Hibi no Neiro

You gotta love this brand creativity. A Japanese pop group, Sour, managed to crowdsource and collaborate with their fans around the world to create this one cool video clip. Kudo to Directors Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura, and Masayoshi Nakamura!

Challenge Your World

Challenge Your World fosters the development of a new generation of businesses — businesses that place equal value on people, planet, and profit.

Through an online community, contests, and events, Challenge Your World promotes sustainability, nurtures innovative ideas, and connects emerging entrepreneurs to the resources and expertise they need to launch companies that restore the environment, contribute to society, and build a healthier economy.

From all of the videos submitted for this competition, I must say that this is one of favourite. Wouldn't it be nice if we can really have that sort of machine?

Recycle invaders from Challenge Your World on Vimeo.

Different kind of lookbook from Black Rainbow

I want to see Up but Partly Cloudy is also super cute!

This is the kind of cuddly movie that makes me go Aaaahhh

For all of my friends who are facing the deadline of their final paperss

How internet entertains Julia...

Finding something of adequate quality in YouTube is a struggle. Yeah sure there bound to be interesting videos but you need to be awfully lucky or patient. Anyway, I will just start my so far crappy Wednesday with a wacky Bollywood's interpretation of Michael Jackson's classic: Thriller.

2 words: Digital & Organic

Not To Scale - Ubik ~ Voxel from ventilate.ca on Vimeo.

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We are in it for the long haul

What happen when you merge a video and photos together? a hybrid project 'The Long Haul'!

Stop Motion | The Long Haul from DUMAIS on Vimeo.

Photo and motion commit to a long life together in a movie made from 4000 great pictures and...
3 x pimped out stills cameras
2000 square feet of studio
11 x Obama lovers
2 x Producers with whips
450 kg of props
360 degrees of dolly track
15 hours of makeup
1 x clip on rat tail
2 x actors standing still for 22 hrs
1 x grown woman wearing a child sized dragon outfit
1 x 72 hr work work day
1 x "Bapapa" song

Steal Our Ideas

Art director and copy writer, Jon and Adam, post their ideas everyday so people can 'steal' it: As creatives in the ad business, we know that coming up with ideas can take you away from the important things in life.Family. Friends. Absorbing culture. Coaching soccer. Reality TV. Sex parties. Stealourideas.com is here to help you get back the happiness that you've sacrificed to work long hours in creative industry. Our blog entries will save you the time and energy it usually takes to think of stuff, while building the credit needed to chat yourself up at award shows.

Come and see the wonderful works of Olly Moss

Stumbled upon Olly Moss' works and I am so blown away! Enjoy these pretties and you can fund more in his webpage.

See what Kenya Hara has to say about Muji and the concept of emptiness

My First Dictionary

Feeling a little bit blue from the constant rain, I tried to entertain myself reading through My First Dictionary. The blog has a darker approach in interpreting our not so blue sky world. It is fascinatingly macabre.

Heavy eyes

For some eye candies, I am so recommending Heavy Eyes. This website is simply divine ;-)

Tweenbots experiment

I forgot to share it yesterday, but since I have a lull during my lunch break, I wanted to post the adventure of a tweenbot in Washington Square Park, New York. The idea is to examine people's random act of kindness towards the tweenbot.



Kacie Kinzer of the project said:

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object.

Short film from emoticons

Hihi loving the toilet scene and I found it from here.

Cup Bobblers

This weekend I want to fill it with painfully achingly 'kawai'-ness! As usual, I spent several hours being out there in the net doing nothing but surfing about. Many complained that it is a wasteful habit but sometimes I can defy them and say "Here! see this cool thing? I found it while surfing!". I am determined that the theme of this week would be something cute so here is an ice-cream cup designed by Junfei. It comes with a figure model of the body with spring that lets you peel out and stick the ice cream cup on it, changing it into a bobbler head figure. You can place on the car while u driving or a decoration in your room ;-)

Modern twist of traditional proverb

I really enjoy Nikki's take on our modern Western mentality. They do hit a bit too close for comfort but they make me smile nevertheless. I can totally imagine Kremers saying, "Be cynical baby, be cynical!"

Cool new video from Peter Bjorn & John

Darn, I am really in love with the jiggling tune and definitely the cool dancing Japanese biker gang!

Peter Bjorn and John "Nothing To Worry About" from Koti Khanski on Vimeo.

Poster meets origami

Can't help my self but sharing an interesting work by Kyle Bean. Themed as 'Compartmentalism' you can follow the journey to unfold of a poster. For more works, go to Kyle's website.