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Femme fatale Olga Rodionova is a well-known beauty who moves in Moscow’s fashion and jet set circles. When her adoring husband, a powerful Russian oligarch, sought to have special portraits made of his wife, he asked none other than Bettina Rheims - an unusual request for a photographer of Rheims’s stature.
That utterly bizarre McCann Erickson Manchester video is back online again. I mean seriously, what the fuck?
I just came across this on my puter, having forgotten it was there. Paparazzi for OS X is a nice little app that lets you screen shot an entire web page, as you can see below, though rotated and resized so it fits, the actual image is several thousand pixels long.
Utterly, utterly bizarre, though I wonder if anyone has ever ordered a whole box of 100? Patrick Bateman perhaps,?
Custom Gold business card by Mitsubishi
What better way to impress am important guest or potential partner than to hand him your business card…coated in a gram of pure gold?
[From Lifestyle - Custom Gold business card by Mitsubishi - Japan Trend Shop]
So I watched Babylon AD last night, terrible movie but it did have some remarkably well realised, and actually for a movie, realistic user interfaces in it, (yeah, it also had the usual Minority Report bollocks) these are the highlights:
Above: Fairly straightforward, though you can’t see the Google logo in this screen shot, a simple multi stream news terminal / TV, in the home. The nice thing here is that most OS’s these days still struggle with displaying more than a couple of video streams at once.
A bigger, touch screen version of the previous UI, again nothing ground breaking, but well executed.
You can’t really see it here, but the wrap around strip on the Taxi scrolls to let us know it’s occupied and the languages spoken by the driver…
The interior of an Armoured Personnel Carrier, the exterior is displayed on a series of wrap around LCD displays to give the illusion of windows, though here in night vision mode (it also serves as a standard head up display).
A folding, paper in appearance map…
With an iPhone like multi finger interface to zoom / pan etc…
containing point of interest data…
and route planning. Nice.
Honor Sophia at nearly 5 months. She makes me look old.
…and other obscure characters: CopyPasteCharacter.com A handy little webpage by Konst & Teknik and Martin Ström
Anonymous has been picked up by The Times (ok a few months ago but I only just found this article)
A mini conference thing that I did not attend, however the talks are available online now and are quite good. Get em here. Oh and you can download them as mp4’s which is quite nice…
The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies.
When Microsoft and Apple were founded.
Silly bots. Not very clever.
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