Mathew Keller

Thursday, 18th September, 2008

Tropic Blunder

Just put the finishing touches to a poster for the NCsoft Creative Concepts farewell party.

It made me laugh a LOT doing this, but it can’t shake the feelings of sadness and loss I have at seeing my friends and colleagues leaving.

It will be with a truly heavy heart, a churning stomach and genuine tears welling that I say goodbye to them as they leave the office for the last time.

The absolute unquestionable highlight of my NCsoft life has been the shows I’ve attended with Mr Reid, Mr Spafford and Mr Siddell. With them gone it means no more long and tiring, but immensely enjoyable weekends listening to Stephen’s constant sales banter, his endless stressing over the smallest details (most importantly, obviously, the money!) and the poring over of receipts, the load ins, the van journeys, the lunch runs, the soundtracks… not forgetting Chris’s unfaltering diligence to the sketch list and the scanner (still at least he might eat properly and go to the toilet once in a while now).

I feel unquantifiably privileged to have spent the last two and a half years, planning, scheming, dreaming, laughing, drinking, eating curry and generally geeking out (in a good way) with the most talented, genuine, intelligent and, yes I’m going to say it, AWESOME people I’ve ever met.