DM09 Stockholm blog

Last entry - leaving for reality

2009-06-05T11:30:00.005+02:00

Sadly my time as an project management intern at MRM Starky is coming to an end. The internship has exceeded all my expectations and I already know that I’m going to miss this place tremendously. -Not only the fabulous breakfast buffet or the ever so nice wine and beer trolley strolling around the office in the afternoons, but also all my talented colleagues. They are the ones that during the past seven months have filled my head with knowledge and my heart with enthusiasm.

My internship started out as most internships probably do, confusing and a bit scary, but now at the end I almost feel as an legit employee, and a part of the MRM Starsky success.
As a part of my responsibilities as an intern I’ve been writing proposals, composing debriefs, taking notes at meetings, working in projects with both Swedish and English speaking costumers, managing parts of larger projects and of course bringing creativity and great ideas to the table.

One of the last projects a had the privilege to be part of was a rich media project for one of MRM Starsky’s customers and their upcoming summer campaign. -My first time on a large scale “green screen” set. – Interesting to observe an actor act without any surrounding stage prop

Anyway’s, my 5000h as an intern is up.

Be hold future employers ! Here I Come.

/David Götmalm -Portfolio

2009-04-24T09:23:00.016+02:00

David Götmalm

Aspiering Project/ Production manager -MRM Starsky.

Things I’ve been doing since last entry.

Gained some weight, lost some weight, and gained some weight again.
Cut my hair shorter, didn’t help.
Had lunch with most of the Stockholm Interns.
Waiting for a visit be the Hyper Island Staff.
Learned a lot more flash, html and CSS.
Worked in projects with three new clients.
Took evening classes in project planning and project economics.
Made three new portfolios, finally settling on the plainest one.
Started a twitter account.
Watched 4 seasons of Battlestar galactica.
Dreamt about starting a digital agency.
Dreamt about getting yelled at, at work.
Left the 20ths´s. Finally turned 30.
Found more gray hairs in my beard.
Exchanged my horrible work-PC to a Mac.
Taught my dog that human hands aren’t food.
Bought a treadmill (for my dog).
Watched my dog poop while running on it.
Went snowboarding.
Tried skiing for the first time since 1989.
Fell on my face, broke a tooth.
Went back to snowboarding.

All in all, life’s treated me fair.

Sometimes I’ve been lucky but most of the time I’ve got what I deserve.

I’ve recently passed half quarter that marks the tipping point of my internship period.

As a sign of this I’ve seen a change in work tasks that I get and I’m now preparing to run along side, one of the agency’s gifted account directors.

-“Life is like a box of chocolates”, you never know witch ones will leave stains.

Anyway, today is my birthday so please send one of the following gifts:

(Address included in portfolio)

-A job as a junior project manager / producer

-A RIB boat “Bombard C3” with at least a 25 horsepower engine

-A Rhodesian ridgeback puppy

-A Black Range Rover sport

-A pair of Apple sneakers

-A discount at the dentist

If not, bugger off and leave my thirty-year-old (axx) alone!

2009-04-15T01:47:00.001+02:00

One had better do this,

I'm Martin, I'm in London at R/GA and that's cool.

Coming to London, of course, a messy experience. Coming to R/GA, of course, difficult.

I spent my first one or two months feeling like a stupid, overgrown, fat kid, with greasy hands and a running nose, trying to understand what the grown-ups were talking about. They would talk to me, calmly, sincerely explaining the issues of a brief, where I could find assets for the task, how to deal with certain issues, trying to help me along; so that I could produce something for them, show them that I was good and could be trusted. They explained, so patiently, looking into my eyes, in search for that spark of understanding. And I would look back at them, blankly, quite unable to comprehend the purpose, ignorant of the techniques needed and, worst of all -completely void of the refreshing ideas, vigor and young talent I knew they expected.

They were calling my bluff, and I was panicking.

They haven’t thrown me out yet, so I must be doing something right.

I can see St: Paul’s from my window.

I hate my fried-chicken-man

I work with two clients, one of them is big in telecommunication and the other is big sportswear. One is tricky, and the other is challenging. I enjoy both of them.

I’ll stop now, and I’ll write soon again, now I know how to log into this stupid thing.

New York, New York

2009-04-13T19:27:00.005+02:00

Here I am sitting in the big light filled kingdom of Freedom + Partners drinking my Starbucks coffee whilst taking in the invigorating taste of a Göteborgs Rapé.
The cars passing over Brooklyn bridge in an eternal flow gives away sound like a distant thunderstorm and I'm thinking:

"Life is wonderful"

Ok what I'm really are trying to say is that,
I'm very happy I ended up at F+P where I feel I've grown immensly already.
The guys here are truly todays McGuyvers of the web. There is I guess almost nothing
they couldn't make happen on the Internet!
And furthermore Freedom+Partners has the coolest CEO ever, Mark Ferdman who plays the role as a mentor equally as good as Clint Eastwood played a whiskey drinking cowboy in Sergio Leone's western movies during the sixties.
Exept here we don't do the Ennio Morricone background music..

I´m not much of a blogger as some may have noticed but I had to tell you this little story.

Cheers from Nicolas Antoniades and NYC!

7/4 2009

2009-04-07T15:38:00.003+02:00

Hallå ja!

I have had a cold so i have not been feeling very well. Well now I'm currently doing a lot of things simultaneously and it's kind of tingle my belly a little bit. That or the fact that i found out what the best song I ever heard is called. I have heard it at some clubs before, like a funny song in between, with the reactions from the people at the dance floor; kind of similar to the reactions of "känn igen sorg för mig göteborg", or maybe more like "Michelangelo" by Björn Skifs. (the happyness of "känn ingen sorg för mig göteborg and the authority and nostalgia of "Michelangelo") Or well, I'm not really sure exactly wich this song its exactly like and I cannot relly figure it out now. All i know is that this song is fabulous. Everybody will love it! Impossible to not love it. Love it!

So there, I'm spreading the culture of Spain and everybody should embrace this piece. I want it to be the soundtrack to every party worth the name party. I want it to be played at Linda Rosings wedding! Will she marry Hugo? Hope not. Hugo is giving me creeps. I wish that she will marry the Gothenburger.

Also i want to recommend the SVT documentary "Jag vill inte leva det här livet". It's about a crew of GHB addicts. Really good. It gives you a fresh point of view of life, if you tired of photoshop, stupid vectors or puking gradients.

Farewell

Hi there bolg, nice to meet you

2009-03-12T16:34:00.006+01:00

Cereal for breakfast, Sandwiches for lunch and a couple of pints for dinner. I am really starting to get the hang of the London lifestyle. I really like this city, but right now I don't like the weather because it made me sick. Although I'm happy I'm not in cold Sweden right now.

I live in the previously trashy part of town called Hackney in east London, that now has become the cool part of town where all the artsy people hang out. I share flat with 'Crazy' Rasmus of IAD08 and 'Navy SEAL' Levin. Also I'm within walking distance from everything important:

London Fields (my local pub): 3 min
Tad (quality falafel and kebab): 5 min
Broadway market: 6 min
Stringray globe (the best pizza, almost like Swedish): 15 min
Glue London: 28 min
Shoreditch (where the party is): 30 min
Tate modern: 1h
Big Ben: 1h 30 min
Apple Store: 1h 36 min

My internship has had it's ups and downs. I started out at a small flash studio, but I realised that I wanted to be at a larger scale agency instead. I went to a couple of interviews at some agencies (the good thing with being on location), and decided to go for Glue London, a complete digital ad agency that has done some really cool stuff for Bacardi, Toyota and the Sun to name a few.

So now I've been at Glue for about a month now and I love the place so far. Still everything feels a bit new, but I get to work with a talented team that does some impressive productions.

I promise to write again soon... if I remember the password this time.

Cheers

/Sam

Walk the walk, talk the talk

2009-03-09T03:18:00.004+01:00

This is Martin Brolin writing.

First of all, thank for sharing your fascinating stories: Max, I don’t know what to say but your post was the best! David Lundmark, great to hear that you are doing fine in the Northpole! Thanks for the sneak peak by the way;). Hannes - funny as usual. How do you do it? Maritn S, you better bring me some notion of clarity, please explain what you mean with “I love having breakfast inside Charlie the beast, pitching and breaking down a storyboard”. It is pleasurable to know where you all are up to these days.

Lets move on. Important notice:

Before continuing, please observe the continuity; respect the order of the hyperlinks. Do not carry on read unless you have the hyperlinked searched out for the specific meaning of the sentence. (Speaking of continuity, I visited MOMA last weekend with Nico, and he made a very observant notice of the building: “The lines are breaked apart to show how the connotation of one room is forwarded to the next room, the building is revealed in an interesting discontinuity, its forskjutet”. I didn’t know he had that feeling for architecture, after that I have been very curious to hear his point of view concerning spaces and time. This is something we now discuss during the evenings in Brooklyn.)

Anyway.
Im starting to become a New Yorker. I got my very good self a black coat and a couple of checkered shirts. I even have a moleskin that I use on the subway to look important, writing reflections and fragmented poetry of peoples fed-up faces. Of course it’s a great source of inspiration to.

I live with two of my very good friends, Daniel and Nicolas. We are a happy family in Brooklyn, on Bedford avenue - that’s where all the cool guys live in New York, so we had to move there.

We fight a lot. A couple of weeks ago Nico threatened me with a nife. He was drunk of course. I really wanted to kill him. But I stayed calmed and we didn’t speak for 2 weeks. But now everything is fine. We are very good friends again.

