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myfry

anyone who has read much about the fabulous ‘stephen fry’ will probably already know that he was a really early adapter to the mac (really early) and a tech geek of the best sort, he was also heavily involved in the latest app for his second autobiography ‘the fry chronicles’ for which a rather special app has been developed, as stephen himself explains:

the idea was to make something different than just to reproduce the book in digital form, the ‘myfry’ app is the result and very well executed it is too

more info over at the eye blog and the app can be downloaded here

m / 27-03-2011 10:51 - tags: , , ,  

gloss drop

i really love the aesthetic of this new promo site for electronica outfit battles, very ‘warp’

m / 24-03-2011 22:22 - tags: , ,  

100.000.000 stolen pixels

…a web crawler started with 10 URLs (See first 10 in url.log) and searched HTML pages for images and hyperlinks. Each found image got downloaded and 100 pixels in a square of 10×10 were cut out of it. Each found hyperlink got stored in the cache and thereby added to the list of searchable URLs. The process repeated itself until 1.000.000 images were downloaded and 100.000.000 pixels were stolen. The application run for 215:30 hours (9 days)…

digital crime, but then all in the name of art… from digital creative/artist kim asendorf

m / 24-03-2011 14:14 - tags: , ,  

jumpman

really nice piece of online storytelling for nike (via ‘fontanel’)

m / 24-03-2011 13:34 - tags: ,  

social posters

my client the dutch national ballet has started to move into social media marketing, for example: inviting their facebook friends to win a poster by making a picture of themselves with a poster out on the street… amusing… old and new media meet

see also this related post

m / 18-03-2011 11:35 - tags: , ,