Category: Cool Thinking

Movies Shot with Phones

Movies Shot with Phones

It’s not what the average production company would usually use but over the years the use of phones to shoot short movies pops up every know and again. It’s a great lesson on the power of a well organized production that understands the use of light effects equipment and well edited footage. ‪Nokia N8‬ used…

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Organized Weirdness and the Social Web

Organized Weirdness and the Social Web

Check out this great improve social media event organisation. Coordinated like a “flash mob” this group has hundreds of recorded events. Start one in your town or just enjoy the videos. Here one to get you started.

Bruce Sterling Introduces New Words

Bruce Sterling Introduces New Words

Finally someone steps up and talks about the mumbo-jumbo vocabulary that is used to describe our daily dose of reality. It was all happening live today at the very cool alternative the TED talks. “Pop! Tech” has been around for several years now and as I was watching the live stream I got board and…

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When will This Go Viral?

When will This Go Viral?

This is a lovely video worth watching. It gets the point across and still make you smile. Powerful stuff for a market that is struggling in North America’s deep recession. This is a high production video and a lot of work went into pulling of this sight-gag. How could you take the same idea and…

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A Private View of a Sacred Place.

A Private View of a Sacred Place.

What I have learned in the Land of the Thunder Dragon. By Roger Beaumont I have now been living and working in Bhutan for 14 months. I arrived from one culture (Thai) to learn another (Bhutanese), while retaining my own – English. I have noticed that: While the UK might be individually rich, it is…

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Sending an iPhone into Space

Sending an iPhone into Space

Stratosphere Spacecraft Launched From Newburgh, NY This is an amazing video and deserves a big thumbs up for ingenuity and fun. The things that we can create and accomplish are not all about budget and big business marketing but the core idea. A great concept is always going to be great regardless if you through…

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Typical Use of Youtube to Create Content

Typical Use of Youtube to Create Content

Ok this is very funny and also painful in parts because it’s so accurate. However the real power of the piece is how most of the comments mimic the piece. This is one of the only examples of Youtube comments actually make the video viral potential even stronger. Check out some of the posted comments…

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Esquire Magazine on Steroids

Esquire Magazine on Steroids

I got excited when I saw what Wired magazine did with an interactive experiment by publishing on the iPad. Well Esquire magazine has done an even better job at it and I am waiting for more publications to catch on. I think this is one of the most exciting events for magazines since color offset…

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The essence of integrity… will it survive?

The essence of integrity… will it survive?

The historian John Goldofin Bennett once wrote on the blackboard: “I believe that an essential part of man’s duty upon this earth is to bear witness to the truth as it has been revealed to him.” There can be no better job description for a photo journalist. Another gripping report from our “Lost In Asia”…

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14 Trends in Web Based Design

14 Trends in Web Based Design

This is a great post from the 1stwebdesigner blog that covers the newest trends in web design. I am very happy to see more of a magazine layout approach to the design these days. The design of web based communication pieces has come a long way in the past couple of years. I’m finding that…

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