Daniel is very “into it”. He is speaking in terms of object oriented theory (for example when he is stretching his very good self, he says: “it is so nice to implement Icat”) . He is staring into his functions all day, and when he is home he stares a bit more. Me and Nico tries to get him out of there, creating new surroundings with our imaginations, but it’s hard.

Nico and I sleeps in the same room. He eats in the bed In the middle of the night. Last night he served himself a very good corn meal, 3 00 in the morning, and I told him to shut up and fuck himself. He watches Gordon Ramsey every night for inspiration so that he can tell me to fuck myself. Gordon have been assimilated into the house to become one of our house gods. He is arrogant, highly emotional, heartfelt and very good at what he does. I highly recommend icons. It’s nice with a reference.

Working with almost every project that Firstborn have produced since I arrived: Puma, Publix, Lincoln Mks, Ford Taurus, Mustang, Sportscharlet. I’m happy for my very good self that customers are happy. But most of all I’m happy that I have a lot of new fantastic, impracticable plans figured out.

Martin Brolin

Hejsan

2009-03-04T10:00:00.001+01:00

Life at Locomotiv is good despite the fact that Gustaf left me. So what have I been up to? I’ve worked with Sony Eriksson’s Eurovision Song Contest campaign, as some of you may have seen (Aftonbladet). Gustaf and I was Motion Graphics supervisors on a project with Sony Ericsson and Robyn but right now I’m working non stop with Farsor & Morsor på stan, their site should be online in the next few weeks.

Now that a few people here are on vacation I have the pleasure of sitting together with the cool crew, something I should have done from day one, put the seat switching has been delayed.

Andreas P: I have now idea what person you rented your apartment to, but I believe there is blood on your door.

Johan E: Svensson and Ishizaki will be fit for the kick off of Allsvenskan. Teddy might miss it tough. Cant wait for you to arrive at Tempel Bar.

Marcus S: Arsenal had four straight 0-0 games before the Dane last night scored twice and helped them to a 1-3 victory on the road. Marcus, you say you are a fan...

Nico and Johannes: When will you come get your stuff?

Now I have to get back. I wish I had lill-Martin here. I need serious CSS help.

/Henke

Happy :)

2009-02-27T10:49:00.002+01:00

Hellooo,

So I’m back in Sweden after being at G2 in Barcelona, I quitted my internship there because I was only the little intern there doing the things they didn’t want to do and I didn’t learn that much...

Now I’m at a much better place called Happy Place in Gamla stan, it’s a very little, only 7 people working and a big boxer dog. They have some really interesting projects going on here, and it’s a lot of fun! I’ve got my own little project and I’m also helping the other here with some bigger projects so I’m learning a lot and its fun.

They also have "the drink bears in the office Fridays" and they also have Xbox tournaments, playing everything from guitar hero to hocky so it’s not always working...

Well It was nice being in Barcelona and I really miss living there, it was always something to do, watching out for the ghetto kids or just hanging around, well its gonna be nice here in Stockholm to when it stop snowing and the spring will come...

Well that’s all for now, ciaoo /Fannieee

Insert catchy headline here

2009-02-24T14:15:00.002+01:00

Hey everyone.

Yesterday on my way home it struck me how fast time goes, i know it sounds cliché. Then i started reflecting on how much i actually learned on my time at Blackboard thus far.
I came to the conclusion that i have learned a lot actually, not so much of the stuff i had hoped to learn like 3d and animation but other very usefull skills like typography, colour composition and how to come up with good ideas. All this new knowledge can then be applied in my personal work.

These last months i have been working with different graphic profiles for some exciting clients, i find it very refreshing to work with logotypes and print for a change. Also i am finally doing some work in 3d.
I also find it very useful to have contact with clients, setting up meetings and presenting my work. At first i felt like a fish out of water but with some practise i now feel pretty comfortable with the idea.
And i love the obligatory "Let´s drink beer in the office" fridays.

In other news, spotify is my new best friend and the highlight of every morning is when i check my and Raoul´s collaborative playlist for new tunes.

Thats all for now, hope everyone is having a blast.

/Jamil

Finnish cellphones vol 2

2009-02-24T08:14:00.011+01:00

Time to write in this blog again.

Got two new projects now, that i will see from the beginning to the end. Will be really fun. One of the projects is for Nokia, its very interesting to work with Nokia because its such a large company with operations all over the world. Wich sometimes makes it a struggle to get the materials you need for a certain campaign.

Here is a very small site i built for Nokia, you can get five free tunes from the Nokia Music Store. http://microsites.nokia.se/musicstore/freetracks/

Two weeks ago we had the second volume of Daytona Sessions. The event was very successful and there were very good speakers. You can check out both Daytona Sessions Vol1 and Vol2 over at vimeo.

Pictures from daytona sessions Vol2.

And by the way, Daytona have opend up their very good library so that everyone can lend books from it! You will find it here.

Since last time the, heres one of the projects i have been working on.

Alectas Vasaloppsblogg

Alecta is one of the main sponsors of the skiing event Vasaloppet that takes place between sälen and mora.
We built a blog for them to record their warmup and progress throughout the race. I worked with wireframes and some other minor tasks regarding the campaign.

http://blogg.alecta.se/

This is another headline...

2009-02-23T02:24:00.007+01:00

It's been quite a ride since the last time I posted.
First of all, I'm not going to continue my internship at Holler in Sydney to the end of June.
It's been fun, I've met great people and learned new things along the way.
I'm now on the market and open for business. :) (Currently on the lookout for a new agency)

I just wanted to take you through some cool stuff that's been happening in the Holler office lately...

One day during the morning routine of browsing through various "so-hot-right-now-sites" on the internets, we noticed that we had gotten awarded with an FWA - Site of the Day for the work on the 6 Beers of Separation campaign site!
http://6beersofseparation.com.au/

Holler and FHM have launched a sweet little competition site where you can design your own magazine cover, in the browser or download a PSD to mess around with.
Take home $5000 and spend one week each at both Holler and FHM. Easy money! (If you know what you're doing :)
http://fhmrecovered.com.au/

And just after I left, this guy moved into the office...

http://between0and1.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/chill-bot/

Back in Stockholm soon!
That's all for now.

Cheers,
John

A period of uneven workload

2009-02-20T11:03:00.008+01:00

Björn reporting from North Kingdom, Stockholm, Sweden.

So what have happen since my last report?

I still got my desk with my lovely MacBook Pro and all other cool stuff
The beta testing is done, the client was Toyota and the result is here
My own project does not feel scary anymore
I'm tired of reading all my papers and reports about project management, even tho they do come in handy once in a while
The Creative Director did buy the gym card in time, so he escaped from the lunch buying deal, however, he has only been there like twice since he bought it
We don't play that much Mario Cart anymore, reason is that the room is almost always occupied with meetings

That was an update from my last report. So what has happen since then on all other fronts?

As posted a couple of weeks ago, we launched plugintothesmartgrid.com which was "from-start-to-finish" project as a Project Manager / Procucer intern
I've been doing some work for the release of Tele2 Norway so I'm pretty tired of Frank the sheep now
I've been working on a big pitch, and got my idea presented to the client, unfortunately we did not get the job, but it was a great process

I've moved to a first-hand apartment now, so no more worrying about having to move again in 6 months.
I passed my training in Bodycombat so I'm now a Bodycombat instructor aswell. Just for

My master caught me in a golden moment the last day of my education (means that I was hardly able to kick at all due to cramps and tired muscles)

Early stage of the Augmented Reality project for plugintothesmartgrid.com.

Anyhow, I still enjoy my time at North Kingdom and it feels like it's gonna be a great spring. (:

So for now, over and out from the North Kingdom in the middle of Sweden

//Björn

Its always sunny in Stockholm

2009-02-20T09:16:00.004+01:00

There was no struggle for me to find an intership, the biggest problem was do decide where to go. The week before the LIA started I was on my way to Palladium but something happened.

The thing I didnt do was to ask exactly what they tought of my internship, and since I was looking for a project management intership there was a lot of problems. They could offer me a great time at their agency but it wasnt right and since I'm a backstabber I direcly went to Ottoboni Group, they offerd me an intership as a production manager right away and just a day later I signed the contract. It felt really good.

So today, friday the 20th of february I sit infront of my computer(PC) and write a blogpost about the place were I probably end up working at.

During my time here at Ottoboni I've learned a lot of things but the most importent thing is to be kind and humble, those two words can take you all the way to the top. I also learned that the work isnt all, the biggest thing is to participate and be a part of the gang so that you will be importent to them, I basically do this with money.
If you offer someone money they want to be your friend. That's how the world works. Thank god for my salary. (Cigarettes also work but since I try to quit I dont have many left of them).

What have I been working with then?
My biggest clients is Cylinda and Svenska Institutet, two big projects where we are buildning new websolutions and develope more featuers. I was also involved in a project for grammisgalan 2009, awesome.
I've also been involved in a pitch, my part was to hold parts of a presentation for the client and to write the offer. It was a success since we won it. Great. So now Im 100%, 1 of 1 pitch won. Perfect with great stats, almost as good as HEADSHOT!

I think this turned out pretty good for me, now for some other stuff.

The release of Vargpaktens debut album is the 24th of April so buy buy buy. Its amazing.

We nowdays refer to Jamil as a Blemo.

The best conversationstarter is still the subject about when one of your friends wee-wee on a floor infront of a sleeping guy. People love it.
I have actually talked to Svante at Studentmedia about hooking up with them and join them for Hultsfredsfestivalen. Awesomeness!

for you guys out in the world, remember us back in Stockholm.
Stay tuned for more info.

