22 April, 2010
Too good not to watch - launching ships sideways.
Utterly compelling...and you always hope at least one might go belly up.
21 April, 2010
The new BBC farming correspondent really knew their stuff
08 April, 2010
I love Courage Wolf's outlook on life

07 April, 2010
29 March, 2010
Desktop Tidy wallpaper
17 March, 2010
FlashForward Yourself



This is the work we've just done for Channel FIVE promoting the return of FlashForward to our screens. The brief was to produce a social media campaign to promote this so we came up with the idea of a FlashForward generator on Facebook. By clicking on the FlashForward Yourself button it will tell you what you'll be doing 6 months in the future (just like the premise of the show) and post it in your FB Status. This would then appear in all your friends news feeds and help promote the show.
From the banal to the extreme, I had to write over 1000 of these flashforwards so there would be a large variety of events - although it felt like a very dark trip into my psyche once we'd done the ordinary ones. The aim is to recruit 50,000 fans, so far we have 15,725 - fingers crossed we reach it.
My favourite FF I wrote?
Easy.
'In my FlashForward I was putting bricks into a pillowcase'
15 March, 2010
Creme Egg iPhone Splat-plication
As part of the Creme Egg 2010 Campaign we also did CMW's and Cadbury's first ever iPhone app. Consisting of two different games, once you downloaded it from the App store you could either 'Scramble' an Egg or play 'Egg marks the Spot'.
'Scramble' the egg uses the iPhones acceleromter so you can shake the egg and get it to release its goo. Once the egg has splatted you can then play with the goo and rub it all over the screen.
'Egg marks the Spot' uses LAYAR type technology whereby we can overlay images onto the real world using the iPhones camera - taking this technology we placed Creme Eggs around the country at various famous landmarks incl: The BT Tower, Stonehenge, The Angel of the North and Land's End to name a few.
By going to these landmarks and opening the application, you can then see the egg at the location. Pressing on the egg then gets it to goo and links to the 'Your Country needs Goo' game where you can win a gooey prize.
The App went live on the 12th March and by the 13th it had become the #1 Free Download in the country. At this time, it's still at the top spot (15th) and we've had over 7000 comments so far.
Never had a number 1 before, but I could get used to it.
Update: 16/03/2010
So far it's been downloaded 221,894 times and has 10,858 reviews
Update: 29/03/2010
Downloads - 380,478, Reviews - 20,884
Update: 07/04/2010
Downloads - 513,047, Reviews - 26,611
01 March, 2010
Egg-Mented Reality - AR Creme Egg 2010





As part of this year's Creme Egg campaign and 'Your country needs Goo' game we have produced our (and Cadbury's) very first augmented reality experience - 'Egg-memted Reality'.
By going to the ER page on the Creme Egg website, there are set of instructions showing you how you can release the Creme Egg that's trapped inside the AR card. By printing out the special marker card and placing it infront of your web cam, it projects a 3D image of a Creme Egg messing about with the classic office toy the 'Newton's Cradle'. It then plays out until once again a Creme Egg comes to a very sticky end.
16 February, 2010
A good old fashioned desk job
A London-based artist, Ben Turnbull born in 1974 and expelled from two schools where he used to spent time drawing and carving out some exquisite caricatures on to a desk which today had led him to be one of the controversial artists with his controversial works, surely knows how to make strong impact with his art.









15 February, 2010
Bideford, New Years 2004/05
10 February, 2010
Welcome to Logorama - Beware the Clown
Logorama from Robby Ralston on Vimeo.
Like watching a combination of Heat and The Dark Knight, while trying to be sold everything you ever wanted or needed - 100% full fat awesomeness.01/03/2010
Update: Well it would seem the Vimeo boys have had to take it down. Well at least YouTube will let you see the trailer. Enjoy.
09 February, 2010
08 February, 2010
Ye Olde London town - circa 1903
You should really subscribe to the BFI's YouTube channel. There's some great footage from the past including locations, films and world events and it's really quite nostalgic. Great if you've got a spare 10 minutes to see 'how it used to be'.
02 February, 2010
Spot all the Ads featured in this short comical film
I've got 60 so far...
Hovis, 118 118, Citroen C4, Smash, Tesco, John Smiths, Milk Board, Hofmeister, ING, Skoda, PG Tips, Silk Cut, Road Safety, Irn-Bru, Guinness Penguins, Hamlet, Lynx, Sony Bravia - Rabbits, Sony Bravia - Clown, Nike - Wayne, Belly - Reebok, Polycell, Audi, Ford Focus, Levis, R Whites, Haagen-Dazs, Sudafed, Cadbury Dairy Milk - Eyebrows, Health Education - Pregnant Man, Boddingtons, Guinness - Fish, Honda - Impossible Dream, Captian Birdseye, Ready Brek, Skegness, Carling Black Label - Dambusters, Sony Bravia - Balls, Golf GTI - Singin', Heinz Ketchup, Shake'n'Vac, Pirelli - Carl Lewis, Kinder Surprise, Tango, Toshiba, McCains, Apple, Drench, Volvo, Cadbury Dairy Milk - Gorilla, Cuprinol, Dunlop, Durex, Quality Street - big wrapper, Kit Kat - Panda, Stella Artois - Priests, Guinness - Horses, Nimble Bread, VW Polo - King Kong, Honda - Freefall
Doesn't time Fly when you're having fun?
26 January, 2010
Robot Wars - Japanese Style
http://www.verbatim.jp/senshuken/?id=1007278
Currently my favourite lunchtime web-joyment. Build your own monster from USBs, Memory sticks, Hard-drives and then fight against the best to create an all powerful, killing machine
21 January, 2010
Cadbury Wispa





Taking the thought that it was the adoring fans that brought back the Wispa, we thought it should be the fans who decide what went on the website too. We initially proposed what went on, but we wanted the fans to input on whether things should stay or go and submit their own ideas that we would produce and post up.
So with that in mind, we initially created a range of different playgrounds where people can just have some fun with Wispa and celebrate the love they all have for the bar.
This included creating zones where you can either personalize your very own Wispa wrapper, play with the Wispa soundboard (whereby you can also record your very own Wispa anthem) and a Room 101, where fans can submit items to be disposed of to make way for the Wispa. We've got a few other things in the pipe-line but look out for 'Bars in a Jar' which hopefully will appear mid 2010.
See the Wispa site for yourself here.
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