Paper Bubble by Jason Wagner

Design agency ‘Information Architects‘ has created an image of the top 300 most popular sites and domain using Tokyo’s Metro map as a basis. You’ll need to make this image bigger with a click to see it in all it’s glory.

Image copyright ‘Information Architects‘

There has been quite a lot written about this already on the net but it’s such a great use of digital trickery that I had to add my pennies worth.

So, at the end of May Warner Bros released the official site for the latest Batman film and if you’ve not been there yet do it now… Done? Good.

So what the hell!?! It’s a black site with a pretty disturbing sound file, nothing else.

As word spread via the internet community, blogs, twitter and other sites many people tried to work out what the audio file was saying. Some attempted to play it backwards, change the sampling and other audio tricks. But nothing worked.

However it was a poster on the Superhero Hype message board that found this.

Hidden inside the audio file was a Twitter hashtag. As the word spread and people started to tweet #TheFireRises they received a link to a hidden page on the Dark Knight site.

As more people tweeted their profile image was used to create part of a collage that eventually revealed this.

A photo of Tom Hardy as Bane!

The thought and simplicity of this idea is astounding. It relies entirely on the community to share information, communicate and discover the truth. It’ a testement to social media, the internet community and the agency that made this work are genius.

Of couse, this type of campaign only really works for a movie, we wouldnt be using this at Ping for the latest NHS campaign but it does illustrate how involved people are willing to get to discover the truth.

via lots of people and Joblo

My apologies for not posting recently, I’ve had a busy week or was it two weeks creating the Ping website and getting ready for showcasing at Digital 2011 at the SECC in Glasgow. I’m very happy to report that everything went very well, Ping site is getting amazing feedback and traffic has gone through the roof since the conference. So let’s celebrate with a cartoon montage.

I’m not even going to attempt to explain “Fez”, except to say it’s a new Xbox Arcade game due out anytime now. Watching the video should explain… erm. Watching the video will make your head hurt and also make you want the game. You have been warned.



via ToplessRobot

It’s all just a bit too accurate… and while we’re at it Apple, please give me Flash support and an iTunes that works! Btw there is an ad before the main feature

via Maketh although at least Apple are giving some iPad owners a partial refund.

Make your own warning signs

“Conductor“, by Alexander Chen has used New York’s publicly available subway schedule API to create a musical visualisation of the Big Apple’s underground network.

Using HTML5, a wee bit of JavaScript and some Flash the visual trickery extends into the audible whenever a line passes over another, resulting in… well take a look for yourself or watch the video below.