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Sand Animation 11 May 2013 | 08:06 am
Sand animation is often mesmerizing as you look at how graceful and smooth the narrator can craft out illustrations out of (essentially) a pile of dirt on an overhead projector surface. Watch artist K...
Microsoft Courier Tablet 11 May 2013 | 07:51 am
It was making the rounds around the net - Microsoft’s (concept?) tablet titled Courier with some interesting UI features. The video shows pretty much a scrap/sketch-booking concept so there’s bit of ...
Loanshark Marketing 11 May 2013 | 07:29 am
Recently I’ve taken a special interest in a rather niche segment of marketing – those done by loan sharks. Johor Bahru (or JB – city in Malaysia) has a very high density of these (theoretically?) ille...
Fight for Kisses 24 Apr 2013 | 10:36 pm
I think… with the developments of Youtube, viral marketing and such, marketers have upped their antes in an attempt to out-weird one another – the ad above for a shaver is probably just yet another ex...
How a Tower Crane Grows 24 Apr 2013 | 05:14 pm
We probably all have a vague idea (and have probably seen many) towering cranes in construction sites – those flamingo-legs scratching the clouds, almost unlimited in height, while hauling concretes a...
The Sound of a Car Door 23 Apr 2013 | 08:01 am
We’ve (probably) all heard stories about how the sound of a car door greatly affects the perception of its value, and how engineers/marketers/car-makers would spend countless hours perfecting the perf...
1 Trillion Dollars (Visualized again!) 19 Apr 2013 | 06:51 pm
As they say, trillion is the new billion – and we’re still as far from *really* grasping the magnitude of all that money after trillions upon trillions are announced for this plan and that. So here’s ...
Sony PS3 “The Play Face” 19 Apr 2013 | 06:20 pm
When we’re immersed in an intense activity – gaming and watching a sports match perhaps – our mind enters z certain ‘zone’. Being fully concentrated on the game, we lose our self-awareness and persona...
Apple.com circa 1983 14 Apr 2013 | 08:52 am
This is Dave Lawrence’s imagination of how the Apple website would look like, had it existed way back in 1983 when Lisa is new, and the Mac is still a year away. Check out the iPhone (not quite what w...
The Sound of Clap-raining 13 Apr 2013 | 02:11 am
Here’s a really interesting ‘choir’ – gather up a bunch of people in front of microphones, clapping, slapping and twiddling thumbs to end up with a rather realistic simulation sound of the rain – I pa...
