The C8 People :)

These are the people that make Cre8ive8 Cre8ive8 :) Each one of them is a world of its own ... this is actually our "who is who" list from BSSS 06. Since then the team counts 4 members more which by C8's tradition are called the Newbies. Will add their profiles soon .....


Specimen N. C8801 / Alexander

This specimen is quite unique. It is believed that his insanity, humour and love for vine have not yet been matched. Though, a potential danger to all female interviewees, Alexander seems to have quite a relaxing effect on his team mates. If you are allergic to laughing, please do not get anywhere near him. Nevertheless, despite his “extremely cheerful” attitude towards things he usually takes his assignments seriously.

What you might need to ask him: Does he ever recall being abducted by aliens?


Specimen N. C8810 / Irena

You’ll find his specimen exceptional. Among her fellow colleagues Irena is known as one of the most enthusiastic and joyful ones. Charismatic, systematic, and full of life, working with her has been a pleasure and a privilege. However be careful if sharing a room with her she might come up with fiddly passwords and threaten you with one of her 3 toothbrushes. So far we’ve evaluated her as a good friend and reliable teammate.

What you might need to ask her: What really happened on the last night of BSSS 05?



Specimen N. C88178 / Dzadze


We call her Dzadze you can do the same...We have to warn you about her great optimism, her laughter which never goes away and is used for charming when necessary - be careful:)

She is mostly known for her endless creativity though. She's the newest and youngest member in our team, but take her signature as soon as possible cause tomorrow she might be living in Hollywood like a famous actress. If you see someone madly parachuting in the air that might be her and her second wish coming true... She adores monkeys so if you buy her one she'll adore you too :)
So that's all folks!


Specimen N. C8811 / Martin

Martin: If you cannot locate this guy, try the nearest mountain for he loves high places and is always on the look out for new adventures. On the other hand, Martin is this quite tall violin player that enjoys photography and can fix your computer before you say: “C-O-F-F-E-E A-D-D-I-C-T”

What you might need to ask him: How does he know what direction to take if it’s raining?


Specimen N. C8812 / Vesna

She’s a cheese and beer – loving dreamer like creature who loves to observe and experiment. Very open minded and cheerful, Vesna has been accused of working hard and sleeping a lot so .. you do the math:-) She’s not always organised and never at home. It is believed that she has a photographic memory and a sense a humor twice her size. Dzidza is her alter ego and she does have a thing for blogs :)

What you might need to ask her: Is it true that her baby turtle managed to escape from her?

Specimen N. C8805/ Damjan Cvetkov Dimitrov Once cl

assified as an organism, and once classified as a mammal, he contradicts himself constantly by releasing thou

ghts in the air that travel through the ear drum or the retina to the brain. Hunting for some nice compact truth and some leftover reality is his main obsession, while driving out the squirrels to their own dimension is his hobby. He says HI, and has independent locomotion on each ear.

Specimen N. C8802 / Boro

One of the tallest specimens you’ll ever see. You’ll get neck pains just by looking at him. So far he has established himself as a capable Sounds Maestro and a truly artistic photographer. What’s interesting about Boro is that regardless of his dark humour and the face of a naughty boy he obviously has, he’s an extremely pleasant and original young man (don’t tell him we said this). He also says he’s musically gifted .. that is yet to be proven:-)
What you might need to ask him: What’s it like to see everything from a bird’s viewpoint?



Specimen N. C8807 / Vladislav

He walks, he talks and he thinks like a computer genious. This specimen is the equipment guy in the team. Analysis show that this experienced and confident creature knows how to live life in a non-binary fashion. Very outgoing and communicative you can easily locate him at night, drinking ness coffee and discussing technicalities.

What you might need to ask him: What’s his favourite number .. 1 or 0? :-)

Specimen N. C8806 / Boris
You will probably see this specimen the least. The reason for this might be because he’s vibrating with the speed of sound. Always partying and never at home, Boris has shown the professionalism required within a team. Of course this does not stop him from being childish and adventurous most of the time. .

What you might need to ask him: Does he realise that he’s giving people a “short hair” complex?

Specimen N. C8814/ Eleonora

The info received directly from this specimen is little due to short observation time. However, the info gathered from her fellow specimens is absolutely overwhelming. She has been recognized as a skilled leader, good friend and a journalist you shouldn’t play around with:-). Eleonora is always up to new challenges and ready to amaze people with her ideas, enthusiasm and passion for work.
What you might need to ask her: Does she realise how much she was missed?

