https://thenextweb.com/news/digital-twins-could-save-your-life-heres-how I’m not jealous. Not really. My life is… ok. Not perfect but… I don’t mind how I look, or sound. I quite like the sorts of jokes I tell or the things I add to conversations. I’m not Oscar Wilde but I could add value to a dinner party. So I’m not jealous. He … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/creativity/tommy-hilfiger-try-on-clothes-with-zero10/ The security guard looked at her. He probably recognised her but there was nothing he could do. It was a free country. Well he could of course and the feeds were full of tales of people being turned away. But the community would always help you find another shop, another screen. She already knew … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/how-to-prompt-ai-chat-gpt/ I was going to do coding. Mum was dead happy. She’d been one of those first “girls that code” and loved the idea of me becoming a proper “hacker” as he kept calling it. She picked a school where I could do programming, get the qualifications. But now she’s all: “forget it, do languages!” … [Read more…]
https://www.marketing-interactive.com/april-fools-day-2023-some-funny-some-strange Look, it’s just not funny. The whole point is it has to be funny. It’s the one day a serious brand can lighten things up. We’ve done it before and they’ve been funny. We always correct the record later in the day but today, we put something out there that grabs attention because it … [Read more…]
https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2023/03/ocean-outdoors-deepscreen-alive-opens-up-a-new-world-of-3d-dooh-theatre For him it was less Back to the Future and more Harry Potter. The city seemed to fold and unfold like the staircases at Hogwarts. An origami sculpture perfectly and intricately constructed as buildings shifted, their facades melting and moving. Characters and words flowed out like endless rain into a paper cup. Everything slithered … [Read more…]
https://medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf It’s great. Look at the number of mentions on socials, a veritable collage of positive vibes. People see us a great place to work. I’m not complaining, those reels from the away day; those images the juniors post seemingly every night. All great. Doing wonders for recruitment and retention. And, the People systems are … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659191/amazon-sidewalk-network-coverage The city was chattering. Countless conversations silently wove patterns across the streets. Animate and inanimate objects talked to each other. Humans and unhumans exchanged greetings and information. A walk across town was a series of short and long chats. The postbox greeted the parcel. The dog had an exchange with a tree. A weather … [Read more…]
https://the-media-leader.com/the-age-thing-why-doesnt-the-average-ad-professional-seem-to-care The thing is, they know they need my experience. That’s my superpower… lots and lots of… experience. I can tell you about tech bubbles (nothing new there); I can talk you through cultural movements and trends (and the times they came back); I can recall the various political battles – in the industry and … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23648834/metahuman-animation-epic-state-of-unreal-gdc-2023 He sat still. Very still. As still as he could. Conscious, so conscious of every move. He knew he was being watched. Play it right, there might be a promotion, play it wrong and… He’d prepared the presentation and his answers to the questions his partner had predicted. He just had to hold it… … [Read more…]
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/03/21/brainwave-study-proves-billboards-hit-harder-social-when-they-run-irl She’d taken to walking the city when it was that weird space – silent, still, deserted, post… The Pandemic City was gone now, for now, but she still played the flâneur, wandering liminal spaces, peripheral streets. Disused billboards still stood. A memorial to desperate messaging, she thought, still seemingly trying to grab attention. She … [Read more…]