LambWatch!

LambWatch is a live 24 hour webcam and audio feed from a sheep farm in Yorkshire. The "lamb-cam" is situated on a tree trunk, next to a bird feeder, overlooking rolling countryside.
This may seem completely pointless but it is strangely addictive! It offers a quiet distraction and a chance to momentarily escape to the countryside.

The site has attracted visitors worldwide with people logging on as far away as Australia, Canada and California.

The site also includes video highlights, a photo gallery, news, a forum and a shout out and chat section (which is updated by members continuously).

Samsung HDi8910 Camera Trick Challenge

This clip was shot on an I8910 HD phone, a new camera phone just released by Samsung with an 8 megapixel camera that can actually record and output video in HD format. It was shot in one take, with no post production or special effects of any kind. Everything you see here was done "in-camera".

Samsung have set a challenge to see if viewers can solve the puzzle saying "Hint: it's worth watching in HD..."

I have watched this at least 5 times and I still can't work out how he manages it...?!

Any ideas?

Tim Collins writes first guide to Twitter in the UK

St. Luke's creative Tim Collins has written the first Twitter Guide to be published in the UK

"The Little Book of Twitter" gives an insight into the worldwide internet craze offering tips and tricks for getting tweetwise. The humorous pocket guide also covers the netiquette of Twitter, the best celebrity tweeters and how to recognise when you are becoming a twitterholic.

It will be available to buy in shops from next week.

If this is the future - it looks AWESOME!

BMW have created a augmented reality application to coincide with their latest ad for the BMW Z4 where artist Robin Rhode uses the car as a paintbrush. He drives the car across a blank canvas resulting in a unique piece of artwork.

BMW are encouraging people to recreate the ad through the use of augmented reality. The application allows you to drive your very own virtual BMW Z4 around your desk and create your own art work.
This system works by using a mixture of computer generated data which is blended with footage of real time made possible by a webcam and a printable 3D symbol.

Sounds like teen spirit

In classic triumph-over-tragedy broadsheet-featurette style, director Jamie Jay Johnson came up with the idea for this film after a horrific car accident that left him with two severly crushed legs.

Whilst stuck at home learning to walk again, he stumbled across the charming Junior Eurovision and spotted the opportunity to tell the contestants' stories. So he got up and travelled around Europe finding the little heartbreakers who would make good watching. Have a look at the trailer here.

It's being lauded as the next slumdog/ lil' miss sunshine, and Jonathan Ross described it as a "burst of cynicism free europop.".

JJ tells me he applied for a job here when he came out of art school. I think we might have missed out on this one...

Jamie is doing a Q&A at the Brixton Ritzy on Thursday night, and again at the Curzon Soho on Saturday night. I recommend you go. If you can't get down there to see it, buy the soundtrack. No I'm not kidding.

Emily

SPREEDING

If you want to be as good at reading as Dan (D Unit, Dan dan dan dan Dan) Hulse check out this website... it's RIGHT GOOD.

Photo Comp - sunshine

Me and my mates playing golf!

little andrew

Photo Comp: Sunshine

Here's a picture taken this sunday on a seal spotting trip at Blakeney Point.

Jules

Swine flu: The dangerous power of Twitter

So far Twitter seems to be immune from criticism, it has been the site of opportunity and obsession that has revolutionized the web.
However, there is concern growing that Twitter could facilitate an unnecessary global panic about swine flu.
The New Foreign Policy website has highlighted that Twitter’s infinite reach and power could do more harm than good by introducing “too much noise into the process”.
As the outbreak spreads millions of ‘tweets’ are flooding the website as people share their fears and anxieties but even more alarming are the people claiming to know possible cures to treat swine flu.
People are fearful that the reach and volume of these messages will scaremonger the public with hear-say and folk law.
There is a genuine concern that these 'tweets' will result in dangerously misinforming its audience with potentially hazardous consequences.

