Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding [Via Telegraph.co.uk]

Interesting article on the english newspaper The Telegraph's website about artificial intelligence & web design.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/earth/2008/04/16/sciweb116.xml

Excerpt:
For two decades, computer scientists have played around with evolutionary software that can gradually evolve and mutate to carry out a task efficiently, or hone the design of a wing, robot or whatever, without the need for a programmer to get involved.
Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding'
A grouping of some of the sites with human controlled design properties or genetic design evolution

Now these techniques are being used to allow web sites to keep themselves up to date and to adapt to the latest fads and fashion, reports New Scientist.

Not only are they quicker to evolve than possible with human intervention, they offer the chance to come up with new ways to organise material in the web that work best for users.

Web Standards, Yo.

The Poetic Prophet knows, flows and owns web standards.

Design Coding.


Paid Search.

G-Phone? Google / Android push ahead with Mobile platform.

Also See this.

And Sergei Brin discusses it in the video below:

Lars and the Real Girl

Check out the website accompanying Lars and the Real Girl. I was asked to contribute art direction and animation to this Mammoth Advertising project.

CSS for the rest of us

Check it out.

New Shift Mag for May '07 - Cover by Jeremyville

The latest issue of Shift magazine has the fun cover by Jeremyville above. Jeremyville says "What most influences me is the little child inside me." An animator, cartoonist, illustrator, product designer, published author, fine artist, toy designer, clothing designer based in Sydney, Jeremyville is here! With the new book "Jeremyville Sessions" and Shift cover, enjoy his interview.

Check out Shift & Jeremyville.

JOOST! Revolutionizing Television.

I just received a coveted Beta Testers' invite to JOOST! This new venture form the entrepreneurs behind Skype & Kazaa promises to revolutionize TV by being the first to provide quality that compares to regular TV, but on demand, over the internet, for free.

This I gotta see. I'm very much into the concept of it, being an early adopter of watching shows on abc.com, nbc.com & Itunes, but ofcourse all of those have issues. (Itunes for one, forces me to own shows I want to see once, how about a subscription instead apple? $19.99 a mo. to stream it all but not own anything?). Cbs's Innertube doesn't even run on a Mac, at least not on my new Intel-chip based Powerbook.

What will this mean for broadcast design? Nothing? More work, less work? Or just different delivery? Perhaps the disciplines of broadcast and Interactive design will finally achieve the fusion that was promised back in the 90's?

The founders explain:


First Joost Commercial:

Interactive Outdoor Advertising

From Businessweek Magazine:
"SWIRLING SNOWFLAKES
The advertising industry is dreaming up uses for motion capture that literally stop consumers in their tracks. Recently, with little fanfare, Target (TGT ), adidas Group, and Clorox (CLX ) began running interactive ads on subway station walls in New York. One Target ad, a 6-by-20-ft. projection, featured snowflakes gently fluttering from the sky. It seemed unremarkable until you approached the wall. If you swiped your hand in the air, the background scene transformed from a wooded winter scene into a city skyline. And by waving both hands you could send the snowflakes into a swirl.

Adidas chose a similar approach for its ad in the entrance of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The ad perked up when people walked by and responded with a shower of shoes. The more they gesticulated, the bigger the deluge became. "People don't ignore the ads—they want to play with them," says John Payne, president of Monster Media, which created the campaigns for adidas, Clorox, and Target. "It's like Willy Wonka."


Photo by Perez-Fox.
See more images on http://www.perezfox.com/2006/11/17/target-new-york/

Michael Hearst [of One Ring Zero] - New CD: Songs for Ice Cream Trucks

From Michael Hearst's Press Release:
"SONGS FOR ICE CREAM TRUCKS"

A new album by Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero

Are you tired of hearing the same old two or three ice cream truck songs over and over? Michael Hearst certainly is. That's why he's created an entire album of NEW songs for ice cream trucks. Fun for the whole family!

I am very excited about this CD and am incredibly grateful to Arjen Noordeman of Elasticbrand,llc for designing the entire package (CD, postcard, sticker, and website).

In addition to the CD now being available for purchase, there will also be two release shows:

Songs For Ice Cream Trucks
unofficial release show
Saturday May 6th (7pm)
Barbés
376 9th St. (corner of 9th st and 6th ave in Park Slope)
Brooklyn, NY
$10 suggested donation
with an after party at Colson Patisserie (next door)

Songs For Ice Cream Trucks
OFFICIAL release show
Saturday May 26th (7:30pm)
Housing Works Book Cafe
128 Crosby Street (Soho)
New York, NY
$10 gets you in plus a free drink