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Friday, November 7, 2008
Website of the week 4
This week's WOW comes from Antrepo Design Industry
It consists of a series of movie posters which are a kind of reductio ad absurdam of film hype. The designs simply list the brands promoted by or integrated into the movies being promoted. In an important sense these posters open up for consideration the way commercial film has become little more than a means for pushing products on unsuspecting consumers.
It is particularly appropriate in the week following the release of the latest Bond movie, a franchise that probably did more for product and brand hyping via the cinema over the last 40 years than any other.
It consists of a series of movie posters which are a kind of reductio ad absurdam of film hype. The designs simply list the brands promoted by or integrated into the movies being promoted. In an important sense these posters open up for consideration the way commercial film has become little more than a means for pushing products on unsuspecting consumers.
It is particularly appropriate in the week following the release of the latest Bond movie, a franchise that probably did more for product and brand hyping via the cinema over the last 40 years than any other.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Website of the week 3
This, or by now last, week's WOW is Joyce Walks by Irish artist and NCAD old boy Conor McGarrigle.
According to it its maker
Check it out and make up your own walk in the city of your choice. On a less cerebral level this could be a great tool for generating random pub crawls with literary pretensions as well.
According to it its maker
Joyce Walks is a psychogeographical tool which generates walking maps based on routes from James Joyce's Ulysses in any city in the world using Google Maps. The system prints maps to be used as the basis of walks exploring the city of your choice and generates mashups using your pictures and videos documenting these walks to share with other users.Need I say more? I thought not.
Check it out and make up your own walk in the city of your choice. On a less cerebral level this could be a great tool for generating random pub crawls with literary pretensions as well.
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