Pig n Chips

Here is a lovely example of someTilt Shift for a music video.

Fire (Jimmy Edgar Remix) from Erik West on Vimeo.

50 photos here thanks to Smashing Magazine

Nothing better then a couple of mash ups before the pub.

HTML 5 is to offer offline capabilities, a massive leap forward since the current HTML 4 was introduced. Offline seems to be a technology people are looking to, offering a seamless user experience between the web, your desktop and now mobile thanks to HTML 5 and AIR. Lovely. Full article here

First the remote now the board. Well done to the Two German artificial intelligence researchers who have integrated Google Earth and the wii board.

I like the look of this simple design, whether one: it’s user friendly and two: I’d wear it with the worry of looking like a Star Trek geek is yet to unfold.

It would however make the ideal drug dealer bling, the need for two phones is no more.

Opera the browser I never use (love the firefox add-ons) is to integrate Carakan a browser Javascript engine that will increase the performance between 5 and 50 times. This will drastically improve the user experience of some of the more interactive web applications which depend on JavaScript and Ajax user interfaces. Which is now quickly becoming more popular amongst developers.

Looking forward to the film Caroline, the animation looks amazing. The campaign for this film by W+K is also amazing. Blogs were the target from animators to film crafters, because those communities were already eager to talk about Coraline, W+K just needed to give them something to talk about, so they created 50 handcrafted boxes of movie ‘relics’ taken directly from the film. Done.

Twestival, a place were like minded people (tweeters) go crazy, stay up late tweeting. The festivals are organised 100% by volunteers and 100% of the money raised from these events go directly to support charity: water projects. You can even buy that festival merchandise. No cotton bags though.

charity: water promo featuring “Time Bomb” by Beck from charity: water on Vimeo.

McKinney uses an interface which allows the user to interact and navigate through the site using a conversation engine. The sites content is then pulled through and delivered in Flash.

At Karmarama you really have to watch your back. Check out my new desktop background. Looks a little like Matt Lucas.