Day 2 of BINGO Pictures’ Lunch Time Film Project: The Lift. Featuring Eze, Mike and lots of sticky tape.
The Memory
We’ve been talking about making a short film with our mate Eze for ages, and we never get round to it. So we decided we should make a short film with Eze (and other mates) every day for a week to make up for lost time. We’ve called it the Lunch Time Films project, the first of which is The Memory. Stay tuned for even more exciting high(ish) quality productions from BINGO Pictures, every day this week.
Gun Club GoPro 2 test
We got a new toy, a GoPro HD 2! We just happened to be going to our gun club the day it arrived, and it just happened to be empty, so we could muck about with our new toy, and shoot guns, good times.
We actually swapped our old Contour+ camera in for this one. We were never that happy with the quality of the Contour, and the good people at DogCam Sport agreed to swap it out for a GoPro and refund us the difference. Good dog!
Happpy.it
The web is a bit boring and unhappy right now, so we made this handy bookmarklet to let you bring instant joy to (almost) any website, just head over hear to grab it:
It harnesses the full power of Comic Sans (the best font in the world) to add some jollyness to even the dullest Helvetica festooned design masterpiece.
Darth Fader
We take a lot of photos, bordering on too many, and the process of grading them all after we’ve come back from a holiday takes literally months. We use Adobe Lightroom, which is a great bit of software, but the interface it a bit fiddly. The answer it seems is with a plug-in called Paddy (there’s one for Mac called Knobroom if you’re that way inclined), that lets you assign any command a midi controller can send to pretty much any of Lightroom’s plentiful functions.
So we got ourselves a Behringer BCF2000 from ebay, installed the plug-in, a few hours of factory resetting and swearing at things later… TA DA! It works! It’s motorised so all the little faders jump to whatever settings you’ve set for a photo… a bit like the Force – and you’ve got to admit, he does look more than a bit like something you’d find swinging around Darth Vader’s neck.
New Blog Design Excitement!
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
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
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.
The Gun Show
We went to Florida with some mates. We went to a gun range. We shot guns. Good times.
Super Martin vs the Villains
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:
