Clever Campaign for Meetup is Right On The Money

Meetup, the world’s largest network of local groups, is running a clever viral campaign to promote its services.
The ‘terrestrial’ social network, which helps people organize and find local groups, crafted an initiative called UnplugYourFriends.com. Here, they reference an epidemic called: Screen Addiction where electronic screens invade every corner of your life. The campaign is marked by an adorable animated video [...]

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3-D Virtual World LivePlace Feels Like The Real Thing

Jason Kincaid recently blogged on Techcrunch about City Space, a photo-realistic 3-D virtual world.
Trust me when I tell you that you need to check this post out. The graphics are so rich and immersive they’re almost lickable.
Kincaid has included a video in his post which shows a massive virtual city filled with towering skyscrapers, parks, user-customized [...]

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Green Day Oasis Mash-up

Alright friends, it looks like Friday is turning out to be ‘video day’ for The Third Place.
This morning, I posted a music video from one of my favorite bands, Radiohead, featuring 3D animation and laser technology. This afternoon I present you with an absolutely fab mash-up featuring Green Day, Oasis, Travis, Aerosmith and a hint of Eminem.
My [...]

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Radiohead’s Visual and Graphic Orgy

Radiohead’s video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows” is visually spectacular.
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies captured 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to [...]

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Feeling Uninspired? Need Brain Candy? Try Moodstream.

Every once in a while I stumble upon a Web site that is uniquely simple, utterly immersive, hints at a future design aesthetic and provides entertainment value with no true substance.
That’s exactly what happened when a friend recently sent me a link to Moodstream.
According to the Web site, Moodstream is a brainstorming tool designed to inspire you. [...]

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Animoto Is Less Disappointo

So, I gotta hand it to the folks at Animoto. Within hours of finding my post Animoto is Disappointo, in which I complained about a rather disappointing experience with the software, a company representative contacted me to explain what happened to my video and, more importantly, fixed the problem. 
While I’m still not in love with [...]

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Animoto is a Disappointo

I read about Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos and high-end motion design several months ago, and somehow forgot about the site shortly thereafter. Then recently, I read about the Beta and was dying to try it out.
Animoto promises to create videos with a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. The [...]

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