Barbie Real Estate For Sale

It looks like Barbie has fallen on hard times here in Bucharest. The one time popular plastic supermodel is selling some land on her estate just outside the city. Well that's the only conclusion I came to after seeing this sticker on a lampost near Piata Rosseti.

Trabant Turbo

Trabants are a dying breed here. Originally from East Germany the Trabant was their answer to Romania's Dacia. Fifteen years ago 99% of all cars on Romania's roads were like this. Nowadays they are getting bumped out of the way by arrogant idiots in 4x4s. I walked past this customised trabant yesterday and had to stop and take some photos. The owner, a pretty 20 something girl, came out to speak to me, obviously proud that someone was taking an interest in her pimped vehicle. "Wow", i said, "front spoiler, rear spoiler, go faster stripes, bucket seats, racing car steering wheel- this thing must go pretty fast?" "60km per hour" she replied "downhill, with a tail wind" she added.

Caciulati Dungeons

One of our locations on the shoot was the basement of this rundown, but once grand house about 30 minutes from Bucharest in a small village called Caciulati. We ran amok through the tunnels, tiled rooms and arched concrete spaces, finally ending our shoot at about 2am. Full credit to actors and crew for making it through the day's 18 hour shoot.

SECTOR 7 - Production starts

Last week we assembled our cast, crew, caterers, make-up artists etc, bundled them all into Dacia's and drove off into the barren countryside to start filming one of our shows for a new project we are working on. It was a very long 3-day shoot and dropping temperatures on the first day made it pretty uncomfortable for some, but we soon got in our stride and are now in a cosy editing suite putting it all together. Below are some picks from day 1. We can't give too much away at this stage, so shots are mostly restricted to crew and some village locals, who thought Hollywood had arrived in their usually quiet village.

Last Saturday Embryo Pics

Cinty Ionescu - phantom Knob Twiddler. DJ's beware.



Last Saturday at Embryo was a resounding success. Mo spun a spacey, classic, cosmic, balearic, whatever you want to call it set of original tunes, and although the crowd had probably never heard any of them before, you can see the reaction on people's faces was favourable. Tom "Pentangle" Wilson started the proceedings and I finished everyone off at the end. I won't go into trainspotter mode regarding how great the music was. Suffice to say it was diverse yet cohesive, and if you're looking for a quality night with a social, stylish crowd, you'd do a lot worse than to give this a try.

Hopefully we'll be bringing more hot international DJ action over to Embryo very soon. Check back for news. Also check Mo's band out, A Mountain Of One on their myspace page here and say hello.