When you stumble over one of these in a deserted playground somewhere in Wales, it’s rude not to have a go.

Using the same mount I built for the video of my foot walking around America, here are our hands shooting a series of progressively larger guns.

Watching the video, the journey you take will start at cute little Ruger .38 then you’ll wander past a Beretta .45. A Desert Eagle .50 will loom into view briefly, don’t be afraid, not yet. Oh look, a P90! My how fast you fire! OK, you know I said to not be afraid just now? Well now it’s time. The great big Barrett M82 .50 was, by any definition, a beast.

All this happened at the surprisingly friendly Get Some Guns and Ammo – just south of Salt Lake City, Utah. Shot on a Contour+.

Here’s a video we made for Skype about their home phone product. It was a tricky one to concept, you plug this bit of kit into your router and your phone line and you can then make normal phone calls over Skype using your normal phone… so it’s just like making a normal phone call… how do we make that look fun? We cut off the front off a house that’s how.

It was a bit of an evolution for us for the Skype videos – we chose to tell the story with a family rather than a big cast of characters, and used the occasion of moving into a new house (they just need to repair that missing wall and it’ll be lovely, honest) as it gives us a good setting to make lots of phone calls.

It was a pretty technical shoot, we only built a one story house, dressed at as the ground floor for one day, then pulled out the stairs and dressed it as the top floor on day 2. With some tricky camera positions, and a fair amount of computer graphics we plonked the 2 shots on top of each other, added a roof and made a house. Watch out for the slowly tidying house and lighting changes throughout, to help tell the one over arching story of the family’s first day in a new house.

So I built a little mount thingy and used it to strap a camera (Contour+) to my knee, then walked around various places in america filming my foot. This is what it looks like:

Places featured here include Devil’s Tower, the toilets at Devil’s Tower, the wilderness near Casper in Wyoming (look out for the shot gun shell cameo!), a chuck wagon, the hotel Wild Bill Cody used to stay in Cody, Bonneville salt flats in Utah, a massive old steam train in Nevada and Lake Tahoe in California.

This Halloween we threw together a quick home haunt for the local trick or treating kids… there may have been a few nightmares.

Here’s some photos, with a few shots of the competition as well, we’re actually starting to get a little bit of a Halloween scene going on in our neighbourhood!

We’d like to proudly present the Hoxton Street Monster Supplies online store.  Here you’ll find all your monster supply needs, from fang floss to a range of tinned fear (now in 10 flavours).

The store on Hoxton Street, London (yes, it’s a real place) actually hides a secret door, that (if you can work out the password) leads to the Ministry of Stories – a child literacy charity that hosts imagination flexing events for kids to write fantastic stories (much in the same vein as 826 Valencia with their pirate store in SF, Super Hero Supplies in NY and the Time Travel Mart in LA).

There’s a gang of us involved in The Monster Supplies site, Me n Jas did the design, concept and product photography, UX was by Mike Towber, Simon Pearson built the thing, Alistair Hall directed the art, and Chris Meachin held the reins and ran the whole project. We also designed the launch party for the site, along with some brilliant monster animations from Julian Frost, and monsterous food by Emma Cakehead. Here’s some photos of the party: