TED.com – always inspiring, never fails to drop my jaw. But this time, it has surpassed itself with the following performance from the LXD (The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers). The group’s coordinator is Hollywood Director Jon M Chu. Chu explains his fascination with the relationship between the Internet and Dance:
“Online videos and social networking … dancers have created a whole global laboratory online for dance, where kids In Japan are taking moves from a YouTube video created in Detroit, building on it within days and releasing a new video, while …

As featured in this month’s Wired magazine, Papa Sangre is forging a whole new genre of gaming: the world’s first audio-only, 3D audio no less, video game for mobile.
The game (commissioned by 4iP) has been in development since mid-last year, and is set for release later this year.
Now I’m no gamer, but this project really excites me as creates a fully immersive environment which incorporates cutting edge audio technology with a very dark and sinister narrative.
Papa Sangre describes itself as a video game with no video. It’s a first-person thriller, …

Are you one of the squillions of people who rushed out to watch the visual masterpiece that is Avatar?
Well here’s some news: you were 15 years too late.
Check out this brilliant video mashup created by 20 year old film student Randy Szuch for an assignment in Cinematic Multimedia class in which he sets out to highlight the similarities between Disney’s Pocahontas and Cameron’s Avatar:

CFV 426 – Avatar/Pocahontas Mashup FINAL VERSION from Randy Szuch on Vimeo.
(Thanks to the eagle-eyed Geeks Are Sexy for the find!)

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What the HELL is social media explains in 2 minutes using 10 key facts why brands need to take notice of social media:
Here is a breakdown of the reasons listed in the video (via JD Rucker):

Social media is now the number one online activity, beating porn and personal email to the top spot.

Because 2/3 of the global Internet population visit social networks.

Because time spent on social networks is growing at 3X the overall Internet rate, accounting for 10% of all Internet time.

Because online, including social media, has become the most …

Jesse Thomas (a.k.a. JESS3) designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010. I’m a sucker for infographic animations and this one’s got some great little factoids:

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
About Jess3
Jesse Thomas is the CEO and founder of JESS3, an award winning creative interactive agency specializing in web design, social media, branding, and data visualization. Based in Washington, DC, JESS3 has worked with Pfizer, Nestle, Marriott, Pepsi, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal, All Facebook, IndieWire, SnagFilms, C-SPAN, …

Check-out this Foursquare rap (or should that be check-in?) by @borismsilver and @thenewb:

(click here if you can’t view the embedded video above)

“I’m checkin’ off the grid like Tiger Woods be…”

Full lyrics:
Mr. Silvas in da building
Checkins by the hundreds, thousands, trillionz
Ayo I know its my first stop
Look at that leaderboard and see me at the top
Bouncin to new places, adding em quick
I know all the TO-DOs and I got all the tips
Show up at the Bar and I check in Right Away
Sent it to my Twitter cuz Im here to stay
Looks like you …

A huge thanks to Tom Murphy for bringing my attention to this video this morning.
Created by journalist Steve O’Hear, it brings home the real pain that emerges when PRs insist on embargoes and then go even further to ram them down journalists’ throats.

(Click here if you cannot view the embedded video above)
Dylan Tweney, senior editor of Wired.com once famously said:

“Embargo is from a Latin phrase which means ‘F*** you!’”

Embargoes: Not to be confused with 80’s lunchbox favourite Um Bungo or with the popular French appetiser L’Escargot.
2/03/2010 – UPDATE:
A sequel has …

Have you discovered the depraved genius that is Chatroulette? Of course you have… 
Created by Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17 year-old high school student in Moscow the site works on a really simple premise:
Visit www.chatroulette.com and every click lands you in a face-to-face video conversation with a random stranger.
Activate your webcam and click “play.” Then, as people from all over the world pop up one at a time in a box on your screen, you decide whether or not to chat with them. If you don’t like the looks of things, click “next” …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp_CV_w9E9w
Funny… as… ***k!
See Adil as wannabe Asian DJ, MC Raa and self appointed Muslim community leader Mr Khan in these clips from the fantastic BBC comedy show ‘Bellamy’s People’.
Bellamy’s People is the brand new show from Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson and features radio talk show host Gary Bellamy traveling the length and breadth of the UK to meet a range of quintessentially British Characters.
I was a huge fan of the original BBC Radio4 series ‘Down The Line’ and wasn’t sure how it would translate to TV. But I am …

Welcome to my world…

Procrastination was made in 2007 as a graduation film project by a team of student from the London-based Royal College of Art.
An investigative and exploratory hands-on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things ‘off”. Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first.
(via GeeksAreSexy)

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