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Visual Newsreader-Spectra

Spectra News Reader provides an interesting way to capture the massive content from news site in a form of information visualization.

The content is presented in from of channels, you can select the channels you interested in to get headlines in form of Media Cards floating in a 3D space. In your space you can flip media cards, read news with image support or follow the link to full story. And the cards which has user already read gets tucked away behind in stacks.

Apart from the 3D experience a pagination-scroll bar at bottom provides a linear progression to capture the data. And makes it easy to look over a larger amount of information in lesser time. And yes, if you have a web cam enabled you can enjoy a little more richer experience. It detects the color presented in front of camera and displays all the media cards related to that color.

So go forward, start visualizing your news content now. Visit Spectra Page

HOME: An Aerial Portrait of our beautiful planet.

The movie HOME is a beautiful documentary film directed by photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and co-produced by Elzévir Films and EuropaCorp (Luc Besson’s company) and supported by PPR.

HOME is made up of aerial images which have been filmed in more than fifty countries around the world. A voice-off will offer constructive hindsight into the major environmental and social challenges facing our world.

The movie was released worldwide on June 5th, 2009 – World Environment Day – in cinemas, on television, on DVD and on the Internet around the world. The aim of this simultaneous worldwide broadcasting is to enable as many people as possible to watch the movie together.

The objective of HOME is not to make a profit. Its only benefit will be to contribute towards increasing awareness of our responsibility towards the planet.

You can Watch the entire film here
The imagery is brilliant, the narration is informative. The whole expereince of 1 hour 33 minutes makes us realize that such a beautiful place we are destroying with the time.

World Environment Day (WED)

Some Posters I created for this World Environment Day.

First is for Rain Water Conservation. Second is to promote green search engine called Forestle, which helps Rain-forest conservation by donating their advertising revenues.

A little about World Environment Day.

World Environment Day, WED is established in 1972 by United Nations General Assembly. Every year its hosted by a different city on a different theme through the week of 5th June.

Some Recent Events.
2007 : Held in Norway on the theme of  ” Melting Ice – A Hot Topic ? ”
2008 : The slogan for 2008 was “CO₂, Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy.” Hosted by New Zealand .
2009 : This year’s host is Mexico and the theme is ‘Your Planet Needs You – Unite to Combat Climate Change’.

View More Posters for WED from 1970-2009

Super Mario – The 8-bit awesomeness !

I don’t need to say anything about the legendary label. As a kid, it was the first experience of such great interaction with sight,sound & motion. I still remember all the level maps, characters and not to mention, the music.

Yesterday, i just created this Fan art wallpaper for Super Mario. Tried to make the final art a mix of vector + pixel-art. Its available in 1920 x 1200 wide-screen as well as regular version.

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A little more about Mario.

Super Mario Bros.  is a platform video game was developed and published by Nintendo in late 1985. In Super Mario Bros., the main character-Mario, saves Princess Toadstool ‘Peach’ of the Mushroom Kingdom from King Koopa ‘Bowser’. Mario’s younger brother, Luigi-is the second player in multi-player mode, and plays on the same plot role as Mario.

To save Princess, Mario travels through the eight worlds and three sub-worlds of the Mushroom Kingdom by going to the castle in each to defeat a minion of King Koopa. Inside the eighth castle, Mario frees the Princess Peach after a final fight with King Koopa !

Apart from the amount of detailing in graphics & gameplay or arcade level, the music of the game played a major role to struck the user’s head. It was composed by Kōji Kondō, a Japanese musician who has created compositions for various Nintendo Games including Duck Hunt, Wrecking Crew, Mario Bros. and Kung-Fu !

I couldn’t found the original soundtrack but in the video below, a guy from Soth Korea called Zack Kim plays Mario theme on his Guitar. Worth a Watch !

Status Updates – Explained : Quub.com

Quub is a new twitter-like service which allows you to connect to world by status updates. This video is a part of their advertising campaign. All the video are really informative and sleek.

In this video, they explain the communication model behind status updates. They call it AMBIENT MODEL, where instead of User A talking to User B its like User A talking to a larger amount of network and intrested Users B, C, G, Y can capture that information and respond to it.