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"Croatian Tales of Long Ago"
- New Projects...
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Our project "Mechanical Figures" is soon to be released! We have produced a series of short films that will be presented to the wider audience soon...
There are other new things on the way - "Croatian Tales of Long Ago" will soon be released as a series of iPhone apps, in several languages.
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We have started to develop a new animated project - "Cats", based on short stories by Nada Horvat...
More details- very soon!
- Presentation at "Fete de l'animation", Lille, France
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On April 16-19 Helena Bulaja will be a guest of "Fete de l'animation" animation festival in Lille in the very north of France.
This year's festival in its rich program has a special theme: animation in Eastern Europe. They invited about 10 animation studios, schools and authors, so it is a great honor to be one of them. Our project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago" will be presented at a special stand. Two other invited studios are also from Croatia: "Zagreb film" and "Kenges", and other guests are world famous Estonian studio "Nukufilm", Polish studio "Se-Ma-For", animation school from Zlin and famous film academy FAMU from Prague, Czech Republic...
More about the festival: www.fete-anim.com
- Presentation of new projects at Fiabesque festival in Italy
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Helena and Zvonimir Bulaja were again guests of "Cartoons Night", a special program of fairytale festival Fiabesque in Peccioli in Tuscany. Together with many other cartoon authors, we presented our new film ("Mechanical Figures") and publishing ("Stribor's Forest", "Neva") projects. We also attended the first meeting of partners of the international project of lifelong education through animation "Cartoon, Animated Training", supported by EU's "Leonardo da Vinci" program. The project will gather together partners from all around Europe: from Italy, Bulgaria, France, Spain, Turkey, Croatia...
More about this unique festival at www.fiabesque.org
- "Stribor's Forest" won both Kiklop awards!
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Deluxe edition of "Stribor's Forest" won both "Kiklop" awards it was nominated for: best children's book and best design! Kiklop is one of the most prestigious Croatian book awards.
More information is available at www.sanjamknjige.hr
- New deluxe edition: "Neva"!
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The new deluxe edition from the project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago" - "Neva" - is ready! "Neva" is based on the cartoon by Canadian animator Edgar Beals. The new package is similar, but in many things richer than our last year's hit "Stribor's Forest". Along with the illustrated book (a very unusual one!), the DVD and the CD, it contains some very, very interesting and fun activities...
"Neva" can be ordered from our Web shop...
Just like "Stribor", "Neva" is also available in three language versions: English, German and Croatian. The story was retold and package designed by Edgar Beals and Helena Bulaja.
The leading Croatian newspapers Jutrarnji list already had a review of "Neva" by Pavica Knezović Belan... and she said: "From the Bulaja Publishing manufacture we got another sensation for kids!" (If you speak Croatian, you can read the whole review here...)
More details about "Neva"...
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- "Stribor's Forest" available in NTSC!
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Deluxe edition of "Stribor's Forest" is now available with NTSC version of the DVD - for America, Canada, Japan and other countries that use this TV system (Europe uses different system for TV called PAL...). The NTSC version can be ordered from Heart of Croatia web store in the USA, and it should soon be available from Organa and Amazon.com.
NTSC version of the other deluxe package, "Neva", will be available soon.
- "Sheep in a Box" award for "Stribor's Forest"
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In short: deluxe edition of "Stribor's Forest" won the award "Sheep in a Box" (right, after Saint Exupery) for the best designed product of 2007l. "Sheep in a Box" ("Ovca u kutiji") is the only Croatian award for children's book.
- "Kiklop" award - "Stribor" nominated in two categories!
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Our deluxe edition of "Stribor's Forest" by Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, Helena Bulaja and Alistair Keddie is nominated for "Kiklop" award in two categories: for children's book of the year and for book design of the year! This prestigious award is given at book festival in Pula, Croatia, and it really is very democratic: the nominees and award winners are chosen by publishers, managers, authors... from almost all Croatian publishing companies, who vote online. The awards will be given on a ceremony on December 10, 2008 in Pula.
14. Festival of Books and Authors in Istria will take place in Pula, Istria, Croatia, on December 4-11th. We will be one of the exhibitors. This year's new thing is a special festival of children's books "Monte Libric". We will participate in its program, our presentation is on December 10th at 10 am.
More info: www.sanjamknjige.hr
- New team member: Blaz Habus
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Blaž Habuš, aka Blashko, is our new full time creative assistant. Blashko is very successful and famous as composer, producer and DJ of electronic music. Our collaboration started in 2007 when he made a beautiful electronic remix of Christian Biegai's music from the cartoon "Regoch" ("Croatian Tales of Long Ago" project). CD with the music will be included in deluxe edition of "Regoch" (book, DVD... package). Blaž will mostly work on "Mechanical Figures" project, on design, editing... and of course, in sound & music design and production.
