‘The Amateurs’ scoop the top prize in Wacom’s MySpace ‘Sound of Bamboo’ music competition

Wacom has just added the football game KickIt! Mini to its Bamboo Dock, just in time for the World Cup. Players can choose a national team they would like to represent and take it in turns to shoot at or defend the goal. Players can choose to either train, in order to build their skills, or go straight to challenge where they can record their scores online. At the end of the world cup the top 5 players with the highest scores will win a football shirt. The game is certainly keeping us busy here at Ranieri HQ!

As the Wacom ‘Sound of Bamboo’ contest moves in to the final voting stage, Alan Branch, jury member and UK based producer who has worked with the likes of Depeche Mode and Primal Scream, lets us know what he will be looking for in a winning piece of music and what technology he couldn’t live without…

Three models in the series enable face-to-face and lively interaction with the audience

In April Wacom began its search for the ‘Sound of Bamboo’, a My Space competition which was launched across Europe to find a piece of music that could be used for the Bamboo brand video. It needed to reflect the essence of the brand which is about inspiration, expressing creativity and communicating personality. http://www.myspace.com/soundofbamboo. Not only will the winning song be used with the Bamboo clip in related marketing activities, but the winner will also receive €10,000 worth of music equipment from Music Store!

The competition was open to anyone and all genres of music. A panel of music experts from all over Europe including Alan Branch, a UK based producer who has worked with the likes of Depeche Mode and Primal Scream narrowed hundreds of entries down to just 45. It is now down to the general public and My Space community to vote for the top three songs before the ultimate winner is crowned by the jury.

The song submission stage is now closed for judging

Recently, a couple of us at Ranieri were lucky enough to interview comic book legend Dave Gibbons. He has worked on many iconic graphic novels throughout his career including Superman and Batman. However, he’s probably best known now for his collaboration with Alan Moore on Watchmen.

We recently worked with Fixation Video to create a viral for Wacom at Focus On Imaging. Fixation Video is run by Susi Weaser and Will Head, both former journalists who still freelance on the side. We caught up with them recently to find out more about Fixation Video and why video is the way forward for businesses…

Focus on Imaging, Europe’s biggest annual photography show passed in a flash. Held at Birmingham’s NEC at the beginning of this week, the event exposed major players including Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, Sony and HP to professional and amateur photographers from all over the globe.

The new Wacom Cintiq 21UX has just been launched. Wacom has also just uploaded this video outlining the Cintiq 21UX’s unique features…

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New Cintiq provides enhanced pen performance and innovative ergonomics for more creative control, comfort and productivity

Wacom, today introduces its newly redesigned Cintiq 21UX interactive pen display, delivering state-of-the-art pen performance and innovative ergonomics. Designed specifically to meet the demanding needs of professional photographers, designers, artists and animators, the new Cintiq 21UX offers unparalleled creative control, comfort and productivity.

The widescreen interactive pen display replaces the blackboard enabling face-to-face interaction with the audience

The ideal pen tablet for on-the-go professional creators of digital content

Since the beginning of 2009 when we started working with Wacom, I have been using a Bamboo pen tablet instead of a mouse. It took me a couple of days to get used to it but now it feels very natural and I wouldn’t go back…even if you offered me this one http://www.fabstuff.net/products/664. Okay, maybe I would, but only because it’s apparently worth over £14,000. However I would just sell it on eBay before going back to my Bamboo.

Are you one of the 12 million signed up to Twitter? Do you try to say something interesting, thought provoking or funny in your status? Are you limited by 140 characters? Drawtweet, the new Bamboo Mini is an application that allows users to say more in one tweet.

Three of the team ventured to the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) in London last night for the 2009 Macworld Awards, with everything crossed for the four Ranieri clients who were nominated.

Wacom Bamboo Award-winning Bamboo from Wacom is a new consumer pen tablet that enables users to unlock powerful pen-based features found in current operating systems, especially Microsoft’s Windows Vista. The sleek, black, gadgety Bamboo is aimed at consumers in any home office or workplace and can be used as an advanced input device for the computer, enhancing the experience for those working with office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and email, offering new and individual ways of using a computer.