What is a Superswisssh and why is it important?

When Naked Gun's Frank Drebin (played by the late Leslie Nielsen) sees Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley) for the first time, he stares at the way her hair flows. And she keeps swishing her hair in slow motion for what seems like an eternity. Couldn't find the clip on YouTube, but this one below is close enough but the one I just uploaded myself is as close as it gets: Imagine an endless series of long haired girls doing exactly that. An Eternal Swisssh if you wish. Pantene is planning to do just that and is looking for hair models for a shoot on 12 March 2011.

More here over at my colleagues at Flair.be - please help them a hand by letting all your long haired lady friends know:

>>> Doe mee met de Superswisssh. Schrijf je in en maak kans op je eigen tv-spot met Pantene Aqua Light!.

Suggestion box for the future of technology

The Internet Wishlist is "a collection of ideas for apps and websites people are wishing for. Ideas range from web to mobile, realistic to imaginary, and helpful to humorous.
In a world of me-too startups, I hope this project inspires entrepreneurs, developers and designers to innovate and build the products and features that people want.
The IWL is a project by Amrit Richmond, a community developer creative strategist."

Nobody's laughing

If even your inner audience isn't laughing today, try out http://hahahaha.fr/. Type in your name and see how hilarious it is.

The secret combo is not 42 (that would have been nice) but 69.

The Conversity Model is ready! Book launch event 16 March 13:30 Ghent

Finally! After getting inspired by Steven Van Belleghem's book, asking (and getting) advice from Seth Godin, figuring out what the book would be about, adding more social media cases from The Netherlands, and lots and lots of Nalu and sweat, my book on social media for businesses is ready for print on 22 February (English version), and on 3 March (ePub, Kindle and Dutch version).

The official book launch event is on Wednesday 16 March, 13:00 13:30 at Standaard Boekhandel Sint-Baafs in Ghent. Bert Van Wassenhove will lead a panel discussion on social media for businesses, and Dirk Dewulf (Rabobank) has already confirmed.

Wed 16 March 13:30-17:00
80 guests (male & female)
Standaard Boekhandel Gent St Baafs
Sint Baafsplein 70 9000 GENT

>> Put your name on the guest list <<

We all want to be young HT @8x3h

About three years ago I blogged about the five false myths of youth culture. They are:

• Young people are a demographic group that can be addressed and targeted as such. (The only thing they all have in common is that they're looking for ways to find and define their identity and uniqueness.)
• Young people are early adopters of new technologies. (Oh, there's a second thing they all have in common: a constant lack of cash. No money to buy iPhones!)
• Young people are rebellious. (Most just can't be bothered.)
• Young people's behaviour will "return" to the 30-40 somethings. (Young people have their own hypes.
• Young people are gullible. (They're opportunistic enough though to go along with you as long as they see fit.)

These five myths, however, are hard to kill. I found at least two in the video below. Can you find them?

We All Want to Be Young from box1824 on Vimeo.

The movie We All Want to Be Young "is the outcome of several studies developed by BOX1824 in the past 5 years. BOX1824 is a Brazilian research company specialized in behavioral sciences and consumer trends."

Phare conference 24 Feb Ghent with 20% discount. Yay!

Phare Conference "brings together renowned specialists from all over the world. They will present intriguing and surprising ideas on the future of the Internet. Ideas that won’t necessarily become reality, but that challenge you to reflect upon the Internet: how it will change our lives as citizens and consumers?"

Some of the speakers include: New York Times bestselling author and American businessman Gary Vaynerchuk, Belgian Minister responsible for the simplification of the administration Vincent Van Quickenborne, Microsoft storyteller Steve Clayton, and of course Brice Le Blévennec, the über geek who describes himself as french, 42 and eternal single.

I'll be there, and what's more: I got you a 20% off promotion code. The magic word is phareviaclo. Book your ticket now!

Las Vegas: a night in slow motion

Sometimes in life you have to look at things not just from a different angle, but at a different speed.

Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex on Vimeo: "I was working a gig in Vegas with a brand new Phantom Flex high speed digital cinema camera. I had to try it out. In fact, I never did go to bed that night. I opened up a wormhole shooting at 2,564 frames per second."

Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo.

How Is The Internet Being Censored?

So you still think the internet is free...: "Some of the most commonly censored contents include Pornography, Social Networks, Wikipedia, Wikileaks, Political Blogs, Religious Websites and Video Streaming."

All creatures great and small

Cute and irreverent little movie about where we all came from.

Evolution Made Us All from Ben Hillman on Vimeo.

Reach for safety

Made with the ad generator, "a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly."

By remixing corporate slogans, artist Alexis Lloyd intends to "show how the language of advertising is both deeply meaningful, in that it represents real cultural values and desires, and yet utterly meaningless in that these ideas have no relationship to the products being sold. In using the Flickr images, the piece explores the relationship between language and image, and how meaning is constructed by the juxtaposition of the two."

Found via Inspiration Overload.

Just €428 of ♥ will get us to Evian-Les-Bains

It's wrong to measure/show your love by the amount of euros you're willing to spend on a trip, and it's also wrong to have your Significant Other send you "if you love me, you buy this for me" style messages. But... give http://howmuchdoyouheartme.com/ a spin nevertheless. It's smart, it's creative, and most of all... it's in html5.

Made for http://adioso.com/, the "natural-language travel search engine that helps you decide where to travel & when".

Streisand effect: one of the ways the internet routes around censorship

Toronto humorist, writer and broadcaster Jesse Brown defines the Streisand Effect as follows:

When you try to get rid of something, but it just gets bigger and bigger.

More in this YouTube video:

In the Wikipedia entry for the Streisand effect quotes John Gilmore in a 1993 Times Magazines article

the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.