From Love Comes Paine

The second site we produced for Paines Park Project, From Love Comes Paine is the consumer spin on the movement. Our aim was to generate buzz about the project from an experience that shows the importance of Philadelphia’s mark on skateboarding and explains the importance of reviving that tradition.

From a technology standpoint, the site was originally slated as a full-screen video feed pulling user submissions from YouTube. This was before YouTube released a player API. We used PHP and CURL to hack YouTube into feeding us the .flv files instead of returning their video player. Thematically we saw this much like a skater sliding a park bench or grinding a curb. Eventually we concluded that user submissions would…

Posted on May 03.08 to Portfolio | No Comments »