Ben Cooper

Group Innovation Director M&C Saatchi Sydney. Co-Creator O Six Hundred Kayak. Proud father. Loving husband. British.

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The Media Revolution?

Published June 18, 2007

It seems that in the future we’ll all sound Italian, and still talk in uneccesary

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Google Maps Street View Demo

Published May 31, 2007

You cant fail to see the ongoing potential of Google Maps, they’re simply on another planet when it comes to mapping our world. Panoramic image integration is just the beginning…

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FlickrSLiDR test with Tate Modern Photos

Published May 21, 2007

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR. Just found this on the Mashable blog, very cool app that lets you embed your flickr slideshows just about anywhere you

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50 people experience the seasons

Published March 31, 2007

50 people experience the seasons Originally uploaded by flipzagging. Each picture is a season. Each season is the merging of 50 pictures tagged with the season name. Left to right, winter, spring, summer and

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The machine is Us/ing Us

Published March 30, 2007

I saw this on BigShinyThing, probably 3-4 weeks ago and its taken till now to watch it through. It’s ridiculous I didn’t make time. Anyway, if you haven’t seen it – make the time

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Single Origin Roasters

Published February 27, 2007

Resevoir Street in Surry Hills is the heart of my week day, every morning starts at Single Origin. So when they needed to take their brand online – we got chatting. This is the

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23. Pass on the paranoia!

Published February 26, 2007

So the ‘Engage’ team at Host has been hard at work again. This time its for New Line Cinema and ‘The Number 23’ film. The plot outline (from IMDB) “A man (Jim Carrey) becomes obsessed

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Host causing Double-Trouble

Published October 23, 2006

We’ve just launched a ‘viral’ (I hate that word), for McKenna Bourbon. Recipients of the piece think their friend has called into Nova 106.9 (thats in Brisbane) and has miraculously answered a rather tricky

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Goggles – Google Map Flight Sim

Published August 18, 2006

This is brilliant. Goggles is flight simulator using Google Maps. Wish we’d thought of this, such a simple and engaging use of maps… the whole studio here in Sydney is likely to not do

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We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion

Published June 2, 2006

The interface of WeFeelFine.org has some subtle references to the Sony Ad with the balls, but thankfully is nothing to do with it. In fact maybe I shouldn’t of even said that… but it

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Digit London’s New Website

Published April 11, 2006

Justin from Digit London left a comment on my Coca-Cola World Chill posting, explaining they’ve got a new website. Well he had the desired effect, its now linked from my homepage… keep up

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Roundabout scratching

Published February 28, 2006

Couple of BMW’s, 2 roundabouts, a cyclist and a pair of giant hands scratch up the scene… take’s the monotony out of driving that’s for sure. Keep a look out for suitable scratch scenes

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Flickeur – create a unique film with a click

Published February 28, 2006

Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. I’m intrigued by this, think about it for a

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SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network

Published February 14, 2006

The SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network (formerly AI to the People) project asks the question: If computer vision technology can be used to detect when you look like a terrorist, criminal, or other

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Web2MemeMap – Results of “What is Web 2.0”

Published February 14, 2006

Web2MemeMap Originally uploaded by Tim O’Reilly. Result of a “What is Web 2.0?” brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005. Meme maps adapted from business model maps developed by Beam

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