Red Bull and Cocoon Branding have teamed up to create a rather unique DJ table for Red Bull Canada.
The goal was to create “a stylized yet functional DJ table that would represent Red Bull’s sponsorship of an actual nightlife experience”, and I think they succeeded quite nicely.
In addition, there were some interesting guidelines for the project that Red Bull wanted to meet: The table had to avoid blatant representation of Red Bull – including their trademark blue and aluminum packaging colours or an obvious bull motif.
The end result is a table that is more of an homage to DJs than to Red Bull.
The slotted cutouts are a nod to the days of vinyl, and provide ventilation for the modern DJ’s laptop, the illuminated Red Bull logo can be swapped out during the day for a more subtle look, and a ‘unique’ cut-out ‘down there’ confirms that the table is, in fact, a bull, and not a cow.
Crappy Cat is a fantastically interactive and animated sidescroller from VanBeater, better known as Trevor Van Meter. (Trevor also made Fly Guy.)
More experience than game, Crappy Cat puts you in control of a heavy drinking cat with an eye patch as you make your way through the interactive theater.
I won’t spoil any of the surprise, since you definitely need to check it out for yourself, so click through and see what the Crappy Cat is all about!
Agent Provocateur’s interactive advermovie/choose your own adventure film is “the most scandalous experience ever seen on a AP website”.
In it, you must head into a dark castle, filled with mistresses in various states of undress (though always clothed in some sort of lingerie that Agent Provocateur will gladly sell you with the “Buy Me” skull) as you attempt to save a virgin by making the right choices.
Times is “a new type of newsreader for Mac OS X Leopard”.
By rethinking the way you read news, we’ve created the best possible news experience straight from the ground up.
Instead of treating your RSS feeds like emails, Times is designed to present them like a newspaper, with headlines and photos from a variety of sources to guide your way.
Like a newspaper, Times allows you to separate feeds into their own areas, create pages for different subjects, and more.
Times also shows the entire article within the program, and formats them all the same for easy reading.
Ready to give RSS a try, but aren’t quite ready to give up your newspaper just yet?
Keith Lam’s movingMario is a fantastically classic art installation that takes the Mario experience and transfers virtual movement into real world experience.
Of course there’s an artsy explanation for everything, and he probably dives a bit deep into the symbolism of it all, but it’s hard to argue that the results aren’t cool:
Check out theDemos and Flickr for a full rundown of what was involved.
Each year, the Inupiat Eskimos of Barrow, Alaska are allowed to hunt 22 whales for their yearly supply of food.
To document and preserve this experience, Jonathan Harris tagged along and took 3,214 photographs over the course of seven days, showing everything from his taxi ride to the Newark airport to the butchering of the second whale caught by the hunters.
Photos were taken at five-minute intervals (even while sleeping with the aid of a chronometer), though this “photographic heartbeat” was quickened during moments of high adrenaline.
The end result is a beautiful and powerful tale of a people’s fight to survive using techniques developed by their ancestors long before there was any other way to eat.
Like a newspaper, Times allows you to separate feeds into their own areas, create pages for different subjects, and more.
