Do you dare …?

6 months and 7 workshops followed up by a horrifying high amount of coffee and croissants has now been determined into a 32 pages rapport and handed over to the folks at Mediasyd in Vejle. The creative communication agency Mediasyd needed a identity-brush-up and a closer look at their culture, competences and customers and asked us to be in charge of the process. Not as one of those ordinary consulting and coaching-agencies your feeding pigs with these days but as a creative partner who know something about making campaigns and design.

The goal for us was to give Mediasyd the tools and knowledge to make a plan that will bring them up to date in todays maze of creativity and communication. So we hooked up with Asger Fredslund from Siriuspartner and gave the good old company a decent stir through a bunch of workshops and as you can see daring challenges.

And according to the smiles and grunting sounds we assume we have done something right;-)
What the plan is going to be and what happens to Mediasyd in the time to come is still a secret and we would have to kill you if we told! But something interesting is going on these days and we will follow it closely!

Speakboks Tour 2008

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The European Championship in Football is coming up and though Denmark hasn’t been able to make goals since 1992… it ain’t stopping us from making this who-is-the-best-footballspeaker-competition-commercial for TV 2, Carlsberg and Coca Cola. All spiced up with another great soundtrack by Hecq.

Great day on the set with photographer Thomas Korsholm, Morten Øbro hooking up the lights and the cheering maniacs Michael, Michael, Kristoffer and Michael.

Old Man on a Wall

Took this picture on a recent trip to London somewhere in Kensington.

I don’t know who he is, why he’s there or why someone have put him there …

But I thank the creators for breaking up our everyday-life-city-picture by decorating it with something unexpected and different.
Something that can make us stop and think for a while … and take a picture.

San Francisco Chair

I recently spend a couple of days in wonderful San Francisco and went up on Haight Street. One of the places you just need to hang out once or twice in your lifetime.
Here is everything from weird japanese design, conceptualized second-hand shops and one of the best recordshops I’ve ever seen. Amoeba Music. Go there and be amazed!
Among it all I came accros this cool decorated Eames rocking chair …

Fireworks, Dogs and Ladies

Right after the last award was given away, the champagne-bottles emptied and the last guest carried out, we where off to the next project.

In Denmark we have a tradition for making yearly “don’t blow your head off with fireworks”, usually whenever new-year is closing in. Mediasyd who is an old-timer in making these campaigns, asked us to be in charge of this years production and whenever we get the chance to blow things up … Well, we will always be there for you….[kml_flashembed movie="http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/stupid_flv.swf" height="315" width="420" fvars=" moviename = fireworks1 ; moviepath = http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/video/ ; stupidred = 167 ; stupidgreen = 194 ; stupidblue = 85 ; stupidalpha = 100" /]
Click Continue reading below to see the rest of the story, and what happened to the poor dog…

And the Winner Is …

It has been tough, wild and furious!!! But now I’m back at the blog and here is what I’ve been tumbling around doing the last couple of months.

It started with a call, where we were asked to make the Danish Football Awards 2007 promotion-campaign for TV 2. Yet another show where we give away prices to those great men who made a difference … And although we are not big football fans (we are more into curling, knitting and artificial bonsai trees …) we took it as a challenge and after a few days logging material we suddenly knew all about the best danish football moments, dazzling players and greeeaaat goooaaallls.

So with a little help from the two lovely hosts Andrea and Morten and producer Christina Buch we came up with this: [kml_flashembed movie="http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/stupid_flv.swf" height="315" width="420" fvars=" moviename = dfa ; moviepath = http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/video/ ; stupidred = 167 ; stupidgreen = 194 ; stupidblue = 85 ; stupidalpha = 100" /]

Feel the Energy, Unmack

After a couple of days teaching at Designskolen Kolding I’m back behind the laptop with a great feeling of life-is-so-good-and-everything-is-gonna -be-allright-happy-happy-happy- blaaaa-blaaa-blaa … Why?

As we speak eight teams of young hopeful and talented design-students are struggling with the production of eight very different music videos for the former Loveshop lead-singer Jens Unmack as a part of a motiongraphic-course.
And even though I told them to keep it simple – mostly because of the short production time, non-existing budgets and their lack of experience – they jumped right into big complicated shootingboards, storytelling and overkilling special effects. So much for my teaching-talent, hmmm…
They don’t care, that the cameras works like shit, they have no light and no clue of how long it takes to line up a bodega with an Elvis-wannabe …

But they do it anyway.
Because this is their chance to do something they really want.
Without anyone telling them how to do it.

So even though this isn’t going to end up with eight award-winning videos, it’s great to feel the energy and dedication to the projects. We are looking forward to see the final results.

Jacuzzi With a View

Our lovely STUPID friend Noémie from Switzerland has done it!!!
A few days ago she and a group a people, with absolutely nothing else to do in their life, decided to climbed the highest mountain in Europe Mont Blanc bringing along a jacuzzi.
Yes, its true. “Let’s go to 4800m, strip naked and have a jolly good time in our transportable jacuzzi.”


Thanks a lot for the pictures, Noémie, and for bringing STUPID higher than ever before. It’s good to have goals … even though they are a little bit stupid
Check out their website for more pictures www.jaccuzzi.ch

Campaign for NFL

Tons of metal, three crazy guys and mean machines with enough power to bring the earth out of orbit (for a second or two).
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Classic Treasure Hunting.

Classic treasure-hunting meets highly sophisticated GPS Technology.

Finally!!! Together with our client SiriusPartner in Copenhagen we are proud to present “The GPS Movie”. It has been an interesting experience to visualize “Sirius GPS Challenge” and a lot of useful marketing/production knowledge are now ready to be rocket-launched into a new project. Whatever it may be … We are ready for more!!![kml_flashembed movie="http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/stupid_flv.swf" height="315" width="420" fvars=" moviename = gpschallenge ; moviepath = http://stupid-studio.com/flashcontent/video/ ; stupidred = 167 ; stupidgreen = 194 ; stupidblue = 85 ; stupidalpha = 100" /]