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It’s been both creative and relaxing week back at the Energia office, more or less celebrating the 2 years of Star Wreck.

The weekend Energia and Star Wreck Studios crew got together at a rented cabin in Lempäälä countryside to relax, meet with each other (two companies, different personnel and only Skype to connect each - a bit of human touch don’t hurt) and work on existing productions casually and in a nice surrounding. The place was great - a cabin close to a lake and surrounded by a vast field and forest. We went hiking to a nearby trail, bathed in over 100-year old savusauna and went on a boat-trip. And yes, we enjoyed a lot of alcohol, as the Finnish tradition requires us to. Surprisingly, we succeeded in having fun and doing some serious stuff - worth the while, indeed!

Photo by Lare Lekman. More photos from the Star Wreck Summercamp at our Photoblog.

Johanna, who went first hiking to Australia and New Zeland in the beginning of the year for couple of weeks, and after that hiking to USA for 5 months, has returned to Finland. That’s great, since finally we can start working on the Iron Sky script. We had a dinner with Johanna, and as the evening proceeded had some tremendously important ideas how to strengthen the story up - next, we’ll start opening the now-existing 25-page synopsis to scenes, and after that start writing the script itself, led by Johanna and fueled by our maniac ideas.

We have also started working on the initial background research for Iron Sky, led by Mikko Sillanpää, our history expert. If you think you are an expert on some of the elements Iron Sky is built on about (that is, nazis, ufos, space… you know the drill) and would like to collaborate, feel free to drop few lines to our e-mail address jobs [at ] starwreck.com, and we’ll see if your expertise would come in handy.

Funding-wise, we’ve now covered 2/3 of the development budget (not the entire budget!) of Iron Sky, which is great, meaning we are moving forward as expected.

Yesterday we ended up with Samuli and couple of my friends to YO-talo to check out some local bands. We were all totally blown away by a band called White Flame - you need to check out their stuff, it really rocks the shit out of everything. The singer kept on running around the tables and screamed like Axl Rose back in the days of his prime. Awesome in motion!

Anyway, things are moving nicely, and we had time to have some fun also, and enjoy a bit of summer. You try to do that as well!

Cheers!

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