Crime at my door

Yes, crime is happening everywhere. Today I went out to get the newspaper and… I saw a scene, not suited for my empty stomach. Just look at the photos and you’ll see what I’m talking about. It literally did happen on my steps. And the main actors? Obviously the poor dead bird and… my cat Pika. Oh yes. “I couldn’t be more proud at you my tiger!” NOT! But I guess, she won’t need any food today, right? And I just hope, that she would act the same if someone decided to rob me or something

Signs of serious fighting. “Please collect the evidence, mister secret agent man.”

And… The actual crime scene with the victim being exposed. “Nothing we can do now, my dear Watson”

Magdalena 2008

This weekend (15-17.5.) I was attending the Magdalena festival held in Maribor. It is a festival of creative communication which is addressing especially the younger creative generation (-30 years). I sent some of my recent works, even tough I knew they were not the “wining material” but I wanted some feedback from the crowd and it worked.

Otherwise was this years Magdalena a bit low level in comparison with earlier festivals. OK, the lectures were interesting and well prepared, but the program should be announced earlier and should be better organized. Perhaps that’s why there were only 400 and something works and relatively small number of participants. And there was only one creative brief (Promote use of condoms), which could also be a reason for low participation.

AND THE WORKS?

There were some great works and some really creative ideas, but I think that works on the creative brief were not nearly as good as expected. Because many of them were not following the brief, even though they were well executed. That’s why there was only one winner on the brief and only one special mention.

In other categories we have seen some really good ideas, even tough some of them didn’t even make it to the final. The jury has picked up good works, but some of them are… well who am I to judge. Instead of judging or praising the winners, here are some works. ;

AWARDS

The winners definitely had an amazing idea and a well done execution, even tough it could be done even better. But still, a big applause for Dora Budor and Maja Cule.

Among the Golden bra awards I think there could be some changes. For example the music video was not really a state of the art, and the video from Aljoša Bagola (& Nenad Cizl) for Amnesty was really in a higher league than everything else. If you want to check all the awards and finalists go to www.magdalena.org.

CONCLUSION

This years Magdalena should be something special (it was the 10th) with great lectures and amazing works. It was great, creative and inspiring but let’s hope next year it will be even better, fuller and richer with quantity and quality.

And some of my favourite works:

Mountainbike Pohorje 2008

WoW. I spent an amazing weekend. Not only it was sunny and a weekend without any kind of work (ok, except some animal cleaning in our reality show with degus at Mamut.si), I was the whole weekend in the company of adrenalin freaks on bikes. I used my press pass to enjoy some first person action and managed to get some nice photos. Check them out at on my Flickr page HERE

Here’s a sneak preview

Kletka goes online!

UPDATE: The Kletka project is on-line and you can check it out and spread the word. I think the idea is original and it sure is funny. We just started officialy (yesterday) and the reality show will finish in 4 weeks. The voting will start next week. Heh, I’m just watching them and laughing out loud. Check out for yourself on www.mamut.si and wave at them.

I now, I now… I was really busy these weeks. My diploma is almost done and the other big thing I was working on, was long a well kept secret, but now, I’m allowed to talk about it . Together with the Mamut.si team we have been preparing the first animal reality show with small furry mamals – degus. You can find more in this week’s special edition of Mamut.si and I will get back with more info and funny facts. But now, it’s barbecue time! Woohoo!

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