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Punktilio Playlist #3

April 15th, 2011
categories: company news,music,social media,youtube

Tags: BIC,David Beckham,Flex 3,human curling,Lucozade,parody,Pepsi,Rebecca Black,Royal Wedding,T-Mobile,Taylor,Tinie Tempah,TMobile,Travis,viral,viral video

This weeks video playlist is playful, dubious and slightly annoying at times… Enjoy!

Video #1
Unbelievable David Beckham eerrrmm…Yes it is!

We’ve seen this “viral video” over and over since the dawn of time it seems. Using different sports personalities each time to perform impossible stunts that would have had us all fooled ten years ago… yawn.

Video #2
Rebecca Black – Friday (OFFICIAL PARODY VIDEO) – Sunday – Sadie B

Yes another Rebecca Black ‘Friday’ parody. This is Sunday by Sadie B and yes its about going to church. The overly goody-good, nicey-nice, happy clappy video makes you want to be violently sick more so then the original Rebecca Black video. Plus the auto-tune on her voice is very odd too.

Video #3
Lucozade – Travis. Tinie. Taylor – The Wild Ones. ‘Simply Unstoppable – YES Remix’

Brilliant! Adverts are usually things you skip or turn to mute when they come on, ie Go Compare and any advert on Spotify. Not this one! I’ve got this one on repeat.

Video #4
The T-Mobile Royal Wedding

Again we’ve seen this a hundred times before but it’s still a bit of fun.

Video #5
WTF! Insane Human Curling by BIC Flex 3

Watch this to the very end and click on one of two annotations that link out of YouTube which is always nice. One is to the BIC facebook page ‘like’ and the other is to a game within YouTube. Play this in the office when you should be working… But it’s sort of like Track and Field in that you have to bash the space bar rapidly, so make sure you’re gentle on those keys.

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Sensible Sam & Japan

April 11th, 2011
categories: company news,music,Team

Tags: Chained to a Gorilla,David Stevens,folk,indie,Jimmy Humphrey,Joseph Pawsey,Rich Littler,Sam Waymont,Sensible Sam & Japan,Sensible Sam and Japan,SS&J,ukelele

Not only is Punktilio’s Account Director Sam Waymont one of the most social media savvy people in our company, he’s also a pretty darn good musician too fronting his band Sensible Sam & Japan.

We went down to see him play at 229 The Venue on Friday and, wow, what a fantasic gig. They had the audience dancing, cheering, and whistling along to Complicated Mess, Ricochet and Vernon Street before it was unfairly cut short, an act which only had the crowd chanting for ‘one more tune’!

Here’s some pics we took on the night followed by the quirky fan-made video for Chained On A Gorilla, which would have no doubt brought the house down. Maybe that’s why the organiser cut it short?



Chained to a Gorilla from Katherine Janes on Vimeo.





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Punktilio Playlist #2

April 8th, 2011
categories: discussions,music,social media,sport,tv,youtube

Adidas – All In

Epic advert starring far too many famous people to mention, soundtracked by the much awaited new tune by Gallic electro rockers Justice.

The Governator

Yes, you’ve probably seen this already but Arnie now has his own cartoon. I’ll say again, Arnie, the Governor of California, has his own cartoon.

Charlie Sheen (The Unedited Version)

The latest video installment of distilled madness from Charlie Meme.

Quaked – Skating in Christchurch after the earthquake

To most people Christchurch looks cracked and broken but to these skaters the destroyed landscape becomes a series of beautiful jumps and ramps.  You may have already seen this over on our Tumblr but it was just too rad not to include here.

Morgan Spurlock: The Greatest TED Talk Ever Sold

The Supersize Me documentary maker humourously discusses brand marketing on his quest to make a completely brand sponsored film about sponsorship.

Introducing Suwappu!

Cute Augmented reality toy concept from Dentsu. The physical toys are canvasses to the digital world painted on top when viewed through an iPhone. I want these just so I can have Kanye West as a Tuna.

Kinected Conference

MIT students re-think and improve video conferencing with the help of a hacked Kinect, is this the future?

Metronomy – She Wants

Finally, a current favourite from Leif, our Video Content Manager, an impressively realised concept. It even has a QR Code which rewards you with a free download of the track. How nice is that of them?



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Yet More QR Code Coverage…

September 1st, 2010
categories: music,qr codes,social media,syco

Tags: Labrinth,qr codes

QRazystuff has just posted a really well-written article on the profile building we’ve been doing with Labrinth.

This one runs a bit more in depth about creating the enigma behind Labrinth, along with some of the techniques we are implementing in ‘The Internet of Things‘.

Have a look at the article over here.

