And the client couldn't be any other than Hi-ReS!. I can't say too much else, at some point will be finished and you'll see it somewhere :)
In my -new life- as a freelancer, this is the first time that I work as a fulltime-freelancer in the client's offices, and I have to say that it's really a good experience, it also looks like a much more productive strategy than having 4/5 clients and working from your own office, you spend quite a lot of time organising and speaking with the clients, and at the end of the day you don't do too much work. Working fulltime with a single client and also in the offices ir much more productive, you speak once a day to keep the track of the project and the rest is work work work.
I've to say that Hi-ReS! offices are also quite inspiring, mainly because you can feel the passion of the people there and how hard they work to make interesting work.
I find this quite stupid. The beauty of blogs for me is the communication that it creates. Then the rest share their own point of view, and there is a bit of discussion. It also helps for asking questions to 'the internet' and with that someone arrives to your blog and answers your question.
But thanks to those guys using zombie computers to send crap to blogs creates a problem. And doesn't matter if you use Akismet or any other service like this one, if they send you 500 comments per day, some of them will go in.
So, as I'm getting rid of some responsibilities these days, here is another one. No more comments allowed in the site, I just don't have the time and the patience of having to clean the DB.
I won't hide the comments tho, just the form.
Everyone that ever did sent a comment in this site: Thanks!
Hace unos dias, en una conversacion comentabamos que lo que hacia que Espanya fuese como es era la Picaresca con la que nos educan. A partir de esa educacion no es de extranyar que hayan trabajos basura, que la gente intente no tener que pagar esto y lo otro, y un sin fin de detalles mas.
Uh, long time since writting something here under trace' name ;) Well, just so you know, trace is still active and will keep releasing demos for a while, he needs to find some free time tho. I was planing to attend Assembly this year (no, no Breakpoint, not anymore). I have the tickets and the hostel reserved already. But because some recent events, I'm not sure if I'll be able to attend.
Anyway, yesterday I finally received my copy of Mindcandy 2 that I ordered some days ago to the old spanish scener poves (now living in uk).
Again, nice cover image done by fthr (although I think it's and old illustration). For some reason, the first thing I did was to watch the production notes part, and If you receive the DVD, I recomend you to watch that part first so you get the big picture of the DVD. Trixter explains everything that he had to do for being able to produce the DVD, ordering Amigas, testing, post processing.
I agree with the selection, right now I don't think any of my favorites is missing. Another nice bit are the commentaries, however, for this one I think not too many original authors did them, Trixter had to do a lot of them. I specially liked the one for Silkut which was done by one of the original authors. Nice jokes and 'tricks'.
So, in the end, nice DVD for having good fun. Get yours!
I can't believe how can I be such a disaster. Years ago, when I went to open a bank account I realised I had my passport expired. As I may have said already, opening a bank account in UK is quite hard so imagine the situation, with a lot of documents, bills and stuff, and then with the passport expired. Luckily I had my driving license with me and the guy said that he would accept that as if it was the passport. That was the only time my driving license was useful in my whole life, that was 2 or 3 years after I got it and I never used it, never touch a car.
Well actually, when we went to Iceland I did drive a car, quite a lot of Km in fact, but guess what, I forgot my driving license in reykjavik. Well I though there wasn't going to be any problem as there aren't too many cars around there and we were using a automatic changes car. But then again, I forgot that the limit of these kind of roads were 90km/h, and I was drving at 130km/h when a cop car appeared, and as I didn't know the 90 limit, I didn't reduced... so 40km/h faster than I should, and without my driving license... Imagine the rest... Luckily the guy didn't fine me, but it's just that the roads there are too straigh and there aren't too many cars.. going at 90km/h is boring. Going back to the passport, again, just after being back at home after reykjavik we obviously put some cloths in the washing machine. We had a lot so we (I) forgot to look on all the pockets. The result was this:
If you ever wondered how a passport will end up when you put it in to the washing machine (with drier program). Now you know. So, that happened 3 weeks ago or so, and then this week I was like, shit, I've to go to Spain now. Oh well, I have my spanish ID, that should be enough (although I may really need a new passport for next month :P). But then, I realised that my spanish ID expired 1 year ago. Yeeey!!!
Well, I went today to the spanish consulate and spend a bit of time there explaining all my problems. Now I have something called "Salvo Conducto" which is a paper that certifies that I'm a good person and that whenever I reach Spanish frontier, they should let me in. However, that paper won't be valid for going back to UK. So I guess I will have to renew my passport in Sevilla this week, and this week is easter, so I believe I'll end up missing the plane back and having to buy another ticket for the week after or something.
Funny, uh? I guess I just can't have *everything* under control. But I'll make sure to renew my passport as soon as it expires or I destroy it and I won't leave it for the last thing.
Right, as some people asked what was in it, and there is almost no time to spoil the surprise to anyone else. Here it's the answer for you: Inside the coloured box there was an invitation to a secret London place tomorrow. I would think it's for the release of the CS3 products.
The box itself its like on the video, although its not glowing of course. The box was split so you could open it and you would find a CD and if you opened to the other side you would find the invitation. It took me a while to see that you were able to open the in two ways :P.
Seems that the guys at good technology were behind the campaign, not sure how much they did of it tho. By the way, :gt is recruiting and looks like they have a lot of positions available and I know they are recruiting wisely (go Julian go! o/).
Rtxcite is a quite good creative from Spain. He is one of those that does a bit of everything and you wonder where does he get the time to do all... It also has his own style which is something hard to get.
Some weeks ago he released a site or Sacha Sacket that I though was, again, really nice, but the code was maybe a bit slow. So as I had him on MSN I offered him to partner on this field, so he would design the site and I would code/make it move. He was totally up for the idea as coding wasn't really something he wanted to keep doing forever. So here we are, doing a couple of projects together that need to be released soon ;)
The first one was a semi-fast-one for a newschool decoration company. My part on it was optimising the whole site a bit code speed wise and loading times. Now the loading bar isn't really needed :)
Also it's the first site to have implemented my Phodoob on it for the gallery. Hope you like it! :)