What would I like to ask her: Can she smuggle you to Lisbon?

Specimen N. C8818 / Andrew

This specimen is truly intriguing. He honestly thinks he’s a Mallard. And what’s even stranger is that everyone around him believes this absolutely unsubstantiated story. This blue – eyed enthusiast is well known for his kitchen parties and flying abilities. A courageous man who believes that impossible is nothing. Andrew not only went after his dream of C8 but now has to deal with them every day:-). Our research shows that this Mallard is considered one of the most inspiring feather creatures Macedonian youth has ever seen. This Mallard is convinced that growing up is optional.

What you might need to ask him: What's it like to fly?


Specimen N. C8819 / Paul

This English-speaking, camera addicted, fearless Skylord suffers from the same illness like everyone else from this group. Only Paul believes he’s a Teddy Bear. We’ve tried to convince him that bears don’t fly … but every attempt has failed. Professional and encouraging, this beer – loving furry creature is a true nutter for young people. Throughout training and mentoring the younger specimens, he has empowered and showed them how to use the power of film and media to realise ideas. Warning, he’s known for his ability to bring out the best in people, so if you don’t wanna ruin your reputation stay away. Always lovable and goofy…

What would I like to ask him: Does beer - healing – therapy work?


Specimen N. C8820 / Eli

You can easily spot this one. Huge smile, big brown eyes and the truly inspiring effect she has on people. Her case is the worst, I’m afraid. She claims to be an imaginary mythical creature called The Treehuger. Though, hard working and busy during daylight, or outgoing and dynamic during the night, her positive energy and optimism are highly contagious. This true professional in the art of living is the team’s leader.

What would I like to ask her: When is she planning to buy a van so that the whole team can fit in it?

Newbies training 2

This past weekend the office in which Cre8ive8 is installed was extremely crowded and joyful. Kinda like a kindergarten. :) This is no crime! We are young people after all!Anywayz, we have had new add-ons to the team, and logically, they needed to be provided with some wacky training :) ... which we are obviously so good at giving :) It was our 1st peer 2 peer training that we gave to a new member, speaking of which, u have probably heard of .... this is the BS E-zine Master, the DNB at heart and Ninja News host .... (drum roll please) ..... Mr. Damjan Cvetkov Dimitrov. Or in a world of USB drives known as Damjan CD. So, Damjan congratulations are in order. Your beard is our lucky charm ... or was it only the left part of it?Also joining Damjan, was Frosina Ilievska, part of the Macedonian Values Quest Core team which during the project will take on a role as a film maker. Let's be serious the girl's got a lot of potential and no doubt we have infected her with our sneaky filming techniques. So, world watch out! :PThe training last weekend included teambuilding sessions, filming & sound sessions, storyboarding and scriptwriting sessions. This weekend the training is taking place only on Saturday and it will include working sessions on editing, sound and dvd building.What's even more delightful is that all 6 generations of Cre8ives (also known as the 6 waves) participated in the training and gave their full support to the newbies. Just like a huge film production family :)And some people dare to say we don't work hard .. ha?!

To be or not to be?

The month of January for Cre8ive8 has definitely been the month of plays, dramas and acting :)
What we're on about is the 3rd English Drama Festival that was held on the 16th December 2006. This cheerful event took place at the Dramski theater in Skopje and featured 12 drama groups aged 9-20 who performed the plays they had written by themselves. And of course Cre8ive8 was present there with its members who performed their own plays in their own heads. It's much safer that way :) Haha ... the team enjoyed itself and managed to relax in the "young-ish" atmosphere floating all around. Just a couple of days ago the promo DVD of the festival was finished including all 12 plays and a short clip about the teacher's comments.

Aladdin in Chinatown :)

… All I want for Christmas is you… is what Mariah Carry would say. But if you ask Cre8ive8, they would definitely ask for another Pantomime. And if you ask why, you will certainly get the simplest answer. Because it was on of the most exciting, enjoyable, amusing, amazing, funny, interesting, puzzling, brilliant, thrilling, hilarious events we ever took part in. Aladdin in China, extremely positive people of all ages taking the challenge of acting, fascinating story, fascinated audience, great scene set up, and even greater back stage atmosphere is a short depiction of what was happening for more than 7200 seconds. And the eye of Cre8ive8 was there to film it all. We put the evidence of that amazing crime, which is considered to be a traditional English Christmas play, happening in Macedonia for second time this year, on 5 tapes, filmed from 3 different cameras. Thanks to the warm and friendly team, which was responsible for this play, we managed to make interviews with almost all of the actors, including the British Ambassador, and the director of the play. We also did what we always do, which is catching much juicy footage. No more words are needed, because the DVD we have produced tells more than 1000 words of what was happening during the Pantomime. So, hope you will have the creative chance to take a look at it.

