Can you spot the gorilla?
‘Whodunnit‘, indeed. A clever ad from Brittan that will test you even before you know it’s a test. While there may not be a gorilla in this video, you should still pay close attention.
Ready for awesome? OK Go!
I’ve been attending the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco for the last week, and last night was the official Apple party. The one where almost every developer and Apple engineer here, all 6000 of us, go across the street to the Yerba Buena Gardens, get fed, and listen to a band rock out. Last year they had Cake, the year before it was Barenaked Ladies, but we didn’t know who the band would be until we got there. There were rumors all over the place, but there wasn’t any proof. No lost iPhone with a memo on it revealing the band’s indentity. Nothing. Well, not until people started looking at the stage and discovered a piece of tape on a mic that said enough.
Star Wars™ Cantina 2010
Adidas remixed the Star Wars Cantina scene. How do you send claps over the internet?
"There has been an emergency reported in this building"
Do you ever have one of those days where everything goes wrong? You spill coffee on yourself, you’re late to work, you rear-end a cop at a red light. Well imagine that but with a flat tire on a plane and being in the airport during an emergency evacuation. It’s pretty awesome.
UPular Remix
Here’s a cool and funky video remix of UP that Pixar made with Pogo, an Australian DJ. This isn’t Pogo’s first remix, he’s been around doing videos using Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter, Terminator, and more.
SWITCH
Tyson Hesse created “Switch,” an animated short, as his senior film at the Savannah College of Art and Design. It’s worth 2 minutes to watch it.
Google Announces 'Google TV'
Google has announced Google TV: a service built-into TVs or set-top boxes that gives you web access to find and stream video and more to your TV. As someone who doesn’t have cable or any other live TV subsciption, I get my TV content exclusivly from the internet via a Mac mini hooked up to my TV. Google TV takes the searching/streaming that I already do and makes it simple. Hopefully it’ll work as they describe in the video below, and I can add it to my technological arsenal.
Logos in Helvetica
Micah Monserrat has created some stunning logos of famous sites using Helvetica. I suggest you head over to his site and check them all out.
Toy Story 3 Goes Viral
Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear, one of the new characters from Pixar’s Toy Story 3, is making the rounds as 1980′s TV ads. The ads look real. They look just like TV you recorded onto VHS ages ago so you wouldn’t miss the new Saved By The Bell or Miami Vice, complete with sound glitches and fuzzy video artifacts. Amazing work Pixar! They’ve released 2 (so far): the 1983 ad for American audiences and another 80′s ad from Japan.
And to complete the illusion, Pixar created a YouTube account and filled it with real vintage TV ads, sprinkling in their fakes.
Brilliant.
Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear will be on the big screen June 18th with Buzz, Woody, and the rest of the Toy Story crew, and in your homes as a plush toy as soon as you click through and buy him for a mere $30. Your kids will thank you.
Michael Bay Gets Into Reality TV
Michael Bay, of Transformers, Pearl Harbor, and Armageddon fame, is planning a new reality TV show. It’s kind of a cross between Survivor, The Mole, and The Amazing Race. I’m hoping that he names it Surviving the Amazing Mole. Sadly, it’s going to be called One Way Out, which sounds like a horrible movie that only Michael Bay would write/direct/produce. I’d be surprised if it makes it more than 1 season considering that Pirate Master was buried at sea after it’s first season, despite the pirate-crazed fans that were flocking to the theaters to see Johnny Depp as an effeminate pirate captain.
[via Guardian]
