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Even a Rock’s Gotta Eat, Right?

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:51:06 +0000

OK… Can someone please explain this movie poster? Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a tooth fairy?! We haven’t heard much about it either, but the movie comes out this month, in the cinematic graveyard that is January. If this one passed enough network meetings to get greenlit, produced, and distributed, we’re going into the movie biz. Sign us up for a seven picture deal, stat.

3D Gift cards all the rage this Holiday Season

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:50:35 +0000

Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a gleaming new hammer or table saw coming straight at you. At least according to Home Depot. For 2009’s holiday season, Home Depot has introduced a new line of plastic gift cards that are webcam enabled, meaning that if you hold the card up to your computer’s webcam, cool things will happen. For instance, you’ll see a virtual preview of featured products that can be bought with the card – as they appear to pop out of the card onscreen. You can see Home Depot’s demonstration of the feature here.

Bridging the gap between the printed page and the web is a technique that’s gaining in popularity. A similar tactic was used last month by InStyle Magazine for their cover featuring Taylor Swift – hold it up to your computer, and prepare to be entertained – interactively.

It’s a smart move, as traditional print media becomes more archaic each year. The addition of “virtual content” entices consumers with an added benefit to buy something in printed form, and it gives companies a way to track consumer behavior offline. Don’t be surprised if this technique becomes widespread in 2010, on newspapers, ticket stubs, DVD boxes, and maybe even breakfast cereals.

I wonder what a virtual Cap’n Crunch would say via webcam. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Crazy Cover Art

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:38:39 +0000

There are good album covers. There are intentionally provocative album covers (we’re talking to you, Adam Lambert). And this one blows them all away. This 2009 release by the band Wallpaper comes bundled with special glasses that make the cover virtually explode in bursts of color. Don’t know anything about their music, but we’re intrigued by the cover. Not your standard band-in-studio shot. Any LP cover that requires glasses or special equipment to view is tops in our book.

Asking more of an audience is nothing new. The Flaming Lips released their 1999 album Zaireeka in a format that could only be listened to by pressing play at the same time on four(!) different CD players.

If you want to compare this cover with some utterly strange album art of the past, check out the Bizarre Records website for a fun viewing experience. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.