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Advertising agency Publicis E-dologic from Israel has come up with a great way to take Facebook and social networking into the real world. By letting visitors to an amusement park wear RFID bracelets, people were able to ‘like’ various attractions using the on-location ‘like machines’ and get automatically tagged in pictures that were uploaded to Facebook.

This is a great way to erase the whole ‘logging on to Facebook and typing’-phase and makes sharing opinions and content much more fun and intuitive. And potentially creates a hell of a lot Facebook spam.

Watching cameos from the likes of Jane Lynch and Jeff Goldblum, it’s easy to forget that the breakout Web series Easy to Assemble is, at its core, one giant IKEA commercial.

Article from Fast Company
Official “Easy To Assemble” site or on “My Damn Channel”

macro kingdom from clemento on Vimeo.

macro kingdom II from clemento on Vimeo

Camera: 5DmarkII
Macro lens: MP-E 65mm

Just discovered this really cool blog from Partners & Spade. A daily log of visual research, inspiration and digital ephemera. I love that you can browse the posts by chromatics too.

Released in 1972, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 18, 1972 and reached #6 on the US charts in 1973.

Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band’s popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop.[1] Rolling Stone magazine has called them “the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies.”

Source: Wikipedia

Steely Dan: Do It Again

This song is incredible and I remember it from the 80′s when my dad brought it back to our place from New York.

I like the combo of snow, skate and arcade games mashed into this nice video from the LA/Bear Mountain based production company.

For more videos check: http://knifeshowinc.com/

BIG BAG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Today is Wednesday. But it’s also the day when The Twilight Saga: Eclipse premieres all over the world. The highly successful girl-meets-vampire-but-also-likes-werewolf drama will surely sell tons of tickets all over the world. Back in the days vampires wore capes and lived in Romanian castles, but these days they go to high school and act like every other teenager. Except they’re unusually pale and empty veins rather than beer bootles.

The first two movies in the series have already passed the 1 billion dollars mark and created a huge fan base of garlic-shy kids around the world. Nevertheless, the folks behind the movie has once again trusted the agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky to create some fuss about the movie in cooperation with Burger King. Target groups match perfectly and having watched the film, I guess that the audience will want to sink their teeth into a piece of meat of their own at a nearby BK.

CPB and BK have created a scratch-off game where customers get to choose what team they are on; the pale Edward or muscular wolfman Jacob. The game is promoted in a sweet tv spot where fans do their part of the job getting customers convinced.

Also included is a campaign site that reveals what team you’re on based on Facebook Connect. You can also play the Eclipse game, watch behind the scenes footage and lots more. But the tv spot really does the trick for me (some people even say it’s better than the actual movie, just don’t tell the kids).

I can’t say that the song is the best I’ve ever heard, but I’m a sucker for video clips depicting a young man with a beard chaperoned by 4 lovely ladies being escorted by a police officer to a beach to recreate the album cover to 2 Live Crew’s Nasty As They Wanna Be before breaking out into dance. Also, Malcolm X or something is in there. Whatever, this video is amazing is what I’m saying.

You can see more stuff from Miike Snow on his mySpace page, or more info about the video’s director Andreas Nilsson on his Wikipedia page.