The point of the BSI blog is to show you things that really only interest or inspire us, hence periods of radio silence where nothing we see really floats out boat.

Eco Zoo, by McCaan Erickson - Japan, caught our eye this week while doing the rounds. A superb use of online interactivity and a fantastic method of presentation.

[check it out]

Shush! Iron Man was a way better film than we ever expected, good enough in fact to be added to the rather selective DVD collection. Nay sayers be banished.

Perhaps though the coolest aspect to the film was the motion graphics at the end. Designed by a chap by the name of Danny Yount, they are really quite superb. Lucky for you, you can see them [here] if you have not already. Nice to see them not lost to the ‘back of a film’ forever.

We all know, yes we ALL know, that Japanese Magna and Anime has been infested with walking machines, ‘mecha’, for decades. One has had to ponder the reality, or even practicality, of these ideas over more conventional and much cheaper tracked and wheeled options that exist today, no mater how cool they look. But in a case where fact follows fiction, check this out:

“Red and Jonny are 2 Married Artists who live happily ever after in Caledonia, Ontario Canada.

We were married September 16th 2006.
and it was awesome!!!

While on our Honeymoon, we bought our first Stormtrooper Helmet. and we’ve been taking it with us ever since.
So in a way… these Young Stormtroopers in Love photo’s are really a chronicle of our marriage.”

[Fantastically strange, wonderful and funny]

‘Culture x Design x Style’

We pull inspiration from all over the shop. It drives us as designers, to be creative, to keep us ticking. The web is so full of blogs and sites that are great, it’s hard to think where to start. But at the top left of our browsers, we have a folder called ‘Daily Roamings’, and that’s where the really special sites we find go. Why? Because they are sites that we decide are worth looking at every time we fire up in the mornings because they usually have something that gives us that extra spark for the day.

‘Hell For Leather’ is one such site. No, nothing to do with S&M, but everything to do with stuff that goes fast, particularly stuff on two wheels. We love it, enough to actually tell you about it.

[Go check it out]

This is one of these things that we found quite some time ago and then it vanished… or we lost track of it. Well, it’s cropped up again.

Aviary is, or seems to be, the web app solution to Adobe. It looks interesting and indeed very capable and considering the costs involved in keeping up with Adobe software, it does indeed have a lure. How good is it compared to the big A? Don’t now yet, but one would think that if you are going to do something like this, you’d do it really right.

We’re keeping an eye one Aviary, for all the right reasons.