A couple of months ago, a guy called Andrew Missingham got in touch with Bigballs (we’re a London based production company) - he was in the process of pulling together a new festival on London’s Southbank called Vision Sound Music that celebrates the new ways that music, advertising and games are coming together.
The hottest new club isn’t in Los Angeles or New York. It’s on a Web site called Turntable.fm, where big-headed cartoon characters populate the D.J. booth.
On the site, users represented by cartoon avatars enter one of many virtual listening rooms, where up to five people at a time take turns playing songs for the crowd. Those in the room can type to chat with one another or click to give songs an “awesome” or “lame” vote.
Here’s a great idea for the eco-friendly music aficionado with plenty of time on their hands. Forget making matchstick models of ships in bottles, how about painstakingly creating a giant wooden glockenspiel inside a forest.
This is what Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo recently did as part of an advertising campaign for its limited edition Touch Wood, back to nature-style, handset.
The mobile manufacturer constructed a mile long wooden marimba instrument in the heart of a forest, enabling a wooden ball that traversed the structure to play out a gentle, melodious version of Bach’s ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’.
Just how many felled trees it took to construct the eco-friendly, minimalist iPod is open to question. However, it’s certainly a refreshingly peaceful piece of ambient advertising in the increasingly cluttered, chaotic and bombastic mobile marketing sector.
It's Friday afternoon, so to help while away the remaining few hours at work, we wanted to share a couple of things that had been keeping us occupied.
For anyone who wanted to be Barbra Streisand, you can now take her role in the Duck Sauce dance track, "Barbra Streisand". Frankly, any site called GoBarbra.com is always going to be a hit in our book.
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