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.

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+.

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!

Hurrah! Scareworld Magazine (“Europe’s Premier Publication Covering the Scare Attractions and Entertainment Industry” don’t ya know) has done a double page spread all about our show, Machine. Jolly good.

click here to read it (if you dare! …etc…)

For years I’ve been noticing frames from some of my favourite films look like could have come from a Wes Anderson film. Whack on a more Wes Anderson style title in the correct font (he always uses Futura in various guises, normally bold in yellow or white) and the idea tells itself. I’ve made a few up now and put them here: WESIFIED.com.

The first film I ever noticed this on was Ghostbusters, and I’ve been wanting to do something with it for years. I’ve made up a fair bunch of films now and plan to keep adding to the blog whenever I spot a another frame that looks the part.