Feb/100
Cadbury Picnic chocolate bar: No picnic
"A Picnic chocolate bar is chewy, nutty and difficult to eat. GPY&R Melbourne challenged its audience to eat a Picnic in the space of a :30 commercial break. People filmed themselves using mobile phones, webcams and handycams and then created their own TV ads using the website, http://www.itsnopicnic.tv. In an Australian first, every single ad that went to air on television (200+) was unique, and created using the website" Ads of the world
Great idea to get people envolved!
I want them to hurry up with a British one.. thinking 5-6 Jaffa cakes in a minute would be a good shout 
Feb/100
World Builder
stunning work by Bandit vfx
created using a wide range of different media methods such a motion tracking and blue screening.
World Builder from BranitVFX on Vimeo.
if only modelling was this easy!
Feb/100
Creative Verbatim Site
This is a great little site which throws up random little monsters created by selecting Verbatim products.
Probably based on the transformer concept and you get to control 3 moves and battle other peoples monsters.
Only thing i did notice was that there didnt seem to be that much information on the actuall products. maybe it will be in V.2 
it would be cool to be able to select different items and see different abilities and status, it would benefit the site if you could see the products details as well
Feb/100
IE 6 making the news again
Oh, another IE 6 headline.
A Downing Street petition is calling for the UK government to drop Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6)
Jan/100
Got 99 Problems but Christ ain’t 1?
Came across this video the other day and found it pretty good.
Don't really belive in all the Jay-Z is a devil worshiper etc but the guy does have some skills, would like to see a rap response than a statement from Jay-Z. He seems to pick up on the Sasha Fierce thing which i've been saying for a while!
Jan/100
New Apple iPad
Apple announced today the new Apple iPad.
click on the image to go to the Apple web site to see its specs
... iPad sound familier as well:
any way its all good that they have this new giant iphone going on sale but im still not ditching nokia till they bring out the 5mp Camera iPhone!
Jan/102
Paper-StopMotion Animation
Just finished my first term of my final year and came across this little piece of animation!
could have done with finding this before i handed my final piece in. its such a simple concept but im sure it took hours to do.
the result is a nice and rough animation which i really like and would have wanted to experiment with it for my own work.
oh well
videogioco-loop experiment from donato sansone on Vimeo.
Donato Sanson's other works a bit... out there but its this piece which is pretty cool (more for the techique than the content)
Dec/090
LG 3D
Looks like LG will be the first to role out a 3D HD monitor!!!
I was playing with a 3D monitor a while back when i went to Eurogamer and i found the detail and quality mind blowing! (Batman Arkham Asylam)
So are 3D monitors the way forward? will we all be sitting around in 3D classes in 2 years time?
hard to say really but i am surprised there still isnt a way of creating the 3D montior with out the need for 3D glasses. (im sure theres a reason for this but im just not sure i want to sit there with my glasses and a head set.. might as well just get a helmet)
Nov/090
Esquire – Augmented Reality
From the looks of it Augmented reality will be getting main stream soon.
I first came across it in my placment year when KMP were playing around with a tester it looked really nice and soon there were companies using it here and there such as the baseball cards and a clothes tester
and now the magazine Esquire have put it into one of thier issues. It even has Robert Downey Jr running around doing different things in it.
im sure we will soon be seeing it everywhere.
Here's an old clip explaining what it is and what the major benfits of it could be:
Nov/090
Theo Jansen at TED
We looked at movements in animals last week and spent some time on ToonBoom making rough animations of animals moving and Theo Jansen was mentioned for his creatures.
As you can see they are really quite impressive and i think the reason why they work so well is because he's actually working like evolution does and building a creature entirely from scratch. he first started out with an animal which needed a person to push it and now hes envolved his own method of capturing air and storing air and progressed to a "brain" which can feel obsitcles.
Nov/091
When KMP came to leeds!
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Originally uploaded by sam_luk
Some of the the KMP lads came up to Leeds for a night on friday which was a nice change from the people i go out with normally, i was starting to miss some of the geek banter, such as the constant Nokia N95 abuse. (Is it only me who has pictures of that night?)
I think the next "KMP+ Sam" night out is meant to be in January so I hope to see more of you KMP people out!
Nov/090
Kasabian Football Hero
Haha pretty sick stuff. The fact that they got 76% after only a few games is well good! it would have made a great third year project if someone was doing user interaction or somthing like that.
Oct/090
Eurogamer Expo ‘09
Me and Tom went to the Eurogamer Expo '09 on Wednesday (I forgot about it on the Tuesday) and it was well worth it. I'd never been to a games expo thing before so wasn't sure what to expect but it was just basically a massive roomw ith loads of new games and a lot of other people who are interested in games.
I was there trying to get reseach and where as Selby was just busying running around queing for the new releases. We got glimpses into games such as Assasins Creed 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Halo ODST, God of War 3 and loads more.
The highlight for me was Batman Arkham Asylum. This was because not only did i get a few clips of the cape (my research material)
But we got to play the game in 3D! now I couldn't get a video of this because obviously you have to wear the glasses and everything but the game just looks amazing in 3D. There is a slight issues I reckon with the HUD, the charcter and the background and the objects flying at you, all being on a different level and this perception of depth can get a bit annoying so i don't think i could play for more than a hour with out taking a break but it does look amazing.
Oct/090
HR Giger (+18 years only)
HR Giger was braught up in a lecture today. It was a good lecture but i did disagree with one comment about the inspiration of the Alien Queen. I did some study on HR Giger a few years ago and loved his work, mainly because it was ALL porn and i was in high school
The alien queens head
was said to have been inspired from:
Amy winehoues's big hair (not neccessarly her hair but similar) + A three pronged crown.
I think its a massive vagina. I see how it looks similar to the hair and crown but i still belive the main influence is the vagina
Espcially if you look at the Alien Male head.
or the alien hatch lings
i wonder where that idea came from? lets have alook at how the hatchlings attack in the film..
ah i see.
and this one's just amazing, i think the whole image was part of a building or structure and some one has cropped this out but still amazing how hes worked it in.
Oct/090
Parrallax test 01
I've been looking into the whole css parrallax technique even more and after a few days of trying to figure it out i've finaly managed to create a very basic example.
I've also created a .swf to show what it should look like and it was just to see the difference in affects and ease of creation.
As you can see the problem with the CSS parrallex is that the animation looks very solid and will take alot more work to make the transistions seem fluid.
Oct/090
Storyboard – 01
Rouch idea of my current story board. I like using Flash to make these, they are simple to make and i can get a rouch idea of timing and what i need to work more on with little effort.
From this quick example i can see that there are a few time issues and i need to decided weather the final animation will be 30 seconds long. i think the duration of the sequence will change with the method i use as well so i think further research into other techinques is still needed.
Oct/090
Human-stop motion 01
This is quick attempt at trying to re-create a similar style by Oren Lavie with the help of my little sister (age 9) obviously i didnt take nearly as much time or attention to detail as the video, this was just a test to see how and if I could use this technique for my final animation.
I found the technique quite nice and effective if used correctly. I think it could work with the animation I have in mind but i think the person doing the poses would have to have some experiance in holding thier body still. only because of the shape the charcter in the animation would be in, mid swing and when releasing the rope.
Oct/090
Pig and wolf
Found this great piece of animation a while ago but forgot to post about.
I am seeing this style pop up every which made me remember this piece.
Oct/090
Some fly work
Bet you aint seen creativity like this
Think two's enough if you want to see more go to www.zee.me
Sep/090
FOWD ‘09
This is a post about the “Future of Web Design” conference I attended on the 16th September. The speakers were Paul Annett, Mike Tautly, Simon Collison, Dean Vipond and Brendan Dawes.
In this post I’ll just go over what really stood out for me starting with Paul Annett’s “Oooh, That’s Clever! (Un-natural Experiments in Web Design).”
Paul from Clearleft talked to us mainly about “Easter eggs” and why they are used. He discussed he parallax effect found on silverback and revealed a few other “Easter eggs” including the mighty mouse image. (I don’t care what Gez says it’s meant to be there and it’s cool!)
The point of it all was that “Easter eggs”, when used correctly are like secrets, designed to be spread. We all know how fun it is to know something, someone else doesn’t and we love to feel clever by telling people what they don’t know or haven’t noticed. Well that is the sole purpose of “Easter eggs” to hope people find it and want to tell it to the world. His presentation can be found on his website at http://paulannett.co.uk/
I think that Brendan Dawes’ presentation was just genius. I’ve seen some of his Magnetic North stuff before and was just blown away then. To be able to listen to him talk about the thought process and how he views his work was just great.
I think what really helps is that he is great at getting his message across to the audience and im sure that's really usefull when it comes to clients.
He told us how he thought that the best part of an iPhone was the ability to pull the screen down to reveal the grey space (a do nothing machine) and it makes me think of:
"We've invented most of the stuff that we need and now we're just messing about" - Karl Pilkington
I think sometimes it’s important to remember the play factor and less of the logical work part.
Dean Vipond was another speaker who stood out for me. His talk was about adding personality and a sense of identity to your work. I think this could be vital in near future because it is the personal touches which set works apart. I think we would all rather recieve emails saying howdy sam, instead of Dear mr luk.
Sep/090
Back to basics
Originally uploaded by sam_luk
Spotted this guy yesterday working on a old type writter!!! thought it was pretty cool till i realised he has to carry the thing everywhere AND the paper as well as the tip-ex for when he gets a spelling mistake!!! no wonder he looked a bit stressed!
Sep/090
Back to Leeds
Moved back to leeds yesterday and it all went ok.
Surprised the house is actually still standing with all the lads living here but it has with stood some battering. we have a ripped lamp shade, broken sink fitting and a shattered arm rest already, Andy's been banned from the Arc and this is only the first 2 months when only 1/2 of them were here!
Room's not sorted yet (doubt it ever will get sorted) but I did move my bed and table around only to find out that my laptop is now sitting in direct view from the fit girl next door, must try to remeber that.
The biggest fucking problem is can't get the xbox working through my laptop any more!!
It's well annoying because the internet worked fine and then I decided to try the xbox out so I plugged the eithernet cable in and it shut the connection down. So I have absolutly no idea how to fix and might just have to buy a 300meter either net wire and take it from the router to the xbox, Dreams 
Sep/090
Goodbye KMP
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Originally uploaded by sam_luk
Here's the card i got from KMP when I left yesterday and moved on to my last year at uni.
To be honest i didn't think i'd find myself this attached to a job just after one year but I definitly am going to miss everyone and working there. It's all the little things which made the year, from Dave's descriptive stories of what he did in the weekend to trying to worm my way ot off having to make tea for the creative team.
It has been a great year and Thanks everyone at KMP Digitata.
Sep/090
Kanyelicio.us
Here's a nice little java script based website thingy which takes the piss out of Kanye West's recent antic's at the MTV awards.
After putting in http://kanyelicio.us/ infront of any web address this happens:
Here's a post in the Daily mail full of similar pages.
Sep/092
Kmp last supper
Kmp last supper
Originally uploaded by sam_luk
Last free 'sandwich' from kmp. As far as i know no ones had this bad boy and seing as im leaving tomorrow i thought what the hell thanks kmp
Sep/091
wtf is going on with Fish!
In the last few days I have come across some disturbing images of fish and I am seriosuly reckonsidering if I ever want to eat one again.. or should i eat more of them so they don't mutate as quick
First feaky fish 1 is this random shark who looks like its starting to grow legs!
If you read on you will see that male sharks are supposed to have these "legs" and are called clappers or somthing. Thats ok but isn't this just a sign of evolution? That these clappers are getting pretty damn big and give it a few years and im sure will will start to see these little critters hopping around beaches wearing peoples flip flops!!!!
Bet fish 1 made you re-think that dream of pulling a mermaid if you thought she could grow legs and find you after you do a runner, but imagine going to pull her and finding out her tongues been replaced by a fucking parasite becasue that's what fish 2's got.
I always imagined parasites as something, the size of a pin head but that fucker is clearly not the size of a pin head and actually lives in your head!!!!.
Sep/090
Kenetic typograpghy
Found this video made by Jerry aka caracter2
Obviosuly a lot of time and effort was put into it and it really pays of. The work is smooth and flows really well with the music. I know with typograpgh your meant to make all text readable and I think that even with the fast pace music he has been able to do this really well.
Sep/090
Photoshop Fails!
These photoshop fails are everywhere this week, i think it's becasue of the whole Micrsoft thing so here's a link to the top 30, on creative nerds
Also note that the girl with no belly button... still hot and also the Digg blog seemed to miss a fail that the Fail blog picked up recently, first one to spot it and comments gets a pint of me
Sep/090
Northern Digitals
Had a great night out on Thrusday with @martinjagger in Manchester, it was meant to be my second out of two social networking nights, but we will just side step and forget the failiure that happened on Tuesday.
We went to @northerndigital which is:
A monthly meet up where digital creatives from in and around Manchester can get away from their screens and talk to other digital creatives over a pint. - northerndigital
It was held in a pub called "The Northern" down by the Northern Quarter and started around 7. I had felt a bit nervous about just walking up to a group of people professions who i respected and have only known thier names from referral to thier work or achievments, but them nervous soon died after a few beers and the organiser @mattbooth had come over with a few other people to offer us a warm welcome.
Everyone there was really friendly and seemed more than happy to give me advice on what I should do after univesity which is amazing becasue these people are at a level I wish to get to one day and so thier knowledge, like this year at KMP, was invaluable which also helped me make the decision of if i'm going back next month and the answer ofcouse is, definitly.Northern Digitals