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Archive for November, 2006
Video: Winter in Russia
We just wanted to put out a little reminder to all those in Europe who with the recent weeks of sunshine and spring temperatures might have forgotten what our friends in the North-West of the U.S. have already found out the last weeks - its getting winter again in the Northern Hemisphere…
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Hungary: Future Films
If you like great web design - have a look. If you want to find out what is happening in Hungary’s film industry and advertising one more reason to hop over to Future Films web site…
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Animation: Eight Principles of Fun
Excellent visualization and implementation of motivation messages…
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Guerilla Advertising: Vote before crossing the street
As seen in London at some pedestrian crossings…
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Design: Giant Sketchbook by Rob Teeters
If you’re planning to sketch down a lot of drawings or when you just like the look of it in your office or living room the gigantic notebook by Rob Teeters might be just the right thing to get. This multi-functional book contains 4000 sheets of recycled paper bound in black buckrum and only 20 signed…
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How-To: Turn your old computer into an aquarium
Before we had seen the story at “Hacked Gadgets” on computer aquariums we didn’t know how popular these projects are. There are whole web sites dedicated to this topic and people must have gone through quite some efforts to achieve results as shown there. More information and links at…
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Video: Life-Space-Invaders and Life-Pong
Guillaume Reymond, head of the Swiss communication agency NOTsoNOISY had a great idea for their participation in the 2006 Belluard Bollwerk International festival in Fribourg. After their success with Life-Pong in 2005 they got almost 70 people together and created a Life version of arcade game classic Space Invaders. Unfortunately the videos are not shown on their web site anymore, but after looking around a bit we found them on the web (links below)…
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Happy Birthday Tomi Ungerer
Today Tomi Ungerer, satirist and illustrator, turns 75. When Tomi Ungerer is compared to other artists often the names of the very best like Goya, Hogarth, George Grosz or Daumier are used to describe his work. He became famous with witty children books but also for his erotic, sarcastic and political drawings. 1998 he was given the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his life work on children books. But still until today it is almost impossible to buy one of his books in the UK or the US…
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What does British Media think about US Middle Eastern politics
While these days its getting more dimmed-down in British media about their own country when it comes to foreign and in particular US politics they still call a spade a spade. So we wanted to point you to one story that seemingly did not get much attention outside of the UK but it includes a [...]
More cash handouts (this time in Jersey)
In completely unrelated news to the Modern Day Robin Hood story it was reported that property tycoon and Multi-Millionaire David Kirch has started yesterday to hand out £100 (USD195) early Christmas presents to every Jersey (channel islands) citizen aged 70 or above.
Since yesterday, anyone aged 70-plus can go to his or her parish hall [...]
