New York, Barcelona
& back!

Been a long time since last post, but this summer has been very eventful, both personally and business related. Blogform has just expanded to the US of A, more precisely New York. Since most of our clients are american corporations, the company found it necessary to hire people in the states, so the time difference to the clients wouldn’t have such an impact on our workflow. We hired two new designers / actionscripters along with a PM and a few others, so my colleague Eirik and I where sent to New York in the beginning of August to show the people there the ropes.

The view from my hotel room, at 22nd floor:

I can describe very much of New York with one word: BiG! Everything there was big. Avenues with four lanes (and all one-way!), the normal size Starbucks coffee was half a liter, buildings with less than 20 floors are considered “small” etc. However, i was surprised to see a lot fewer big people than expected, hehe. Anyways, we had 6 nights there and alot of work to be done. Not only was i going to teach the new guys, but at the same time we had to finish of a few client projects before i was going on my week long vacation in Barcelona with my wife. Ergo i didn’t get as much time to explore NYC as i had hoped. But i know there will be a trip or two back there, in the near future.

After the week in New York i flew via Oslo and picked up my wife for some shopping, eating and beach style RnR in Barcelona. A fantastic city. It has everything. Beachlife, nightlife, excellent cuisine, shopping streets, culture and history. Definitely going back there again.

The entrance to our hotel room, spooky no?

Comming back to work we had alot to be done, among a new project we have been working on named “tube the vote”. My next post will be more about this new direction of digtal based magazines we are undergoing. Very exciting!

Lastly, I was at the first meeting of FUGN (Flash User Group Norway) this season, and it was good to see all the regulars attend. I was elected to the board (yay!) among a few others. Looking forward to spending some geek time with you all at Flash On The Beach this year.

Well that’s it for now, will post again soon. :)

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