How Online Companies Get You to Share More and Spend More | Magazine

This an interesting article on engagement. The more people give of their time and effort without making them do it (micro efforts) for long or really thinking about it… the more people will do it.

 

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/06/ff_gamed/

July 18th, 2011 | Category: design related, just plain cool | Leave a comment

From Tumblr to TV: How our #Starbucks ‘Trenta’ graphic became an online hit | Editors | National Post

Not only is this illustration a bit disturbing, but this article offers a nice view into how the graphic went viral…. digital bread crumbs.

From Tumblr to TV: How our #Starbucks ‘Trenta’ graphic became an online hit | Editors | National Post.

February 2nd, 2011 | Category: design related, just plain cool, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Ideas don’t just come in the shower….

There is some interesting thinking here, I agree with most of this article. I get ideas in the strangest places, in the shower, car, walking down the street, spacing out in my coffee, during my second beer, trying a new scotch, climbing a mountain…. you’ll notice that the places I can think of first [...]

November 5th, 2010 | Category: design related, just plain cool | Leave a comment

video as art

I came across this post on Motionographer through the After Effects listserve. I really love the editing. This video really nails it.

Seb. from Shueti rocks this beautifully shot and edited piece for the IRC Dance Movement | Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmmaking and visual effects.

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September 26th, 2010 | Category: design related, just plain cool, motion | Leave a comment

the bp oil spill – chart by kbiehle at The Ivory Sofa

People are looking at the chart BP used in their press conference about how much progress they are making on cleaning up. Showing cumulative amounts in the chart can look very misleading as we can see in the linked posts.

Dashboard 1 Powered by Tableau

The original Stephen Few Post

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June 10th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: design related, interactive, just plain cool | Leave a comment

Hot! Thermal Video of Hawaiian Volcano is Amazing

Wired Science post that show a very cool 4x speed video…..

The video is here

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June 3rd, 2010 | Category: just plain cool | Leave a comment

Video: Ride Along With Ferrari’s New King of the ‘Ring | Autopia | Wired.com

This is a pretty cool car and video. The track is famous, and this car makes the lap in under 7 minutes, about 30 seconds faster than the previous best. I personally like older Ferrari’s but the full lap video on this page is something else.

Video: Ride Along With Ferrari’s New King of [...]

April 24th, 2010 | Category: just plain cool | One comment

Video game invaders!

This is a really great homage to the the first generation video games I grew up with. Modern tools and techniques taken all the way to great effect, but not too overdone. Nice.

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. Video.

April 10th, 2010 | Category: design related, just plain cool, motion | Leave a comment

The Mariana Trench To Scale [Pic] | I Am Bored

Now this is interesting too…

The Mariana Trench To Scale [Pic] | I Am Bored.

The sheer scale of things makes this interesting. Very extreme scale graphic which in some ways does not work on my laptop screen. Yet, I am drawn to this anyway.

March 28th, 2010 | Category: design related, just plain cool | Leave a comment

How the colors in Flickr images of the Boston Common change with every season

This is an amazingly original and creative visualization…

What Is This? – what is this – Gizmodo.

March 28th, 2010 | Category: design related, just plain cool | Leave a comment
 
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