suspiciousvan.com

Posted in Uncategorized | 24 February 2009 | by Lemme

I think this one fits the bill.

(Post updated, 4 March) Joe sends in this prize winner while on the road at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Biloxi. Top shelf.

Everything that can happen

Posted in Uncategorized | 18 February 2009 | by Lemme

Garret Lisi shows you one of the most beautiful things you will ever see. Unless he’s wrong. Here’s an alternate video illustrating the same concepts. (I wonder if David Byrne had this in mind.)

What up, Mongolia?

Posted in Uncategorized | 16 February 2009 | by Lemme

A quick shout out to the D/C fan (or fans) in Mongolia that visited the site last week. We see you.

Processing Radiohead

Posted in Uncategorized | 13 February 2009 | by Lemme

Robert Hodgin (aka flight404) interprets Radiohead’s “Weird Fishes: Arpeggi” via Processing. Trip out. (Thanks to DJ Stef for the tip.)

Don’t mind me

Posted in Uncategorized | 12 February 2009 | by Lemme

Might as well post this stuff here so I can find it later. A few useful YouTube parameters…

Parameter that removes the awful-looking superimposed title and rating junk:
&showinfo=0

To embed a high-quality YouTube video instead of the default, append:
&ap=%2526fmt%3D18

We usually use both:
&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&showinfo=0

To link out to a high-def version of a video on YouTube, append this to the URL:
&fmt=18

Happy Easter

Posted in Uncategorized | 16 October 2008 | by Lemme

We just launched the Hard Rock memorabilia “widget.” Good times. No surprise that the mad scientists at Vertigo also built in the ability to include several items at once. (Don’t tell nobody – we haven’t worked out all the kinks – but here’s a how-to.)

Hard Rock launches memorabilia widget

Posted in Uncategorized | 14 October 2008 | by Lemme

Monday at midnight, Hard Rock International launched an online application that enables music fans to break off a favorite collectible from the Hard Rock Memorabilia website and place it on their own blogs and sites.

Conceived and designed by D/C (natch) and built by the agency’s development partner Vertigo, the memorabilia widget works much the same as a YouTube widget, giving users all the functionality of the parent site, but in a small portable app. The memorabilia widget allows fans to zoom in on images to an extraordinary level of detail — for instance, reading marginal notes in a handwritten Paul McCartney letter from 1964 or seeing the fingerprints on Bo Diddley’s custom guitar. It also allows them to open an information panel that recounts the history of the piece and play videos related to the item.

The Hard Rock widget was launched in coordination with the official release of Microsoft’s Silverlight 2 plug-in, the underlying technology for both the acclaimed website and the new widget. Look for it to migrate soon to a music or tech blog near you.

Update, Nov 25: A little love from Blender, Rolling Stone and Spin.

No lights, no camera, action

Posted in Uncategorized | 25 August 2008 | by Lemme

Unless you’re an old man you’ve already seen this.

In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards,” no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

Also:
Play with Thom’s data-head while he sings!
Making-of video
Duncan’s review of their recent show in Golden Gate Park