PEACE OUT!
/ patric

Super dingue à Paris!

2009-02-19T21:56:00.007+01:00

Hello darlings!

It would seem I missed my mark for posting another update here, but better late than never.

Good news everyone! My first solo project as a developer at Soleil Noir just launched!

The site promoting the indian electric car REVA in France has dropped and, along with it, the jaws of environmentalists everywhere! We hope!

So thanks Team REVA, Sophie, Sylvain, Romain and my main man Tonio. We Rox!

Here's a picture of me with the little toddler

So other than saving the planet, keeping kittens cute and crapping confetti, I've been keeping myself busy. Plenty of stuff has been going on chez Soleil Noir! We've moved to a fancy new address, 1 Rue Du Mail just off of Place des victoires. YES the office isn't just number one in mail, it's also just by THE PLACE OF VICTORIES. 4 teh win doesn't even begin to describe the shear win-ness of the address. Won the Adobe MAX award, of course! And what else... Oh yes, we'll continue to be awesome this whole year as well so stay tuned!

Laters!

Andreas Palmerén

http://www.revafrance.com

Revision!

Right! I forgot about how the post needs to be a certain length, so here's an essay about my favourite blog:

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com

Cake wrecks is amazing because it combines my love for pastries, with my love of miserable failures. The harsh reality that often times an overwhelming enthusiasm for a subject isn't paired with a stellar talent in depicting said subject in cake form is just lovely to behold. With the soccer cakes and the pokémon cakes and oh the lengths some people go to, it makes my heart beat faster!

I love seeing the "doll-cakes" some poor sap of a mother has mad for a ,let's face it , probably morbidly obese and most likely ungrateful child and think of how they both find each other in a moment of unbridled disappointment for a short moment before gorging themselves on, what in an uncreative cake would be rather pleasant tasting but has been replaced with something of a more rigid and moldable nature.

You would think that I'd appreciate the fact that all this work has come from good intentions and will be treated as such by both onlooker and recipient of said cake, but nothing could be further from the truth. Cake wrecks, in it's essence is the human experience, right there in it's sloppy misshapen form!

this is probably long enough.

Andreas out.

Help!!!!

2009-02-15T18:08:00.003+01:00

I really don’t know what I’ going to write about. Change or not change internship place?? Of course I’ve been learning how to deal with comunication’s problem but the thing is that I’m not learning the things I want and need to. I don’t think I’ll be preparead to be a good project manager after this intership. So frustrating... I've talked about it at my internship place many times. It doesn't help! To change internship place??? I’ve thougt about this many times but it’s hard to change now in the midle of it. There’s no internship place available anywhere in Stockholm. And this time I'll try not to leave, I'm going to to fix this and turn the misstakes into a good thing. Sorry guys if my report to this blogg is so confusing… so am I right now.

Thank you Roger, for all your support!!!!

Wine and dine, read and weep or whatever...

2009-02-12T00:20:00.005+01:00

Heyheyhey a bit late but it doesn't mean it's fake. At least I'm writing unlike a coule of others, hrm.. hrm... This text will problably be quite short, had a busy day and need some sleep. Since misshappenings seems to be what amuses people the most I will start with those.

The newly renovated flat I was going to move in to wasn't really newly renovated, it was more of a construction site that now, finally, is more or less completed. Lucky enough my roomies (one from Cyprus actually, Nico the Greek represent yao!) are supernice and we can all complain and wine about the situation together.

It's been a lot of work since after Christmas so the last month I've been really tired. And the winter has (so I've been told) have been the coldest in Madrid in like 40 years, lucky me. I was so tired at one time I really didn't know what to do, I couldn't understand why my brain wouldn't work when the alarm was beeping in the morning. Somehow, one night, I forgot to close my window before I went to sleep. When I woke up the morning after I felt as healthy as a nötkärna. That's how I discovered the reason for my problem; since my room is quite small I've problably been more or less smothered since it hasn't been enough fresh air when sleeping. Leave the window bit open = problem solved.

I also went to IKEA for the first time, last Sunday actually. The time to get there i aproximately one and a half hour, included a 20 minute walk from the metro. When I got there it was closed. One and a half hour to get back. That's a pretty dumb way to spend three hours...

I've experienced and learned so much since my arrival that my tired little hands can't possibly write it down for y'all. Been visiting and meeting up with people as well, thank you all for a great time and more to come. Life at Serial Cut is more than satisfying with a wide range of different projects and methods of achieving the final results.

Last words: hip hop is your friend, sorry for not posting something more interesting (check out YouTube for something cooler), be nice to people, beer is good and religion is just stupid.

Tada, that's all folks!

Your truly, Grand Master J.

SKATEBOARDING, GRAPHICS AND CERVEZA

2009-02-07T20:07:00.005+01:00

I went off to Barcelona to do my internship at Great Works. I borrowed a apartment from a friends friend that was away to shanghai for a couple of weeks. The flat was really nice and close to my favorite skatespot called Universitat. So at night time after work I went of skating and just chilled with my friends. The wheater was wonderfull even in december when it sucked in Sweden. The sun is always shining and when it was the coldest you had a hoody. Later on I had another big apartment with two cats. And the girl that owned it was out traveling so i didnt pay much at all for my own fresh 90sqm apartment.

The weeks was mostly the same: Skateboarding, working, cerveza, clubbing and hanging at the beach on weekends.

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At the agency I got to do alot of fun projects and had alot of responsibilty. I was trown into it almost the same day as I arrived to Great Works, and I liked it alot.

Kristian that is the boss over there treat you like you are one of them and that is very nice to feel that you are playing in the same game. They push you alot and makes you to do things that you never done before, It was very clear from the beginning that they want you to learn and not to be a coffe maker.

It was a fun time over there but just after Christmas people decided to quit so I thougt it was a good time to leave also. I told them that I needed more designers above me so I could learn more and they understood that.
I think it was a good decission and I want to work in Stockholm after my internship, even if its cold and grey here.

I can always go back on weekends now to meet up with my friends. The spanish friends said the same, "its better to come to barcelona for vacation and not to work since the sallery is awfully low". Some people earn 800 euro the most and apartments are more expensive then in Stockholm. But you can always do frilancing with clients from other countries, Then it would be great to live there.

Maybe I got them a new client from japan also. We will se later on how it turned out.

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If you are going to Barcelona you have to come by the best pub ever called Betty Ford " like the clinic". It is placed in the upper Raval, hard to find but you will not get dissapointed if you find it.
They are just like one big happy family over there and if you get to know one of them you know everybody quite fast.

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So now I am back in Stockholm again and are going to do the rest of the time at Farfar on Kungsholmen. So on monday it's back to game again and it will be alot of fun & hardwork. So I am exited to see how they are working, heard alot of good things about them!

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Ciao
Niklas

David Letterman, Benny Andersson and me.

2009-02-05T23:42:00.004+01:00

From pastures of Balkans where goats go free straight to the capital of the world, Rome of today’s roman Empire, Mothership of all ships, city that never sleeps, New York, New York. And Broadway!

Being given a chance to fight for the greater good in the name of Barbarity and actually sit in the same room as whole bunch of other Barbarians for 7 months, came up as a dream come true ever since I saw Thundarr as a kid, which followed with hero of my childhood, Conan. And conquering the world in barbaric way by doing awesome work has been inspiring to follow and hopefully take part.

THE FIRST DAY- everything as planned until I was informed about “Happy Mondays” where Barbarians go out and drink like adolescents after work on Mondays without any particular reason so they thought it would be appropriate to make new intern so drunk on their cost so he can do embarrassing things that this blog or any other blogs will never write about. Everything ended with a collective call-in-sick Tuesday. Not an exemplary start for Nemo, Hyper-man with ambitions.

I love being in NYC ! But there are some things that do match with my expectations (listed as ACH JA!) and some things that have made me dissapointed (NICH-NICH) here it comes:

ACH JA!
cops DO eat doughnuts and drink coffee in beside their cars, drinking games at fraternity parties do kick ass (WASAAAA!), people are generally nice to tourists except when you ask them directions to twin-towers and show picture of it in a guide-book -rule number one: don’t mention the war on terror, also, don’t make jokes about Obama, America is just not ready for that in this historical moment. African-Americans do say “nigga” to each other but it doesn’t give right to the others to do same.

NICH-NICH:
Taxi driver laugh at you when you point on a car and tell him to follow it, restaurant personnel in China town can not kung fu (at least they don't use it on regular basis), Italians in Little Italy are actually Little Mexicans with no Rocky Balboa accent. Cops don't read you your rights when they catch you going on subway without a valid ticket (but they do tell to take out hands from pockets so they can see them) and there is NO coffee place called "Central Perk".

A Formal Friday salute from roofs of Broadway to you all!
Nemo

Learn and Live

2009-02-03T22:08:00.003+01:00

I make errors all the time. The reason is because I am fortunate to learn from talented people.

I have been working at AKQA on the Fiat account since joining the team as a Designer. Experience and knowledge is my surrounding. I work directly with an Account Manager, a Wireframe Architect, a Copywriter, a Project Manager, a Creative Director and my fictional Assistant.

Chris Williams, Creative Director – “It will take you years before you become an Art Director.”

I love what he says. I am already producing for Fiat as a Designer and I make progress, this is my start, here you have to earn your title.

Looking outside my office window, I can see the snowy rooftops of Farringdon and close to the south clearly stands St Paul's cathedral. Living outside the office is completely different to living inside. Little snowfall means no work, closed banks, closed schools, shops and most certainly no transport.

London is a challenge,
Friends, I might stay here.

