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Rather than pull excerpts and quote out of context, I thought I'd share this blog post in full.
It's submitted by 360 Digital Influence Team - Ogilvy PR's global digital practice, and it's a great primer on the various methods used by companies to integrate social media into their organizations.
I just have one word of advice for 360 Digital Influence Team, if I may... "spellcheck", my friends. Spellcheck.
Another Music Video. This time, an interactive film created by Champagne Valentine (Nexus Productions), for Placebo's The Never-Ending Why.
From Champagne Valentine's case study synopsis: "Champagne Valentine’s multi-sensory experience takes the viewer through an interactive gothic landscape full of shadows, monsters and psychedelic splashes of colour.
Internet users can immerse themselves within this world by moving their mouse over the video as the song plays, becoming fully involved with the images presented to them."
Oh yeah, and the song's good, too.
Click the image below, to play the video.
It was great to spend time in real life with a fellow geekoid artsy person and it's surprising how refreshing the concept is. Think about it. We're all in contact through various digital channels, with a wide (and sometimes vast) assortment of people, but how often do we actually SEE most of them these days? Of course part of my problem is that I've been working at home for the past year and spend virtually ALL of my waking hours in the virtual world. ugh. You heard it here: I'm henceforth advocating for more real life meetups! Get on board, and drop by!
So back to the story - As much as I love Amazon, nothing beats the oh- so-physical, real-world sensation of picking up a book and fondling it, fresh off the shelf. Major scores of the day? The latest issue of IdN magazine and, I finally picked up the copy of Gig Posters (volume 1), that I've been coveting since before Christmas.
The giant book is a collection of gig poster art from the online archives of gigposters.com (founded and curated by Clay Hayes) and features a mammoth collection of gig posters by some of the biggest names in concert poster design, like Rob Jones, Steve Walters, Jay Ryan, Gary Houston, Aesthetic Apparatus, Patent Pending Industries, Print Mafia and Squad 19 (to name a few).
It also contains 101 perforated, full-page posters, ready for framing but I'm not about to destroy my book, so if anyone wants to send me another one "for archival purposes" drop me a note. I promise I'll take very good care of it!!
