Brilliant Interactive Infographic
A really nice infographic - either on paper or digital - can really make my day. Check out this interactive piece on salary comparison over at CN Portfolio.com
Meet The Knockers
Yep, this is a 7.24 minute video. But so worth it. Kakkoii!
Simpsons @ Colette .fr
There is some funky artsy Simpsons merchandise over at Colette.
Spot the Bull is Campaign of the Month
Orange Spot the Bull made it to Campaign of the month in Marketing Week!
We are looking for a Producer - Update
So we’ve landed in the Dam and are setting up a new shop! I’m really excited about it and will tell you more about it here soon. There was an article in the The New York Times last week that said “Not since the Dutch Golden Age has Amsterdam seen such a creative boom”. So if you want to boom along, read on…
This pic was taken in the morning on the Prinsengracht while cycling to work - basically the weather is like this every day in Amsterdam.
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We’re a digital start up based in Amsterdam working on international clients. We’d like to think we’re very cosmopolitan and multicultural so don’t worry if you aren’t a local. You will need to speak English, but you don’t need to speak Dutch.
We’re looking for somebody who knows the ins and outs of producing digital projects - it would help if you have some experience in advertising, TV/film or event production but its not necessary. What is necessary to us is that you really love what you do.
We’re working on a whole range of stuff, traditional digital projects but also projects that (we think) haven’t been done before, so you’d have to be a bit of a visionary type person who is not afraid to try and realize things some people think can’t be done.
We’ll offer a really nice workplace and will pay good money to whoever fits this role. This can be either a parttime or fulltime gig. You can start tommorow, but its also OK if you start in a few months.
If you are interested or know of someone, please send an email with your cv.
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I decided to blame HP…
We’re having quite a few discussions on the value of webvertising lately, and its not very positive.
While surfing the interwebs today my eye caught a skyscraper by HP. It had some nice kaleidoscopic thing going round and I’ve seen some nice stuff from HP before so I figured I’d give this one a click - I’m a consumer and I’ll enter your world.
So I clicked it. At first nothing happened since Firefox popupkilled whatever it tried to open straight away, but after having disabled the popupkiller I ended up on some microsite:
1) YOU DO NOT HAVE THE LATEST FLASH PLUGIN
Right. Well I have Flash player 9.
But I guess I have 9,0,46,0 and I need 9,0,47,0 for this.
I’ll try a different browser.
2) YOU DO NOT HAVE THE LATEST FLASH PLUGIN
Ok, well I’m really sorry and I’ll download it straight away.
3) It appears that a browser is still running on your system please close all browsers and click ‘continue’.
Well I have about six tabs open in two browsers - the Gmails, the Facebooks, Netvibes, work mail… but OK, no problem. I’ll close them all for the sweet people at HP.
4) Adobe Flash Player version 9,0,47,0 installed succesfully.
Thats really great! This HP site must be really something to have me go trough all this upgrading stuff and I * really * can’t wait to see it now.
So where did all my tabs go?
And where did that site go that had me do all this?!?!
I give up.
5) THE END.
So who made a mistake here? Adobe with a flakey upgrading procedure, Firefox for not remembering my tabs or HP for choosing the absolute latest version of Flash which a lot of people won’t have installed yet?
(note - this post is not about HP’s quite nice Toyrama project that was done by Arc Worldwide Singapore and doesn’t need the absolute latest version of Flash to run)
Booty Booty Beedy Beedy
(30 sec clip)
Turn on, Tune in
Check out the ‘radiosphere’ with Tun3r.
Tun3r reminds me of an experimental thing I did quite some time ago, which landed me some coverage in Dazed & Confused at the time. The name was ‘navigation trough sound’ and navigation was done by hovering over grey blocks that would fade between soundsnippets of the websites it linked to.
Streetlab festival in Amsterdam
We were at the Streetlab festival today in Amsterdam. It just opened so everyone was still busy setting up shop in big metal storage boxes, so not much to say about it yet.
I did pick up a t-shirt by a crew called Venour which I like. Nice paper bag too.
The Hello experiment
Sculpting Lionel Richies head as if you were blind is harder then you think. See some peope try here.