Last night Weta had a little treat for all the people working so hard the whole year - a massive Christmas Party!

On thursday two soldiers in a soviet union uniform came into our comp room and handed out passports to
enter the secret Christmas Party facility. That should be a glimpse of what would be waiting for at the party.

Russian soldiers everywhere checking passports over and over again shouting at you to move along while
entering the building and then passing by russian olympic athletes wearing cliché red track pants and jackets.
Steam coming out of side corridors, massive weightlifters and a female gymnast practicing in front of you.

Then entering a gymnastic hall with athletes and feeling like being transported to the Olympic Games in
Moscow. Really fucking cool! In the next corridor we were scanned by guys wearing hazmat suits and then
send into the soviet space program control centre. Here were guys in protective suits with clipboards taking
notes and soldiers watching everything. Two guys were simulating parachute landings in flight suits while
a projector was showing soviet movies from spaceships, airplanes and all that jazz. I really likeed the 70’s
computer voices and distorted sounds in the room! Of course!

The next room had a bar and a live band was playing sort of russian music, from here you could enter a
dance floor in the next room and go downstairs to the casino and the food tent. Being surrounded all the time
by soldiers, doctors, scientists all kind of weird russian characters. It was really cool.

Ang Lee was there as well, brave little man, to go on a vfx party after not really finding the right words at the
Oscars. I think I almost bumped into Idris Elba what would make sense to me cause he would be the perfect
fit for the role of Joe Frazier in Ang Lee’s new movie about The Thriller in Manila.

Later on they started playing some techno tunes on the dance floor so I was able to dance for an hour,
first time in ages. Felt really good and made me miss going out in Germany.