Dan

Creative director, stage designer, photographer

[Dan @vDanDesign]

🇲🇩 With Selecția Națională tomorrow, it felt fitting to reveal the bid for the stage design I sent in.
Out of five bids, we finished second and fell on the finish line, which I'm still proud of. Will come back and try again next year :)

[Dan @vDanDesign]

Daras response, calling Kirkorov’s statement a rumor;

[Luis Mesa ۞ @luismesacabello]

Phillip Kirkorov dice que fue él el que consiguió un inversor para Bulgaria en Eurovisión este año.

Si es verdad, el ruso y su dream team han vuelto al festival por la puerta grande. Recordemos que el tema es de Dimitris Kontopoulos, fiel aliado suyo.

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@Fenksta @eurovisionkat @kubasratzka 🫶

[Sasha 🕶 @eurotrashsash]

RIDE MONTH IS COMING

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@DiogoJorge23065 @SchlagerKaty He had his first gig in a year and said ”at least *I’ve* won Eurovision!” (he didn’t mention KAJ)

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@rasmusbravado you could win the world cup, olympics, eurovision and körslaget all in one year and SL wouldn't give you a free ride

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@rasmusbravado @AllooAkhbarr popopera i esc innan det var coolt. malena var en trailblazer

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@markovodokutlic coming up on one decade and i still don’t think i’ll be able to get over it

[Dan @vDanDesign]

and that’s just at the contest. most robbed nf season of all time, iykyk

[Gabriel 🔭 @vodimtenigranku]

2017 is probably the year with most injustices 💔

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@BumbacComeback can’t believe they had to censor the Max Hamburgare Malmö Arena 😔

[James Stephenson @JamesMakesStuff]

You've never seen a national final entry like this before.

#Eurovision Uncovered: Croatia 🇭🇷

Out now.

https://t.co/QKofmC5WBC

[Dan @vDanDesign]

two years in the making !
james has done an outstanding job, check it out at 8 pm!!!

[James Stephenson @JamesMakesStuff]

🇭🇷🇸🇪🇮🇹 Three countries.
🥇🥈🥉 Three national finals.

Three stories that have never been told quite like this 📕

Eurovision Uncovered returns tonight with a documentary more than a year in the making: backstage at Dora with Fenksta in Croatia.

Launches 20:00CET on ESC Insight!

[Dan @vDanDesign]

Behind the scenes of Felicia’s #Eurovision visuals where she climbs out of the screen.

via Green Wall Designs / @ greenwalldesigns / ig

[Dan @vDanDesign]

Of course, I’m not denying that GenAI is a tool, I’m just ideologically opposed to the use of said tool and would like the right to know if the media I consume has used it or not. For now, it’s really easy to tell in visual media (like the ORF ESC graphics) but in music I can’t (and so can no one else as we had no idea those songs used AI) and I don’t want to support music that has used AI in its production/writing. They have the right to use it, but in that case I feel like I have the right to know

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@ge_aldrig_upp @JamesMakesStuff Yeah I know. It’s practically impossible already and it will be impossible in a year. It’s just frustrating because I don’t want to unknowingly support something I stand against

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@ge_aldrig_upp @JamesMakesStuff Some trust need to be put in the composers and you just have to hope they are honest

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@ge_aldrig_upp @JamesMakesStuff Honor system. Just like how you have to promise it’s an original composition. The EBU doesn’t sit and listen to every song ever made to make sure it’s true

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@JamesMakesStuff If the songs in the future will have AI in them I think it should be a part of the participation contract to mention it - we should be able to know if a song uses AI in its production or not from the start. I don’t want to support AI music

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@JamesMakesStuff Use of AI is a sign of lack of talent or lack of care. Wrethov certainly doesn’t lack talent.

[Dan @vDanDesign]

@haus_of_nando The 3D chameleon heart used for the ”70” logo as well as the ”eurovision song contest” logomark is handmade but all the other uses of the heart are AI