Excellent collection of Japanese fotologs.
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Archive for January, 2005
Hitachi W22H & KDDI au site
Jan 31
I found this KDDI au site from Japan that’s promoting some of the next gen mobile phones and the CDMA1xWIN to the NEXT service in Japan.
UKTSC_THE SUIT COMPANY
Jan 31
The Suit Company from Japan has managed to create a unique product catalog interface that allows users to search through it’s vast collection of 496 items. It’s a great exploratory interface and truly experimental for an e-commerce site, but the hunt and peck method of finding a product is a major no-no for the usability nerds out there.
The Air Max 180 Artist Collaboration site designed by interactive design powerhouse, R/GA, went live a few weeks ago. On the site, users can order special fun packs which consist of one preconfigured Air Max 180 shoe and the one 180 artist collab t-shirt. The 4 artist collab t-shirts were designed by the likes of Alphonse Holtgreve, Ojas, Marcello Morandini, and Ralph Steadman.
Darius Ramazani Photography
Jan 29
Photographer Darius Ramazani’s photography portfolio site features a cool dynamic .pdf function that allows users to ‘collect’ images as they browse his site. When the users are done ‘collecting’ images, they can easily print of the .pdf of his resume and ‘collected’ portfolio images.
Interface Hall of Shame
Jan 29
Three weeks ago I posted the Graphical User Interface Gallery Guidebook. Here’s a complement to that site, the Interface Hall of Shame which is also an excellent resource for what NOT to do when designing usable interfaces and systems.
[from G4techTV]
Kevin P. demonstrated the ease of “mobcasting.†Mobcasting is a mobile Podcast – sending out an audible Podcast via your Web-enabled cell phone and a free account with Audlink.com.
So here’s what you do: just call up Audlink.com, type in your account number, then the password, and start recording your mobcast entry at the sound of the beep. Audlink.com will take the message you leave and convert it into a low bit-rate MP3.
Now that you’ve recorded something, all you have to do is browse to the Audlink website. Then pull up your personal folder, copy the MP3 link, and then post said URL to your blog.
What if you don’t have a smartphone with Web-browsing capability? Don’t worry, there’s a good chance Audlink can update your blog for you automatically! If you use Blogger, B2, Journal Space, Live Journal, Nucleus or even Moveable Type, you’re in luck.
Get step by step instructions at AndyCarvin.com.
You can also hear Kevin P.’s mobcast by pasting in g4techtv.com/podcast.xml into your Podcast software. And don’t forget about our User Created challenge and submit your own Podcast.
Here are some photos from tonight’s event. I’ll write more about it and post more photos later today. Good night.
poplockin’
Jan 27
Ok fine, so there’s no novelty in doing a project that incorporates rotoscoped video embedded into flash. That was hot back in 2001. And yeah, using your keyboard to control an avatar on the screen ‘a la Dance Dance Revolution has been done a few thousand times by design pros and design hacks. And yeah, the topic of breaking and poppin and locking has been re-appropriated another gazillion times, BUT I couldn’t resist and I just had to post this site. Easy to use and fun were the main driving forces for it’s posting. Give it a try and you’ll realize that for what it lacks in novel cool-ness, it makes up for in silly, stupid fun.
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Like Crispin Porter
Jan 26
So there seems to be another one of those viral faux sites floating around on the web. Now it’s a site poking fun at all the agencies striving to replicate the amazing success of Crispin’s Mini Cooper and Subservient Chicken campaigns from last year. I guess the “I want it to be Like Crispin Porter” mentality reached its crescendo with Advertising Age’s recent crowning of Crispin Porter as the Agency of the Year. Given Crispin’s recent history of viral faux sites, one would be stupid not to think that Crispin didn’t actually seed this latest prank.
Here’s a quote from the homepage, “At Like Crispin Porter we create work that is like Crispin Porter’s work. Of course Like Crispin Porter is not exactly the same as Crispin Porter. We don’t have clients. Or an office. Or a staff. In that sense I guess we could have called ourselves Like Grey Worldwide Canada. But we didn’t. Because we’re Like Crispin Porter.”
In this show, Benji B visits Detroit, birthplace of motown, neo-soul, and techno for the Detroit Movement Festival 2004. Simply put, it’s an amazing show that features the likes of Jay Dee, Jaylib, Platinum Pied Pipers, Dwele, Slum Village, Amp Fiddler, Moody Man, Kenny Dixon Jnr., and Recloose. There’s not just great music in this show, but also wonderfully insightful interviews with the artists about the gritty, grimy town called Detroit.
This show’s been in steady rotation on my iPod for the past few months and I finally had a chance to share it with everyone. Enjoy it and make sure you give huge props to Benji B and BBC 1xtra.
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Check out the Benji B Detroit special mini-site on BBC 1xtra.
