PIXEL MAVERICK

Simply amazing.

The video of all the players in action is incredible enough, but all the “what if” scenarios and how the results affect the world economy & society was a really creative addition to the story.

I stumbled across this really incredible documentary film today that provides a great look at where the web is today & where it is evolving to — Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Web 3.0 and other fun buzzwords covered.  The documentary does an excellent job of explaining the evolution in simple terms through a series of interviews with notables including Tim Berners-Lee (The inventor of the Internet …and the also name of a conference room at IMC2).

The film is about 13 minutes long and definitely worth your time.

The documentary was created by Kate Ray, a recent NYU graduate who works at a startup called Kommons.

The only thing about the video that I thought was a little random was the music choice in the early section.  It is has sort of a kitschy NPR feel to it I guess, but mostly it made me visualize that perhaps all of these interviews were actually being conducted by a older Jewish gentleman (A cane, orthopedic shoes, a plaid fedora and a 1960′s style tape recorder ….sorry the daydream got away from me).

According to RRW we are within 5 years of having the cool tricks of Minority Report right in our own living rooms.

You know which scene I am talking about.  Tom Cruise is flipping and waving all sorts of holographic folders around the room to navigate through a complex system & get the data he needs.

According to one of my favorite blogs, Read Write Web, I will be able to flip important data folders all over my living room before I am 40.  Hell Yes!! To back up their claim they showed this badass video of a company called Oblong Industries showing some of the gestural interface tricks they have already developed.  Since this video is already 1 year old I am guessing they have even cooler stuff today.

I just want to make sure that between big arm swooshes & wrist flips of highly sensitive work data from my lounge chair …that I don’t have bulky Nerd Mittens on leaving me unable to nimbly navigate a Smartphone or a bag of Cheetos.

I will take the cool half-gloves that Tom had and we will be all good thank you very much.

Brilliant short film by Chris Milk for his submission to the 42 Second Dream Festival (Beijing, China 2009). I do not know much about Chris or his past work, but I definitely will be checking it out after seeing this.  Really smart and creative work.

If you watched this and did not have to re-watch it a couple times in a nostagiac playback of of what your own last daydream would be…then I am sad for you and your lonely life (or you might be a robot).

Oh, and also if you think that the still shot selected for this video is a little pervvy…the film has nothing to do with that so get your mind out of the gutter you sicko.