Steelso V6.0

I do enjoy Muxtape.

My first bash. http://steelso.muxtape.com/

I love the Shat!

Steelso :: May.11.2008 :: Cool, Music :: No Comments »

All going very well on day 1.5 in the big Equator house. Even getting used to being back on Windows again. Lots and lots to enjoy here but I think I can sum it up by getting you to look at the people I’m working with now. It’s very exciting to be working with a whole team of people who use the Internet and not just talk about it.

I’m loving being the new boy.

Steelso :: Nov.27.2007 :: Cool, Equator :: 3 Comments »

Honestly, I think I’m going to wet myself….

steelso :: Aug.20.2007 :: Cool :: 2 Comments »

When going to watch 7 year olds behave like pint sized ninjas at my son’s karate grading I noticed the logo for the Kelvin Hall, a big sports arena in Glasgow. The logo is truly an icon of 80’s style and razzamatazz. It reminded me of the London 2012 logo. I love that. What goes around.

steelso :: Jul.03.2007 :: Cool :: 1 Comment »

i love this and the rest of the site. It’s just so perfect and special. It brightened up my whole day. That’s right, my whole day. In a good mood this morning.

Thanks to the Opinionated Sod.

steelso :: Jun.14.2007 :: Cool, Creative :: 3 Comments »

More congrats to Mark and Martin who won a Yellow Pencil at the DA&D’s. This really is the Oscars of the design world and it’s a great honour to be on the winner’s list.

It doesn’t end there. At the IPA Best of Health awards we’re up for six awards including a few for the Be Books’ website. Which is exciting. We’ll see what happen in July!

steelso :: May.31.2007 :: Awards, Cool, Creative :: No Comments »

My blogging has been seriously curtailed of late. This isn’t due to lack of things going on, far from it. I’m trying a couple of tools to help me write offline then send it up when I get connected. This helps me try to find the time to get write about things I enjoy wherever I want to and not be constrained by the lack of an Internet connection.

I am enjoying my Wii. Not loving it. Enjoying it. Though it does prove the tact that Nintendo set on as Sam has embraced her inner Wii with a vengeance. Which is another way to say I am fed up being beat by all that handle a Wiimote. A five year old humped me at boxing!

Things that I’m currently into: Twitter, scenario design, networking and how your online persona kisses with the real world, Yahoo! mash up, Modest Mouse, models, really good uses of the web that make me inspired, my camera, Guitar Hero II, Halo 3 Beta (I’m actually better than I remembered. At dying often), citizenship and the web, models (have I mentioned that before?), engineering mash ups.

Love that bull.

steelso :: May.22.2007 :: Cool, Creative, Thoughts, Wii :: 4 Comments »

All crazy here, good news and bad. Sadly we parted company from Knockhill Racing Circuit. While we had won the business and gone quite a way down the strategy route we got stuck in/on the design phase. Which is a shame. They’re now with someone else and while we would have loved to have finished our design process with them we respect their decision and hope that their new agency can flick their switches. Or shift their gears.

Upwards and onwards. A couple of meetings on the go this week and looking to make a couple of websites more conversational.  It’s interesting on how things change. About 8/9 years ago a big attraction in creating a website is that you could appear to be a large, almost faceless corporation online even though you were a one man band in Outer Nowhere.

Now the shift is having conversations on-line, making the connection between brand and customer more intimate. This seems to be the big push on technology. The question isn’t how can I talk to my customers but how can I listen. Big brands are looking for the one to one. Little brands looking to show care. Transparency.

If you’ve ever searched the web for a review of a product, a camera, a TV, anything then you’ve been part of that conversation. I found that I haven’t joined in many and I feel I should contribute more. I’ll be reviewing my camera for Amazon. Not a big deal, just trying  to be helpful and part of the chat.

Feeling invincible today. That makes me thoughtful.

The picture above was a bit of street art that I found in Ibrox. I’ve passed a thousand of those utility boxes and wish that every kid was given a box of chalk and told to brighten them up. I’m loving this work.

steelso :: Apr.19.2007 :: Clients, Cool, Thoughts :: 2 Comments »

The lovely Steph pointed this wee note out to me last Thursday while we were walking on Sauchiehall Street. It was next to a shop with a six foot sculpture of a creature from Alien.

As she knows me so well Steph knew that I’d want to take a picture. And blog it. I found the note to be a really sweet and brave thing to do and I hoped that Elena found her man.

So intrigued was I that I decided to call her later to see if she had any joy. We had a wee chat and she sounded  very hopeful and positive that she would find her lovely man. I hope she does too. I’m going to call her tomorrow to see if her last ditch attempt worked. Good luck lady, good luck!

steelso :: Apr.11.2007 :: Big on Small, Cool, People, Social :: 6 Comments »

Show this yesterday spray painted to a wall. It’s on quite a busy wee path between Kelvingrove tube station and Gibson Street. It got me thinking who wrote it, why and who is it meant for? Me? You? What do you think?

I imagine someone has to walk that route everyday. They may not know that it was written for them but it gives a great pleasure to the artist.

I dunno. But I can’t imagine a better use for pink paint.

steelso :: Mar.12.2007 :: Cool, Creative, Glasgow, People, Pictures, Questions, Thoughts :: 4 Comments »