World Digital Library

WDL allows you to enjoy and explore cultural treasures from around the world. Giving you access to artifacts such as maps, photographs, films and architectural drawings from different centuries from across the globe. The best thing is that you can view these primary materials for free on one site. It's a really useful resource not just for scholars but also for anyone looking to expand their inter-cultural knowledge.

WANTED ADS YOUNG TEAM OF THE YEAR 2009

Making cheesey great!

PHOTO COMPETITION

The photo competition is back, and so it seems is the sunshine!
So it only seems fit to make SUNSHINE this month's theme.

Usual rules apply - you must have taken the shot yourself and old photos can be submitted.

Closing date is 20th may, and we'll be handing out the prize on the 22nd.

Happy snapping!

An equation for April

Twitter confessional

“I pulled her over just because she drove a Mercedes SUV. And I had it towed. I love being a police officer”

“Every once in a while I’ll tell someone I was on MTV. What I don’t tell them is that the show I was on was Fat Camp 2”

In the same vein as Post Secret, the SecretTweet feed encourages people to share their guilty secrets in 140 characters. Entertaining and at times moving, it’s a bizarre form of therapy!

They claim they have enough confessions to publish 2,400 tweets a day. Fortunately they’re editing it down to the most interesting ones. I’ve entered my confession and I’ve been told there’s a queue of 643 SecretTweets before they even get to moderating mine.

So come on people, ‘Fess up.

Car wars

I love it when Brands interact. This inter-brand banter illustrates quick thinking, brilliant understanding of buzz and great humour.

Audi put up a billboard showing their new sexy 2009 Audi A4, which reads “Your Move, BMW.”

And sure enough, BMW responded with a larger billboard right across the road.

“Checkmate.”

I don't know if this shows brilliance on Audi's behalf, betting that BMW would respond and build a news story for them, or complete idiocy merely illustrating how second rate they are...

Thoughts?

booze britain...

Bombas Parr the weird jelly architects are doing an event in a bar in soho where you go in an inhale gin and tonic. Apparently the "walk-in mist of breathable gin" is produced using the same technology as Antony Gormley's 2007 'Blind Light' installation at the Hayward.

Mental.

Facebook dominates online networking

Since we're all stat-orific today, I'll share some more. Comscore has just annnounced Facebook is now the sixth most trafficked website in the world commanding

275 million unique users in February alone. That's a 175 per cent increase since this time last year.

Europe saw faster growth - a 314 per cent increase to nearly 100 million uus a month. The UK accounts for 22.66 million of these users.

Not only are people coming think and fast, they're also hugely engaged. 4.1 minutes average time spent up from 1.1 minute last year. Facebook now commands a third of all our social networking time. That's 30 per cent of time spent on social network sites including YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Bebo, Yahoo Answers, wordpress, blogger... I could go on. 30 per cent. On its own.

That is why it is so crucial for brands to engage in these spaces. The people are there. And they're engaged. And we have the opportunity to listen to them, to talk to them, to understand them better and to encourage them to spend time with us. And hopefully to encourage them to talk about us to their friends. Who will talk to their friends...

Tweetographics

For all you disbelievers out there, all you people who think Social Media is the land of the young, there are some pretty interesting stats out today about who exactly is using Twitter. Hold your breath, stats ahoy...

Worldwide visitors to Twitter approached 14 million in the US alone per month in February. User numbers doubled in the past two months.

35-54 year olds are 36 per cent more likely than average to visit Twitter, making them the highest indexing age group.

25-34 year olds are the second highest indexing demographic - 30 per cent more likely to visit.

18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter. Yes, that's LESS LIKELY.

Although it does make sense. Office-based, tech'ed up internet-mature people are using it to listen to their peers, do business and do the personal news broadcast. I have been watching the office and I've noticed an uptake in sign ups within these walls.

Roy - @roysy
Nimi - @NimiRaja
Dan - @daniellipman
Tim - @TimRogowski
Kathryn - @kathryn100
Emily - @emilydent

Consider yourself outed. Hope you're interesting!

Projector perfect

Pretty amazing projections. Would be amazing to see one of these shows. Can we use this somewhere?