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Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have created the series Exactitudes, a systematic documentation of numerous identities over the last 14 years.
Colour Wars 2008 held a competition for people to submit two photographs of themselves. One when they were younger and another recreating that moment as they are now. Some of them are fantastic.
On the same day each year Diego Goldberg photographs himself and his family. It's surprisingly fascinating to see the family grow and the timeline build.
And now for something completely different. Four horses sing.
Using only plastic shopping bags and subway grates, Joshua Allen Harris creates a series of animated inflatable creatures in New York.
Sweet baby Jesus. An elephant paints a picture.
The perfectly spherical Costa Rica stones, the 110 million year old hand print, and the ancient Baghdad battery are among archeology's most puzzling finds. With science telling us that civilization is merely a few thousand years old, how do we explain metallic tubes found inside 65 million year old Cretaceous chalk?
Created as a final project for Alex Frank's Communication Design degree, the innovative interface and beautiful design of Dontclick are well worth a look.
With the aid of pictures, I almost understand this interpretation of string theory.
Delve into the surreal world of abstract expressionism and create your own Jackson Pollock, based on the Splatter flash application.
Note to self. This is awesome.
A viral from Saatchi & Saatchi New York for jewelry store JC Penney. Directed by Bryan Buckley, the ad takes a nice lateral approach to men's seasonal bad gift buying. Really well done.
Papervision, a Flash component introduced to CS3 has been getting the techies in my agency all excited for a while. Why? Because until now, apparently, importing three-dimensional objects into Flash was always a matter of faking it using image sequences rendered from programs such as Maya. This process of course limited the potential of 3D on the web. Not any more though. Visit Papervision experiments to see the latest goings on.
For over 200 days with no observed sunspots, and solar winds dropping to their lowest level for 50 years, scientists are monitoring our star ever more closely. A collection of recent images from consortiums around the world however, reveal the sun's truly awesome power.
Make digital sand images with a selection of colours to hand. The site is 'supported' by My O My, which I assume means they created it.
Very cool. The collaborative Zoomquilt II art project continues.
From the Viral Factory and director Keith Schofield, Diesel celebrates its upcoming anniversary using a batch of child-friendly porn, SWF Porn style.
Using only a maintenance manual purchased on eBay for £6, PostlerFerguson has created this 1:1 of the concorde engine, Olympus, for a Selfridges window display. The model is both a eulogy to the design feat of Concorde but also to Selfridge’s own heritage - when the store first opened in 1909 it displayed the Bleriot XI, the first airplane to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
Lovely eco-initiative from design agency Provokateur to promote the UKs tap water. DIY bottle water packs allow the user to refill their used bottle from home.
A fantastically animated claymation. Not sure who did it though.
Unbearable loading times and cringe-worthy voiceover aside, this site from BBDO New York is rather nice. Taylor James created the circular city in CG, allowing users to fly into it and explore the different stories.
I don't advocate this, but goddamn it's funny. Amongst other classics here's 'Third Reich' played to the tune of 'That's Life' by Frank Sinatra.
The best of YouTube. Directed by Mathew Cullen, this music video for Weezer collates all our favourite email attachments.
An ongoing documentation of banana skins in the urban London landscape.
In case you were wondering, here's how it works. A few simple people, turn a simple idea, into something simply awful.
A stop frame animation made by my illustrious copywriter Craig Kind. He's done quite a few shorts now, though I think this one is my favourite.
I love things like this. You get 4 different tie designs, 5 in each pack.
Read the body copy on this ad: 'Asbestos contains fire, cannot burn and holds up after metal and glass have burned down, giving vital time for people to escape'.
A pretty cool viral campaign by digital agency Ralph for the launch of Dexter season 2. The viral, sent out in the form of a press conference, aims to convince you the viewer, that you're next on a serial killer's hit list.
The site's not up just yet, but here's the logo i've created for mobilephoneracing.com.
Brush up on your geography at tripadvisor.com. Pick out famous landmarks against the clock. If you can get past level 10, you're a genius.
Right Guard are apparently using a group of 'pitvertisers' as part of a new marketing technique; digital displays on armpits. Well...it's something different, i guess.
I'm not sure why, but then, why not? Here's the latest mission from those weird and wonderful folk at Improv Everywhere.
Director Josh Raskin's beautifully animated interpretation of Jerry Levitan's 1969 interview with John Lennon. Illustrated by James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina.
The first zoetope was designed in AD 180 by Ting Huan. By pasting a succession of images onto the inside of a cylinder with vertical slits in it, a spinning zoetope gives the illusion of action. This one for Toy Story however, uses strobes to pick out the necessary frames from a spinning 3D model. And it looks awesome. The technique is sure to be used somewhere in adland soon.
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