Man's biggest friend: Devoted owner Dave Nasser with George, the world's biggest dog
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Man uses Barcode for Animated Tatoo in France
First QR Code Tattoo: Bar Code on Man’s Chest Activates Advertising Animation | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze
Technology First QR Code Tattoo: Bar Code on Man’s Chest Activates Advertising Animation
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 4:00pm by Christopher Santarelli Christopher Santarelli
Quick Response Codes are specific matrix barcodes that when detected by QR barcode readers, and a growing number of mobile phone devices, pick up encoded information such as text, URL, or video. QR codes have become more popular in the U.S. as many advertisers use them as opportunity to connect with customers thanks to the growing number of mobile phones capable of detecting QR Code encoding. Usually seen in magazines and train billboards, Ballantine whisky has found a new QR code canvass for their latest “Leave an Impression” advertising campaign. One man’s chest.
The tattoo was engraved by Paris-based tattoo artist Karl Marc onto his friend Marco’s chest. When scanned, the QR code unnlocks an animation via a live stream on the brand’s Facebook Page.
Mashable:
“What makes this tattoo special is not just that it links to an animation,’ Marc says. ‘It’s that we will be able to change the animation as time goes on. As Marco grows older and his ideas change, we can create new animations that link to the Matrix Code.’
You’re probably wondering if the tat is fake — after all, that Facebook friend tattoo turned out to be an advertising campaign, as did the Ray-Ban tattoo. But Marc says that the ink is the real deal. And it does seems likely. There’s no hidden viral agenda here: Ballantine’s hosted the live stream of the process on its brand page.
Check out the code and animation yourself:
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
What happens on the Internet every 60 seconds
Technolog from msnbc.com - What happens on the Internet every 60 seconds
What happens on the Internet every 60 seconds
Shanghai Web Designers.
Let's say that it takes you exactly one minute to read through this post. In that time, over 6,600 photos will be uploaded to Flickr, about 70 new domains will be registered, over 1,200 new ads will be created on Craigslist, and more. Here's what happens on the Internet every 60 seconds.
Now keep in mind that the data below and the infographic above come from the Shanghai Web Designers team. We have done our best to confirm that the statistics provided line up with known data, but you should still take everything with a hefty serving of salt.
That disclaimer aside and without further ado, here's what's happening each minute:
- Search engine Google serves more that 694,445 queries
- 6,600+ pictures are uploaded to Flickr
- 600 videos are uploaded to YouTube, amounting to 25+ hours of content
- 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on social networking site Facebook
- 70 new domains are registered
- 168,000,000+ emails are sent
- 320 new accounts and 98,000 tweets are generated on social networking site Twitter
- iPhone applications are downloaded more than 13,000 times
- 20,000 new posts are published on micro-blogging platform Tumblr
- Popular web browser FireFox is downloaded more than 1,700 times
- Popular blogging platform WordPress is downloaded more than 50 times
- WordPress Plugins are downloaded more than 125 times
- 100 accounts are created on professional networking site LinkedIn
- 40 new questions are asked on YahooAnswers.com
- 100+ questions are asked on Answers.com
- 1 new article is published on Associated Content, the world’s largest source of community-created content
- 1 new definition is added on UrbanDictionary.com
- 1,200+ new ads are created on Craigslist
- 370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by Skype users
- 13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized Internet radio provider Pandora
- 1,600+ reads are made on Scribd, the largest social reading publishing company
Impressive? Scary? Overwhelming? We're not sure. But we do know that a lot happened in the few moments it took to look at this blog post — so you better rush to catch up.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Cars 2 - Gunnison, UT Real-Life Mater
ksl.com - Meet Utah's real-life 'Mater'
Meet Utah's real-life 'Mater'
June 30th, 2011 @ 6:30pm
By Sam Penrod
GUNNISON -- Main Street in Gunnison, isn't exactly the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but it is where you will find the world's most popular movie star right now.
As "Cars 2" tops the box office, the star of Pixar's "Cars" sequel, is in front of the Casino Star Theatre.
"It's Awesome" says one girl who stopped by to see him.
A boy adds, "He actually does look pretty real, I like it."
It's Tow Mater, better known as Mater, the star of the latest "Cars" movie. If you don't think it really is Mater, just look at the faces of the young kids who are showing up to see him.
With just 260 seats, The Casino Star Theatre in Gunnison rarely gets a new blockbuster when it's released, but last weekend was able to open with "Cars 2."
The theatre had no idea about the special guest.
"This showed up here the night before the movie was to open," said Diana Spencer of the Casino Star Theatre Foundation. "It had people climbing all over it, every kid in town."
Lifelong Gunnison resident Seth Hendrickson brought the 1951 Dodge to life as Mater a few weeks ago.
For decades, the old truck was parked in a lot full of weeds.
The owners, D&D Buick, told Hendrickson they didn't want it anymore and let him haul it off.
"I kind of noticed it right when that first 'Cars' movie was coming out," said Hendrickson, "and so I hauled it down to the farm and stored him and decided this was a good time to get him out, and make him look like that."
It didn't take much.
A mouth, some eyes and just a little bit of paint, and it was all done in a day's work.
Everything with Mater is pretty authentic, including the rust. And Mater was really a tow truck in Gunnison, serving the community in the 1950s and '60s.
"You get talking to the old guys in town and they all recognize him from the good old days," adds Hendrickson. And now it seems everyone wants to have their picture taken with this old tow truck that doesn't even run.
"You've got to tow Tow Mater," laughs Hendrickson. "We had to tow him here, but maybe next year we'll have him ready to run."
He's a big attraction in a small town that feels a lot like Radiator Springs.
E-mail: spenrod@ksl.com
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