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Wouldn't otherwise toot the horn, but after 17 years of doing music in Korea I think I've finally found my place of sorts.

Now that I'm being loosely employed by a company that gets huge amounts of outsourcing from Jeil Productions, Samgsung's in-house ad firm, I've got huge amounts of work coming in in 2-month chunks, and now Samsung knows that I'm not from a proper commercial film powerhouse but am affiliated with one of their top 3D video rendering and event planning clients. Things have delightfully snowballed and I'm heading for Spain in a few days for the Mobile World Congress.

It started with me translating texts into English and training the European rep for IFA in Berlin this past October, and then they found out that I do soundscapes and pop tunes, which led to them suddenly hiring me as Creative Director and me doing a lot of music for Samsung's Galaxy tab appearance at Docomo(Japan), and then SmartTV vignettes at CES (Las Vegas) last month. Whew.

So I get back all groggy and disoriented after a week in NAMM and get the call and a .mov file in the mailbox, telling me "Andi, they want a big, Hoppípolla-inspired jingle" to proceed the Barcelona convention. Cool, no new-concept but one that I'm already liking. I rush into things and 4 edits of the clip, and before I know it it's up on Youtube.
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In Korea, composers almost never can retain royalty from commercial jingles(unless recycled, then you get another lump sum), but this work "feels" so effortless, has been paying the bills nicely, and is a decent bump up from my much-enjoyed kindergarten teaching default. Unlike my less-than-successful time slaving away in the K-pop industry, I'm being treated with huge amounts of respect for my experience, musicianship, and the end result of what they're hearing, and am convinced that the worst years of my life being stuck under people's thumbs (1994-2001) along with everything mundane since then were years of preparation for what I'm actually able to do with confidence.

Approaching 40 with very little to show for myself over the years, I've been disappointed that this took so long for me but could not be more grateful to be heading forward.
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this is rad
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But can you get me a discount on a Galaxy Tab?

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fantastic news.

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Valspeak lolz in the thread! Thnx for the lurve.



jcyphe wrote:But can you get me a discount on a Galaxy Tab?

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Don't look now, but I think there will be a new one(size?) in the works, but sadly no discounts or freebies, even for myself. :P Honestly, I think I've only seen one Tab in the office since IFA.
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Good to hear! Stuff like this gives hope that also I could make it (eventhough I'm waaay less talented and lazy).
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Hairs on the arms standing up as I listen to that knowing what a sweet moment it must be for you.
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That is wonderful, Ultra. Pleased for you.
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I'm happy for you Ultra. I wish you much success, you've earned it. You're a talented young man with a very bright future. I'm certain we will be reading more good things about you in the future.
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great news Ultra and good luck in the future.
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awesooome !





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Really happy to hear this! WHOOOOT!
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ultratwin wrote:\

Don't look now, but I think there will be a new one(size?) in the works, but sadly no discounts or freebies, even for myself. :P Honestly, I think I've only seen one Tab in the office since IFA.
I was joking :D.

It is cool they're doing another size, hopefully larger. I don't like the current size compared to the iPad. But I do want to see the iPad have a legit competitor which the Galaxy tab has already proven to be.
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Very good news buddy, happy for you!
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Absolutely fantastic, Ultra; dead pleased for you :)
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wtg, andi!
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Awesome man! Don't forget about us when you're all megahuge and whatnot ;)
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Congrats! woot!
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So it turns out that nice guys don't always finish last. Ace news Andi.
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