Holographic technology at its finest

For those of you who just started replacing your DVD collection with high definition Blu-Ray discs having not all that long ago finished the transfer from VHS, you might want to consider banging your head against a nearby wall about now. A clever chap at the University of California has just ironed out the last few problems with HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) technology which can store 20 times the ammount of data. Personally I’m hanging on to my vast cinefilm collection for another six months at which point it’s more than likely I’ll be able to have the films transfered directly to a microchip in my brain using nanomachines.

Sarah Jessica Parker in the Blu Ray version of Sex & the City

The Museo del Prado in Madrid, home to Hieronymous Bosch’s opaque masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights among other things has produced super high resolution scans of some of their major artworks and made them available to us all using the google maps API.

Meanwhile, the cracks are starting to show in less desirable places with the onset of Blu Ray technology and high definition televisions. Not only can we now see the celluloid grain on our favourite films, we can also see the blemishes and make-up lines
of our favourite actors and actresses. As we speak, HD ready make-up is being created and marketed to a horrified Hollywood. For example, Airbase are suggesting that you airbrush your face before stepping in front of those unforgiving HD cameras.

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Another piece of visual evidence to support that truism – everything just looks more cool in slowmo. The digirati in the studio have had this one on their desktopa for weeks, but it occurred to me how amazing that camera / phone manufactures haven’t latched onto this. How many hi-end phones / camera / camcorders can capture stuff at ridiculous frame rates? Answers please, as i’d like to buy one so I can make my own series of ephemera screen savers.

Superb video passed on by Nick in the NY office. Thanks Nick. Thought it was going to be a Golden Cage type affair from the first frame but how wrong could I be.

SOME HAS REQUESTED THAT EMBEDDING BE DISABLED SO YOU’LL HAVE TO VISIT THE PAGE ON YOUTUBE:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE 

Top of the Pops editors from 1985 were weeping whilst watching that.

Here’s the Golden Cage video as well. Just because I think it’s good:

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Lord Puttnam interview with Mike Williams – Episode 2

In this section of the interview, David gives his views on what the biggest challenges are for major broadcasters

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Here’s Part 1 of an interview I did with Lord Puttnam recently as part of a podcast series for the Creative Social. Lord Puttnam started out in the ad industry golden age, but has returned to ad land as Chairman of a digital agency Profero. Six months into the role, it seemed a good time to ask him why.
The interview has been edited down to five shorts topics that will be released over the next fives days on the Creative Social Blog and PSFK.

I hope you enjoy them, and if you have any suggestions on who might be an interesting person for the Creative Social to approach, please let me know.

Lastly, big thanks to Daniele Fiandaca (Profero COO) for making this interview possible.