Saturday, December 08, 2007

It's December already!

OMG! It's December already! I realized it only yesterday when an X-mas tree was brought to our office, to be decorated. Honestly, we have more Dutch winter than the Lithuanian winter over here, as there is no snow yet!

So what have I been up to in the past month:

Moments:
...a small Energy'07 reunion in Vilnius - with Diana, Jana, randomly met Vitalijus, joining the boys party congratulating Danny with his birthday, laughing a lot with (or from) his porn XXX team, then experiencing the so-called high-fashion party in Champagne Bar , which appeared to be quite average.
...cocktails, including a mojito (for Filipe) with Piret who is incredibly often coming to Vilnius these days =)
...so much adrenaline when trying to move wooden bricks of the Jenga tower during the drinks with colleagues. Afterwards moving to playing "Taboo" (or "Alias" as they call it here) and seeing that sometimes understanding each other from half of the word is not that difficult!
...lotsa lotsa people dressed like so 1920s and dancing all night long! Lindyhop is my new entry on my dances-to-learn list, and definitely it goes well with my love for jazz music. It's the third month I attend the course and I love it!
... a different creativity workshop in my home AIESEC LC. For the first time in preparation for this training, I didn't use any aiesec-related material, kept it all within my personal experience, tuned it with a few improv excercises and real examples how a little innovation can turn into big money. It's not difficult to be creative, and it seems that the message came across.
...artsy crowd in the opening of Fluxus-East exhibition, with wine and nice meals, with a crazy exibition attached. Fluxus is a movement initially was supposed to be an anti-art movement or so called "art-joke". And indeed he exhibition reflected it - everyone was able to listen to funny music and see all kinds of crazy stuff which is not art, but makes sense. Even play flux ping-pong (see left), which has not only interesting table, but the rackets also were not standard: one of them has a hole, another is completely soft, third one has a
very rough surface... Art is fun! Even the former mayor of Vilnius couldn't resist to give it a shot. Very refreshing.

What is coming up next is... Winter Holidays, of course! Can't wait :) I am going to leave you with my powerplay for this month, which is another local masterpiece on MTV!

"yeah yeah, I'm alright, I keep power forever...." - yeap that's the way I feel!

* pic from: http://www.deepfun.com/2006_07_01_archive.html
* Video of Happyendless called "Power Forever"

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Thursday, July 06, 2006

100th post: PHOTOmarathon

With great pleasure let me introduce you to the 100th post in my blog :) I have started it almost a year ago, that means on average I've been updating you about my life every 3 days :)

This time I wanna share something that came up to me quite accidentally. It's related to arts - one of my greatest passions, and I did not get to write a lot about it, so now it's a good opportunity! I've been in the mailing list of a Lithuanian organisation MENE, which was founded by some great people that I got to know in my University's Photography club.

I was accidentally inscribed into one of their events, called FOTOmaratonas (PHOTOmarathon), which took place in Vilnius (so I couldn't be there, obviously) last Saturday. The concept was going to an assigned point in Vilnius, receiving a topic and taking a picture on it. Every participant had only one shot per topic, so you cannot just shoot 10 pics and pick the right one (and it's quite impossible, as you can use only non-digital cameras). Now the pictures are online, ready for judgement of the public. You can check the out here.

The website is all in Lithuanian, but the visual matters the most. You can find some very nice shots there. Just for the better reference, I will translate the topics for you:

'Autoportretas' - 'autoportrait'
'keistas' - 'strange'
'sveciuose' - 'coming for a visit'
'profesija' - 'profession'
'svajone' - 'dream'
'siuzetas' - 'sequence'
'koncepcija' - concept
'Neformato kategorija' - NON-format category

Enjoy!

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