The OK Go! Boys are at it again.  You may remember a previous post about their brilliant video of a Rube Goldberg machine that was AWESOME!

Well they have just released their latest video: End Love, and it is brilliant!

Using time lapse, and again the video is in ONE CONTINUOUS shot.

The only thing wrong with this video is I will spend the rest of the day thinking about video production workflow and how to recreate this.

Go buy their album. These guys have to stick around to entertain us.

From Lieberman:

“The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.”

“We also made a special friend in the process. Her name is Orange Bill and she’s a goose. You will agree that she clearly has a future in music videos.”

Ozean Interactive is pleased to announce the launch of a new website.

Alachua Self Storage Screen Shot

Alachua Self Storage is located in Alachua, FL. They offer both climate controlled & non-climate controlled storage units for commercial / business storage and residential storage.

They can handle all of your storage needs, offering a range of unit sizes and options.

Credits:

Account Executive:  Lauren Kruglanski

Designer:  Patrick Prugh

Developer:  Chris Lane

Asst Developer / Copywriter / SEO :  Alex Patton

You may know Ozean’s Lauren Kruglanski.

Lauren Kruglanski in better times

She is a zealot about customer service, a dyna-mo sales person, a HUGE gator fan, web site expert, SEO guru, and all around great person.

What you may not know, is that Lauren has a serious problem.

In fact, this problem has become so severe that she needs your help.  Yes, Lauren has an addiction.

Lauren is addicted to cupcakes.

She can not see straight unless she gets her fix of icing.  She can not function without her sweets.  She can not operate without the “sweet manna from heaven” as she describes these little morsels of goodness.   It is the female version of Frank the Tank from Oldschool - only replace the beer with cupcakes and you get the picture.

It has gotten so bad, that Lauren even started a blog.  Cupcake Addiction .  Go check it out as she chronicles her saga to kick the habit.

We know the path will be difficult, but Ozean will offer her all the assistance we can.   After all, it is in Ozean’s best interest to help her so that she can continue her stellar record of web site sales.

So, call Lauren and offer her support.  Or better yet, bring her a cupcake and she will SURELY give you a discount on your next custom website.

Ozean, the entire company, had a fantastic experience today, and we owe it all to BBDO Atlanta.

This all started with Lauren Kruglanski in our office.  Ozean had the following CRAZY idea: “Let’s see if one of the world’s largest advertising agencies would allow Ozean to come sit with them and pick their brains and ask A LOT of really stupid questions.”  Lauren must have called every advertising agency in the southeast.  Finally, BBDO Atlanta said “sure, come on up!”

From the moment the entire Ozean office (interns and all) stepped off the elevator, we were treated to a first-class experience.  From the electronic signs welcoming Ozean to their buckhead location to the receptionist that greeted us with “You must be Ozean, welcome”, we quickly realized we were in for a fantastic time. The awesome Chief People Officer (Debbie) showed us around and welcomed us with open arms.

We were then invited to have an unrestricted, free-flowing discussion with Rob Cherof (A UF grad-Go Gators), the BBDO Chief Marketing Officer, and Sara Jones, the BBDO Director of Finance and Operations.  I will tell you this - I have not met more straight forward, honest, and great people as these two in the advertising agency business.  They allowed this idiot to ask any question I wanted and they provided us a honest answer.  I can not say enough about Sara’s willingness to share some Best Practices with Ozean, and Rob’s insight into the entire ad agency industry is unmatched.   Having access to these two professionals for an hour is like having a master level’s course for a semester.  Thank you both.

Once Sara and Rob excused themselves, we were treated to a panel discussion of 8 plus people.  They included designers, managers of digital operations, Resource Managers, account managers, studio managers, and others.  Here is the bottom line: each one of these professionals had one hundred things they COULD have been doing rather than sharing information with a small, piss-ant ad agency from Gainesville, FL.  Each one of them most likely had 10-15 job tickets opened while we were sitting there with them.   You NEVER would have known that.  They were the most gracious hosts, and all of them willing to share their battle scars and war stories to help Ozean.   There is NO DOUBT that AT&T is in the right hands with this agency.  These people know the advertising business and they know how to execute.

Ozean wrapped up everything with Debbie Linder, the Chief People Person at BBDO.  I had to resist hugging her (HR people are a little sensitive about those things), but I can not thank her enough for hosting Ozean.

Frankly, I cannot figure out why BBDO agreed to meet with Ozean.  There is no REASON at all that huge agency should take the time from their top management and their specific job functions to offer any advice to us.  HOWEVER, they did, and they did it with grace and awesomeness that I have not witnessed in a long time.

How valuable was it?

