This is just amazing! I found this blog post on http://mashable.com/ and I must admit, that I just copy pasted the text. All credit to Mashable for the wording and links. This project is just so mindblowing! See for yourself!
Just when we had almost given up hope on Nokia, along comes “Gulp,” a promotional stop-motion animation that broke a world record as the largest ever created.
The video showcases the Nokia N8 smartphone‘s 12-megapixel camera, using its Carl Zeiss lens to great effect. Shooting this clever video with three of the smartphones mounted atop a 118-foot-high crane, the Sumo Science team at Aardman Animations (some of whom also work on the Wallace and Gromit animated series) have succeeded in putting together a true work of art.
It’s been confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records that the 11,000 square foot area used in the video makes this the world’s largest stop-motion animation.
Want to see how it was done? Here’s the “making of” video:
The other day we came by this marketing stunt made by Tesco in South Korea. It´s a very interesting way to address a challenge. We find it super inspiring and would love to do something similar in copenhagen. It´s simple and spot on which makes it that more powerful. Take a look at the video below and let os know what you think about this way of creating a virtual subway store.
Stumbled upon this unique way to set focus on lack of focus on the streets. It might be even more relevant with the recent passing of Lieutenant Columbo – Peter Falk. He will be missed!
Recently Kadaver produced a viral movie for the Copenhagen based designer Dea Kudibal. The result is a beautiful production set in the center of the Danish capital.
On a sunny Wednesday 500 Kudibal scarves covered the Copenhagen sky! The scarves came flying down from the top of the historical building, Rundetårn (the Round Tower). People passing by rushed to grab as many scarves as they could! And the footage from that day is now online in a picture perfect viral movie.
Better Place is a new addition to the Kadaver project portfolio. As a launch of this new collaboration we have been engaged in creating awareness by guiding the electric cars through the streets of Copenhagen. You could therefore see three electric cars (Renault Fluence Z.E.) around Copenhagen this past weekend, among other places at Islands Brygge, Amager Strandpark and Bellevue. Next weekend (July 17) you will be able to meet the cars at Rådhuspladsen from 10 am to 1 pm. See you there.
2100.nu has been engaging the citizens in Østerbro with projects aiming to lower the co2 emission with 10%.
We were asked to create a short animated movie that could illustrate the achievements from the project. So if you need inspiration to what is achievable to do within a years time, then check this video out and feel the inspiration!
Fantastic event by T-mobile in Barcelona! Watch how people use a simple smartphone to play a life-size version of the cult Angry Birds game. Complete with real shooting birds and exploding pigs! It´s a fantastic event and a great documentation of the happening! Good inspiration to what is possible to do in order to get attention with event documentation.
We are sure this little video will get a great viral life :0)
I completely stole this blog from the “digital buzz blog” because I couldn’t say it better myself! Cheers guys!
Here is a neat little case study for Stadsmission, a small charity dedicated to helping the homeless in Stockholm. The “Homeless Banners” campaign was based around a blank, homeless banner with no website to live, a banner that has been re-sized, and waiting for a home…
When users got to the micro-site, they were promoted to copy the embed code, and paste it onto their own website, essentially giving the banner a place to live. The longer it was embedded and the more that it was interacted with, the brighter the banner became, helping to drive donations and further emergency banner housing to help spread the word…
After just a month, there were over 400 websites hosting the homeless banners, generating 36 million impressions, and tripling donations… A great little idea! Created by the guys at Garbergs.
In the past couple of years we have wondered whether or not it would be possible to reinvent the way that we define making donations. One of the reasons we have wondered is the fact that it seems like the way that people donate has not changed for the last decade – not remarkably anyway.
Recently Greenpeace launched a website to engage people in the creation of the new Rainbow Warrior – their flagship, so to speak… Their way of generating funds for the creation of the ship is a step in the right direction – but it can be taken even further to ensure loyal and engaged contributors.
Great work on the concept and design by DDB – France, Les 84 and Greenpeace
One year ago a group of people gathered around Stengade in Copenhagen to celebrate the birthday of now famous bus-driver, Mukhtar. So on this day, his birthday, we can congratulate him again and celebrate the fact that the youtube-film is about to reach the 3.000.000-click mark. Tomorrow it will also be decided whether the movie will go from Creative Circle-shortlisted to Creative Circle-winner.
