Average Days @ Hyper Island

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This is where I Live

I can’t belive I actually live in this city! ‘The Sandpit’ is a really cute video shot with tiltshifted timelapses of NYC.

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

Hyper Island Recruitment Tour NYC!

Yesterday I facilitated the Hyper Island Recruitment tour in New York! It’ were held in the beautiful Droga5 office in SOHO, Manhattan. Me and Eva, PM at Hyper Island, interviewed a whole bunch of talented people who wanted to go to Sweden to have the Hyper experience, It was intense!

After the recruitment process I held a shorter presentation for the participants and explained a little bit about how it’s like to be a student at Hyper Island.

“Hmmmmmmm” x2

T-rex arm

Winter spring winter spring!?

The winter of 09-10 will be remebered as a long, cold, snowy and pretty annoying one. But it’s seems like it has lost the battle against spring in New York, at last!

We found our rooftop be the perfect spot for hanging out on sunny sundays!

We also hade a visit from Björn who been spending one week hare in New York before he heads back to Sweden!

Me and Björn went urban exploring in downtown brooklyn the other day and we spotted some cool stuff!

We also took a cab to Brooklyn Flea-market, an old bank building that now is filled with awesome second-hand, upcoming designers pieces and random awesomeness! And the old vault (with a massive safe-door and all) is now a small foodcourt with all different knds of food and pasteries! A must see if you ever visit New York and wanna do some serious second-hand shopping!

Well hows work then?

Work is smooth as always. Besides of developing I also got my first project as a producer! I can’t belive it’s been four months since we arrived in NYC, time just flies by. I have loved every second of it and will probably love the rest as well!

Hyper Island Recruitment Tour comes to New York!

Yea that’s right! Hyper is recruiting international students and will be hosted at Droga5! So if your curious about what Hyper Island is all about, and are in New York on the 13th of march, just swing by! I’ll be there and mingle and answer questions!

One more thing… Welcome Harald!

Harald arrived today and are going to do his internship at Great Works! Welcome dude!

Gah what a long post.. I need to do smaller posts, more often.. But the time! WERE DO I FIND THE TIME!?

Work for 10hours, eat for one and then freelance for the remaining.. And I really need to update my portfolio as well..

Maybe next time!

Your-Majesty in 8MM

Your Majesty in 8MM from Erik Jonsson on Vimeo.

wonderFL

WonderFL is a great community site for Flash-developers where they can share and even edit eachothers code direclty in the browser (aka. Forking).

It’s pretty old news, but I wanted to try out the embedd functionality!

Here with an example that is similar to the beautiful Labuat site.

Neat service indeed!

New knights and new furniture!

Last friday our new colleagues Tore and Erik got knighted together with Harold who recently went from squire to knight! Congratulations guys!

Yes, they seriously got knighted! With real swords and all… And beer.. and champagne..

During the weekend me and Kristofer, together with Erik, made a power run to IKEA! After getting lost in downtown Brooklyn on our way there we finally got to the place and got ourselves some desks, chairs and other nice to have stuff for the apartment! As usual we got the stuff delivered to our place with a “black cab”.

We also bought some delicious swedish treats! Gevalia, Ballerina, Marabou and Ahlgrens bilar best “fika” in 2010!

I bought two wooden rods and some hangers to do some IKEA-hacking on my own! The result became pretty good, so now I have my own walk in closet… who I also live in… But still!

Later on the sunday we watched our first Superbowl! Made it an all american evening (!?) with pizza, bud lights and Doritos! The game, New Orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts, was actually pretty entertaining! But it’s a good thing I like advertising, because on every minute of the game it was 15sec of game, 45sec of commercial

Well.. Hows the weather in New York then?

My Media Monster

Really nice site for Verbatim, done by Roxik, crazy!

When I grow up

Cold Hipstamatic Rocketfactory!

This week

has seriously been the coldest experience I’ve had in my life. New York is freaking freeeeeeeeeeeezing!! But the cold outside I can handle. It’s the cold inside the apartment that makes me wanna go fcuking berserk and punch our landlord in the face! Apparently we have to pay gas separately and we haven’t registered an account with a gas-company yet because the landlord didn’t tell us that we had to!

The whole apartment is heated with gas, and even so the stove and owen. So we can’t cook either! It pretty much suck! I miss cooking my own food. Now we are running on take-out and resturant foods for every single meal! (Well.. thats pretty sweet, but I miss cooking my own food)

Except for the heating issue the week has been pretty regular. I’m starting to feel at home in New York and love it at work! The only thing I’m missing is working out, but I’ll probably join a gym this week.

Work wise

it has been a pretty calm week. We got some feedback on the Bloomberg project and had to fix those. And on the Starbucks project we are still waiting for assets from the client so we are on hold. Pretty sweet to be working with such a big client as Starbuck though! We are also working on a internal project that is pretty sweet, let’s me experiment alot with new techniques to do stuff so I’m learning a bunch!

We also hade two new guys starting at the office this week! Tore and Erik! Seems like two really chill dudes that are gonna rock out at the office! We also managed to hook them up on an aparment in our Rocket factory! (the building we live in) So they move in on the fifth floor tomorrow! Did someone say COD-nights!?

I bought yet another photo-app

for the iphone a couple of days ago, so all the pictures I have taken this week has been with it, I like the retro feel of the photos, even though some of them gets pretty blurry. It’s called Hipstamatic, check it out, pretty fun! It even has a ‘Williamsburg’ kit for the uberhipsters, were we live!

Ground Zero is located like two blocks from the office.

Serious dudes

Twitter-shitter and Gregster

Party in the Icecreamfactory (yes another factory..) and Tore (on the right left) shows that he can do just as good duckfaces as Kristofer.

Jade was there, as well as two monkeys playing chatroulette!

Speaking of party!

If you are in Stockholm you should defiantly go to SWEDISH BAKERY on Bonden Bar this Wednesday! As you might know my dear friends Niklas and Johan is running the club while me and Daniel is setting up the New York office! I found this little neat video that describes the club in a pretty good way!

Cake it or leave it!