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Past newsletters you may have missed..
ABC Creative Music
We are currently building an online music learning tool to be used in Scottish primary schools, to be launched early 2009.
14/10/08
Strings, Toby, Southbank and Shortlistings
5/Strings: an Algorhythm
The Shunt theatre and lounge in the vaults under London Bridge station are exhibiting Julian Baker’s “5/Strings: an Algorhythm” in The Long Corridor between Wednesday 15th to Saturday 18th. Here’s what Shunt say...
Inspired by the mathematical aspects found in classical music, 5/Strings aligns cubic geometry with the bowing of a stringed instrument, like a toy with which the audiences physical participation becomes, affects and is crucial to the visual and sonic narrative.
The participant can direct each of the quintet's 'musicians' in the strict sequence and tempo they play. The directional spin of each cube dictates the four note scale from their total repertoire of six pitches, with speedof rotation denoting their tempo. By this simple point and click interaction a rich and complex harmony can be generated.
Say hello to Toby
We are delighted to welcome Toby to Flat Earth as our new web programmer who will be handling all things web 2.0.
Southbank Consulting
Southbank Consulting are a new company specialising in interactive television and advertising consultancy who asked us to develop their identity.
Shortlisted for a BIMA
The site “What Would You Like To Change?” that we developed for PricewaterhouseCoopers has been shortlisted for a British Interactive Media Award for B2B Distribution & Media. It goes without saying that we will let you know if we win, in the meantime time to dust down the tux.
What Would You Like To Change?
09/07/08
Books, rabbits, mugs and sites.
USPG web site
It may seem that we haven’t been busy what with a lack of recent newsletters, but rest assured that this isn’t the case. Not that you might have been worried. For the last few months we have been working on “white label” projects bound by a confidentiality clause.
So busy in fact that announcing the launch of the USPG (United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) site at the beginning of the year slipped through the net.
The site has been running now for a few months with the client updating via a custom CMS, complimenting us on it’s ease of use.
Discussions about adding new features are about to start, so consider this an official announcement for phase one!
Say hello to Wrabbit
The recent upgrading of the studio wireless network to 11N (geek speak) found our nabaztag neglected and looking forlorn on the shelf of dead technology.
She’s been given a dusting, so say hello to Wrabbit and us by sending a message via our web site, don’t forgot to say who you are, unless it’s rude of course.
Don’t have a clue what we’re talking about? www.nabaztag.com tells you all about electronic rabbits.
Creative Practice
Michael Atavar’s forthcoming book “How To Be An Artist” has received an unprecedented interest from publishers, with a flurry of appointments to attend he asked us to redesign his web site in a matter of days. Not content with giving us perhaps the shortest deadline we’ve ever had, he also raised the ante by briefing that the site should be engaging and creative without the use of imagery.
We are delighted with the result achieved in three days, including a new logotype for the animated site using no Flash, allowing it be to updated by Michael himself, and fully indexed by search engines.
40 Something
Adam on his recent travels at the BBC spotted someone drinking out of a Carter 30 Something mug featuring the record sleeve design we did back in the day.
A quick email found Jim Bob and Fruitbat alive and well, and in exchange for some Flat Earth slippers we have new studio crockery.
Wife Swap
No, not a new service from Flat Earth, instead Julian is delighted and amazed to find one of his microfictions – a very very short story – accepted for publication by nthposition, an award winning literary web site.
Got a spare minute? Read it on nthposition
10/06/08
Burn Bros gig Sun 15th, with free album
Adam and JP will be putting the actionscript aside this Sunday and stepping wide as Atom Oil and JPye serving dub electronica, being one half of the Burn Brothers
Burn Brothers will be hitting The Inn on the Green under the Westway on the market road between Ladbroke Grove and Portobello Road (3-5 Thorpe Close) on Sunday, 15.06.08 for their last gig, as Marc is moving to St. Lucia. Support will come from the Colourcode with an exclusive Dub set for your ears. DJ Smart Monkey will be on the 1s & 2s
Free entry, Optional £5 Entry with Free Burn Brothers CD
United Reggae says ...who bring together reggae and modern electronic styles under the lived in but venerable spoken tones of Guyanese born writer, former Black Power activist and Linton Kwesi Johnson contemporary Mark Matthews AKA Trampingman... ...if the returns of Portishead & Tricky have piqued your interest in blunted loops and idiosyncratic voices; this well crafted, atmospheric little set could be your summer selection of choice.
