today and tomorrow

… I guess not! Shiiit! The last episode of ‘The Wire‘, one of the best TV shows around, aired last week.
image by Mike Monteiro

A lot of things are different in Japan. On Valentine’s Day, the girls give the boys chocolates. One month later, on White Day, the boys give the girls something back. Louis Vuitton has these branded roses for just € 25 a piece …

Bela Borsodi is an Austrian photographer with an amazing portfolio, he has a lot of fresh ideas to photograph product. This series called ‘Welcome to V’ is a wonderfull combination of photography, fashion and Felice Varini like artwork.
found at It’s Nice That

So 2008 is an olympic year, which means that all sports brands will start special advertising campaigns. Here is the first one by adidas: Original Games. This spot shows all kinds of sports taken to the street, definitely not a new idea, but 180 Amsterdam did a great job.

Proud Creative created a whole series of TV audio idents for the bilingual Welsh TV channel S4C. These aren’t just short introduction clips for TV programmes. The video footage actually reacts to the voice of the presenter, so you will get every single time an unique clip. Proud Creative got help from Minivegas, it took 12 months of research and development to get to this result: a realtime video rendering tool. You can watch some sample clips here, and a full explanation here. Amazing!

found at It’s Nice That

This new TV commercial for Schweppes, called ‘Burst‘, is actually quite nice.

Sky advertising by The Skytypers.

‘Absolut Machines‘ is quite an amazing project by Absolut Vodka. Basically, Absolut commissioned 2 interactive sound sculptures, which you can control through the website, you’ll have to wait in line though.
‘Absolut Quartet’ is a robotic mechanical orchestra, by playing the piano you can inspire the 3 robotic ‘musicians’. You can find some making of pictures in this Flickr set. The other one, ‘Absolut Choir’ is a machine consisting of 22 choir members, by typing in words and sentences you inspire them to sing. Both are just amazing!
On the website you can choose from different camera angles, see some documentation, download your composition as a video etc. It’s just a pain to use it. I think it’s a shame that the website doesn’t match the quality of the installations.
Here is a tip, just go to the press website if you want to get straight to the info.

A few weeks ago, Nike launched the Jordan XX3, the last signature Micheal Jordan sneaker ever (ok we’ll see about that). Ofcourse they made a website to go along with it: XX3. Blast Radius did an excellent job there!
You arrive in some sort of hall from where you can enter 4 diffentent rooms. And when I say rooms, I mean 3D rooms where you can ‘walk’ around thanks to a nice interface. For those of you who don’t like this kind of explorative browsing, there’s a nice and clean alternative navigation at top of the page.
I think this is one of the best implementations of 3D Flash I’ve seen since a long time. It looks like Papervision3D, an open source 3D flash engine, is getting some real momentum here.
And as a bonus: the Nike M4 website, a few months old but definitely worth checking out too.

180 Amsterdam made this animation for adidas, it’s all about Adi Dassler and his achievements. The details and the technique are amazing, you have to watch the ‘Behind the Scenes’ video too! You can find the micro website here.