Email:jon@shovemedia.com
shovemedia is a boutique interactive development studio specializing in flash/actionscript (AS2/AS3). We sling plenty of HTML, JavaScript, and PHP too. With over 10 years experience bringing concepts to life via a plethora of technologies and mediums, we've served clients large and small here in Raleigh, NC and all over the world since 1999.
jon@shovemedia.comtwitter.com/shovemediaphone: 919 740 5257
323 W Martin St Raleigh NC 27601not currently accepting new commercial work, but
do drop us a line--we can recommend someone fantastic and trustworthy.
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role: designer
project goal: Create Obama-inspired Art
Designbox got inauguration fever and curated a group-show of Obama-themed art. Fellow 'boxer
Rob Ruchte and I put together this 8ft x 8ft mural using 1024 standard Post-It Notes and obsessive Photoshop manipulation.
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Neon Sky : National Geographic Channel
role: programmer
project goal: Flash Site
Neon Sky put their skills to work for the
National Geographic Channel once again with this excellent marriage of information graphics, animation, entertainment, and education. NGC supports many languages, so once again all the content is XML-defined. This site is built on
Gaia an open-source framework for accessible flash sites.
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Justin Smith
role: programmer
project goal: Build a Minimalist Portfolio
I met Justin Smith while we were both working at
McKinney many years ago. Out on his own as an independent interactive art director, Justin wanted a clean way to show off his award winning portfolio. He can manage all the content himself, and the flash application takes care of image sizing, layout, links, and transitions.
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The Republik
role: programmer
project goal: Build an Awesome Agency Portfolio
In partnership with
Third Party Labs, The Republik approached us with a concept for their new website. It is 100% content managed, search-engine indexed, flash-transition-orific, iPhone-ready, and more. It's been recognized by
HOW Design &
Communication Arts.
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role: designer
project goal: Experiment with stop motion in a short format
Inspired by
Ze Frank's every-weekday output during The Show, I decided to try creating stop-motion video bumpers for the weekdays. Each video is posted on YouTube separately; one begins where the last left off.
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Ulanguzi
role: programmer
project goal: A generic quiz engine
Ulanguzi wanted to build a generic quiz engine to handle everything from employee computer-based training to customer feedback surveys. The system supports more features than we can list here, a double-handful of question types, help and feedback, time-limits, skinning, and deep server-side integration.
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NCSU
role: programmer
project goal: Build advanced Dreamweaver Templates
In partnership with
Third Party Labs, we created an advanced set of Dreamweaver templates for use by the in-house web team at
NCSU. Despite the complexity, they have yet to ask for assistance -- not even once.
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role: programmer, designer
project goal: Interactive Art Installation
Each member of
designbox curates a gallery show each year. Working in partnership with fellow members and studio-mates
Third Party Labs and
Project Mastermind, we pulled out all the stops to assemble a futuristic, interactive table networked with dynamic, music-driven animation projections around the gallery. Audience participants could email us text, music, images, and video to be automatically included as assets in the show.
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republik of fun
role: programmer
project goal: Make a Game!
The Republic of Fun hired us to build a crossword puzzle desktop game based around the tv show Merv Griffin's Crosswords. In one of our most ambitious development efforts ever, the publisher can manage puzzle data files without changes to the game. Tons of bonus scoring, special prizes, and difficulty levels give this casual word game a fast-paced arcade feel.
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locomation
role: programmer
project goal: rock the 1st ever online reality show
Locomation put together some fantastic creative for outOfTown.tv -- an onine reality show. We stepped in with the actionscript chops to bring it all home. The campaign lasted several months with the site changing at each stage. Videos were shot, edited, and published from New York and pulled into the site via
blip.tv
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chesapeake imaging
role: programmer
project goal: share and explore mri image sequences
The use of information technology in healthcare is poised to explode.
Chesapeake Imaging adds to their offerings with this widget that allows doctors to view MRIs and other image sequences via a secure internet connection. Zoom, rotate, contrast, and brightness controls. Cross-domain security was the big challenge here -- share data across different servers without loosing access control and risking confidential patient information.
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Blue Barn House
role: programmer
project goal: Build a Yahoo store
Adding to the site we built the year before,
Blue Barn House wanted to go retail with its line of off-beat greeting cards. We went with a low-cost Yahoo store, customizing the HTML and managing the product offering through a unique spreadsheet-parsing upload. Major challenges included separate pricing and logins for wholesale customers.
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catevo group
role: programmer
project goal: Build a template-based agency site
The Catevo Group was ready for a new site and wanted something simple they could update themselves, yet flexible enough to support unknown future content. We provided a framework and several example templates giving Catevo a quick, cost-effective solution.
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NC Governor Mike Easley
role: designer and programmer
project goal: Build the governor's site!
Governor Mike Easley of North Carolina (our fair state!) wanted to reach out directly to the public, so we put together a customized
Wordpress site supporting
sIFR (customized search-engine-friendly fonts), three video formats, and an animated slide-show masthead.
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BrightDoor
role: programmer
project goal: kiosk widgets
Brightdoor uses flash on touchscreen kiosks at real-estate offices. We worked on several projects together. One integrates GPS data with a custom property map. A dynamic form registers new users via a virtual touch-screen keyboard for use with or without a hardware keyboard. We've also built a framework for quickly assembling flash sites from templates, images, video, and data.
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