Jay Robinson

Tag: Video

  • b3wm, the Ghetto Boom Box for iPad is one of the many apps created this week at iPad Dev Camp in San Jose. This was one of my first ideas on April 3rd walking around with my iPad.

  • Optimizing SimCity 3000 for maximum efficiency.

  • This video of Jonathan “Jony” Ive from Macworld 1999 is creepy and weird. Here’s how it goes: Sexy music plays while Jony says “A computer absolutely can be sexy…” ??? Jony says “Yeah, it can,” and laughs knowingly. WHAT HAPPENS IN STEP #2?!

  • David Byrne interviews himself for a Talking Heads’ film concert by Jonathan Demme.

    Interviewer (David Byrne, dressed as various people): We only have a few minutes, so try to be brief. Okay? DB: I will do absolutely anything you say. Interviewer: Right. Why did you call the movie Stop Making Sense? DB: Because it’s good advice. Because music and performing does not make sense. Interviewer: Amazing. DB: It…

  • David Byrne interviews himself for a Talking Heads’ film concert by Jonathan Demme.

  • Truth in Advertising – If you enjoy the style of comedy where people explicitly state their attempts at social posturing in lieu of any natural chitchat, then this one is for you. Along the same lines, check out The Vendor Client Relationship. In my experience, bosses flip for this kind of stuff.

  • Via Jonathan Moore: The Last Advertising Agency On Earth This office is being preserved just as it was found after everyone vanished.  We can even see what they were doing when that moment came, filling in time sheets, getting another coffee, playing foosball.  They were carrying on as they always had.  Ignorant to the great…

  • Annie Leonard’s “Story of Bottled Water” This quick film explores the bottled water industries wrongful attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces.

  • Do The Cosmonauty – Fun, ridiculous, dance music.

  • ckck: Popular Science magazine for the iPad. Berg and Bonnier made a concept video back in December detailing their vision for magazines on touch-based tablets. Fast forward less than four months, it’s no longer a concept, and it’s already available on the iTunes store. Read more about it here.

  • It comes down to trying expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing. Steve Jobs Call me a goof, but I was reminded of this quote while watching this video on The Walker Library of Human Imagination.

  • Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, freestyling in his Brooklyn neighborhood at age 17.

  • LOST vs. Saul Bass. Tonight, get psyched.

  • Apple has posted new walkthrough videos for the iPad. Includes animations and interactions that we didn’t see before. This photo, above, for laying out your document margins in Pages is very nice. If you don’t feel like watching all the movies, MacStories.net has a thorough review post with large images.

  • Jay-Z has teamed up with director Danny Clinch and Absolut Vodka to document one of his recent performances at Madison Square Garden in NYC. View it online here: NY-Z.