Information as art? It can’t get more beautiful than this
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter, cool
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend Pilot Theatre’s Shift Happens conference in York which I also covered for the excellent CultureVulture blog. Now, I’m a pretty jaded conference goer and nowadays I like to think I’ve seen it all before. By the end of the conference’s second day I was [...]
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day Four
Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology
Totaal’s rattle through the realms of visual information continues apace with this, the last post in the Infographics Week series. We’ve returned to script somewhat with Social Media one again the main focus, like it or lump it Social Media is a great focus for the infographicists of the world so hopefully after yesterday’s diversion [...]
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day Three
Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology
So the infographics train keeps a-rolling on, thanks to all the people who’ve given lovely feedback so far. Thanks especially to Ben and Tim who pointed me in the direction of Information is Beautiful which is a thing of beauty in itself. It has kind of messed with the order of play a bit but [...]
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day Two
Posted on 07. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology
The infographics mania continues with some more lovely information and design based goodness for you all again today. If there is a theme here it’s probably about interaction. Mostly it’s just infographics that I have found that I have liked or I thought brought something new to the party.
The Social Media Effect
A nice lo-fi graphic [...]
Totaal’s Infographics Week: Day One
Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology
I love information and I also love design, when design meets information then it’s bound to be fun right? Exactly, that part of the VEN diagram has to be a fertile furrow to plough and I’ve developed a bit of a childish love for the infographic over the last few years. Also, it’s Easter Week [...]
Tasty VW virals show things are better when they are fun
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by benmckenna in Advertising, All Posts, Film
VW have a long history of quality advertising – see here, here and here for examples of iconic VW ads – and it’s nice to see that this eye for quality has bled into their recent online work. VW’s Swedish agency, DDB Stockholm, have just released couple of videos and a teaser from their new [...]
Some inspirational skate videos
Posted on 10. Oct, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Film, cool
I’m not quite sure how I’d get on skating nowadays, it’s been the best part of 15 years since I’ve actually been on a one but I know one thing, no self-respecting man in his thirties should be seen riding a skateboard. Unless of course that man is Tony Hawk, then it’s OK. There’s still [...]
Carl Sagan – ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking
Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Film
Here’s a lovely little vid I found where, via the gift of autotune, Carl Sagan – renowned astronomer, author and astrophysicist – sings about the beauty and complexity of the universe. Not to be outdone Professor Stephen Hawking, with that distinctive voice of his, pops in for a verse to give us the benefit of [...]
Five delightfully pointless but cool twitter uses
Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Twitter
Twitter isn’t all serious, powerful and useful y’know.
Apologies for the lack of updates over the last week or two, I have been very busy working on one or two other pressing things. Namely doing some cool AR (Augmented Reality) research for a friend (some of which I hope to share with you all at a [...]
Why so quiet on Photosynth?
Posted on 16. Jun, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Photography, cool
Photosynth has been around as an idea for a couple of years now, anybody I know who has heard about it was massively impressed and excited about it. It’s the combination of a couple of fantastic bits of software, one spacially tags photos and the other recognises features in the photos and relates them with [...]