Our first SXSW experience via Pinterest: learnings, observations, and all those regrets.
Documented and collected with Anisha Ahluwalia, Dan Buczaczer, Lynn Lim, Pinterest Superfan Sarah Chiappetta, and Stephanie Huynh.
Page one features 2 reinventions:
* In an interesting twist to the reimagining world theme we often discuss, Picture Cook takes the stuffy old recipe format and redesigns it with a focus on experimentation. Even if you’re more into the cut-and-dry recipe format, these flowchart-like versions of recipes will look great on your kitchen wall.
* Travel Time Tube reworks the classic London Tube map. A fixture in the design world, this site completely changes the focus of the map from relation to time. Put in two stations and watch it change forms based on routes that take the longest.
Page two looks at two captivating photo collections:
* Ghana- The Electronic Dumping Ground of the World highlights the dark side of technology and electronics. Perhaps the ‘new gadget smell’ isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be?
* Finally, we get a glimpse of a somewhat odd underworld in Taryn Smith’s Contraband. These images showcase 1,000 various items confiscated at JFK airport in New York. Some items make sense, but some…. well you just need to see them to believe it.
BBQ sauce stains denigrated inappropriate regions of my jeans, pedicabs ate a chunk out of this week’s lunch money and lines took a toll on my soul (should have used TaskRabbit), while a surplus of Austin food trucks with pun names both further questioned and restored my sanity.
In addition to joining the mostly Asian Wives and their escort for SXSW Interactive, I stayed to indulge in the music portion. With thousands of options for panels, keynotes and bands, I stumbled upon lots of awesome and sprinkles of crap.
7 days in Austin left me with the extremes of Evil and Good, which were equally enlightening. And below is what ultimately stuck amidst the alcohol haze.
What the heck was Denuo doing at GDC? That’s the question you may be asking yourself. Well, we love a lot of things at Denuo. If you click the refresh button on your browser you’ll see our website header cycle through some of them. One of those things is an intense passion for games. And (our logic goes) what better place to learn about games than the conference for those folks who have spent their lives MAKING them.
For the 25th edition of the conference, this logic held. Denuo did have a place at GDC. What was most surprising, perhaps, was how much of an opportunity marketers truly have in the games space.
In this week’s Reflecteur, we highlight two games (Zombie Streetview
Apocalypse & Famous Objects from Classic Movies) to help you waste
oodles of time and two popular photographic memes (Looking Into the
Past Photos, and Young Me/Now Me) that you just might go out and try
yourself.
We’ve also included some recently popular tumblrs under Top Reflecteur
Links… in case you have a few more hours to burn.
