The other week POKE went down to the V&A village fete with our stall ‘I’d like to teach the world to burp‘ the purpose of the stall was to try and record all the lyrics to ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing’ in burp form… Sadly due to not that many people other than me being able to burp words, we didn’t get enough words to string the whole song together but I have put together a video of just a load of random burping action captured over the 2 days. Watch the video here.
I’ve been painting our stall all week, it’s loud, it’s huge, it’s vomit inducing, it’s going to be amazing. If you think you’re a good burper you’ve got to come, we’ve also got crap loads of free booze to ply you with. Only 1600 people allowed in this year so get there early before it’s one in one out. More info.
Not seen this before, Jolly doing a 3 pint beer waterfall, nice drinking action from the Icelandic intern (says he can do it with 4 pints too!) Photo from Nick’s Flickr.
New project I’m working on, this one’s going to be a goody :) More soon, but make sure you keep Friday 27th July free as it’ll be unveiled at the V&A village fete.
Sean’s left POKE, but I did enjoy making his lifesize leaving card ;)
I’m a bit late at getting round to blog this, but at the begining of May me and Knotty went on a 3 day survival course! It was our Christmas present from POKE and was run by Trueways up on the Yorkshire Dales/Lake District boarder.
Basically turned up and they said “right there’s a wood, go chop down some trees, build your shelter and make a big fire”. It was a fairly informal ‘blokes weekend away’, the 2 instructors were a good mix; one was ex SAS proper army bloke, the other went feral at 16 and travelled round the country living off the land for the last 30 years.
We did get into a bit of trouble when I got out my stash of Stella, but apart from that it all when well (apart from a few down pours).Above is me making the first fire and trying to figure out a great nail puzzle (got to balance 11 on 1, took me a while), below is our handsome shelter for the weekend.
My latest project at POKE has just launched! Basically there’s a Bull called Derek in a field, at a secret location in England with a GPS device strapped to it (with no pain or discomfort). Every day for the rest of the month if players can guess exactly where Derek will be in his field at 3pm then they can win much sought after tickets to Glastonbury.
Go play the game now over at Spot the Bull.
As is often the case with Orange… They were a bit heavy handed with the old brand guidelines for my liking :( It just looks a bit too corporate for what is supposed to be a fun online game in my opinion. I’ve posted a screengrab below a version I was much happier with to make me feel a bit better ;) But I shouldn’t let my bitter design grievances detract from what is otherwise a formidably ambitious and excellent project, banged out the door at breakneck speed. Roope’s concept for the game was a classic, Knotty deserves most the credit though, he didn’t have much time to get all technical bits & peices working (probably less than half the time he needed), but he pulled it off and it works Great!
How it could of been:
For the cognitive test (how many has she got) when entering Spot the Bull.
This illustration was supposed to be part of a online game for a client, but it is now unfortunately defunct, but their loss is your gain, so to download it now for your desktop!
