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Archive for February, 2008
Microsoft: The transformation of the world’s largest campus
The “Seattle Times” has an interesting story today on how the “Microsoft” campus has expanded since 1989 and how the buildings are transformed from long hallways of closed door offices to “…flexible pleasant space that fosters collaboration…“.
It also includes an interactive map of the expansion over time and a video with images of the insides and design for the new building(s)…
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Opinion: Olbermann timeline or the Nexus of Politics and Terror
Last Thursday night during “MSNBC Countdown” Keith Olbermann presented a timeline of what he calls the “Nexus of Politics and Terror” in the USA. Events are clustered together into 13 time groups starting 18-May-2002 to show how the government and administration in the US has put spin on old, untrue or hold-back information to suppress other stories or influence news and the public towards their political agendas.
The video starts with an intro on the most recent FISA voting…
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Data visualization: Social networks around the world
With new data on Facebook making the headlines yesterday telling us that their user numbers are leveling out in the US and the UK, we remembered that we recently have seen a great info-graphic showing the use of social networks with the most popular providers per country around the world in the French Newspaper “Le Monde”
The data used in the graphic is from August 2007 but it’s interesting to see the popularity of providers in different countries. There are a few white spots on the map, some…
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Animation: History of Evil
Nice animated Documentary-Mockumentary about evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day.
The author who says that he’s done it as a student project apologizes for the abrupt ending and promises an update. We look forward to the second part.
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Humor: Chasing saints at Ebay
There are web sites sieving through the offers of the online auction house “Ebay” to find the strangest, funniest or famous people selling things. There are people offering themselves or their services like women as party gags etc.
And you might have heard about it when in 2004 a slice of toast said to have an in-print of Holy Mary’s face reached offers of USD 20 Millions (it actually was sold later for USD 28,000 and is now displayed at a casino with other Ebay curiosities). So yesterday “CNN” was running a report on what was described in the offer at Ebay as “Virgin Mary pretzel” and the object went for USD 16,000.
So as with most successful pranks soon there will be…
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Video: Hokusai An Animated Sketchbook
Most westerners will only know one of Katsushika Hokusai’s print work - the wave or “In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa” (that’s the full title of this woodblock print)
This “short film” animates some of his work and introduces you to the life of this great Japanese artist. Animation designer Tony White created this video 30 years ago - it won him the British Academy Award for Best Short Factual Film - and it’s still an outstanding piece of animation…
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Animation: MPES STO KLIMA
Greek design agency “Nomint” was asked by the “WWF” to design, create and produce this animation on climate change…
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Design: Web site and visual design by girls and women
These web sites have no girlie design - these web sites are made by girls and women and their design rocks
The “list” was put together by Pedro Reis a visual and web designer himself. …
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Humor: (Dada) Time Waster web sites (2)
Also in the best tradition of the “dadaist nihilistic movement” from the 1920s, this site neither does anything nor provides any useful information - but in difference to the two others we have introduced in a “previous post” this one also has some kind of political aspect and if it’s just a name.
The web site with the title “B.O. Is Your New Bicycle” provides you with a new teaser line every time you click on the text.
Our favorite so far: “B.O. spent the afternoon setting up your router”…
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Humor: Button Paradox
The text on the buttons reads:
Red button: The blue button is true
Blue button: The red button is false
Nice idea…sorry already sold out last night
via “Etsy”.
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