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I wanted to assemble a group of people who would be able to have a conversation, rather than a typical panel discussion and I feel really thrilled to say, I have.

Producing Creative: Playing for Keeps in a Global Digital Playground
With expectations getting higher and technology becoming more accessible, the heat is on Producers to make magic. This panel will be discussing the art of creative production. Even though it looks like we're spinning plates, there is in fact an order to things. Is there a process? What’s the right way to execute digital and broadcast production together? What leads what? Is there a formula for success? And what happens when you throw in even more plates to spin outdoor, ambient, print, events?

This diverse panel of seasoned integrated production talent will step inside the business of creative production with a look at what works, what doesn't and where it's all headed.



David Eriksson, CD and CEO of North Kingdom, Adrian Gunadi, ACD of Production, Birthplace, Myself, Founder & President of Lunch, and Jason Zada, Director, Digital Evangelist and former ECD of EVB.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

If you have any questions or topics you'd like us to touch on shoot me a note.
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Nolan grew up in the business having a father who worked in the ad business instilled an early passion for film artistry in Nolan’s mind. I too related to this, having two parents in "the business". His first encounter in film came in the opportunity to assist famed Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, which led to Sarner attending McGill University where he began making documentaries of his own.

Following his graduation from McGill Nolan took the immersive leap into the Ryerson Summer Film Program that consists of thirteen weeks of six day a week comprehensive, classes and practical film experience which basically equates to four years of film training in one summer. Since then Nolan has been building his reel and developing feature projects with the intention to direct. He recently wrote and directed his short film Mortimer starring famed local actor Carlo Rota (of 24 and Little Mosque On the Prairie fame), which has been wowing festival audiences internationally.

Nolan is available through Imported Artists/Lunch.

Nolan Sarner - Imported Artists]]> What's New
Alex's next show Empire of Dreams is at MOCCA in Toronto opening on June 15th.

Congratulations to Alex. ]]> What's New
Download it.

The official CTVOlympics.ca iPhone app.

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TOP FREE APP IN THE SPORTS CATEGORY
FEATURED APP IN THE APP STORE
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In this 2.0 release we bring everything you've been waiting for.

PUSH NOTIFICATIONS - Breaking news and Medals straight from the Games.

MEDAL AND RESULTS - In-depth medals and results data on every event of the Games. Even follow event results while they are in progress.

We pay special attention to Hockey with the most in-depth results data available, including detailed box scores, player stats and play-by-play.

TV SCHEDULE - Never miss a moment of the Olympic Games, with the full TV Schedule. The schedule also allows you to set notifications to remind you to watch your favourite events.

PLAY-BY-PLAY - If you aren't in front of a TV, catch all the action of the Games with the live play-by-play feed.

LIVE BLOGGING - Get in the game with live blogging of the biggest events, such as Hockey, Curling and Figure Skating. Our panel of experts will join the interactive conversations throughout the Games.


Along with these new features we cover up-to-the-minute headlines and news on every sport at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Stunning photo galleries with hundreds of spectacular photos, in-depth Canadian and International athlete profiles, venue information and the upcoming event schedule for the Games.

It's everything you will need on the Games from Canada’s official broadcasters: CTV, TSN, Rogers Sportsnet, RDS, V, RIS Info Sports, OLN, OMNI, APTN and ATN.

What to look for in the next planned releases? Below is a feature list of the Games-time application, which will launch in early February.



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Credits:

Uses the Three20 framework and Twitter+OAuth code by Ben Gottlieb
Includes “MGTwitterEngine” code by Matt Gemmell.

The CTVOlympics.ca iPhone App is designed and developed by Indusblue inc.

In this new version a TV viewers guide, detailed results, & a dedicated hockey section, push-notifications, live blogging and medal breakdowns.]]> What's New
It's a pretty amazing product that allows businesses to easily manage and measure their social media presence, and impact.

