“I love a good bubble bath. Effervescent.

I love you. I love you.”

For Valentine’s Day we present you with this video of love and longing. We used stock photos from the 80s, created a stop animation with our plethora of toys, and tied it together with a wound-up custom audio experiment.

We hope you love it as much as we love you.

The Addy awards took place this past weekend, and n-n-n-n-n-not to sound like a broken record but….

F-f-fuzzco is the cats lingerie.

Among such a high caliber of competing work, we were floored to find 5 Gold awards and a Best in Interactive with our name on it.

We were really surprised that we were able to take home Best in Interactive on a project that we did in a weekend on no budget when we were up against some really great projects.

Clients that were recognized include: Spoleto Festival, Michael James Moran Fine Woodworked Furniture, Sweeteeth, Sharp Electronics (℅ Crenshaw Communications), and Magar Hatworks.

The event was rad. Hat’s off to the Charleston Advertising Federation for pulling off a great party.

*note to reader, credits for the Sweeteeth packaging should go to Nelson Printing. The printing credit was incorrect.

On Sunday morning we launched the new website for Spoleto Festival USA, one of the most respected arts festivals in the country.  We developed a new look, rethought the browsing methodology, and we brought features to the site like the “Why I support Spoleto” donor feature and incorporated google maps for an enhanced user experience.

Below you’ll see the Sort by Genre page. This provides a grid view of all of the events organized by genre.

Below is the Sort by Date page. This provides a list view of all of the events organized by date, but maintains the color indicators to differentiate the genre.

We are very pleased with the results and expect an exciting 2010 Season.  In particular we look forward to seeing Cinderella, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Mozart / Brahms / Verdi and the Opera, Flora.

The new season was recently written up in the New York Times.

Browse and get your tickets today!

Michael James Moran (woodworker, furniture-maker, client, friend and actor) lives in a wood-filled world.

We concepted, videographized and composed audio for this splinter-free project.

This is really beautifully done.

Off topic, but barely relevant, I admit I once tried to register http://100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.com thinking I could tell people to “go to my website” – “oh what’s your website?” they’d ask. “google.com” I’d say.

Too many characters is the problem — max is 63 characters. So then I tried http://10^100.com — nope ‘^’ is an invalid character. Then I gave up. Years have passed.

I just checked http://10tothe100th.com is available. I have no interest in it, nor do I expect you to. OK! See you later!

We have a responsibility to give back to our community and one way we do it is by supporting movements and organizations that we strongly believe in.  The Coastal Conservation league is a 4-star Charity Navigator organization, which means that they operate very effectively and efficiently. We worked with them to develop their new website – full write up coming soon! – and found them to be a team of incredible people all working very hard to serve a greater cause that benefits all of us. In short, they rule and deserve all the support in the world.

We recently did a playful flash banner for SCIWAY.  Here are the stills:

Catch it before it’s gone: sciway.net

Flavorwire included our logo for Hoth Photography in a write up about logos with secrets.  We used the shape of a camera and negative space to spell out the photographer’s name.  Take a second look.

A looksee at the workings of a 2-color offset printer at Nelson Printing. On the top roll, the image is etched into the highest quality aluminium, with a L.A.S.E.R. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) at 150 lines per inch. On the roll below, a reverse image is made. When the paper feeds through, the image is flipped once more to give you what you pay for. In this case, silver sea creatures on a deep blue.

All my troubles were over when everything looked A MAZING! Pictured above is the “Sea is for Caramel” (salted caramel) packaging. These shiny sea creatures will soon be harboring one of the best (there are 3 other flavors) chunks of chocolate money can sink its teeth into. After this, we breakfasted, compliments of Chocolatier extraordinaire JohnE (and Lil’ Liam) Battles to return an hour later to witness “The A’chocolypse” (Pop rocks and Chocolate) printing on the same machine.

Currently, Boshman Joss and Helbelly Rice are on a wheel-life adventure to a far off land. And the fuzzco lives on.

We just got back from a high energy trip to New York.  A quick rundown of the experience includes: double decker air mattress with headboard, old friends, new friends, new museum (hell yes!), national history museum, extreme mammals, spicy macaroni and cheese, super-sized squash, pho, china town massages & cupping, cupping hickeys, stanley the guinea pig, tater heaven, beautiful weather, catching up about old projects, catching up about new projects, high fives, the metro.

Stanley.

massage, cupping, strange oil, “Tips”

At Kelsey’s house for dinner Monday night. Note huge butternut squash on the mantle.

We stayed a couple nights with Josh’s brother Elan who has a great view of the city.  Elan officially has the coolest job of all, he’s a director at the Natural History Museum and gets to regularly interface with research scientists, and of course we had to drop in to visit him there.

It is 20 degrees cooler in antler shade.

We had a great time and we’re excited to be back with a slightly higher interest in breeding guinea pigs.