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It never ceases to amaze me how the power of digital can turn amateur footage and perfectly captured calamities into a global phenomenon in the space of a few hours. Take the unfortunate owner of Benton (or Fenton as he’s now been revealed), a cheeky deer chasing Labrador, who, on a stroll around Richmond Park, became an overnight internet sensation at the hands of someone with a smart phone and access to YouTube.
Archive for the ‘Just for fun’ Category
Becoming a viral celebrity
23.11.2011 By: emily">emily Under: Creative, General, Just for fun, Social, Trends Comments: 1
Soak Pumpkin Carving Competition
28.10.2011 By: admin">admin Under: Creative, Just for fun Comments: none
Our Pumpkins
The Soak team have put togther a collection of pumpkin carvings, please take a look and vote for the one you like best, to vote simply Facebook like or Tweet the one you want to win!
Keeping spiders out of the studio
02.09.2011 By: adamcollison">adamcollison Under: Creative, General, Just for fun Comments: none
We were recently faced with a minor studio dilemma, a massive hairy house spider had found its way into our development area and caused havoc (well, more minor disruption than havoc but still a frightful experience). After we had tracked it down to the back of our only filing cabinet (we pride ourself on being a 90% paperless studio) it was safely removed from the premises and we could resume our daily activities.
Creating your dream Christmas
08.12.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Just for fun, Soak Related Comments: none
Christmas may be just around the corner, but at Soak we’ve been feeling all festive for quite some time as we’ve been working on a Christmas themed mini-site called Where’s your dream Christmas? The idea is to allow people to plot their fantasy Christmas escape, free from screaming kids and dozing grandparents.
Soak Team Building day
01.12.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Just for fun, Soak Related Comments: none
Last week we all took a day off to take part in that dreaded workplace event, the Corporate Team Building day. Luckily working in a creative agency like ours means that instead of forced awkward pairings with that weird guy from the IT department (we’re all that guy in this company) we had an absolute blast, quite literally!
Spoofing the Digital Election
06.05.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Just for fun Comments: none
The current General Election campaign in the UK has been billed as a Digital Election, a moment in history when the online community make a real impact on the results. There has been reams and reams of data collected, instant polls and so on to the extent that just trying to make sense of it must be like fighting your way through the Matrix populated entirely by bluff old ladies from Lancashire.
How hungry is your console?
31.03.2010 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Just for fun Comments: none
A recent article on confused.com is a really interesting overview of how much power the big three consoles consume while you’re commanding orc minions.
Desktop Lunch
08.02.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Just for fun Comments: none
Eating lunch at your desk; we’re all guilty of it. It saves time, it’s convenient for checking up on your social life, or the footy news, or the latest Failblog. It’s also apparently bad for your health, with issues ranging from fears of infected keyboards to the horrors of weight-gain and rising stress levels yet we seem unable to break our addiction to desktop lunches.
Ginger Bread Friday
18.12.2009 By: adamcollison">adamcollison Under: Creative, Just for fun Comments: 4
Its nearing christmas and the atmosphere in the studio is a little more relaxed than normal. Not wanting to let our creative talent go to waste we decided to have a ginger bread decoration competition.
