Life imitating art, imitating life

Through the use of oversaturated colours and some clever focus manipulation, a young artist has been making real life appear as highly detailed models. They are uncannily deceptive and very clever.

Talking in the Third Dimension

A French type nut has created a 3D shape that when rotated in specific ways can spell any letter of the alphabet. A very beautiful font that would suit a 3D piece very well.

I'd buy one

"That's what I am TALKING about!"

"The music sounds better with you..."

IKEAs new product site raises the bar higher than ever and gives me that all too familiar "shit, look what IKEAs done" feeling!

The website features an IKEA styled house full of crazy dancing weirdos that move and sway to whatever track you choose to upload from your collection. The music detection to video is tight, and the dancing is compellingly weird to watch. I've spent a good 15 mins playing with it.
The site is in Sweedish, so to upload a track click on the little note icon in the bottom left hand corder just below the video player. Another sweet touch is having the dancer fall to the floor, exhausted, when you turn the sound off, as if they are naught but slaves to the pounding rhythems the users supply. Probably more poetic than they meant it to be, but its still very cool.

Play here. Now.

G/R/A/S/S/A/R/T

I'm rather chuffed that I was able to find something cool, progressive and tennis-related before the end of Wimbledon (as I write this the mens finalists have just returned from their 2nd rain break).

JWT, in a actually-making-good-advertising shocker, have made these grass artworks that were installed on the ticket queue line at Wimbledon. Working with artists and using some simple photographic techniques, they were able to get the grass to grow in different heights, thicknesses and colours to produce these monochrome masterpieces. Arguably it doesn't seem to have much to do with HSBC, but they are innovative, relevant to Wimbledon and eye-catching. Creative review's article on how they did it is here.

These are the most used words in the past 20 posts over on ]-[appy Thought

Beautiful and compelling, Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

Edible ink for your eyes and tongue

A fantastic product innovation, M&M's new website allows you to 'print' your own images and messages onto M&Ms. You'll get them in packets and you can actually eat them. Pick your colour, phrase and add a jpg and you've got one sweet promotional item, just made sure its not some kind of business card, or your info could get swallowed rather than remembered...