Marilyn visited the Barbarians @ The Roosevelt Hotel today. She lives here as a ghost you know. Here she is with Kim

Okay! Now that Cannes is over, we have some big news for you!

The Barbarian Group is supremely happy to announce that one Mr. Noah Brier has joined the company as our Head of Planning and Strategy. Noah is a good friend of ours, we’ve known him for a while now and are super happy to have him on board full time.

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So last night was the big Webby Award debut of Moodstream, our new project with Getty Images. Last night it debuted at the Webby Award Film and Video Awards after party here in New York at the Angel Orenz Foundation down in the LES.

This thing is so awesome. It’s so awesome! You gotta try it.

What is Moodstream? It’s a concepting tool. The modern version of the fireplace. An interactive art piece. TV for the future. It’s a website we created for and with Getty Images to showcase all of their offerings – still, video and sound – and inspire interactive creatives. And it’s really, really fun to use.

Oh, AND, it’s in .NET. I mean, come on. How hard core is that? Anyway mad props to Kim and Mike P and Shelby and Renee.

Nice writeup in the New York Times today about CNN Shirts, and they name-checked us! Many of our projects have been featured in the Times through the years, but rarely do they actually mention us, so this is an honor!

I always get a kick out of pictures of Benjamin at formal events. He’s one from the One Show Interactive last week. Good hair day, that one.

Hi, I’m Kenji. I do some front-end development around here, and I thought I’d help you get to know your new barbariangroup.com!

It’s been a relief to get this site finally out the door and in front of all you nice internet people. As Rick said (to some perhaps-deserved derision), it took over six months to bring barbariangroup.com version four (internally codenamed Merrimack) to fruition. That’s a crazy long time, sure. But we’re a small, busy shop, and couldn’t blow through this in a month. Not while continuing to pump out high-quality projects for Kashi, CNN, Adobe, TAP Project, Motorola, etc etc. We approached the barbariangroup.com version four redesign as seriously and as carefully as we would any content-rich client site, and as such, it took some time. And some people.

Short post here to say everyone should try our site on an iPhone. It’s actually optimized for viewing here. We’re sort of planning for the future, you know? Nice work Kenji!

We are also playing around with the SDK on this and are looking for opportunities to develop applications for clients and agencies. Anyone interested?

So I was checking out the hubub over at adweek on our new site. We were winning the vote earlier on, but I’ll let Grey have their way. That’s cool. Luckily other reviews have been more positive.

It’s interesting, though. I note two threads in those comments: first, that we were known as a Flash house, so why do we have such a “boring” site? And secondly, “too many words!” Who has time to read all those words? I felt a brief surge of panic that I always feel when hit with a little criticism, but I figured hey! We have a site where we have to write all the time now! I may as well write out our thinking on the matter.