Here’s a thank you to Jongmin Kim for the stunning animation, Project Hangul#1 – The mimetic words of Hangul. A fascinating exploration of the Korean alphabet, it examines how its block structures can be used to write most sounds. The work is an art project that attempts to visually represent onomatopoeic and mimetic words according to their meaning.
This is a fun example of how to slow the web down.
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KUNG FU ROBOT has completed his training and is ready to make his summer reading debut to young eyes on an iPad near you. “Peanut Butter, Jelly & Kung Fu Sandwich” represents the first three chapters of a longer saga and is the result of a Kansas City-based collaboration between illustrator/Kid Rocket Inc. founder Jason Bays and the digital design and app development/publishing team at Propaganda3. Check out a teaser trailer, explore and connect with the KUNG FU ROBOT community at the KungFuRobot site.
KUNG FU ROBOT will be piloting his unicycle across iPads this summer.
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The hardest sales pitch in the world is the one where you can both relieve pain and promise a better product. Too good to be true is a scary proposition. CLEMENGER BBDO BRISBANE decided that a heavy dose of funny was what their microsite that supported their Annual Report service needed to smooth that issue. THIS WILL MAKE YOUR YEAR uses sharp graphics and well-crafted copy to illicit subtle guffaws as the story of the familiar pains this kind of internal report often brings. Each laugh ends with a reminder of the firm’s clever alternative. The EXAMPLES section is as impressive as the production values in the initial presentation.
Congrats to everyone involved in this clever broach of a touchy subject and tougher sale.
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Props to Rupal Parekh for her AdAge post, Recording TV Shows With a Tweet. It explores a clever tech advance by Brazil’s AgenciaClick Isobar. The advancement allows subscribers of Satellite provider, Sky, to record shows they cannot watch from a mobile location. What’s unique is the mechanism. After establishing an account, customers retweet @skybrasil tweets about programs they want to record with the hashtag #skyrec. Sky handles the DVR connection at home.
Congrats to everyone involved in this sweet move. The opportunity to increase subscribers and the satisfaction of existing ones is a great win.
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Against my advice, Tumblr is going to take to 1+ billion from Yahoo! and be influenced by a team that's just beginning a long crawl back. Ingrid Lunden’s TechCrunch post is a succinct read on the coming event. It’s Official: Yahoo Is Buying Tumblr For $1.1B, Vows To Keep It Independent is filled with web-speak gems from both teams about, “ultimate creative canvas, original Internet company,” and my personal favorite, “the product, service and brand will continue to be defined and developed separately with the same Tumblr irreverence, wit, and commitment to empower creators.” (golly) This is a great read that you cannot miss if you endeavor in the digital.
I truly hope the product of this union is as well planned as the initial purchase. This is a huge win for Yahoo! I still believe the momentum Tumblr had going will be stopped; some percent of their development time will go towards a future, single platform social model that Yahoo! is working towards.
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It’s Official: Yahoo Is Buying Tumblr For $1.1B, Vows To Keep It Independent
Jon Russell’s THE NEXT WEB post is the pistol shot every Google Glass fanatic has been waiting for. Developer releases template code to allow almost anyone to create a Google Glass app chronicles the post I/O mayhem created by Applaunch’s Chris Maddern. Maddern has released an open-source template that uses the Mirror API from GitHub. A few database tweeks and your app is running on Glass.
Google controls the production fork of the Glass equation and you can bet that line never sleeps. This is a very clever ploy to have the app side of things progressing nicely as well.
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Developer releases template code to allow almost anyone to create a Google Glass app
Fifty years ago today, the first Monterey Folk Festival kicked off. Artists gracing the bill included The Who, Dylan and Joan Baez. The show closed with the Mamas & the Papas. Here’s their classic, California Dreaming.
P3 hopes it is just the thing to get you shutdown and out into the weekend. Enjoy your time away and find us back in the digital when you return.
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Chris Taylor’s post on Mashable is a great read. Is Marissa Mayer About to Buy Tumblr for $1 Billion? is a sharp review of the pros, cons and potential roadblocks surrounding Yahoo’s rumored purchase of Tumblr. Focusing on the strides Tumblr has made lately, the article concludes with the open question of how readers feel about the rumble.
Yahoo should walk away. Tumblr should run. Yahoo has many problems to solve. Making the same mistake Facebook did with Instagram would be a bad way to begin the healing. Tumblr has nothing to gain from this. They’re on the brink of what Yahoo hopes to accomplish by the purchase. The future of social media already lies in the sharing of images. They should continue on their own, develop a better data capture system, and enjoy the sustainable rewards.
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