Stars, gizmos align for Election Night

Never before has the political landscape leveraged digital as it has in 2008. Online is now, more than ever, the most vital tool for reaching voters. Please read the below article and let's sit back and enjoy this extroidinarily historical night, together. As only digital folks know how. -Jon & Joseph

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Google Electoral Map

LIVE: NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams

Check out the electoral map that's on the ice rink at Rockefeller Center.

CBS NEWS ELECTION WIDGET

Josh with up-to-the-minute election results from his bedroom.

Everyone can be Walter Cronkite with today's technology.

Current TV, ya Digg?

http://current.com/topics/32967338_election_2008

Obama Sign Cam

Portland teen hopes webcam can nab Obama sign thief
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- A Northeast Portland teenager is firing up the Internet with his global effort to try to catch the thief who stole Obama campaign signs from his front lawn.

Preston Fosback, 16, was angry that two of his signs mysteriously left his lawn but he had no idea his mission would get international attention.

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Fresh Squeezed Election Analysis From Tropicana

http://www.anorangeamerica.com/

Classic Presidential Campaign TV Spots

At a time when streaming video was just as unheard of as landing on the moon.

Even aliens are rocking the vote

http://www.wejustlivehere.com/

A site that polls non-US-citizens. Pretty basic, but interesting.

-Nick

If the World could vote

Judging from the results, it would be a much, much better World.

http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/results

Stewart & Colbert's Indecision 2008

http://www.indecision2008.com

Assignment Five 11/4: Portfolio Site

Hi Class,

A portfolio site is crucial for any advertising professional. Just think. No more paper cuts. No more all-night book-making marathons. No more money going to ink instead of to your stomach. Amaze creative directors with your Web savvy and throw a simple link to your work around like it's nothing. Of course you should always be choosy who you send it to;-)

Your fifth and final mission for Beyond Banners is to create a portfolio site. The minimum site should be in HTML but if you feel confident you can do it in Flash. Keep in mind that you can simply put Flash components into your HTML site. Creating your site entirely in Flash has it's drawbacks. We'll discuss more in class.

For the final class, all of your work created in this class should be featured on your site. And most importantly, LIVE.

Here are some portfolio site examples for reference:

Brandon Levin was a classmate of mine. He created this site before he left school and landed a job at RPA in Santa Monica and is now an Art Director on the show South Park. This is his brain.
http://www.brandonsbrain.com/

Jason Zada is the founder/ECD of EVB here in SF. His site is a mix of HTML, CSS, Flash, and a bit of JS i believe.
http://www.jasonzada.com/index.html

Alicia Kawamura is an MFA in Advertising major where? In the school you go to. She hasn't even graduated and is kicking ass in online. Plus she has a site any professional would be jealous of.
http://www.aliciasbook.com

Peter Crosby is an writer/ACD with whom i worked at Ogilvy. His site is actually a blog. All HTML.
http://www.crosbyreport.com/blog/thecroz

Ryan Cochrane was my partner beginning at AKQA and then at Ogilvy. He refers to it as an arranged marriage. Then one day he switched to writing copy and we had to get a divorce. Ryan is now at Freestyle Interactive. All HTML.
http://www.ryancochrane.com/

Michelle Hirschberg is a writer at Goodby, Silverstein. I worked with her at AKQA. She's the brain behind Doritos' Hotel 626. All HTML site.
http://www.thinkmichellethink.com

We'll find more examples in class.

Where's George?

I stumbled into Taqueria Cancun on Sunday to satisfy my belly with a burrito and ended up going home with George. For those of you who were at the 1000 Journals event at school last Tuesday, you might recall that wheresgeorge.com is one of Brian Singer's favorite viral/online projects. It's one of mine as well. Take a look at the tracking report for the George in my life. A dollar for your thoughts.-Jon
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Get a room at the Bad Credit Hotel. Or not.

Is it a bit too close to Hotel 626 for Doritos? I think it's actually really lame.-Jon
http://www.controlyourcredit.gov

People in the middle for Obama.

Here's a very simple yet engaging site from Chiat in LA. Notice the vertical video menu. Very clean and experiential. Are you in the middle?

http://www.peopleinthemiddleforobama.org/

SAY NO TO (surfing the Web while on) DRUGS

1000 Journals Project Event 10/28

Getting a user to interact with your banner is cool. Getting the world to interact is even better. Tuesday class will be going offline so we can gain insight into Brian Singer's 1000 Journals Project. He'll be giving a talk in advance of his SFMOMA exhibition. You can't get anymore interactive than this.

Class is from 6:30pm to 9:30pm tonight. Let's meet in the library.

Tuesday, October 28th, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Academy of Art University Library
6th Floor, 180 New Montgomery St, San Francisco

About 1000 Journals:

One thousand journals are traveling from hand to hand throughout the world. People who find them add something (anything) and then pass them along in an ongoing collaborative art project.

The journals have traveled by air, sea, and land throughout 40 countries and all 50 states. They've been the subject of treasure hunts, hidden in remote caves, abandoned at airports, left in the lost and found, and stolen at gunpoint. The project has been covered extensively in the media, including the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Entertainment Weekly.

Brian will be available afterwards for Q&A, and to sign his book. More information about the project at: www.1000journals.com

Glen Sheehan of T3 Comes to the Academy

Glen was my Executive Creative Director at AKQA here in SF. He has since moved on to T3 in Austin, TX. He's a great guy and a champion of his creatives. If you want to know why I am so hard on you guys, come meet Glen. He made me realize what was truly expected of me when I was at your level and just out of school. He brought out the best in me. I can only hope to do the same with all of you. Thanks to Nick for the tip.-Jon

http://www.t-3.com

Tuesday, November 11^th
79 NM Theater, 1^st Floor
4pm

Hyundai Widget

http://adage.com/garfield/post?article_id=131844#widget