Aidan Williams - High Acuity

It’s been a busy six months to say the least. Lots of meets and greets. Lots of great work done and repeat clients. We’ve had incredible responses to our launch from some extremely talented individuals and agencies – still, it’s early days.

Our new website is up and running and displays perfectly on everything, including a specialized design for the iPhone. We’ve got a news widget for anyone who wants to keep up to date with Positive Hype. And this is all just the beginning!

So here’s to the art of the start.

Cheers.

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On an entirely separate note it was my birthday yesterday.

After insisting we’d spend the day and night out together alone, relaxing, eating out and seeing a movie, my girlfriend threw a surprise party for me for the third year in a row. The day consisted of various faux disasters set up by my girlfriend to ensure we were in exactly the right places at the right times to meet everyone. I didn’t know anything until just before when she was on the phone and said “Yup, ten minutes.” And then the entire deception unraveled before my eyes. We all had a fantastic night, going to the theatre in the West End and then we went to a heaving pub afterwards for a few drinks.

Thank you so much to everyone who came! It really meant a lot. Especially those who had a bit of a journey to get here.

Sanjit and I have left our current company. I’ve been there for almost three years now and it has been an incredible experience. Without doubt my favourite memory is our company’s Vision & Values meeting in Biarritz in the South of France last year. Three days and thirty people flying to a fantastic, beautiful location to relax, have fun and discuss the future – they even paid for us to have surfing lessons. I will miss everyone.

On to something new: We started our own company and after leaving our previous company last Friday, we started on Monday with a client meeting and on Friday we found out we won the pitch! Now it’s official and we have a two month contract to sign!

It’s an incredible start – but it is just the beginning and we’re very excited.

I saw my niece twice last week – I babysat her on Tuesday night while my sister and brother-in-law went out and I saw her over the weekend too. I’m beyond broody now and I think my girlfriend is starting to get a little freaked out by it all – or at the very least she’s being very stern that we’re not having a baby just yet. We watched the F1 Racing on Sunday and after my girlfriend said “I love racing”, while holding my niece, I said “I love babies – I think we switched brains at some point during our relationship”

Note: Pictures taken by my flatmate Oleg

I had a cold throughout most of the bank holiday weekend and my girlfriend kept me indoors – not the ideal way to spend a long weekend! But at least I’ve recovered now and we spent time together.

I saw Spiderman 3 with a friend on bank holiday Monday last week. We bought tickets in the royal circle of the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square where it premiered. I’ve heard lots of mixed reviews of the film, but I really enjoyed it. It’s identical in style to the first two, so if you enjoyed them, you’ll enjoy this one. Definitely worth seeing in my opinion.

My company gave me my Above & Beyond Award gift at the end of last month - thank you! – a 30Gb black iPod video with a dock. I love this thing! Finally I can store and listen to all my music on a single device, as opposed to having to pick and choose a few songs with my iPod nano. Although it has made me realise that I have 10Gb of music and since I buy most of my music on iTunes, I’m a little concerned about how much money I’ve spent on tracks over the last couple of years. I converted a couple of movies and TV series to iPod format, too and the quality is fantastic. The battery life isn’t brilliant when you watch videos, but since I recharge it with the dock at work, it’s fine.

Both Groove Armada and The Cinematic Orchestra released new albums last week – I haven’t had the chance to listen to either properly yet, but I’ve heard a couple of brilliant tracks on each album – ‘What’s Your Version?’, ‘Paris’, ‘Love Sweet Sound’ and ‘From The Rooftops’ are standout tracks for me on Groove Armada’s ‘Soundboy Rock’. ‘Breathe’ and ‘Familiar Ground’ are my favourites so far on The Cinematic Orchestra’s ‘Ma Fleur’.

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