Emily recently spoke at a conference in Singapore. And she asked the rest of us to contribute some video that she could use in her presentation. Jeffre made the best one. It's about brands and interestingness. So here it is (with a little intro from me for the YouTube folks). It'll give you some insight into the quietly twisted genius that is Jeffre Jackson.
interestingness.mov (it's about 27MB. Sorry. I've tried repeatedly to upload it to YouTube but I end up with no sound, and when I adjust it to another format the audio disappears halfway through. Frankly, I'm flummoxed.)
great performance. interesting, random etc. and i agree, tho i'm wondering if 'make me think' is a reaction to a lot of what you hear about popular culture i.e. dumbing down, about trad wed usability stuff [yet like how usable is myspace!] and a lot of stuff in design and planning about 'simplifying' which is so often patronising to its audience? or if it's always been that way? that's all.
Posted by: jamesb | November 16, 2006 at 09:15 PM
This is really terrific stuff Russell (and Jeffre) thanks so much for sharing it.
Posted by: Sean Ganann | November 16, 2006 at 10:45 PM
That's fantastic.
(And I'm going to use "Shakira and Shakespeare" every day from now on.)
Posted by: Ben | November 16, 2006 at 10:55 PM
love interestingness.
Posted by: dan burgess | November 17, 2006 at 12:13 AM
Great stuff. I think it's about time to start up ask a jeffre, or maybe ze jeffre, something like that... :)
Posted by: Paul McEnany | November 17, 2006 at 03:29 AM
I also was just able to post it to YouTube (http://www.conformistsunite.com/?p=341) ..but for some reason only the version without the nice intro (had the same problem with sound cutting out)
Posted by: Emily | November 17, 2006 at 05:54 AM
dear emily and russell,
i downloaded it.
it has a problem.
quicktime closes it at one point.if you rewind it, pass the critical point then it gets to the end.
maybe that's why it had a problem with the sound.
but indeed.so good.
Posted by: felipov | November 17, 2006 at 10:43 AM
I could listen to Jeffre all day long. He could do his blog in videos, he talks so beautifully. (Is that what Paul M means?)
Posted by: beeker | November 17, 2006 at 01:16 PM
very captivating. I like the slight head-tilt. I think that contributes to the interestingness in a weird way. Like he's just about to say something slightly off, in a clever way. And don't apologize for the format, it's good to see something non-youTube once in a while. Yes, it's come to that.
Oh, and Russell, sorry if I send you 20 trackbacks to this thing. Not sure if it happened, but if indeed, it wasn't all that malicious...
Posted by: Nicholai | November 17, 2006 at 01:55 PM