Well, since September is a short month and/or we’ve been so busy our next Inter-action will actually be on Wednesday September 30 2009.
Our friends at Magic Pony are having a very special opening on October 1st. Those of you who know me know i’m a very huge fan of Kozyndan. They will likely be in attendance at Inter-action. So we’ve changed the date of inter-action to a Wednesday night – September 30th
The next Inter-action will be hosted by our friends at sociMedia. www.socimedia.com
@ 569 King Street West, Toronto – 6-8pm
Presentation: Alchemy will be presenting their recent production of a short film for an online film festival for Girl Guides. Handmade sets, illustration by Nathan Jurevicius and tiny miniatures. http://www.helloalchemy.com
Innovation: Moving beyond the marker.
Helen Papagiannis has been working with AR since before most of us knew what it was. Her video AR work is jaw dropping. She’ll be coming to Inter-action show her work, discuss her creative process, and discussing ways we can move beyond the single white square on a piece of paper…. http://www.aliceglass.com
Dissection: Our hosts, Socimedia Will be presenting YeahoYeah.com and discussing the idea of integrating and mashing APIs for traditional co-promoted and direct marketing. http://www.socimedia.com
To say that we’re excited about this is an understatement, in addition to amazing interactive directors like Jason Zada, Grant Skinner, Geordie Stephens and everyone else on Tool’s stellar roster – Carlos Ulloa has joined the team. Welcome Carlos!
Carlos is perhaps best known for his creation and launch of Papervision3D. Yup. Awesome. – Coming soon is Carlos’ Reel.
Tool of North America’s Carlos Ulloa is one of the industry’s leading Flash developers, a regular presenter at industry events and an active member of the Flash OS community. His Flash work focuses on fields of graphic and typographic effects, motion design, and interactivity, all with a focus on 3D.
Ulloa’s signature work is the creation and launch of the revolutionary open source project Papervision3D, a real-time Flash 3D engine. Since the program’s debut, it has vaulted into the mainstream and became central to prominent campaigns for Sony Bravia, Renault, Absolut, Red Bull, and Nike.
Due to his expertise in every aspect of Flash, Ulloa has spoken or run training courses on Papervision3D and other subjects at many of the industry’s leading conferences, including CaT, TED, FITC, Adobe MAX, Flash on the Beach, MadinSpain, Flashforward, and the Web Flash Festival.
Ulloa’s groundbreaking work on both Papervision3D and individual campaigns has earned countless recognitions, including a spot on Creativity Magazine’s 2009 Creativity 50 list; first place at the 18th Flash Forward Film Festival, Site Of The Day at FWA, and a nomination for a Cannes Cyber Lion for the In An ABSOLUT World campaign; a Silver Pencil at the 2008 One Show InteractiveAwards, and recognitions at the Webby Awards, FITCs, FWAs, and D&ADs, along with a nomination for a Cannes Cyber Lion, for Sony BRAVIA; and, for his work on Papervision 3D, .net Magazine Awards 2008 Innovation of the Year, winner in the 3D category at the 17th Flash Forward Film Festival, and a People’s Choice Award at the 2007 FITC Awards.
As an interactive director, Carlos is poised to bring his unique creative and technical background to develop innovative advertising campaigns.
Interested in doing some work with Carlos? or any of the other Interactive Directors mentioned above – Call Lunch in Canada. Or Tool of North America in the USA
Watch out in the coming weeks for a special contribution to the Lunch Blog from Jason Zada himself.
Lunch is thrilled to welcome sociMedia – pronounced so-shee-media to the network. sociMedia are creative developers – they’re well versed in what it takes to build a community and experts at building applications. Their experience in creative, video and programming makes them a fabulous addition to the network. I first had the pleasure of working with one of their principals, Adrian while I was at Fastvibe, many moons ago. Adrian went on to partner with Adam, and Sean to found sociMedia. When you talk to them about creative or development, they get it. They know what it takes to create something that a) works and b) performs. A rare thing in the development world. sociMedia joins Pixelpusher, Indusblue, and Stem Limited as a part of the creative development roster at Lunch.
So, sometimes when you see something, like Alex McLeod’s work, you want to touch it.
Alex graduated in 2007 from OCAD and began experimenting with 3D, his eye for design and lighting – and his fabulous, fantastic works – candy coated, but slightly macabre will make you want to dive in.
He’s been featured on the blog of Kanye West, netdiver, Juxtapoz – and countless others. He also just won a competition for the poster design for the Vancouver international film festival.
Alex is currently exhibiting at two galleries in Toronto – Angell Gallery on Queen St. West (August 8- 29 2009) and Lonsdale Gallery on Spadina (Opens August 12, 2009 – September 27 2009)
I’m thrilled to welcome Alex to the lunch network.
Alex is available for Collaboration and Illustration. For more information contact Amy [at] this is lunch.com
The Cold War Kids interactive music video has been nominated for “Breakthrough Video” for the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
The winners are voter generated, so this is where you come in.
Below is the link for the voting page. There is a short registration process (no more than 3 minutes, promise!) and then you will be directed to the voting page.
Lunch Interactive Director Nick Goso has just launched a new portfolio site. Planet Goso.
You’re probably familiar with his work, including his acclaimed work for the WSIB over the past few years.
His attention to detail, knowledge of the interactive space and ability to translate a concept so beautifully to live action – collaboratively – is a rare thing.
He also has lots of tattoos, plays in a punk band and is a really, really nice guy.
Lunch Interactive Director Nick Goso has just launched a new portfolio site.