The new Google Chrome ads are a real treat in how they use analog techniques to depict a wholly digital technology. Graceful camera movements and a live harp player give the spots an added freshness. The future is looking bright for analog motion when even Google is spending campaign dollars knitting and spilling ink into water

Taking an info-graphics perspective on analog motion this month, we look at this amusing lo-fi video about placing a marker on a Google map cleverly simulates the look and feel of a screencast with cutout paper print-outs. Charming details include a convincing blinking cursor and an actual shadow cast onto the surface of the Google map by the lamp used to light the shot. All the neat tricks are revealed at the end of the video!