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Bang Bang Bang (Tron Advantage)

Birger — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:44:17 +0000

Yesterday I found this amazing video, music performed by Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. (watch it on Youtube). Visually it is a fresh cover of the Tron style mixed with 80′s and freestyle rap elements. The lyrics are also great, an abstract of todays mindset. Quote:

We’re never gonna, believe in, the stories, that you’re weavin’
We’re never gonna, believe in, the stories, that you’re weavin’
We’re never gonna, believe in, the stories, that you’re weavin’
We’re believin’ in the proof, we’re believin’ in the truth
We’re believin’ in each other, not you, you, you

Stories (you with the tall tales), how many stories (so many tall tales)
We climb the structure (you scale the ladder)
You build it higher (you make us madder)
We take our aim (so now we’re bearin’ off) You perch above your nest ( _ in your charms)
The stories in your head (it’s a crazy bald head)
That’s what got you dead

Bang Bang Bang!

Why Slideshare Sucks – Fucking Short Version

Birger — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:52:22 +0000

Slideshare makes it easy to upload and share presentations, documents, videos for free. I would like to thank the team for making this possible. But there are some things making me mad, I don’t know how many time I did like they do in The Big Lebowski:

The Big Lebowski Fucking Short Version

F**k the upload tool
It’s great approach to build an user interface with as few steps as possible. Kudos for that. The upload tool itself works pretty well, but every upload gets published automatically, without the permission of the user. I’m missing a final preview allowing me to publish the upload after hitting a “OK” button. Another way to solve this problem would be to add a “hide” option when the user selects a file for upload.

F**k the type recognition
The document type recognition automatically sets the type of uploaded files to presentation, document or video. While video files are easy to distinguish, the recognition fails at differing presentatios and documents. I admit: Every time the document was recognised as the opposite type — for example as presenation when I think it was a document — it was my foult, the file was created with wrong settings by me. Nevertheless the lack of commuincation between the service and the user is a big part of the problem. After uploading a document, my file shows up in the wrong section without telling me. Please communicate with me why the file is recognised as a document or presentation. Actually there is no way to control or change the type.

F**k this retarded interface
A least the interface of Slideshare is retarded. It’s not about the design, it’s all about the interface lag. When I’m uploading different documents and they are wrong, I have to delete them. In this case a lot of my actions are not recognized or displayed properly. Did I deleted a file? Did I changed a name? It still looks the same. After logging out of Slideshare misterious things happen: The wrong files are deleted, unwanted uploads still appear. That’s why I’ve started to log out and log in every time I’m changing something on Slideshare only to avoid this. Please Slideshare team, prevent this interference and keep the interface up to date!

WTF VUVUZELA

Birger — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:14:25 +0000

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYb9qtO8OQ

Youtube: The Vuvuzela -- Legendary Horn!

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGygEbhvOOU

Youtube: Raw Video: World Cup Crescendo From Vuvuzela

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-rKemC0QI0

Youtube: ESPN commentators hate the Vuvuzela’s at the Confederations Cup

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K7DY_L-P_0

Youtube: Tuning Out Vuvuzelas at the World Cup

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIGIAh2GTOA

Youtube: Hyundai Giant vuvuzela -- the sound test

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3xDWk9vbNw

Youtube: Vuvuzela 2010 for iPhone and iPad

Interstellar Technoverse Futurism

Birger — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:42:14 +0000

A few days ago I saw the La Roux “Bulletproof” music video for the first time. I was surprised by the visual style, reminding me of the early Cindy Lauper (80′s pop rocker), the “Tron” movie (clean and simple) and design elements I have seen before in Daft Punk music videos (lens flare, colors). What really strucked me: This video has been published in May 2009 – a year ago!

Yesterday I saw the “On a mission” music video performed by Gabriella Cilmi. This track has been released in January 2010 and is much more a classic dance music video than La Roux. It is set into a space frontier plot and is a great reminiscence to the visual style from the late 80′s and the interstellar science fiction/fantasy art from the 50′s and 60′s.

While I was searching for videos which remind me to these styles, I stumbled upon the Tron 2 trailer. I think all these examples proof that our culture is heading into an new era of design: Post-Futurism. The “new thing” seems to be that technology which surrounds us today – like Smartphones, Tablets, Websites, Online Services, Mobile Internet – make visions from the past more tangible than ever. Which is great, because the imagery of classic futurism is shared with equal ideas across the world: Unity, freedom, new frontiers.

