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House of Cards: A Celebrity-Sourced Exhibition & Charity Auction

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Work

Over the last few months at Stink Digital, I have had the pleasure to be able to work on the Shelter House of Cards project, the concept for which was based around a web site to back up a competition, exhibition and auction.  In short, the site was built to show off the 51 cards designed and offered up for sale by celebrity artists, photographers, designers such as Marc Quinn, D*Face, David Bailey, Gerald Scarfe, Rankin, Damien Hirst, Terence Conran, to name but a few, and to support an on-going competition to find a winning design from the public for card #52.

Shelter House of Cards

Judging by the throng at the Haunch of Venison gallery that turned up to rub shoulders, to view the artwork and to bid on the final works, many of which looked absolutely stunning, the event was a success; and with the final sum of money raised at just over £100,000, it was definitely a resounding SUCCESS for the charitable cause that is UK homeless charity, Shelter.

By way of analysis, it shows an interesting way forward in the form of an semi-online medium to help back up an offline experience – the TV commercial hauntingly backed by Radiohead’s Videotape & the House of Cards exhibition -  and opportunity to raise money for a worthy cause.  The notion of a celebrity-sourced exhibition is an interesting one and provides a slightly different take on the whole notion of crowd-sourced exhibitions, an idea which seems to have been gaining some traction in the museum community, not least with exhibitions such as Democracy.

Hats off to the teams at Shelter, Leo Burnett and Stink Digital!

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:

Carousel The London Independent
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!

Carousel on Boing Boing

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.