Brad Pitt, Personal Valet

Latest commercial for Softbank by Director Spike Jonze starring Brad Pitt.

Monster Milktruck!

The map is not the terrain, well, unless you are inside a Monster Milktruck!

Today I had to research some features for Google Earth and came across this site. You can enter virtually any location on Earth and Monster Milktruck will teleport you there and you can drive around the terrain. I got a chuckle simulating my daily commute and visiting some old haunts. I wish more people would upload more building models.

Below are some images of virtual H-Town.

Bob and Weave: Houston's Creative Showdown, August 25, 2009

The Fall 2009 Networking Social Event

Join H-Town's top creative professionals as we come together to mix it up.

AD2 (AD2)
Crystal Land, President

American Advertising Federation Houston (AAFH)
Natalie Gonzalez, President

American Institute of Graphic Arts Houston (AIGA)
Robin Tooms, President

Art Director’s Club of Houston (ADCH)
Alex Barber, President

Only in Houston (OiH)
Dwight Cook, President

University of Houston Graphics Alumni Partnership (UHGAP)
Daniel Bosse, President Elect

When and Where:
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
5:30pm - 9:00pm
Continental Club
3700 Main St

Video of Lisztomania off of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

The new album from Phoenix is currently on constant repeat on my playlist at work and in the car. It's one of those rare albums where I don't have a favorite track; every song is a highlight.

BBDO Dusseldorf in Die Haus

Interesting recruitment ad from BBDO Germany courtesy of the missus. Although it will be hard to get a passport and work visa with all of my felony convictions. Sigh.

TRON Legacy

Woah, I've waited 28 years for this. Disney is releasing a sequel to Tron with soundtrack by Daft Punk due out in 2010 from Disney. Pretty sweet combo all around.

Click here to view the HD 1080p trailer.

Toyota IQ Typeface

A pretty cool new typeface utilizing the new Toyota IQ to create the letterforms.

Two typographers, Pierre & Damien, and a pro race pilot, Stef van Campenhoudt collaborated to design a font with a car.

The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman.

Click here to down load the typeface.

HP iPhone Calculators

Feeling a little nostalgic and craving some Reverse Polish Notation? Indulge your inner old school CPA with these two retro iPhone Apps from HP; the HP-12C Financial Calculator ($15) and the HP-15C Scientific Calculator ($30). My mom's HP-12 got me through most of middle school and although the new incarnation won't necessarily fit in your shirt pocket for the price they're pretty jazzy.

555 KUBIK

“How it would be, if a house was dreaming”

This project from Urbanscreen is a pretty cool merging of architecture, video mapping and motion graphics.

Reverie Sound Revue - An Anniversary Away

Amazing video and song from Reverie Sound Revue.

LP by Discovery

Discovery, the side project featuring Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles, has released LP. While somewhat of a misnomer, the album clocks in at just under 30 minutes, it is probably the perfect summer electro pop album. Favorite tracks include "Orange Shirt", "Osaka Loop Line", "Carby" and the a cover of The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back".

Josh Keyes

There is something wonderfully absurd and absolutely meticulous about Josh Keyes' paintings. His diorama fusions of the natural environment intersecting with the modern urban landscape is all at once delightful, awkward, poignant.

Metamorphosis

Gorgeous video by Glen Marshall done entirely in Processing.

New Deal Typeface by Neville Brody

We saw the new Micheal Mann film, Public Enemies, earlier this week. Great film no doubt but one thing that really caught my eye was the typeface they used in all of the promotional materials and film title for the film, I couldn't identify it at first but it was definitely bold, concrete and masculine, totally fitting with bank robbers, 1930's depression era backdrop, and the birth of the FBI. Later on I discovered that Micheal Mann had commissioned the typeface from one of my all-time graphic design heroes, Neville Brody. It's a gorgeous typeface and I can't wait till it becomes available commercially.

Reverie Sound Revue: Arrows Video and Self Titled LP

I purchased Reverie Sound Revue's self-released EP years and years ago after seeing Lisa Lobsinger with attendant hairdo perform with Broken Social Scene. Recorded or live she simply has a gorgeous ethereal voice.

It's been a long while but they've finally released their first studio LP and the first of a series of online video blog tours from www.boompa.ca.

Check out the first video of their acoustic rendition of Arrows here.

Note: I'm patiently waiting for Boompa to disable their non-embed Vimeo code so I can repost all the vids.

Guy Starts Dance Party

Courtesy of Andy Polaine blog.

"I've just finished up a chapter in my PhD about social play. Most of it is about online interaction, but quite a bit is about how to bring strangers together to make connections in public spaces.

Serendipitously, Iain just posted this clip thanks to Knotty's. If you don't get why social networks work, watch this."

You Had Me at Prairie Dog

Found this random image while researching rodents in Texas. One colony in Texas got up to 400 million individuals. No wonder.

Real G: Life size Gundam.

This is pretty sweet. Green Tokyo Gundam Project have decided to build a life size Gundam model in a park in Tokyo to celebrate Mobile Suit Gundam's 30th anniversary. Big thanks for my buddy Matt Stoffel for sending this my way.

You can view more photos here.

The Go! Team - Milk Crisis

Just came across this gem of a music video from The Go! Team. Great song to get the day started.

Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions?

Informative video from the TED channel on Youtube.

TED Talks Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.