La Roux – Bulletproof (2009)

Gabriella Cilmi – On A Mission (2010)

Daft Punk – Robot Rock (2009)

Tron 2 – Trailer (2010)

Robert Babicz did it again

Birger — Sat, 08 May 2010 07:49:36 +0000

One hour of amazing electro music introduced by the whispering voice of Robert Babicz himself:

Robert Babicz – SYSTEMATIC SESSIONS MIX by robbabicz

47 comments and 55 favorites within five days – this mix is already famous! If you want to have the track, subscribe to Roberts Website and he sends you the download link within a few days.

LeWeb’09 visuals

Birger — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:07:50 +0000

Today @bahne tweeted a message, shouting a big ‘thank you’ for sharing the detailed LeWeb’09 participant list. The list includes names, countries, companies for most of the participants. Looking at this long table with 1550 (updated Dec 04, 2009: 2055) entries I was thrilled by the large number of companies and countries. But hey, this is just a table without emotion. That’s why I’ve created a visual each of the participants companies and countries. My incentive was to create the visuals using only free software tools.

Step 1: It was neccessary to reprocess the table data. I did this using Open Office to create a new spreadsheet and checked wrong entries using Google Search and free people search services.

Step 2: I exctracted a list of company names and created a wordle word cloud, using the free Wordle service. I adjusted the colors and selected a template, which really easy with wordle. The following image was created my LeWeb’09 Companies visual, also available on flickr:
Version 1.1 updated Dec 06, 2009

Step 2b: Then I started to reformat, check and count the countries. The following list is created with Open Office and shared with you using Google Docs document sharing. LeWeb’09 participants by countries (public list):
Version 1.1 updated Dec 06, 2009

Step 3: Participants countries visualisation. I did some research for free online tools to create a piechart from the list. There are a few services online (read this mashable post), but watching the results I realized that I need another way to visualize the countries. Speaking from countries – what about a world map? The result of my search is the following map, made with Google Geomap service. It’s really easy, only a few lines of HTML code and the map was finished. Thanks Google!
Version 1.1 updated Dec 06, 2009

If you want to embedd this map on your blog or website, simply post this snipped in HTML mode. To adjust the width change the number 775 to a width that fits with your blog/website:

Welcome to the psychiatric hotline

Birger — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:18:16 +0000

“Welcome to the psychiatric hotline.”
If you are obsessive compulsive, please press one repeatedly.
If you are co-dependant, please ask someone to press 2.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid/delusional, we know who you are, what you want, just stay on the line so that we can trace your call.
If you are a schizophrenic, listen carefully, and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are manic depressive, it doesn’t matter which number you press…no one will answer anyways.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGnAS79lQBU

TURLs 01.18.09

Birger — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:42:11 +0000

Interesting Twitter URLs, collected 01.18.09

@Jimconnolly
Love tech? http://thetechnewsblog.com

@DaivRawks
Reading: Things to do when Twitter is down. http://bit.ly/FEpN

@DaivRawks
Reading: 7 Tips For Using Twitter to Grow Your Business http://is.gd/gkia

@upicks
10 Really Cool Google Chrome Hacks – Anyone use Chrome? You might find some of these tips useful – http://bit.ly/WHVs

@upicks
Amazing 3D Sidewalk Art – Creative and cool, seen this before? Well here’s some new additions from the same artist – http://bit.ly/MHHs

@Bloggeries
11 Reasons You Ca’t Ignore SM in 09 – http://tinyurl.com/7ductd

@chrisbrogan
Imagine these two teaching you about the Internet? – http://is.gd/glbD

@upicks
Multiple Shots of Plane Landing in Hudson River: Some live video footage you might not have seen yet of the crash http://bit.ly/p1F0

@upicks
8 Sites for Free Presets for Adobe Lighroom’s Presets: I have yet to try them myself, download for later use – http://bit.ly/sePA

@upicks
21 Must Have Web Apps for Designers and Developers – Very helpful resource esp. if you are traveling and designing – http://bit.ly/ugti

@gina713
Seen Magpie yet? You can run your own ads in other people’s timelines. Now, that’s a neat idea! http://be-a-magpie.com/7lyjte

@upicks
My Top 10 Social Action Platforms of 2008: I think about covers it. What do you think? http://tinyurl.com/6ulqba

@podpimp
Belkin faked positive Amazon reviews http://is.gd/gfpa

@stejules
7 Ways to Be Worth Following on Twitter http://bit.ly/3E3M Be Interesting, Be Informative, Be Interactive, Be Promotional, Be Personal…

This C to the E to the R to the N

Birger — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:09:00 +0000

CERN: The Large Hadron rap!
Two in one: Viral video and visual explanation. Well done!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

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Birger — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:12:11 +0000

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