So it’s that time of year again, it’s WOMAD Rivermead 2005! I’m off tommorrow for what will be my last time attending as an employee of the Real World, WOMAD & Peter Gabriel trinity. Highlights will hopefully include a performance by Pina, one of my favourite artists on our labels. It will also be the first time that I’ve gone to WOMAD and not camped there. This time I’m going to be staying in a hotel! Hooray!

The dowside is that the weather forecast is not fantastic, my weather widget tells the story…

Tonight I’m going to be enjoying a Thai meal with some wonderful company. It’s a goodbye dinner for two people who are leaving the design department here at Real World, Derek Edwards and Clare Yates. It’s a sad occassion as Del and Clare are two of the loveliest people to work with. However I’m confident they will both go on to great things, so I’m excited for them too.

Oh, and as of today it’s less than 1 month till my final day here at Real World Multimedia!

Well I’ve finally gone and done it. This morning I had a quick meeting with my boss York to tell him that I’m handing in my notice with my final day of employment being August 26th. I was absolutely terrified. I’ve been employed here at Real World as a Multimedia Designer for 6 years. It’s been a great time for me and I’ve learned more than I could of imagined. I’ve worked on online stores, digital music download services, fan forums, festival sites, album microsites, DVDs, E-CDs, video and animation, etc, etc.

I’ll come back to this post and add more soon as I can’t do this news justice right now. The long and the short of it is that I’ll be moving to london in the last week of August to begin a new life as a freelancer. Wish me luck!

My friend George is on an epic journey to the other side of the world! I’m not being dramatic either as he’s on his way to Sydey, Australia. He’s currently in Osaka airport and has been posting some photos of his journey, you can check them out via his blog.

Hopefully George will get a chance to post more pics when he gets to Oz, that’s if he doesn’t give it all up to join a community of wild kangaroos and live as one with nature.