March work at Skim New Media Certainly for us at Skim – March has stormed in like a lion, with the first day of spring bringing with it a flood of interesting work from Spa retreats, ceramics, & architects – (completed) to a Devon based hotel, landscape designers, consultants and a sound therapist (in progress).…
Valentines day is all done and dusted for another year – but learning about yourself and how heart and head connect could improve your own happiness and your relationships! We’ve just uploaded these polished new films – created by talented Schmick.tv for the glorious Shakti Tantra team, so delve in and explore…
28 days – 28 Photographs Skim are working continuously on client work (we have to pay bills!) but we love to stretch ourselves artistically and technically. Dave thrives on a project – so this month we are challenging ourselves to take a different photograph every day in February – using various lenses, subjects and locations.…
CassPLUS – The Movie Ok – so it’s more of a short promotional film for an amazing charity based in the South West rather than a ‘movie’! However, the work and support CASS+ provides is invaluable. They approached Skim to take on the challenge of 1 day of filming interviews with employees, trainee volunteers &…
Happy New Year all you lovely friends, clients, countrymen and city girls – lend me your eyes! (that sounded less sinister in my head) – OK – back on track we have built a shiny new website just for you – Well it was about time I know… We hope it shows you in a…
Composer James William Blades required a portfolio website A.S.A.P – something that he could easily add his new soundscapes, installations and other commercial audio project to. Happy to oblige James – onward and upwards in 2019. Check out the Portfolio page and run your mouse over each project – hmm.. nice.
If you need a semi-low loader trailer look no further as STG can supply one! For this job we created a custom plug-in for the website which allows the customer live trailer availability – wow, I hear you say, well yes pretty useful if you want a flat bed trailer to transport your specialist item…
Food Plymouth are an all action – always on the go – extremely busy organisation – with lots of important things to say and do about FOOD! – one of my favourite topics! It is an honour to be involved with this focused group of people on a mission to promote increase local Sustainable Food…
What a wonderful way to work – with lots of happy pregnant mothers-to-be! A clean, pure and simple website with lots of white calm space – no stress, as you would hope with a lovely yoga client! What ever you do keep breathing and STAY CALM!
Five fabulous properties in a fantastic location! After looking at these lovely properties whilst building this website I want to stay there more and more! Avon Farm Estates holiday cottages look amazing, have loads of rural space to enjoy, free eggs, happy farm animals around, close to both Bath and Bristol – plus all have…
Working with Christa Mackinnon on the design, build and functionality requirements for her website was certainly a positive experience – an added bonus to meet our client in person! We work in this online world, which does mean we don’t always (often) have a chance to meet the people we work for.. so this was…
Skim film of a portrait Our mission: Make an introductory film for the immensely talented portrait artist Rupert Alexander. The piece in question, an impressively large family portrait, on loan from the owner, for a short period of time, so the pressure (and heat) were on! Working with Rupert we hoped to produce a short…
Taking photographs and making films is a creative outlet we love to explore at Skim New Media. Time consuming, all consuming, but always enjoyable. If you have a band and want us to film it our new Nikon has amazing capabilities – even at really low level lighting. Watch The Morzim in action >>>
A is for Architecture Skim loved photographing our client architect Chris Munson’s most recent properties he has been involved with, certainly an interesting range! This job involved carefully planning to keep in within the timings as they were dotted in various South East Cornwall locations – sweaty work, but definitely enjoyed two days out of…
Always interesting to work on a project which is about sustainability and reducing carbon emissions – so being asked to work with the well established, wonderfully talented Chalk Ward team was exciting. Company CleanEarth are striving to develop and invest in sustainable technology – we all need to engage and understand this more so find…
Aaron Jaffe is super talented, award winning music composer who resides in NYC. It would have been great to pop over to the big apple to meet him in person, but sadly skype and email are sufficient apparently… Take some time out to have look and listen and spread the word about our USA buddy.
So Skim & family had lots of fun at the weekend – filming local band ‘The Morzim’ – just working on the mix down of the sound and the final edit, then if you are interested we will show you next week.. Here are some stills from the gig, we are certainly up for more…
This is not a demand – just a request! One of our amazing music composers Alex Harwood has recently released the soundtrack to new movie – ‘The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society’ (phew that rolls of the tongue!) If you need a moment of calm and loveliness in your day take a listen. (Plus…
Marazion is a marvellous location with views of St Michael’s Mount and sandy surrounding beaches. Have I sold it in yet? Skim have just updated the website design and functionality for this historic hotel and look forward to heading down to photograph the newly refurbished interior very soon.. !
Independently owned business The Old Bakery offers the warmest welcome to photographers & web designers as well as its usual clientele staying in their friendly, wonderfully located hotel, in the historic town of Kenilworth. Skim merrily met with the Old Bakery team and greatly enjoyed photographing the rooms, bar, food and customers. Great to have…
The most challenging aspect of this website job – continually try to spell the word buoyant correctly! Our brief, to produce a sleek, self-explanatory website that explains what Buoyant Works do and provide. Hopefully job done.
Not only has this prolific painter found his way into the high street at Whistlefish Galleries, but talented Devon based artist Giles Ward has now dressed the walls of the South Sands Hotel and Restaurant, with latest fish inspired collection in sunny Salcombe. Skim thought it would be shellfish not to tell you all about…
Just to let you know not only have we had to deal with the excessive amounts of companies asking us to opt in or out of their mailing list, but we’ve also had to write, design and send numerous ones out for clients – double fun. However the positive side is that GDPR should mean…
Always pleasing to see a local company that we’ve worked with for many years receiving recognition for their hard work. Cornish electronics company Resilience Communications have won two Queens Awards for Enterprise – sterling effort! We hope Skim’s photography and website design helped to clearly convey and promote their product.
As I am ‘on the list’ with these fine people I was fortunate enough to receive a heads up on their latest limited edition Camo Collection – I like to share.. https://chronicallymotivated.com/product/limited-edition-camo-collection/
The Plastic Oceanic team are taking action to create a positive impact on ocean plastics by 1) cleaning up and clearing non-recylable plastic from the ocean around Cornwall; 2) creating handmade, gorgeous products; 3) donating a share of profits to help fund bigger clear up projects, for example SAS. It was great to visualise and…
Just before Easter we launched the newly designed Midfields Granola website – so have a look at it’s shiny, lovely freshness! Independent granola ‘home-bakers’ and creators Sharon and Brian are dedicated and hardworking, so Skim pulled out all the stops to produce a series of images of their ever-growing range of gourmet granola. Photoshoot day…
Hi there, I am always blithering on about what we’ve been up to at Skim New Media, but for this blog post I need a response… All I need to know is if you if you like granola? and if so which brand and why? Do you think it is healthy and what would you…
