Weekend video

Here's a video which speaks of collaboration by webcam users on a mind-boggling level. First rate entertainment and very inspiring.

It is a lot crisper!

Well done, Etisalat! In spite of the real estate bubble popping people in the Sandlands have been buying full HD television receivers for ages. And now they're getting the programming for them. I recall Ali Ahmed, right in the photo above, being a very forward looking person when I first met him in 2002. At the time he was with Abu Dhabi Television.

I reckon that HD viewing will soon be more widespread (on a per capita basis) in the UAE than here in Germany where many broadcasters are still reluctant to make the switch.

Zackly!

Emirates Train Company

The stations will be, I imagine, awesome. And as the network expands to serve Al Ain there will be some spectacular views from the train's windows.

As a life-long railway freak I am only sorry that the project will take so long to become a reality that I may not be around to see its completion.

User created advertising

Re-posted from Gizmodo who explain...

"In response to a call from HP for user-made advertisements, two students at London's Kingston University pulled off a mesmerizing synchronized printing routine with a stable of HP printers. It's important to bear in mind here what's really been accomplished here. Yes, two students have created a professional-level advertisement, which is artistically and conceptually impressive. But more importantly—and I say this as someone who, like millions of others, spends my his life just one spool error away from a blinding fit of rage—they've tamed one of our generation's greatest technological beasts, and made it dance for us. Good work, fellas."

Okay, I was going to buy an HP anyway...

Credo

Warm and fuzzy

Anonymous hugs are, I think, a very good idea!

Such were our dreams

Another stop-motion epic

It is, of course, a commercial message. But it is wonderful to watch. The makers have this to say...

"This is the [Olymous] PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us. We hope you enjoy :-)"

As Woody Allen said...

The first minutes

Stats

I started blogging in July 2006 and I appear to have posted an average of 5.5 items per week, this being post #841.

What conclusion I should draw from these metrics I know not.

But, mes enfants, a medium without metrics is doomed to fail!

Weekend video

After eleven years they're back again, the Evian babies. They haven't aged a bit!

On the air!

Tomorrow is a big day for my Munich client, the launch of Motorvision TV. "Alles, was uns bewegt!" is the claim, and we describe ourselves in English as the 'mobility channel'.

Although getting ready to go on air has been a logistical and technical nightmare I look forward to coming months when our great young team can relax a bit and have time to come up with innovative creative content concepts.

Our launch coincides with the re-branding of German's leading pay cable platform, formerly Premiere, now Sky. Amusing to note that to the left of the copy previewing one of the Motorvision TV shows there is mention of the German debut of the critically acclaimed US series Mad Men. Alas, this may be as close as I'll ever get - propinquity in print - to radically brilliant television entertainment!



All of this comes as the automotive themed satellite channel GearOne, which I helped to create in the Sandlands back in 2005 faces competition from a Dubai based IPTV webcaster TopDrive TV. I wonder how that will work, whether the promoters can learn from the mistakes of other special interest broadcasters.

T1mepeace

When you are happy and having a good time,
it doesn´t matter what time it is!
»T1MEPEACE« reminds you to enjoy life
and to forget the time.

The claim of young Berlin jewellery designer Denise Julia Reytan resonated for me... carpe diem, and so forth.

I used to crave expensive watches, never gold, preferably steel. Over the years I had three Cartier Santos models, none of which I was able to redeem after they had served as security for pawn-shop loans in times of need!

My current real watch is one I regard as beautiful. It wasn't expensive and deserves a design prize in my opinion. I bought it in one of the Paris branches of Muji.

But now with Denise's T1mepeace I have finally a watch which is truly poetic. If her limited edition (check out www.reytan.de) is sold out, she has many more scurrilous and playful items on offer!

MJ tributes

I see the image above as evidence that MJ had fans who have both taste and talent. This is very touching indeed, I feel.



I never knew that MJ had been given the baton and jacket of a Russian military band Kapellmeister.

And I find Kyle T. Webster (who blogs daily with a new drawing at Daily Figure) captured the entire spirit of Jacko in black-and-white.

MJ as geek

He took a close and informed interest in the HD technology they were using in the studio where he was interviewed.

No doubt there will be an abundance of unexpected sidebars turning up in the aftermath of Jacko's demise. I hope many will be positive surprises, like this one.

26 July 2009