Andreas Levin

North Kingdom reports about Augmented Reality

2009-02-02T11:50:00.003+01:00

I'm extremely curious about what you guys are working on. So I thought that it would be really fun to post some links/screens of completed work so we all can take part of it (:

Yesterday (February 1:st) was site launch for http://www.plugintothesmartgrid.com/. This has been my first "from-start-to-finish" project as a Project Manager / Producer Intern at North Kingdom Stockholm.

The really cool part about this project, and also the part that I've been involved in is the Augmented Reality part. A rather new technique witch basically is an application that trough your webcam trace a pattern and apply 2D or 3D graphics/animations on it.

The direct link to that part that I've been working on is http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality. Please try it out, print the marker, hook up your webcam and play with the different 3D environments (and reveal the secret with the wind turbine... blow the microphone to find out!!)

Below are also some youtube clip with our application.

I hope everyone is doing great and is having a great time out there in the world!

//Björn

Observations from the other side of the table.

2009-01-28T19:12:00.003+01:00

It's hard for me to make justice for my great achievements. So I asked my fellow worker from Karlskrona, Sebastian, to describe my succes; here is what he wrote.

Observations of Johan sorted by time.

1- First second, Johan almost trips on the stairs entering the door, making a big ass out of himself. I remember thinking, this little fuck won't survive one day.

2- First hour, Johan takes the snus! *high five*.

3- First hour, Johan uses the mac! *high five*

4- First day, Johan has settled in, unpacked his mac when he realizes he haven't been given any work. I remember him shaking his leg like crazy, I couldn't concentrate so I told him

"Johan why don't we make a game together! You like drawing stuff ye?"

"YE AWSUUUM THIS IZ GONNA B SO GOOD" Johan replied.

I said some random things and he started painting on his wacom like a boy masturbating for the first time.

I thought he can't possibly have bought that?! Johan reviled himself to be more stupid than he looks(And thats saying a lot when looking at you guys....pissing on the floors of your very own classmates!).

5- Second day, Johan gets his shit together, calms down.

6- End of first week - Johan rolls like a Sombrero hombre. Talking it easy, maxin relaxin with the amigos. Still making an idiot out of himself but everybody just accepted it after the 10th time

7- Johan start to get busy with the wacom, drawing a lot of stuff for IKEA and BMW.

1-7 Johan sleeps in a shitty corner somewhere in a barcelona getto.....with 4 blankets to keep himself warm.

8 - Johan gets his place in the herd.

9 - Johan meets a nice spanish girl in a club one saturday.

10-20 - Johan is totally depressed because the girl untagged herself from his pictures and doesn not answers his mail he spent 4 hours preparing.

21 - Johan chokes on his wacom pen, still don't know if this was suicidal behavior or not.

22- Johan just does retarded things, likes goes for walks... on the spanish mountains... by himself..... on a saturday...

23 - Johan and me now roll together, we are good friends.

24 - Me and Johan uses the beer, sharing our broken heart stories. Johan I wanted to cry, but you did not allow me to.

25 - Johan works A LOT with BMW. He loves it.

26 - Johan still on BMW, not so much love anymore.

...

35 - Johan still on BMW, he lost perspective of love and hate.

36 - Don't mess with the Johan.

Testing testing 1, 2, 3

2009-01-23T17:47:00.006+01:00

Well prepared with teamwork, research, concept, mockups, production and a forest of postits later, I left Hyper, Stockholm for the never ending winter in Colorado.

After one week in Boulder with no snow but winds so cold and harsh, just getting to the grocery store felt like an arctic concrete expedition, It was time for my first day at Crispin Porter + Bogusky.
As I was getting ready to leave the house I realized there was 2 dm of snow covering the streets and fields fo the great boulder city area, creating a peanut butter jelly time session of the traffic. Friday same week I had lunch in the warm sun breathing in SUV air and since then the weather has been kind of spring, early summer.

This is my second week at the office, working as an IAD. My impression so far can be compared with the weather, a bit confusing. It's like six friends who has a ad-agency together, exept that 1 person equals one department, or 100 persons in one body.

I guess I'm still a little bit surprised over how simple things can be.

for instance my first assignment and failure, I suppose, was to do a design suggestions for Burger King. I worked 48/14 doing research, concept and mock-ups. Now I know better. A mock-up is a mock-up and a design suggestion is a design suggestion.

As another example I had my first brief meatig today. I mentally prepared my self for a one to two hours session. 20 minutes later I was already working on the assignment.

I'm lovin' it, he he he

Överlämnar här med mic samt tillhörande bandare.

//Robin Pettersson

This is a headline

2009-01-20T05:23:00.004+01:00

Hi,

My name is Petter Säfwenberg and when I was a little boy I used to dream that an american hockey speaker would shout out my name - "Peeeter Sevenbuuuuurg" - when I would enter the ice on my first NHL game for the New York Rangers. I'm quite sure that this will never come true now, mainly because when I was about 18 years old I chose a life without fortune, fame and sweathy hockey gears. Instead I decided to spend the rest of my life in front of computer screen...
This turned out quite well, it has taken me to NYC and the sweet place of Domani Studios. Domani has so far taught me a lot of good things like "it's time to touch base now", "more negative space" and "Only RF stock imagery". I have no idea what it means but I have discovered that it's very useful to say this phrases to your co-workers or nod very seriously if someone says it to you. You can find the Domani office in an area called DUMBO, just like that movie about an elephant. Dumbo means "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass" and was named like this because the original inhabitants wanted to come up with a name so weird that no one wanted to move there. Of course it became the opposite. To fit in Dumbo you must buy a colorful pair of sneakers, a navy coat (like Matt Damon have occasionally in the Bourne trilogy), jeans (not regular blue though, preferably black or grey) and a nice scarf that fits with the sneakers. I'm almost there. There is also a romour that Busta Rhymes lives in the area, but it's not confirmed yet.

My fellow co-workers at Domani are very nice and they have tried really heard to figure out how to say my name. The first day I tried to just say it with my Swedish accent. The result was like "Pppe... what?" or "Peeee-Trrrrr". So the next day I decided to call myself "Peter" with an american accent but then another guy at Domani called Peter became confused and posted THIS on the Domani blog. But on the third day, one of the producers (project manager) came up to me and said "Pedder, we need some RF stock imagery with a lot of negative space, is it ok that we touch base around fourish?" and my new american "Pedder" name was born. On the fourth day I could make some classic swedish "daddy" jokes with my co-workers (think of the song with Gloria Gaynor): "First I was afraid, I was Pedderfied!".

Roger (Sjoegren) and out!

Best,

Petter, Peter and Pedder.

Six degrees of separation

2009-01-12T22:51:00.007+01:00

As some of us sought out to conquer the world some of us stayed behind to make sure the beacon of Hyper Island kept shining. As for me I had the privilege of starting off my Internship period by hunting for a suitable agency were I could stir up things. No matter where I went somebody always knew someone from Hyper Island!

Finding an internship as a project manager isn't all that easy.
Almost thirty years old and a background as an army Lieutenant probably isn't your average intern. Adding to this the fact that I am completely without any formal training in finances or budgeting, a key element in the profession. Adding to this the global recession tightening its grip on Sweden's economy. During the months of november and december alone over 40.000 Swedes lost their jobs.
After several interviews trying to explain what use I could bee to them even without economic experience and reassuring that I wouldn't be more of an headache to them than an 21 year old intern. I found myself getting quiet the expert on self promotion.
Anyway, I held my head up as high as I could and stuck to my original plan witch constituted of two criteria:

-Getting an internship be myself and not taking the short cut through friends or relatives and finally, sticking to project management.

Eventually I was contacted by Saatch&Saatch and they offered me an internship placement as assisting planner. Of course I was flattered that they wanted me but it wasn't really what I had in mind so after two weeks of intensive planning assistance I left for a new offer as an management Intern at MRMStarky´s management department.

MRMStarsky is the result of a merger between the digital agency Starsky and the ad agency MRM worldwide. The agency focuses on two main areas, interactive advertising and dialog marketing. Today we are about 60 souls in the office.
Up until now I have been doing all sorts of things such as helping out with pitch preparations, creating motion previews in aftereffect and planning. My next assignment is to be in charge of and leading a week long analysis with a group of coworkers. The aim of the assignment is to find areas of improvement on the site of one of Sweden's largest passenger transport companies. Not something you do in an blink of an eye.

Anyway, as I returned home from the first day at Starsky my sister called and curiously asked me how my internship hunting was coming along. I told here about Starsky and a long silence followed in the other end.

“My best friends works there, you should have talked to me and I would have helped you and talked to my friend”.

Thanks god I didn't!

Love/ David Götmalm
I really miss you all!!

Oh yea.. One more thing.

Happy new year! A bit late, I know,
but I have hundreds of rich and sexy friends.
So I end with the ugly ones...

MOTION @ THELMA/LOUISE

2009-01-12T19:37:00.006+01:00

Hi everyone! Marcus Szabo here. Man, time goes fast. It's been like three whole months soon.
I'm doing my internship at THELMA/LOUISE in Stockholm. A small motion production company at Karlaplan (Oestehr-mahlm). At the moment we're just five people working here, since one of the owners just went on paternity leave (föräldrar-ledighet).

As alot of you guys, I got to start working from day one. They had a pretty cool project going on when I got there so I basically just jumped into it. The project I got to work on was a documentary about Ebbe Carlsson. You might not find that so exciting but the material we got to work with was awesome, old black and white photos, kind of grainy but with high resolution and professional look made it really fun to work with. I worked about 4 weeks animating the photos so they would look "alive". The movie will be opening at the Gothenburg Filmfestival in the spring. Thereafter it'll be aired on SVT, I think.

