Congratulations to our fellow HumanSpotter José for the recent highlight on national online media of Color Fusion, a neat Android puzzle game by his personal indie game development studio with Bruno Santos, Ready Set Games.
HumanSpotting at 5: Origami (January 2013)
~ HumanSpotting at 5 ~
Open Sessions by the Team for the Team, complete with Tea and Biscuits!
(January Slice)
Welcome to the 5th monthly HumanSpotting at 5!
“A simple thing like paper can be beautiful”
HumanSpotter and master paperfolder José Teixeira has been practicing the art of origami for over 4 years. On the last Humanspotting, he taught us how to fold origami shapes.
Origami is the fine art of building sculptures by folding paper. We learned that Ori is the Japanese word for folding and kami is the Japanese word for paper - I already know what I will say to impress my friends next time we eat sushi.
José launched a challenge to all HumanSpotters, build one of the most famous and popular origami (Drum roll with cymbals crash):
the CRANE!
All HumanSpotters battled fiercely to accomplish the goal, following with deep respect the instructions of José-sensei.
Unsurprisingly, they were slow, made a lot of mistakes and one of them was in such despair that he went outside to make a bonfire so he could throw his ‘crane’ in*.
By the way, there is an ancient Japanese legend stating that if someone makes one thousand cranes (Senbazuru), their wish will be granted - if your wish is to actually build an origami crane, then I feel sorry for you right now.
Will José teach us how to draw Manga cartoons in the next HumanSpotting? Or to make sushi, perhaps? Stay tuned and find out!
*: To tell you the truth, everyone except me succeeded. Have a look at their elegant cranes below!:
Howdy! We’re proud to announce that the new app Gombby Channel is now available to download for free.
Another fresh out-of-the oven work by HumanSpot for our friends and partners Big Storm Studios.
Careful, don’t burn yourself! It might be hot.
Go ahead, it’s open: www.humanspot.com
You didn’t read it in the news but something unusual happened to the white-bearded man during the last Christmas.
You surely know Santa Claus lives at the North Pole with his magical elves and flying reindeers. But were you aware that every year, he invites people from all over the world to join a huge event held in his honor? Like all of us, he likes to socialize, relax and enjoy himself at a party, mostly before traveling around the world on Christmas Eve - Could you imagine the stress of having to deliver 7 billion Christmas gifts in 24 hours?
Last year, among the lucky guests were two HumanSpot party animals and close friends: a donkey named Heehaw and Azulita, a sweet little blue bird. We can guarantee you they had quite a party at Santa’s mansion. So many things have happened, that it’s impossible to tell you every one of them, but we will gladly share with you the next piece.
It was around thirty minutes to midnight when Azulita pulled out the bar soda gun and started to mix carbonated water with everything she could grab. Don’t be misunderstood, Azulita is a master regarding the fine art of mixing drinks! To tell the truth, no one in this world could resist to her super-strong-fruit-hiper-vitaminic cocktails - even more so in the heat of a North Pole cold night. To give rhythm, feeling and groove to the party, Heehaw played a good old classic big band jazz record on the turntable. When the beat kicked in, Heehaw started a crazy tap dance with his hooves! YEAH, party really took off then!
Oh My God! You had to see all the guests putting hands in the air while Azulita’s little wings were furiously shaking, mixing and blending cocktails! Everyone one was dancing and drinking all-around: juices, sodas, nectars, syrups made of mixed passion-fruit, wheatgrass, mango, pieces of wet bread, kiwi, apple, grape, sunflower seeds, grapefruit, beech acorns, pineapple, coconut, crushed oats (and many, many, many more).
And there it was Santa Claus, dancing eyes closed, losing himself in the music and in the beat. He was so happy that he couldn’t stop ravishing himself drinking Azulita’s godly nectars. Heehaw tried a few times to stop him but, there was nothing to do. Santa Claus was unbridled and even shouted: “My Dear, I believe I’m old enough to take care of me. Nobody has ever seen my birth certificate but I assure you I have many centuries”.
And the North Pole night went on and on.
What?… You don’t believe it? To prove it all, Azulita took a picture and shared with us the captured moment. Take a look above, Santa is resting before giving off the gifts and our friend Heehaw trying desperately to help him. But don’t fear, you don’t have to worry anymore. Your gift has finally arrived. You’ll just have to wait until (January 21) monday five o’clock p.m. to unwrap it here!
HumanSpot featured on a local TV coverage about IPN.
Press play and get a sneak peek at our wonderful workspace! You’ll also get to meet a few HumanSpotters and see some of our work - including Gombby and our beloved app Nostalgiqa! ; )
~ HumanSpotting at 5 ~
Open Sessions by the Team for the Team, complete with Tea and Biscuits!
(December Slice)
Welcome to the 4th monthly HumanSpotting at 5 !
“- Hey dude! Are you ok? You seem kind of disconnected… And why are you lying on the ground with your back bending in a 90 degree angle? I think you know there’s still a lot of work to do, right? Damn! Don’t look at me! You’re scaring me with your bloodshot eyes… OMG! What’s that smell? Is that vodka in your water bottle? …“ - imaginary conversation
HumanSpotter Luis gave us a little help so these words written above will never have a chance to be heard at Humanspot’s office (at least we’re hoping that will be the case). He shared with us a list of simple changes we can make to stay healthy on the workplace. Headaches, blurred vision, red eyes, neck, back and shoulder pain can be felt among all day long game players coders. To prevent all these symptoms, we learned that we have to invest in our health by: stretching once an hour, looking away from the screen every 20 minutes, correcting wrong seating postures for proper keyboard bashing while looking to our screens, and, of course, never forget to drink water - the elixir of life!
HumanSpotter Pedro gave us a few words about Partychat. An easy, functional way to share cool videos and funny pictures from the web chat and collaborate between the team while co-working.
Finally, HumanSpotter Paulo talked about HumanSpot. Are we there yet? No … Because growing is something we have to do every day. It’s more than accomplish goals. It’s about an iterative daily process involving learning, adapting, changing and, more importantly, loving what we do. Every end will just be a new beginning.
Can you guess which will be the part of every Humanspotter in this journey?
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.” - H.E. Luccock
Oh oh oh! The HumanSpot team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Mamma Mia, look! Yesterday was italian day for HumanSpotters. We thought we should give a proper (mafia-style!) welcome to Luis (Luigi) and José (Giuseppe), two new aditions to our famiglia, and a neat birthday celebration to Ruben and Joel. Cue in The Godfather Love Theme - to set the mood in.