Tracklisting
Detroit Special**
Jay Dee – Welcome To Detroit (BBE)
Jaylib – The Red (Instrumental) – (Stones Throw)
Phat Kat – It’z A Rap (Instrumental) – (Barak)
Platinum Pied Pipers – 1 Love 2 You (CDR)
Dwele – Untitled Beat (CDR)
Dwele – Untitled (Angel Pt. 2) – (CDR)
SlumVillage – 2 U 4 U (Wordplay)
SlumVillage – What Love Is (White)
Amp Fiddler – I Believe In You (Jaylib Mix) – (Genuine)
Amp Fiddler – Superficial (Jan Mix) – (Genuine)
Andres – Last Call For Alcohol (Mahogani)
Moody Man – Misled (Planet E)
Moody Man – I Can’t Kick This Feelin When It Hits (KDJ)
Kenny Dixon Jnr. – Black Mahogani (KDJ)
R-Time – Illusion (Transmat)
Rhythim Is Rhythim – Is It What It Is (Majestic Mix) – (Transnmat)
Paperclip People – Throw (Planet E)
Los Hermanos – Birth Of 3000 (Los Hermanoes)
Los Hermanos – Tres (Los Hermanoes)
Aztec Mystic aka Dj Rolando – Jaguar (UR)
Model 500 – Time Space Trans Mat – (Metroplex)
Galaxy To Galaxy – Journey Of The Dragons (Underground Resistance)
John Arnold – Cabin Fever (Ubiquity)
Recloose – Ain’t Changing (Instrumental) – (Planet E)
Recloose – I Can’t Take It (Planet E)
Rusty Waters – Illumination Reprise (Sound Signature)
Rotating Assembly – Orchestra Hall (Sound Signature)
[from mediapost]
by David Kaplan
As if you didn’t know what else to do with your cell phone: now welcome to the world of the “Mobisode,” as Twentieth Television, News Corp.’s syndicated and cable production arm, and Verizon Wireless have entered into an agreement to bring two direct-to-mobile series to mobile communications devices.
The announcement was jointly made today by Bob Cook, president and COO of Twentieth Television; Lucy Hood, senior vice president, content and marketing, of News Corporation; and John Stratton, vice president and chief marketing officer at Verizon Wireless.
Under terms of the agreement, Twentieth Television will produce one-minute original “mobisodes” of the serial dramas “Love and Hate” and “The Sunset Hotel” (26 mobisodes of each series, for a total of 52) designed specifically for “V CAST,” the new 3G multimedia wireless service from Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone’s 3G Live!.
Gilles Peterson :: Tracklisting Jan. 09, 2005
Box of Delights
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TRACKLISTING
Gilles Peterson :: Tracklisting Jan. 09, 2005
Box of Delights
1, Dwele – ‘Untitled’ (White)
2, Marc Mac – ‘Intro’ (White)
3, Marc Mac – ‘Simple Folk’ (White)
4, Finn Peters – ‘The Swede’ (White)
5, Nostalgia 77 – ‘Cheney Lane’ (Tru Thoughts)
6, Quasimoto – ‘Broad Factor’ (Stones Throw)
7, MF Doom – ‘ Potholderz’ (Rhymesayers)
8, Amerie – ”One Thing’ (Whiite)
9, Rene & Angela – ‘Secret Rendezvous’ (Re-edit) (White)
10, Plantlife – ‘When See Smiles She Lights The Sky’ (4 Hero remix) (Gut)
11, Michael Jackson – ‘I Can’t Help It’ (Re-Edit) (White)
12, Sygaire – ‘In Your Groove’ (Sonar Kollecktiv)
13, Ye:Solar – ‘Hithot’ (Vinyl Vibes)
14, Terumasa Hino – ‘Merry-Go-Round’ (CBS)
15, Dave Pikes –‘Aphrodite’ (Especial)
16, Seu Jorgelp –‘Unknown’ (White)
17, Quantic –‘Mishaps Happening’ (Todd Terje Remix) (White)
18, Roisin Murphy –‘So Into’ (Echo)
19, Recloose –‘Cardiology’ (Isolee Mix) (Playhouse)
20, Platinum Pied pipers ‘ Deep Inside’ (Ubiquity)
21, Stereotyp Vs Al Hacher Vs Peter Kruder –- ‘Blaze ‘N’ Cook’ (PKs Jiggy Mix) (White)
22, Lady Sovereign ‘Randon’ (Solid Groove Mix) (Island)
23, BT Express ‘Do It Til You’re Satisfied’ (White)
24, Organised Confusion ‘Open Your Eyes’ (Caliber)
25, Barry Miles ‘Magic Theatre’ (London)
Escape Lab Travel Album
Jan 24
This is one of my favorite travel photo albums out there. The interface is easy to use as users can flip between 3D mode, 2D mode, and a plain flat interface. While the site at first seemed to be another overly complex data visualization project, it actually turned out to be a nice, simple, and clean interface. Interesting photos as well.
[from nytimes.com]
Can an advertising campaign based on a teaser survive after its secret has been let out? The marketing team at General Motors hopes so, after some Web surfers spoiled a national promotion that was intended to gradually reveal a secret message. Under the campaign, which is about half completed, each day a billboard in a different part of the country divulges a word (or a punctuation mark) in a message. A billboard in Arlington, Tex., for example, says “you.” One in New York City shows a period.
The billboards also promote the Web site www.findthemessage.com, on which G.M. explains that it created the campaign to spread “a message so important we need the whole country to tell it.” But some Web visitors quickly found that most of the “secret” message is included in the site’s source code. In a posting on the site’s bulletin boards, a Web surfer using the name “J1mmy” wrote that the message was: “This is the last time you will ever have to feel alone on our nation’s roadways.”
Audiovox SMT5600 Review
Jan 23
[written by our friends at Mobiledia.com, thanks Allen]
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Microsoft dabbles in a bit of everything; from software, to gaming machines, to smartphones. Powered by the Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, the smartphone doppelganger of the desktop OS, the Audiovox SMT5600 has a look and feel most users will already be familiar with. Released for Cingular / AT&T Wireless, the Audiovox SMT5600 allows consumers access to productive Microsoft Office and Outlook features. With the latest in personal information management (PIM functionality, such as over-the-air access to Outlook Calendar, Inbox, and Contacts, users can easily transfer their most important information to their smartphone, as well as receiving access to corporate e-mail through Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and third-party middleware providers.Read more. |
[also posted on niketalk.com and 5th-dimension.info]
