DEATH TO THE FLIPPERS

New Blog Design Excitement!

flipper01 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:44:34 +0000

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.

The Breakfast Clubs

flipper01 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:48:33 +0000

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.

Y.CO

flipper02 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:52:56 +0000

Y.CO are a SUPER (yes, uppercase super) yachting company. They wanted a new site that challenges the current perception of yachting companies, their competition sell themselves on the size of their yachts, how much they cost and how many they can offer you – It’s all product and no soul. It might sound clichéd but Y.CO really are passionate about yachting, so we decided to focus on the experience of yachting and the adventures Y.CO can make real. Y.CO sell holidays to you, your family and friends, not yachts.

The site is full of jaw dropping stories from customers and crew and the yachts themselves are presented with individual character. To reflect the quality and service we’ve wrapped this all up in a pretty cutting edge tech build to give these very elite customers an extremely rich and fluid experience full of some amazing full-screen photography.

YCOyacht.com

The Gun Show

flipper01 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:40:50 +0000

We went to Florida with some mates. We went to a gun range. We shot guns. Good times.

Super Martin vs the Villains

flipper01 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:24:57 +0000

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:

The Great Outdoors Road Trip – time lapse

flipper01 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:55:49 +0000

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.

Firefox Add-ons

flipper02 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:32:22 +0000

Created this lovely little animation for Mozilla to show all the neat stuff you can do with Add-ons for Firefox. An honour and delight to work with the extremely talented animator and illustrator Tim Ruffle. Please note the LOLcat homage at around 00:40. We couldn’t help ourselves.

Pet or Meat? by Tim Hunkin

flipper01 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:30:26 +0000

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!

The World Revolves Around Gavin

flipper01 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:36:27 +0000

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

Guns P.O.V.

flipper01 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:25:46 +0000

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+.