100 mots pour la folie : 5 months in the works, 600 clips from the NFB archives, a 12 000 word glossary in constant evolution, and a semantic engine that learns and creates bonds between words you enter. Add an original soundtrack by Quebec’s indie rock legends Malajube, and you start getting what the experience is about. A project we were delighted to be a part of, commissioned by NFB, and that’s starting to make a lot of noise (Le Devoir, Cyberpresse, Métro, Le Lien)
-Extensive experience in implementing & customizing web-based CMS applications such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Typo3, dotnetnuke.
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We haven’t been very good at updating our blog since, well… the begining of summer. First there was some well deserved vacation time, then things got too busy again. Let’s get things back on track, starting with a fresh good news : Les Appendices just won the 2009 Gémeaux award for «Best Website for a TV show - Drama, humour, variety or animation». That makes us really happy.
Analekta approached us a few months ago to create a series of web videos. The objectives were twofold. Firstly, to use web videos to increase their fan base by making classical music more accessible to a younger audience. And secondly, the videos would be used to promote their artists on a national and international level.
The idea: To create 2 minute videos that capture the essence of each artist’ most recent recordings.
The challenge: To stay nimble and as invisible as possible not to disturb the artists during the recording sessions. The videos are shot, edited and uploaded the same day.
The result: Thousands of online-views and a happy client, the videos can also be viewed on-board Air Canada flights.
It has been a privilege to work with such luminaries as Angèle Dubeau, Kent Nagano, Alain Lefèvre and Matthias Maute. On a personal level, it’s quite therapeutic to be at recording sessions with such great artists.
Télé-Québec’s Les Appendices recently earned 6 nominations at the Gémeaux awards, including Best Show and Best Website. Since 1986, the Prix Gémeaux have been honoring the best of Canada’s french TV programs. With this record number of nominations, we with the show our best at the ceremony night in September.
To celebrate the 6th Edition of MTL BNL, Montreal’s Biennale under the Open Culture theme, we conspired with Amuse in order to build this good wishing machine. Anybody can conspire by sending their tweets to @inspireconspire, through the site, using SMS, or by calling the 514-933BIEN voicemail. A Twitter feed aggregates and spreads the love from all those different sources to the world. Go ahead, conspire now.
If you would like to know more on tar sands and the consequences of oil extraction in Alberta, Petropolis features exerts from the award winning movie, additional content and documentation, as well as stunning aerial photography of the oil fields by Eamon MacMahon. The creation of this topical documentary site is a new collaboration with Angle Reserve and Greenpeace Canada.
It’s always a pleasure to start the week with fresh news.
LaCache.tv, the world’s first ever virtual Geocaching game has been awarded “Official Honoree” by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, in the Games category.
Of the nearly 10,000 entries submitted to the 13th Annual Webby Awards, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. This honor signifies an outstanding caliber of work.
The game was created by Inpix. KNGFU championed the technical direction.
Télé-Quebec’s new humor series is making quite a buzz and we were enthusiastic to work at creating the show’s site in collaboration with Télé-Québec. This intelligent, addictive, fun and viral site proposes the complete episode of the week, streaming, as well as a great dose of hilarious content, sketches, supplements and other exclusive to the web surprises.