Since that first project I have been working on different things, graphic-design-pitch for a new talk-show (wich we unfortunetly lost:'(.) Some storyboarding and alot of experimenting. I Recently started working in Maya 3D, wich is more easy than I thought. Sat down, watched like 5 hours of maya-basics toturials. Now I know everything :P

In all I feel pretty pleased with my intership so far. Altough I have had some doubts. The past three weeks we haven't had so many new projects coming in, as a result of the recession(lågkonjunkturen).

Hopefully we'll start pitching again and get some fun, new projects.

THELMA/LOUISE is well-known of being the productioncompany that has edited every single show with Fredrik and Filip. For you guys doing your internship in NEW YORK, Fredrik and Filip is coming over, where they will shoot their new talkshow. Maybe get a seat in the audience?

The Gang

One Love

/Marcus Szabo l www.artisdesign.se

City of Fairy Tales

2009-01-06T23:31:00.024+01:00

I’ve come to the country of opportunities, where everything is possible. It’s the city where dreams come true and a place with no barriers other than your own imagination. There is a “jantelag” but not in Stockholm - here are people just as dry as you expect them to be. You can do whatever you pleases and no one will stop you. Even if you kill someone!

The first two hours in Stockholm City I was wondering what the fuck was I doing here. Sat in a taxi with a taxi driver that barely spoke understandable Swedish. My place wasn't too hard to find, 'cause its next to the castle. My place is located in one of Stockholm's oldest houses. If you look deep into the catacombs, under the house. You may find the remains of the blood from the Stockholm Bloodbath. That's what I call history! Tourists point at me, if I'm too close to the window. Probably because they think the old town (where I live) was built up especially for them, and that I'm one of the actors in the show.

Late one night a few days ago I went to ”the million programme” suburbs with a scottish friend. Back to Fittja, to a party in the apartment where Fittja Paradiso was recorded. (Do you remember it?). People smoked and it was free beer and food. This gave me a new perspective on Stockholm. Different from the city centre life with suits, SUVs and medieval tournaments. You can experience new things – if your mind still are opened and flexible. You don't have to travel. The key is within yourself! Just as Madonna and I wrote in our intros! NYC, Buenos Aires or Stockholm doesn't really make a difference...

Many of you gave advice and observations on what's special in the cities of the world. Two of them work just fine in the case of Stockholm, amazing!

Advice nr 1 (Johannes): Don't think you're the only Scandinavian around
Advice no 2 (Annie): Wine is really cheap! If you’re lucky you can make a real bargain and find wine for just 12 euro.

Sorry we all get carried away at times - so easy when my english personality kicks in you know.

My life has been spelled W-O-R-K more or less since the internship started. Work 24-7. Work work work. Graphic design, graphs (what did you expect?!), project management, heavy e-commerce solutions and business strategy. The company Designstationen that I work with are on the rise and we delivered an E-commerce thing to the swedish gigant Vattenfall some weeks ago. On the evenings when I get home from work and on the weekends I have been working with my little baby: The Photobook about Sweden. 44 young photographers (age 14-30) shows their Sweden with 64 images in a book printed mostly with EU funding. Fully translated into six languages... English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, German and French. It will be sent to the print house tomorrow. The release will be on Berns 2.35:1 the 26^th of February. The club is perfect for the release. The pictures will be shown on the four 120” screens. Just like it should be! You will be able to buy the book on the site later on!

Hope you all had a nice christmas and a good new year!

Sorry for hi-jacking a day at the blogger schedule but I feel like the workload already are stacking up here. The 15th I will be working again and you know how it is. When you work, YOU WORK. I don't have time to write silly blog post about life on a working day... Why live life according to your own values when you can have a company to slave you around!

Over and out
Ola
Stockholm, Sweden

Classmates, CO workers, Friends and Foes

2009-01-06T20:38:00.006+01:00

This is Martin Brolin exposure thoughts and attitude from 9th Avenue, Firstborn, New York.

The office reveals with tender white walls, surrendered with desks and private spaces, dividing the area of people and responsibilities. The atmosphere here is warm and helping, the people are top talented and the workflow is high-speed ever going.

Hyper Island, have provided me with the toolbar that I need, to be able to start to work immediately from the first day at my internship. Or more correct; providing me with the determination to get that toolbar and further develop it to my own neurotic mix.

I have been quite busy. Starting from day two with three different projects have kept my mind full and my weekends now and then occupied in the diffuse glow of street signs, appealing from the office view. I have mostly worked with the synthesis of animation and programming, one foot in after effects, the other one in flash, just the way my schizophrenic, alienated mind wants it.

The first week in New York I was curious of my forthcoming stay. I decided to go to a psychic reader to help figure out my matter of insecurity. A homeless man stopped me outside the psychic and shouted: “I can help you predict your future, if you screw up once you are fucked.”

The American people are very proficient, working as much as they have to in order get the job done with the right finish. It is an absolute amazing feeling to be embraced by the topdogs in the fields of digital production. To receive feedback on the work I am doing by the ones I respect, makes my learning grow and wane in the notion of excitement and pressure.

Having that said, lots of love and wishes

Yours Truly

/Brolin

A trip down the rail road

2008-12-19T10:42:00.000+01:00

After a month at Locomotiv it is finally (?) here – Christmas.

The Stockholm interns had one goal. Meet up one day a week and have a beer or four. I attended the first one with our Marcus and Emil from DM09KNA. We forgot a minor detail: invite the rest of them. We have since then failed our goal and will surely continue to do so.

Locomotiv is an agency with 50+ employees located in the heart of Stockholm and in case of emergency we have a law firm below us. This far I’ve been a designer, art director assistant, photographer, batty boy and pouch bag. I am a bruised and broken man who cries himself to sleep every night, hoping that tomorrow never will come.

Honestly, everything is good, I’ve had a good time and everyone is kind. It’s a lot different from Hyper, way more intense production and a lot less Quake 3.

Fuck, 200 words were harder then I thought. Well I’m looking forward to some time off, Arsenal beating Liverpool and seeing my brothers. Take care out there. Happy Hanukkah.

By day he is a designer, by night he is a Football Manager expert, he is Henrik Backman.

God Bless America

2008-12-18T18:05:00.004+01:00

I’ve come to the country of opportunities, where everything is possible. It’s the city where dreams come true and a place with no barriers other than your own imagination. There is no “jantelag” and no “I live my own life and care only about myself”. You can do whatever you please and no one will stop you.

---

First two hours in New York City I was wondering what the f*ck I was doing here. Sat in a taxi with a taxi driver that barely spoke understandable English, that couldn’t find the way to our hostel, which wasn’t so strange because it was located in the ghetto part of Brooklyn.

The ghetto part where people was fighting on the streets, big scary hiphop guys with bling bling looking at you and telling you want they wanna do with you, hearing gunshots and subway stations that is dangerous to enter after midnight.

People that choose to live there ensured us that “you get used to it”. But after spending way to much time getting in to Manhattan and work every day, never knowing when the subway is coming and constantly being afraid of whatever I quickly decided NOT to live there, ever.

So we found a duplex apartment in the middle of Manhattan in East Village and life became much easier. No subway, no ghetto and no danger. I have a 15 minute walk to work, pass at least five Starbucks on my way and I constantly take a taxi because it’s easy, cheap and totally NY. Also because we live six floors up and that is exercise enough. We have access to the rooftop from the apartment with a view covering all of Manhattan: Williamsburg Bridge, Empire State Building and downtown.

But best of all is my internship at Droga5. I’m not gonna say the same thing as everyone else because that is just obvious. Pure brilliance should cover all.

Every day when I walk back home to 13th st, I see the Live Well sign from far away, I know that’s what I’m doing and I’m finally home.

Madonna

2008-12-18T02:02:00.001+01:00

Tomorrow morning my alarm clock (39KR at Clas Ohlson) will make its desperate attempt to wake me up in my doorm. 15 minutes after my much more “noise:ier” cell phone will wake me up. I`ll put on my clothes, brush my teeth, collect my things (such as a computer with belongings, a watch and some kind of a wallet. On my way out (if my “noise:ier” cell phone failed in directly wake me up) I’ll grab a banana. I am know sitting on the Subway with a coffee in my hand, that I bought in Pressbyrån. (It usually gets drinkable at Liljeholmen, 2 stations and 4 minutes away from where I stepped on.) I start drinking my coffee and 8 minutes after I’m reaching my destination Gamla stan, where I’m stationed as an intern at ACNE Digital (Stockholm).

In my first portfolio I wrote down some lines that should describe what I was looking for in an internship, it said (yes, it could talk) something like this:
I`m looking for a nice place, with good open-minded people that loves what they’re doing, and who allowes me to develop creatively and as a designer.

If you ask me know (1 month from when I started), I would probably say that I found that place.

Get on with it, how is it at ACNE Digital!? They are good open-minded people working here, I can tell that they really love what they are doing and that they are good at it! AND they are letting me be a part of it, from brainstorming sessions, meetings with the client, making some animation and designing on the project that began the first day I got there.

To sum it all up: The morning-routine in Stockholm is dull, feels like “måndag hela veckan”. And yes, it probably would be nicer (or at least nice-dull) parkour:ing some skyscrapers or breaking down some moves in flip-flops, as a daily morning-routine. But when I step in to the office there`s always new things coming up, different ways on how to solve them, and a lot to learn (thought I had at least quite good experience and knowledge in this, but daaamn!, there’s a lot left, and fun it is).

