Many people struggle these days with the global lockdown and social isolation, bringing unpresedented stress to levels unwitnessed ever before. In the months to follow, many souls will suffer further from the economic consequences the first will definatelly bring us. Being an artist myself, I have always used art as not only inspiration, but also therapy in hard times. I choose to curate my social feeds with people that create and inspire others, dispite any circumstances. Nearly all of artists below work from Bulgaria, the poorest country in the EU, for clients and projects all around the globe. If you…

I’ve been thinking how to summarize what I’ve done during last year, whether to do it as a video, a lenghty text, but as time went by, I decided to be short and clean with more images and links so that anyone could explore on their own.

“Angels in Action” documenatary

After nearly four years of work and lots of setbacks, I completed my first documentary “Angels in action”, focusing on inspiring teachers and the current state of education in Bulgaria. The premiere was in June, and I am immensely thankful to my parents, the whole crew and all my friends for supporting…

After so many(six) years I’ve spent in school learning russian, the history of the Soviet Union then the stories linked to their heroism, finally I had the chance to meet them in the flesh. It was awkward, since in the beginning we didn’t understand each other because of our cultural differences. Being in a different country and trying to figure out our place was the other thing. Moreover, the sparks between teenagers were becoming a thing and no one knew how to feel and what to do about it.

The next two buildings where we lived were occupied with russian…

After a few months of pausing this series, I’ve made time to continue it. I was focused on finishing “Angels in Action”, and listened to Louisa not to write before the premiere, so now I’m back :)

Touchdown

Arriving at the airport it was dark and we didn’t have a look around the city. I always liked flying, but this was one of the longest trips in my childhood, close to four hours. We were coming along with several people, which were the wifes and kids of my father’s colleagues. Got crammed along with the luggage into a small van, quite…

To make 1000+ crowd of the worldwide computer graphics and VFX elite put your event in their must-be schedule is no small feat. To book the best presenters on the subject, which will be showing their work with the same slides and footage during Siggraph — even more. Chaos Group’s mighty team held their second annual event, Total Chaos, just several miles from their headquarters in Bulgaria’s capital.

Being a 3D graphics enthusiast and V-Ray trainer myself, I can say I’m a totally biased, both of their achievement, but also of the level of confidence and humility required to make…

Този понеделник открихме изложба в художествената галерия в Добрич, която бяхме заявили през декември, а замисляли много отдавна, още с излизане на каталога ни през февруари миналата година. Много ни се искаше тогава да имаме подкрепата на повече организации, но в крайна сметка в последния момент се включи Мартин Пунчев от CGZen, който също така е член на асоциацията, благодарим му!

Работите са дигитален печат на произведения създадени с помощта на компютър, като авторите са представени в каталога на асоциацията, който можете да разгледате в сайта — http://www.baicaa.org.

Кои автори участват? Тази година нашата асоциация става на десет години и…

On Friday I had the privilege to moderate a panel at the Create & Grow conference, an initiative organized by Invest Sofia and Vienna Business Agency. This was one of the first events, after the two cities signed a partnership agreement last October. The main goal of the two day conference was to present successful stories from Sofia and Vienna and the call for €150K funding program, which is open since January 1 and supports innovative businesses to open shop in Vienna. More than a hundred people registered and over 80 attended.

I want to thank the organizers for the…

I wanted to write about Syria for a long time, but the feeling grew stronger for the past month, after Sofia Platform’s conference on the Generation of Transition, where I caught myself explaining in short my life in that country terribly difficult. There are quite a few stories, laying dormant for nearly thirty years. I was eleven, simply a child when I first arrived in Aleppo, in January of 1990. I came back to Bulgaria just a mere two years later, yet it felt like eons of cultural layers that I still unearth, with many mixed feelings. Hundreds of people…