DECEMBER 11, 2005: “SPINNER”

This was the first official BBC Ice Cream site. The homepage was just a spinner toy thing that let you pick which side to go into. Little-known fact: If you click the spinner (instead of one of the two sides) it’ll spin and randomly send you to whichever side it lands on. Littler-known fact: you can still spin the spinner.

AUGUST 27, 2007: “BBC WORLD”

I brought out the pencils and sketched what a BBC world would look like. (and later uploaded that original sketch on ARTST.) This was also the day the BBC Blog launched, which has been tremendously popular. Of all Fishbucket-created sites, this gets the most traffic by far. Since we added google analytics in November 2007 the site has had nearly 15 million visits.

AUGUST 27, 2010: THE NEW STYLE

So, to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the last major update, we set out to simplify and streamline the homepage. We’re now showing the current season front and center, and styling the page to correspond with the blog. Expect this style to change seasonally instead of every 2-3 years!

Thanks (as always) to Loic and Phillip!

I started with a bunch of images, live clips, found footage, iTunes visualizers (including the excellent Disco Brick, which in my mind I kept calling Disco Rick, but I don’t think they’re related,) and some good old-fashioned video rescanning. I then created some flash animations to add to the mix and brought all of these pieces into After Effects for layering and editing and messing-with. There were 14 videos in all, each with a different look.

Here’s the intro video:

and a logo animation for use between songs:

And some views from the crowd:

MADNESS!!

Plan out your Autumn/Winter 2010 purchases now!

via our friends at the BBC Blog

…and the making-of video is fascinating too:

Don’t have much of Common’s work? Get this, you won’t be disappointed.

I had the pleasure of seeing him perform at SOBs a few weeks ago, he put on a really good show. He didn’t just rap but also sang and played a mean guitar. Can you do all of those things? I can’t.

Get that!

…and oh yeah there’s a game too, if you haven’t already: Play that!

Not sure that I can eulogize a guy I never actually knew, so I’ll just go back and quote this post I wrote 7 years and 13 days ago…

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allow me to take you back to the early-to-mid-nineties. a young white suburban high school kid in upstate new york. sitting at his mac IIci, designing stuff in aldus superpaint. he’s listening to the friday night hip hop show on the RPI radio station.

as a young white suburban kid in upstate new york in the early-to-mid-nineties, there weren’t a whole lot of places to listen to hip hop. looking back, and looking at the crowd I was running around with, I’m not overly sure why I got into hip hop so much, while others around me didn’t. but that’s a story for another post.

this post is about DWYCK. it’s a song by gang starr, featuring nice & smooth. and somehow I totally associate that song with my high school rap show radio-listening superpaint-designing sessions. and as I said in an e-mail I wrote to fish a few months back, (which was strikingly similar to this post,) it may be one of my favorite rap songs of all time.

lemonade was a popular drink and it still is
I get more props and stunts than bruce willis

man that is so classic.

so anyway, last night I saw gang starr. along with talib kweli and common. it was a great show. of the three acts, I was looking forward to gang starr the most. because while I’ve been listening to kweli and common for the last year or two, I’ve been listening to gang starr for the last ten.

and then it happened. towards the end of the set, the opening beats of DWYCK. and nice & smooth burst onstage. the crowd went nuts. sure, some of the kids there may have had no idea what the commotion was, but the rest of us sure as hell did.

the song was incredible. crazy energy from everyone. wow.

yeah.

ok, that’s that. if you just read all this and are now thinking “DWYCK? I’ve never heard of that song,” or, even worse, “Gang Starr? who are they?” then please do yourself a favor and listen to DWYCK.

thank you.

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RIP, Guru.

Just launched a new Flash game for B.o.B. Help him collect beautiful girls all over the world!