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Advertising Lab Jul 22 09
Tim Noble and Sue Webster make art from "piles rubbish, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile."
-- Environmental Graffiti via underln; img source
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I'm reading The Advertising Research Handbook.
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RevResponse, a company that helps bloggers make money by selling and giving away white papers and magazine subscriptions, has a new nifty tool that converts a blog's RSS feed into an email with automatically inserted promo offers.
Simple. Except for the pre-roll.
Not science fiction anymore, this: "Once chairs and other things become content, the prospect of rampant chair piracy turns from unimaginable into very real.
I took my first Kodak Photo Spot (wiki) pictures at my spring break trip to the Disney World in the mid-1990s, and through all these years I've never stopped admiring their genius.
An Iranian company Aaye Art Group ("designer and manufacturer of artistic and cultural goods") is making replicas of the American RQ-170 drone aircraft downed in Iran last month: "Most of the toys, which come in several colors and are made of Iranian plastic, have already been snapped up by Iranian government organizations.
Ever dreamed of watching a video or a favorite TV show on the go? Well, aren't you lucky:
Daily Mail: "Translucent TV: Lumus' PD-18-2 is a set of spectacles that can beam high-quality images directly into your eyes but allows the user to see through the images too.
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The many uses for fine metal plaques are as varied as those who commission them.
Clotaire Rapaille, the author of The Culture Code who was featured in the PBS documentary The Persuaders, is the inventor behind the patent for "Advertisement for Leather Clothing" granted in 2005.
This Minority Report scene with personalized billboards that recognize your retina get a lot of people excited and pointing towards the future, but it doesn't look like people in 2054 are paying any more attention to the smart billboards than they notice the dumb ones of today.
It is so infrequent that automated communications are nice that I enjoy celebrating every instance.