Love Rockstar Games^W! In their first video in a series of 5, they explain what techniques they use to create the cinematic experience of this 3rd person story-driven shooter. Shit is mad decent!

More info at rockstargames.com.

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Kevin Rose^W interviews the founder Foursquare^W, Dennis Crowley^W. They talk about entrepreneurship and the history & future of Foursquare. Good stuff!

In his interview with Brian Seth Hurst, the always inspiring Mike Monello of Campfire has an indepth talk about producing multi-platform stories. They discuss Campfire’s new work for Game of Thrones^W, the importance of a story, entrepreneurship and need to experiment within your productions. Definitely worth your time if you’re into this kind of stuff!

Part 1

New Edition of StoryCentric Features Mike Monello, Founding Partner and Executive Creative Director of Campfire, Discussing His from Tracy Swedlow on Vimeo.

Part 2

StoryCentric Features Part II of Brian Seth Hurst’s Interview with Mike Monello, Founding Partner and Executive Creative Directo from Tracy Swedlow on Vimeo.

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DeBron – Slagroom

The Johnny Cash Project, a must see!

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The masters at Campfire explain in this case study, for a viral campaign for the second season of The Colony (U.S. TV series)^W, how they used social media to immerse the users in a online fictional world where a worlwide pandemic^W takes place.

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Google^W just announced Music Beta at Google I/O 2011. It’s online music service which is an hybrid between Spotify^W and Amazon Cloud Drive^W, to store and listen to your music collection. Video below.

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Shit is mad decent!

GOAB. A TV Experience Concept from Syzygy on Vimeo.

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Shit is naice!

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Impressive tech demo by Microsoft Research^W.

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Brilliant cinematic trailer for the zombie game Dead Island^W.

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Star Wars^W maybe The Force^W that binds us, Nerds^W. Mr. Plinkett tells us why the new Star Wars Trilogy is so bad compared to the original trilogy. By using his thorough knowledge of film-theory & narration, he painfully dissects the mishaps of the new Trilogy. I embedded the The Phantom Menace^W as a teaser, for all the reviews, go over to RedLetterMedia. A must see IMHO^W!

The Phantom Menace review by Mr. Plinkett

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Very cool Kinect hacking, by using a beamer to create a realtime tracking projection, making your environment interactive!

Kinect Hadouken from Elliot Woods on Vimeo.

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In the fall of 2011 Rockstar Games^W will release the LA Noire^W. In this game you are a detective who has to solve a murder mystery. By interrogating people you have to find out if they are telling the truth or that they are lying. By using lots of camera’s in specialized room they are now able to capture the emotional expressions of the actors/characters unlike we have seen before. In the video below they go more indepth how this technique works. Awesome stuff!

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In this really interesting TEDx^W talk from Seth Priebatsch, the Chief Ninja @ SCVNGR (a game-layer on top of  the “real” world). In his talk he explaines how these real-life game mechanics work. Interesting stuff. He states that this decade was the decade of social and the coming decade the decade of games. Enemy RC-XD spotted!

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“How to play” SCVNGR video after the break.

SCVNGR | How To Play from SCVNGR on Vimeo.

Intel^W‘s Research Lab has come up with a awesome idea to incorporate in toys. By using a Kinect^W like camera they can see shapes and give them contextual interaction with their environment.

This experiment gives a glimpse into the future which is really interesting. Are we going to shape all our experiences with rich interactive programmed content or is this a logical step in evolution? Anyhoe good busy Intel, it makes me think.

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Compositing Breakdown (T&S) from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

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Really kewl video from Berg and Dentsu^W, how (interactive) media can be incorporated in a creative and fun way!

Media surfaces: Incidental Media from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

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During Adobe Systems^W‘s MAX 2010, they showed how you can convert Adobe Flash^W animations to HTML5^W. Pretty freaking awesome!

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Three concepts of the future of digital books. I really like the Alice concept.

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

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The people at ABC (American Broadcasting Company^W) and The Nielsen Company^W have come up with a smart solution to synchronize content from your TV to your iPad so you can use the latter one as a true second screen.

By using some kind of audio fingerprinting, the ABC serie My Generation sync’s to the My Generation iPad app, providing the user with extra (interactive) content about the show, while watching the show.

I think this technology could get very interesting in the not to distant future.

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Quite amazing footage what the guys at Soviet Montage created with two Canon 5d mark II^W‘s.

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Google^W announced Google Font Directory (Beta). This font directory is is an API to use non-web fonts^W on a website. It supports the most popular browsers like Chrome (browser)^W. Internet Explorer^W, Firefox^W, Safari (browser)^W and Opera (browser)^W, besides iOS (Apple)^W and, strangely, Android (OS)^W. Another “potential’ downside is that it has to download the fonts to the client and caches it on the client’s computer , if this gains popularity that won’t be that big of a deal.

