And human isn’t able to control it. People dies…
Indica isn’t a big fan of adding video clips, but this one definitely raised my eyebrows. Poom is an electro-pop band based in Paris. Their latest video clip, “Rollercoaster”, it’s an excellent tribute to the nostalgia lovers, it also uses a quite decent technique (although a bit old) (Vimeo, 2:54min):
Directed by Côme de Bouchony, the clip tries to remember “Salut les copains” a french 60′s popular magazine about music.
Ossi, uno de los Diseñadores Visuales que tengo a mi lado, tiene una preciosa foto de Helsinki de los años 50 ó 60:
La foto es la portada de una película llamada “Helsinki Forever“, del director Peter von Bagh. El año pasado fue una de las galardonadas en el Festival de Helsinki.
Para mi esta foto lo dice todo: La dureza del invierno en estas latitudes, los pocos habitantes que hay en la ciudad (bueno, en el país), el silencio, la oscuridad… Es una foto que evoca como pocas estos sentimientos. Me preguntaba qué música sería la más adecuada para escuchar mientras observas la imagen.
Por si alguno de vosotros quereis disfrutarla, aquí la teneis en formato original.
Feliz viernes.
Anoche llovía, llovía horrores. Al final aborté la misión nocturna y eché cerrojazo a la puerta.
Me di una vuelta por los canales de televisión locales y me topé con una peli yanqui. Al principio pensé que había un problema con el audio. Segundos más tardes escuché una voz, pero lo asocié a que por error había activado el sistema de reconocimiento de voz de mi portátil (lo tenía en mis rodillas).
Al final resultó ser el doblaje Inglés-Finlandés. Viendo la energía y las expresiones de los actores norteamericanos me costaba creer que esa voz podría pertenecer al doblaje, pero así era. Lógicamente, me quedé de piedra (Vimeo, 50segs):
Feliz domingo.
Las week the guys at Vostok posted an interesting article about Sci-fi interfaces in movies.
Well, in that very moment I didn´t remember the name of the brilliant author of several videos I saw in the past about this kind of futuristic interfaces.
A few days later my mind brought me the name of the guy: Mark Coleran. Mark is a Visual Designer who´s been working for films such us Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, James Bond´s film The World Is Not Enough or The Bourne Identity (check out his complete porfolio).
Coleran Reel 2006.01, is the name of one fo his motion portfolios you can´t miss (Vimeo, 4:25min):
This is the final project of Ivan Tihienko, a student from Jerusalem, presented last year at the Bezalel academy of Arts and Design.
In a short video Tihienko explains the amount of possibilities of the holographic shadow. The technology behind this wonderful idea can applied nowadays.
Having a look at his proposal, PDA´s, cell phones or computer look so 2000 (Vimeo, 4:07min):
Holographic Interface – round interface – Ringo from Ivan Tihienko on Vimeo.
Cograts Ivan!!
Punchcut, a User Experience design company from San Francisco, has just launched a very illustrative video to make people know their thinkings about what´s the best approach to User Interface design:
1/ Design for immediate access
2/ Keep gestures smart and simple
3/ Leverage clear mental models
4/ Design for real hand sizes
5/ Touch feedback is key
So, here you are (Vimeo, 1:17min):
“Touch is merely on dimension that brings a human side to technology”.
These days, Seisdeagosto.com, the company I own, is working on an interesting project defining mobile User Interfaces wireframes. Inspiration coming from this kind of documents is always welcome. Thank you guys!
Just to share a home-made video based on a digital hologram. The quality is not awesome but you can see how trough a piece o paper you can have “life” in your hands! (Youtube video, 1min):
If you´re curious about how this can be done, check this out: FLARToolkit.
Last week Seisdeagosto, the company I own, started an interesting project at Lisbon, Portugal. Fortunatelly, some good friends (@Lagartez & @Vostok) had the chance of coming to Lisbon while I was there.
And you might guess the rest… Some of the greatest hits moments where recorded on this humble video (Vimeo, 2:35min):
Thank you all!
Everytime we decide to watch a DVD film we always face the same problem: What surprises will give us the film´s menu to set up language, subtitles, extras…?
It´s like a strange disease: None of these menus are the same, navigation between items are always different and the resources they use to tell you where you are inside the menu change from one DVD to another. Some of them choose themselves what “they think” you want you, some not…
Why the hell a sooo simple navigation scheme has to be sooo difficult to use? I´m afraid that this is because the main objective is to make these menus visual, trendy, cool. But visual, trendy or cool should be the film not the elements to put that film to work… I bet you that lot of elderly people cannot set the way they want a simple film.
“The menus themselves suffer badly from lack of standardization”. I think one of these days I´ll try to work on some guidelines for this silly stuff the right way.
Further reading: DVD Menu Design: The Failures of Web Design Recreated Yet Again