Nice watch from Nooka December 4, 2006
Posted by farshadf in Buy this.add a comment
his watch has major wrist appeal, with a mirrored face housed in a stainless steel body (35 x 35 x 9mm) and a luxuriously weighty metal mesh band with steel buckle. A large digital display shows hours and a 59-increment horizontal bar shows minutes, while a smaller digital readout displays both seconds and the day of the month. Features chronograph, alarm, LCD display, and electroluminescent backlight. Waterproof to 5 ATM, which is 132 feet in salt water.
Nooka offers a 90-day manufacturer’s warranty on the Zoo.
Created by designer/artist/creative director/teacher Matthew Waldman.
The Secretive Apple Ad Factory: Chiat\Day’s High-Security Media Arts Lab December 4, 2006
Posted by farshadf in Interesting, Uncategorized.add a comment
Even if you don’t know anything about the advertising world, I guarantee you know the agency TBWA\Chiat\Day. They did the PS3 ads, and have done every Apple ad you can think of, including the iPod, Think Different, and 1984 ads.
So, it’s likely that the Chiat Day Los Angeles campus houses the greatest concentration of Apple secrets outside of Cupertino. (And the sweatshops, but we won’t talk about that.)
How does that stuff go unleaked?
The agency has a separate building dedicated to Apple ads that even regular Chiat employees can’t get into— The Media Arts Lab. Not many have seen the inside of the shop, but considering the other, main building is decked out with a mini cooper on the floor, a meeting room table made of surf boards, a bastketball court in the middle of a sea of cubicles, and a freeway billboard over the lunchroom. So, I have to wonder how rad the inside of the Apple building is. We’ll likely never know. The creative staff that works on the project has never been connected to any leaked info, and access to the building is probably manned by a guard, 24/7. I do know for a fact that a fingerprint swipe is required for entry. I don’t know where Chiat did their Apple ads before this building was put up, and I don’t know if this was made on Steve’s request. I don’t know much about it, except the building was dubbed the Media Arts Lab in May of this year, although I suspect the building’s been around longer than that.
Some audio website revealed that the studio has “three Final Cut edit bays, a Pro Tools HD surround studio and a complete machine room with the Apple Xsan fiber network at the hub.”
But who cares about the gear. Right now, I’m dreaming of a concept room with three dozen concept ads for the iPhone draped across a ginormous wall of longboards. Only those creative directors, the production people, and a handful of janitors know what’s going on in there for sure.
http://www.gizmodo.com/