BoomShackalack
/John H.

"In-between"

2008-12-16T21:58:00.006+01:00

Now I've been in Barcelona for a month, this is what I've been through...

Just so you know, I´m living in the ghetto, very central but still in the ghettoo, there are a lot of drug dealers and psychos, the nicest things on our street (passait escudallers) is the garbage, it only smells! Manu chao sings about the street in the song La rumba de Barcelona.

My second day in Barcelona, I was locked out on the roof of my building. After two hours and many calls to my sister I realized that I really wasn't locked out, I just had do tackle the door and then I was in! Lucky me, it was blue sky and all sunny the two hours I spent on the roof!

The second week, I started my internship, It was a quite easy start but not so fun, there were a lot of spanish interns at the agency that took care of us and showed me and annie around!

That night me and annie went to my favorite internet cafe, alsur. Thinking that we only would chill take a coffee and check facebook. But little did we known, that we soon were to be robbed (almost) I was just sitting checking my facebook, annie checked hers, when two ghettoo kidz entered the door, grabed annies computer and ran, I was screaming and annie she ran like hell after the ghetto kidz trying to kill them!
Luckily they dropped the computer on there way out, but annie didn't realized that, so she was still running after the ghettoo kidz when the computer was safe with me! I´ve never seen her react that fast!

Since then I've been to IKEA, been out on crazy clubs and been called a bitch by a psycho!

I've also been on the agencies yearly Christmas party, which was very different or very similar to the "student skiva" we have in Sweden, the only different was that this one involved drunk old guys crawling on the floor and shaking there assess to mambo nr five, or spanish schlager! There were also some "get as drunk as possible" songs, during the really nice dinner, so me and annie was a bit confused, but we took "seden dit man kommer" and just went whit the flow! And it was also free bar so it made it all easier!

I've been trough some adventure this month but im heading to the biggest one so far I´ve quitted my internship and know looking for a new one, Im as you would say "in-between" internships...

Bye Bye then...//Fannie A.KA. Bennie A.KA. intern no 2. A.KA little swedish intern no 2 who can draw...

Finnish cellphones

2008-12-11T08:13:00.004+01:00

Hi!

My name is Lars Thomsen and its the fourth week of internship here at Daytona. We are located in Stockholm on Riddargatan 17D and i am glad that i found this place to do my internship. The people here are really nice and good at what they do.

First week was kind of slow and i got an introduction to the agency and got my workstation set up, a MacBook Pro which turned out to crash a lot. Very frustrating when trying to work. But about a week ago i got a brand new 24" iMac, which runs great!

The first day was also the first day for everyone in new offices, a fresh start for everyone!

Since then i have been working on a few Nokia campaigns doing some front-end programming and setting up all the social stuff for our "Ultimate Scandinavian Blogging Daredevils". They will get Nokia N96 phones and blog and live broadcast their adventure.

A nice thing about being here is that decisions is made quickly and not in lengthy sessions like at Hyper Island where people could argue their point of view for an indeterminate length of time. And i need to agree with Axel W. Its heaven!

200 words reached, Lars out!

Holler Sydney!

2008-12-10T00:01:00.007+01:00

Hey, I'm John Andersson.

I've found my way to a digital agency in Sydney that goes by the name of Holler.
(Also located in London).

My first two weeks in Sydney has been quite confusing, lots of new impressions, but most of all, it's been great fun and awesome. Finding my way around in the city is getting easier, although sometimes I feel like a poor lost Swedish tourist.

The timing was perfect, the summer is just getting started over here. Going to work in flip flops everyday is great! And not having to wear three layers of clothing at this time of the year feels pretty good too!

I've been given a pretty slow introduction, which is kind of good, my work here so far has mostly consisted of various small tasks and just getting familiarized with the environment and the office. I will be working on all kinds of production and social media monitoring for campaigns further ahead.

The Holler team is a great bunch of friendly and talented people which I really look forward to working with and to learn from.

Alright, enough of this, I think it's time to head down to the pub for a Schooner... or two. Swedes just call it "En stor stark" (A large glass of strong beer).

Oh, by the way, I just found a nice place to stay in a suburb called "Bondi", close to the beaches, now I got to learn how to surf!

Cheers,
John aka "Johnno" aka "Swedish"

In Blackboard We Trust

2008-12-09T09:30:00.002+01:00

At first i was a little skeptical about doing my internship in Stockholm, mostly becouse i dislike the weather this time of the year. But now i feel like staying in my home turf was the right choice, the only downside is that i dont have any adventurous tales to share like some of those who are doing their internships overboard. The most exciting thing i experienced last week for example was when i had to choose between raisen bread or bagels for breakfast.

This is my second week here at Blackboard in Stockholm, Blackboard is a really cool agency working mostly with advertising and web. We are 10 people strong plus some freelancers, the atmosphere is very friendly and everyone is extremely talented and passionate about their work which is really inspiring for me.

I have been kept busy all the time and was assigned to work with actual projects from the very start. The first week was mostly a introduction to the company and i assisted on a project in flash, also i have been alowed to study and practice my sketching and illustration techniques. Learning how to effectively sketch my ideas will make life a lot easier for me later on when working with 3D (and everything else for that matter).
Also i have been working on a logotype for a very exciting and fun project.

And i have switched from a pc to a mac, so i am still getting familiar with the new computer. Unfortunetly my copy of the 3d software Maya doesn´t work on the mac and i have to find out a way to work around this problem. Im loving some features on the mac but i actually miss my ugly but trusty pc.

Thats all from me for now folks, now lets make some green!

/ Jamil

Two weeks at Locomotiv and one on the toilett..

2008-12-08T09:20:00.005+01:00

This last week has been hell. We caught a stomach bug last week and mine turned really bad last Friday. So it's been a hell of a week. But now we're better.

So, enough about my intestines. 3 weeks ago me and Henrik turned up at Locomotiv for our first day and we got "dumped" the furthest way possible from those we were to work with. It's an extremely boring and uncreative space. However, they are rearranging everyone in a week or two.

Aside from were we are sitting it has been great. Every one is super friendly and helpfull. So I’m doing my internship at Locomotiv, Stockholm.

Just before I got ill I was assigned the task of making a website sketch for a pitch which was really fun. To bad I couldn't finish it. But Tobias, the Art Director liked it which is awesome! Since I'm addicted to approval :p

After these first 3(well only two really) weeks I feel that I need to take a more active part in my internship and what I’m going to learn from it. So today I’ll do some thinking and planning and book a meeting with my ”mentor”.

Hopefully I’ll have something more exiting to talk about next time. Like scary taxi drivers in New York or hookers in Barcelona.

Peace!
/Gustaf

Hollywood isn't all about big penises

2008-12-08T07:36:00.004+01:00

On the 14th November I left Värmland in search for some higher end in Los Angeles. My new home, Neoganda, is a twelve-man army and as they're located in West Hollywood they do a lot of websites for the movie industry. It's a great bunch of people, everyone's nice and dedicated to their work and they do it very well. I was immediately thrown into sharp projects and I've done some basic Flash and Photoshop work. I'm pretty eager to show them what I can do!

If you just wanted to see if I was alive and you don't really have time for humor, you should probably stop reading here.

A quick 101 that the tourist guide book don't tell you

Everyone is into movies
Don't think you're the only Scandinavian here
Don't forget to tip
Don't buy pizza... really. Go for burgers instead.

Language disabilities á la Johannes Andersson

So how does someone who can't even barely speak normal Swedish communicate in L.A?
Either you go for it or you don't. You can't just mumble your words and hope you'll be fine (tried that one). You have to speak cleary and loud so they hear you. It's a good exercise for me, trust me! And if you're real fancy you try to put on a Californian accent to it. With my limited speaking capabilities I tend to talk English with a Värmlandish feel (you know, like in a swingin' tone) like I know what I'm doing and hope I don't reveal myself. But I usually get discovered like in 2-3 second into the conversation, and then I switch to Phase #1. It's seems like a good idea in those situations.

Phase #1: The "I'M FROM SWEDEN I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!!" approach.
You just play dumb and that you don't really know anything. You could probably curl you down on the ground and they would still figure out what you mean. Additionally, you use a lot of body-language in order to get your message across.

Phase #2: "Yeah, dude"
You test your wings and get your own style. Escpecially in L.A you use words like: "dude". You can get pretty far if you can say "Yeah, dude" in a neat way. When you've got some momentum you move forward and try harder words.

It was funny because I didn't have a Caffe Latté like in three weeks because I didn't know how to pronounce the word in English. It's OK now though! In case you're wondering it goes something like this: "kaffehi lattheiyj".

Yours Sincerely,

/jompa

A.W.O.L.

2008-12-06T17:26:00.006+01:00

What's the haps! I'm Fredrik Fransson, and it's day 18.

This may come as a surprise to the powers that be, but I'm in Barcelona. Apparently I fell through the cracks of the system which came apparent when Sofia visited us this week. Allow me to paraphrase the initial interaction.

- Hi!
- Hi?
- How are you?
- Did you quit Hyper Island and started working here?
- No I'm doing my internship.
(Awkward silence)

Although my time here hasn't been counted for, it hasn't at all been wasted. I actually like it a lot. I'm at Vasava, roughly a 15-man strong design agency located in the Eixample area. When I first entered the premises, I started laughing. They run a gallery shop, Vallery, in the front and the Vasava office in the back, which sort of makes it look like an operation run by the Mafia.

In the very beginning, I was supposed to do a few tasks in order to determine my skill level, but when I met my C.D. and boss, he immediately through my right in to actual projects.

