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This film was produced by Architecture Masters student Keiichi Matsuda, as part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality.

Very much looking forward to the release of Bioshock 2 which comes out this week. I’d love to get my hands on the game bible that I’ve heard rumors about – Bioshock is a rich game world while at the same time haunting, beautiful and bizzare.

Recent D&AD winner and comes c/o the clever folks at Mytton Williams.

To mark the day one month before Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland movie hits theaters, Alice 2010 presents their Cheshire Cat paper toy.

Build your own Cheshire Cat and download + unzip the pdf file (283KB) here: Cheshire Cat

1. print it out on 60# card stock.
2. score the dotted lines.
3. fold the dotted lines.
4. cut out the pieces following the solid lines second.
5. glue everything together using the tabs.

The WorkBook Project joined forces with Filmmaker Magazine to produce a number of daily videos from Park City. SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.

Enter The Ninja is an awesome video by South African band Die Antwoord (translated: The Answer).

Check it.

PS: I SO want a Yin Yang shirt.

A visual snapshot of internet consumption – provides an interesting look at the state of the internet in 2009.

Printable Valentine card by EMpapers

Inside reads: ‘Can’t you see I Love You?’. An instant printable valentine card, just download, print and fold. A2 envelope template included.

An orchestral milk float, robots drawing humans, and a family of holographic beings as well as other immersive experiences and arty happenings at the second annual Kinetic Art Fair.

February 4th - 7th 2010, P3, 35 Marylebone Road, W1 London.

Cool industrial ring by KinektDesign.com

Kinekt Design’s Gear Ring from Glen Liberman on Vimeo.

We've been waiting for this for a while and now can show you a sneak peek of the future of online video. Please be upstanding for HTML5.

What's all the fuss about? No flash, no plugins, no buffering issues, no worries. Yes, this is what Steve has been waiting for and one of the main reasons why you find any Adobe products on your iPhone. Props once again to cousin Ciaran for the linkage.

Kate, Naomi, Kristen, Amber, Natalia, Daria, Jeneil and Lara shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot.

Out on Feb 8th.

American Apparel are good for two things. White vests in the summer and hot girls in their ads. It seems they're running out of models, as they've just launched a search for the "best bottom in the world". Amateur porn or the most perfect marketing campaign? I'll let you to decide ...

I received a mention in a New York Times article entitled Talking About a Revolution (for a Digital Age) The article also references William Castle and the experiences he created around his work. Castle was an inspiration for some of the Cinema ARG experiences I did around my last film Head Trauma. DIY and the concept of transmedia were popular topics at Sundance this year and both have been popping up more and more in the press. Here’s a trailer from 1955 where Castle – always the showman – is plugging the experience around his newest film The Tingler.

New work by Dutch net-artist Rafael Rozendaal

Into Time

• Shoreditch locals, Tweetdeck isn't new, but certainly remaining fresh with regular feature updates and a super loyal community. As a standalone app developed in Adobe Flex, it allows for greater functionality and the recent iPhone version allows you to take it with you.
  
  
• CoTweet started making some noise mid-last year. It is now out of beta and running supreme in the "enterprise" market, aimed squaring at larger organisations with multiple Twitter teams. Tweet assigning, redirecting and commenting is incredibly useful and the Outlook-style UI makes for very easy use.
  
  

I've been a big fan of Nicholas Felton since he produced his first Annual Report in 2006 and the awesome Daytum site. His 2009 report is more of the awesome same and as data visualisation is very much "on-trend" at the moment, will surely boost his already rising profile.

Get yours now at Beverly Hsu (via The Cool List)

I spent the last few days at the Sundance Film Festival. When I’m at the fest I always make it a point to checkout the Frontier which is located in the basement of a mall. Its a sprawling space that brings together a nice mix of new media, tech and art. Here are a few pics.

Well, they're not "officially" Moleskin, but who's complaining ...

Protein idol, Tim Berners-Lee opened up the UK Governement's data.gov.uk site to the public yesterday. It might not seen like big news to most of you, but we've been tracking the site for some time as it marks a big step in creating a truly open source public data service.

While taking a page from the US with the launch of its own public data hub, the UK data portal offers almost three times the number of data sets available on the US site.

Speaking at the launch, TBL explained, "Data underpins our economy and our society - data about how much is being spent and where, data about how schools, hospitals and police are performing, data about where things are and data about the weather. Yet until recently not many non-technical people concerned themselves with data and how it could be used better."

Our friends at Shooting People (the world’s largest network of independent filmmakers) are always looking for ways to help filmmakers make money. Their latest initiative is Mofilm's Make An Ad competition, which culminatas in Barcelona this February. Open until 1 February, filmmakers are asked to make an ad of less than 90 seconds for one of five brands. Prizes include a car, going to Tribeca Film Festival, designing your own film tech packages, and a bunch of other cash prizes (ranging from USD1,000 to USD10,000). Boom.

Banksy made a movie. Go see it at Sundance.

"I'm Here - A Robot Love Story" is premiering at Sundance and then online here. More details on the blog here.

More than a decade ago it was “search” that was driving innovation and large investments in both infrastructure and talent. When Google first started indexing unique URLs in 1998 there were already 26 million. Two years later the amount of indexed pages had crossed the billion mark. Flash forward to this winter and the amount of unique URLs exceeds 1 trillion.

We are swimming in a sea of data. On average Americans wade through 34 gigs of information a day according to a recent report by researchers at the University of California, San Diego. The ability to “filter” this information will drive future innovation. How people are posting, commenting and clicking will greatly impact the ways films are created, curated and shared over the next decade.

The desire to tap into social data is evident in recent deals that have Google, Microsoft and Yahoo lining up to access Twitter’s feed in an effort to improve their own traditional search results. The fact that three leaders in search are interested in something as small as 140 characters of information points to the value of social streams. From breaking news instantly, in many cases before traditional outlets, the power of word of mouth threatens to devalue massive ad spends by the studios; the ability of people to connect and communicate in real time through handheld devices is challenging many established industries while at the same time enabling a new form of social curation.

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Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers – 27 track mashup – free stream and download

Awesome. Via the equally awesome, King of Africa.

Arabic + Helvetica = my two favourite influences in typography and this new typeface by Nadine Chahine is genius. Designed to work seamlessly with Roman Helv Neue, the Arabic version is now available at Linotype.