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Happy New Year everyone!

Hope you enjoyed a great one. The end of the this year was not bad for me at all, I guess :)

I had a 1.5 week long holiday and spent it here, in London. We decided not to go anywhere abroad this time, but to take it easy and rather spend some cash on winter sales ;)

We also went to see Beauty and the beast in our local theater and Beowulf in 3D at Imax. I actually enjoyed Beowulf a lot, though had heard some not very good reviews. But here is the secret - you go to the movie theater and don’t expect anything great and truly outstanding to happen, and then Boom! the film actually exceeds your expectations and you are enjoying it. Works for me in most of the movies. Though, yeah, there were few ones when nothing could really help :) There were definitely some flaws, but still 3D was amazing. So i would definitely recommend. In 3D if you can. (But don’t forget not to expect anything good, just like I just taught you ;)

I’d missed our company’s xmas party. It was a week before Christmas, and I happened to be back home in Latvia, but when I came back there was a surprise waiting for me - I had won the Best Dressed Male of the Year award :) Well, second year in a row ;) Don’t think that people are dressed badly at pod1 though ;)

This December I also got monthly sort-of-”best employee”-award (whooohooo, some extra cash :). But the best thing of all that I was promoted to the Front-End Development Manager. So yeah, good year :)

Tonight we are celebrating with some of our friends (and some completely new faces on horizon) in £4.5 million flat in central London, and I realize that this is quite like the place we are comfortable to be in :) Though to be completely honest, it’s not worthy those money, hehe. London… London…

Looking forward to what new year of 2008 is about to bring. Still working on my resolutions. And expecting something great. This time it’s not like in the movie, you MUST expect great stuff. And yeah, work hard. Actually much harder then ever before :)

Have a great one!

So, I was wearing beard for almost two months. That was probably the longest “hairy” moment for me so far. Honestly? Was enjoying it greatly (though it started itching a bit :). Yep, Veronika was not too happy about it, but she was still cool, though kept asking me to shave it all off. Well, I did it eventually. I also thought it would be very boring just to shave my face, but I wanted to have some fun. I wanted… and I had it :) At some point I actually looked really cool with the ala Beastie Boys - Sabotage (or probably more Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction) look :)

Funnily enough, after being hairy for such a long period and suddenly becoming new-born “clean” I 1. could not recognize myself ; 2. did not like my face at all (it felt so flat and featureless)… But I’m getting used to it again gradually :)

PS. Maybe you fancy a magic facial hair video? :) Here you go:

Genre : Accoustic

We were arguing and guessing about who was the initial author of this song. The Knife or Jose Gonzalez. Well, as The Knife website says they wrote it :) The Knife’s version isn’t bad, but Gonsalez’s one is sooo good, it feels like they made a cover of this song, not him :)

Альтернатива

Ну вот, наконец Дельфин выпустил свой очередной альбом. “Юность”. Я уже давно ждал его новой студийной записи. Впечатления пока смешанные, но, правда, я только начал его слушать. А такие вещи с первого раза и не разберёшь. Я думаю, альбом понравится, хотя, наверно, хотелось чего-то по-мелодичнее, по-мягче что-ли… Но это Дельфин. Никогда не знаешь, что он выпустит. Но, похоже, эта пластинка всё-таки не станет любимее “Звезды”… А пока можно смотреть клип на первую вещь. “Кокон”.

Here comes another baby :) A promotional website for another concert of my loved client :) Had to pull myself quite hard to get it done inside a week. Similar to the previous project, Christmas Night, it is a single page, but unlike that website, the information is split in few chunks here, which change with a bit of animation when you click the navigation links. So there is no need for pages reload and browsing between sections is smooth and painless :) I am also planning to reuse this starry night design for the concert’s posters and flyers.

See Winter Lights in the portfolio. Or launch Winter Lights website.