Welcome Samson!

From Freiburg (DE) Samson has just joined our project. He is a passionate saxophonist & vocalist and here you can listen to our new project song “Abeng Blaze”:

For your information:
Samson will produce a new project song quite soon. We are anxious :o)

Samson’s MySpace site:
www.myspace.com/samson_locks 

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“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
(cited of Kahlil Gibran)

We are happy that another band from Huddersfield (UK) have joined our project. Player please compose a music style of Breakbeat, Hip Hop, and Rock.

And now you can listen our new project song “Django”:

PlayerPlease’ MySpace site:
www.myspace.com/playerpleasemusic

“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
(Quote by Samuel Butler)

Right now we are very busy with preparations for our first trade fair exhibition. We have our own stand at the IFMA trade fair from 18th to 21st Sep. 08.
Marco, Martin, Lutz, Pia, and Netti from the team will be there for support, which is why we had an Open End Project meeting till 5 o’clock in the morning.

Here is a short summary of all the points we discussed, and will now try to put in to practise.

• Monday 15^th Sep: last project meeting before attending the trade fair (team)
• Promo to be finished on Monday the 15^th Sep, (Jacqui & Roger)
• Trade fair preparations to be finished: transporter/outward journey, stage programme, documents for the trade fair, flyers, banners, screensavers, promo, t-shirts, furniture, bicycles (team)
• New poster to be finished (Martin & Lutz & Marco)
• Portfolio concepts to be changed (Jo & Marco)
• Project homepage (adding categories, expedition route in an interactive card to be updated (Jo & Marco)
• New business cards for Pia and Lutz (Jo)
• Project flyers for everyone (Jo & Marco)
• More blog posts about our project work (team)
• Determining the exact expedition start date for the end of Dec. 2008: (Pia & Marco)
• Event location for the expedition start to be decided
• Preparation in to expedition start, and press work (Pia)
• Sponsor and acquisitions via direct interviews (Lutz)
• Titling for the “Book of Wonders”
• Acquiring a camera with GPS
• More sponsor acquisition via direct mail
• Looking in to finding a third expedition participant
• Free phone idea? (Jo & Marco)
• Finding sleeping opportunities via Hospitality Club (Marco)
• Resolving a unit email signature for the team (Jo)
• Blog posts to the IFMA trade fair (team on location)
• Book 3 free days in order to evaluate the IFMA trade fair (Marco)
• Attain a new blue flag for the trike (Marco)

  “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
  (Quote by Vince Lombardi)

The design has been refurbished, all photos has been adapted, an interactive world map for the route (see website: “Expedition“), a new Guestbook and an enhanced communication structure for search engines has been developed.

Many thanks to our webmaster Jo!

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After my arrival in Paris (FR):
I am highly pleased of my cycle adventure from Leuven (BE) to Paris (FR)!
Finally, in Paris I am glad to meet my best French friend, Bigfoot.
I am happy to hear that he wants to help me with this project!

Bigfoot works for a Fair Trade producer in Paris (FR) and will try finding a sponsor in this Fair-trade area. We could need good food in France during our expedition.

Last but not least: A big thank you to Bigfoot & Sabrina for their hospitality:
I like it always to visit my friends in France

Now I am highly motivated for the coming project adventures!

Great news!

We have found our first sponsor for our project:
Alec Shuldiner and his company “Basel Consulting BV” (Amsterdam, NL) will be the first sponsor for our project.
I am looking forward to our cooperation!

Photo: Partner, Alec Shuldiner

Logo: Sponsor, Basel Consulting BV

This weekend I was in Amsterdam (NL) to visit my partner Alec and to check the Velodrome as possible place for my world record attempt.
As you can imagine I cycled the way from Leuven (BE) to Amsterdam (NL) and return

Starting at 02.30 (am) on Saturday morning and arriving at 17.00 in Amsterdam after 300km.
I know the actual distance is only 230km but I used only my compass and no maps. There is only the problem that some rivers appear all of sudden and I must find the nearest bridge.

After my arrival, I and Alec visited the Velodrome in Amsterdam. One cycling team was training in the Velodrome. It was pity that I could not try it as well to cycle some rounds on the lane.

On Sunday, I had to take off and started my long way back to Leuven (BE). The weather became worse hour by hour … heavy rain and headwind
I had no choice than cycling faster than usual to keep me warm in my wet clothes. Finally, after 275km I arrived in Leuven (BE) at 03.00 am on Monday morning.
I won‘t show the last picture when I arrived in Leuven (BE). I was scared to look like that

Many thanks for your hospitality, Alec! It was a great adventurous weekend.

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Dear all,

On November, 23 there was the awarding ceremony in Essen (DE) for the best events and fairs’ participants in the year 2007.

Julia and I were invited to take part in it. We have had a very interesting evening full of inspiration and exciting projects out of the branch. After the awarding and meet & greet, we got in contact with many people which gave us many valuable hints for our project. We will use these to keep the project on a high level and awake interest to it out of the branch itself. Especially, this is all about the world record attempt and the start off in May 2008. Yet, many ideas are looked forward to be set up.

In the end, again a thank you to Marco for his trust in our work there and in general.

From our side, we wish you all an Advent of reflection and a happy new year because we are now going back out for a while to Hong Kong (CH) and a creative break.

Best Regards

Julia & Martin, the project manager

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