Archive for the month November 2010

  

Thank you, David Fincher

I found the newest David Fincher absolutely fantastic. Retracing the birth and rise of the blue social tsunami, the film makes you see Facebook under a different angle, and shows you the new buzzing atmosphere of the Silicon Valley, where you can make big money with just a single idea. The movie is thrilling. Every [...]

Apple.com’s surprise

Today, Apple’s website is looking funny. I sense something is going to happen… (Thanks to David for the info!)

INSA Lyon, engineering school

Here is the second episode of a set of short video adds promoting INSA Lyon, the engineering school I am studying at. Have fun watching it!

@facebook.com email, coming soon…

On Monday, Nov 15 the social network with the blue “f” unveils its newest invention, a “revamped messaging system” likely to be the “GMail killer email system” we can read about on the web. Rumors say that Facebook is preparing vanity-url@facebook.com email addresses for its 500+ Millions of users, and username@fb.com addresses for its employees. [...]

The surprising physics of cats’ drinking

“It has taken four highly qualified engineers and a bunch of integral equations to figure it out, but we now know how cats drink.” (the New York Times) Yesterday, Perdo M. Reis and Roman Stocker from the MIT, together with Sunghwan Jung (Virginia Tech) and Jeffrey M. Aristoff (Princeton) solved the mystery. They say that [...]

Russian 3D

A few weeks ago, I found this 3D demo reel made by a Russian design studio called “Aero Creative Agency”, where they demonstrate their modelling skills applied to advertising. The video features inspiring 3D design:

Let the sketches come to life

They say that every idea starts on a sheet of paper. This is the main idea behind World of Paper, a short video showing a complete city made exclusively of bescribbled notebook sheets. Just another creativity trigger.