Graduation week has started in Karlskrona, and many of my classmates are back there. Today we all presented our learnings, and what we have done during these 7 months. Since Nina, Theo, Henrik, Alexander, John, and I are still in New York, we made a movie with our answers. Above is a screengrab from my interview, and the whole movie will be public shortly.
Here is another image from our Graduation party at Hyper Island NYC. DM11KNA, DM11STO, and IAD11STO….you can tell we are happy!
We had a pre-graduation party on Friday and it was awesome. Nina, Vanessa, and I had arranged with Nyper Island NYC so we could all gather there for some mingle, drinks and we also had a surprise for the other students. We made stars (as we have seen from the previous Karlskrona graduations), and everyone shared their best memory and what their plans are for the future, and then they got their star. We continued the night at White Slab together with YM and friends. We also went to one fifty one…and to Pianos. Yes it was a long night, and everyone had so much fun.
We got Memorial Day off from work, so Nina, Theo, Henrik, John and I went to Coney Island for the day. 31C and felt like 35C, a lot of people, and great times. In the afternoon we also got some footage for our Hyper Island Internship Presentation video.
If you are in the design/advertising industry and you will be in Stockholm on 31st May 2011, you should rsvp for the event Flirt! There will be a bunch of Hyper Island students, speakers, drinks, and music. Sounds like a good time to me.
In seven days we are getting to know “The world’s first mobile grads – Available for internship in your area” It’s the class project of Mobile Application students from Hyper Island – Karlskrona. The video looks great, and I can’t wait to see the whole site/store.
Above is an infographic that presents some of the hyper island student statistics. Pretty nice, don’t you think.
My brother and his girlfriend Frida is coming to NYC in April to visit me. I’m really excited about this and it will be the second time my brother flies over here. I know it’s still a few more days, but it’s almost like I’m counting. So when my friend and classmate Theo Stråhlén created a countdown calculator/site and I just had to try it. Go to the site, and create your own. It’s super easy, you’ll get your own URL, plus the site is pretty sweet.
I added one piece to my portfolio. This is a concept I worked on during my final project at Hyper Island. You can read more about it here. It’s funny that I just realized that this would be a perfect run for GoldRun. So when we launch in Europe, I think this would be a great idea for the same client…
I just realized that before I came to my internship at GoldRun I actually created a run! My group and I created a game for one of our clients during the final project at Hyper Island where people would go to different check points that would lead them to a release event. How cool is that. I’m updating my portfolio now, so soon you will see what I’m talking about.
This morning when I was running I turned the TV on. There was Obama speaking, I think it was from last Tuesday. Anyways. I saw him say (TV on mute, with subtitle) that we should ask every child “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and that every child should have the opportunity to be what ever they want.
I guess I’m not a child anymore, and I have gone through a few “what do I want to be”; hairdresser, police, lawyer, and so on. But now it is time for the ‘HOW’. Somewhat a very typical Hyper question. But “How will I move forward to become that I wanted?” that is a good question, and that is what I’m asking myself at the moment.
Today has been an exciting day. At 10am I found out that I would be the one to go over to NBC and TODAY Show to talk about tomorrow. Yes, GoldRun will be featured on TV. I showed them the app, how the Find Brooklyn Decker run works, and we talked about how it will be filmed. We also tried to connect my iPhone to their big screen TV. First I downloaded TVOut Genie, but this app only allows you to stream Google maps, photos and some more things. No use for us. So I left studio 1A, headed back to the office and spent the rest of the day researching how we could solve this. Still images isn’t that cool, and kinda ruins the user experience. Read more »
