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Cinemetrics: Interactive Movie Infographics

By Tom Saunter | Published: August 18, 2011

Cinemetrics is the fascinating result of Frederic Brodbeck‘s bachelor graduation project at The Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands. As a graphic designer, Brodbeck is drawn to particular style details, but as a generative coder he’s interested in exploring the role for graphic design in analysing these same details. He picked the medium of film as […]

Posted in Design, Film | Also tagged Academic, art, barcode, data, Design, Film, films, github, graphic, graphics, imdb, information, interactive, interesting, motion, movie, movies, popular, set, speech, transform, trends, users | Leave a comment

Oops, Forgot To Blog…

By Tom Saunter | Published: July 21, 2011

Er, yeah, sorry about that… Here’s what I’ve been up to instead though! Sharing loads of great links on Twitter – Trunkly has all of these Trying out Google+ to see where the value lies (hmm…) Looking for a place to live with Sarah ♥ (any suggestions?) Playing with my new Kindle (I’m reading Neuromancer) Eating & drinking at some awesome […]

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Strategy Bot: An Experiment in Social A.I.

By Tom Saunter | Published: June 17, 2011

In this post I’ll introduce you to my new pet project: an experiment in Twitter automation. The Strategy Bot (pictured) is ‘programmed’ to select & retweet key digital media resources, case studies or news items that provoke a higher understanding of the formation of good digital strategy. Some context… I will typically have the odd […]

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Design Excellence in Tron Legacy

By Tom Saunter | Published: April 27, 2011

I watched Tron Legacy this weekend. Awesome movie, if only for the following reasons: The music The aesthetics Jeff Bridges That’s it Despite not having the greatest storyline or script, the film has still had quite a profound effect on me thanks to its frankly mind-blowing visual identity. As with most of the films I […]

Posted in Design, Film | Also tagged algorithm, art, Film, flash, imdb, josh nimoy, linux, movies, processing, tron | Leave a comment

30 Day Song Challenge – Week One

By Tom Saunter | Published: April 15, 2011

A few of my mates are doing this viral challenge thing on Facebook right now, and because it’s a pretty cool idea, I’d like to join in. However, not wishing to clog up any newsfeeds, I’ve decided to post my music selections up on the blog. Posts like this will pop up once a week until […]

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