Every now and then when playing my XBOX 360 in HD, I think back to the not-so-high-definition days of NES and the joy I found with 8-16 bits of fun and fury. I love the fact that these are classics are being reborn on the iPhone.
Are there any other 80’s babies out there that have the same craving for some Duck Hunt or Double Dragon? If so, enjoy the trip down memory lane.
Do you think it takes expensive lighting to take nice photos?
Think again….. Check out this video on using a cell phone as a lighting source, strobist style..
http://www.vimeo.com/2536591If you like this idea, check out the Strobist Blog.
Howard, Merrell & Partners, a strategic branding and advertising firm, received two 2008 W3 Awards from the International Academy of Visual Arts. The accolade recognizes more than 3,000 entries from top companies and advertising agencies worldwide. The agency was honored with two silver awards for the William Marsh website as well as INVISTA’s CORDURA® brand Baselayer fabrics Web site development. Continue Reading >
In the spirit of the fried nature of our blog theme and name, I bring you a simple example of resourceful thinking translated into a marketing win. The two guys that run BBQaddicts.com needed more visitors, so that they could boost advertising revenue. What was the answer? Turning 2 pounds of bacon and 2 pounds of sausage into the Bacon Explosion.
Saw this snail crawling across a brick walkway. Looked like he had somewhere important to go. Got the video camera, slapped in some mood music with the help of Garage Band, and boom – nature film. This is actual speed. No slow mo here. Notice the little ant hitching a ride off the right antenna. He must not have been in a hurry. Enjoy – Billy
La Cosa Nostra has left New Jersey and re-settled in OKC. Don’t believe us? Say hello to Joshua Craig. Or as we call him: Vinny Boombatz.
HM&P’s redesign of the Cordura website went live last Thursday. Check it out and leave your impressions in the comments.
Auditorium is an amazing new game that gives you something fun to do, something nice to look at, and something that’s rather pleasant to your ears. Just a demo is up right now, but the full version will be out on January 30th, 2009. So head over and enjoy some soothing music while playing this awesome flash puzzler.
As part of the interactive department here at HM&P, we deal with all sorts of projects requiring all sorts of technologies. Sometimes a client wants a plain HTML site and sometimes they want Flash with embedded videos. I’d like to dig into some of these technologies to give you, my humble reader, a better understanding of what it is that we (interactive types) do. This includes everything related to interactive work like (X)HTML/CSS, the Internet, how a web page gets to you, and so much more.
As an interactive programmer, I often take for granted my plethora of knowledge about how what we do works. For example, if you were to ask me how the internet works, and more specifically, how the web page you want to see gets from a server to your monitor, I’d launch into a long explanation with terms like ‘routers’, ‘DNS’ and ‘IP Address’. And this would mean very little to most people. So here in Max’s Coding Corner, I’ll try to bring the lingo down to a level where everyone can follow along and better understand what’s going on.
For the inaugural post, I’m going to pose a few questions that should be asked about every web site.
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Today Howard, Merrell & Partners, strategic branding and advertising firm announces the expansion of its public relations and social media marketing services with the addition of Jessica Redman as an account executive.
Redman has begun providing public relations and social media marketing support to the agency’s clients.
The Texas transplant comes to Howard, Merrell & Partners with public relations and technology communications experience under her belt. Previously at MWW Group in Dallas, Redman was responsible for conducting media outreach and event planning, as well as coordinating grassroots and charitable donation programs for companies like Cheil Communications. She also handled global PR efforts for Samsung, NuBax and Simdesk, for which she assisted in the company’s re-launch at the world’s largest technology trade show, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Redman is a graduate of Austin College in Sherman, Texas.
