New York City – In One Year from J. Adam Giese on Vimeo.

This film and photography was done by a friend of ours Adam Giese. Check it out!

I found this movie moving and well done. Hope you enjoy it too!

Find out more about this film at porcelainunicorn.com

Taking Social Media to this extreme…

I doubt it. My first thought was this is really hard to look at because it is so busy, the type choice was not my favorite but that aside the content seems cryptic ( because of 140 characters and less mentality ) and I think it speaks volumes about the impatience of marketing in 2010. But I don’t want you to think I am painting a picture that is all bad, quite the opposite I find it revolutionary to some degree. With the benefits of SEO + promoting your business’s own marketing platform + getting content out to your fans as quickly as a tweet. I can see why it would be appealing. And for that forward thinking they have proved that they can create a conversation about themselves, and that in itself is well done. On the downside wonder if the site’s user experience is all that pleasant, for me anyways it was distracting and not catching my attention. Maybe the UI execution not the strategy could be a factor in my distraction.

What are you thoughts is EURO RSCG LONDON’s site blowing you away or is it harder to look at then your own twitter page?

Oh and the background provided from the source:

Euro RSCG London, a leading global advertising agency, launched its new website yesterday that is taking a unique approach to reaching its audience: letting the 200 people within its office power its website in real-time. http://www.eurorscglondon.co.uk/ Euro RSCG are the first global advertising agency who have made their website fully social which is being seen as a sign of the future for the global creative industry.

Euro RSCG, whose clients include Reckitt & Benckiser, Citroen, Dulux and Kraft wanted its website to be a true embodiment of what life is like in the office – friendly, informative, creative and most of all people based by making full use of the popular social media site, Twitter. Euro RSCG staff can control the site by tweeting specific hashtags and the names of recent tweeters are integrated into the site’s design to show who is influencing the site and which hashtags they are using.

“The agency listens to its employees and connects with its clients on a completely new level” stated Russ Lidstone, CEO Euro RSCG London, “This new Twitter centric website embodies our belief that social media should sit at the heart of what we do”.

Photography: Portfolio Review & Development

Mentorship
Duration: 6 Months
Starts: Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 2PM EST
Meets: Group meets one Saturday per month. One on one sessions scheduled independently.
Mentor: Keith Lane

Whether you’re an emerging photographer, an aspiring professional about to knock on a decision maker’s door, a mid-career shooter in search of practical strategies for advancing in the business, or simply a keen amateur wanting to become as good as you can be, The Portfolio Review and Development Mentorship offers a special opportunity to accelerate your photography career and skills. Read More here.

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Graphic & Web: Portfolio Review & Development

Mentorship
Duration: 6 Months
Starts: Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 11AM EST
Meets: Group meets one Saturday per month. One on one sessions scheduled independently.
Mentor: Keith Lane

Whether you’re an emerging graphic designer and/or web designer, an aspiring professional about to knock on a decision maker’s door, a mid-career professional in search of practical strategies for advancing in the business, or an entrepreneur planning to launch or expand your own company, The Portfolio Review and Development Mentorship offers a special opportunity to accelerate your design skills and career. Read More here.

To find out more about Keith or to sign up for either of these two courses click here!
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wandaproductions — March 26, 2010 — Production company : Wanda Berlin Director : Wilfrid Brimo Executive producer : Fabian Barz Client : Volkswagen Title : bear / fox Agency : DDB Germany, Berlin Agency Producer: Bernd Bluhme Chief Creative Officer: Amir Kassaei Exec. Creative Directors: Stefan Schulte, Bert Peulecke Creative Direction: Till Eckel, Johannes Hicks Art Direction: Lisa Berger copy writer: Ingo Isabettini, Manuel Wenzel
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Updated April 12th.

** Update **
My first impression of the iPad is that it is altogether too heavy to carry around like a book with one hand. It is easy to read and probably a better e-reader than many of the other e-readers out there ( because of it’s screen & luminosity ) but I bet it’s battery life is a lot shorter ( although I have heard positive reviews from owners about battery life, does it equal though 8000 pages that a Sony E-reader will get? I don’t know. ) but I can gripe that it is heavy and fragile and if you have a protection case than it get’s bulky and is not something you can hold in one hand for a very longtime ( because of the device’s weight ). I was happy with the website navigation experience. It was pleasing to the eye, smooth, and pretty much perfect for a flight companion. It does not replace a lap-top but it does handle media well. What I don’t see is the point for day-to-day life. You won’t feel safe walking outside with this device ( subway unlikely, park bench it could get scratched if it was put down on the wrong surface yikes ) it is far too fragile and right now and it is something you have to pretty much put it in a case ( at an additional cost from day 1 or a laptop bag ). My biggest complaint though and reason why I will wait until a later version is that it is too fragile, too heavy, and I can’t see you placing this device at the kitchen table without blowing it up with one accidental water spill. It will make a nice couch companion while you chat with friends as long as you have a safe place to put it because if you sit on it well there goes 500 dollars.

This thing needed in mind to be kitchen table friendly and sturdy, and in my opinion it is not. I also think it is missing the opportunity to really challenge magazines. It does not replace a print experience, although that is a hard challenge to come by with a 1st-gen device I kind of hoped that it would be on par with a magazine. It isn’t but it does feel nice for interactive news sites. It really has a nice interactive experience, but to do both this device would have had to been slightly larger, thinner, lighter, and a helluva lot less fragile. What it is good at and what I was surprised most about was the typing experience. It was much better than an iPhone and will allow people to write freely to their friends. One other sticking point is that for gaming this screen can’t get heavy use without scratching or breaking ( you’ll need to fork out more for screen protection sleeves ), to be honest I am not sure they they didn’t include button areas outside of the onscreen touching so that the basic button mashing games out there wouldn’t wear and tear on your device. I foresee long lines and screen fixing mini booths around the malls around the country to fix these devices and I am not impressed with how I was handled with my iPhone broken screen * Which is still shattered but usable. Why have I not paid to fix it? It costs $200 to fix with apple, $120 with the mall dude who works for apple and does the mall booth as a side job, and $30 dollars to buy the parts yourself and gamble with trying to fix the screen as it is quite tricky.*

I am all for innovation and on one hand I would love to praise this device as it will help the design industry in many ways, but I have to be straightforward and honest about it: Good look future iPad v1 users heed my advice though if you are looking for the holy grail device, wait another 2 or 3 generations ahead before buying. But if you do buy it buy a screen protector, and a case to protect it from day 1, although I think a product like this should be sold with these kind of safety considerations already fixed and that this is the same nickel and dime tactic they pulled with the iPhone and iTouch products.
** /Update **

Interested in seeing how your website or others look on an iPad? Try Ipadpeek.com the sans the scroll-bar this experience is true to form.
http://ipadpeek.com/

One thing to note, some people are saying that their is no scroll bar ( but there is a small black line ? ) on the iPad. A way more accurate tool to showcase an iPad site can be downloaded the with iPad SDK kit. You can download that here: http://developer.apple.com/ipad/sdk/

Do you have an iPad? tell us about your experience about it. Was it worth the wait? If so why?

Thank Rajja, and Tom for the links!

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