Studio Dialog produced Illustration, and animation of SocialTALK's video and Mike "Nice" Anderson at Broader than Broadway completed front-end development with a little help from STEM

Congrats to the whole team at Syncapse, for getting the front page of Mashable today! ]]> What's New
I'm doing something a little unconventional (of course) and moderating and also taking part in the panel, I'm absolutely thrilled and honored to have assembled a great panel of individuals and i'm lucky to say good friends for what I think is going to be a really interesting, and lively discussion. Ideally, I'd like for it to feel like people in attendance are actually present within one of our conversations. It's also a chance to talk about what it is to produce creative, by some of the best people I could think of.

David Eriksson is both Creative Director and CEO of North Kingdom

Jason Zada, Director, Digital Evangelist and former founder and ECD of Evolution Bureau (EVB), creator of "Elf Yourself" - (He hates when I say that).

Adrian Gunadi Associate Creative Director of Production at Birthplace Inc., a start-up that specializes in product, content and media property development.


Producing Creative: Playing for keeps in a global digital playground
With expectations getting higher and technology becoming more accessible, the heat is on Producers to make magic. This panel will be discussing the art of creative production. Even though it looks like we're spinning plates, there is in fact an order to things. Is there a process? What’s the right way to execute digital and broadcast production together? What leads what? Is there a formula for success? And what happens when you throw in even more plates to spin outdoor, ambient, print, events?

This diverse panel of seasoned integrated production talent will step inside the business of creative production with a look at what works, what doesn't and where it's all headed.

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CTVOlympics Official iPhone application is available on the app store.

Congrats guys!]]> What's New
This month they're featured in Computer Arts magazine.

"The pair met while studying illustration at university. Friends to begin with, they started dating after a year and have been inseparable ever since. “Our first collaboration happened randomly, after we’d been together for about two years,” recalls Dan. “I saw a long doodle of the interior of our apartment that she was drawing for a class project, and really liked it. I decided to scan the drawing and colour it in Photoshop. Kozy joined me in the colouring process and we had a lot of fun doing it. That became our first panoramic, and the beginning of Kozyndan.”

Check out the article

Kozyndan are available for work through Narwhal@Lunch]]> What's New
Once again inter-action hits Toronto in March. Location to be announced this week, as well as speakers. For now, it's in your calendars.

Presentation: TBA

Innovation: TBA

Dissection: TBA

inter-action is a bi-monthly thinktank/discussion group/task force for interactive thinkers. It’s comprised of you. People in the industry. From Agencies to Development partners - creatives, developers, producers etc. So, this is a time to get together, have a drink and chat about what we’re up to, where things are going, and how together we can continue to push innovation locally. Collaboration, is a good thing. We like it.
]]> What's New So, we've had a couple of engagements so far (Alexis and Adam - Socimedia Engagement, Sacha and Stephanie (Relish Engagement) and now there's been a new addition to the network. The biggest Lunch Launch to date!

Wesley Roland Gervais was born this morning at 5:48 am, 7lbs 4 ounces with lots of black hair. New Father Mark Gervais and Lovely Mum Karen Chu Gervais, finally welcomed a new little Gervais.

Congratulations to Mother and Father and mini Gervais for taking his sweet time.

XOX From Lunch]]> What's New
September 2, 2005
I got an email last week from Hyper Island. If you haven’t heard of them and are in the digital space - check them out. They pride themselves on creating freethinking digital idealists. Something that I think more of us should be taking the opportunity and initiative to do.
Pretty cool. They asked me about whether I might be able to answer some questions about what Digital Trends/Influences might be.

Of course I was happy to share some ideas on my favorite topic. Digital. I’ve included the questions and my responses below.

> 1a. In the upcoming 2-5 years what do think the biggest digital trends/influences will be?
I’d like to see people get out from behind their computers. I know I’d certainly like to be able to engage outside of the traditional “digital” experience. More development and innovation in terms of interactive projections, the graffiti research lab stuff, more interaction between communities in general. I think consumers are finally ready to have the
kinds of experiences we’re now able to produce. I think we’ll see a lot more installations and digital production as art. It’s what’s next in my mind. Websites and banner ads will become a necessary component in terms of media-
but I truly believe that open source/guerilla style technology will turn the industry on it’s ear. It has to get beyond desktop. The future is multi-tasking, anything that enables people to do this more easily is going to be a key influencer.

