We've seen lots of online chatter about flipbooks in the last year or so - people using video footage, pulling out key frames and making new school versions of the stick-men adventures from the old days.
Nicky - one of our awesome developers - spotted this blog post about creating your own flip books, recently. Using a combination of After effects and Photoshop, Alphonse has set up templates to help you make flipbooks of your own. If you check out the videos, you'll see they work really well.
Now, is it just me, or do they look roughly Business Card sized? As Nicky says, adapting this to the Business Card format, and printing on Green Stock (which is slightly 'flippier') could be perfect. Bind the book nicely at one edge, put back in the nice little holder, and bingo - what a cute memento for newly weds, or a great little keepsake for new parents. Alternatively, as someone suggested in the comments, what a cool, hands-on way to show new people your video work... No cables required.
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Just incase you don't subscribe to the newsletter - or something awful's happened, preventing you from reading the latest issue - I thought I should let you know we're now doing bulk discounts for Business Cards and Postcards.
While many of you love the fact that Business Cards come in short runs of 50 cards, some of the networking junkies among you were pleading for bigger packs. Ever happy to oblige, we've launched a special bulk 200 pack, which saves 20% off the cost of 4 separate 50s. Even better, they're delivered in a swanky box, (made and printed at an FSC certified supplier) and come with the free 50 pack holder included. Nice.
We've also introduced a bulk pack for Postcards. Save over 15% when you buy one pack of 60 cards, rather than three packs of 20! We did this as we see so many packs of wedding invites and baby announcements go through, we thought you could do with a little help. Twenty isn't always enough, and a bulk pack saves you time and money, just when you could probably use it. The photo above shows one such pack, of an unbelievably cute baby, photographed by Andy Mosse.
So there you have it; discounted bulk packs, because big is beautiful.
As we've mentioned before in this blog, seeing the amazing images people put on their MOO products is half the fun of this job. There's such a wealth of creativity out there, it blows us away. Of course there's beautiful photography, but sometimes its the *things* that are photographed that are the key.
Look at these for example, beautiful photos of finely crafted jewellery, by Redcrow.
And these Postcards by Natasha Newton, showing an ink drawing - and one of her paintings.
These cute MiniCards show off kunklebaby's crafting skills:
While LushLampwork uses Text MiniCards as swing-tags, to go with the beautiful glass beads she makes.
These show off a talent I'm not sure I'd even heard of in this sense, smocking, by tinctory. If you're curious, take a look at the set, it's incredible.
While Abigail Percy, an old MOO friend uses MOO Business Cards to show off her gorgeous hand-made jewellery.
In the meantime, the MOO office crafting skills are coming together slowly, but I think it'll take a few of us quite a while to get to these standards... what about you?
"When was the last time you were at a wedding that had a death defying hike, rogue waves, a luau, ultimate fighting, a presidential candidate and a budding bromance?" asks Papi Chulo. For most of us, the answer is never, but luckily, Papi Chulo and Secret Agent Scotch took the time to Vox all the amazing moments during their unforgettable Hawaiian wedding on 08.08.08 so we could all take part in the festivities.
The story began last February, when Papi Chulo popped the question and Secret Agent Scotch said yes! Since then, they've kept us in the loop about all the details, from the bride's veil to the wedding song to the final To-Do List. And throughout it all, they inspired us with their love for each other. (I'm pretty sure it doesn't get any better than knowing your future husband thinks you are The Perfect Girl.)
It's an amazing love story and we are thrilled they shared it with us. Watch the video of the ceremony and please join us in wishing Papi Chulo and Secret Agent Scotch the fairytale ending they deserve.
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Can't get enough of the wedding? A few lucky Voxers - Krissy, djchall, and Beau Smith - made the trip to Hawaii to take part in the celebration. Check out their Vox blogs for more pictures and stories.
Congratulations again to Secret Agent Scotch and Papi Chulo! Enjoy the Honeymoon!
