Revolutionary New Avatar interactive trailer

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Follow the above link to view info about the interactive trailer for James Cameron's new movie Avatar. I personally cannot wait for the movie, because I am a big JC fan, but more importantly because of all the new techniques and technologies he used to make the film. He has spent the last ten years working to make this film the first of its kind using revolutionary new 3-d filming techniques.

It brings to question how far away we are from advertising that literally can deliver the product or a virtual even functional 3-d say a mobile device for example and then allow users to play around with it. I'm sure we are only years away from developing technologies that allow consumers to virtually taste a product. Or will demographic and other data be so specific because our entire lives are monitored via our mobile devices that there will be almost no need for this sort of advertising. Its a rapidly changing world folks... I can't wait for the ride.

Facebook, Chase Team Up for Crowdsourced Philanthropy Program

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This is an interesting article I ran across that discusses Chases new charitable marketing campaign that allows consumers to chose the charity they would like Chase to donate to rather than, simply feed into broader corporate charity. This customized user experience is a great example of how companies can make thier customers happy, feel more like individuals, and a part of a charity campaign, without any greater effort or spending on the part of the corporation. I am sure this will soon be adopted by many other companies, and I look forward to future applications.

Slip covers

We had a creative project due that involved a brand of slip covers called Sure Fit Slip covers and I thought of a great promotional marketing idea or even new product that they could use to increase customer awareness through internet and customer loyalty and even a new product category. My idea was to lunch a line of basic cooled slip covers that are designer to be written painted, drawn ect on and launch a contest to see who come up with the best design or holiday tradition. Such as using it as a guest book or ironing on kids christmas pics or even designing birthday or other festive holiday designs. It is definitely something my mom would buy.

Jim carreys new site

article from fast company new site by 65 media first of its kind real cool



http://www.jimcarrey.com/

I found this article about a new home page for Jim Carrey, that is just straight weird and cool, with strange interactive flash media and a whole gammit of other gadgets, including a bird that tweets his tweets. I have never seen anything like it before and I think it does a fantastic job of integrating communication sites such as twitter and also other personal info and data such as old photo. It really invites the visitor to snoop around and I'm betting it is one of the first of many sites that will be similar to this one except of course slightly less weird. After all it is Jim Carrey

Power of music: Live Preformance Taubman Atrium

I was walking to Meadows Library today and on my way there came across a Meadows preformance of various vocalist, violinists and even a very impressive accordian player. A number of the preformaces gave me chills, just watching how deeply the preformers felt their music and instrument. This experience renewed my devotion to learning to play the harmonica. A christmas ago I began learning to play the harmonica, an instrument I chose because of its relative ease of use, small size and low price, which would allow for me to bring it where ever I went for an impromptu harmonica jam session. Now although I am by no means a super star I am improving and after toay I hope to up my practic sessions so that I can get to the point when I no longer need to use harp tabs. It is so important to challenge you skill set and creative abilities, althoug I cannot pick up on song words due to a hearing disorder that used to also prevented me from learning to read, I can feel a beat and love learning a new song.

Today I used my Iphone instead of my computer!

I had a monumental realization today, when I was sitting at the computer a couple days ago, as was one of my friends and we were planning on going to a movie that evening. When deciding what time to go we both simultaneously pulled out of our pockets our perspective smart phones, and looked up the time. Suddenly I realized that we both had chosen a phone ad app over an actual computer with real wireless internet. I cannot wait to see the developments that will continue to come in cell phone technology, such as the open user friendly DRIOD which has had some interesting campaign ad, which I've found pretty successful.

If you follow this link it will take you to Youtube, where verizon is using a interface on youtube that I have never see before. Once I clicked on the advertisement on the main youtube search page it took me a Verizon wireless home page on youtube which has an easy to use holiday themed user interface, featuring quality HD video, along with phone demos and Spanish commercials. Its similar to a page take over except well its only on driod ads. I believe this is going to be a growing trend it it very affective at getting users interesting and learning more about their products and brand rather than just quickly viewing the ad.

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I caught a leaf today

I caught leaf today as it was falling off a tree....I guess fall is in the air. It may not seem too significant or important that I was able to catch a leaf, but as you may remember from middle and lower school, when you catch a naturally falling leaf before it hit ground it is good luck. Well, all through both lower and middle school I was never able to catch a leaf. So today when I caught the leaf I felt especially lucky. This got me wondering what the world would be like if everyone thought they had good, it would either result in the economy getting a boost, or mass hysteria when a majority of peoples luck runs out. However I very strongly believe in the power of positive self talk, and positive expectations. I believe anyone achieve their goals if they truly deeply believe in them and are moved to purse them.