Thus far, I've primarily been working with print. But on monday we'll start some more interactive work with two notable fashion brands.

I pick up new things every day and I feel right at home.

/Fredrik

A Man With A Van

2008-12-03T18:38:00.004+01:00

It's a beautiful day here in New York City. The sun is shining, birds a twittering, the computers are humming slowly. This is not the calm before the storm, it's the calm after the storm.

Yesterday was crazy. But I'll start with my internship. I'm at Firstborn Multimedia together with Brolin and Enstrom. The days are always filled with work, from when we get in at ten am 'til we go off at seven pm we're overwhelmed with tasks and deadlines. I like it. At the moment I'm working on this very secret project which I can't tell you anything about, more than that.... Hm, well I don't know. Anyway, I get to work a lot in 3d, which I also like.

People at the office are nice, now that I've gotten to know them better. It's inspiring to be in an environment with so many people that are better than you, at least it gives me the boost I need to feel motivated. A lot of my tasks so far have involved a lot of actual production, which has brought me the feeling of that in this short time I might even have learnt a lot. Didn't think internshipping would be this giving.

So. Last night after getting off work we (Petter, Pickan, Non-Hyper Robin and me) went to Ikea to buy stuff for our new apartment. I think that Pickan already told you about the apartment so I'm not gonna bother you with being repetitive. It's a good place. On our shopping list we had crammed together everything you can imagine needing when moving in to a new apartment - kitchen cooking starting set, plates, towels, toilet brush, cutlery, sheets, pillows etc etc... and last but not least, four queen size beds. And ladies and gentlemen, this is America, and in America you sleep on biig beds.

We thought that we had it all prepared. A friend of ours had given us this number to a "Man With A Van" (we had seen the ad earlier, 'I am a man, and I have a van'), who we had settled an appointment with outside Ikea Brooklyn at 9.30. At 9.45 we get through to him on the phone, and he says he has a broken tire and that it will take an hour for him to fix it. Ok. So that's bad news, but I guess we're fine anyway. 15 minutes later he calls up and suggests that maybe it's a good idea if we cancel it all. That's really bad news. By this time Ikea is closing and the guards are throwing inconvenient vibes at us. We start calling our friends to see if anyone knows any other men with vans. Nothing there. Pickan walks out on the street to see if there are any friendly New Yorkers who are willing to help us out. He sees a line of taxi cabs, and a guy with a large vehicle at the end of it. He walks up to him to see what he would charge. As it would show later, you apparently always walk up to the cab first in line, otherwise cabdrivers get mad. As did these ones, and a dispute turned into a argument which turned into a kicking fight through the window of a car. Daniel went inside again.

By this time Petter had lost it and was walking around in circles, swearing and cursing (I've never seen him do that before). 30 minutes later we got kicked out of the warm facilities of Ikea and out on the street. We piled our stuff together on the sidewalk. Now the cabdrivers were circling us like hungry hyenas, asking us where we come from, what are we doing here, where are we going, who are we waiting for... Various proposals started showing up. "90 dollars". "80 dollars". "75". "three cars for all your stuff, 65 dollars". Petter didn't like this. We still didn't know what to do.

Just as the flock of predators were going down on us, Pickans phone rang and The Man With A Van with a fainting breath shouted "I'm on Brooklyn Bridge now! I'm coming!!". For 15 minutes we dodged the rapid fire of suspicious questions coming from the hungry cabdrivers. A white big van suddenly bursted into the scene. Out of it stepped The Man With A Van and his companion. "Hey guys, so sorry we're late. Let's get this started". They wore their pants hanging from their knees. Under the harch staring of our previous duelers we started loading the van to the bursting limit. Suddenly a guard appeared, looking suspecting. The Man With A Van quietly nudged us, saying "come on, hurry up guys". Quickly we finnished the loading and threw ourselves into the back of the car, on top of all of the beds. The car gave away a screeing sound as it swooshed out of the parking lot.

So there we where, lying on a queen size bed in a van which belongs to a man. The street lights continuously passing by. The Manhattan skyline vigorously decorating our sideview.

I like New York. And I know it's a cliche, but ever heard someone say, being here feels like being in a movie?

Felix

Reporting från Deasign - Stockholm

2008-12-02T23:24:00.026+01:00

Stockholm has never been so attractive as now!! I don't regret I decided to stay in Stockholm instead to do my internship in my home country, Brazil. I like the snow and Sweden is one of the best countries to work if you like digital media.

After the PC incident, I'm much more calmer :-) I was spending my first week at Deasign trying to understand how a PC works. No comments, please!!! One of my assignment is to uppdate a client webbpage and I need to do this från a PC. This assignment is taking to much of my time (I want to be present at the meetings) and it is not giving me what I need to develope as a project manager. So I was irritated today when I realized I had spent two days with something I could have done in one hour. I'm really training my patience. The best is that I have a Mac too :-) to make me calm when the PC is driving me crazy.

Deasign is a nice agency to practice. We are just about 22 people at the office in Stockholm that is located in the Old Town. I have had a great time here so far. Inspiring creative meetings, nice and helpful people make me to feel really comfortable here.

Roger used to say that "outside" the school it was not so different from Hyper Island and I must agree with him. It is almost exactly the same, the only difference is that here there is real money and more responsibility.

My mentor inspires me all the time. She is taking good care of me and keeping me busy. I'm already feeling home here.

// Erika

@ Palladium, Stockholm

2008-12-01T21:02:00.008+01:00

Okay I’ll take it from the beginning, the first day was pretty tough and not what I expected.
I was spending the day running up and down in the house looking for someone who had a Windows CD so I could clean the harddrive of my computer. This day I got annoyed, irritated and it was the first day in 1, 5 years I watched the time and wanted to go home.
But now afterwards I can look at it in a positive way, if my workstation would have been ready then I probably wouldn’t get to know the other people at Palladium that fast.

My first real assignment was to make a motion for a client including matte painting, 3D and 2D composition. From this point everything went to the better, I got to show them I knew After effects and some 3D comp.

Today I started making a detailed and realistic albumcase in Maya. A great thing to start with when learning modeling. Everyone in my department is really helpful and has patience with me when I ask stupid questions.

This will turn out great. I love being geeky talking about effects and listening to chiptunes all day long.

It’s a cozy building with nice harmony.

And by the way, This is a none mac-friendly area ;D

kthxbye /Daniel Stenberg at Palladium

One down, 29 to go!

2008-11-28T17:10:00.002+01:00

This is Axel Widén, reporting from Daddy in Gothenburg, Sweden. Starting one week later than most other kids, I've just finished my first five days here. Its been a blast! I've worked mainly on a pitch together with some really, really amazing people. Seeing highly creative, highly experienced individuals throw around ideas like they were popcorn is very inspiring! Its just so awesome to see how fast their minds work and how quickly they're able to leap from concept to concept while still maintaining focus. It also shows me how much I still need to grow and how much I have to learn, which makes me feel humble and excited at the same time. The pitch went really well, making the long hours of constantly changing wireframes feel worth the effort. I've also done some messing around in After Effects and had some beers. Can't complain!

Everyone has been really nice and helpful, and I feel very comfortable here. I'm being put to work hardcore and I'm actively participating in real projects, which makes me feel that my internship is being taken very seriously. I'm learning constantly, and its already very clear to me that the internship is the part of Hyper Island where you will pick up the majority of your skillz.

That being said, I was pleased to discover that Hyper Island has prepared me well for the internship. In many ways the methods, atmosphere, language and frame of mind here is very similar to that of the school. The main difference is that at this place, everybody knows what they're doing. Nobody can afford to dick around or whine. To me, this is Heaven.

But I still miss you guys.

Now beer!

Love,

/Axel

Creative Space <3 you

2008-11-28T10:03:00.002+01:00

I'm having my internship at Creative Space in my hometown Stockholm. The office is situated on Södermalm and it's quite convinient since I just moved to a new apartment in a suburb just south of Stockholm city so it just takes me fifteen minutes from door to door. I chose to stay in Sweden for my internship because I love Stockholm and I tend to get homesick quite fast ^___^

My first day at the office was quite hectic since I got three different tasks to handle and I had very little time on my hands to solve them. I didn't have time to be nervous so I just plunged right into work.
Since then I've been helping with different projects and right now I'm illustrating for a website that distributes designer lingerie. It's great fun!

It's my second week, going on third, and I really like being an intern here and everyone is so cool, nice and helpful and I feel more like a co-worker than "just" an intern.
Every friday there's "friday-beer" and that means that we drink beer and/or wine at the office and invite people from the same business to come and join us.
(If anyone of you interns in Stockholm feel like dropping by any friday you're very welcome to do so!)

Anyway, that's all for me. Miss y'all and hope that you're doing fine at your internships.

XOXO

// Susan Nygren

A week and a half at North Kingdom

2008-11-26T10:24:00.007+01:00

I'm currently doing my internship as a Project Manager / Producer at North Kingdom, Stockholm, and so far I must say it feels really good.

So what have I done so far?

I've got my own desk with a lovely MacBook Pro and an external screen
I've done a lot of beta testing on a project that is to be delivered on 1st of December
I've got my very own project to manage, that feels really scary
I've got a lot of papers and reports done about project management and projects. So I've had a lot to read
I've got a Creative Director to promise to buy me lunch unless he has bought himself a gym card by next monday
I'm now a member of the "we who plays Mario Kart at lunch break" team
I've been beaten in Mario Kart each lunch break so far =/

So overall it feels really good to be here. Everyone is very nice to me and take themselves time to answer my questions and let me in on feedback rounds. So becoming a member of the team here at North Kingdom has been a walk in the park.

