The Adhere Creative
example banner by Karl using code
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4ip launch
Some notes from this morning’s 4ip launch seminar ar Millemium Point in Birmingham;
4ip is a fund to stimulate public service digital media.
Original ideas and inspire change
Nurture talent
Scratch an important itch
Collaboration. Needs to survive after 4ip
Not TV
Areas of interest:
Helping people discover existing content
New ways of digital democracy
Amplifying voices
Wisdom of crowds
Tools such as UK only blog search engine to allow people to do something that was previously much harder
Networks
Participation
People
Open
Evolving
Less is more
Meet a need
Conversation
4ip.org.UK to submit ideas
Do it first, inspire change and make trouble…
What problems do people have, that they may not even know about, can new media ideas solve?
Allow people to make media and share media. Important to find a commercial angle to support the idea and keep it alive after the three years.
Birmingham Creative Sector Presentation
This video presentation was created by The Adhere Creative for Creative Republic’s stand at Birmingham Forward’s event at Council house in October 2008.
beautiful-brides-midlands.co.uk
“At Beautiful Brides in Nottingham we are delighted to offer an extensive collection of some of the most beautiful and sought after bridal gowns from both British and internationally acclaimed wedding dress designers - Suzanne Neville, Pronovias, Hollywood Dreams, San Patrick and Chanticleer.”
In time for the autumn wedding fairs we have just redesigned the designer wedding dress website - www.beautiful-brides-midlands.co.uk. Thanks to Tracy at Beautiful Brides for making this project a real joy and for supplying very high quality images, that really make the site what it is.
Web site by The Adhere Creative
Fiction Stranger than truth - Fictional blogging
A few years ago I took part in a small group of fictional bloggers. The aim of it was simple, you were given a character, either historical or completely ficticious, and you had to write blogs, letters and comments on each others blogs in character. This threw up the unlikely combinations of a P.A. to William Shakespeare discussing the merits of an ACME rocket pack with Wile E Cyote and the Scarlet Pimpernell being taunted by Bruce; the first Australian on the moon.
It was fun, but short lived and located on Blogger before it was taken over by Yahoo. These short blogs still exist out there on URLS such as http://wotwentwrong.blogspot.com/ , http://gwendolin-mylife.blogspot.com/ and http://lemuel-shaw.blogspot.com/
Shortly after this small group experiment we set up Fiction Stranger than truth - http://www.fictionstrangerthantruth.co.uk/ (this was still about 5 years ago) - where people could post short stories, letters and other fictional material.
The server this site was on was then removed, so we have decided to resurrect this site on OUR own server now, and migrate the old stories onto it, as well as hopefully resurrecting the fictional blogging from blogger.com and some other new stories.
So if you fancy a brief flight of fancy or some good old fashioned escapism then visit the blog, signup and start writing. You can also post via the Wordpress iphone interface as well.
Give it to the Geeks
You have to hand it to programmers, from time to time. Given the right nudge, carrot on a stick or personal milestone they can achieve almost anything. Last week’s ‘Talk like a pirate day’ is a perfect example. As mentioned previously I was thankfully away for this booty hunting, scallywagging friday in September and in my absense I notice someone hijacked the Adhere Creative website. At first I feared bad’uns, then I spotted the language used.
In short, the text on our website has been converted to ‘pirate speak’. For example:
“The Adhere Creative is a multimedia design agency specialisin’ in online interactive systems, I’ll warrant ye. This includes website design, content and project management, online video, print design and digital communication…
and
…The focus fer this event were bein’ th’ Big City Plan, th’ new masterplan fer Birmingham city centre. The Plan were bein’ launched in February 2008 and th’ City Council is keen t’ engage with a large cross section o’ scallywags t’ help shape th’ future o’ Birmingham, avast.”
So thanks Kam, Chris, for writing and applying a conversion utility to our site. I should never leave the top deck unmanned! Please feel free to change back at any point boys.
Karl
Pirate day
Ok, so today is international ‘talk like a pirate’ day and the geeks in my office have obviously taken to this like a fish to water. Unfortunately, or thankfully depending on your persuasion, today I am off on holiday for a few days to sunny somerset. Due to this I am destined to miss the geek related pirate antics, at least til we hit the beach and risk meeting a west country I.T. Support team scrabbling around in caves trying to smuggle outdated zx spectrum games bought nostalgicly off eBay, swigging non alcohol, sugar free rum and avoiding direct sunlight.
So with due dedication to my trusty team I say ‘avast ye’, ‘arggh’, ‘who’s a pretty boy then’ and ‘if you try to skip off at lunch time you’re all fired and destined to ride the good ship the black motherboard endlessly on the ocean sine waves’. Have a good day folks! (can’t do a smiley with an eye patch)
Karl
Crushhouse newsletters
Example Crushhouse Newsletter
We have just completed a brand new e-newsletter system for Crushhouse. This allows branded emails to be shared to selected mailing lists containing a monthly newsletter of recent additions to the Crushhouse media library (http://library.Crushhouse.com) and a link to the monthly FREE downloads that include music tracks, photos and videos.
To find out more go to www.Crushhouse.com
