Bumllionaire

Once upon a time in the West... Toke Nygaard from K10K got his laptop broken, and so it was that the entrance to the portal became a page with a picture of that broken laptop and asking people to collaborate so that he could buy a new one... and he got it!

And then there's the story of the guy who, exchanging things, turned a red clip into a house. Last year, John Grden from Rock On Flash and core member of the Papervision 3D team asked something similar so that he could work on improving the performance of the famous 3D engine on a Mac, and it only took a couple of weeks to get the money through Paypal.

In the end, these situations follow the same pattern, some kind of "together we can", that now has been blended with these viral times of us.

Nowadays, the challenge is making Guy Ritchie, a real bum, appear on the next Forbest Richest People through a website called Bumllionaire. As we are over 1 billion online users today, just $1 from each of us would make it..., i'm really curious about if he'll be getting that or not.

With the finest sense of humor (there is even a Facebook group you can join), the site gathers videos and information about Guy and the status of his crusade.

So let's see what the kid can do :)

The Showdown Interactive

Sorry, this one is one of us, but I have to talk about it as we've spent so much time working on this lately... :)

Last year, One Show asked us to develop the image for their Interactive competition in 2008.

As you may know, fighters have replaced Mariachis as the new mexican cliche and we tried to create a game with some mexican flavor, a bit nasty and that served as a place of reunion for designers, developers, creatives, art directors, etc. trying to have some fun and blood.

Besides whose is the greatest idea now we're talking about whose blood is this, and this is the multiuser game you can play now: Showdown Interactive: "Kill your colleagues".

It's supposed to be played by people who submitted some material to One Show competition (in fact this competition has a final combat that'll take place in New York City next May in the One Show Interactive awards ceremony), but in the end there's a "Try now" button in the main site from which you can look for someone to challenge and crack his bones :)

At the same time, we created some video stuff about some ordinary days in the life of "Fernando", one of our young creatives, and how he struggles when confronting with big names' work, so now he's trying to find something where he can beat them at, "at ANYTHING!"

(some other videos are available at: http://www.youtube.com/showdowninteractive)