Anna Von Mertens paints aura readings taken from classical portraits and photographs of iconic people, commenting on the ‘soul’ in art in the digital age with the resulting ghostly images.
http://www.annavonmertens.com/portfolio.php

Many artists use pencils to create works of art. Dalton Ghetti, on the other hand creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils!
http://bit.ly/9Rw8l6

Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States. Founded in 1997, Eyebeam was conceived as a non-profit art and technology center dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts, while simultaneously establishing and demonstrating new media as a significant genre of cultural production.
http://www.eyebeam.org/

Closer to home, Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa has an exhibition in IMMA at the moment. He has been working since the early 1990s using a multidisciplinary approach that includes architecture, urbanism, narrative, history, and politics.
http://www.imma.ie/en/page_212197.htm

http://www.kreiselberg.com/
Kreiselberg is a creative agency from Toronto whose digital paintings are truly awesome, check them out!

http://follownoone.com.au/
Are you a dedicated follower of no one? The New VW Polo website uses a really cool and imaginative interactive navigation that has a great focus on detail.

http://www.onitsukatiger.com/en-uk#/home/
Great interactive website to showcase the new campaign for Onitsuka Tiger, lots of unusual things to discover within a wooden shoe…

http://sosapplesos.com/
By public suggestion this ‘experiment’ by Mat Bisher made it to this week’s Best of the Web. There are good arguments put forward as to why Apple won’t support Flash, but this is still funny!

http://asherrothmusic.com/
The concept for this site was simple: Musician Asher Roth wanted a unique way to share his day to day experiences with his fans. The result: Asher carries around a card which has an illustration of the website printed on it. He takes on-location pics holding the card, with the resulting photos uploaded as the landing page for the website. Visitors to the site navigate using the card as the primary interface. What’s really nice is the use of FLARToolKit so the graphic elements change to match the colour of the card. Note: this concept is best explained by visiting the site for yourself!

http://www.youtube.com/drivetheateamvan
Always wanted to drive the A Team van? Now you can! Created to promote the new A Team movie, this game was developed using Google maps. On completion of a level, players receive a preview clip for the upcoming release.

http://www.work-club.com/blackboard/
Discover every single line ever written on The Simpson’s Springfield Elementary School blackboard! It only took 2 days, 20 white markers, 288 lines and 7,697 characters….

http://www.youtube.com/canneslions
The YouTube Cannes Young Lions Ad Contest is back this year with a brief for WaterAid. Each entrant had 48 hours to make their video and post it to the YouTube channel. They have a week to promote their ad to get public votes which will be taken into account to decide the ultimate winner. With two days left to vote, do your bit and vote!

Berocca Boost, in conjunction with Cybercom, has launched its first Facebook page with Berocca Boost Ninja. Berocca Boost introduces a really nice application, ‘Ninja Brain Games’. Through the Facebook wall, the Berocca Boost Ninja shares Ninja wisdoms with his mortal friends – in Ninja speak of course.

Users can choose from three games divided into concentration, reflexes and memory categories. Megatask, under concentration games, is particularly addictive. While initially quite simple, more obstacles are introduced and so far, very few have managed to complete the game. Can you? Game on!

The creative for Ninja Brain Games engages the user with its bright colours and sharp design. Berocca Boost has kept the navigation simple and straightforward allowing the games to function easily. Three more games will be added to the app over the coming weeks.

The Ninja Brain Games leaderboard shows how users perform per game, overall and against their Facebook friends. Each week the top 50 scores on the leaderboard are submitted into a draw to win either an Electric Picnic or Oxegen ticket. Brain smart and festival fit – you can’t go wrong!

http://www.onlythebrave-ironman.com
The previous version of Only the Brave was featured on “Friday Best of The Web” a year ago. Now, Diesel have revamped the fragrance and website for the limited Ironman edition. Great comic content and menu design.

http://phylogame.org/
Phylogame isn’t just an ‘awesome’ educational biodiversity game it’s also an interesting experiment in crowd sourcing, open access, and open source game development.

http://store.levi.com/
There was a lot buzz about the introduction of Facebook’s ‘Like’ button this week. Levi’s are clued in to the ‘group like experience with the introduction of the plug-in feature to their webstore. Online shoppers can now enjoy a social shopping experience where they can easily see how many of their friends have liked an individual item.

http://www.stellaartois.com
This interactive video is part of the King of Cannes campaign from Stella Artois and is another great example of Facebook integration. Using Facebook Connect, Facebook members’ content is pulled in, resulting in a personalised short-film experience. Users can also enter the competition to win a trip to the film festival. See you at Cannes.