> b. What kind of industry research does your company do regarding future trends?
To be honest, I’m not sure we do enough of this. I think a lot of companies get caught up in the day-to-day work and it’s hard to stay involved/in the loop as a company. I think it comes down to individuals keeping themselves informed and up to date on what’s out there, what can be done, and what’s coming next. The interest has to be there at the individual level. I rely heavily on my team in addition to my own network to stay engaged on what’s next.

> c. What does your company do to keep up to date with industry trends?
>
It really comes down to working groups within the company. I think individuals do their own research and networking to stay involved in emerging trends. I learn most about what’s next by just keeping an ear to the ground and trying to stay as up to speed as possible with what everyone else is working on. Dialogue between companies is important. I think we have to get past the idea that sharing erodes the industry - I think not sharing is eroding it.

> 2. In your opinion what is missing in the industry today?
Production Management training in addition to cross training of creatives.
Much emphasis is put on the education and training of
development/programming talent, and creative skils like design, copywriting etc, with comparatively little emphasis being placed on the overall management of the production. As projects become increasingly complex, it’s essential to have talent who have a general understanding of the actual
production. I’d love to see Producers become a greater segment of the market. Broadcast producers have long been a creative asset and resource in execution of a project, I’d like to see the same emphasis on Interactive/Digital Producers. I think to some extent the idea of an
Interactive Producer or Project manager brings with it the idea of pencil pushing and a pretty rigid perspective. I’d like to see the term Project Manager be eliminated from our vocabulary as it pertains to production management. The last thing I think that’s missing - or that could be done
better is communication. I think the industry in Europe has done a much better job of staying in contact with each other and keeping an open dialogue that we have in North America. I’ve been working towards trying to get the industry in Toronto talking again. I think it’s imperative to the evolution of the industry.

> 3. What skills are you looking for in future employees?
I tend look for 3 things. Multifaceted Creativity, Innovative thinking, and Passion. You can’t be a true contributor, whether on a development, creative or production level without being engaged and passionate about the work.
It’s really a spark. I usually know right away whether I think someone is going to be able to be a contributor. I think of what first got me into the industry, and it was really my desire to produce cool work on whatever level. I think that helped me to stay involved and engaged all of these
years. It’s an industry that’s ever changing, evolving, the job I did 3 years ago, although the same in title, is completely different in execution due to the evolving nature of the business and industry. There’s something inspiring about that.
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This year is an exciting one for the Lunch Family.

Alchemy has sponsored the installation of Jamie Webster & Berkeley Poole

and

Jacob Whibley collaborates with Jennifer Sciarrino, and Naomi Yasui

Jacob is one fifth of Team Macho and represented through Narwhal by Lunch ]]> What's New
Exciting? Yes.

Inter-Action hits Toronto again on Thursday January 28th 2010

This installment will be hosted by Mighty!
http://mighty.ca/
420 Wellington Street West
6-8pm.

Presentation: Mighty.

Tiny Content
Mighty will be presenting the Hyundai parking response video and makememighty.ca


Innovation: Futurist Richard Thomas (Rescheduled!)
Details:"As a consequence of pervasive computing , interaction design is poised to become one of the main liberal arts of the twenty-first century." Malcolm McCullough

Generally, Richard will be demonstrating that interactivity, "interaction design" is the amalgam of several disciplines, and today well surpasses the digital media space. The skills nurtured in IxD are sought after in all facets of human creation, use mechanics of financial transactions, product design, new forms of social technologies, architecture, City planning, urban computing and beyond. " Interaction" is swallowing the world whole as hard things begin to adopt soft qualities. Are we prepared?

This talk will centralize around the several emerging forms of interaction, and the role interface and interaction plays in the social construction of reality and the creation of new value within human architectures of desire and motivation.

