Halloween anyone? Not really, more a weekend of spending time with your family. But still, it felt like a special weekend and some people took the Friday off. Next weekend though, seems to be the big holiday since the 11 of November is “Independence Day” here in Poland and you have the possibility to take the Monday off. I´m one of those people, so I´m going to Krakow from Saturday to Tuesday.

I had a very nice Friday evening! I joined Beata from work to experience the great jazz singer Lizz Wright.

BUSINESS OR PLEASURE
There are plenty of nice places around, like nightclubs and bars, but it easy to miss them, like this place. The city of Warsaw, at least the city centre, is mostly about business. There are a distance between the places. There are many hotels of course with skybars, great views, but if you are looking for more charming places you better look them up in advance.

One thought struck my mind the other morning when I was waiting for the tram. I haven´t really noticed before, but except from the sirens or the traffic jam on the whole something else disturbed the silence. A 5-year old child. It was the first time I saw a child on my way to work. This may sound natural if we are speaking about a business centre, the schools are maybe outside of the city and the centre is not a family-friendly place to live… but still, this occupied my mind for a while. I usually bump into day care children in swarms on my way to work in Stockholm.

WHAT´S UP AT THE AGENCY
I haven´t been writing so much about projects and events on the agency. There are interesting things happening and one project, a very inspiring conference about the impact and possibilities with social media, was arranged by Hypermedia. The project is called “Never Ending Friending”. I will write more about this in my next blog.

Just to round off the post about this weekend, here’s some pictures from sunday…

Nokia Store Opening.

A bit of a piece of art

São Paulos hipsters gathered here, party in a fashion store.

At my spare time I have so much fun with my co-workers at Mindblossom. Last saturday I was bicycling in Toronto with Kyra who I mostly work with. After hours of bicycling was it time for meeting up Zack and John. Zack is a web developer and designer at Mindblossom and John is a former employee at Mindblossom who now works for Taxi as a interactive designer. We all share the same interests: design+fashion=shopping. 

After that was it time for dinner before going to a concert and finally ending up at a club continuing dancing.

Work hard, party hard. That pretty much sums up São Paulo for me.

I can’t really give away too much on the work part yet, some of the stuff I’ve made will be online fairly soon and I’ll post about it then. Three persons in from design has quit since I got here, so we really do have a lot of work. Has both upsides and downsides.

After having had a bit of a cold (had to stay at home one day to rest) this week. It felt well deserved to enjoy the weekend.. And a bit of a lazy one for once. Friday was spent eating and having a few beers close to Av. Paulista. On saturday I went to have lunch with friends, we continued to Expo Sticker 2008, a sticker art exhibition. After that we had a few beers before we ventured to Mercado Mundo Mix. The day was finished with a fashion photographers birthday party.

I brought my camera along, so here’s some pictures from the Sticker Exhibition.

And there’s of course more pictures over at flickr.