Let the designing commence!

How to use Google Font Directory by Revolute

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If you got an iPad^W you must, I repeat MUST, download Flipboard. This is a social (and I mean social) magazine which aggregates content your friends share via Twitter^W and Facebook^W, but also from sites like BoingBoing^W and The Onion^W in an extremely nice design. I think the concept and execution it is quite brilliant. A very high “Why didn’t I think of this?”

When nobody wants to listen to your Apple stories .

New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

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Google^W has more tricks then Harry Houdini^W up their sleeves. Today they announced App Inventor, a drag and drop tool in which code n00bs can develop their own Android^W apps. It is still in beta and while it sounds all great, it remains to been seen how powerful this tool will be in developing robust apps. Anyhow good effort Google! Apple^W are you making notes?

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Yez please!

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It got a bad reception (yes it’s a play on words ), still I can’t wait to get an iPhone 4^W and do things like this with it.

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Balls away!

Google^W surprises again with a nice interactive viral for their webbrowser Chrome^W. In Google Chrome Fastball, you have to solve puzzles with the help of online products, like Twitter^W Last FM^W and Google Search^W. This is all built within a custom YouTube^W site. In between the puzzles there is a cool clip of an iron ball going around a parcours of obstacles.. Just check it out. I like the mechanics, but couldn’t do a proper test if Chrome would better/faster then other browsers, because of an overwhelming response, the site is now down. So if you get the chance, check it out!

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Here is a cool motion infographic by JESS3 about the State of the Internet. JESS3 is in their own words “a creative agency that specializes in web design, branding and data visualization”. I like them .

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

“Pixel – A pixel art documentary” is a documentary by Simon Cottee, about the power of the pixel in modern day culture, music and art.

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Just watch

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You know that we, here at Willekeurigheid, are not the biggest friends of  Google^W, but what the f#ck, that doesn’t stop us from enjoying their fantastic viral video^Ws. This time Google Chrome^W takes on the real world in a speed test. And if that isn’t enough for you there is also a making of. Enjoy!

Google Chrome Speed Tests

Making of Google Chrome Speed Tests

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Wow, in the video below you can watch the demolition with explosions of a stadium and have interactive panoramic view of the event. So you can change in realtime your point-of-view of the video with your mouse, while the explosions are happening. F#cking A!

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Romain Gavras^W made another brilliant and disturbing videoclip for M.I.A.^W‘s Born Free. Just watch it and check out his other work. He is a real artist!

13 Eme Rue – Biathlon from Spy Films on Vimeo.

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Sounds of Hamburg is a brilliant project in which you can use a webcam feed of Hamburg^W and interaction to create classical music!

Fat shit, oldie!

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Microsoft^W released some new video’s showing off the interactive design for their new Windows Mobile 7^W platform.

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The band Cold War Kids^W have made an interactive performance, where the user can change the instrument each of the bandmembers is playing for the song “I’ve Seen Enough”. To experience it yourself click here. For a more thorough explanation, check the video below.

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YouTube^W (a.k.a. Google) is on a roll. They launched a website called “Show & Tell“, in which they show the possibilities of YouTube for (interactive) viral campaigns. You can find examples of interactive video’s, viral hits and branded channels. Really interesting stuff for inspiration and as research material!

They also made an example video called “The Story of YouTube Car” in which they show these possibilities.

BTW: Funny note, the video was uploaded on December the 15th 2009 and has at the moment 305 views. Viral anyone?

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Yeuh, LCD Soundsystem^W will be releasing their new album “This Is Happening” on the 18th of May. You can listen to the whole album on their site.

First single will be “Drink Girls”. Check out the disturbing video below directed by Spike Jonze^W and LCD singer James Murphy (electronic_musician)^W.

LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls

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Everybody has an opinion about Lady Gaga^W, but this cover of Telephone by the band Pomplamoose is amazing IMHO. They just became an official partner of the new YouTube^W partner program called Musicians Wanted, which seems quite interesting for all you talented musicians out there.

Make original music? Apply to be a partner today.

Join stars like ukulele songstress Julia Nunes, singer-songwriter David Choi and others who own the global rights to their music videos by applying to be a member of the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). After your partner application is approved, you can start to make money off of your musical (and video) talents, and you get access to enhanced features for your channel.

Anyhow, on with the music. BTW also check their Michael Jackson^W – Beat it cover.

Pomplamoose – Telephone

Courtesy of the Hasso Platner Institute, Germany.

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