After a wet week in Devon, I’ve watched more TV ads than normal, and I’ve come to the decision: nothing is as good as Brian May’s love letter to Ford. Come on, find me a better telly ad than this, I dare you.
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Quick Draw Saloon – opening night!
Tonight it’s the V&A Village Fete grand opening, and us lot at Stuff Club (which is a gang of do-ers at Poke) have built the Quick Draw Saloon. Come along tonight or tomorrow and pit your speed drawing skills against another pen slinger. There’s a prize for the winner, and something else for the looser.
Light Speed to Endor
Finally got round to doing some back-ups at the weekend and found this timelapse video we shot ages ago on a jolly ’round Romford. It’s been on Vimeo for a while but I don’t think we ever blogged it. So now we have – hooray! It’s got my favourite sound effects ever in it (play with headphones on, hit the full-screen button and press your nose to the screen for maximum enjoyment).
TV’s Chris Boardman
Today, we at Poke bid a fond farewell to TV’s Chris Boardman. During his year break from uni here at Poke we have worked him to within an inch of his life. Which is of course how all student placements should be handled. He’s heading back up north to finish his learnings (see: slacking). We dearly hope he graces our door again, so we can work him even harder. He’s responsible for the speedy development of the interactive map we created for the Design Museum and various other behind the scenes development breakthroughs. We put together this video installation down in the mess hall to honour the chap. See you soon Boarders!
Unto Others in Virgin Shorts
You’ve probably already seen this, but now it’s in the Virgin Media short film competition. If we win it we will be become the richer than our wildest dreams and shall eat peacock eggs for breakfast. So rate it 5 shiny stars and we’ll give you 7 million pounds each if we win*.
*actually we won’t, get stuffed.
LOLFATCATS
O HAI, CAN I HAS MEME?
Another joke at Poke made flesh – LOLFATCATS.COM
He only went and did it!
I was so impressed by Iain’s performance over the weekend, that I am moved to blogging. Here’s what happened. Sit Iain of Tait put out this tweet Friday night:
To which I flippantly responded with:
I know, it’s another one of my cocky annoying tweets. But this time, HE TOOK THE BAIT! He actually completed the full list of tasks. Read all about it on Crackunit.
Above is Iain’s home brew weapon (Task 3). It’s an odd looking weapon, but it reminded me of this awesome killer ball thingy from the bonkers Russian sci-fi Day Watch.
With so many projects we have lying around half baked, it’s an attitude like Iain’s that inspiring me to get the bloody things done. Iain, you win.
BakerTweet
Yey! We made a thing! Well, when I say ‘we’ I mean Poke, and when I say Poke I mean ‘mainly Zolty and Mattias‘, but we helped out, we even screwed the thing to the wall. Anyway, it’s a lovely device that hangs on the wall of the baker’s kitchen across the road from Poke, when something fresh comes out of the oven they just turn a dial to select what kind of fresh thing it it, press a button, and hey presto a tweet is sent out to hungry new media professionals int he Shoreditch area. It’s all made possible with the lovely Arduino.
We tried to keep it under wraps a bit but it kinda slipped out into the twitter land and news spread like hot cakes (pun very much intended), so we rushed together this promo video in about 2 hours. What’s super sweet is somebody over at Hidden Chemistry has already extended the idea with a bit of a hack – nice!
We’ve had great support from the people over at the Albion (our first test subject) who are chuffed to bits with thier new toy. It’s not many swanky, brand new, Conran designed cafes that let a bunch of geeks screw something weird onto one of their shiny tiled walls.
Get the full skinny at BakerTweet.com
Here’s some pics of the thing being installed.
Camelids Ballroom Adventure
In responce to the Ideas Brothers’ mood film I’ve made my own. It’s about that time where you sit back and wonder at the glorious ballet between the two members of the Camelid family; the Camel and the Llama, and the adventures those little tykes get up to.
Lomo Lives
Yey! My Lomo LC-A isn’r buggered. The last time I used it (about a year ago) it kept deciding not to open it’s little iris for me. So I left it in the cupboard. I kinda missed it, so I got it out again recently and ran a roll of film through it, picking up some “just take a photo of anything-damn-thing” shots along the way. The results of which are here. I plan on taking a load more casual shots like this (like back in the good ol’ pre mega-pixel days) and slowly adding to the set on Flickr. It really is a joy to use.