The planets finally aligned and we got the chance to work with the granddaddy of snowboarding. We teamed up with our good friends at MSI to make a sick Burton app for Nokia to stoke out a worldwide audience. We first wrote and launched it for the Nokia on the WRT platform. Then we did an iPhone version, which is currently being routed through Burton and should be in the app sore soon. We’re also hooking it up for Android. The LiftLine.tv app basically turns your smart phone into a virtual TV where you can watch multiple Burton channels chuck full of sweet streaming content. The backend CMS allows Burton to upload limitless amounts of videos and even channels on the fly, which are automatically synced with the Level 3 network and streamed seamlessly through the app. The iPhone version lets you pick and choose your favorite content and even create your own network. This was a beast to get done but we’re beyond stoked how it turned out. Working with Burton is a rare privilege not many peeps get. We can’t wait for the next time.
We teamed up with the fine folks at Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners to make some sweet sweet magic for Mini. They handed over the concept and some tight comps and we were off to the races. The first step and probably the hardest was casting the perfect lady bum. That’s a very subjective subject we learned. Next we did a shoot of the glorious derriere swaying back and forth on a green screen. Then we rendered it all out in 3D so users could make the caboose grow to Kardashian proportions with a slider. When the ass gets too much for the jeans to handle, it morphs into the back of a Clubman and peels off screen and then whips back in. We also did the sound design, coded the flash transitions and modeled the entire car in 3D. When people think banners they think boring. We believe banners can and should be fun and offer this piece up as Exhibit A in their defense. Give it a clickety clack and see what’s up. (more…)
Peep our newest webisode for PowMow if you’ve got a sec. We’ve got 6 more currently in edit-landia that will be dropping over the next few weeks featuring things like Al Roker, ginger Alpacas, military parades, stuffed lion heads and fire breathing eaglealopes. It’s going to be a good time.
So we got a little nuts with our Christmas card this year. We’re into the Holidays so we decided to do it up real big like Oprah’s undies. The cards we sent out had scratch off codes where people could go to our Christmas site (stsworkshop.com) and pick a gift from under the STS tree. Then we sent out a potpourri of presents that ranged form the awesome to the borderline offensive. To mange all of this we built a CMS on the back end so we could track who checked in, what present they selected and who got shipped what when. For those who didn’t get cards/gifts we created a Zombie Elf Attack game where the top high scorers could earn presents. We illustrated and developed the entire game in house. Our nerds got skills yo. On the Christmas site there was also a gift gallery so you could see the ridiculous gifts everyone else got. We also had a give a gift section where you could send friends fake certificates for land deeds, star naming and donations to the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good, in their name. We also added in a Pewee Herman cameo, singing shark and shit-talking squirrel for good measure. All in all it was a long ways to go for a roast beef sandwich but serious good times. Wait till you see what we do next year.
The crew was at lunch the other day when we suddenly realized everyone had the exact same mini beards. (With the exception of the ladies and Tanner of course). It wasn’t part of an elaborately planned office-wide beard-growing contest centered around a certain month. It just happened.
We’ve heard how women who live together can have their lady cycles match up. Considering how much time we spend in the same room, we suspect something similar is going on with our man beards.
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You know why we like Columbus? It’s not because he supposedly discovered the Americas. It’s because he had hella swagger. We like how he grabbed his huevos and gangster walked out of Princess Ferdinand’s palace, past all the haters, jumped on his ship and set off to do something he believed in. We did the same thing last Columbus Day. (more…)
