We’re proud to announce the first Living Ad–advertising designed specifically for the iPad and tablets.

Produced with Yahoo! and the good folks at Saatchi & Saatchi LA, the premiere Living Ad for the Toyota Prius v takes you on a brief journey though 3 interactive scenes that can be explored by touch. You can see the ad in its proper form on Livestand for iPad, but for now check out the walkthrough video below:

What’s cool is it marks the first time a commercial tablet ad has used HTML5 to take advantage the iPad’s accelerometer and physics. More importantly though, we’re making a shift towards setting higher standards for tablet advertising over what’s on the web.

Our aim is to help usher in a new movement in digital advertising, which has to be about more than just making digital versions of existing print and broadcast campaigns. We have a responsibility to embrace the technology and evolve with it.  The metrics will get there in time, and are moving steadily in that direction, but now’s the time to set the standards. The Living Ad is a huge step forward.

Extra special thanks to the incredibly talented Hayley Taylor for her track “Felt Like Love” available on iTunes here. http://www.hayleytaylor.com/

To learn more about Living Ads, check out http://livingad.com or check out this promo piece:

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Thank you! You guys rock. Not because you gave us an ass-kicking gold statue to run around the south of France with, but because you went out of your way to recognize a vision we have for how publishing can and should evolve, something we like to call the Living Art movement. And for that I am honored.

We believe in this movement with all of our hearts. We’ve lived and breathed this for the past several years and have dedicated ourselves to the trial-and-error process of developing best practices. Living Art is the evolution of publishing. It’s gonna happen with or without us. And sure, it may take a little imagination for publishers and advertisers to see the crystal ball with as much clarity as we claim to, but honestly, not much. And I’m confident as soon as people start producing more of this stuff, it will spark a creative renaissance.

That’s why we’re working our butts off. We want to be there when this all takes off. We want to do everything we can to influence the kind and caliber of work that is getting made in the name of Living Art. At this point, we know we’ve barely scratched the surface of what is possible, but we’ve already begun to discover a unique and wonderful visual language developing out of this medium. And while we’re not suggesting people get as geeky as we have with the academics of it, it’s important to recognize that an audience will pick up on the subtleties of that grammar, and that just like with film-theory, game-theory or design-theory, etc.. there is a reason behind why one would express an idea using Living Art- just like there’s a reason why you would express an idea with photography, or a sculpture… a 30 second commercial.. a poem…

Here’s the point.

We’re pretty sure you, the esteemed Cannes jury get this. In fact, the whole reason why we entered Cannes was because we think highly of you as individuals, and wanted to make sure you got to see the work. The award was certainly unexpected, but very welcome. So I wanted to say thank you for the recognition, but more importantly, thank you for sharing our vision for the future of publishing, and for tilting the spotlight our way.

We are pretty invested in making sure Living Art grows as a good art form. That it doesn’t hang out with drug addicts, goes to a nice finishing school, and eventually grows up to be a mature, well established medium.. We are the self appointed guardians.. .the taste police of living art if you will, and we will do it happily until someone wants to knock us off our perch and show us how its done. C’mon. Dare ya.

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A member of Cannes Lions Cyber jury speaks on why Alexx Henry Studio’s “Viv Mag Motion Title & Interactive Spread” was awarded the Gold Lion in it’s category.

“The Viv Mag motion title and interactive spread is an an astonishing use of work that has stood out from the very beginning of the judging process. It’s a few weeks already and it has constantly ranked very very high because it’s just a very new experience, a new way to look at not only the iPad but how we deal with content in terms of combining written pieces with animation and new depth to the content which is absolutely astounding.

So what it really does is to show us a very clear path to the future and I have to say we were all very excited about it because its showing a new way not only for publishers and magazines, but obviously also for advertisers and the way we look at a print ad evolving into a new medium and how it can actually can be driven into a much much more experiential area.

So this is really an absolutely fascinating work it is a the very beginning but we are all very convinced that this is leading the future now. “

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There are some incredibly cool and innovative experiments coming out of the Kinect. There’s an wonderful spirit of alchemy here and I can’t wait to see the projects born out of and influenced from these experiments.

Creativeapplications.net summed it up eloquently here:

“With new technology come new landscapes. These may appear in the form of users, social groups, tools and work but in some kind of form they are connected, relating to one another and feeding from one another. Kinect is describing a new form of landscape, driven by arrangement of points derived from our physical environment.”

From CreativeApplications.net. For a more comprehensive list of interesting kinect projects, check out their list.

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It has been very busy this month at Alexx Henry Photography and we have a couple of great projects to share with you in the next few weeks.

Meanwhile… we’ve been named photo studio of the month at Samy’s Camera this February and our friends at Obscura Digital have lent us a Multi-Touch Display to help show off our work. We’ve posted on them before, but check them out here for more goodness.  If you’re in Los Angeles, please drop by Samy’s from February 15-21 and check out the Multi-Touch along with a print gallery of our work.

Also, on February 23rd, Samy’s will be hosting us for a talk about Living Art. You can get tickets and more information here.

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Here’s our “Living” Magazine Cover and Spread released with the October issue of Outside Magazine. Photographed with the Red One camera, we created our vision of how a motion-magazine of the not-too-distant future would look based on emerging technologies like flexible OLED and E Ink.

Music is “Gone Gone Days” by Two Years Before the Mast and “I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool” which has got to be my favorite song title in the world by El Ten Eleven. You can buy El Ten Eleven’s music here: itunes.com/elteneleven

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We shot triathlete Chris Lieto for a Living Magazine Cover and Spread for Outside Magazine. Not only did we shoot the print edition of the magazine, but we are also making a living version to give you a glimpse at what a magazine of the future might look like.

Here is a quick teaser to whet your appetite. Stay tuned for the final version which will be released with the October issue of Outside Magazine.

Also, don’t forget to join our Living Art Contest. Make your own Living Art and move us with your image!

Music by Ratatat. The song is “Cherry” off their self-titled album Ratatat.
Check them out here: ratatatmusic.com
Buy their songs here: itunes.com/ratatat

This video was shot using the RED and the Canon 5D Mark II

-Andrew

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To further reassure our vision of an OLED future presented at the Collision Conference on Saturday, scientist from the RIKEN center in Japan have made some wonderful new discoveries. According to Yutaka Yamagata of the RIKEN Center,

“We have discovered a range of conditions using a two-solvent method that can make extremely smooth thin films using electrospray deposition. Using this technology, these devices could be manufactured as inexpensively as printing newspapers.”

To dive into the specifics and technology of this discovery, head over to OLED-Info.
-Andrew

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We just finished profiling the new Sony XEL-1 11-Inch OLED TV at the Collision Conference on Saturday. When we returned to the studio we were delighted to see the new press release from LG stating that their 15-inch OLED will be released in November to Korea. Mark Wilson from Gizmodo states that the design is “as if vomited up by an engineer and never reassessed,” but I do like how they are hiding the hardware guts in a classic picture frame stand design.  

Reuters states “Research firm DisplaySearch expects the market for OLED TV to reach 2.33 million units in 2013 compared with estimated 320,000 units in 2011, according to data provided by LG.” Also LG has stated they are planning to unveil a 40-inch OLED in the future.

Via Gizmodo and Reuters.

More pictures after the jump.
-Andrew

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Kodak seems to be making some nice breakthroughs in the OLED Display market now. They have created a flexible underwater prototype that may not seem large to us humans, but in fact, is a HUGE display for lego people! This proves that OLED has the capacity to be safe against moisture. Until now, this was a huge problem for OLED technology. This was posted on one of Kodak’s blogs by Michele Ricks, an OLED Engineer for Kodak.

-Andrew

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