Dissection: Relish Interactive
http://www.relishinteractive.com/
TBC

Looking forward to seeing all of you.

Following Inter-action at Narwhal (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=240826638895&ref=ts) Gary Taxali's new show "THE TAXALI 300" will be opening at Narwhal. Stop in, and check it out. it's stunning.

inter-action is a bi-monthly thinktank/discussion group/task force for interactive thinkers. It’s comprised of you. People in the industry. From Agencies to Development partners - creatives, developers, producers etc. So, this is a time to get together, have a drink and chat about what we’re up to, where things are going, and how together we can continue to push innovation locally. Collaboration, is a good thing. We like it.]]> What's New
Opening January 28th from 6-9pm (right after inter-action)

"The Taxali 300" showcases hundreds of small illustrations and collages originally created for such esteemed publications as Rolling Stone, Time, GQ, Newsweek, Esquire and The New York Times among others. Spanning 2 decades and multiple awards and accolades, "The Taxali 300" presents Gary's exceptional collection of commercial illustration as a complete body of work in a gallery setting for the first time, allowing viewers to appreciate the prolific scope of visual communications and tactile character design intrinsically associated with Gary Taxali's artwork.

"Gary Taxali visually blends now with then. His style, inspired by vintage comics and advertising art, is repurposed with the goal of communicating the ironies and comical essence of popular culture. His work is at once alluring and endearing. Despite the vintage look, he is neither maudlin or nostalgic. His imagery is rich in satiric verve."

- Steven Heller, art director, author and educator


Show runs from January 28 - February 28th, 2010.


For show and sales information, please contact the gallery at 647.346.5317 or contact@narwhalartprojects.com


www.narwhalartprojects.com

Gary is available for digital work and represented through Narwhal by Lunch]]> What's New
Excerpt:
"Since launching last month, the app, developed by Toronto-based interactive design and production company Indusblue, has maintained a number five position in the app store's free sports category, said Marcovici (as of Tuesday, it was the third most popular).

A second and enhanced version of the app will be available as a paid upgrade the first week of February. CTV has yet to set a price though Marcovici indicated it would be "super cheap."

Congrats guys!!

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This was a true collaboration and big Lunch production, Myself, Tool/Radke Director - The one and only Jason Zada, Bijou Editorial, Alchemy, and Indusblue were all engaged to help our fantastic friends at Saatchi & Saatchi Canada bring the world of the Cuddle Me Sutra to life.

We shot this back in snowless and relatively balmy October.

Now that Winter is completely here, it seemed fitting to finally Cuddle the Winter Away

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The guys have been busy and diligently working on this application launch.

I, of course, downloaded the app within minutes of it becoming available on the store. Although my opinion is obviously biased - the app is awesome. If you're into the Olympics, you'll love it.

Everything from news, to athletes, to medal counts and when each event is being televised.

Head to the app store and search: CTVOlympics

Or download it here

Congrats guys!]]> What's New
Lunch, pixelpusher and Six Degrees teamed up to bring a little bit of smart to (animated) life for BBDO on thesmart.ca.

quick witted, quick turnaround, to help increase the smart personality for smart Canada.

We had an absolute blast working on this piece, from concept, to illustration, to being able to record a smart on location to get the sound just right - we hope you like it too!


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The Pee Card.

Lunch of course was more than hap-pee to help.

Produced by Lunch by Pixelpusher (development) and Six Degrees (sound) developed the Pee Card in all of its glory. From the realistic stream to the live foley of...well peeing in the snow.

Send a pee card to the one you love this holiday, even if she says she's not into that. She may like it. Just this once.]]> What's New
So, you should vote. It was Narwhal's first year and what a year it was.

With exhibitions this past year starting with the 'Life Drawing' group show, to Tara McPherson, Junko Mizuno, Nicholas Aoki, kozyndan and Stephen Appleby Bar. Of course not only are all of the artists above Lunch artists through Narwhal Kristin and Steve have done a stellar job curating the gallery and bringing Canadian and International artists into the spot light.

