Brian Kiel

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• Methodist Health – mobile bestcare.org site

  Created a concise mobile site for Methodist Health System using the Javascript mobile framework jQTouch. Having looked at the analytics for the client’s site, I determined that the current mobile users had been visiting bestcare.org looking for a distinct subset of information. So, rather than try to cram all of the content from the standard […]

• Sony Playstation – Jak II: “This is Jak’s World”

  Rich media with an in-ad game promoting the new Jak II Sony Playstation game.

• Adidas – Boston Marathon – “What’s Your Reason?”

  A Flash kiosk application created for deployment by Adidas at the 2007 Boston Marathon.  When in place, allowed the user to enter their “reason” for running, take a photo (using the kiosk’s onboard camera), and receive a takeaway one-sheet containing (amongst other things) their photo, their reason, and a splash of Adidas branding.

• AS3 library to interface with Xbox’s Kinect – my new time-suckage

  I have a new source of time-suckage, and its name is the Kinect. Back in December, someone hacked Microsoft’s Kinect.. allowing computers to interface and receive raw data from the full-body motion/gesture sensing device. A week or two ago, in early January, another group created an AS3 solution. The solution consists of a command-line socket […]

• Earthlink – Sales loop video

  Flash animation created for use as a sales loop video at Earthlink events. + Flash development

• Sony Playstation – SOCOM: Hellweek

  Take a dozen Playstation gamers, fly them to the Naval base in San Diego. Film them going through Navy SEAL training Hell Week. Make a site about the experience.

• Nike – “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”

  An interactive video rich-media ad which follows a woman on her morning run.  As she moves through the seasons, her wardrobe changes and a selection menu is displayed behind her.  At any given moment, the user can select from the product menu, see details about that particular product, and (if they wish) go directly to that product’s page on the Nike Store site.

• Blue Diamond & NBC – HTML5 pushdown

  Pushdown HTML5 unit for Blue Diamond Almonds & NBC.

• 58hours

  Initially thought up as a project where I could use a ColdFusion beta (I’d never even touched CFML), once the ColdFusion beta expired, it then became a project for me to learn PHP and mySQL… I then later went on to make a (throwaway) port of the site in order to learn .NET.

• Kimera GPS

  Pronounced like “chimera”, and modeled after said word… Kimera GPS (“glyph pack system”) is the codename for a process I created wherein “font-packs” are compiled on-demand by the server and fed to dynamic display ads in the wild.