Eurotrash/PlanetRapido Website
Project:
planetrapido.com was the extension of the bizarre world of Rapido into cyberspace. Always entertaining, oft-times shocking, never knowingly tasteful. For two years I lived and breathed smut, sauce, wierdness and curios.
In design terms planetrapido was a huge amount of fun to work on, though it's surprising how much work goes into making something look that tacky!
The site itself is huge in scope and literally leaves no stone unturned in it's search for the underside of european life. From the innocent ministerings of the 'Furries' to the depths of perversion plumbed by the fetish family, planetrapido has never faltered in its mission to probe the soft underbelly of Europe's sexuality and culture.
Being extremely graphics and media heavy you'd expect the return rate of visitors to be atrocious and it yet still enjoyed healthy amounts of traffic, with many visitors returning again and again, I suppose they just couldn't believe their eyes the first time around.
Several proprietry systems were built to handle the dissemination of the site's media including the site's own online currency (the ribbit) and it's video postcard and cheap thrills systems. Every story contained at least one streamed clip and the emphasis was very mcuh on making as many things as possible clickable and in this vein moves were also being made towards the development of pay-per-play flash games and subscriptions systems in an attempt to cash in on it's loyal user base.
During the time that I worked on planetrapido.com I had the opportunity to learn many media skills and technologies from both an internet and a televisual standpoint and was lucky enough to have had several pieces of work broadcast in the company's flagship 'Eurotrash programme.
Audience:
Who knows, and who can tell? Just about everyone from all walks of life. As soon as I started work there, thinking that the hey day of Eurotrash had passed, viewers and fanatics started to crawl out of the woodwork. must be some sort of
