July 2009
1 post
Transylvania's Got Talent
Salutations noble Franken fans! It has been a time of much excitement this week at the Frankenlab as we learned that our very own misshapen hunchback manservant Igor had progressed through the semi finals of ‘Transylvania’s got Talent’ (Transylvania’s top-rated tea-time family extravaganza!). Two days ago we took a horse-drawn cab to the local airport and waved adieu to our lumpy butler as he...
June 2009
3 posts
Suffer the Children
Ach mein Gott, what a morning!
Today saw the Frankenlab’s first (and may I hastily add LAST) ‘bring your kids to work day’. What started off a morale- building exercise for the team quickly turned to chaos when my little nephew Ralphie discovered the lab’s supply of medicinal alcohol, one of Elsie’s puppies got stuck in the air conditioning outlet and Igor’s socially maladjusted two-year-old...
Welcome to 'The Frankenlab'
Hello dear friends, welcome to the Frankenlab, the place where I’ll be preserving some of your most interesting submissions for posterity in a glorious ‘Frankenstory Hall of Fame’. Think of it as a kind of taxidermy display for your stories where I lovingly stuff and mount some of your freakiest creations (before gluing googly eyes to them and using them to scare small children).
This isn’t...
Guten Tag From Doctor Victor Frankenstory!
Willkommen my esteemed story scientists! I am Dr. Victor Emelius Frankenstory, eminent physicist, prolific wordsmith and three-time North Tyrolean table tennis champion (1957-1959). I am also the creator of Frankenstory, the world’s greatest literary experiment.
Based in my secret Frankenlab (hidden somewhere beneath an abandoned Cuckoo-clock factory in downtown Geneva) my incredible monstrous...
April 2009
1 post
It's Alive!!
Frankenstory is now live to the world..
Get writing people!
March 2009
7 posts
The best one so far..
..even if I do say so myself. This one has a lovely mashup of styles and an ending which makes you think he must have seen the intro.. but of course he couldn’t have.. freaky man..
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Best for John who had just inherited an ice cream and go-kart factory, worst for his best friend Jim who was being continually walloped around the thighs with a...
It’s Alive!! (Sort of..)
OK, the prototype’s working! We just conducted our first ever real test - this is by Mike and Antonio. And it’s a corker..
As the mist settled over the dark, empty hillside silence descended. The men pulled their jacket collars up to keep the damp from their necks and crowded closer to the fire. The moon’s silver light made the fog glow. , and as their eyes adjusted a gigantic pulsating banana...
We have a breathrough!
Mike has got the word “Mike” to appear on screen!
We’re going, sort of..
So far today we: got together on Skype, came up with the name Frankenstory (and bought Frankenstory.com!!!) had lunch, finished off the UX, had Pringles and hummus, Mike started putting the app together in Merb then ditched it for Sinatra.
Our first story!
This was a story written by Mike and Suzie while we were testing the idea by email - I was copying and pasting by hand, pretending to be a computer or a folded up piece of A4 paper). It definitely works!
Thomas the tank engine rolled into the station, just as he did at 6:43 every morning. The platform was quiet - it was still too early for the morning rush of commuters - and he coasted to a halt,...
Hello world!
We’re making a bit of a toy, check out the “What is this?” to find out a bit more about it.
We didn’t really need a blog, but it’s a good way to track what we’re doing so we can remember when we’ve finished..