We had a 6 hour car ride back, and the entire car ride was filled with discussions about work flow, responsibilities, processes, needed changes, and these discussions possessed a rejuvenated enthusiasm not seen in a long time.

Ozean Interactive Media thanks BBDO Atlanta, and Ozean hopes that one day, at some time, we can return some small favor.

PS  The only bummer of the day - I didn’t get to show off my MAD ping pong skills on BBDO’s famous ping pong table.  Next time, I am SO BEATING someone.  Challenge!

Amendment 4 is better known as “Hometown Democracy” and might be the fight of the year. Placed on the ballot by petition, it says voters should have final say over amendments to city and county “comprehensive plans,” which control growth. - St. Pete Times

This should NOT be named “Hometown Democracy”. It should be named the “The Political Consultant Relief Act of 2010.”

Let’s set aside the fact that this proposed amendment is awful public policy.

If it were to pass, political consultants like Ozean will rejoice in the streets.  You haven’t been witness to the sheer joy sure to come.  You see, these do-gooders are providing the political consulting industry a bail-out package that will make the auto industry green with envy.  Each proposed comp plan amendment must be taken to the voters?  REALLY?  AWESOME!

Political consultants will be forced to take hundreds of hours of testimony on congruency, traffic counts, proportionate fair-share, density levels, zoning classifications, and other EXCITING topics and boil them down to :30 second television commercials, direct mail pieces, website, and occasional radio spots.  Political Consultants will be hired to help convince a public, that often can’t bring themselves to the polls, to vote for or against a proposed change in the comp plan.  THAT WILL BE FUN……and expensive.

You love political ads?   Then PLEASE, vote for the Political Consultant Relief Act of 2010.  PLEASE vote for our bail out.  My children will thank you.

I do think that the people of Florida are starting to realize how bad this amendment is for Florida, and will vote it down.  However, if amendment 4 does pass, Ozean Consulting is poised for rapid expansion!

P.S.  the ironic nature of this situation : the potential opportunity of tons of business being provided by do-gooders is not lost on us.

For some reason, I remembered this today, and I thought I would share.

So, I am reading my coffee this morning, and BANG - I read this article.  All becomes clear in the world this morning.   The article - “Creativity, Schizophrenia Share Similarities in the Brain.” - the clarity?  Ozean’s creative web site designers are CRAZY!  NUTS!

ceative web site takes slightly crazy people....it is PROVEN.

Excerpt:  ”What do creative people and people diagnosed with schizophrenia have in common? According to new research out of Sweden, both share similar dopamine systems in the brain.”

Yeah - we have a TON of dopamine around this place.

Another excerpt: “Creative people, therefore, might benefit from having fewer D2 receptors because a reduced amount of filtering….”

Ladies and Gentelmen, that is a good way to describe Ozean - “a reduce amount of filterning….”

So what are you waiting for?  Give our crazy, dopamine jacked-up, low filter creatives a call.  I promise you, it will be an adventure.  352-376-0505.

Ozean Interactive Media announces the launch of another quality web design and web development project www.Remzey2010.com

www.remzey2010.com screenshot

Republican House Candidate candidate Remzey Samarrai, running in Florida House District 22, wanted a website designed and developed that was different from most politicians’ websites. He wanted it to be visually different, wanted it to include detailed position papers on issues (most politician are afraid to tell you where they stand on the issues, aren’t they?), and wanted it to be simple to maintain.

Mission accomplished - designed differently - check, include issue papers - check, and easy to maintain - check (Ozean placed them in our easy to use, web-based, content management system so that the campaign staff can easily amend and add to the website.)  This project was also designed and developed very quickly. Once the design was approved by the client, the site was developed and launched in approximately 3 days.

Just on a side note, Ozean Consulting is a division of Ozean and is performing the role of general consultant on Remzey Samarrai’s campaign; therefore, in a precautionary move, we will include the Florida required disclaimer: “Paid Political Advertisement, Paid for and approved by Remzey Samarrai, Republican for Florida State House, District 22.”

One of my favorite Twitter accounts to follow is @smashingmagazine. LOVE their stuff.

They had a great tweet this morning regarding the mess that is Internet Explorer v6. We have stopped our support of the browser, but you can never quite get away from it.

The article is a comprehensive overview of the challenges of IE6 and should be read by every designer, sales person, and client.

North Carolina

Ozean’s gone fishing!!!!!!  (or at least the boss has).  He left Gainesville for North Carolina, and we hope he returns in a great mood.

In the meantime. we are in the mood to show him that we don’t need him to sign new clients.  Call us today for your website design or website development project!!!!  We are evening running a special on video production for the web.

Look forward to hearing from you.   Call Lauren 352-376-0505 x 103!