Merry Christmas from Deepblue

In addition to getting www.videoaberdeen.com live, we also managed to finish this year's Christmas message.

The 2008 Deepblue Yuletide video can be found here.

Merry Christmas one and all.

Video Aberdeen is finally live

We're proud to finally be able to say that our showcase site, www.videoaberdeen.com is now live. Christmas is a busy time of year for Deepblue however, despite all the odds, we put in the hours and finished the site late last night.

We hope you like :)

Shaun White - update

We were speaking pish - the Wii version of SW, while super good fun, is nothing compared to the xbox one that's accounted for way too many late nights here.

If you do not have this game already, buy it now.

On another, completely unrelated subject, if you don't have Emiliana Torrini 's new album, buy that now too.

In fact, maybe put Emiliana first. Once heard, definitely never forgotten. Incredible, uplifting, deep tunes.

You can buy it here. You could, very obviously, download it from other places but, being honest, that wouldn't be fair.

Buy it then mail me if you hate it. Empty postbag methinks

Finally we get WeMakeThingsGood live

We've finally got around to finishing off one of the many new Flash portfolio sites we're currently producing, http://www.wemakethingsgood.com/.

Click the link to visit. We like it. We hope you like it too.

Web marketing initiative for WorldofCufflinks.com confirmed

We've just been commissioned to co-ordinate a comprehensive web marketing campaign for the specialist Cufflink website, World of Cufflinks . . . expect to see Google domination anytime soon ;)

Shaun White Snowboarding - our verdict

Yep - first thing Friday and we could be found in the local Gamestation getting a copy of Shaun White Snowboarding. The hype is to be believed - it actually *is* the best snowboarding game ever made - particularly the Wii version.

Finally we can take a break from bowling, golf and tennis and do smth a little more interesting instead. This game is great - buy it now :)

Bored at work . . . .

Just a few ideas to while away the tedium . . . . click here

Google outdoes itself again

Not content with being the most powerful, relevant and omnipotent search tool on the planet, Google also has a raft of other cool stuff (as we're sure you know already).

One of the coolest of these is the mighty Google Earth, it's real world mapping tool that uses data from NASA to give you a ufo's eye view of the planet - to the point you can zoom right down onto your own rooftop, Bourne Identity style . . . unless, of course, you live in a complete backwater that amounts to a lane and lamp post (their data pretty much covers populated areas).

Anyway - that's all well and good for now but what about how it looked in the past? How about a virtual 3D tour of ancient Rome for instance?

Yep - amongst many, many other things that has been developed around the Google Earth model. you can now view ancient Rome in all its splendour.

I did Latin at school - so naturally, i think it's wicked - but even if you didn't, it's still worth a shufty. If only to see what happens when too many great minds get together in the same room and someone ventures forth, "I wonder what would happen if we tried . . . ."

The full BBC post on Google Ancient Rome system can be found here

Also, if you want to go see it first hand, go here - earth.google.com/rome/

Wii're Wii Fit

No, not really . . . but yeah, the upcoming Shaun White game did mean a trip into town to try track down a Wii plus balance board. Be warned - getting hold of a Wii Fit (ie balance board) was no small task. We tried pretty much every shop in town before having to settle for a second hand one from Game.

Still - roll on Friday . . . we've already got it booked as a 'public holiday' of sorts . . .

Finally a reason we might want a Wii

We're pretty much die hard 360 fans - despite countless good reasons to buy a ps3. The Wii has its merits too but there's never seemed to be enough reason to buy it.

Now tho, Ninty has come out with a reason for us to actually consider the Wii as smth more than just a family console.

Shaun White Snowboarding is the first non-health-specific title to be released on the console. Most importantly tho, it looks as tho it's actually managed to finally crack the problem of producing a genuine option to traditional controllers for a snowboard game.

Great - yet another piece of tech vying for our hard-earned. Check some in-game footage here. It still begs the question, why can't any of the other consoles actually get their heads around the fact that alternate controllers are big business? Guitar Hero, Rock Band . . . . Surely evidence enough?

November 14th couldn't come soon enough

Hmmm - one reason and one reason only . . . the release of possibly the most hotly anticipated video game in history (well, in our opinion anyway).

Yep - Shaun White snowboarding is coming - just look at this for a trailer . . . or, even better, how about this.

New deepblue showcase sites

Deepblue is proud to announce the forthcoming release of a number of new specialist websites detailing the company's extensive video, Flash and 3D production work.