A great start to the week for Cybercom this morning with the arrival of no less than 9 APMC Awards into the office, following the Gala Association of Promotional Marketing Consultants Award ceremony in the Westin Hotel on Friday night.

Cybercom client campaigns received a total of 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 3 Bronze awards. Our own 10 year birthday and corporate and social responsibility campaign www.myeverestchallenge.com received a total of 2 golds in the Best Social and Best Digital categories along with another silver award. The Powerade “Never Give Up ” campaign won gold and the best long term campaign. Other clients awarded included Diageo for Guinness 250 and Hurling campaigns; and Coca Cola for the 2009 eBoy campaign.

As always at this time we wish to recognised the fact that great clients offer great creative opportunities and result in great campaigns. Cybercom simply facilitates the magic. The 9 APMC awards now sit proudly alongside the 9 Digital Media Awards already received this year, and 40 delighted and even more motivated Cybercom marketeers are seen to buzz around the office today!

Finally, Karma came to the fore on Friday night, after the week that went before it, with one great campaign, created and delivered by numerous great creative minds, acknowledged as the overall Grand Prix campaign winner. The Westin ballroom erupted with industry peers standing to applaud and acknowledge the great work delivered by all those at McConnells Integrated for the Oxfam Let’s Face it campaign.  It was great to observe and be a part of the collective industry delight for this year’s Grand Prix winning agency, particularly for one who had delivered such a great cause related promotional campaign.

Next stop on the awards trail is the Marketing Institute of Ireland, All Ireland Marketing Awards, with presentations and judging tomorrow!

http://www.uniqlo.com/utweet/
Another entry to Friday’s best of the Web for the Japanese retailer Uniqlo. Using utweet you can make your own Uniqlo Tweet show and Uniqlo Icon. What’s great about this is just how simple it is – just enter your Twitter name into the box and you’re engaging with the brand.

http://www.murgrabia.com/
This is an amazing portfolio site featuring stunning work from Lukasz Murgrabia, an award winning advertising photographer from Warsaw.

http://yaronschoen.com/blog
Unique blog design from Yaron Schoen, a New-York based designer and illustrator. This is a great example of the ‘Art Direction’ trend within blogging. Notice how each post has unique styling and visual elements appropriate to the content.

http://52burritodates.com/
Single, female, love free Mexican food and like London? 52 Burrito Dates could be for you! It’s a unique angle on social media dating so check out the blog and sign-up for a burrito date. What’s best about it? You get to hang out with Richard Fitzgerald, a fun lovin’ ex-Cybercomer!

http://www.tracksonamap.com/
Using Tracks on a Map you can listen to ‘SoundCloud’ of any genre from around the world. Nice display and easy to use interface that is based on a Google App Engine. This is a great tool for trending and discovering new music.

http://visitmootopia.com/
Visitmootopia is the new website for the California Milk Processing Board created by San Francisco based Goodby, Silverstein and Partners. The snake-esque game ‘Gorgeous Hair’ is definitely worth a look, if only as a reminder of how far online games have come…

Powerade on Facebook
Test your sports knowledge with the Powerade Better Your Best online quiz for your chance to win a rugby ball signed by Paul O’Connell!

McClaren
McClaren have just launched their new online configuration system which allows users to customise the MP4-12C car. Designed by Akqa, the online system has ‘bespoke contextual navigation’ and will even link directly to retailers. Jensen Button and Lewis Hamilton have already created their own.

Cybercom’s insights from the 2010 National Digital Media & Marketing Summit. from Cybercom on Vimeo.