Nice and simple idea to turn your iPhone into a Holodeck.

Less Rain is looking for a versatile Flash developer for full-time employment in our Berlin office with a solid background in object oriented web development and in-depth experience in AS3. We are seeking a motivated and confident problem solver with an eye for interaction design and a passion for web technologies.

You will be working in an international team of experienced developers in Berlin. Your role involves working closely with our front-end designers and the developer team to implement projects ranging from mini-sites to large scale consumer & corporate websites. You will be working on projects such as:

• http://www.redbullsoapboxracer.com/
• http://www.alfaromeogiulietta.co.uk/
• http://www.passage-experience.com/
• http://www.redbullflightlab.com/

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in Flash development and solid Actionscript 3 skills
• A feel for good interaction design and usability
• Experience in working with frameworks such as PureMVC or Flex
• Experience with Flash integration technologies (XML, Remoting, Webservices)
• Experience in related technologies and APIs is an advantage (i.e. Papervision 3D, Facebook API...)
• English speakers are welcome!

Please send your CV and portfolio to Thomas Meyer.
We can only accept applications via e-mail.

For further information about Less Rain visit:
http://www.lessrain.com
http://blog.lessrain.com
 

Here is one of the very few examples of how wonderful a product website can feel. Its a very fluid experience switching between videos and clean product shots, zooming in and out. The whole project feels quite unpretentious and natural, creating a nice brand experience and contrast to all the other bold advertising rubbish out there.

http://www.muji.com/rhythm/

Reborne Jewelry from Paris creates handmade fine jewelry by using materials like zippers in a very unusual manner.

View more of the current collection that features necklaces, cuffs and bracelets here.

Former colleague and street-art artist Ronzo just published a short making off documentary about a credit crunch monster popping up around London's financial district.

Ronzo's Pity of London - Part 2 from Ronzo on Vimeo.

The 'City of London' statue is a dragon sculpture marking the boundaries of London's financial district since centuries. The 'Pity of London' statue is a sculpture of 'Crunchy - The Credit Crunch Monster' munching on a pound coin. It marks the home of the credit crunch.

www.ronzo.co.uk

Berlin based, urban culture and graffiti book specialists From Here To Fame Publishing are pleased to present the first round of titles from their spring 2010 catalogue: Calligraffiti – The Graphic Art of Niels "Shoe" Meulman and On The Run Book # 7- Graffiti Tattoo – Kings on Skin.

The lecture of the two authors Niels Meulman and Adam Eeuwens starts Thursday the 11th at 8pm in our Basement Bar.

Street-edge meets high-end design as contemporary Dutch calligrapher, typographer and designer Niels Meulman, also known as graffiti artist “SHOE” from the legendary Crime Time Kings, explores the contours of words as images in "Calligraffiti" - his hybrid art form which blends calligraphy and graffiti. He presents for our viewing pleasure a wonderful interplay of contrasts, such as ‘black-white’ and ‘rise-fall’, with a series of fast phrases and upbeat witticisms in the form of captivating typographic masterpieces.

Julius Wiedemann and Rob Ford from the FWA teamed up for TASCHEN Verlag to present you with "sixty success stories from clients' briefings to final projects" - and two of them are ours. Both our Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab and Vandalsquad feature as examples for a successful investment online.

You can flip through the entire book here, or read more at the TASCHEN website. The Internet Case Study Book is out in April 2010.

Jean Jaques Rousseau

This evening I needed to get a list of unique words for a captcha tool. I decided to start with one of my favourite books of all time: 'Confessions' by Jean-Jaques Rousseau. I grabbed the text courtesy of the Gutenburg project and then had to figure how to extract the words. Rousseau was not only an eloquent writer but posessed a wide vocabulary (even when translated into english).

I googled for some scripts, but then just decided to pipe stuff together on the command line. here's how it looked:

grep -o '[a-zA-Z]\{4,12\}' rousseau.txt | 
    tr A-Z a-z | 
    sort -u |
    tr '\n' ';' > rousseauWords.txt

this processed the whole book in less than 2 seconds  and gave me a list of all uniques words longer than 3 characters and shorter than 13, stripped of punctuation, turned to lowercase and seperated by a colon.

Not particularly eloquent, and I'm sure there is some repetition but it does the job nicely

Eugene Zatepyakin recently finished his SURF Library for the Adobe Flash Platform and we really can't wait to play with it.

SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) is a robust image detector and descriptor, first presented by Herbert Bay et al. in 2006, that can be used in computer vision tasks like object recognition or 3D reconstruction.

The algorithm is based on sums of approximated 2D Haar wavelet responses and makes an efficient use of integral images. As basic image features it uses a Haar wavelet approximation of the determinant of Hessian blob detector.

Well, this sounds really nerdy, but have a look at the following examples to get an idea what's going on!

Example: Multiple references

Example: Hide & Seek

Example: Casino

Well done Eugene.

More info can be found

• on Eugenes Blog
• on the ASSURF Wiki
• on Vimeo

Otto Pfeiffer’s OKI-restaurant had a cult following in Berlin, his inventive frisian-japanese cuisine earned him a „Prix du fooding de la meilleure table fusion“. Now Otto is back with his newest innovation: OKI Food takes the old-fashioned way of conservating food in glasses and turns it into contemporary gourmet food. There also might be a chance to sample his fresh and delicious creations.

http://www.ottos-kochinnovationen.de/

David Letellier is an artist and musician, born in France, and based in Berlin. Graduated in architecture, his works cross different fields : music, architecture, installations… Under his moniker « kangding ray », he released two albums on the electronic music label raster-noton. For TATW, he will present two of his last works : a temporary building for a music festival made out of 4500 wooden pallets, and a mirrored sculpture that he installed in different deserts of western U.S.A.

http://kangdingray.com/

Meyer, Miller, Smith proudly present: Meyer, Miller, Smith, our new umbrella brand for communication not necessarily based on or built in Flash. We will give a short introduction about who they are, what they do, and what they want. We will also show our new multilingual blog system “Figaro”, that connects seamlessly to social networks like Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and many more.

http://www.meyermillersmith.com/

The title says it all. The Red Bull Soapbox Racer is nominated at The One Show. 36 days to go...

Nicely crafted music video for new Ramona Falls single, directed by the talented Stefan Nadelman.

Ramona Falls "I Say Fever" from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

Here are some recent impressions from inside the studio and our basement bar.

Atmospheric animation for marketing department "12 above" of german pharmacy company Grünenthal.

The short animation visualizes key sentences like "providing strategic orientation" in form of a flog of birds forming different shapes in the sky.