To kick off the Night of Luxurious Thinkers, Torsten Gross (or should I say, I?) did a Pecha Kucha. A Pecha Kucha is presentation form that allots the presenter 20 slides which automatically rotate every 20 seconds – for a total of 6m 40s. A challenging feat, especially for someone like me who likes to talk, but a great tool to set up the evening. We thought it would be helpful to create some context before posting additional questions. View full article »
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Thank you all for making our first Night of Luxurious Thinkers such a success. What was originally slated as a 20-30 person chat turned into 60+ folks from all different fields. It was our goal to bring smart people together, and that was certainly accomplished.
We started off the night with a Pecha Kucha** setting up the nights event: In a world so digitally interchangeable and immersive, why are we still operating as though “digital” is a beast unto itself? View full article »
For the last couple of months we’ve been building an interactive installation for Lufthansa’s media room in Esquire’s Ultimate Bachelor Pad. Invited guests will get the chance to virtually fly through clouds and three-dimensional worlds with our gesture technology. View full article »
We have created a new Strategy section in parallel with our new Strategy Department here at Luxurious Animals. In the coming entries we will be investigating and discussing relationships; relationships between consumers and brands, consumers and technology, consumers and consumers, online and offline, technologists and Luddites, passive and active storytelling and possibly even the relationship between me and my girlfriend (blogs are public diaries right?). It is these relationships which fuel what we do (as marketers and Luxurious Humans) and what we don’t do.
As a digital shop, it is often easy to be trapped in a box (sorry for the obvious metaphoric description of a computer). Digital, at its core, has the ability to create, strengthen, and (often selfishly) actualize on said relationships that live in the ill-defined “online world” and “offline world” (more to come on my issue here). For that reason, we delve into humans (it was messy), see what they are thinking (sometimes little) and enjoy over-using parentheses (my spin on the David Foster Wallace footnote).
Whether hypothetical or actual, this should be used to spawn discussion and challenge your thinking. So stick around, have a drink, enjoy our thoughts and don’t forget to try the veal.
Recently, we had to work with several interlaced broadcast quality commercials, so we looked to one of Andrew Kramer’s classic tutorials on how to deinterlace videos. The technique requires you to use an image of black and white lines as an Luma matte in After Effects to remove every other line in the picture, then use Directional blur to fill in the empty lines. View full article »
For our current project we are designing and coding a laboratory themed microsite in Flash. The site requires programming lots of gadgety gizmos, one of which is a counter with a number scrambler before the counter finishes “computing” to display the final number or message. View full article »