About a year ago, I was asked to work on this project called ConQwest - a Big Urban Game featuring 120 kids running around various cities shooting semacodes with camera phones and dragging 20-foot tall inflatable game pieces through the city streets. It was good times (and we did pretty good work... ConQwest highlighted in "One" magazine + won both a Clio and a Silver Pencil from the One Show) - so special thanks to crew who travelled to five cities in five weeks: Kevin + Liz + Frank + Mattia + Naomi + Jess.

Version 2.0 - aka ConQwest 2005 - just finished up and Mike and Dan (pals from grad school) are now part of the ConQwest alumni. There's a wrap party tonight which should be a pretty good time (though probably not as good a time as what went down a year ago)...



Denver. [video, 7mb]



And two weeks later in Salt Lake City. [video, 8mb]



And for more ConQwest-related good times, make sure to check out the Mechanical Bull Tournament of Champions.

ps1: Just looked at the Clio thing for the first time and noticed I'm listed as a "Media Planner" which is awesome since that is what I was supposed to do once I graduated from college anyway (me = majored in Advertising, focus on Media / Account side of things). Ha.

ps2: ConQwest is a registered trademark of Qwest Communications International Inc.

Hey, ConQwest - the camera phone + semacode + scavenger hunt + big urban game I was working on last fall (remember? 5 cities in 5 weeks?) was just featured on the cover (!!) of "One, a Magazine" (an advertising / design mag). Rumor has it we're up for a One Show Award. (click pics for more info)

 

Made a last-minute trip up to Vermont this weekend w/ Jay + Jackie + Liz in tow.

6 inches fell on Thursday night - another 6 on Saturday afternoon. Best conditions of the season.

After 5 consecutive weekends of ConQwest, we finished up in Phoenix and took a field trip over to the Phoenix Internation Raceway for some NASCAR action.