I'm guessing if you drop by the blog now and again, you'll know just how glamorous life is at MOO. Well, I say glamorous, there are times when we're not even allowed a chair, let alone a roof over our heads...
Poor dev team... They're lucky it wasn't raining.
We are allowed pie though, it's true -
To be honest, its more toast 'n' Marmite than champagne and canapés. But what's the one thing that makes us more glamorous than most? Well, it's gotta be the fact we work practically *on* a roundabout.
MOO's friend Matt Jones, of Dopplr took this photo, so you can see just how beautiful it really is.
Of course we're not the only ones that work in such a spectacular location, we count Dopplr themselves as neighbours, along with Last F.M, Schultze and Webb and tinker.it.
In fact, so marvellous is our location, two articles have been written about it in the same day! This one, by the FT and this one, by the Evening Standard. It's no longer merely 'Old Street Roundabout', but 'Silicon Roundabout'! We've hit the big time!
Read all about it, as they say..
(Thanks to Matt Biddulph for the photo)
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-daisy
Just when we thought summer was never going to arrive, MOO HQ is slowly melting in the London sunshine. While our brains are frying, here's some inspiration from people with just a bit more energy than we have right now. Some great shots of people using MOO's to their fullest potential...
Mini flyers! And yes, Mini in every sense of the word. Flickr user, dlopez8a has created these with Business Cards to promote a Mini Cooper social, in South Carolina.
oh_gosh has also used Business Cards, but this time for invitations to a private party. She used Wordle to create these - which seems to be more popular by the second! (If you've not tried it, you should give it a go).
These Text MiniCards were spotted in Canada, decorating favours for a baby shower. It's a complicated line of credit, but, praguelondon posted this photo on Flickr - and it was actually taken by her friend Melanie.
Willeke & Bertrand have been busy creating beautiful things, and then wrapping them - each package perfectly sealed with a little MOO Sticker
While another crafter, jek in the box took this beautiful shot of her work, all tagged with MiniCards and ready for sale.
And last but by no means least, look at these cool MiniCards, Postcards and badge sets! designbyclaire made them for an exhibition, and they look fantastic!
Nobody shout. It's Friday, and really, who doesn't need a little peace and quiet on a Friday? ESPECIALLY AFTER OUR PARTY! Ouch. We had fun! And from the great photos we've seen, so did you. Thanks to everyone for coming along last night, it was fantastic to see so many of you. After a hectic last-minute change of venue, we were all a little worried. But you can't keep a good MOOster down, and everyone made it there – and made it great.
We had Stickers, as modelled by the ever handsome MOO interns, Jake and Angel. They're photographed here by Alicia, but please, all future model bookings should come via me...
We had balloons, as beautifully shot by _sarchi
Postman Pat came along too - Alex took this photo. Pat was delivering MOO orders, placed by party people earlier this week. 
There were bowler hats, like this one, modelled by Meg Pickard, and shot by Richard.
Some of which were cunningly customised-on-the-go, like this one, shot by tommyajohansson 
Each bowler hat had a sticker inside - if you found a black and white cat, you won a prize! If you found the stray ginger cat, then the boobie prize was yours... Well, we say boobie prize, but really, who wouldn't want a signed photo of Iain, our lovely project manager? On reflection, maybe the lovely lady who won it...
We had food - or so I hear. Look at these people! 'Twas gone in a flash! This photo is by Annie Mole
and this, of the aftermath by M.J.S.
It was pretty hot inside, so lots of people headed for the ouside space - and partied from light:
(photo by symphonic knot)
'Till dark
(photo by AnnieMole)
In a nutshell? A fun time was has by all...
(photo by _sarchi)
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And a tiny PS: look what happened today... the lunch company totally got our order wrong. We were supposed to have 29 pies for lunch, and we got...
Sixty! Sixty pies. Which makes a very happy MOO Crew:
(Thanks to blackbeltjones for the photo of Richard.)
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Thanks again for coming - and have a great weekend!
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