SEE the FUTURE

Somewhere in the second week of December 2 little (or not so little :) Cre8ives were invited to work & document the 1st Regional Session of the European Youth Parliament for SEE ... SEE the Future. Vesna (Dzi :) and Alex were their names. But that was not all. Since in most stores when you buy 2 u get 1 plus .. on our biggest delight we had one C8 member joining us who's role this time was strictly EYP-ish.
That was Tamara and she was an Orga (- nizer - of course :) And so together this lovely trio, supporting each other, worked brilliantly together (whether we had problems or ran out of alchocol). Joking .. :) What we can say about the Session was that it was a very intensive and exausting event, on which people had a lot of fun but at the same time learned many things. If you are interested in how the Session looked like - the What Makes a Session link on their website should give u a good clue. We have to add that the parties were very good and that perhaps it wasn't as bad that sometimes we were feeling cold since it motivated us to go and mingle. We believe that C8 left a very good impression on this Session and left a very professional image behind with the people that attended it. Proof of this, lies in the Cumu article in which we were included and of course became famous again. Autogram signing is tomorrow :P Hehe .. anyhow ... a 5 min official clip was made of the event and finished about a week ago.
Hope u like it!

P.S> I'm afraid that this is the part when we'd have to mention the President of the Session Ms. Elena Stavrevska and thank her for the endless support, all those nights spent in laughter and of course the lovely gatherings were she threatened us that "We would be creating outside :)" if we didn't quiet down. It was Alex's fault :D

That's all amigos! Astaluego :)

Art Line

Think of a line… think of a unity of dots, floating freely through out the space…

Now think of a unity of young people, floating through the cre8ive world of ideas…think of Art Line…

It all started almost a year ago, at the beginning of 2006. Till then, C8 had worked mainly on promotional films, we all felt that it was high time to set free our ideas in the field of short art films. And so, the Art Line Project was born. At first it looked like an ambitious & promising idea, but later on it proved to be much more. The point was to open this project for other inspired young people as well, so we made an open invitation to all young film enthusiasts to join C8 as cooperators in this project. It was absolutely fantastic to realize that out there there are so many young inspired & inspiring people, who look for opportunities to devote the cre8ive energy.

The Art Line Project was an opportunity like that. Even from the very beginning of the project was followed by fresh, open-minded ideas. Three intriguing topics were chosen to be the themes for the films.We were to work on Flirt, Paradox & Muse. All three ideas are closely connected to the young person, who copes with the flirt in the everyday life, looking for a muse, source of inspiration, while trying to understand the paradox of living to die. After 2 months active work on the scripts, we started filming the 1st Art Line film "Flirt". It was an unbelievable experience. Experience that helped C8 to mature like a team in a way and develop relationships with the talented people taking part on the Art Line project. We also got deeper into the work of professional film making. It was amazing being part of a team of young amateur professionals, working with such enthusiasm.

We managed to film the 15 min film in 2 days, or shall I say 2 nights. The location where the filming was set, Kapan An, was a perfect for the flirt crime. Mysterious hallways, candle lights, beautiful girls, and shining coins… it's just part of the story. Wait for the rest by February 2006, when to postproduction of the film is about to be finished.

What are we having for dinner tonight? ... Beer & chocolate?!

19-23 November was the time when Cre8ive 8 decided that they would become expansive, hence Tamara, Martin and Stefan were sent to the EU & ME conference to Brussels, Belgium. Discussions and workshops were held on a daily bases during this period, and these 3 Cre8ives managed to cover all of them, plus some incriminating shots of participants swilling divine and absolutely delicious Belgian beer!
None of the participants were camera shy, nor were the MEPs (Members of European Parliament) who were interviewed in the enormous building of the Parliament. Attentively following our work throughout were Elizabeta Jovanovska and Andrew Hadley, and of course our dear friends from Blue Sky, Andreja, Sofia and Igor.
Accidentally meeting Robert Jankulovski and his photography team from Macedonia, was a good opportunity to see ancient Macedonian pictures on the walls of the Parliament’s substantial building. These two teams were a happy combination to film and show the Macedonian audience where and how our culture is being presented.
Overall, the experience was invaluable, the team worked smoothly, we became a small family, and we tasted the best beer and Belgian chocolates that were ever made!