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Despite the fact that their initial rise to success happened when I was a toddler, U2 has easily become one of my favorite rock bands. I was excited when I heard that U2 was coming out with U2 3D, a full length movie of one of their concerts. I was even more excited when I heard there was a U2 3D widget that uses the Clearspring platform.
If you’re like me and grabbed this widget the first time you saw it, go back and check it out again!!! There is an easter egg within the widget.
Here’s what you need to do:
Find the U2 3D logo in the upper left hand of the widget.
Click and hold on the logo for 3 seconds. A password box will appear.
Type in the password - u23d
Some behind the scenes video will appear.
Grab the widget and share it with your friends.
None of us at Clearspring knew there was an easter egg within the widget, until a few days ago. When we heard, we were all blown away.
This is such a great way to reenergize your widget campaign and get your users to view and share the widget for a second or third time.
-clearspring.com
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While on the subject of widgets, we have our own available for readers here. You can add the U2exit.com news widget on your own web site or email to your friends.
Following the success of the 25th Anniversary of the classic ‘Joshua Tree’ album last year, Island Records plan to kick start releasing the U2 back catalogue with ‘Boy’ on May 20.
Originally released in 1980, the Irish band’s debut album failed to reach to UK charts but it could fair a lot better this time with an extra CD available alongside a re-mastered version of the original.
As part of this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, which opens next Saturday with an exciting programme from new festival director Grainne Humphreys (see panel), there will be a European premiere of Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington’s film, U2:3D.
Filmed using the latest digital 3D technology, U2:3D is a concert movie with a difference. Sporting your special pair of polarized glasses, you will be transported to a balmy night in Buenos Aires, where the band kicked off the South American leg of their 2006 Vertigo tour.
The first live action movie to be filmed, produced and exhibited solely in digital 3D, U2:3D was actually shot at a series of concerts in South America, using nine pairs of special digital cameras each operated by crews of five.
Months of filming in this multi-angle approach resulted in over 100 hours of concert footage, which someone clearly blessed with saintly patience edited down to 85 minutes.
“I’M doing some writing with (Brian) Eno and U2,” mega-producer Daniel Lanois tells Spinner magazine when asked about his work with Bono and the boys on their new CD. “We’re gonna knock out another record that’s promising to be a fantastically innovative collection of songs. I’m excited about that.”
Lanois is much more than a U2 insider. His fingerprints have been all over the production knobs of some of the greatest CDs by the likes of Peter Gabriel, the Neville Brothers, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan.
He creates that trademark spooky, atmospheric vibe on the discs he touches. It’s that same aura that made U2’s The Joshua Tree unlike anything you ever heard.
U2’s Bono and British artist Damien Hirst have teamed up to help organise an art auction in New York to raise money for the United Nations‘ HIV relief program in Africa.
There will be an auction on February 14 in the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan, New York City, during which 83 pieces of art will be auctioned off.
Damien Hirst has contributed seven of his works to be auctioned at the event, which was conceived by himself and U2’s frontman Bono.
Hirst’s sculpture, ‘Where There’s A Will There’s A Way’, a depiction of a medicine chest with hundreds of metal HIV pills, is expected to raise up to $7 million.
U2’s film ‘U2 3D’ had its London premiere on the UK’s biggest screen - the IMAX - last night (February 5) in front of a bespectacled audience.
The band’s latest release is the first ever live action three dimensional digital film.‘U2 3D’ – which premiered at the Sundance Festival last month – is a montage from several spectacular Latin American shows from their 2005-6 Vertigo tour shot with new 3-D technology.
The effect is startling – a giant Bono occasionally looms into your face, people lurched backwards to avoid a mic-stand and you can almost touch the fingers of waving Argentinian fans.
Given the sheer size of the screen, viewers were able to feel as if they were in the thick of the slightly rally-like excitement, just with extra added popcorn, and of course, ridiculous glasses.
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