At the Super Bowl 2011 VW aired their new commercial for the new Passat. Which in it self is relatively uninteresting, but the add hits surely strikes something in everyones hearts – regardless of relationship to Star Wars….
We would like to appreciate this great initiative called Fair Denmark!
In Denmark, hundreds of thousands computers are being discarded each year. Computers are thrown away because they are not fast enough, or do not have enough disk space etc. We exchange them with new computers, because we want to have a computer which is faster, more modern, and has new features and functions – Rarely because the old computer is broken!
In developing countries, institutions such as schools, universities and hospitals, have a great need for IT to become a part of and make use of the global information community. Information technologies are an important prerequisite for the creation and development of democracy, education and healt-care.
We got this great little video from Germany, trying to illustrate how the world would look like, if we had no artisans and craftsmen! I think the production is well made and the idea is good! It was uploaded in Jan. 2011, and so far it has 255 hits on youtube. It looks like the production is made for a TV/cinema campaign and not on a viral budget. However it is an interesting way to illustrate and inspire young people to apply for that specific type of education. Check it out, and let us know what you think about it!
Here is a great little inspiration video from the transport comapany Voyages-sncf.com that has created a “voyage machine”! if it´s a staged stunt with the actors or not, the viral effect is working and the concept is great!
Again this year great people from Copenhagen are arranging the yearly festival for the Copenhagen Twitter network, called Twestival. The event is a charity event like last year, and this time Twestival cph support BørneCancerFonden. You can read more and get the ticket from the webpage http://copenhagen.twestival.com/
It´s to night! So move quick!
The aim is to collect $18981 which is about 100.000 Dkk.
I can´t remember how much got donated last year.. but the twitter network has grown bigger since last year, so hopefully the donation will equally be bigger! If you know the amount donated last year, then please put it in the comment for the next reader to see it.
Uffe Elbæk has been a big inspiration for Kadaver and now you all have the possibility to meet him and hear his viewpoints on social entrepreneurship. What is it? who do you need for your team? and how do you get startet?
The Creative Circle award for agencies in Denmark are just around the corner! We are very proud to see that Kadaver is shortlisted between the different nominees for one of the biggest prices in the add world in Denmark. We got the news through the daily online magazine bureaubiz.
We are of course participating with the Bedre Bustur campaign we have been creating together with Bybird.
The 15th of March you have the possibility to experience an Aikido morning session based on Tao Te Ching which is a 2400 years old book. Basically the morning course is to give you tools to be a better leader in your everyday life. Both for your self and for your employes and/or coworkers! It´s an introduction to the thoughts, methods and action behind Aikido! The host is Nicolai Elberling a very experienced Aikido instructor and leadership consultant. You can see much more about the different programs at the facebook event
We in Kadaver met Nicolai at the Likemind meetings in copenhagen.
Are the books as we know them an endangered format or will the future still feature the smell of a new-acquired book? It would hurt a book-loving heart like mine if I could not buy the latest releases in paper format… This video might hold the answer…
Kadaver have helped the organisation Green Kids from RandersgadeSkole to develop and produce a small video. The assignment was to help and support the Green Kids to create a flashmob video with a message concerning the environment. Through co-operative brainstorms with the Green Kids the idea and concept was created. The result is now out and you can see the video here on our blog, or at: www.green-kids.dk
Every now and again you stumble upon someone, who will inspire you! When working with Flash Mobs there are the obvious ones. The ones that everyone knows, has seen and refers to. Those are naturally The T-Mobile Dance and Frozen Grand Central Station and they are great! We believe that one person in particular has been overlooked although millions upon millions has seen his work. We have many times looked to french Remi Guillard for inspiration or just simply a laugh… The way Monsieur Guillard keeps reinventing the term flash mob and it’s usage is simply brilliant, so if you have not had the pleasure yet – check out some of his work below.
In this past fall Kadaver found itself in a fortunate role of being assigned to a task for the Danish Ministry of Food. Kadaver was chosen along side to other companies and in-house friends, bybird and Haus CPH. This constellation of three companies designed and shaped a campaign that was to address what the Danes wanted in terms of healthier, better and more appealing fast food and convenience products. Through recent years the usage of unhealthy fast food and convenience products has increased rapidly and the campaign was launched to find out whether or not there could be found alternative or new solutions that would make the healthier choice easier for the Danes to make.
