Natural History Museum Evolution iPad app

The Natural History Museum Evolution iPad app features moving image assets edited by Toast and produced by Hotheads’ Josh Goode for his client, Authored Apps.

The 360° panoramic app animates the lives of over a thousand organisms in their natural habitats over a humungous timescale and is now available through iTunes.

Using the amazing Timeglobe feature you can locate where any creature used to live on our plant and where they live now.

From mass extinctions to the rise of homo sapiens, it takes you through major evolutionary events of the earth.

Plus, learn about all kinds of cutting edge evolutionary science from leading experts of evolutionary theory with video tutorials, audio commentaries and animation.

This footage is provided in HD with touch screen functionality built in, allowing you to explore every minor detail at your own speed.

The content brings to life meticulous research conducted over a hundred archaeological sites around the world.

It was researched and authored by science writer and lecturer, Douglas Palmer.

It is accredited, endorsed and supplemented by experts from the Natural History Museum’s world-renowned Palaeontology Department.

Contributors include Dr Paul Kenrick, Prof. Chris Stringer, Prof. Adrian Lister, Dr Jerry Hooker, Dr Martin Munt and Dr Angela Milner.

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Gazza's Umbro ad

Congratulations to Hotheads producer Josh Goode for the new Umbro ad, which was edited by Toast's editor James Gentle. It will be screened at Wembley at England v Belgium over the weekend, and featured in the ad break between England v Norway last weekend. 

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Shell Advance 7 Riding Wonders of the World competition

On location at Shell's Ultimate Riding Wonder track, the Coorg-Ooty-Munnar route.

Toast recently put our new miniature GoPro Hero 2s cameras through their paces at the Shell Advance 7 Riding Wonders of the World competition. The competition got motorcycle lovers from across the globe to vote on their favourite roads to ride on.

We were filming on behalf of Hotheads, Shell Advance Oils and Ducati. The filming took place on the newly crowned world’s Ultimate Riding Wonder, the Coorg-Ooty-Munnar route. This road from was chosen out of the top seven routes that had been voted for through this extensive online campaign.

We used all manner of helmet mounts, body mounts, rubber suckers, arms, clamps and imagination. This meant that the Go Pros put the viewer firmly in the saddle on this amazing journey through the Hill Stations and Tea plantations of Kerela.

We even managed a few GoPro time lapse sequences. The GoPro Hero 2 is reputedly the most versatile camera in the world. It certainly lived up to its name on this occasion.

John Gradwell

On location at Shell's Ultimate Riding Wonder track, the Coorg-Ooty-Munnar route.