Vote for Narwhal

Good Luck guys, what a year.]]> What's New
Complete a challenge (one of nine) worth varying amounts of cash, and Saatchi will donate money to charity.

Write a poem, send a photo, make a video.

Who doesn't want to take a picture of themselves wearing only a Santa hat for money? ;)
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Mark's diverse and rich illustrative style is combined with an exploratory puzzle experience where users are invited to find the toy maker's new invention by exploring the shop.

There's an AR component - if you can find it :)

Mark's diverse illustration and design capabilities combined with his experience in animation make him the perfect partner for experiential pieces like this.

For more about Mark and his work visit his site. Mark Gervais



Mark is available for commercial work through Lunch.]]> What's New
The application not only lists concerts, but provides users with information on social media, videos and other activity concert goers share online. Users can also set parameters for region, and look back at past events.

For example - download the app and look up Jay-Z in Toronto on Oct 31st.




]]> What's New Isle of the dead - marks Alex's first animated piece - A 3D animation based on the painting "Isle of the dead" by Arnold Böcklin.

The general sensibility, eye for detail, and tactile quality of Alex's compositions makes one want to delve inside. With his first animation, it feels like we're closer to being able to do so.

Alex is available for commercial work through Lunch.]]> What's New
Mmmm Bacon.]]> What's New
We're excited to have relish as a part of the family.

So, pass the Relish.
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Those of you who know me know that I love Salt. Maybe even more than Alton Brown.

Have a look at beautiful new work from Jason Zada.

Salt 101

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The Hockey Twin microsite Indusblue designed and developed for CTV Olympics is a quiz that attempts to pair up Men’s, Women’s and Sledge Team Canada hockey players with the Canadian hockey fan.

The questions asked of Team Canada were the same ones asked in the quiz, consumers are matched with Olympians on team Canada based on results.

The results are always different based on how you answer each of the questions.

"We wanted to create something very visual and fun around the concept of narrowing down the players from the starting line up to that one final twin. Our train of thought went something like this:
CRAZY PAPERVISION SITE WITH FLYING 3D CARDS!!And it worked. CTV Olympics has been a fantastic and very accommodating client that gave us the creative freedom to do what we thought would work well. We didn’t go overboard with the PaperVision as is quite easy to do, we wanted to keep it simple but cool, and keep the usability up. We implemented cinematic effects with fast cuts in between transitions, some interesting 3D card flips and made almost 40 little icons for each of the questions." says Dayton Pereira Indusblue's co-founder and Creative Director.





Apparently the chances of two players answering all of the questions in the EXACT same way is: 1 in 40,000.
Wish we calculated that BEFORE we built an entire system to avoid the situation. Oh well, now we know.


Find your hockey twin

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Seniorizer

Become a fan of SAIT on Facebook]]> What's New
Congrats from your Lunch family!

Motionographer]]> What's New
You may see this beautiful spot on TV and online, in a new campaign by BBDO for MEDT

Watch the Spot

]]> What's New
Consumers can nominate their community as the biggest, and best hockey town in Canada, the winner will receive:

* $100,000 from Kraft Canada dedicated to upgrading the home arena endorsed through your winning Kraft Hockeyville entry.
* An NHL® pre-season game hosted in your community arena.*
* A CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada broadcast from your community.

If a community makes it to the top 5, they're also rewarded:
* $25,000 from Kraft Canada dedicated to upgrading the home arena endorsed through your Kraft Hockeyville entry.
* A visit to your community by CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada.

The promotion provides Canadians with the ability to get involved with their community to show Canada just how much Hockey means to their town.

Last year it was amazing to see how many communities got involved in the initiative to generate their own stories and content. Excited to see who will take the title of Hockeyville for 2010.

Congrats Indusblue!

Visit Hockeyville



Indusblue is represented by Lunch ]]> What's New
Have a listen. Yay, Nathan!

