It’s a time where one should take the time ( if not the whole year ) to go out and meet all your friends and family all over again. Talk about nothing, talk about future plans, exciting new relationships, adventures or problems. Talk about music, life, food, performances. Tell each other really bad jokes, and laugh with them just before you go to sleep. Learn to cook, learn to shoot with bow and arrow, learn to learn. Do something really, really stupid. Travel, see the world, see the people living on this world. Go out and have fun. Have fun in what you do, every day, with people you can talk with, about life, about the summertime…

On a more professional note: we are working / finishing a lot of different projects, which will be released over the next couple of months. Expect update soon, you must.

summerlove, henry

learn more about wabi-sabi

the beginning

It was a great place, and boy, if those walls could speak! Birthday parties, barbecue in the summertime, late-night-coding-sessions, … and of course some kick-ass working! ^^

Our wolfpack started with 2 lone wolfs, around 2006. We were looking for some interesting wolves to add to our pack. We found them and our little love-nest got too small after a while. So on the 1st of March 2010, we officially moved from our trusty beacon in the south of Antwerp, to a really nice place, located more in the heart of Antwerp. Here are some images of us packing up our stuff.

the move

The new place is still getting the final works done by us, so here are some random impressions and some feet on our new floor ( we simply LOVE our floor, it’s the best!! ).

the party

Moving means celebrating! So we did, you can check those pictures out on our flickr-page. We made a nice little slow-motion booth to boot! It was great fun, and we also made a quick edit. Hope you spot yourself!

the invitation

for the party, we also made an invitation, how else are you going to let people know? So yeah, here it is, there are some folding-it-open pictures on flickr, and also a making-of… We had a lot of fun folding every little confetti-bomb ^^

the conclusion

To end this post, we just want to say that we are really happy in the new office! Mr. Henry hopes to see you soon, for work or coffee! ^^

There is NO denying that these gentlemen have earned eternal stardom with their actions ( or was it their … ‘STACHES? ) We humbly tried to step inside those big shoes of our ancestors, men, manly men. We do this every year, it’s called SNORRENDAG, “moustache-day” in English. This will be our 3^th time of doing this annual event!

NOTE: some of our dear people at the office couldn’t make it today, kind of a big snow-disaster today in belgium ( traffic jams over 900km!! )

More specifically if you’re working as a developer for the Flash Platform. We’re not looking for apprentices here. We’re looking for that one person that’s really on fire. Is at ease with frameworks, throws in some vertex’s when we’re not looking and who’s handled a deadline or two.

It’s absolutely necessary that you have an eye for high quality work. For yourself and the team you work with on a day to day base.

Your profile should cover: Flash, Flex, Air, AS3, able to work in a team, able to work on your own, eager to learn, eager to fail, English, basic understanding of databases and related techniques, …
And please: do include your online portfolio while your at it, with working examples of your magnificent work!

No agencies, headhunters, other-timezone-related-teams pls.

( first seen on our Twitter account )

Thanks to everyone for dropping by, the couches were just enough to seat everyone. A special thanks to Klaas, Bartek (Poland) and Eugene (Russia) for lighting up the room with their vibrant words and visuals. We’ve uploaded some visuals, both static and moving!

Thanks to Tom van Sand for filming and editing the video, and thanks to Otman Fathi for taking some pictures while everybody was enjoying the show! Also, respect to our 2 swedish friends who joined us, Fred & Kristoffer you crazy Swedes!

All your media ( flickr / vimeo ) are belong to us! ( all the presentations are currently being uploaded to youtube Vimeo, so you can watch every session over and over again )

We hope to be able to do this some more, for the love of it! If you liked what you saw, and want to help us with sponsoring or donating your sexy body to us, please STAY IN TOUCH! ^^

Check out some Flickr

clickr for the flickr

Check out some Vimeo

video + editing by tom van sand

MONTAGE

SESSION KLAAS

SESSION BARTEK

SESSION BRAM

SESSION EUGENE

Thanks very much again to everyone for coming, and we hope to see you again pretty soon!

b-y-e

We have 4 European speakers. Topics include: Papervision ( Bartekd! ), image processing ( Eugene of Inspirit! ), a live vj workflow explained ( Klaas Verpoest ) and we‘ll give a little talk about Flex Development.

Besides these amazing speakers from Poland and Rrrrussia, we also have a truely, unique location: “Felix Pakhuis” ( browse the image gallery for pics ). It’s located in an old warehouse, next to the water ( and yachts ). ^^

You can visit the Meetup page and register ( it’s free! ) or just keep an eye on our blog-e-di-blog. We would really appreciate you registrating at the Meetup page so we can prepare ourselves for things to come. And besides: the registration pages of Meetup are really slick!

We’ll be talking about "Restfulx: Flex, Rails and Coffeebreaks". In 180 seconds. John doesn’t call us “Three Minute Wonders” for nothing.

Missing out on FOTB is a big mistake if you’re even remotely interested in Rich Internet Applications, digital art and / or looking for inspiration. Brighton, where it all takes place, is a city full of cosy restaurants, a lively vegetarian scene and loads of good music.

See you soon!

We’ve been getting cakes and cookies on such a regular bases, that we just needed to show our love! Just look at the little knight on his Speculaas Horse! Thanks for all the crunchy cookies and amazing cake Elien!

ps: her coconuts are great!! ( cakes that is )
pps: if anyone else wants to send us food, please do!!

This saturday it’s “World Blood Donor Day”. A great opportunity to become a blood donor. It takes one hour of your time: registration, a checklist, a little talk to a doctor and the donation itself. You’ll be rewarded with cookies and a softdrink to get you started again.

If you live in Belgium, go over to www.debloedgroep.be. If you’re an international this page might come in handy.

He’s from the Netherlands, and we taught him about andalouse, the best sauce out there! Anyway, we gave him his total weight in this nectar-of-gods, that’s a staggering 70kg’s!!! Thanks for a great time Gilles, and come back soon! 

Please contact him if you want to throw a barbecue or something! ( don’t let him tell you he doesn’t have “tha soose” ( yeah he talks like that, because he’s mad gangsta yo! ) )

This is the feedback from OnePage Publishing on the georgette website:

We have been to the Georgette website recently and are very impressed with its creative and appealing design, in particular the lovely animation and navigation, with screens flying by, balloons and hearts that show the progress of loading, the scrollover taskbar below and of course, the presentation of the shoes, the option for a real-life view of the shoe on a real foot, and how they fall nicely into the shopping cart once you click Buy. The website is fun and aesthetically pleasing yet simple to use and intuitive, which is what we are looking for.

That’s like… a good review! ^^

Visit the 5-minute-one-pager now at www.posterliefde.be

We sincerely hope all the Belgians, Dutch, Australians, Americans, Portuguese and Danes enjoy their ink! ( If YOU are reading this, please take a picture of the paper on your wall and email it back to mother! )

Thank you!

We will post upcoming secrets projects, funny factoids happening in the office and much more! Over the course of the coming years, we’ll share a laugh, shed some tears… but we will always bring it true! ^^

from left to right: inge, bram, simon, yves, gilles, hans, jesus and henry in the middle
from left to right: anastasya, egor, ivo, vadym , yaki, gnat, jesus and henry in the middle

Here some food for the technical people among us: we’ve used the super-duper WordPress as our basis, and then DID EVERYTHING OURSELVES CUSTOM yeah yeah!! ^^ Look around and use our fuzz-filter, follow us on twitter, subscribe to the newsletter, stalk us on flickr, go out and have some fun and spread the word!

We wish everybody a brilliant 2009!

Thank you for reading