Author Archives: Mark

Google Advent Santa Tracker

The 2013 Google Santa Tracker (Advent calendar). Every day in December you can open up a new house in Santa’s village. Filled with games, videos, interactive experiences and holiday goodness. Have fun http://www.google.com/santatracker/

This Exquisite Music Engine via Google Creative Lab

This Exquisite Music Engine via Google Creative Lab is a demo of the music engine Dinahmoe developed for This Exquisite Forest, a collaborative art project produced by Google and Tate Modern. Read more…

VW GTI Play The Road

Volkswagen and Underworld collaborate on an innovative project that allows you to create music as you drive. The innovative app reads how and where you drive, translating it into music live. The app gets speed and RPM data from the GTI’s on-board computer. The steering acceleration and location data is calculated from a combination of the accelerometer, gyroscope and GPS receiver present in the iPhone. All of the data collected is filtered and smoothed before use. Read more…

Diesel GIF Booth

The GIF booth works like a photo booth, going a step further to produce GIF animations instead of photographs. It uses VVVV technology and a large-format touch-screen interface. Visitors can create animated self-portraits and publish them to Tumblr in real-time. For the flagship store opening in Frankfurt, the GIFs from the booth were also instantly transmitted and displayed in a window installation composed of seven big screens, each individually managed by a Raspberry PI microcomputer. Read more…

Names For Change Helping The Homeless

Local homeless shelter Urban Ministries of Durham is selling the naming rights to every item in the shelter - from toilets to teddy bears to cans of tuna. All to help more people get from homelessness into homes of their own. Great initiative and the site is nicely designed too… Read more…

Facebook in Real Life

Is this a reality show that may catch on?? Real life facebook - meting people who are friends on fb but not in real life. Read more…

PS4 - This is for Players site

Through a highly interactive user experience PS4 invite “the players” to discover in some details the iconic references of the launch TVC on youtube, celebrating the history and future of gaming on Playstation. Fun!! Read more…

Absolut Open Film Project

A collaborative short-film all made using the best of each social network. Facebook for the script, Vine for shooting the scenes and Instagram for shooting the posters. It’s complicated but check it out and have fun exploring. Read more…

300: Rise of an Empire

Movie site have constantly been trying to create interactive experiences that reflect the film for some time. Here is another. Featuring full-screen video, parallax effects, a custom gif generator amd more funky stuff, this is the official site for the next release of the 300 movies which is released next March! Bit early to release a promo site

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Life Size Messi

W+K Amsterdam brings to life Lionel Messi from the most realistic football game ever, EA Sports FIFA 14. A unique opportunity to interact with one of the world’s greatest footballers. It’s cool but for me lacked full interaction. Worth a look. http://www.easports.com/fifa/life-size-messi