Rolling Thunder™ presents:

Site update + Tokyo/Glow

Henrik — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:29:26 +0000

So after neglecting our website for a while, we’ve today done a major update with 5 new videos, a news update, AND our spanking new reel.
Funny, apparently our fake trailer got nominated in the Best Animation category at the Digital Studio Awards that is taking place tonight, but they’ve not been able to get hold of us..! Strange. Anyway, the fact that’s it’s now well past 200,000 hits at youtube more than well makes up for that.

But believe it or not, there ARE other people who do cool stuff as well! Check for example out this lovely clip!

The Future of Apple

Henrik — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:17:27 +0000

(via Gizmodo)

Attention FCP-freelancers!

Henrik — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:44:27 +0000

Rolling Thunder in Dubai needs a freelance FCP editor with extensive long-form/docu editing experience and a cool attitude. We need a storyteller with good organizational skills. The project starts around 20-25 March until 12 April (which is when we are editing the pilot) and after a break we would continue to edit the other 12 episodes over roughly 6 months. If you got what it takes and want to be part of a really cool international production, please send your details, your rates, and some work samples (only links, not attachments please) urgently to henrik[at]rtdubai.com. We are looking to select the successful candidate in the next 1-2 weeks..!

YouTube MashUps

Henrik — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:30:44 +0000

YouTubeDoubler is a fun site that let’s you be creative and make your own mashups, blending two youtube-cips of your choice together! Here’s one that Henrik threw together, mashing N.E.R.D with an outraged video game “enthusiast”. Send us your mashes!

Rolling Thunder in Qatar

Henrik — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:21:47 +0000

Stop Motion (on a shoe string)

Henrik — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:46:44 +0000

If kids today grow up playing with this toy, we see a bright future for cinema!

The Office E-mail Translator

Henrik — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:18:23 +0000

We have a major blog post in the works about the great humour that is to be find in e-mail correspondence here in Dubai. But, in the meantime, we stumbled across this Office E-mail Translator over at Maxim.com, that should work fantastically anywhere in the world. Czech it!

Zuper Baal

Henrik — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:44:01 +0000

Great news! Over at Advertising Age you can now watch all the TVC’s from this year’s Super Bowl, sans any boring American “foot”ball!
But we’re not sure if the creative’s brains got credit crunched this year, or if we’re all a bit on the slow side – but aren’t the spots this year quite …mediocre..? Normally the Super Bowl commercials keep a very high standard, so we’re quite surprised. It’s also interesting to see that Budweiser and is responsible for a whopping 9 out 61 TVC’s hehe, says something about what people do while watching the game innit? But honestly, Bud’s commercials are probably the most boring ones…

But to be fair, one or two spots are aight: Audi “Green car”, Bridgestone “Whale of a Tale”, Coca Cola “Hard Times”, Emerald Nuts/Pop-Secret “Awesomer”, Doritos “Snack Attack Samurai”, Monster “Fiddling Beaver” and Dove “Manthem” are all decent. The crappiest of the whole bunch is Boost Mobile’s “Shuffle”, which is a major irony fail. Dodge’s “Man’s Last Stand” is really good, and Google’s brilliant “Parisian Love” is without a doubt the very best of the bunch, and has already gone viral with truck loads of remixes on the int3rwebZ.

So, what did you think?

To Yoda

Henrik — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:44:06 +0000

There’s obviously a lot of talk about Toyota these days, so we’ll be brief with this one, as we certainly dont want you to come down with a serious case of Toyota-overload.
Anyway, so Lazhar discovered yesterday that the Irish Toyota site had been hacked! We thought that was really funny..!

Now get back to work!

She’s shitting!

Henrik — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:50:53 +0000

We are pretty sure that this weird Japanese TVC from ‘78 did not have George Lucas’ blessing..