The Ultimate Crowd Sourced Film

What happens when Vimeo web developer Casey Pugh challenged Star Wars aficionados to recreate their favorite 15 sec clips? A film of truly epic proportions and the ultimate crowd sourced effort to date. Beware, it's addictive.

Super Bowl is Ad Heaven

Honda emailed an alert one week prior to the Super Bowl in which you could sneak preview their ad featuring Matthew Broderick playing an updated Ferris Bueller. Of course the video included a SHARE button in hopes the video goes viral prior to super bowl. Did it work? With 8,377,885 hits I'd say yes.

The Super Bowl is beloved by the media for the flurry (and revenue) of ad placement. Now 2nd screen apps are intensifying the UX, making advertisers even more gleeful.

For the armchair creative directors like me, it's a good time to appreciate the hilarious and risky innovation of the ads. The Bark Side falls in the former category.

In the Fat vs. Carb War Bacon Wins Out

I'll bash my fundamental Protestant upbringing in terms of excitement deprivation but one thing's for sure. My diet was spot on. I might have been deprived of lobster as a child but those slices of Oatbran bread hearty enough to chip a tooth turned out to be the best way to keep me svelte. Or anyone for that matter. As this handy infographic depicts the easier to digest = the worse for your body.

Read How you Get Fat in 12 Sad Steps in Fast Company.

Talk About a Journey

This will sober up anyone who thinks they've got a tough life or are going through a bad spell. Amit Gupta was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2011. By using Facebook, blogs & Twitter he galvanized friends, family, strangers, celebrities to locate a bone marrow donor.

He found one.

Read about his journey on his blog: Amit Gupta Likes You.

The impact of innovative technology is exciting. Social media as a means of communication. Stem cell therapy as a means of regeneration. None of which would mean anything without human emotion driving it.

What a journey.

Why airlines are bankrupt

Source: http://frugaldad.com

Can Justin Timberlake bring sexy back to Panasonic?

LL Cool J, Brandy Chastain, and my favorite the JabbaWockeez dance crew showed up at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 making it the intersection of Technology & Celebrity. Why does this courtship make sense? Easy - techhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifnology facilitates applications for everyday life. Examples include: 3D coverage for the Olympic Games. Social TV service soon to be available on Panasonic connected televisions. Boomdizzle the virtual recording studio software. SMS Audio. Paltalk, an app that allows users to make free calls and send free texts.

Technical interpretation of real life needs. Ok, so maybe I don't need to a demo of the TOSY's “innovative entertainment robot" by Justin Bieber. But it doesn't hurt to watch Dennis Rodman plug an app that allows users to make free calls and send free text messages to any other app user over 3G and WiFi.

Catch more techie celeb action.

Twitter as a Timekeeper & Storyteller

Twitter has become the resource for sound bites and fast quotes. All conveniently condensed into less than 140 characters. Proving this point is a clever review of 2011 as told by Twitter. Created by Jeremiah Warren on YouTube.