Where is Jont ?
As part of the first wave of Orange's new 'I Am' activity we've put together the Orange Unlit Tour.
Visit the blog and see what's going on right now.
Star-of-tomorrow Jont, and his trusty sidekick Dave are out on the road in their tour van. We've pimped it out with all the latest gizmos and gadgets so you can see every detail of their every move. Harnessing the power of Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and a load of other handy web-stuff you'll be full to the brim with Jonty goodness.
But they're not on just any old tour. It's a tour with an Orange difference. It's a tour that's made by everyone. The venues are peoples' houses. And the support bands are acts who've got involved via MySpace.
The proper edited first gig will be online soon on MySpace TV - we'll stick it up here as soon as it's ready...
And if you want to follow where they're going and what they're up to there's a handy widget just like the one below...
You've got to Give to Get
Orange RockCorps is alive and kicking, making a difference in a community near you.
Thanks to our partners and friends at Orange, RockCorps, technical partner Dreambox Creations and to the volunteers who turn up every day to earn their ticket.
Now listen to Busta, get involved and bag a ticket to the gig of the year at the Royal Albert Hall on 26th September. We'll see you there!
I Am Mark Beaumont
This is Mark Beaumont. He's the star of Orange's latest 'I Am' commercial. This year he broke the round-the-world cycling record, covering 18,000 miles in 194 days, which is pretty incredible when you think about it. Poke asked Orange if we could shoot a documentary to accompany the ad that viewers of interactive telly would be able to watch by pressing the red button, and they said "yes".
Visit the Site: I Am Everyone
Ottolenghi Cooking Day
As part-payment for making the new Ottolenghi website we got a whole day with the guys being taught how to cook awesome things.
If you're excited by, or interested in, photographs of people from Poke cooking (and who wouldn't be) you can see lots more here.
MotoRokr Vid Peek
Here's David Elsewhere 'demonstrating' the ModeShift feature of the Moto E8 (ModeShift lets you switch the device between music player and phone mode in one simple click).
There's a few places you can go to see all the Motorola Rokr stuff we've just launched...
- There's a YouTube Channel where you can see it all.
- Or the offical Motorola MotoRokr E8 Experience page.
If you want to find out more about the device - head over here:
http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/rokre8/
David Elsewhere and MotoRokr E8
To demonstrate the features of the new Motorola E8. Poke enlisted the help of legendary mover David Elsewhere (to call him a dancer doesn't really describe the half of it). We worked with Motorola to find a way that could combine content and product demo in a fresh way. Maybe even making it interesting enough that people might talk about (and distribute) a product demo...
To check all the videos visit the site at:
The Last Ever Crank Gig?
Most bands form at cool places like Cobham Community Art College or some kind of Fame School in South London. But not Crank. They met at Poke.
Their first performance was at the final ClubPub. If you weren't there it was good. Very good. And noisy. So very very noisy. (There's some photos and links here).
Now it's time for their final performance. Ever. Probably.
Like all the best bands Crank have been cut off in their prime through tragic circumstances: Nico is moving back to Sweden and Dave is buggering off to do whatever it is that the f**king saviour of f**king Rock and Roll does when they're not in the server room sorting stuff out.
It's the last chance saloon folks...
Thursday 17th July: 19.30 - late.
The Gramaphone Bar
60-62 Commercial Street,
London E1 6LT
Download the flyer (if you print it out it might be worth something one day).
Big Thanks To All Balloon Pilots
Well after a week of ballooning around it's all over. Playballoonacy.com has closed down. The race is finished and the winners have been announced.
Reginald Ringtail the Raccoon came first followed closely by a couple of Dolphins.
There's a load of people to thank:
- Thanks to everyone who raced balloons - we hope you had fun.
- Thanks to all the people who let the race pass across their sites - we hope you got some new visitors who stuck around and checked out your page(s).
- Thanks to all the people who worked to make it happen (they know who they are and how much work it really took!).
- Thank you to the internet for not breaking ;-)
- And last of all thank you to Orange for taking a punt and believing in us (again).