Nathan Jurevicius - Podcast


Nathan is available for commercial illustration through Lunch
]]> What's New The company P

Tool of North America has signed The company P, a Swedish content and design studio that creates participant drama and social entertainment. This genre takes a single story and encourages active viewer participation by utilizing trans-media opportunities, including TV broadcasting, interactive technology, social media, mobile communication and online games. Tool will represent the company and produce projects with its vast digital and production resources, applying the unique participatory entertainment approach to advertising projects.

The company P's games, shows, and content are created in collaboration with their audience following the same basic open philosophy that has led to the success of open-source software programs. Leading industry experts, researchers from game and ICT academia, artists and enthusiasts joined forces to create the company, and the combined strength of their individual influences is reflected in the broad array of work that the studio pushes out.

"Today's entertainment consumers are immersed in an environment in which their day-to-day lives are completely interactive. What they do at The company P is basically fulfill that growing demand for a say in the action by applying familiar concepts of participation with the familiar format of TV and the Internet, essentially creating a new genre," noted Tool EP Brian Latt. "We want to expand this concept into the commercial world, and we think The company P is exactly the right partner to make this happen."

"We have always been impressed with Tool's work," stated Christopher Sandberg, CEO of The company P, "so when we heard that they wanted to get into the interactive game, we were all for a collaboration. With their digital and production resources and our creative team and experience, we should be able to produce some incredible work."

The company P has recently completed a production with Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and is currently in development on interactive entertainment properties with Tim Kring (creator of Heroes). The company P's past work includes the Interactive Emmy and SIME Award-winning production of The Truth About Marika, a participant drams and TV series; Momentum, a techno-occult pervasive game; Outstanding, a participatory exhibition at the Museum of World Culture; scriptwriting and design for Furiae, an episodic dark fantasy RPG for mobile and PC; and XOver TV, an innovative broadcasting format that allows audiences to participate through avatars as studio guests.

For their groundbreaking work in the interactive world, The company P has been recognized with an the AIB in International Media Excellence in 2008, and was nominated for a Prix Europe award in the Emerging Media category. Their team of industry leaders frequently present papers at some of the most important conventions and award shows today, including the Eurovision TV Summit, the NAB Show, the BCWW, and the Interactive Exchange.

"We're always looking to work with innovative interactive storytellers. What attracted us to The company P is they understand how to go beyond the niche of ARG's and tell stories that leverage multiple digital platforms ,but connect with the masses. said Tool Digital EP Dustin Callif. "It's an exciting time for us and we can't wait to work with The company P to create amazing, breakthrough interactive campaigns with our agency clients."


The company P is available for work in Canada through Lunch.]]> What's New
Stephen Appleby-Barr Preview Art Work

Emerging artist Stephen Appleby-Barr presents a solo show of portraits at Narwhal Art Projects. Entitled The Invisible College, this new body of oil paintings explores Appleby-Barr's profound involvement with the merits of portraiture. The Invisible College draws inspiration from an independent organization of philosophers whose purpose was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation in 16th century Europe. Akin to the guild system, this group practice is exemplified by Hegelian collaboration: the free transfer of thought, expertise and tradition carried out without the establishment of designated facilities or institutional authority. Appleby-Barr explores the state of the personal disassociation with tradition and searches to find a connection with one's self and heritage. Working within a body of meticulously detailed oil portraits, Appleby-Barr conjures clues to uncovering the secrets of his own creation.

Continuing with the imagined legacies first constructed in the esoteric Nortammag Archives, allegoric images depicting varsity, academia, the occult and couture give lineage to an arcane society. Through the deliberate celebrity and obscurement of each character, Appleby-Barr speculates on the traditions of metaphorical, social and personal history. The Invisible College runs October 29th to November 29th at Narwhal Art Projects. The opening reception is Thursday, October 29th from 7-10pm. The artist will be in attendance.

Stephen Appleby-Barr is represented for commercial work by Lunch through Narwhal.]]> What's New Grip LimitedI executive produced this fantastic piece for Honda's Insight working with their incredible creative (Jon, Stephen, Heung, Pete, Ian, Haley) and internal development team (Heung again), Jen Mete working her magic to help pull together the shoot- and a slew of production partners including Lunch partner The Radke Film Group. and stellar director Robin Hays. We discussed with children what the future would be like, and they told us. This is one of my favorite projects to date and "Yesterday" - the FWA recognized Blue Skies. Check out Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today.