(Via QRazystuff)


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Alexandra Burke – All Night Long Video Competition

August 11th, 2010
categories: competitions,music,syco,youtube

Tags: Alexandra Burke,All Night Long,Competition,youtube

We recently ran a competition for fans of Alexandra Burke to submit videos of themselves dancing, singing, drawing faces on their chins to Alex’s latest song ‘All Night Long’. The idea behind the competition came about as a response to the many videos that her fans had sent in for previous songs, and also as a way to say thank you for their dedication. We thought the best way to do this would be to create the ultimate fan video:

We were inundated with entries, in fact it turned out to be a very successful competition on the whole. But there could only be one winner, and YouTube user nakachwa who won £500, a Sony Bloggie camera and a Sony Vaio laptop with this fantastically creative entry:


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Shh! New QR code Labrinth Transmission.

July 27th, 2010
categories: design,film,music,qr codes,social media,syco,youtube

Tags: Labrinth,manga,qr codes

Here’s a special edition Labrinth transmission all about how to use the QR codes.
The latest in the weekly series it takes it’s inspiration from 80′s Manga style cartoons. Our editor Leif Johnson found a box of his VHS’s (remember those?) that he taped off late night Channel 4 when he was but a child and just ran with the idea:

What do you think? The authentic-looking characters, backgrounds, and typefaces were all drawn by a huge up and coming talent and our in-house designer Ben Marsh, who has already gained quite a bit of internet notoriety for his Gameboy condoms.

We’re incredibly proud of this series, each one aesthetically different from the last. Here’s a little retrospective of the QR code based videos in case you missed any, just follow this link and tell us what you think. (Glad that rhymed!)


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Susan’s Search Goes Live

July 13th, 2010
categories: competitions,design,music,qr codes,social media,syco,youtube

Tags: susan boyle,susan's search

We’ve just launched Susan’s Search; a YouTube competition that gives Susan’s fans the chance to sing on her next album. We’ll let Susan explain below:

She’s very excitied about the competition and is really looking forward to collaborating with the winner. “When I did Britain’s Got Talent, I was given a chance by Simon Cowell to show what I could do. This got me thinking about people who maybe missed the opportunity, so I came up with the idea for Susan’s Search. It’s about giving other people an opportunity, it’s about letting them live the dream that they’ve always wanted to do.”

Since the story originally broke on Billboard followed then by all sorts of massive music sites the response has been insanely huge. We’re currently being sent, on average, one video every seven minutes. Susan is now sat on Simon’s side of the desk ready to judge the contestants.


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Hiding Labrinth

June 30th, 2010
categories: design,facebook,music,myspace,qr codes,social media,syco,twitter,youtube

Tags: Labrinth,Pet Shop Boys,qr codes,Smart Phones,syco

Labrinth
Labrinth is busy bustin’ sick beats hidden in a studio somewhere, meanwhile we’ve been doing some hiding of our own.

If you’ve signed up to Labrinth’s various social media sites, you may have noticed the sneaky inclusion of QR Codes which lead to some exclusive content produced by Labrinth and ourselves.

QR Codes have been used by pop stars like The Pet Shop Boys before, however we feel the infrastructure had been lacking until recently (namely the mass adoption of Smart Phones we’ve seen in the last two years or so) and therefore there has been limited success with campaigns utilising them. We see the timing as being right now and the use of QR Codes as a perfect fit for Labrinth; not only does it aesthetically suit his name but both are still relatively new, so only people in the know… well, know. Overall it’s an accessible and forward thinking way for Labrinth to find his place in the physical web.


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Syco’s new signing: Labrinth site goes live

June 16th, 2010
categories: design,music,syco

Tags: Labrinth,music,odd child,syco

Super-star in waiting Labrinth this week signed a recording deal with Syco Music.
This is the first time Syco have signed an artist that has not come through one of their TV platforms, so it’s a very exciting time for us and them to be able to work with an artist from the ground up.
We met with Labrinth, ahead of the news breaking to discuss his creative aspirations and what direction he’d like to go in in the digital space. Not only is Labrinth a prolific producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer, he’s also a bit of a retro computer gamer, so it’s not hard to see where we got the inspiration from for the initial creative approach… Welcome to Labrinth v1.0.

Super-star in waiting Labrinth this week signed a recording deal with Syco.

Labrinth

This is the first time Syco have signed an artist that has not come through one of their TV platforms, so it’s a very exciting time for us and them to be able to work with an artist from the ground up.

We met with Labrinth, ahead of the news breaking to discuss his creative aspirations and what direction he’d like to go in in the digital space. Not only is Labrinth a prolific producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer, he’s also a bit of a retro computer gamer, so it’s not hard to see where we got the inspiration from for the initial creative approach… Welcome to Labrinth v1.0.


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Lauren Laverne releases Candy Pop

May 26th, 2010
categories: books,competitions,facebook,harper collins,music,social media,youtube

Tags: Book,Candy Pop,Candypop,Harper Collins,Lauren Laverne

We designed the campaign for Lauren’s debut novel ‘Candy Pop: Candy and the Broken Biscuits’ published by HarperCollins. Here’s Lauren introducing her tome:

Accompanying the book is the sweet-looking Facebook fan page, swish, weekly videos of Lauren reading excerpts from the book, and an awesome opportunity to win a Gibson SG guitar:


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