Entries Categorised as 'Personal'

More Fun: Carousel Hits The London Independent

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Work

After enjoying the stream of compliments, and other social contagion online regarding Carousel, the microsite and web film Stink Digital produced for Tribal DDB and Philips, the team came into the office this morning to a nice surprise.

The best part of all of it:

I know it’s still only April, but this is one of the best pieces of commercial communication you’ll see all year. It’s for Philips and you’ll find it at www.cinema.philips.com and it’s superb.

Created by Tribal DDB Amsterdam and produced by Stink Digital, it’s a stop-motion film of a shoot-out between cops and clowns, which is exactly as weird and disturbing as it sounds. It promotes the high specifications of Philips’s new Aurea TVs – not an easy thing to demonstrate if you are watching on anything other than the TV itself, but this film captures the quality brilliantly.

Here’s the page, and a link below:

Claire Beale on Advertising: Can this man lead adland out of the gloom? – http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/advertising/claire-beale-on-advertising-can-this-man-lead-adland-out-of-the-gloom-1674702.html

Carousel Makes Boing Boing

April 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Work

I hate to make a picture only posting, but a picture says a thousand words … to see the actual thing visit the Boing Boing post: Frozen movie of cops vs. clowns in hospital shootout. And all this after the FWA on Monday. Good times!

“No More Grace” by Hush

April 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Personal

After my brush with Goldie earlier in the week, and after many moons of putting off actually hitting an art gallery and buying myself some more graff art work, I headed over to Urban Angel gallery on Redchurch Street at lunch time and dispensed with some of my hard earned cash. The piece I plumped for was by Hush, entitled No More Grace. It’s a unique piece, 1/1, and I love it. So without much ado, here it is for you to enjoy!

No More Grace by Hush

Another Great Week …

April 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Work

I have been having a great time ever since I joined the team at Stink Digital, but this week has been the week to surpass all weeks since ’08.

Having toiled with the team over the last 2 months to finish the video and web site for Philip’s new Cinema 21:9 microsite, along with all the other companies involved, agency Tribal DDB and post house Redrum, to name but two, we finally polished it off and pushed it out the door to great acclaim!

Thursday saw the site and video start amassing tens of thousands of hits a day, see it selected as Hotshot in the Shots Magazine, as well as make the plaudits on many other ad industry sites and newsletters, whilst today (20th April 2009) the site has been lauded with FWA‘s prestigious Site of the Day award, as well as personal credits on the Motionographer blog and a tip of the hat from Kanye West himself: “Hands down video of the year!”

It’s great to get broad recognition, both from the internet populous at large, available to see on twitter and elsewhere, as well as by industry buffs that keep the ad world ticking in cyberspace, all the more so when you work as part of a small team. From my perspective, it is great to be back to a small team environment where all efforts are appreciated, rather than being the chip of a much larger block where you are just another cog in the machine and pretty much non-existent.

Who knows where the Philip’s Cinema 21:9 site might go from here, but for certain, there are just as many exciting things on the Stink Digital block right now and you should definitely watch this spacing regarding cutting edge and gripping things to come. East London is definitely hopping with us in town!

Check out the director’s cut of the short film Carousel by Adam Berg on the Stink Digital web site, or better still check out the full interactive experience for the Cinema 21:9 TV.

It’s Not Every Lunch That You Run Into Goldie

April 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Personal

After dropping by Spitalfields for lunch, a work colleague and I decided to saunter up Brick Lane for a quick peep at any art on view in the streets and to pop into the new exhibition ‘Goldie: The Kids Are All Riot’ at the Maverick Showrooms on Redchurch Street. Little did we know that we would bump into the legend, his mouth bedecked in gold and his face sneering with the legendary attitude that makes this musician, artist and part-time actor so great.

For those who wonder what the man looks like in front of a pack of photographers:

Before we showed up, he had obviously been doing a little in-gallery demo for the journos present and was reveling in the glow of his stardom and the press attention. The show itself was pretty cool, though nothing that was jaw dropping or innovative. Perhaps the most interesting pieces were those from Goldie’s early days in the 80′s, which alas only comprised of some 2-4% of the show.

Post Goldie we went in to see Monsters Inked at the Idea Generation on Chance Street. Pretty damned good and reminded me of the work by the father of a friend Bob Conge / Plaseebo.

Definitely a great lunch, and the sun was blazing to boot :) Feels like Spring is here and soon the Vandals, Taggers and Artists will be out painting the town red again, with me following swiftly behind before the bastards from the council show up to clean it away.