Tweet the lyrics

I really don’t know how to explain this in a way that makes it justice so perhaps you should better visit tweetflight immediately. If you insist, though, here is my best try. Electro-folk (yes, this classification exists) group Brightly have released one of the most clever web-based music videos ever, for their song Preflight Nerves.

 

It is basically a lyrics video, but the words of the song are drawn (almost) real-time from tweets. Clever huh?

Taking the words / phrases out of the context of the tweet and into the song and vice-versa is very interesting; sometimes poignant, sometimes ironic, sometimes hilarious.

I am dying to create a self-referential loop by tweeting about this and appearing in the video!

See also:

• I can see my house from here
• The perfect gin ‘n’ tone
• 10 more ways to visualize lyrics
• 10 + 1 ways to visualize lyrics

The state of social media

The end of yet another year: ideal time for reviews. 2012 was the year where social media have fully established their presence and have become a way of life, according to an infographic by The SEO Company and Nowsourcing.

via Mashable

See also:

• Data never sleeps
• The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
• I can be googled, therefore I am

Data never sleeps

Data never sleeps? Well yes, if you consider that 206.166.667 mails are sent, 342 blog posts are published, 100.000 tweets are sent, 751 new websites are created every single minute of the day.

Infographic created by Domo

See also:

• Weapons of mass distraction
• The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
• I can be googled, therefore I am

Weapons of mass distraction

by Hunter Langston

See also:

• The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
• I can be googled, therefore I am
• Help the semicolon not to become extinct

What happened on the internet in 2011?

We know what happened last year on the internet, but this year? The London design agency Syzygy weaves together “20 greatest, funniest and most insane internet events from 2011.”

Can you recognise them?

via Fast Company Co.Design

See also:

• A riddle for 2010
• What app do you wish for?
• Do you know about A Google A Day?

Our digital identity

How many pieces of our personal data are collected everyday by networks?

Michael Rigley creates an amazing motion video tracing the information we feed into the network everyday .

via Quipsologies

See also:

• In 60 seconds
• The universe of social networks
• The internet in 2015
• It started with the occasional profile update and now you are hooked: social media addiction

The perfect gin ‘n’ tone

What are you listening to right now? And what would you like to drink? Well, there is a drink for every occasion. A bottle of Merlot for Ella Fitzerald and  something sweeter for Adele, perhaps a vodka with coconut milk and honey.

Drinkify is a website that suggests the most suitable drink to go along with the band or musician you’re listening to.  You just type the artist name and the application suggests a well known or not so.. cocktail, wine or drink.

See more after the jump

In 60 seconds

Every 60 seconds, 168 million emails are sent, more than 13,000 iPhone applications are downloaded, over 600,000 search queries are made,  more than 98,000 tweets and more than 1,500 blog posts are published.Pretty amazing, don’t you think?

via TechPages

See also:

• The universe of social networks
• The internet in 2015
• I am socially stoned
• It started with the occasional profile update and now you are hooked: social media addiction

All must be shared to win the war

Twitter has followers, Facebook has causes and Google+ is the new cult.

Propaganda posters by Aaron Wood.

I am socially stoned

Well, we all know that all social media can be extremely addictive, but each one with a completely different way. Patrick Moberg compares each one of them with popular drugs and alcoholic beverages:

via Design Taxi

See also:

• It started with the occasional profile update and now you are hooked: social media addiction
• The drugs of Alice in Wonderland
• Multitasking is addictive

It’s all about me

OK, we all know that Facebook is the shrine of narcissism and self-reference. And the apps that I am going to present are a tribute to the “cult of me”. But they are so well done that they are practically irresistible.

Deutsche Post’s Social Memories creates a booklet filled with infographics based on the public info on your Facebook profile. While the digital version of the booklet is free, you need to pay 19 € for the bound version in glossy paper.

Intel’s Museum of Me, on the other hand, is a virtual exhibition of, well, you. Again using data from your public info it creates 3D gallery views of your photos, friends, words most used on your status updates, etc.

See also:

• Would you tell a stranger what you tell Facebook?
• At night your facebook profile comes to life
• Don’t give up on facebook just yet

The internet in 2015

How different will our digital life be in just four years from now? Watch this superb infographic video, “Digital Life: Today and Tomorrow,” created by NeoLabels and Inés Leopoldo to find out. It lasts almost 8 minutes, but worth every second.

via Fastcodesign

See also:

• The universe of social networks
• 57% of people talk to people more online than they do in real life, part 2
• Why crying?
• The sarcastic meta-infographic

The universe of social networks

Infographic created by JESS3

See also:

• The art of visual storytelling
• The sarcastic meta-infographic
• The meta-infograph

365 six word stories

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

According to urban myth that is the reply Ernest Hemingway gave when he was challenged to write a story in just six words.

