A decade of people doing great work together!
Here’s 10 years of Magnopus in words and emojis…
We’ve taken Marty & Bob & Leo & Brad on a world tour without leaving a single room. 🤵🏻♂️🗺️
We’ve created a main title sequence in the Cosmos. ☀️🪐
We’ve put Warren Buffet in a boxing ring with Floyd Mayweather. 👴🏻🥊
We’ve taken influencers to islands in the clouds with unicorns. 🦄
We worked on the down-low with astronauts to create the first 360º videos from space. 👩🏻🚀🛰️🌎
We’ve made intergalactic music videos with space whales. 🪐🐋
We’ve helped the world’s largest children’s museum turn kids into circus performers. 🎪🤹♂️
We robbed a bank with clowns (and almost got shot by LAPD). 🤡🚔🚨🤡
We’ve sold tiles on a spacecraft to fund the construction of the hangar. 🚀
We’ve taken kids on musical adventures to the Pacific Islands. 🏝️⛵️
We’ve taken 4 million people to the International Space Station. 🌌🛰️✨
We’ve visualized all of Earth’s social media streams in real-time (from Space). 🌍😳🌏
We made a whale breach out of the ground on land. 👀🐋🌴
We were the Ghost in the Shell. 👻🐚
We gave people a close-up with an astronaut on the Moon. 👨🏻🚀🌙
We illustrated and published a children’s book about water ecosystems. 🌊🚣
We kidnapped people’s memories in an abandoned shopping mall. 🎥🧠 We made an AR app for muralists to Muralize. 🎨🧑🎨
We designed a habitat for a trip to Mars. 🚀🌌
We built a driveable road-legal deckchair complete with a slushy machine. 🪑🕶🧋
We turned the floor into lava. 🌋🔥
We went on a journey around the moon with Liberty Bell 7. 🌝🛰️
We put The Apprentice (not that one) in VR. 👨🎓💸
We loaned NASA a thumb drive with the Earth on it (haven’t gotten it back yet). 🌎💾
We made a logo animation for a salad commercial 🎥🥗
We virtually launched the first electric car. 🚙 🥽
We turned people’s bedrooms into fish tanks. 🐟🐠🐬🐙
We added koi ponds to people’s living rooms. 🐟🛋️
We raced Supercars against Superhumans. 🦹♂️ 🏎️💨🏎
We developed experiences for the first holographic phone.📱
We put the fun into every Lyft ride. 🚕 🎢
We redesigned dashboard navigation for a major car company. 🚗 🗺️
We reimagined the car buying experience for a different car company. 🚗 💵
We terrified people in cars with VR headsets. 😱🧟🚗
We made a 'Broadway Joe' hologram at the Football Hall of Fame. 🏈🕴️
We helped Michael Bublé serenade the world. 🎵🌎
We made a dozen awesome experiences for Disney that will never see the light of day. 🤫🏰
We made a half-dozen that did, (and people loved). 🏆🏆🏆
We put kids & their friends into a Pixar movie. 🎬👫
We put Sci-Fi fans (& Doug Trumbull!) into a spinner in Bladerunner 2049. 🌌🌆
We landed at the Peaks of Eternal Light. 🛬🌙
We sang with Björk on a beach in Iceland. ☾⋆ 𓇼 🌊 🐚°✩
We built CNN’s media platform for immersive news. 📺 🌐
We gave everyone their wings with Red Bull. 👩🏽✈️✈
We teleported a film crew to Africa and surrounded them with lions. 🦁👑
We helped build a holodeck for the wrong “Star” show. 🌟
We built Times Square NYC in the year 2030. 🗽🚀
We got Punched and Drunk. 👊🏻🎭
We spent months rescuing miners in the salt mines of Colombia and Peru. ⛏️ 🤝
We hung out with a kid raised by wolves and a rag-tag bunch of talking animals. 👦🏽🐅
We took apart a bunch of rockets and spacecraft to show how they worked. 🚀🌌
We bungee jumped off the tallest tower in Macau. 🏢 🪢
We built a 4km2 city in an empty desert and filled it with people from around the world. 🏜️🌍📱
We converted a warehouse into a robot-filled movie studio. 🏭 🤖
We helped a musician sing a duet with himself on another planet. 🧑🎤🎤🧑🎤
We built a Hostel for Hackers. 💻🏨
We made a Warhammer Powerfist. 🎮 🤜
We helped ballet dancers warm things up. 💃🩰
We licensed a book franchise.💸📚
We published an open-source platform to keep the Internet interoperable. 🌐🔓
We built an escape room you can’t escape from.🚪🗝️
We wrote a holographic operating system for a mech droid. 🤖💻
We built an IMAX movie theater in VR so we could watch a live-action 3D movie rendered completely on a computer. 🎬🕶️💻
We designed a Signature Pavilion at a World Expo they made a coffee table book about. ☕📖
We put Stan Lee into Low Earth Orbit and made him say WOW! 🦸🏻♂️🌏
We made a movie in a forest on a stage with a waterfall coming out of the TV and made a lake in your living room (then we added dolphins and butterflies.) 🌳🌊🐬🦋
We built a mobile hospital-grade VR cart for pain treatment at a children’s hospice. 🏥🩺👪
We turned your fingers into tentacles (and then set them on fire). 🦑✋
We created a dating show, an animated children’s show, and a documentary about human spaceflight. 🚀📺🎥
We made a game about catching bugs, and QA’d it until there were none left. 🕷️🐜🐞
We cloned a musician to give a concert where everyone could be on stage. 🎤👥🧑🎤
We made movie posters turn passers-by into superheroes. 🦸♂️🎬
We took children to a Holocaust camp (through the experience of a child who was there).😔
And those were just the crazy ideas we executed (you should see the things that actually went too far! 🤯 ).
We abandoned a lot of great (bad) ideas & forgot to finish a few things (on purpose), but we always commented our code and tried to make things suck less for whoever comes after us.
Thanks for being a part of our journey together. Now onto the next decade!
