I love it when games are taken into the world like this. This human version of Snake by Get Out and Play (which is an ngage thing by the looks of it) must have taken a bloody age to do. Great stuff.*
*Go to the site and see the making of…
Filed under: Flickr, protest, video | Tags: campaign, Flickr, protest, saynotovideoonflickr, video
I was looking for suitable Calico cat pictures in Flickr when I stumbled across one of the most popular tags which happened to be “say no to videos in Flickr”.
I can see why. To be honest, I don’t really need to use the service for videos. Although they do seem to be good quality, and I don’t mind the time limit, I have had problems playing every video I have tried. Hence, I have given up.
I do have a very good connection.
Anyway, thought it was interesting to see a lot of strong feeling against the development.
Now why is it that Japan has all The Good Ideas?
Ladies and gentleman, I give you the Cat Cafe Calico where you can hire a cat to stroke while you sup on your latte (via Stylist Stuff).
Says Stylist:
In Toyko there are now 3 cafes were you can rent a cat for about £3 for an hour or £9 for 3 hours. Takafumi Fukui is the founder of the first and very popular Tokyo’s Cat Cafe Calico. There are 14 very clean cats to pet – they are shampooed and brushed regularly and you must have a thorough hand wash before entering the lounge.
What I wouldn’t give for one of those here.
*The cat in this photo is Sibsy, who belongs to Zanypurr.
Filed under: game, play | Tags: alterego, colorwars, game, photography, play, youngnow, zefrank
I am liking the new Colorwars (sic) challenge of YoungNow. You have to recreate an image of you when you were little.
There is a gallery and prizes.
Kind of reminds me of Robbie Cooper’s Alter Ego.
Filed under: puppets, video | Tags: 1938media, alcat, cat, feldman, Flickr, flickrvideo, puppet, seesmic, shelisrael, sxsw, video
Alcat, a very good friend of mine, has had his YouTube account for more than 2 years now. He was born in SF and was a wannabe video blogger after being inspired by the likes of Bre Pettis and Steve Garfield at Gnomedex 2005.
He never quite got his act together, however, and languished behind the scenes, licking his paws.
Until he found Seesmic. It was easy to post quick, often rude and argumentative videos there and he liked it. He liked to mime. People seemed to like him. He performed for them. He answered their questions. He joined in their conversations whilst feeling slightly “luckier” than the other cats there because he, unlike the rest, had the power of speech. And he wore wigs well.
He went to SXSW and there he found he could at the same time delight and frighten people. Was he real? Why was he talking? He collected stickers. He ignored those who stared as they passed him talking into the laptop in anticipation of sessions. He marvelled at the people and their geekery. He liked what he saw.
Now, it seems, he is not alone. And he is pleased. When once people scoffed at his video ambitions, taunting him with cries of “but you are a puppet”!, now people are paying for other such felt fellows in video form.
Even Flickr is doing it to launch their video service because they have realised that humans are essentially boring.
Alcat welcomes this. The internets is a big place. There is enough space for all the puppets in the world.* He has even encountered the Feldman man on Seesmic and he looks forward to more encounters of the felt kind.
Except he is furry. Superior to felt.
*Never must he be called “puppet” to his face.