For years we've been told we should build a Flash-only website but, being honest, we still get such positive feedback on the existing Deepblue design, it's been hard to justify changing it. By setting up these individual domains, we'll now be able to profile our considerable Flash, video and 3D portfolios without having to take down the main Deepblue site.

The new domains which we're currently developing are:

3DAberdeen
A showcase portfolio site detailing the extensive 3D capabilities of Deepblue. This link is just a taster

Wemakethingsgood
A showcase portfolio site detailing our video and Flash skills. Again, we made the video first - the main site will come after . . .

VideoAberdeen
A showcase portfolio detailing our video editing and production skills

In each case, we hope to have the sites ready within the next couple of weeks. Please note, in each case, these videos were originally produced at Hi-Def 1920 x 1080 ie Full HD output. They look stunning on a 42" HD plasma ;)

We're also working on a number of other projects - details of which we'll post here later this month.

Summer summed up

Summer summed up - It rained . . . and then it rained some more. Regardless, it's been a busy season for Deepblue. Along with the work below, we managed to make trips to see the Foo's in Manchester in June, T in the Park in July and Hydro Connect in August. It rained at all of them - but it takes more than the odd torrential downpour to dampen a strong spirit :)

Here's links to things we've been making recently. Please note, in most cases, these sites are currently being populated with text and images by our clients and, as such, some will appear more complete than others:

E-commerce site for Red Bus Art
Fully updateable e-commerce website for travelling art gallery, Redbusart.

Dyceroofing website
New website for specialist roofing company, Dyceroofing.com featuring Flash video.

HD Scotland Youth Website
Fully updateable website for the Scottish Huntington's Association with membership areas and updateable Flash content. Note - we also now provide web and email hosting for the HDScotland organisation on our server space in Los Angeles.

World of Cufflinks Website
Fully updateable e-commerce website for worldofcufflinks.com

E-commerce site for the Stewart and Wu Clothing Company
Fully updateable Flash e-commerce website for the Stewart and Wu Clothing company. featuring tiered membership system and exclusive ID tag generation for clothing to prove authenticity. Also features Flash video upload function and intelligent, membership-based shop area. Note - design supplied by Stewart and Wu.

Solo Equestrian website
Partly updatable website for innovative horse products company, Solo Equestrian

Evolve website
New website for financial company Evolve

Elsewedy microsite
Partly updatable media listing for Elsewedy Cable company featured on the Youroilandgasnews website

Various maintenance for Your Industry News site
Various projects completed on behalf of the directory website, Yourindustrynews

Streaming Flash video website for Goboza.com
Fully updateable .NET/Flash video website for Goboza.com

Evolve mailing system
HTML online client email system for Evolve

ICM Video
One minute video for International Cable Management (ICM) for use in an advertising directory as well as their own website

Duvet Duck website
We're also working on an e-commerce project for Duvet Duck which will go live later this week.

Cattery website
We're also working on a new website and booking system for an Aberdeen cattery. This site should also go live in the next week or so.

Jenna Robertson site
Deepblue has also been commissioned to make a number of changes to singer Jenna Robertson's website, including a new Flash streaming video section.

Third party work
We have also completed numerous projects on behalf of other third party design companies. Please contact us if your company requires programming skills, completed discreetly at a competitive price.

Stewart and Wu mobile site
We're also working on a new website for Stewart and Wu aimed at mobile and handheld users complete with product verification system. More details to follow.

Deepblue video and presentation site
We've also almost completed a new Deepblue promo video which we hope to put live this week, complete with a new online presentation of our work.

More stuff that we don't believe in

Yep - despite our continued insistance that we don't believe in these things, we've gone and joined another online community. This time it's our Flickr page which can be found by clicking here.

The actual address of this page is http://flickr.com/photos/deepbluemedia/ .

You wait and see - we'll end at experts at this stuff. Just as well really cause we'll no doubt start getting asked to make these things soon enough ;)

New content being added all the time

We're currently in the process of adding new material to the Deepbluemedia blog site. New this week are examples of our video production, some links to recent projects and a grab of on-going design work.

Patience pls . . . after all, we don't actually believe in these things ;)

The new Deepbluemedia blog

Deepbluemedia sets up a new blog . . . . the world holds its collective breath in anticipative awe

pearls of wisdom don't normally come this cheap