DEATH TO THE FLIPPERS

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+.

Skype from your Home Phone

flipper01 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:34:47 +0000

Here’s a video we made for Skype about their home phone product. It was a tricky one to concept, you plug this bit of kit into your router and your phone line and you can then make normal phone calls over Skype using your normal phone… so it’s just like making a normal phone call… how do we make that look fun? We cut off the front off a house that’s how.

It was a bit of an evolution for us for the Skype videos – we chose to tell the story with a family rather than a big cast of characters, and used the occasion of moving into a new house (they just need to repair that missing wall and it’ll be lovely, honest) as it gives us a good setting to make lots of phone calls.

It was a pretty technical shoot, we only built a one story house, dressed at as the ground floor for one day, then pulled out the stairs and dressed it as the top floor on day 2. With some tricky camera positions, and a fair amount of computer graphics we plonked the 2 shots on top of each other, added a roof and made a house. Watch out for the slowly tidying house and lighting changes throughout, to help tell the one over arching story of the family’s first day in a new house.

Walking Around America

flipper01 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:50:37 +0000

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.

Trick or Treat 2011

flipper01 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:36:06 +0000

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!

Hoxton Street Monster Supplies

flipper01 — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:08:34 +0000

We’d like to proudly present the Hoxton Street Monster Supplies online store. Here you’ll find all your monster supply needs, from fang floss to a range of tinned fear (now in 10 flavours).

The store on Hoxton Street, London (yes, it’s a real place) actually hides a secret door, that (if you can work out the password) leads to the Ministry of Stories – a child literacy charity that hosts imagination flexing events for kids to write fantastic stories (much in the same vein as 826 Valencia with their pirate store in SF, Super Hero Supplies in NY and the Time Travel Mart in LA).

There’s a gang of us involved in The Monster Supplies site, Me n Jas did the design, concept and product photography, UX was by Mike Towber, Simon Pearson built the thing, Alistair Hall directed the art, and Chris Meachin held the reins and ran the whole project. We also designed the launch party for the site, along with some brilliant monster animations from Julian Frost, and monsterous food by Emma Cakehead. Here’s some photos of the party:

Machine in Scareworld Magazine

flipper01 — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:54:45 +0000

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…)

Wesified

flipper01 — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:26:07 +0000

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.