Congrats to Grip!]]> What's New
It was a long day of discussion, questions and guests including our very own, Jason Zada.

It was fantastic to see and hear the thoughts of producers across the board. We don't get together enough, the questions, comments and insights were stellar.

Some of my favorite comments to come out of the day are included below.

We'll be hosting more events like this moving forward, if you're interested in taking part in an upcoming workshop, please drop us a line.

So far, the interest has been fantastic. Thanks to everyone for their support, discussion, and feedback. It's extremely exciting to see the engagement of producers in these sessions.

"It's not "No", It's How" - Jason Zada on what's important from a producer.

"Being involved earlier can change everything" Pretty much every developer who joined us. :)

"The worst thing we can hear is "Just do it" or "I don't care what you think" - Adrian Busschaert

In the next few sessions we'll be focusing on client and agency production again, as well as doing a few sessions on interactive production for post production partners.

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I'll tell you, and so will Google, and so on and so on. As someone who believes in the power of networks and collaboration Google Wave makes total sense to me. After all it's what the internet is. A network, open source, a dialogue. As someone who bases their entire business and life around collaboration and networks I have been waiting with baited breath for the release of Wave.

You've probably heard about it, but what is it?

Learn here:
A Long Video About Google Wave

There's something bigger in this in terms of a concept, Google has the ability to do what a lot of other companies don't. Stay collaborative and grow at the same time. They stick to the center, and we as consumers and users follow.

So it only makes sense that they'd open this up to us all, because that's what makes an idea better, collaboration.

I could say it until I'm blue in the face, and I often do, but the internet would be nothing without sharing, discussion and collaboration. A monopoly. Instead we have this incredible pipeline to information, to each other. Wave will change the face of both how we communicate online and how we do business. I'm sure of it.

I'm excited to get going, and I can't wait to see how Wave is going to change not only my user experience but my business.

Lunch is about collaboration within a network. Stay in touch, make it feel like it's a family no matter how big it gets. That's something I learned from Google.

- Amy Miranda]]> What's New
We're excited to welcome him to the Lunch family.

Tool of North America : Jose Prat Reel Series 100

]]> What's New
From Alchemy, to Six Degrees, to Narwhal's Nathan Jurevicius & Andrea Kang

Lunch network featured on Boards

Lunch network featured on Motionographer

So proud of you guys!]]> What's New
Fun.

Sprint Any Mobile, Any Time]]> What's New Directors: Jason Zada & Grant Skinner
Ag. Wieden + Kennedy, Portland

New work from Tool's Jason Zada and Grant Skinner. It's pretty exciting to see a collaboration like this. Interactive minds collide for some work for Nike out of Wieden + Kennedy in Portland.

There's a bunch of different executions, but I have to say my favorite one is the staring execution. Mostly, I like it because I can't beat the staring contest. :)

"Tackle Takeover" with Brian Urlacher
Nike Tackle


"Crush" with Steven Jackson and Brian Urlacher Nike Tackle

"Staring Contest" with Adrian Peterson Nike Tackle

"Tackle" with Adrian Peterson

]]> What's New Indusblue and Fatbox in their quest to find their next VJ.

Strategically Much Music knew what they were looking for, when they came to Indusblue for design and development of what's likely the biggest contest of the year. Indusblue knew that hosting and delivery would be critical and engaged hosting provider Fatbox to deliver the infrastructure required to make the site function no matter what the traffic.

Indusblue worked closely with Much to develop the approach and launched the site three weeks ago.

Since launch the traffic to the site has been intense. "Much knows their brand and their audience, they knew what they were looking for going in and that focus on their audience made working with them a real partnership. Their understanding of the space, and ability to drive traffic socially is what made this such a great project to be a part of. We can't wait to see the results" said Dayton Pereira, Indusblue's co-founder.

