Not dead, but still massively slack at updating this blog. I do however microblog, my Twitter is updated fairly regularly to give me that feeling of warm connectiveness. Check out who else Twitters – The UN Secretary General, how nice of him. I would love to believe he does it himself, sends a text to twitter at the beginning of all his meetings.
Lately I have been working on a few things, one has illustrations in the style of a personal favourite, Miroslav Sasek and another that uses extensive 3D modeling and Motion Control cameras and green screen. That one was torture.
I am going to be leaving my job at Dare, which is quite sad for me, as it has been a cracking job, hopefully I can feel the same about the next one. Look out Agency.com.
I started clearing out my desk, as it is full of 18 months worth of crap, and I came across this in my notebook. It is from my very first day at Dare, I was asked to help out on a pitch for the Talk To Frank website. You can just see in the top left hand corner where I wrote down the names of the people who were in the meeting with me, so I didn’t embarrass myself by forgetting their names – Yasmin, Mark, Phil, Flo and Jane. Mark being Mark Collier and Flo being Flo Heiss, who both part own Dare. I have used this peice of paper to help me remember their names ever since.
The bottom right crappy looking scamp is where the idea for the home page started to take shape, and ended up looking like this. I think you will agree, that the scamp is an uncanny likeness to the final site.
Here is something I have been doing at Dare. We have decided that the best way to mark the launch of the Woolworth’s Big Red Book across the UK, is to try and launch Big Red Books across the UK, using a 25ft catapult.
Prizes to be won, and funny sheep puppets to watch if you go here www.bigredbooklaunch.com
Filed under: Internet
Sir Tim Berners-Lee gets an honour for exceptional contributions in arts, sciences and other areas.
The ‘other areas’ is giving us lot a job and keeping us off the streets and out of trouble.
My CD at my agency blurted out in a meeting with all his senior creative staff “Trident Gum website, discuss.” It had a mixed response, but for my part I disliked it and gave up on the site after a few minutes. Why? Because it was a 10minute advert, and I didn’t want to watch a 10 minute advert, there are better things to do on the internet as far as I am concerned.
However, this Axe site is also a 10 minute advert, but I liked this, so what is the difference? Well Axe gives the control over to the user, online marketing succeeds when it is interactive, and those little touch points where it asks ‘Don’t continue’ and ‘Let the game continue’ letting the user control the destination of the movie makes the difference, and it is a huge difference. So that is in my opinion, why it works, well that and chicks in light bulb bikini tops anyway.
Filed under: Internet
Will someone please let me know sooner whenever there is a riot?! I bloody love a good riot. Hang on, I am not so sure this one would have given me too much satisfaction, it was the first ever ‘internet riot’, it was at digg.com. Sounds a bit lame really, it managed to ‘crash the site’ under the weight of the ‘attack’. So no flaming missiles, Ultras or riot police then?
The ‘riot’ was caused as digg.com pussied out twice, first to a cease and desist letter from the digital rights management body, where they were told to remove a post that revealed a secret code that would have stopped piracy of HD DVD’s. The ‘riot’ then came as users rebelled, telling digg.com to reinstate the post and not buckle to authority, which they did.
Actually, if this sort of ‘riot’ does rear it’s head again, maybe best if you didn’t bother me, I think I would rather be watching Thomas the Tank Engine at home with my 2yr old, it’s more exciting.
