Thanks everyone for the comments.
OK here it comes. I feel that I need to give you guys some background information on this one.
It's a long and personal story out a dark period of my life but I'm happy to share instead of leaving you guys in pitch black darkness.
In 2008 till medio 2009 I had an web agency called INNOVAT CONCEPTS. Me together with a 50 year old partner out of the insurance business (most of the time people know enough when I say this). He was the slick talker driving a $200.000,- car (Aston Martin).
We were working with 5 people and a hand full of freelancers.
We did both development (web and standalone applications) and concepting. I took the commercial and concepting part for me since that was what I did best. In no time we had big connections with big firms. We had connections with Rolex, Gröhe and the Apple store in London for a big Apple concept. And of course like all fairytales go it was to good to be true.
After a while my relationship with my former partner started to show some cracks because he wasn't that honest and good in his job as he claimed to be. It was all a big fancy bubble that on one day was supposed to burst. Since we couldn't deliver (not enough resources) and his wallet was thinner then he claimed it to be big customers started to have their doubts.
After a year of going through a hell I decided to file for chapter 11 as it goes.
Almost five years later I had 3 out of 4 lawsuits against him won and a fourth one is still pending. Higher appeal from his side.
Now where does .moop fit in? Well we still have the hunger to create. With we I mean myself (Pieter) and my best friend (Mano). So after a while we created something virtual. We never created a business out of it and maybe we never won't. But we have the intention to do so when the time is ripe.
.moop stands for several things. First of all our first letter of both of our names is in it. The word is short and catchy, easy to remember and we first made the logo with the .moop as you see it now. Why the letters are close to each other and why the OO?
Easy. The closer the letters the more attached we are. Separately we can't do **** seriously. But together we make a good team. I on the concept part, he's very very good in coding things and developing. The OO are our eyes or glasses like opted here.
It's shows that we look at things from a new kind of perspective. The way we think of new concepts. Last but now least. Since most of the things we think of are cloud based or online things we came up with - Masters Of Online Platforming.
However I'm not sure if 'Platforming' is a correct word. It probably has to be platform or platforms.
So this is the little personal dark story behind the .moop scene. Hope it helps you guys in making up your mind on wether you like it or not and what should be changed. Now I have to tell you, this is just a wallpaper that I came up with. I just like the dramatic scene. The website itself will be a lot more plain and simple. Easy to navigate and read. Most important thing is the portfolio anyway. So no drama on the website itself. I just like strong words like WE ARE.MOOP and 'Tell them we're coming'
Guess I'm more of a drama queen ROFL.
! Now move the "we" closer to the "are" and move the E of we closer to the W. IM -not so humble - O.
