MYBLOG by Ouriel

The WOW effect of Imagini

Sometimes i get this WOW effect. Last time was for ENSO. Today is for the new imagini service called Christmas Gift Finder which suggests you gift ideas based on a short visual test. The user interface is just stunning (maybe a bit heavy on top right).

I also suggest you take their personality test which is really well done and will draw your visual DNA in a few seconds. You can also compare with millions of other users which is fun.

The user experience registration process and simplicity of the service deserves a full 10/10

 

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Technorati tags: imagini, friends, discovery, christmas

First impressions on "The 300"

I was looking forward for a while and i had the chance to get a very early preview of The300 (number trailer in imdb)

• One of the most spectacular movie i have seen for a while
• The graphical/visual treatment is just stunning and respect well the creation of Frank miller’s graphic novel (batman and others)
• the story is interesting and dynamics are catching (although slow start)
• I think it will mark a new milestone in the way movies are conceived just as matrix or terminator did
• I could not tell if this was a movie/video game/comic/cartoon. The300 is a fusion of styles
• the actors are quite good and i was happy to discover new talents (like Gerald Butler)
• Zac Snyder who already signed the good Dawn of the dead is now in my Top 10 new generation most talented movie director

In a word Spartacus 2.0. Below the tempting trailer

 

Tags: the300, movies, frank+miller

Great jazz video blog

Discovered in the comments of my blog, showblog is aggregating the best jazz archive video from YouTube and Google Video in one blog. This guy has great taste.

For example here the unforgettable version of Naima by John Coltrane

EXCLUSIVE JAZZCAST: meeting in personn with Yaron Herman

A lot of “first” those past 24h. Last night for the first time to listen to Yaron Herman in live Jazz concert. Thanks to Eran (big thanks man) i had the chance to spend some time with him the next day for a podcast. And this is the “first” podcast i am broadcasting here. So please apologies for imperfections (sound, me speaking maybe too much, mixing,…)

yaron (on the left) and i in a tel aviv cafe

Yaron Herman is a very talented (and very cool ) young jazz pianist and i must say i was impressed by his level of maturity for his age (24) but mostly by his unusual approach to music (he started at age 16!). We talk about how he learned jazz, his inspirations, his projects and his new disc. Enjoy the podcast (Here to download)

 

Yaron also gave me persmission to include an extract of his first album. I chose the first minutes of “Hatikva”, the israeli national song.

Yaron just released a new solo album we are talking about in this podcast. You can find here in France (at this moment out of stock….) or here.

 

 

 

 

 

All the pictures of concert and podcast with Yaron Herman here

Dinner in the sky: DISRUPTIVE RESTAURANT

A restaurant in the air. Disruptive and exciting. Who get those crazy ideas?

Find out more here.

thanks alain for the tip

Fantastic design

Discover GREENOVIA. What a beautiful websites. I am always impressed by such creative usage of flash and web technos. Play with the navigation. Amazing

More beautiful sites with http://www.pixelmakers.net/

TOP 10 COMICS EVER MADE

1. Thorgal
2. XIII
3. Largo Winch
4. Decalogue
5. Peter Pan
6. Meta Barons
7. The Incal
8. Blueberry
9. Quete de l oiseau du temps
10. TinTin

All those are masterpieces. Do you agree with that listing? (i put aside all the marvel-like creations on purpose)

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REUTERS PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005

To resume 2005, I recommend you this amazing website by reuters presenting 40 stunning pictures (one of them below). A special mention for the minimalist design and great navigation.

 

tags technorati : best pictures 2005 reuters

THE NEW PIRELLI CALENDAR

A wonderful website, in all the meanings.

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MY 1st GOOGLE ANALYTICS REPORT

It really looks great and pro. I implemented google analytics 2 days ago. So data is still fresh, but I discover plenty of new great  information (the map and returning visitors is really useful, top 5 keywords that lead traffic). Thanks to Loic, Jeremie, Kelblog,  and… google for sending me some traffic. This report is only on 2 days. I compared it with Sitemeter.com and numbers of visits are equivalent but not page views. Let s wait a couple of days a compare again.

But it is definitely a great tool! 

PS: a tip. To implement this reports Google analytics ask you to place the html code in the “head” of your HTML web page, but on typepad you cannot play with that. I placed it on a typelist and it works perfectly.

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