loudness War. My fellow student Thomas also wrote a post on the topic. As a nice visual demonstration the below YouTube video was used … Continue reading
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I mentioned one of HP’s previous Hands ads in my New iPod Shuffle Ad post in December. This new ad features Paulo Coelho, and has some rather cool motion graphic effects. View the ad here.