With a bit of a luck luster winter thus far for us Utahans, images of the pow-days of yesteryear are running through my head. Because I can’t really give you my head I decided to spend some putting together a few ski days from last year.
More info after the jump.
If you didn’t already know, Utah just beat out Tahoe in Travelocity’s Roaming Gnome contest! We’d like to think we had a little something to do with that. Apparently the Gnome seems to think so, he just stopped by our SLC office on his tour of the State.
Destinations are pitted against each other, and fans on Facebook can vote to determine where he gets to go. Utah and Tahoe were the combatants, and the final tally on Wednesday was close. Here was his status update:
“And the winner is……….UTAH! But sweet fancy pickles, was it close. Of 285,482 votes, 142,709 (49.98%) of them went to Tahoe and 142,773 (50.01%) to Utah. Congratulations, Utah! And thanks a billion to all of you for voting. Now let me get packing!”
Today’s Site of the Day on FWA is none other than the recently unleashed LEGOCLICK.com, designed and developed by the dudes and lady-dudes of Struck/Axiom in association with Pereira & O’Dell. (If you haven’t seen it yet, you should check it out.) To mark the occasion, we’d like to share a technical peak behind the curtain of one of the more popular features of the site – removing a block of content.
StruckAxiom just finished the branding and digital design for Utah’s first digital conference called PushButton Summit 2010. This event will be Utah’s premiere digital media summit for animation, gaming, mobile distribution, interactive and entertainment. It’s a two-day event and is intended to bring together world-class industry and technology leaders, entrepreneurs, students and executives to discuss the latest in what’s pushing the creation and use of digital media. We just finished this teaser thanks to the talents of our own Tosh Brown as well as Bob Zagorskis.
Enjoy and better yet, come to SLC and check out the big event!
Our fearless founder, Jason Bangerter, spoke to a inspiring group of students at Skyline High here in the Salt Lake valley last week. This excited group was engaged and had a ton of great questions. We’re constantly impressed with the level of excitement and coming from high school age students in the region. They’re hungry to learn about the industry and we’re more than happy to tell them anything we can about the opportunities out there. Some of these high school students have set their sights pretty high and amazingly enough, many of them have skills to pay the bills too!
PS: Jason swears the administration lady in the blue-grey sweater right, center isn’t asleep. Sure Jason, whatever makes you feel better : )
Like any good children of the 80s, we love LEGOs. So when our friends at Pereira & O’Dell hollered at us with a couple LEGO projects (the LEGO Photo iPhone app and LEGO CL!CK site), we didn’t hesitate. Coming into the studio to work/play with LEGOs all day—physically and virtually—has been ridiculously inspiring.
Now that the results of a few (okay, more than a few) late nights are alive and kicking on the Interweb, we’re predictably giddy about the positive response. LEGO Photo is the #5 Free App in the iTunes Store as of today. Good (and incredibly smart) people from Fast Company, Mashable, KRonikle (the Kidrobot blog!), app.itize.us and WIRED have all had nice things to say about the projects.
So. Download the app. Get inspired on the site. And… please upload your LEGO-fied photos to the Flickr group we just discovered. You can see some of the early results of the collection here:
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Please be careful. LEGOfying an already-LEGOfied image may disrupt the balance of the space-time continuum.
If you would like to contribute to the relief efforts in Haiti, there are several good options.
To donate $10 to the Red Cross (charge will be automatically added to your phone bill), text “HAITI” to 90999 (via US State Dept).
The following organizations are also accepting donations:
On Friday Struck and Axiom’s SLC offices joined traditions for the first annual Struck/Axiom Holiday Par-tay at the elegant Cactus & Tropicals. (Shouldn’t it be Cacti & Tropicals? I mean there were more than one cactus there.) It was complete with fancy dining, the traditional Naughty or Nice roast, a prize give-way and a fashion police 911 call. Needless to say, fun was had by all, especially once Tosh and Spencer broke out into their choreographed dance routine.
The other eventful moment of the evening was when @MrRyanGoodwin proved to us why he definitely positively should in fact continue to rock the elf-style side-hair flippy-things. You were right bro, you were right. (And no, oddly enough he isn’t impersonating the statue that happened to be right behind him.)
Part 9? Really? This is getting a little out of control. But, as long as there are talented people to profile (and as long as your ravenous appetite for clever quips and ridiculous links remains insatiable), the beat goes on.
Dylan Smith. Interactive. @dylansm. PDX.
Our mothers taught us that if we didn’t have something nice to say about someone, we shouldn’t say anything at all. Dylan… well… uhmmm… Dylan is… uh… hmmm… Aw, c’mon, Dylan! You know it’s not true. We have lots of nice things to say about you. We just can’t really say them right now. Not while the HR folks are looking over our shoulders. Are we serious? Actually, yes. Very serious.
Andy Smith. Lots of Things. LA.
A California native, Andy is a vintage car aficionado who dreams of one day buying a classic muscle car and heading for a weekend in Vegas. You know, just like those one dudes. Andy enjoys cooking (while his wife fixes the leaky faucet!), movies and anything written by James Ellroy. But lately, he’s been tackling the works of Dr. Seuss with his kids, Ben and Josie.
Leslie Roberts. Producer. SLC.
What does Leslie love? Plants. Flowers. Dancing during staff meetings. Adventures. Christmas presents. Fishing. Fresh air. Songs. Poems. Books. Paintings. Small animals. Large animals. Bright copper kettles. Warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages all tied up with string. Who does Leslie love? You. F’reals. She loves you.
Jonathan Minori. Interactive. @minoflow. SLC.
One day, Jonathan Minori will direct a music video. Hopefully, it’s something like THIS and not something like THIS. Although, if it were something like THIS blended with something like THIS, my head would probably explode from sheer awesomeness. In the meantime, Jon lives on powder, owns BKnowlden in triathlons and designs pretty things for the internets.
Daniel Conner. SLC.
Mr. Conner won the Struck Fantasy Football Championship last year. He was a merciless trash-talker. He let no one forget his victory. This year, the gods of nerd football have evened the score and the DPC currently resides in the basement of the league. You know what they say about karma… Anyway, Dan’s not a complete lost cause. He likes to fish Henry’s Fork in Island Park, ID and he (supposedly) graduated from Thunderbird (THE American Graduate School of International Management). I guess we’ll believe him… but that school sounds totally made up to me.
Melissa Crespo. @this_melis. SLC. (Honorary Induction)
While the UofU soccer standout has returned to an institution of higher learning and no longer sits, meets and eats with us—she said something on her last day that we’ll probably never forget: “Good things come from following the rules, but nothing great.” Well said, Mojo. Well. Said. (Cue swelling strings… and here we go with the slow clap… Clap… Clap… Clap… And, BOOM, thunderous applause!)