In 2010 two creatives, Van Horgen, writer, and Anne Ulku, designer, felt up to the challenged. They launched six word story everyday blog and did exactly that: they posted one six word story for every single day of the year.

Once 2010 came to an end, they opened up the project to everybody on sixwordstoryeveryday.com.

Admittedly, these are great story openers rather than stories in themselves, but very interesting, still.

via quipsologies

See also:

• The Man in the Black Coat
• I shall not live in vain
• The lyrics on the wall
• 69 love illustrations…

Would you tell a stranger what you tell Facebook?

See also:

• Don’t give up on facebook just yet
• Facebook in Bamako
• 57% of people talk to people more online than they do in real life, part 2
• At night your facebook profile comes to life

Help create a digital landscape

That happy menage-a-trois between Chris Milk, Google Chrome Experiments and music video has happened again! This time the maitre extraordinaire of digital video collaborated with Danger Mouse in an interactive, collaborative music video, called 3 dreams of black, for the launch of his new album, Rome.

The video is mildly interactive at start (simply letting you explore dream sequences by directing the camera with the computer mouse) but wildly collaborative at the end, since it allows any visitor to add pixellated objects on a vast dreamy landscape. 

This experiment requires Google Chrome Canary to run efficiently.

See also:

• Arcade characters invade urban landscapes
• I can see my house from here
• (You gotta) fight for your right (to party) 2011

Read it elsewhere

5 days worth of quick links:

• Not weird at all: David Lynch talks to a Barbie head about his coffee - laughing squid
• The first words ever published in the Guardian:”Taken up a black, newfoundland bitch” – Guardian
• David Byrne discusses how Architecture shapes Music – open culture
• Words and photography by Gus VanSant - juxtapoz
• Children have memories from when they were as young as 18 months old; they just forget them when they grow up – bbc
• The kindness of Quentin Tarantino: Rock on Sarah – letters of note
• Minnesota: the hipster state – buzzfeed
• An ode to worn out gadgets – design mind

London tube sticker commentary

Whatever you call it, subway, tube or metro, you can’t deny that long comuting trips can get pretty boring. And if you are anything like me, you end up counting stops by checking the map obsessively. Well, if you’re riding the central line in London you’re in for a surprise. Witty remarks have replaced some of the stations. And, of course, there is a tumblr about it: stickers on the central line.

See also:

• The strings of the NYC subway
• Cinemagraphs: the art of the animated gif
• The streets are sad

Don’t give up on facebook just yet

The first email of the day said this:

That’s all Folks!
I am deleting my facebook account (at least for the moment) because I am bored of it.

[goes on to give me us - all of his facebook friends- his new contact details].

And he’s not the first to do so. Infact, the number of my facebook friends is on a downward slope, at least for the last six months. People are getting fed up with Facebook. Has it simply run its course, like Friendster and myspace before it? Are people tired of all the overexposure? Are the original Facebook users maturing into Twitter users? Or is it simply because our Facebook newsfeeds usually look like this:

There are those, though, that are not ready to give up without a fight. Yo Zuck! Implement this is a tumblr blog with ideas on how to improve Facebook. It includes realistic, common sense suggestions that would indeed improve user experience. For example this one would be really helpful to me since my Japanese friends have the weird habit of writing in, well, japanese:

Newsfeed illustration via Thought Catalog. Link to Yo Zuck! via freeweird.

See also:

• Facebook in Bamako
• Tweets say the darnest things
• Focusing on usability traits instead of faults

Read it elsewhere

While you were getting married:

• Bark Twain and other authors as dogs – shortlist
• The interactive thesaurus of Seattle bands – Seattle band map
• Five bands that should be on Rockband (a hint: Pink Floyd) – joystickdivision
• Free yourself from the hassle of folding the map – design taxi
• Computer mouse evolution – dvice
• Instead of keeping diary, just summarize your day in a smiley figure – lost at E minor
• Who are these people? Abbey Road bystanders – snap galleries
• The wood bike that aspires to break the world record for speed – wired