My favorite Radio Host :)

Retro radio scored a 10 by entrusting the morning show in the hands of this guy :) Here he comes in all his glory - Dimitar Pavlov:



He is the funniest, most original and most sincere host I have heard. There is nothing that can stop him from sharing what he thinks. When Retro Radio was running, I could not imagine more fun from 7 till 11am. He writes his scripts alone. He makes his program alone. He makes people laugh out loud while being stuck in a typical boring Sofia traffic jam. And by no further means than just being himself :)
Dimitar Pavlov is a truly cool person, with a happy heart, whose best quality is that he doesn't take himself too seriously. That is what makes me like him and listen to him daily. When he is given the freedom to talk what he wants, I seriously can't get enough of him.

Here is his Morning Program:

Retro Radio: Mon-Fri
07:00 Wake up song
Sometimes only one song is enough to get you out of bed. Expect the wake-up hit every morning exactly at 7 :)
07:10 Breakfast suggestion
Personal recipes for a healthy start of the day.
08:10 Currency
The only currency information of its kind :) It can freak out representatives of different financial institutions. Listen daily to the adventures of the american dollar, british puns, swiss frank and the euro.
08:30 Office Aerobics
A 'useful' set of exercises for early office arrivers.
09:10 Daily Horoscope
A huge mess of zodiac signs, mentioned with no sense.
09:20 Man of the day
Three nominations, only one award. Listen to the decision of the corrupted jury.10:10 Sport for a peaceful world
10:30 What is happening with your money today
You are better off not knowing about that :)
Specials on Friday:
Honest talk with Engineer Donev (scientific discoveries of Kamen Donev - a Bulgarian actor)
Top 10 (radio version of the TV show)
Useful advice to housewives and young mothers

None of these contains practical information, just extremely funny useless selection of words, which only has for a purpose to make you laugh. But isn't this what all of us want on our way to work?
:):):)

Wallpapers for RetroRadio

For two years I was obsessed with Retro Radio. This was a very cool Bulgarian radio station, which was running from 2001 until 2007. I was so happy it existed, because it gave this fresh, intelligent, funny and smart touch to the radio media.
As every other institution, the success was there thanks to the people working in it. They worked hard to make the program as it was, the sound as it was and the effect as it was. It had a mix of everything and at the same time it was not a mess, but rather a nice everyday companion. Luckily, I got to know these people during my 3-month internship at Retro in 2005 :)

As I mentioned, I really liked the program schedule. Retro music was not just randomly aired with no meaning. Instead it was structured and served, reminding me of yummy dishes at different times of the day - sometimes it came as a lovely romantic dinner, sometimes like a rocky breakfast, sometimes bringing me a nostalgic feeling of something I liked to eat in the past, sometimes like a light Sunday brunch.
Every show on Retro had a really cool jingle attached to it. I loved listening to those jingles, so in a moment of some inspiration and idleness, I made the following two wallpapers.

Funky Time was a set of songs that made me have this 'cool' feeling about retro music. It was running every Saturday afternoon.



'I'm feeling good... on Friday... with Retro Radio' was a random jingle, not connected to any show. It was just reminding me it is Friday and I am again listening to good music.



At 12 am each night, Retro used to air an incredibly nice slow song - just instrumental. I never learned by whom it was. Not because I didn't want to. No. It was because I knew it will come every night at 12. That was exactly when I wanted to hear it. I didn't need it more than once per day.
But... es every beautiful thing, this one came to an end. And I will never know who authored this lovely romantic piece... :) Still, it is kinda nice!

Business Trip Varna - Collages

When I was working in Freckles, we used to go for business trips around Bulgaria to give presentations in front of our dealers. The purpose was to make them differentiate our products from the rest on the market, make them prepared how to handle end customers and thus help them boost their sales.
It was very educational and great fun!
Here is what else we did during our Business Trip to Varna, a lovely city located on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria...

One quick photo session with the sea behind, before we rushed for dinner :)



The child inside :)



... and the dreamer...



Varna... I want more business trips like this one :)