The Gallagher brothers don’t strike me as the type of guys who could waste a couple hours on YouTube, stalk ex-girlfriends on Facebook or even book their train tickets online. But as is so often the case, I appear to have been proven wrong; the brothers have spent the last couple of months dedicating their Continue reading →
Brian Solis and the people at Jess3 have put together a map of the Twitterverse. It’s basically a visualisation of the services and tools that exist around Twitter, from URL shorteners through mobile apps to search and trends. It’s a good starter for anyone looking for some of the off-the-beaten track apps/services, but also underlines Continue reading →
So MPs… The expenses scandal of the last few weeks is a great vindication of the good old saying “with great power comes great responsibility” and also “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” (this last one can be applied to so many ill thought out ad campaigns too). And just like so many Continue reading →
Jam has a philosophy that you need to give something back to your audience if you want them to do something for you. This can come in many different formats from once in a lifetime opportunities to simply giving them free stuff. Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails has obviously been listening to us as Continue reading →
Effectively cutting out the time saving aspect of e-mail and the personal touch of a hand written letter, Celery allows you to keep in touch with your dear old gran, without ever having to try and even explain the concept of the internet to her. The service converts e-mail messages and Tweets to fax and Continue reading →
The day is upon us. It’s more important than the World Cup, presidential election and Olympics combined. That’s right it’s i-level’s perfect pitch competition. Six teams made up of i-level staff battle it out in front of the company and 3 special judges to see who is the best at pitching. Five Jam members have Continue reading →
We’ve got a bit of a thing for tilt-shift at Jam, and Amy Bennett’s work is in the vein. Amy builds miniature diaromas and then paints them. The result is a step beyond tilt-shift or photos of miniatures like you find on little people, and is a bit of a nod towards hyperrealism and photorealism Continue reading →
30% of the UK use mobile internet a month (says the IAB) and over the last couple of years, we’ve seen the use of social media on mobiles explode. For an increasing amount of people, it’s the focus of their mobile web usage and several telcoms brands have run marketing around this. Mobile Usage Increase Continue reading →
The Travels of Bad was an exhibition at Rooke gallery in Johennesberg recently featuring multiple installations by Zander Blom. In his artist’s statement he states that the work is “essentially a satire that looks critically at the influence that exotic cultures and their artefacts have had on the avant-garde system of European visual art from Continue reading →
What do Gradius, Tetris and Ninja Turtles have in common with Facebook and Digg? 1. They’ve collectively kept a generation of potential athetes indoors glued to tiny pixelated screens. 2. They all react when you tap in the Konami code: The Konami Code was first used in the 1985 arcade game Gradius, on the Nintendo Continue reading →
