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Lovely Tangentental Links

Lovely Links to take you off on wonderful diverse tangents...

50 of the strangest building worldwide, well worth a quick view. I promise you will get sucked into viewing Part 2.

Rory Sutherland's blog piece on the idea of ' rather than outsourcing media buying to the public, it works by outsourcing media planning to the public'

Ad-funded social networks to feed growth in mobile UGC jumping from 1 to 7 billion dollars and 54 million to 730 million active users by 2013.

How teens really feel about pornography. 'Porn is proliferating, and children under the age of 18 have become one of its biggest consumers. Most of them have viewed it by the age of 11'

Are we content? Not very enlightening or thinking beyond narrative production process but I'm glad to see the industry is beginning to realise where production companies are heading. The reel.

How to become a more effective learner.

Product Placement - A necessary evil? From CCC blog.

The reverb in the echo chamber has become deafening. Peter Kim blog.

Internet ready TV usher in web into the living room. WSJ

Top 10 - milestones in Augmented Reality in 2008 - Games Alfresco

Digital future through the looking glass and it 'identified several sobering trends in views about going online, particularly in adults' opinions about Internet use by children.' - Mediapost

Slow death of newspapers by Clay Shirky - boingboing.net

Who are the top 3 tweeters in UK? fayobserver.com

Freixenet - Most awarded campaign of last year. JWT blog

Lastly, the best videos from 2008 from Peter Black's Freedom to Differ . Amongst many classics of last year watch the Count from Sesame Street. Very Funny.

Air Traffic World Map over 24 hours Web Video

Love this. All the flights travelling around the world over 24 hours. Thanks Jeremy. It's from flowing data.

Air Traffic Worldwide 24HR from kouko a on Vimeo.

Thinking Visually Slideshare from David Armano

Inform, influence and inspire by thinking in pictures from David Armano's Logic + Emotion.

Thinking Visually

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Coldplay Musicvideo

The great Dougal Wilson directs Coldplay.

A brief History of the Internet web video

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo. Hat tip to David Brain

Past and Future of Marketing Animation

This has been bouncing around the blogging echo chamber from Sholtz and friends. Worth watching.

No Pants NYC - Improv Everywhere

Improv everywhere are at it again. After their hysterical meet and greet of strangers at JFK which was sponsored by Absolut(blog story), here 1200 agents strip from the waist down and travelling the NYC subway.

T-Mobile Liverpool Street Flashmob Commercial

Does this illustrate the effective and spreading creative power of Improv everywhere or should I say, us, the consumer who are willing to join in with all our various forms of mobile tech (see any o2 iphones in there?), for us to be creative and spread the ad brand message for free?  It is brand advertising content generating user generated content equalling lovely free media.

I love the concept, but when it's the spreading seminal, original compelling content. More the merrier, as we-(media), all separate the wheat from the vast torrent of trash. Hopefully we will rapidly diminish the vicegrip power of more traditional forms of (mass) media and the vast monies that are usually funnelled to them from brands will be invested directly into more compelling content from the truly talented. The trusted bankable filmmakers, the designers, the artists, the storytellers as opposed to going to all the few safe, stockholder or government controlled middle men in our mass media. I'm not ruling out ad or strategic agencies, they have a vital role to play in future brand/content models. It's those few that control and decide for us all what we supposedly want to watch. How many people do you meet these days that don't watch TV?

It's fair enough for Adliterate to say 'we're back' about Saatchi & Saatchi and I'm not doubting it's watchable, fun and engaging but it's not exactly original, is it? There again I'm blogging it, so Richard's strategy's worked, hasn't it?

Durex Commercial

Is genius always hidden in the obvious? Japan by Eric Testroete

This is without doubt the most engaging piece of content I have seen so far this new year. It's nothing that special yet it's so personal (just look at the amount of comments and 'likes' it's generated) yet so enlightening, giving you such a wonderful chronological visual insight to quite literally the whole of Japan and ultimately I am sold on now going there. It's by Eric Testroete.

It is so obvious and yet such a common occurrence. Anyone who travels with a camera, visual records their journey in some way, but not in such detail and such beauty. I watched it to the very end. An achievement for anyone consuming content in these fast moving, speed, feed reading times. The great soundtrack helped, the track is LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends from Sound of Silver and the photos are all here on flickr too. It has inspired me, giving me a idea which I will hopefully share at a later date. 
Hap tip to Ed Cotton at Influx Insights
This is Japan! from Eric Testroete on Vimeo.