Category Archives: Viral video

A well-done Steve Jobs animated biography (and some IT history too)

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Stefano

“Oh no, yet another Steve Jobs movie?” Not exactly… It’s an animated multi-timeline Steve Jobs‘ biography, featuring all relevant IT people from 1955 to 2011, along with main IT events and computer/technology introduction events. It’s so well done (IMHO) that … Continue reading →

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Jurassic Park (and several other blockbusters) completely recreated with Lego by a dad and his daughter

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Stefano

Animator Paul Hollingsworth (with Digital Wizard Studios) and his daughter Hailee did something very weird, truly unusual and so cool! Using some $100,000 of LEGO pieces, they digitally managed to recreate the 1993 dino-thriller Jurassic Park along several other video … Continue reading →

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Pixels: an (awesome) upcoming movie about vintage gaming

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Stefano

You may already have seen this video, Pixels, released in 2010 by french director Patrick Jean: it’s awesome and has been an inspiration for most vintage game lovers around the world. New York is suddendly surrounded by the best 80s … Continue reading →

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SNCF (French railways) marketing: Europe? It’s just next door

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Stefano

A brilliant campaign to promote SNCF, French railways, throughout Europe. TBWA/Paris installed coloured doors (with high-tech connected monitors) in several european cities’ public squares (Milan, Brussels, Barcelona, Geneva or Stuttgart…). Opening the door provided users a great experience of being… … Continue reading →

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NVIDIA Tegra K1 192-graphics-cores-processor marketing? A worldwide puzzle: “Project 192” crop circles

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Stefano

Tegra K1 is NVIDIA new mobile processor (a SoC, system-on-a-chip, to be more accurate) that sports 192 GPU cores (that’s right 192!) and has just debuted at CES 2014. NVIDIA chose a very unusual way to market this outrageously powerful … Continue reading →

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Facebook, the Musical: almost inevitable…

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Stefano

It was almost inevitable: a Facebook musical! Blame it on AVbyte, a New York, 2011-born web-idea named after its two founders: Antonius and Vijay Nazareth, has been producing musicals on Youtube (dubbed youtubesicals…). I think there’s a great deal of … Continue reading →

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April Fools’ #2: Youtube pranks

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Stefano

This is my 2013-second-favorite April Fools’ (right after Google Treasure Map). Are you ready for the closing of YouTube? Looks like, YouTube has been, all this time, running an eight-year contest, the goal of which was to find the best … Continue reading →

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An Apple or Samsung commercial? No, even better: Somersby Cider (yes, made with apples)!

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Stefano

This commercial is so brilliant! We all know how people (us) queue up outside stores whenever Apple releases a new product. It’s amazing how much this event has become ritual: door opening, store people welcoming customers, people getting crazy around … Continue reading →

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Xmas 2012 version of a Reindeer Race? Social with Facebook, ‘real’ with Arduino!

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Stefano

Australian-based agency VML created this XMas-themed race with some technical and social cool elements! Reindeer Race allows you to race your… reindeer (four available) and race against other people or some bots (according to who’s online). The cool fact is … Continue reading →

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Walmart e-Commerce: a pretty interesting video

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Stefano

Walmart e-Commerce from Davis Elen Advertising on Vimeo. DE shares the stage with Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Celine Dion and Lionel Richie. Some of entertainment’s biggest stars performed at the 2012 Walmart shareholders’ meeting. And Davis Elen was part of … Continue reading →

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