Much of the conversations are made in English, we sit in an open office environment and there are some former Hyper Island kids here so let's just say I feel right at home.

A bad thing is that the floor is leaning, so if I lift my feet of the floor, I'll end up not being able to reach my keyboard after a few seconds. Well, it's something I can live with, and the floor is being fixed soon anyways.

That's all I can think of for now. When you hear from me next time there will be a lot more to report.

Take care and good luck everyone! And for heavens sake, remember to drink some beer and have fun out there! =)

//
Björn Blomquist
Project Manager Intern
North Kingdom

BANG BANG

2008-11-26T06:07:00.002+01:00

Me and Petter was refreshing the Dm09sto blog ALL day to see the lates entry. Until I notice at 22.00 that I was suppose to blog today! MATHA FAKKA, YOU FAKKIKING KAKAROCH!

Bang Bang… That's how my first day at Domani Studios started. The life here at Bedford ave in Brooklyn, Ain't easy. Right now I'm living were Jay-Z grow up. Now I really understand what he raps about.

I'm kind of telling the truth… 1094 Bedford ave were I live (together with Petter, Felix, Madonna and a friend of Felix and Petter called Robin) is known for being a "bad" neighbourhood, and there where a shoot out this Saturday and Jay Z was raised in this neighbourhood. But is not that bad as it sounds once you get to know the neighbourhood.
But me and the guys have found apartment. It's cheap and it's on wikipidia. It took us exactly one week to get it and I'm really looking forward to move in (we move in the 1 of Dec).

Domani Studios is a really good place to do your internship I think. Everybody is really nice and they brake you in easy to the world of internet and commercials and you know things like that…

Observation nr 1: American people talk like people in sitcoms.

Observation nr 2: Brooklyn is hipsters paradise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAO4EVMlpwM)

Observation nr 3: Hipsters in Nyc look like scum from Carmen (a anarchist bar at Södermalm in Stockholm)

/Daniel "Pikkan Pajas" Piquer

24h in Barcelona

2008-11-24T21:48:00.007+01:00

After being in Barcelona for just one day this is what I’ve found out so far:

Fannie and I live in a quite nasty neighborhood, but that neighborhood is apparently seen as very fashionable by the locals.
On La Boquería you can buy “komule” as a delicacy.
You can buy things with funny names at the Vodafonestore

On La Rambla there are a lot of hookers. But they don’t look like hookers, they just stand still. Apparently if you are a girl and you stand still on La Rambla, you are a hooker, so whatever you do don’t stand still on La Rambla!
Wine is really cheap! If you’re lucky you can make a real bargain and find wine for just 1euro.
It stupid to try to be a local and walk around without a map when you have absolutely no clue where to go.

Otherwise everything is great in Barcelona! Since I started my internship today there’s not much to tell you about it, but so far everyone are really nice to the both of us.

**Update: After two days in Barcelona I've also learnt the bad way that you shouldn't relax for even a second. You can't be safe anywhere. My laptop almost got stolen right before my eyes at an internetcafe, luckliy they dropped it and my dearest laptop was saved**

//Annie

QUE?

2008-11-21T14:52:00.004+01:00

The first thing that struck me when I arrived to Madrid was: I'm not nervous! When I think about it, that's the key thing to why everything seemed so weird before and after my arrival. I was not nervous!

On my arrival I called Sergio, owner and founder of Serial Cut and he met me up at the metro station. We went up to the studio so I could have a look and repack some things to my backpack. He also showed me my desk and workstation (Mac-friendly of course) in the studio that was very bright, fresh and cool and so on.

That weekend I put myself to mingle-mode with the ambition to blend in and talk to some Madridians. This is how it went:

Stage 1: Get a English-to-Spanish parlor! I bought a Spanish-to-English parlor.

Stage 2: Read and try to learn some phrases! I was filled with confidence after a 15 minute read.

Stage 3: Try your skills out! Where to go? I decided to get myself a movie ticket!

Stage 4: Talk to someone! This is what I said to the lady at the ticket office:

- ¡Hola! Quisera una billete de Transiberian, por favor! (said with a confident smile!)

Stage 5: Wait for an answer! This is what the lady said to me, as I heard:

- ¡Hola! Una onjuifkoka sdlkjljieuo nnbmnbasd, trerthoñlk sdjlçásdjl, si?

Stage 6: Repeat stage 2 for little bit more than 15 minutes!

This past week I've been working with typography and layout on a project for a spanish clothing company, it's been kinda fun. Next week we're starting up a project for the biggest name in music television that includes material for a large event. For this weekend I'm going to: move in to a newly renovated and refurnished flat, do some skateboarding, drink some (and then some) cerveza, learn some more spanish and hopefully meet some more friendly Madridians.

Madrid is great and I recommend everybody a visit!

¡Salud!

/Jimmy

This video shows the places I'm going to visit this weekend:

The black sun never sets in Paris

2008-11-20T22:02:00.011+01:00

First week at Soleil Noir in Paris is coming to a close and it's time for me to assess.

Things have started off slowly, but intensely! I'm currently working on some minor stuff on two projects which are both really exciting, although there's a lot to get

acquainted with! Everyone is really nice and going out of their way to accommodate their first non-french speaking intern!

Paris is lovely and I'm loving it here! I'm spending my days eating desserts and working. Profiteroles, Moelleux de chocolat, crêpes de nutella et coco! Miam miam! Here's a picture of me enjoying a cigarette at one of my favourite café's.

Although the work is going pretty smoothly, the language barrier makes for a few weird situations. To say that my understanding of spoken french is "limited" is like saying that the reception of the movie adaptation of the video game Max Payne has been "Mild". I misinterpret a lot and by the time I've figured out which word someone actually said, they're already well into another sentence.

The fact that french slang is based on the concept of reversing words make me even more confused! Mec is cem which means guy, Fête is etêf which is party.

But in a way I don't want to become any better at french, it makes for a pretty interesting day hearing people talking about things that always happen "at a party" instead of knowing that they are actually saying "In fact" and working with someone named Waffle instead of the harsh reality of not working with people named after pastries.

à bientôt, darlings!

Andreas Palmerén

ps. Don't forget to vote for the Alfa Romeo Experience site by Soleil Noir at the 2008 MAX Awards! ds.

London and Advertising

2008-11-19T22:32:00.003+01:00

It is a bloody circus. I hate to say the word bloody, but it is truly a bloody circus and weirdly enough I like it. London is the city I am talking about.

My new life started three days ago. Samuel and I took a plane from Arlanda Airport. Everything went well until we had to make an emergency landing in northern Denmark, a passenger suffered from a heart attack, life is cruel. We finally arrive at Heathrow Airport. Our bags were here lost and retrieved after forty minutes of nervous waiting. After a series of problems, we arrived at central London and it turned out that most tube lines and buses were closed.

We met up with Rasmus Knutsson who greeted us and took us to the apartment in Hackney. It is a very lovely. Expensive apartment. A lot of buildings are worn down since the World War, but between these depressive buildings are usually nice ones, no one here have ever had the thought of tearing down these old buildings or replacing old water pipes. They like it as it is, and reversed traffic is probably most favoured.

It is Sunday, the day before work. Rasmus, Samuel, Gustav and Rajdan hooked up their Macbook Pro's to LAN this day. In the mean time I went out for sightseeing in Hackney, it lasted for five minutes. I realized that it was not much of an attraction and joined the other guys with my Macbook Pro. Six identical computers, It was a nice view.

Monday, first work day. Not nervous, but curious. I met probably five people from several departments at AKQA, and everyone was very professional. I am in the creative department, working with creative directors, copywriters, designers and art directors. "Creative Intern" is my role and I love everything so far. I am currently working with a very intensive, huge pitch for an exclusive car brand. With that being said,

I haven’t tasted a London dry martini yet.

/Andreas L

L.A

2008-11-19T19:44:00.000+01:00

Hi.

I've been in LA for almost a week now. The city has been treating me good so far, got a great place to stay right now, two students from Hyper Island, karlskrona letting me crash on their couch. Will be looking for my own apartment to share with an upcoming intern at my agency soon.

Im doing my 7 month long internship at Buck(www.buck.tv), today was my second day. The studio is spacious and in the middle of downtown, the people working there all seem great and I've been well taken care of. There are a few other interns there from europe and the states, lots of young and old very talented people.

I've got thrown right into production and I'm enjoying myself so far. not much to say after just two days. All really good impressions so far.

Coffee machine works great.

hope everyone else from dm09 is having a good time!

out

Axel

I love neighbours.....

2008-11-19T01:27:00.011+01:00

One week at Firstborn, New York. I´m having a great time, working with some really talented people. I began with a real project my second day, right now working with the super genius french guy behind the flash 3D engine Five3D, Mathieu Badimon, and he´s a great resource for everything I wanna know about anything anytime. That´s great, cause I´m struggeling with a second Physics Engine in one week. I´m pretty sure, this experience will give me a lot, and will prepare me more than well for my future career in the business. It feels great. And that´s not all Lundmark, the Tweener guy is here aswell.

Besides that, I met my new neighbour, our really friendly, sociable, dear neighbour, he told us he was going to call the police the first time he saw us, just saw us in the staircase. I´m very curious about who he´s calling when we throw our first party...

That´s my first week...

And Martin S, I think I´ve found the restaurant!

/ Daniel

Time for our internship period, the question is....

2008-11-07T09:18:00.001+01:00

Are we ready?