Brazen
460, Sainte-Catherine street Ouest suite 710
montreal (qc), canada, h3b 1a7
+1 514 439 6542

A glimpse into our work

About Brazen

Brazen is a Montreal based web lab
founded by Michael Ekoka and
François Morin. We strive to provide
an intuitive, innovative and refreshing
user experience. Follow us on our blog, twitter, delicious or contact us to talk about a project.
François Morin
I see the web as a platform bridging the real world to the virtual world. I wish to contribute to the tools required to bring the user experience further and make it more memorable. The web is in motion and constantly redefining itself. Therefore, the developer should always challenge himself by exploring new technologies.
+1 514 569 6245
francois[a]brazen.ca
Michael Ekoka
The Web. So many toys, so little time. We're all kids in this ultimate playground. The planet though, is still not small enough. So much yet to discover and to forget. Lets shrink it some more for the global conversation. That's a journey I wanna be part of... one bug at a time.
+1 514 839 4667
michael[a]brazen.ca
The background is an auto-generated snapshot representing a random excerpt
of today's news.
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—Permalink
Project : The Fox Space Invaders website Link: Client : Provokat Technology : PHP, JavaScript, Flash

Fox Space Invaders is a project done for Provokat that was entirely built, but was never made public. The game is a metaphor showing the abusive approach of some corporation over the users using their 2.0 websites.

To play, the player enters his MySpace URL. Once this is completed, his real MySpace page is shown with the game layered on top of it. The player plays the eyeball and is mission is to destroy the banners that are overtaking his page while trying not to get crush by the MySpace monster. While running after eyeball, the monster destroys the content of the user's page.

The game was built in a transparent Flash that is layered on top of the MySpace page of the player. Before the game begins, the player page is downloaded via PHP and modify so that non-compatible elements are remove from the page. Then, we execute a bunch of JavaScript function to gather the URL and detect the exact position of every image on the page before removing and replacing them to create black holes. The information is then sent to Flash so that every image could be reload in exactly the same place on the page, allowing the Flash to make them explode during the game.

The background is generated daily from random headlines. It is an attempt at synthesizing in one image and one sentence the news of the day. A work in progress.
Le fond est reconstruit chaque jour à partir d'articles ayant fait la manchette et choisis au hasard. L'expérience consiste à synthétiser en une phrase et une image l'actualité de la journée. Un travail en cours.
What do you see? [video] / Sleeping with baby [comic] / Server outage turns Harmony Link into a paperweight / How would you change the Motorola Droid RAZR? /