andy grayson

cheese or font?

You have to play this. 

cheese or font?

Genius. 

A laugh.

And very difficult.

the return of animated gifs

I'm seeing these pop up everywhere now – whether as homage to retro gaming or the dawn of the internet, or as high end creations such as the cinemagraphs below.

The below cinemagraphs. From the NYT

Basically a high end photography version of the classic animated gif.

They're going to be the new thing for awhile. You heard it here.

 

 

 

 

Explaining social media

Best thing I've come across yet to explain why all things social media, bad or good, have seen such success.

From rd

"The media thinker, Clay Shirkey, says in Cognitive Surplus:

'creating something personal, even of moderate quality, has a different kind of appeal than consuming something made by others, even of high quality'

This is deeply profound and true, though slightly dull when read out. It's the single best explanation for the triumph of all sorts of social media things from MySpace to Twitter. It's why social media works. It's about the writer and the act of writing, as much as it is about the reader. "

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2011/09/what-i-meant-to-say-the-internet-with-things.html

Real-time face morphing

http://kottke.org/11/09/super-freaky-realtime-facial-substitution

Elisha vs. Web 2.0

Most people don't know that I teach a bit at the Academy of Art University. (an institution who's name I've always felt was created in the Department of Redundancy Department) But all joking aside, it is a great place and they're teaching planning. Which is cool.

My student this semester is Elisha and she's way smart. She's going to be doing a project on web 2.0. What is it? What's got people so confused? Excited? What will it mean for brands? For consumers? I think it's a great project idea.

Here's what she's starting with:

brilliant Web 2.0 YouTube video

russell's post

Wired's Snack Attack

NYT mag article