Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell » Fun http://visualrinse.com Design, Development, Technology and My Life. Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:21:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Look who RIM bought… http://visualrinse.com/2010/12/02/look-who-rim-bought/ http://visualrinse.com/2010/12/02/look-who-rim-bought/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:48:44 +0000 Chad http://visualrinse.com/?p=1161 Anyone thinking RIM is standing still, wel… look no further. This Swedish outfit, TAT, just go picked up by the Blackberry maker. This should give them a much needed shot in the arm in the UI department from a creativity standpoint.

via Wired.

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Hacking Robots for Fun and Profit
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If you want the source code, mosey on over to Erik Peterson’s blog, Electric Pineapple.

Making the most of your toy robot (Part 1 of 4) – Custom hardware controls
Making the most of your toy robot (Part 2 of 4) – Object Detection
Making the most of your toy robot (Part 3 of 4) – Processing the video stream in Flash
Making the most of your toy robot (Part 4 of 4) – Docks and Beacons

I thoroughly enjoyed meeting so many great people in the Flash scene. It was pretty cool finally putting faces with the Twitter handles! Hey… and please go to the Adler planetarium and go check out the exhibit!

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Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.

Director : Edouard Salier
Commissioner : Svana Gisla
Production : Scream Park, Paris
Executive Producer : Anne Lifshitz
Post Production : Digital District
Post producer : David Danesi
CGI: Jean Lamoureux, Rémi Gamiette, Kevin Monthureux, Jimmy Cavé
Art & Compositing : Julien Michel, Xavier Reyé.
Flame: Christophe Richard

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Come to me, baby.

]]> http://visualrinse.com/2010/01/17/my-new-toy/feed/ 2 Just having some fun. National Comic Sans day. http://visualrinse.com/2009/10/01/just-having-some-fun-national-comic-sans-day/ http://visualrinse.com/2009/10/01/just-having-some-fun-national-comic-sans-day/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:33:04 +0000 Chad http://visualrinse.com/?p=742 No, I haven’t lost my mind. If you are visiting this site wondering, “What the font???!!!!”, well, yeah… This is in Comic Sans. October 1st has been declared National Comic Sans Day!

Read about it on John Wilker’s blog.

Oh, and if you want to learn about the origin of the world’s most hated typeface, read up on it here.

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I mean, wtf is wrong with Microsoft’s marketing group? Even CNBC is bashing this. I watch this and want to punch myself. And everyone else. And a cat.

The jump cuts, rack focus shaky cam and ham handed writing just don’t work. They don’t work at all. How is it that Apple seems to be doing everything right in this realm and MS is just fail after fail.

It really is an epic turn of events. It’s long been thought that MS won the OS war through marketing. Now, they are losing it there. Windows 7 is a pretty decent revision in the OS and here we have quite possibly the worst pseudo viral video I have ever seen.

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Watch this video and recognize that almost all of this has come true. 16 years later and virtually everything narrated by Tom Selleck is available in a middle class family’s home or their immediate community.

What will we see in another 16 years? I’d love to see an updated version of this campaign now. What communications innovations will be a reality in 2025?

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OMG. This looks awesome! Me wanty! Fun controller and you can play as Daft Punk. Wowzers.

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