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RT @ the F1

Henrik — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:53:23 +0000

Yes! It’s true! Dubai’s most stylin’ post-blog is back from the dead! After being neglected for way too long we have done some serious voodoo shizz and are once again ready to grace the world with our posts. First out is our trip to the F1 this weekend. You’re welcome!

Pre-game, literally.

“WHAT??? I CAN’T HEAR A WORD!!!!”

“…did you just say something..?”

Errr….

Errrrrr….

Making new friends!

Rolling Thunder

Henrik — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:04:12 +0000

No Boundaries

Henrik — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:11:53 +0000

We recently completed a graphics package for a new documentary/travel tv-show called No Boundaries. Apart from conceptualizing and creating all graphics for the show, we also organized all the music together with Swedish wunderkinds Red Pipe, and we are also doing the editing for the full season.

Read more about the show at the website and follow the production on the facebook group.

Here are some behind the scenes pictures.

Go gadget go!

Henrik — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:31:44 +0000

Following up on last week’s ultra-awesome toaster-printer, check out BuzzFeed’s article about the 35 most ridiculous SkyMall Items! There’s a whooole lotta wacky gadgets out there folks… A few of the favourites are the Automatic Cereal Dispenser, the Wrist Cell Phone Carrier, and the Siamese Slanket.. Man, I’d love to meet the people who buy this stuff!

Pecha Kucha 6

Henrik — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:58:10 +0000

To start the year off with a zing of creativity, the popular interactive artistic forum Pecha Kucha returns for its sixth installment. Organized by traffic, S*uce, and The Third Line, the evening will include 9 presenters from various creative fields. Photographers, a traveling teddy bear, a graphic comic artist and a children’s art organizationton name just a few will be part of the line up.

Pecha Kucha follows a 20×20 format which allows each of the evening’s presenters to showcase 20 images ‚ each shown for exactly 20 seconds. This gives the presenter 6 minutes and 40 seconds of much deserved fame before switching over to the next participant. Originating in Japan, Pecha Kucha (pronounced-peh-chak-cha) is Japanese for ‘chatter’ and was devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture.

For more information please call 04 3411 367, or visit their website.

The best thing since sliced bread? Really.

Henrik — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:20:49 +0000

If you are designer, tech-geek and a lover of toast, surely Othmar Muhlebach‘s toaster-printer MUST be your wet dream..???

Simply hook it up to your laptop (we’re holding out for a WiFi version) – load up a picture and send to the toaster – “print” the picture on your toast – continue watching The Goonies while eating your toast. Genius.

Happy Holidays!!!

Henrik — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:10:24 +0000

Ok that’s it. 2009 has come to an end. Talk about an interesting year eh? It started out all dramatic with the credit crunch in all its doom and gloom, but quite soon picked up more and more, as people realized you can’t just stop working altogether. And just as things were getting really good this fall, the whole Dubai World thing happened. But it seems that it’s not going to have that much of an impact either.

Anyway, here are some of the highlights of our year:

• The whole RT office (minus Henrik) ran the Standard Chartered Marathon!
• We got nominated as the best Animation house at the Digital Studio Awards!
• We unleashed our fake movie trailer upon the world, and got massive coverage from blogs and websites all over the world! We also got a front page article in Khaleej Times and a feature in The National, and we did a radio interview as well. At the moment of writing this it has had over 120,000 views at YouTube!
• We settled in properly in our new office in Dubai Studio City.
• We invested in a fair amount of new hardware and software to support our increasing workload.
• We flew in some really talented freelancers to help out on a big project! And we got some awesome plum brandy as a gift!
• We’ve done work for amongst others: JWT, Dragon Oil, Lowe MENA, Wunderman, Action Impact, OgilvyOne, Percept Gulf, Central Films, TBWA/RAAD, HQ Creative, DAC Productions, Resolution Pictures, Filmworks, Landor, Tonic, Zaman, etc. We thank you for all your work, and we look forward to even more work in 2010!

But of course not everything is 100% honky dory. There are always some negative things, right? Without a doubt the worst thing that happened in 2009, is that we slacked big time on pushing our Almost A Mullet mix series. We actually didn’t put out any mixes in 2009, which is a step down from delivering five fantastic mixes the year before. Zero, Zilch, Nada. We’ll shape up, we promise!!!

But all in all we are very, very happy with 2009, and we really feel that we are an even stronger company today than last year!

So, now we’ve earned a bit of a holiday, wouldn’t you agree? Hermann and Hannelize are both heading to South Africa; Ziad flies to Beirut; Henrik is exploring X-Mas and New Year in Tokyo; while Lazhar will hold the fort while the others are away.
We are available for quoting while we are away, and you can reach us on our emails (see our website) in the meantime. And then we’ll all be back in full force again around 6 Jan. So, with that in mind, have a joyous holiday, and we will see you all in 2010!

Kalle Kotte

Henrik — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:00:36 +0000

Henrik made a promise to the entire office to make St Lucy’s Day saffron buns (or “lussekatter” in Swedish). Unfortunately he failed to deliver on this promise, due to work, meetings and too little sleep. In a pathetic attempt to make up for the disappointment he caused, he sent us this youtube clip of what he claims is a traditional Christmas song in Sweden, performed by “The Nisse Band”. We are not happy with this. We demand retribution. See for yourselves, and tell us if we should put up with this?

Luke, I am your X-Mas decoration

Henrik — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:56:25 +0000

If you know what’s good for you, this is what you decorate your X-Mas home with. Buy here.

AT-AT Art Attack!

Henrik — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:07:02 +0000

Now this is an art exhibition we’ll def check out! French photographer Cedric Delsaux is putting photos on display of Dubai comped with various Star Wars elements! The exhibit is called The Dark Lens – The Dubai Invasion, and is on between 8 to 31 of December at The Empty Quarter in DIFC. So stop salivating nerds, and just go there – it’s geek art!