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This mail was is my spam today. And not in mine, only, as I found out. If I had ever doubted that opportunism is the second face of crisis: well, here are three very different examples about how very different senders making themselves heard in the times of "swine flu" pandemia: swine flu gaming, swine flu advertising and and swine flu spamming: …
Whereever you are, take care!

After Microsofts 2019 Future Vision Series here are two "experience user-interface" videos about recently shown at CHI2009 in the Concept Video segment.

This great title sequence was created by Barcelona-based Dvein for the F5 festival in NYC on April 16th and 17th, 2009.

After his first 100 days US-Präesident Obama gives insight into the White House's backstage. About 300 photos on Flickr prove his ability to use social media for PR across all target groups effectively.

This making of refers to the video of Moray McLaren - We Got Time. A beautiful simple idea for nice animation by using a very traditional technique. Using both praxinoscopes and the technique of matching up the frame rate of the spinning record to that of the camera,

Awesome Video from Justin Evidon:

"Coming back from a recent trip to Chicago, our flight from Midway took an unexpected fly-by of downtown from out over Lake Michigan. To top that off, at the end of the flight, I got a great birds-eye view of downtown Minneapolis."

Augmented Reality scratching by Todd Vanderlin:

"Taking just a plain old vinyl record and attaching an AR marker to the label you can track the record in 3D space. By figuring out the velocity of the records rotation and applying it to the payback of the audio – you can scratch."

rAndom International for Philips Electronics’ Lumiblade. The OLED media wall is reflecting the person in front of it and then subtly fades their mirror image into light.

The idea, ask a very simple question, the same to 50 people, and get some truely emotional insights, dreams and visions.

A very nice and inspiring project. Thanks, Christina for the link

Heroes forever: German electro pioneers Kraftwerk in concert on april, 26th, in Wolfsburg. Great interview with Ralf Huetter.