Would you like some ice with that?

December 15th, 2009

Kinda beautiful. Kinda dangerous. What happens when it all melts? Does it melt? Or is it stuck like this forever? “Yeah I’d love to come visit, but I left my car out last night and it’s gonna be stuck to the road for the next 6 months. ”

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What the hell is ‘augmented’ anyway?

November 23rd, 2009

This is great – buy Esquire magazine, go to website, see extra stuff. Cool. It‘s fun and a bit unexpected. Seems like it‘s really well made – little bit of a gimic maybe, but that’s okay. Extends the readers’ experience, they engage with the Esquire brand some more etc etc. So I like it, but why do they have to get all ‘cyber’ on it? Using words like ‘augmented reality’? Whoa, check it out maaan! We’re using ‘technology’!

I dunno. Good on them for doing something interesting, but I’m looking forward to the day when we can just make interesting content without banging on about the medium. I mean, when you receive a parcel, do you really care if it’s delivered by Australia Post, or Fedex, or even a guy on roller skates with a pink mohawk and a yellow cape? You just open it, because all you wanna know is… what’s in the box?