Poke recently released The Sound of Orange Rockcorps into the world (I did a little promo video for it a while ago). I used it to make this beautiful rendition of MGMT’s Kids using the voices of me and any of my Facebook friends who have used the site to record some notes.
I didn’t actually work on the site at all but I do sit on a desk where most of the development and design happened – you know that scene in Apollo 13 when they realised everything is knackered on the space ship and the geeks back on earth have to panic about trying to work out how fix it? It was basically like that, everyday, for weeks on end, I don’t think any of them slept. It really didn’t look like an easy thing to make. Well done lads.
The Design Museum is running an exhibition called Super Contemporary, it’s about the history of design in London. They kindly asked us geeks at Poke to make a map charting the history of the digital design scene from 1994 to today. So we made this map thingy in flash that you control with a proper real world knob that sits patiently under the big old plasma screen in the exhibit. The knob magic is achieved with some help from an Arduino. Click through to Vimeo to watch the video glorious full screen HD.
Gathering all the data was not exactly simple, we needed to know staff numbers for most of the digital agencies in London (sorry, we couldn’t include them all) for each quarter of each year for 13 years, and a lot of them don’t exist anymore. A lot of favours were pulled, and many painful wounds re-opened. We thought about being respectful about when each company died during the bubble burst… but then thought ’sod it’ and made them TOTALLY ASPLODE!!!1 instead.
Of course when I say ‘we’ did it, what I really mean is me n Jas designed it and animated some bits, the hard stuff was done by TV’s Chris Boardman. The data gatherer was The Hoss and Mr Zolty was the knob guy.
Here’s some photos of it being installed, and some mild panic of getting the damn thing working.
I made a little video thingy. It sits on the side of a taxi cab which is actually a mobile photo booth/sound recorder for something called The Sound of Orange Rockcorps. What these photos and sounds are going to be used for is a bit secret, and we’re still working on it a surprise!
Revolution Magazine just published their top 10 of augmented reality campaigns. Rubberduckzilla makes a new entry at number 2! Chuffed to bits to be standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the best AR sites out there. Thanks Revelotion. Read the article here.
Us chaps at Poke have launched the third augmented reality game for Rubberduckzilla. This time we partnered with The Sun, and what jolly fine people they were to work with too (cheers Mike!). The AR marker was printed in a double page spread all about Rubberduckzilla. Punters the bought The Sun simply had to visit www.rubberduckzilla.com hold the paper up to their webcam and all hell broke lose. You can also play News Splash by printing out the AR marker from the site. Here’s a quick video I shot to demonstrate what happens for those poor people that don’t have a webcam.
If you are are lucky enough to be a posh person with a webcam, then you can play the game below in it’s snazzy embeddable format.
Just finished this site for Oasis. If you have a webcam, you can turn yourself into a giant rubber laser blasting duck and blast the crap out of the city! Just print out this marker, hold it on your head and hit spacebar to start the burninating! Developed by the amazing code monkeys at LingoBee. More games coming soon to www.RUBBERDUCKZILLA.com
My first piece of work at Poke (yay we’re at Poke!) is about to close. It’s the last day to play with Topshop’s Christmas Zeotrope. It was a hell of an after effects job, but working tightly with the developers and illustrator helped make this little thing come to life. 90,000 plays so far, be great to hit that 100k level by midnight tonight. Go on, you could win some spangly belts!
Our touch screen guide to the inner working of The Great Clock (that’s Big Ben kids) has been installed into it’s custom built wooden paneled unit half-way up The Clock Tower. Wonderfully styled to fit in with all the pomp and tradition of parliament. You can see the animation in our work section, or ask your MP for a tour. WARNING, it’s 394 steps to the top.
Yes, you read it right, Cassette Electrik are indeed launching their first album tonight with a shiny glittering party, which is not too dis-similar to a gig, but with more bells and whistles and DJs and stuff. Talking of bells and whistle, we’ll be providing shiny pretty visuals and stuff. Yes people, there will be lasers, multiple lasers.
Hit thier MySpace site to buy your tickets and get an exclusive 4 track remix CD.
It all kicks off at about 7ish at the newly re-opened Marquee club on Upper St Martins Lane. We’ll be downstairs, playing with extension leads. See you there.
