Our monthly company meeting may be a little hard to hear (Portland uses iChat to connect to Salt Lake) but no one can deny that it is entertaining.


Our monthly company meeting may be a little hard to hear (Portland uses iChat to connect to Salt Lake) but no one can deny that it is entertaining.


Turns out the awesome Botticelli packaging the design team worked up is featured on thedieline.com. Check it out and be sure to tell the dudes (and dudettes) in the back to keep up the good work!

So my bud, known only by the moniker “Baltz”, sent me this photo and simply asked “Blog it yo!” Well my technologically awkward friend, your loss is my gain. Since I have no idea what this photo is – in any regard – I’ll just make it up.
I’m not sure how, but Baltz woke up in the Caribbean, because he sure as hell wasn’t at work last week. I think he had a vacation coming, but who knows. Anyhow, I heard from a police report that he stole this kid from a local swap meet and decided to go fishing. They apparently caught these fish, which was great because there was no way he would buy this kid any food. I heard from a friend that the look on this kid’s face was because about ten seconds before this photo was taken, the barracuda bit him pretty hard.
Baltz: “I already set the timer”
Kid: “but Mr., I’m bleeding”
Baltz: “… you had better not ruin my shot”
Kid: “Sorry Mr.”
so…how to explain this image…(ahem), well, we just finished up a site with Wieden+Kennedy and Old Spice. we were fortunate enough to hang out on the set as the professionals from Stan Winston (Terminator, Jurassic Park, Aliens) brought the idea to life. you see, this new product from OS is two things…a centaur is two things…ok, ok, you know where this is going. take a look at some of the other bottom halves on the site. it’s kind of funny.
huge collaboration with Digital Domain, Kamp Grizzly and w+k to make this site happen. good stuff.
I don’t know if it’s the helmets, the dirt on our faces, or the pile of bikes littered about as if we tossed them with so much reckless abandon—but this crew of Struckers (and our gracious Deer Valley hosts) looks like the roughest crew in town.
Truth told, we rarely strayed from the intermediate trails and the biggest challenge of the day was finishing off the ridiculously scrumptious desserts at the Royal Street Café (you’ve gotta try the Ice Cream Sandwich… you’ve just gotta). Anyway… massive thanks and much love to our comrades at DVR for hooking up the most radical morning of the summer.
If you’re curious how the Struckers are dealing with high gas prices—let’s just say the aisle space seems to get more and more cramped. Here’s a shot of just few of the rides that the Struckers pedal on into the studio on a regular basis.
And yes, we do have our share of fixies.
If you missed the original airing of the Discovery Channel’s new, critically-acclaimed series When We Left Earth, the first season in its entirety is now available for purchase on iTunes! If you also missed the killer banner campaign we crafted for the series’ launch, you can read about here. And definitely check out the sa-weet preview that started it all below.
Google has announced that it has improved its algorithm to extract textual data out of any kind of Flash file, working with Adobe’s Flash Player. This is huge news for a shop like Struck, wehere we specialize in user experiences that often showcase Flash. I am dying to know how well it works and what the limitations are!
Read about it here
A few of us went to the Arts Festival last night and got the unique pleasure of getting to experience the grand spectacle that is Revideolize. And if you haven’t heard, you better axe somebody, revid is the special heat.
Revideolize is a side project of Melodramus Act like you know!



update (more awesome vids)

So on Tuesdays Youtube has this little ditty known as “Trend Spotting Tuesdays”. Lo and behold, our little ditty for the Sean Kimmerling Testicular Cancer Foundation was the top feature. The video received over 600,000 hits in it’s first 24-hour period. Among other notables to be noted, it was the #1 Featured Video and the #1 Educational Video yesterday. Thanks Youtube and thanks SKTCF.