Getty Images just released Moodstream, a nice interactive toy that uses their image bank as well as additional assets like audio and video.
thebarbariangroup developed the whole “Mash-Up-Interface” and it debuted at the Webby Award Film and Video Awards in New York three days ago.
Rick Webb from Babarian on Moodstream: “What is Moodstream? It’s a concepting tool. The modern version of the fireplace [hem]. An interactive art piece [harrumph]. TV for the future [hem harrumph]. It’s a website we created for and with Getty Images to showcase all of their offerings [now we're talking] – still, video and sound – and inspire interactive creatives. And it’s really, really fun to use. Oh, AND, it’s in .NET. I mean, come on. How hard core is that? [?]“
You can fine tune your settings according to mood, style, temperature and you may pick items and send them to a moodboard or adjust the audiostream.
Bottom Line: Good Interfacing but it get’s slightly boring soon because the tool comes up with a lot of rollbacks then.
We’ll give it a chance nevertheless. Maybe they’re going to fill up their sales promotion tool … AND WE just LOVE all those MASH UP MACHINES.
Enjoy your weekend!
June 20, 2008 at 8:35 AM |
It’s VERY cool as a first step, and initial release. But what they need to do now is roll-out an API for the controls and stream that would allow other to build Getty-approved(?) interfaces for a wider range of devices. Who wants to sit at their computer and watch this, when it can be playing on the TV through XBMC (or some other media player, I suppose)?
Very interesting. Well done.