Mark Celsor

Last Thursday the big CES Consumer Electronics Show kicked of in Las Vegas. I had an opportunity to work with Alejandrino Partners in San Ramon, California to produce a 2-minute video promoting SanDisk’s new Mobile Ultra 16GB memory cards at the show. The video ran on a big video wall display at their booth during the show which expected over 15,000 visitors.

This project was a lot of fun to work on. Like the work I did for Adobe earlier this month, it was yet another departure from the online world. Again I used Adobe Flash, but this time for very different type of product, bringing together videos and animation to produce something much less like a desktop application or a web animation and more like a television commercial.

(Please excuse the YouTube video quality.)

Adobe decided to take a modern spin on traditional, paper, “picture of the day” calendars with the “Places I’d Rather Be” calendar widget. It’s a simple application that you can install on your computer that shows a different beautiful photo from locations around the world for every day of 2009. It also lets you drag in and caption your own photos and make notes on any day. The program runs on OS X, Windows and Linux using Adobe’s AIR runtime and I put it all together using Adobe Flash working with a great group of people from Receiver Studio and G2 in San Francisco and New York. The project was a lot of fun to work on since developing a desktop widget is a departure from the online work I normally do.

Install Adobe AIR and “Place’s I’d Rather Be”