Gore TV aka Current is looking for an IPO in the region of $100m. Targeted (only ad execs could think of that word!) at ‘young adults’ which I think excludes me at a sybaritic 33, it has a visually arresting and intuitive interface.
Current claims to be the first ‘fully integrated television network’. Me? I don’t want to integrate I want to poke and prod and look at videos meshing together before my eyes and pretty ever changing statistics popping up before me.
Viewpoints is a thing of wonder, it’s a video facewall, when you click on a face a 1 minute video appears and you can browse by topics such as ‘Rich Ecopreneurs’ etc… It’s true peer to peer (human to human) interaction, people can quickly influence their peers by uploading their viewpoint.
I’m so impressed with it, I’m going to give it a category all of it’s own: design porn.
“Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been bombarding the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the heads from major adverts around town, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps. (Before and after images of a gruesomely guillotined model in a print ad, right).
Based on the images uploaded to his/her Flickr stream, “The East London Decapitator” as he/she has been dubbed, is largely striking mainstream advertisements…”
Ever wondered what happens to a sticker after it’s been stuck to a wall? No? In case you had Mumbleville lays it all out for you. Just to make things clear.
Here at the Fat Canteen we’re the prowling hungry lions of the Web TV savannah, gleefully upping our antelope count on a daily basis and at serious risk of an antelopembolism. But sometimes we read oft quoted statistics on Web TV’s rising popularity that make us think statisticians deserve to get eaten too. I mean who makes up this sinewy meat?
‘Nearly half of Americans say they will watch less television if the writers’ strike continues, according to two polls released in the last week. And one of the polls, by Interpret, said 35 percent have already changed their TV viewing habits as a direct result of the strike. Reruns and reality shows, said respondents, will not suffice.
Meanwhile, Burst Media’s poll found that 25.6 percent of respondents expect to watch more online video as a result of the strike.
‘Malwarez is a series of visualizations of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code. For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed, their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity.’ (via Information Aesthetics)
Does being able to visualize a computer virus make those appendage enhancements any less alluring?
This is wordy, quite literally but well worth it, though one does wonder…why?
‘We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. The images for each word were obtained using Google’s Image Search and other engines. A total of 7,527,697 images were used, each tile being the average of 140 images. The average reveals the dominant visual characteristics of each word. For some, the average turns out to be a recognizable image; for others the average is a colored blob. The list of nouns was obtained from Wordnet, a database compiled by lexicographers which records the semantic relationship between words. Using this database, we extract a tree-structured semantic hierarchy which we use to arrange tiles within the poster. Read the rest of this entry »
On the web, fat is the new thin, we’re just glad to be able to contribute.
‘Blogs written by fat people — and it’s fine to use the word, they say — have multiplied in recent months, filling a virtual soapbox known as the fatosphere, where bloggers calling for fat acceptance challenge just about everything conventional medical wisdom has to say about obesity.
Smart, sassy and irreverent, bloggers with names like Big Fat Deal, FatChicksRule and Fatgrrl (“Now with 50 percent more fat!”) buck anti-obesity sentiment. They celebrate their full figures and call on readers to accept their bodies, quit dieting and get on with life.’
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Gore TV aka Current is looking for an IPO in the region of $100m. Targeted (only ad execs could think of that word!) at ‘young adults’ which I think excludes me at a sybaritic 33, it has a visually arresting and intuitive interface.
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