Last week Control the Riot visited the British Medical Ascociation in Euston to attend the opening of Nikes new media hospitality space. For the duration of the Olympics Nike have hired out this building for athletes and journalists to make use of and the new space comes with some exciting glimpses of the future. The
Whilst the title may make this article sound incredibly boring, vending machines have become an incredibly interesting form of marketing in recent years with the onset of technology. Recently those crazy people behind big brand marketing have realized that social media and viral marketing need not be confined to the internet and can in-fact be
Obviously Nas is a fan of CTR, as he has just launched his own version of Most Wanted Weekly. Taking inspiration from Alex’s weekly column, Nas launched a new website yesterday called 12 Society which focuses on highlighting the best new gadgets, products and websites from a series of celebrities. With Nas representing musicians, Nick
For most of the past month I have been addicted to Skyrim, a game so compelling that instead of gasps of disdain you get nods of understanding whenever you choose to share with other people that you’ve been playing a game for more than five hours a day. Not too long ago my dragon fried brain pondered
Despite their saturated genre the Call of Duty series, thanks to imaginative game design has created some of the most memorable moments in gaming. Considering Call of Duty’s back catalogue of games (ranging from the WW2 trenches to modern day warfare) they have inevitably come to create Black Ops 2, a game based around future
Blizzard has just let loose its latest Diablo 3 teaser and in true Blizzard style it is nothing short of astounding. The onslaught of grotesque demonic figures, flaming tendrils and electrified explosions make for an epic introduction to the third in the series of this Action RPG. In terms of gameplay Diablo games generally stick
Cogoo, a bicycle sharing company in Japan, have had the pretty awesome idea of combining two elements of street culture–BMX and music–into one, by successfully turning your bike into a set of turntables and a mixer. They call it the ‘Turntable Rider’. The wheels act as jog wheels, the brakes as a beat pad and
On the final night of this year’s Coachella music festival, fans were treated to an extra special performance. Iconic rapper Tupac Shakur returned from the grave and played live in front of the crowd through the use of holograms on the stage. Snoop Dogg joined him in the flesh and performed some of 2pac’s greatest
Last week we posted the MP3 of the new Converse sponsored collaboration track, Desire, starring Bill Ryder-Jones, Paloma Faith and Graham Coxon. Today we’ve been given the video for the song exclusively, and it’s truly something to behold. Shot in a Sin City-esque style, the video follows Paloma driving in a car through the otherworldiness
The company I work for, Billington Cartmell, has just released our latest project for Carlsberg. We have been helping launch their new global brand positioning, and to kickstart it all we produced this content with Projection Advertising. Our team headed over to the White Cliffs of Dover to produce one of the UKs biggest projection
