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Vote for Policies is an online survey based on policies alone. It's a really sweet idea to help you find out who you should be voting for at the next election, personalities aside. By comparing the policies from six UK political parties on a range of key issues, you simply chose the policies you agree with and at the end of the survey see which parties they belong to. If only polling stations were like this.
The Vatican and Villanova University have created a spectacular virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel. The detail is stunning. The producers claim that that the digital view is clearer and steadier than the one a tourist on the spot would get using high-powered binoculars.
To protest against the censorship of certain sites in Turkey, a virtual walk is being arranged on Istanbul's Taksim square. The site uses an embedded Google My Map, which anyone can add themselves to. When the protesters achieve 1 trillion, the plan is to walk to Parliament House in Ankara, pixel by pixel.
Cool app that enables music mixing through movement, by Amaury Hazan.
Designer Melanie Coles hid a huge painting of Waldo on a Vancouver rooftop in the hope of it appearing on Google Earth. It did, the project was a huge viral success, and she even got a nice note from Wally illustrator Martin Handford himself.
From Matthew Cooper and Johnny Kelly, I Am Not An Artist endeavors to be a digital platform for animated GIF designers around the world.
The Pin-barrel Harp is a sound-sculpture designed as a public-access acoustic composing machine in honour of Cecil Sharp. It has been commissioned by the English Folk Dance & Song Society and funded by the Big Lottery fund. Here the Beatles' Long and Winding Road is performed by Henry Dagg and Chris Wood.
I'm a little late to this, but here it is anyway. Pick your egg and watch a video for the duration of it's boil time. By Poke, I think.
Very funny Piano Improv. Chat Roulette at its best.
A positively wonderful idea from JWT Italy for Heineken's Champions League sponsorship. The video is admittedly a little lengthy, but worth a watch nonetheless.
Director Olivier Babinet has teamed up with TBWA Brussels to shoot The Softest of Warmth, a beautiful stop-motion film for Natural Gas.
Surreal animations, comics and general strangeness courtesy of Cyriak.
Epic ad for Nike Air Jordan featuring Dwyane Wade. Shot by Adam Berg at Stink for Wieden & Kennedy New York.
Dutch animator Evelien Lohbeck's beautiful stop-motion portfolio explores the relationship between reality and digital identity.
Another series of nice animations. Created by Albion and Studio AKA for Skype.
Although not impressed by the work that's been coming out of Fallon over the past year, I am somewhat envious of their new French Connection For Man campaign. For me it's the strongest work the brand has done since FCUK.
The campaign manifesto sums up the concept thus: "Men have lost the ungentle art of manliness. The man in the street doesn’t know what to bring to a knife fight. He gets nervous around large fish. He can’t tie a full Windsor. Men have forgotten how to snap a bra open with a click of their fingers – women are undoing their own bras to save time! Meanwhile guys are eating little portions of leaves and putting too much gel in their hair. They are wearing t-shirts with dope leaves and robots on them when they are over 22 years-old".
There's some nice TV and print, but so far I've not seen any digital work, which I assume would be a huge part of this campaign. There is actually a cool site called theartofmanliness.com but it seems to have nothing to do with French Connection.
Yoshiro Nakamatsu is an 81-year-old scientist/inventor from Japan. He is the mastermind behind a world-record breaking 3,000 patents, including the digital watch, the floppy disk, CD, DVD, and the Karaoke machine. Dr.Nakamats, as he's know, trumps Edison 3-to-1.
Stunning series of animations created by agency This Is Real Art and illustrator Sam Renwick for leading satellite service provider, Astra.
Beautiful film for the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership's road safety campaign, written and directed by Daniel Cox.
Director James Frost and Installation experts Syyn Labs have created a Rube Goldberg Machine for Ok Go's track This Too Shall Pass. Check out the original video, equally awesome, here.
This breath-taking live performance by DJ JFB, Will Clark and Beardyman at the Musion Academy Media Awards was achieved using Musion Eyeliner, a high definition 3D holographic video projection system. Eyeliner employs something called Peppers Ghost technology, which allows a spectacular 3-dimensional moving life-size hologram to appear within a live stage setting. The performance was initiated and directed by Chris Cairns at Partizan.
Penguin has collaborated with AIDS awareness fund (RED) and a team of designers to produce new covers for eight Penguin Classics, each using a quote from the text. The two above are by Coralie Bickford-Smith for Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, and Non-Format for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Chatroulette.com is both awesome and disturbing at the same time. The idea is awesome; hit play and at random you are connected to someone else's webcam. You can probably guess, however, where the actual idea can get rather disturbing. If not, give it a go and find out.
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