Saturday night, April 19th, at 21:50 we’ll be drawing Fredo and Pid’Jin live, on stage at the Filter Design Party. The party starts at 19:00, at Fabrica. More info here [link in ro]

We’ll be at the RoBlogFest party this Friday, at Fabrica, and hope to meet and chat with you guys. So make sure you show up - you need to sign up for the party on this list, preferably before it fills up. So RSVP now!

Today my 3D animation “Optical Illusions” has exceeded 1 million views on YouTube. Yay for that, and yay for offtopic news!

It’s been 5 years since i made that film, and i must confess i miss hitting the ‘render’ button again. So maybe 2008.

Your fate lies in the hands of the Evil Pigeons! We shall be in the RoBlogFest jury. Go register your blog now! (ofc, that means we won’t be in the competition this year)

One of our favorite webcomics, Savage Chickens, turns out to have been around for 3 years! He’s giving away coffee mugs, so waste no more time and go leave him a word. Post-it companies should really reward this dude for making their product stand for more than work and/or amnesia.

Many happy returns, Doug!

Our friends from Adobe Romania have invited us over for their 25th anniversary party. We had a great time and selectively drank their most expensive booze - this resulting in some hysterical fun (and later in some obvious continuity issues in this Monday’s episode, skillfully detected by evil Mr. Fry.)

Thanks for having us, guys, it was a marvelous party!

The Evil Pigeons are now on Wikipedia. Characters and evolution are presented in amazing detail! Thanks Stash!

Romania Libera’s supplement “High Tech” features an article about the Romanian Blogosphere, including an appearance of Tudor and me, and the Evil Pigeons. Thanks, Cristian Curus.

Link to the article.(PDF).

We’ve been to Netcamp, which is a conference about internet stuff.
Hugh Macleod, the famous cartoonist had a cool presentation.

I learned about social objects. And also that every successful websites contains some. Now that I think of it turns out that even music and a football game are social objects.

Anything that gives people something to talk about is a social object apparently, all it has to do is have some kind of meaning to the ones involved. Now we’ll only buy granules with social object extract for the pidjins to eat.

There were other interesting presentations, of all the people I liked Mihai Crasneanu from Grey Juice Lab. I got one big truth from him. The fact that the zillion connections you got in your address book should have some flavor, some nuance, to distinguish how close and in what particular way you are connected to a person. This is exactly what i hope for the net in a few years. I’d love to see this in a robust and powerful application in the future. Something like LinkedInFlavours.

We chatted with Hugh, Eugen followed him around a little to steal his wisdom, Hugh was happy, not feeling stalked at all but for some strange reason took the next plane home.

Tudor, Eugen and Hugh (pic via Zoso)

We hanged out with our friends from Adobe Romania. You should all buy Adobe stock now because they shall rule the world supreme, for a while. Shortly after that the Pidjins will destroy it.

We met Crocodilu form Trilulilu, and told him we’d kill Pinky and The Brain for nesting in his servers, and causing him grief. Also we had a fun chat with Eirik Solheim about TV & stuff.

All in all we met nice people, chatted, and Eugen got brainwashed by words like scalability and such. For some obscure reason he wants Pidjin.net to be scalable. And he doesn’t mean servers or traffic. But he feels very inspired, all those presentations touched him deep inside. He might even amaze all of us someday. He talks about scalable design and user experience. I hope it will go away with a few aspirins

Hi to all of the nice people, bigup to the organizers Evensis and Dragos, and most of all to the people i am sure to forget to mention.

Pictures here, via zoso. More detailed coverage on Metropotam and Myadobe.

Tudor

Most fun blogger party ever, period. Congratulations to Costin and Sorin Tudor for putting this event together. It was a great idea, and it was wonderfully implemented.

For those who don’t know, the guys mentioned above invited the bloggers to a karaoke night in Coyote Cafe, and the result was a megaton of [seriously needed] fun. Although our blogger voices were made for typing, the show was cool. And yeah there were some rare cases of great music skills.

Pictures here, via Zoso.

Videos of everyone here.

Here’s the pid’jins&friends, performing live for your pleasure:

Eugen

Eugen, Tudor, Dana, and Radu

Tudor and Radu

We had a lotta fun and it was great to meet all ya guys. Looking forward to the next one!