Ad Agency Uses YouTube Video As Their Main Website
Ad agency BooneOakley uses an annotated YouTube video as their main website in order to tell their story and showcase their work. Very clever.
And that is why we love Top Gear. You have to chew up the first five minutes though, but all hell brakes loose after that.
The smoke grenades fit perfectly in the cup holders. The windshield is heated, but not bulletproof. Let’s go! Come on Fiesta! These kids are being annoying. Shoot them!
Why am I not surprised?
What is a browser? was the question we (Google) asked over 50 passersby of different ages and backgrounds in the Times Square in New York. Watch the many responses people came up with.
DEADLINE post-it stop motion
A very cool post-it stop motion project directed by Bang-yao Liu, for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design.
Watch this and similar movies in HD here. Fascinating!
Keith Loutit is a true master of tilt-shift –miniature faking– photography.
An alternative to CosmoPod.
Evom makes grabbing and converting videos a breeze. Do you want to convert those pesky AVIs or WMVs into a useful format? Had an urge to watch LOLcats on your iPod touch? Evom converts videos for breakfast and does it with Apple style and the ease of drag-and-drop. Put your videos where they belong — your iPod, iTunes, or Apple TV.
[via Daring Fireball ]
Preserving Analog Video Tapes
Three products recently introduced to transfer your old VHS tapes. No more excuses.
Check this out, an amazing still video created to promote the new Philips Cinema 21:9 TV.
Since the television’s 21:9 frame lends itself so readily to film, Tribal DDB, Amsterdam commissioned us to create a piece of filmed content that could hold its own with Hollywood’s best. Director Adam Berg responded with an idea for an epic ‘frozen moment’ cops and robbers shootout sequence that included clowns, explosions, a decimated hospital, and plenty of broken glass and bullet casings.
Visit the Philips microsite for the whole interactive experience.
Click here to watch in HD!
Spectacular!
The BBC has already proven itself to be quite the source for some impressive HD images, but the network’s Natural History Unit looks to have really outdone themselves for their forthcoming South Pacific documentary, which makes use of a modified, $100,000 TyphoonHD4 camera. Of course, those exact modifications appear to be a closely-kept secret, but it has apparently been outfitted with a special underwater housing designed by German high-speed camera expert Rudi Diesel, and the camera itself is able to shoot in high definition at 20 times the speed of a normal HD camera, which results in some pretty amazing super slow motion footage.
[via Engadget ]
