At Fame festival, artists come together throughout the summer to do their thing and turn the little town of Grottaglie Italy in a street art scene. For this year’s edition, BLU and David Ellis, both acclaimed in animated street art, teamed up and created an amazing animation: COMBO
According to Fame festival’s official website, BLU and David Ellis‘have been working like crazy on this animation for a full week against mosquito’s, rain, bored assistants.’
Today I bumped into Quirky, a very interesting community. Quirky is a social product development company. The idea is simple: your product ideas come in, the community works on them, Quirky sells your product worldwide, and 30¢ of every dollar brought in gets distributed amongst you and the product’s influencers.
UK agency Mother London has recently launched Amplichoir, a campaign to create what potentially could be the biggest choir in the world. The new campaign for Dell and MTV invites visitors to upload video of themselves singing The Chordettes’ classic pop song “Lollipop,” which is then integrated into a massive chorus performance of the tune.
The singers can then share their videos with friends in order to earn votes. A jury will then decide on the best of the biggest vote getters, and two lucky singers will win VIP tickets to the MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin.
Twitter’s monetisation strategy is always a popular topic among the influencers within the social media stratosphere. Co founder Biz Stone has recently come out and said the company will start to look to make money before the end of 2009.
But whilst Twitter still hasn’t turned on the money tap, there are various companies already looking to make a buck of the explosively successful platform. Ad.ly is one of these companies – they make money through Twitter advertising. They already have popular Tweeters Dr Drew, Chamillionaire and Tony Hawk signed up to their service.
Andy Berndt, MD of Google Creative Lab and Tom Uglow, Creative Lead did this presentation recently on Day 1 of Advertising Week 2009 (here’s the podcast). The presentation guides you through the ways consumers, companies and Google itself are using technology to create something special.
Many of the experiments in ’87 Cool Things’ highlight mashups, interactivity, unique data usage, and the fusion of virtual worlds and reality, all in combination with the Google tools.
Lily Allen, an pop-music English singer songwriter, quite made the headlines this week. On her personal anti-piracy weblog she announced:
I have not renegotiated my record contract and have no plans to make another record
Shortly after this, for many fans crushing news, she completely deleted her blog. Her battle for anti-piracy now got answered by an ironic open letter from a former fan.
The song actually holds some views, both artists and music labels could learn from.
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to World’s Longest Basketball Shot. The guys from DudePerfect have taken shooting hoops to a higher level and they do it for charity. The runner up spot is for 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air Vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air was send into a collision with a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. How Big Can Football Get? completes this week’s top 3. FIFA 10 is about to be launched so EA Sports called in Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam to make the anthem spot.
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Remember Quique the Argentine boy, born without a body? Here’s an uplifting follow up. Quique now has a job as an architect, and could soon have a full body transplant…
It’s a great and entertaining concept by Diesel’s Lifestyle division to promote it’s new helmet. More enteraining content, a documentary about Quique, tongue trainer software and ways to donate your body, can be found at his site Quique the head.
You can connect to Quique at Facebook and soon get his iPhone app.
Following the post on Ford’s Social Media Stategy (great to see @scottmonty replying) today a post on Kodak. Jeff Hayzlett (CMO and VP at Eastman Kodak Company) has shared a great document Kodak Social Media Tips.
The friendly and busy bees at SPRX Mobile have just created a new feature on their already cool innovation. They recently launched the world’s first mobile augmented reality browser, called Layar. And in November they will launch a new feature on Layar, Layar 3D.
