I’ve been saving these for some time when I didn’t have anything compelling of my own to say. I sense that the time is now (11:42pm on a Tuesday night when the house is silent and I am slogging through blogs instead of drawing drawing drawing).

First off, a 3D projection mapping video. Living in Chestertown, where the tallest building is three-and-a-half stories high and we’re still getting used to cars that have clickers, I had never heard of 3D projection mapping before. I tried to look it up on wikipedia to give you guys a clear explanation, but all they had was a bunch of gobbeldygook with numbers and brackets and sines and cosines. Seriously. Have a look and see if you are some kind of math whiz. Anyway, the point is, they project video images onto an object (in this case, a huge building), often using a video image of the building itself as the foundation of the imagery. So that the video will look like the building, but then a bunch of bricks fall off, or someone jumps in front of the building, but it’s only happening in the video of the building, not on the actual building itself.

Okay. So that sounds like gobbeldygook too. But have a look at this Adidas ad HERE. (I tried to embed it here, but it ended up looking crappy. Make sure to watch it full screen. GO NOW.)

So frickin’ cool. If this piques your interest, there’s some more here and here.

I could seriously watch these all day. And, apparently I did. Because it’s now 12:16 am on a Wednesday.

Ok. I’m going to warn you now, this next thing that is awesome could potentially cripple your productivity for the next 3 weeks. It’s mesmerizing. It is called the ToneMatrix and was a program written by a fellow named André Michelle (check out Pulsate as well) (okay, basically everything on his site is awesome. It’s now 12:43 am). Just click on the boxes below and ride the awesomeness to your personal musical genius. Then just press the space bar to clear it and start all over again.

(Thanks Don and Rebecca for the heads up on this one. And by that, I mean Thanks for wasting my time.)

1:14 am. I hope it was worth it.