"Over the past weekend of the promotion the site did over 100,000 uniques in two days. Average of 226 connections per second. We expect that by the end of the promotion we'll we looking at Terabytes and Terabytes of data. All of the video elements are actually hosted through YouTube, so we're looking at mostly data transfers" Says Fatbox's founder Evan Borgstrom.

It's been an interesting exercise to see how social media has driven traffic, as the top referrer is facebook rather than referrals from the Much Music site itself.

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Kozue and Dan Kitchens are nothing short of brilliant. Their collaborative work is not only a feast of the senses, but also a testament to partnership on every level. I've often thought about how amazing it would be to be in a relationship as creatively collaborative as the one played out in the work of Kozyndan.

Frequently imitated, their work is a mix of cute, intense and complex. I've often found myself lost in the details of their work. I began collecting Kozyndan work in 2002, knowing little about them and completely mispronouncing their name. I also assumed at the time that the artist was an older Japanese man. I've coloured their colouring book, photocopied it to colour it more and proudly display a bunnyfish swimming through my master bathroom. I'm absolutely thrilled to have them as a part of the Lunch family and even more excited to see their new work at Narwhal this week.

Narwhal Art Projects & Magic Pony are pleased to present The Unknown Portraits, a new exhibition with American-Japanese artist duo Kozyndan. This exhibition documents a unique portraiture project spanning the past four years of Kozyndan's travels. Originating from a found photo album unearthed in a Venice Beach thrift shop, Kozyndan were inspired to create imagined personae documenting the essence of these lost photographs. This collection of ficticious ephemera is comprised solely of small, detailed graphite portraits, each piece capturing the surreal humour and observation that has become fundamental within Kozyndan's distinctive style of artwork.

This exhibition explores the modern obsession with personal documentation. Each tiny moment is a reflection on the inevitability that our personal triumphs will be lost in history, our lives rendered inconsequential, only to be discovered by a new audience and given new meaning.

This exhibition is celebrated with the release of "The Unknown Portraits", a 150 page hardcover book presenting the full collection of these unique portraits. Illuminating select portraits are short stories inspired and imagined by a community of artist friends and writers includIng Pasha Malla, Mark "frosty" McNeill, Ryan Sands and Porous Walker, as well as Canadian talents Nick Flanagan, Mariko Tamaki and Maggie MacDonald.

The Unknown Portraits is Kozyndan's third Canadian solo exhibition and runs from October 1 - 25, 2009. The opening reception will be held on Oct. 1st from 6-10pm, with a signing from 6-8pm. Kozyndan will be in attendance.

Kozyndan are available for digital work through Lunch.


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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

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I’m thrilled to put up some new work from the Lunch Network. Alchemy, Nathan Jurevicius
, Andrea Kang, Six Degrees.

This is a project for John St. for The Girl Guides Film Festival. “Perspectives on a Girl” See the rest of the films here

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Well, those of you who know me will know that I am an avid collector of Team Macho – often known for chanting “Team Macho! ” and excited fast talking at openings yelling things like “I want that!” at every piece.

Well on September 19th Team Macho opens their show – Long Time Listener, First Time Caller at GRNY running until October 14th.

If you’re in NY stop in to see it.

Go TM!

Team Macho are available for Digital Work through Lunch/Narhwal
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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.

Lunch partner 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

Other speakers to be announced, but at least this will put it in your calendars.

See you there!

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Lunch is happy to announce the first in our series of Interactive workshops, our first will be catered to Producers and Project Managers interested in learning more about the Interactive/Integrated Production Process.

The workshop will include a full day workshop with Lunch’s founder and Executive Producer, Amy Miranda (http://www.linkedin.com/in/amymiranda), the day will also include guest speakers and an actual work session.

Space is limited.

For information on registration, and format for this session email Amy@thisislunch.com

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The internet works! Jason Zada’s video for Wallpaper wins The Freshmen

Congratulations Jason!

Love, Lunch.

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