Play : Scubaboy

Play : Travels / Nov 10

This autumn we've been lucky enough to do a bit a travelling with our work, visiting cities like San Francisco, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Paris.

The work is usually pretty full on but when we get a chance to escape the edit suite it's always nice to explore a new place and take some photos. These are a few of our favourites.

Play : Blocks Ident / Feb 10

Another attempt at making a Scubaboy ident. This one was a slight accident but we kinda liked how it came out.

Play : Bristol Weather Report #1 / Feb 10

This is the view from our new studio. It's quite nice to look out the window as the sun sets across the city - helps keep a nice sense of perspective on life.

Play : Bakers at the Jazz Cafe / Jan 10

Back in 2004 we filmed The Baker Brothers play at The Jazz Cafe in Camden. It was shot on no budget and never got released (probably because there was no budget).

Suddenly out of nowhere it looks like we might finally get to finish it.

Play : Return of the VJ / Oct 09

This weekend James spent two nights squished in a tiny balcony in the roof of Start The Bus in Bristol.

This is the glamorous life of the modern VJ when you turn up to a venue with a video cable that is all of 2m in length and the projector is situated in a tiny balcony in the roof.

James recently got back from a short trip to Hong Kong where he was doing some onsite editing at a conference. This was a first time visit to this part of the world and a really enjoyable one at that.

Armed with a little point-and-shoot digital camera and blessed by some serious electrical storm themed weather he got some nice photos.

Play : Kingsway Logos / Sep 09

Art director Mark Debnam asked us to come up with a few ideas for animating a logo he's designed for Kingsway as part of a re-branding project he is over-seeing.

Play : UNKLE Live Visuals / May 09

Last summer we produced a set of visuals for UNKLE's live show at Somerset House in London. We did work for three tracks including the rather beautiful 'Against The Grain (featuring Gavin Clark).

Play : If I May... / May 09

Earlier this year a bunch of folk here at Spike got together and organised an exhibition of A2 posters designed by Bristol based artists.

Play : RGB Ident / Apr 09

After our last failed attempt to make an ident we decided to have another crack.

This time we tried to keep it really simple. Usually the idea of doing anything that has video production theme a big 'no no' but we kinda liked how the separate colours worked individually as well as combined.

Play : Dogphant Lives! / Apr 09

Back in 2007 we had a crack at the channel 4 esting competition. Despite not getting short-listed we were always quite fond of our effort, not least because it marked the first appearance of 'Dogphant' - the half dog, half elephant creature who would eventually evolve into the main character of our promo for Restless by UNKLE.

Play : New Volunteer Promo / Mar 09

New Volunteer are good friends of ours. They're also one of our favourite bands and we think they should be really famous. We thought it would be fun to do a promo for them.

Play : Ident / Oct 08

Recently we've been working on general self-promoting things like a reel and a website - all that stuff.

Trying to put something together for yourself can often be the hardest project of all - there's that intense pressure you put yourself under to make it the 'best' thing you've ever done.

Play : Keep Talking / Jun 08

This is a little lo-fi live promo we made for the band New Volunteer. The idea was to create something quite rough and raw which could be used to promote the band online.

Play : Carling Cup / Feb 07

Yesterday James got to go to Cardiff for the Carling Cup Final under the pretence of doing some work.

Good friends of ours Jabez Production were heading up to film the Sky OB trucks for Arqiva in HD and somehow James managed to tag along for the day.