As the title suggests i now have an interest in developing applications for the iphone. Everyone seems to be having such a fantastic time doing it so i thought why not me too?
I have found out in the last several weeks since i decided this would be something i would like to try, that it is very hard indeed to register as a company to apples iphone developer program. Many emails and several hundred FAX attempts later, (YES FAX!? Apple pls wtf?) i am patiently awaiting some kind of response from apple, somewhere. When this happens i will have my mits on the latest version 3 of the SDK to play with. Then i hand it over to my mate Timmy G to perform some coding nerdery and we will both make a bajillion space bucks.
Until then! Or until something else urges me to make a useless post huhu.
Well, there you go, after once being the 3rd most popular website on the internet and Yahoo! aquiring it for something like $3 billion USD, Geocities is going to close. Normally i wouldnt give a shit but this particular free web host holds a special place in my heart. You see, it is the home of The Official PorkSword Homepage.
Not only does this mean that the site will close and the homepage, which has been there for 10 years (!!) will be no more, it will really actually be totally no more as i have no idea what the login details are for the site so I have no way to save the data. Unless of course i manually save every bit of it, but i wont do that cos that is lame.
So, to all you PorkSword fans out there, and i know there are… some, this year will be the last year you can view our homepage so make the most of it! In my opinion this is “out of line”.
EDIT: fuck it. what was i thinking? i’ve downloaded the entire site using a nifty little application, so now all we need is a domain to bung it on. I could just throw it up on one of mine but i feel we need our own such as www.porksword.com. Unfortunately, that site is already registered and parked as a gay resource site hah. I have put in an offer to the owner on sedo.co.uk. Will see if i get a response!
I haven’t posted anything advertising related for a while. But GPYR has made a couple of corkers lately, this one in particular impressed me.
This is a new ad for Spring Valley Smart Energy called Junk Ballet - featuring a rather large and precarious looking 3D stroboscopic zoetrope. Wikipedia describes a zoetrope as a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.
A 3D stroboscopic zoetrope is something a little different. Using what looks like an old merry go round, they constructed a scene from junk that is 5m in diameter and spins at around 40km/hr. They then use strobe lighting to bring it to life with the end result being an animated 3D scene that is really quite spectacular.
Unfortunately, Patts werent the first to come up with the idea of using a zoetrope in a commercial. You might have seen the huge 10m contraption for Sony Bravia. While Sony is using this 174-year-old technology to draw attention to some new features of the Bravia, Spring Valley are using it to suggest that drinking Smart Engery will give you amazing brain power? Or something. Never mind how silly the Creative Director sounds, he’s actually quite bright.
It has irons flying in and out of washing machines, TV’s, flying books, toilets… what’s not to like!? Not sure exactly how my girlfriendscousin got himself into the ad yet but it doesn’t surprise me huhuh.
Without further ado:
Full credits:
Creative agency: George Patterson Y&R Melbourne
Executive Creative Director: Ben Coulson
Copywriter: Simon Bagnasco
Art Director: Chris Northam
Producer: Luisa Peters
Group Account Director: Mathew Cummings
Account Director: David Shekleton
Account Exec: Damien Miller
Production Company: Revolver
Director: Kris Moyes
Executive Producer: Michael Ritchie
Producer: Pip Smart
Post-Production: Fin Design
Editor: Stuart Reeves at Guillotine
Sound/Music: Simon/Michael Nylon Studios
Overnight all 23 of my domains were hacked, all be it rather nicely, by the infamous Turkish hacker, iskorpitx.
If you Google his name you get almost 70,000 results. A couple of years back he was breaking records by hacking more than 20,000 sites all at the same time.
Fortunately for me and however many other sites were done, these kinds of hacks are more of a statement than malicious and the fix was just to simply restore or delete the little plain text index.html file and all was back to normal.
After having domains on the net since 2003 this is my first time being hacked!
The Big Australia
Lethal Australia
Die Australia (its german for The Australia!)
The Crying Australia
Australia for a Dream
White Men Can’t Australia
Look who’s talking Australia
Australia Busters
Australia Busters 2
The Dukes of Australia
O Brother Where Art Australia
Nightmare on Australia Street
Australia and Hutch
Australia Vice
The 25th Australia
She Hate Australia
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Australia
The Australia Strikes Back
Air Force Australia
Rain Australia
Australia Now - Redux
So i have been using twitter for a while now and one thing i have noticed among the 140 odd people i am following is that NOT ONE OF THEM SWEARS. Which makes things a bit hard for me cos i swear like a fucking trooper. Then i found this site.
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