Multi-touch Decks

Graphic designer Greg Werks has come up with an innovative concept for portable touch screen turntables. Moving away from your standard buttons and slider controls, he has incorporated a more intuitive gestural interface which not only looks beautiful but is very usable.

2010 Social Networking Map

Flowtown with their cartographic slant on social networking.

DC Universe Online

Blur Studio presents a cinematic trailer for the up and coming game DC Universe Online.

Augmented Shadows

Joon Moon has created this beautiful but haunting interactive installation using openFrameworks (an open source C++ toolkit). Users can move objects and light sources around to affect the surrounding elements and their actions.

Becks Pumps up the Volume

Interactive installations seems to be the order of the day for product placements. Becks has teamed up with DJ Cheeba by mixing his musical talents with an Arduino board and Flash combination created by Outside Line.

Gary Newman - Cars

DieHard Batteries display their storage power with the help of Gary Newman and a synthesiser of cars. Directed by ZooFilm's James Frost who created the music videos of OK Go and Radiohead.

Gnar Wars

Another Mike Benson 'piste' take, this time of the Star Wars genre on the slopes of Mountain High with Casey Wrightsman, Geoff Isringhausen, Cory Whetstone, Nick Sibayan, and Eric Miranda.

Board Games

The boys from Gnarcade pay homage to the video games industry with some fun interpretations of the genre. The video was directed by Mike Benson with the help of skating and snowboarding pros Scott Stevens, Micah Hollinger, Chris Beresford, Tim Eddy, Ben Bogart and Casey Wrightsman.

Life in the Fast Lane

Follwowing on from the VW Sweden's 'Fun Theory', VW Germany continues the guerrilla marketing with their latest 'Fast Lane' campaign. The best of which is the funslide at the Alexanderplatz subway entrance in Berlin. We could do with one of those to bypass the dawdling tourists in London. Please Boris, make it so!

The Blockhead's "The Music Scene" and Anthony Schepperd's animation is a stunning pairing that has a touch of influence from Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoko. Best watched with a level head.

Classy Mario

Not much info on this other than some Japanese school kids with way too much post-it notes and time on their hands. Still, beats getting drunk and shooting up, I guess.

World Cup

Nice bit of design work for a World Cup 2010 chart from marca.com.

Kilian Martin: A Skate Escalation

Skater Kilian Martin captured in motion by film maker Brett Novak. Nothing much else to say other than that he's only been skating for 5.5 years. Just watch, preferably with your mouth shut.

Café Allongé

Animated film short from Maxime Paccalet, Pierre Razetto and Dimitri Cohen-Tanugi.

Shaun White Skateboarding

Nice promo video for the up coming game Shaun White Skateboarding from UbiSoft which will be available in the autumn across all platforms.

Nothing on TV

"Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe."

Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Aides Graffiti

Funny animation campaign on the dangers of unprotected sex by TBWA Paris for AIDES.

Parkour, you know the score

Take a children's pop-up book and a roughly drawn flip book. Marry them together and this is what pops out of the womb. This back to basics animation is by a Singaporean print designer who calls herself SaggyArmPit.

Mama

There seems to be no shortage of up and coming Latin American directors being discovered. Guillermo del Toro is currently mentoring Andy Muschietti who brings us this short film. Watch with headphones, in your bed ... preferably with someone's hand to hold.

Logorama

This short film created by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain depicts a world where branding is king. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009 and opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it won the academy award for Best Short Film.