We got a new toy, a GoPro HD 2! We just happened to be going to our gun club the day it arrived, and it just happened to be empty, so we could muck about with our new toy, and shoot guns, good times.
We actually swapped our old Contour+ camera in for this one. We were never that happy with the quality of the Contour, and the good people at DogCam Sport agreed to swap it out for a GoPro and refund us the difference. Good dog!
The web is a bit boring and unhappy right now, so we made this handy bookmarklet to let you bring instant joy to (almost) any website, just head over hear to grab it:
It harnesses the full power of Comic Sans (the best font in the world) to add some jollyness to even the dullest Helvetica festooned design masterpiece.
We take a lot of photos, bordering on too many, and the process of grading them all after we’ve come back from a holiday takes literally months. We use Adobe Lightroom, which is a great bit of software, but the interface it a bit fiddly. The answer it seems is with a plug-in called Paddy (there’s one for Mac called Knobroom if you’re that way inclined), that lets you assign any command a midi controller can send to pretty much any of Lightroom’s plentiful functions.
So we got ourselves a Behringer BCF2000 from ebay, installed the plug-in, a few hours of factory resetting and swearing at things later… TA DA! It works! It’s motorised so all the little faders jump to whatever settings you’ve set for a photo… a bit like the Force – and you’ve got to admit, he does look more than a bit like something you’d find swinging around Darth Vader’s neck.
You know the deal; you tidy up one bit of the room and end up tearing down the house and re-building it from scratch. No? Just us? OK then. Well we thought we’d tweak the design of our blog a bit, and it ended up taking about 3 weeks of getting seriously mucky with things like jQuery, CSS animation and lots of content re-organising – but it’s done now.
We’ve ditched our flash header (not sure why, but we have), and rolled our own Flickr image thingy, which is a bit buggy, what the hell. Also ditched all the pages for things like our work and made everything a blog post with now just a few categories to organise it all (those little black buttons in the top right). Added a dandy featured posts widget on the category pages so you can jump to just our favourite stuff, and check out the archive page for a Tumblr inspired look.
Apologies to anybody unfortunate enough to be subscribed to our RSS feed for the last few weeks, most of the site had to be spat out again and we couldn’t work out how to hide it from the feed.
Let us know what you think – mainly if anything is broken.
For a few years a small but distinguished group of us have been meeting for breakfast before work every Friday in various eateries around east London. Amazingly we resisted making a blog all this time, but now we’ve gone and done it and we’ve expanded to The Breakfast Clubs all over the world. Out international friends all now have the keys to the blog, and every Friday morning, they make a special effort for breakfast and simply upload photographic evidence.
Right now we have breakfasts coming in from London, Los Angeles…
Portland, New York…
San Francisco, San Diego…
Orlando, Hogsmead (yes, Harry Potter also eats Breakfast)…
Melbourne, Shanghai…
Glasgow and Wales.
If anybody wants to join The Breakfast Clubs where-ever you are, just let me know in the comments and I’ll hook you up.
We went to Florida with some mates. We went to a gun range. We shot guns. Good times.
It was Martin’s last day at Poke before heading off to New York. Martin is into Superman in a big way (I’m sure he thinks New York is Metropolis), so we surprised him with his very own Superman costume and the whole of Poke dressed as super villains ready for him to battle.
Here’s us:
Supes:
Ensuing violence:
More Pics here.
Best of luck Martin, keep the streets of New York Metroplois clean. Here’s an animated gif:
In our first time-lapse of one of American raodtrips we stuck to our guns and showed the whole thing warts (boring bits) and all. This year we deliberately shot things from different angles and at different speeds so we can make a more entertaining edit, which I think we achieved? What do you think?
This trip took 17 days and when through Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and California. Stick around for the thrilling 360° finale – which is a journey to and from Disneyland, of course.
Just over a year ago we went to visit Tim Hunkin, a lovely chap who builds amazing machines to display in his arcade, The Under the Pier Show, on Southworld Pier. After a behind the scenes tour of the pier, we went back to his workshop for a cup of tea and a special preview of his new machine: Pet or Meat? We shot this video then, but decided to keep it secret until the machine is on display. Well guess what? It went on display months ago!
When you stumble over one of these in a deserted playground somewhere in Wales, it’s rude not to have a go.
