Crest: "You Can Say Anything with a Smile" Campaign

Wait you really can say anything with a smile. Dan Lucy the Art that did this spot made fun of my purple shirt with a smile when i was an intern at saatchi.

Portfolio Night 7 promo

I believe all of us out of school would tell a story like that, I know I would with this economy we will do anything to avoid waiting tables with maters degrees

We ether be like this guy or
" I mean after all Wal-marts always looking for greeters"

General Motors Commercial Spoof: infoMania

My dad told me if you start a business and it fails you let it go, fire everyone and start over. Do not repeat the same mistakes.

General Motors has reached a tentative agreement to sell Saab to the Swedish sports car manufacturer Koenigsegg. They are trying to rebuild, wait! did you see their New Tv spot, how the hell are they rebuilding by spending so much on an Ad, they will never learn. 

This is what David Griner had to say: 
Apparently, a slick video montage doesn't quite convince everyone that General Motors can claw its way out of the abyss and return to its former glory. Current TV's "InfoMania" show created this spoof (which has a bit of salty language up front) to highlight just how much random window dressing GM puts on an ad that's supposed to be frank and to the point. I'd love to see what clips got cut in editing. I think it could have ended a lot stronger with Mount Rushmore, sad clown, iron girder, Woody Guthrie, gold miner, tombstone, zombie hand.

Jeff Howe - Crowdsourcing

With Crowdsourcing I can see agencies benefiting a great deal. I mean they can know get ideas from everyone and pay them less. This is bad for creative’s with out any special talents in Art or production. Well I guess any thing new is bad for them. Thank Goodness Miami Ad school is training it creative to find their USP and benefit and be the best at it.

HDR photography

I learned about this today on my first shoot has and AD for the New Times.com.

In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

DEADLINE post-it stop motion

DEADLINE | post-it stop motion

Posted on | June 13, 2009 | No Comments

A student’s view on how he struggle with his deadlines. It took them 3 months of planning, 4 days shooting, and over 6,000 post-it notes.
Directed by Bang-yao Liu.

MGMT - Kids

Wow this is amazing? WTF poor kid he is going to have nightmares

Chris Baker's Philosophy

"Never stop learning, that's my philosophy

the minute you stop feeding your brain is the minute you die".

-Chris Baker

Obama and McCain - Dance Off!

Funny to look at

Project Natal Motion Sensing Controller for XBOX 360

Microsoft announces Natal, the next controller for the Xbox 360

Microsoft announces a slew of improvements to the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, topped off with what could be the biggest controller announcement ever made: no controller at all!

[Edit: We've finally found some video! Check out the vision trailer everyone saw at the press conference at the bottom of the page.]
The Xbox 360 hardware revolution

Microsoft calls it "Project Natal." It's a new piece of technology that uses depth-sensing cameras, microphones, and specialized software to enable voice and facial recognition, full body motion sensing, and the ability to play just about any game without a controller in your hands.

At today's Microsoft press conference, which served as the unofficial start to E3 (the show floor doors don't open until tomorrow), Steven Spielberg walked out on the stage and talked about a 'controller' that "not only recognizes your thumbs and fingers, but your entire body." With it, we'd be able to wrap our fingers around imaginary steering wheels, leap onto imaginary skateboards, or judo-duel with imaginary enemies, seeing all our free movements reflected on-screen, in real time.

Now, granted, we had an idea that this sort of motion sensing was on the horizon, and had even seen creative director Kudo Tsunoda flipping through dashboard menus with simple waves of his hands. But on stage today, Kudo stepped in front of the camera and was instantly recognized and logged into his Xbox Live profile. His avatar matched his every movement (if a little jerkily), and he proceeded to play 3D breakout with his body as the paddle.

It's certainly exciting, but it's also nowhere near ready for public consumption, so Microsoft had a few other announcements as well. Xbox Live is getting a bevy of new additions, including full 1080p streaming support for all its movies and TV shows (that's streaming, not downloads) in a system Microsoft is calling "Instant-On 1080p HD." They've also partnered with three other companies: the UK's Sky TV to bring live video to the console, and Facebook and Twitter to integrate social networking into your dashboard.

We'll have video for you as soon as we can, folks! In the meantime, E3's only just begun, and GamePro will keep you updated just as fast as our furious fingers can type.