CD sleeve by Flat Eart' using our patented rasta raster (a little lithographic reproduction joke)
Burn Bros26/03/08
Anne Baker performing at ArtsAdmin
Anne has been invited to perform in David' Gale's Peachy Coochy Nites, at the ArtsAdmin bar in Aldgate East, this Thursday evening at 7.30pm.
The question you are most likely asking yourself is, what's a peachy coochy nite?
“Just a projector and 20 images. Just 20 seconds per image. During those 20 seconds the Presenter talks about the image. So simple. So precise. So demanding. This is the Peachy Coochy way.“
All welcome, apologies over the short notice.
Peachy Coochy Nites17/01/08
Spceco - You're Alight 7'' sleeve
The cover image of transistors (such beautiful objects) evokes their sonic lo-fi soundscapes, and we carried it through to create a barcode using the colour scheme of resistors which denote their voltage drop, each future release will have it's own electrical resistance value! Further encoding has been added by the invention of spcecotime allowing every release, gig and event to have a unique identifier. To complement the white vinyl we used two different varnishes and printed the inside of the sleeve metallic gold.
The single has already sold out, but you can hear the tracks on their myspace page.
*For those of you wondering nu-gaze is a return in interest of the 90's shoegazing music, My Bloody Valentine being a prime example who are also releasing their first album in fifteen years (we did sleeves for them too!)
www.myspace.com/spceco07/12/07
Amadeus Video
The event also featured Adam's specially written "Bluetooth Mobile Phone Photo Slide Show Thingy" (we're still working on a name), which allowed guests to take a party snap, send it to the software via Bluetooth, and then see it appear on plasma screens across the venue.
26/09/07
The British Heart Foundation
Team Flat Earth will be entering, and after this summer’s training at StretchOm’s yoga holiday we’re hoping to beat our 30 minute time we achieved at this month's Trees for Cities 5K.
We would love to see you at Hackney Marshes, and any clients who run can have our complementary bottle of Radox (we have a few bottles already!)
Mud Runs19/06/07
The return of Dymocards
After popular demand by the public we’ve re-coded Dymocards. Our e-card is back online with a streamlined interface. Send a long sticky message
25/05/07
The Pavement require database and web listings
The Pavement, a magazine published for the homeless, is expanding beyond London to Glasgow and Bristol, and needed an easy way to manage the listings for organisations offering assistance, both for the printed and online versions.
Building the database as given us interesting challenges we don't see in most jobs; a normal date entry doesn't work as most facilities offering support have, to say the least, idiosyncratic opening times. So apart from making sure every conceivable form of date and time could be entered, we wanted to be enable searches like “what's open today” or even “what's open now” to be carried out.
Working on this project has been an eye opener, for instance telecom companies‚ 50 free texts a month offers means that someone homeless can use pay-as-you-go cards to receive news and stay in touch. Which means anything published from the database should work on WAP, as well as be formatted for the hard-of-sight or be printed on a single sheet of A4 (libraries charge for printing).
It’s early days for us on this project, work on the web site is some way down the road (sorry, can’t help a pun), but in the meantime The Pavement as been nominated for a The New Statesman's web award, if they win it means a much better chance of sponsorship and advertising to help roll out the magazine in two new cities. So can we ask you to visit http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2007/nominations/200702260067 and give them your vote.
visit Newstatesman23/04/07
Burn Bros identity and gig
20/03/07
USPG request self-publishing site
The United Society of the Propogation of the Gospels have asked us to help making their web site easier for their staff to update. And provide a lick o' paint here and there. visit USPG's current site...
05/01/07
Full accessiblity compliant site for ACME
As they have charitable status ACME decided to conform to European regulations regarding web site accessibilty. We are currently designing and building a WAI-AAA site for them, that will launch in the spring. visit ACME’s current site...
12/12/06
Can you see what it is yet?
20/10/06
Flat Earth become pirates!
07/10/06
Daily Elements micro-site for Radox
Sara Lee commssioned a micro-site to launch their new range of Radox bath and shower products including for the first time deodorants. Regular updating will help publicise regular promotional activities throughout the year. visit the Daily Elements micro-site...
14/07/06
Michael Atavar presents "Dusk" at the Haywood Gallery
Artist and raconteur Michael Atavar has asked us to collaborate on developing a screen-based element for his on-going series of works that celebrate the idea of dusk and its shifting, transitional nature. visit Michael Atavar’s web site...
25/05/06
Madinat Al Hareer web site launches
Announcement of the plans for the world’s tallest building generated a lot of press interest. We produced this micro-site to give the public a glimpse of the tower within a purpose built city, and to provide the world press with downloadable assets. visit www.madinat-al-hareer.com...
10/05/06
Adam and Julian present their interface for soundtoys.net
