Ok, I reckon I’m pretty late with this. But, hey! It’s an amazing video!

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.

Via Gamekings

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

inkling ziet eruit als een eerste stap om weer volledig terug te gaan naar het vullen van mijn boekenkast met volle dummy’s en blackbooks..

zou het goede ding ook al geschrijf als tekst herkennen?

(enwaarom kan ik nou steeds nog nie filmpjes embedden ?)

duck tron

haha… never knew Jay Maynard had such a lovely  house and garage

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.

Via Mike Monello

DeBron – Slagroom

The Johnny Cash Project, a must see!

Via Rosanne

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.

Via Campfire

Via MacRumors

Via Mashable

Via BoingBoing

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.

Via Engadget

Shit is mad decent!

GOAB. A TV Experience Concept from Syzygy on Vimeo.

Via Haute Technique

Shit is naice!

Via Bart Robben

Roger Linn Previews New LinnStrument Prototype from Turnstyle Video on Vimeo.

Roger Linn is a legend of electronic music production. In 1979, he unleashed the first drum machine that employed digital samples of a real drum kit. The LM-1 was quickly embraced by the likes of Gary Numan, Prince, and Michael Jackson, shaping the pop sound of the 1980s. But what has Linn done for us lately? Turnstyle News has new video of Linn demonstrating his latest prototype, the tablet-esque LinnStrument. “Roger Linn Previews New LinnStrument Prototype”

Via: BoingBoing

Impressive tech demo by Microsoft Research^W.

Via Engadget

haha! motiongraphics heersen

En ik was gisteren bij een screening van IDFX (cultvideotheek in Breda en Rotterdam) met allemaal shorts van B-movies en underground tot trasher films. en daar kwamen we werk van Martha Colburn tegen. < mooie ruwe stijl

hier een ander werk van haar

Great iPad app design! Check this out, and def. check that part where the page folds into a paper airplane!

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

Via Gamekings (Jeuhhhhhhhh!)

Het DIY ‘natuurkundig proefje’ of de ‘how-to’ principes wordt vaak gehanteerd op als you tube filmpje. Deze is een brilliant antwoord daarop. Jammer dat het mij niet lukt en dat ik te weinig handdoeken had.

Conductor: http://www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.

Conductor: http://www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.

At http://www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram.

more info.

swiss-miss

Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 1 from Brainstorm Digital on Vimeo.

Other blogger Lenno showed me this today!

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

Via Jeff Cannata

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.

Via Engadget

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!

Via Engadget

Ok. Title says it all! I’ve got this from a tweet by Sebastiaan de With, and to quote him:

Awful music, but a must-see

So! Check it out!

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!

Via Mashable

“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.

Via Engadget

Via Transmediagirl

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

Via Falibur

Via 4D Fiction

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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.

Via BoingBoing

Cassius – I Coils You So

After their clip for Yelle – the Music, a brilliant idea of the collective We Are From It (Wanda) with this film celebrating the exit of the new EP of Cassius on the title “I <3 You So” (ED Banger Records). An interactive iPhone application, and an appearance of very many guests.
AND WHAT A GREAT SONG!!! You can download the app here.

Cassius, I Love you so from WE ARE FROM L.A on Vimeo.

Fubiz

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

Via 9to5Mac

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

The other day we participated the European Street Design Challenge at PICNIC 2010. We were a team (with Haute Technique and SPOP) competing with two Dutch teams and three French teams and we met a lot of people, but also this guy called Arthur Bodolec. The week after we checked out his work and came by this awesome, smart chair. So, check it out!