Our very own Michael Kleinman presents (another) sequel to the most amazing shirt in the world.
What started as a bit of a laugh could end up as a 4-color screen print with plastisol ink and a chino additive for softness.
Mike is too proud to ask for votes, so I’m asking you to go check it out and get clicky on the 5 if you like it!
A great competition where you have to ‘improve’ famous classical art by adding graffiti. Make sure you post a link to your entry in the comments of this blog 
Last week we launched the new P&O Website [cue the trumpets because it took a year!] Whilst e-commerce websites aren’t generally considered somewhere you can ‘get creative’ we decided this should be an interesting challenge …which it was. When we did our early research we found some very interesting insight about that “twilight zone” where air meets water (see images below). We realised there was something here to play with and decided that if we could execute it well enough it could be an important design feature on the site… but execute it poorly and it would just look tacky. (Let us know what you think).
Above Video: The making of the wave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCsS7W3yQk
Creating a ‘wave’ was not as simple as we first thought. Animated tests trying to simulate the wave in 3D or in Flash just didn’t cut it. We wanted something which felt as realistic as possible. We next moved to the real world but equally found that water on its own did not work well at all when we filmed it. To cut a very long story short we finally made a glass tank (very lo-tech – a vase with half a CD case fixed using a glue gun) and filled it with 50% water (tinted blue with food dye) and 50% clear peanut oil. The two substances allowed us to create and film the illusion of water moving very realistically but a much slower down rate. Some After Effects magic with the raw film and we now have a looped, low bandwidth wave for the P&O site.
Final Website above: http://www.pocruises.com.au/Pages/default.aspx
Above: During design research we found a ton of wonderful images which were part of the inspiration for the final wave.
Above: Other features in the site include “Full Screen Experiences” that work without leaving the current page you are on. It’s slightly buried but an unusual feature – especially for an ecom website.
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Fractal lovers, brace yourselves. Here you will find some awesome pictures of the 3D Mandelbrot, “Mandelbulb”. Infinite awesome, on infinite levels. Here are four of the more impressive perspectives:
Hand From Above is an interactive installation by Chris O’Shea. He was commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices and Liverpool City Council for BBC Big Screen Liverpool and the Live Sites Network to create something for the BBC Big Screen. Hand From Above interacts with unsuspecting pedestrians, it can tickle, stretch, flick or remove entirely them on the big screen. Chris used openFrameworks and OpenCV to build this software.
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My friend Richard recently introduced me to Franco Brambilla via his rather nice blog. My desktop is now Franco’d up and I’ll be naming my next child Brambilla. I like. Here’s more.
Recently had the pleasure of driving through Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. On the way to the well known Old Faithful checked out the much lesser known Fountain Paint Pots. Amazing.
Picture several hissing, steaming, bubbling, sploshing pockets of earth spread over an area the size of a football field. Each one unique. Some with spouting geysers, some with goopy grey mud.
Personal favourite: the Celestine Pool which is every bit as colourful as this pic nabbed off Flickr if not more so…
That’s a deep pool filled with very hot crystal clear water. The colours are intense and alien.
Why is there so much geo thermal activity in Yellowstone? Because nearly the entire park sits in a caldera. The earth’s magma rises near the surface which creates steam which powers the geysers. Or something like that.
If you’re into doomsday scenarios you can read about how one day the entire park might turn into a super volcano which could potentially have an extinction level effect.
And it could happen tomorrow. 
For now, enjoy the pictures…
An experiment in using the Wii to spray on virtual graffiti, hence the WiiSpray. Nice idea and great exploration of the use of this kind of interaction with the projector.
It’s still an experiment, but may provide an alternative to trains, buses and seats hopefully.
And the techie bit: It uses a Wii but the actually graphics are built using Adobe Flash. Seems flash is becoming a great tool for experimenting with ideas and interfaces.
More information can be found at WiiSpray.
