The Making of Dark Ride, the Interactive Film to Launch the New Lexus CT 200h
BACKGROUND: Lexus Dark Ride was concepted and created by NYC-based creative agency, SKINNY. This uniquely immersive 'interactive film' was shot in high quality, high definition film and features the new Lexus CT 200h premium compact hybrid, a first of its kind. Releasing May 13th on www.lexusdarkride.com, users will be able to play a co-starring role, sitting shotgun, in this action short. The film features extended user-pannable sequences--allowing them to take control of the camera's point of view, adding an immersive depth to the narrative. It also allows viewers to record their own dialogue lines and make decisions that impact the film's outcome.

Greg Ketchum, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy New York on IBM “Data Anthem”:
In the next phase of IBM's Smarter Planet campaign, we're focusing our messaging on how organizations around the world are going about the business of actually building it. One of the pillars of building a smarter planet is the emergence of data and the ability to harness it for answers to our biggest problems. We wanted to educate business leaders on the importance of data, provide some context for its proliferation, and suggest the enormous opportunities that lie within it. We also wanted to convey to people that we now have the computational power and advanced analytics to see data in new ways so we can make sense of it. Hence, our interest in finding the most compelling, arresting ways possible of visualizing actual data. On a smarter planet, data matters.

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