The design of the campaign was created around well-known elements that would both created a sense of security to the target group, but it would also have a clear reference to the elements from the world of fast food and convenience products. This was done to secure that the focus of the campaign was in center and the target group would be willing to engage in dialogue around the campaign focus.
The result was a name “Mums – Hvad skulle det være?” (direct translation; Jummy – What will it be?) referring to two well-known terms within the Danish food universe.
The graphic design was inspired by both the environment around the american dinners and the Danish countryside homes.
The campaign that ran in a four week period contained viral elements such as a homepage (hurtigmums.dk), twitter-account, youtube-account and a facebookpage. Alongside these elements the campaign could be found on street-level via a national voxpop carried out by the campaign character Agent Mums, Go-Cards in cafés, headrestsleeves in the busses of Copenhagen and finally during a two week period in “The People’s Kitchen”, where the Danish consumers could taste and give feedback to different producers of Fast Food and Convenience products.
The conclusion of the campaign has been loads of feedback given by the target group, which will help form what future initiatives needs to be made in the future regarding fast food and convenience products.
For some time now we have been working together with 2100.nu who is an environmental project located at Østerbro, Cph, Denmark.
The project involves citizens and companies who jointly engage in order to reduce Co2 emissions by 10% before the 1st of May 2011.
Kadaver was asked to create a little movie for 2100.Nu. The movie is made to be shown in Park Bio at Østerbrogade, and is meant to create awareness around 2100.nu´ mission. Our task was to illustrate this without pointing an angry finger at people, but to inspire the public to visit www.2100.nu.
Yesterday Kadaver attended the mini conference about Social businesses in Social medias hosted by Tania Ellis. This has kick started the mini conference concept, Social Business Club. We are looking very much forward to attend next time.
Today we will be present at the inspirational after work meeting at Social Square. We are looking forward to get inspiration about social application for Iphones, Androids etc.
Read more about the inspirational after work meeting here: Link
Søren Bo Steendahl from Kadaver will be talking today at The Social Business Club, hosted by Tania Ellis. This time the theme is Social Businesses in Social Media, and Søren is going to address how Kadaver involves users in their campaign work.
This is the Invitation from Tania. Hope to see you!
The New Media day conference are held in Copenhagen 9-10th of Nov. The last couple of years there have been given an award for the Media of the year.
This time The New Media award chose to award 38 young talented individuals whom the jury see as the future mediatalents.
At Kadaver we are proud to announce that all 4 of us got nominated!
Johannes and Søren from kadaver have been working the last two months in Shanghai for the Nordic Council of Minsters on a project called The Creative North. The assignment was to show how Nordic countries are using creativity and user driven innovation when developing welfare products, services and/or technologies. This should be shown in a renovated old ware house in shanghai called The Nordic Light House. Through a long time of research, different Nordic companies and student projects was chosen to participate. The exhibitors should represent their process from discovering the “need” to representing the product. The exhibition we created was based on huge cones which was back lit. (previously we wrote about creating the prototype) Having the back lit cones created a great feeling next to the cold walls in the building and shaped a landscape of small glowing light houses. As you can see on the picture here, compared with the design layout posted earlier, we really managed to create the aesthetic visual experience of walking into the room. Now when it´s all done and we are back in Copenhagen we think back on a beautiful exhibition which gave inspiration and insight on the Nordic welfare model. See more about the project here: www.thecreativenorth.com
A new video has hit the viral airwaves! This video is the second Flash Mob in the “Bedre Bustur”-campaign that brought you Mukhtars Fødelsedag back in May.
Mukhtars Fødselsdag was the documentation of an elaborate birthday celebration that was made to create attention on the bus drivers of Copenhagen. This new video deals with a different theme. Every week thousands of Copenhageners uses the busses at night. Either to go back and forth to work or as an element of going out. The night bus is normally a place where people are left by themselves and something surprising very rarely happens.
As the passengers have contributed with a lot of great input on how to make the bus rides better through two campaigns it was decided to give them something back. And the night bus passengers were selected!
Watch the movie, enjoy it and send to a friend who might be a regular night bus passenger.
Here Kadaver keeps an online window of thoughts, ideas, source of inspirations, work flow and project progress posted.
We will try to upload quiet a lot of small thoughts and hopefully we are able to inspire you in one way or an other.
Kadaver off the Record 