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Google’s Liquid Galaxy is engineer Jason Holt’s 20% time project, a wraparound view of 8 LCD screens providing a truly immersive experience of Google Earth and Street View.

We changed shirts over 100 times each, taking individual pictures of each unique shirt. The designs on the shirts are not photoshopped. They are real shirts for each frame of animation. The video was exported at 30fps, while the T-shirt animation moves at 6fps (with a few exceptions where it moves faster) So, for each shirt, we took 5 pictures, so the animation of us (Rhett&Link) moves at 30fps, but the T-shirt animations move a bit slower. There are a few places where the motion seems so smooth that it looks like video. That’s because, in those parts, there was no changing in T-shirts, and Joe used burst mode to capture the frames, making it look very smooth.

Street View is now on the ski slopes! You can now see the venues for the games and the world’s first snowmobile Street View imagery on Google Maps.

Universal Everything Reel / 2010

Google: Parisian Love Ad

a bit cheesy, but still a nice twist for a commercial promoting a search engine.

Clear Channel Interactive User Path

Austrian student Clemento, specialized into multi-media. A shooting carried out with a Canon 5D Mark II in objective MPE 65mm.

Blue Bell SS10 preview drag video function

The new Spring/Summer 2010 website for Blue Bell with a new kind of interactivity where you can click on the model in the film and drag him around. This video shows you how it works.

a Masters student at the Bartlett School of Architecture in the UK, created this short film called “Augmented (hyper) Reality: Domestic Robocop” to show us what the world might look like in a future home embedded with augmented reality interfaces.

Filled with advertising panels that come to life, the user’s concept kitchen is something out of “Alice In Wonderland” with talking appliances and portals to outside landscapes right at your fingertips. If this kaleidoscope vision is indeed the future, we may all need to increase our internal RAM.

Via Augmented.org

A new iPhone app that turns your voice into an instrument in real time. You sing into the iPhone, and it turns your voice into a guitar, a bass, synth, etc.

The entire song in the video is created with just a voice singing into the iPhone.