The Cosmonauts

We just recently had a very special guest attend one of our Cosmomeals, Spanish filmmaker Álvaro de la Herrán. For the meal to be complete, we invited filmmaker Nicolás Alcalá from Riot Cinema Collective. We talked about the film industry, the difficult times it’s going through (both in Spain and outside), the democratization of film, how now [...]

Our admired Keko Ponte (we want to cosmomeal with you!) suggested a redesign for renfe.es, übercrappy and ultrabuggy website for the Spanish railroad company. This is his proposal: Just call. It’ll be easier.

First things first: Marcelo undoes his tie. In all possible meanings. He works at the innovation department of a big company and wears a suit to work. But just take a glance at what he’s carrying and you’ll notice he’s way apart from the standard MegaCorp Drone. He’s holding a copy of The Illuminatus Trilogy, [...]

This week’s lunch was with JJ of Tecnilógica. JJ broke the geekiest t-shirt ever seen in a Cosmomeal record (no small feat) with an xkcd t-shirt about the Cosmic Background Explorer. But don’t let the geekiness deceive you: when not whiplashing servers, daemons, and minions; JJ navigates death-defying rallies in a 1982 Porsche 911 SC [...]

This week’s lunch was with the guy with the coolest last name in the world, David Calavera, a programmer at 11870.com and a member of the prestigious Apache Foundation. Mr. Calavera told us about his recent trip to the US, where he spoke at Google’s Test Automation Conference 08 in Seattle (you can find Calavera’s [...]

Today we had our weekly lunch with Marcos “Maki” Menéndez of Sociedad de las Indias Electrónicas. Maki is—without a doubt—the person who carries the coolest gadgets around, casually pulling out an iRex iLiad (an Amazon Kindle-like device) and an ultra-portable Dell projector. We enjoyed chatting about infodesign and other stuff, some highlights to linkable content: [...]

We inadvertently created a new Vostok Tradition: once a week we invite someone interesting for lunch. Today was Alberto ‘denegro‘ Romero’s turn. He’s an interaction designer at dnx, one of unvlog.com‘s founders, and a huge Sopranos‘ fan. Lunch seemed almost thematic: we ended up at our favorite Sicilian restaurant sipping mirto (cranberry liquor) and Alberto [...]