Brendan Corkery graduated from the University of Edinburgh last year. He’s an Irish mechanical engineer, who used his dissertation to explore a new idea for managing stock at bars and pubs. I met with him last week because our office has given him a £3000 grant to continue to develop his product.
His story is cool, so we made a movie.
I have just finished our first promo video using our new Flip HD camera. The film below was done entirely on the Flip, and subsequently edited in iMovie.
(Caveat: the animations of the LAUNCH.ed logo were professionally produced by Dunedin Arts. They did not use a Flip.)
I think the quality of the sound and video compares very well to more expensive cameras. Any thoughts?
Our friend Tom Hunt (aka Texas Tom) is a fabulously talented artist at the Edinburgh College of Art. Other cool facts about Tom: he nearly lost his ear while skiing, frequents the Warrender Park swimming pool, and publishes a weekly webcomic, Steeltoecaps, on misprintcomics.com.
Tom has been kind enough to provide me with this custom-built, all-purpose raven, which I hope to integrate into the blog shortly. Other cool facts about ravens: they have more than 30 vocalisations (including “heckling”), they like french fries, and they’ll peel the rubber off your windshield wipers. Continue Reading »
My job has just taken me to new and exciting frontiers: Filmmaking.
I borrowed a snazzy webcam from SIE headquarters to take some footage of the Enterprise Expo, which was held in June. We’d worked for months to put the event together, to showcase 50 companies founded by University of Edinburgh students, staff and alumni. I was determined to get some of it on film so we’d have a record of how it turned out. Continue Reading »
This weekend is our annual teambuilding “Debrief” session. All the SIE interns are gathering in Stirling to reminisce about our year and to say goodbye to those who are leaving. To celebrate, my boss asked us all to put together some sort of presentation about our favourite thing to happen this year.
It was the perfect opportunity to use a new tool: Prezi, an amazing new PowerPoint alternative. It’s easy to use, free, and makes cool presentations. (PowerPoint is so ’90s. At least, it is now that I know I can use something else.)
Here’s the presentation I made for the weekend:
I’m afraid you’ll have to provide your own narrative, but if you just click the arrows, Prezi will take you straight through the images.
Prezi. Consider it recommended.