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- New Zealand (2)
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In the beginning of July 2008 Alistair Keddie and Stuart Page did some extra filming - in sharp winter conditions - of the world biggest Tesla coil located at Alan Gibbs' farm near Auckland, New Zealand. They made really spectacular shots of this impressive fusion of art and technology.
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photo: Alistair Keddie
- Japan
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In March and April 2008 we were in Japan, because of two reasons...
We have reached an agreement with the Japanese animation studio DLE Inc. from Tokyo about translating, dubbing and publishing of multimedia project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago" in Japan. The idea is under way, the tales should be soon available on their recently launched Internet TV service "Do-DLE TV", and later also on DVD and in other media. For this reason we went to visit Tokyo International Anime Fair (TIAF), the biggest animation event in Japan.
We were also quoted in Japan Times, the leading Japanese newspapers in English! (the article about international growth of anime is available here...)
In Kyoto we filmed an interview with professor Hiroshi Matsumoto for the project "Mechanical Figures". Prof. Matsumoto is so far the only scientist we interviewed for this project and one of the leading world experts in the field of wireless transfer of energy.
More about prof. Matsumoto and his project that should solve all energy problems on Earth forever you can read here...
- Tesla Team in Zagreb
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Postproduction work on "Mechanical Figures" speeded up from the beginning of 2008, after almost 4 years since it started with the first ideas, shooting and material gathering... the project finally entered its final phase!
International team of authors often gathers in Zagreb - Edgar Beals, Alistair Keddie, Christian Biegai... names well known from "Croatian Tales" project. Work continues on stop-motion animation, compositing, editing, special effects, music, sound, and the first clips and stories are getting their final shape...
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- New product - "Stribor's Forest", deluxe edition
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Our new and cool product: "Stribor's Forest" deluxe edition!
The package contains an illustrated book, DVD, audio CD and a surprise. It is available in 3 language versions: English, German and Croatian. The product is based on the cartoon "Stribor's Forest" by the Scottish animator Alistair Keddie, from our multimedia project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago".
In 2008 and later we plan to publish a similar or even cooler packages for each of the 8 tales from the project. First to be published are "Neva" by Ed Beals and "Regoch" by Helena Bulaja.
More information about "Stribor's Forest" is available here...
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- Donation from "Adris" Foundation
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Foundation "Adris" recognized the value of our project "Mechanical Figures" and in early 2008 decided to support it! We are very grateful because they made it possible for us to finish the project in full scale.
This is the first donation we received from "private" sector, from a foundation or company. "Adris" is the biggest corporative foundation in Croatia, founded in 2007, and this was their first tender. Together with arts and culture, they financially support projects in the fields of science, environment, heritage and charity.
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- "Regoch" second at Imagining Ourselves Online Film Festival
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"Regoch" took second place at Imagining Ourselves Online Film Festival in San Francisco! During the month of October, the films from all around the world were presented and screened on the festival Website. The festival is focused on foreign (non-American) films made by female authors.
Ten films were selected from each continent, and then the visitors of the site had the final word: "Regoch" was voted second, after the excellent Turkish film "I Named Her Angel" by Nefin Dinc.
All films from the competition are still available for online viewing - click here...
- Support from the Ministry of Culture
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At the end of 2007 our project "Mechanical Figures" received support from the film fund of Croatian Ministry of Culture, in the category of alternative film. The Ministry supported this and other our project before, but mostly from the funding provided for new media projects and international cultural collaboration. This is the first grant we received from the more abundant fund for film.
- "Regoch" in Berlin!
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The cartoon "Regoch" by Helena Bulaja had its German premiere at well known International Short Film Festival "Interfilm" in Berlin, at Hackersche Höfe Filmtheater on November 8th and 9th. The festival is considered to be the second most important film event in Berlin, right after Berlinale.
"Regoch" was shown in a special program that presented recent Croatian short film productions, after an invitation from the festival director, Mr. Heinz Hermanns.
More about the festival: www.interfilm.de.
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- We moved!
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Our new office is in Prilaz Gjure Dezelica 45 in downtown Zagreb, not far from the old location. The phones in the new office are +385-1-3764265 and +385-1-3764313, the new fax is +385-1-3764351, but all the old numbers still work. We are at work every day from 9 am till 7 pm at least.
- "Regoch" opened Online Film Festival in San Francisco
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Helena Bulaja's cartoon "Regoch" was honored to open Imagining Ourselves Online Film Festival, organized by The International Museum of Women based in San Francisco. During the whole month of October the festival will present one foreign (from American point of view) film per day, made by female authors from all around the world, i.e. total of 31 independent films, and "Regoch" was the first one to be shown on October 1st.
Films are streamed online, and the viewers can chat with the authors, ask questions, post comments... Helena's conversation is available here...
- "Regoch" in Denmark!
(Festival AFIA, Aarhus)
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The cartoon "Regoch" by Helena Bulaja was shown on International Aarhus Festival of Independent Arts (AFIA), in Aarhus, second biggest Danish city.
"Regoch" was in "d'Arte" section of the program that brings films made with digital technology that break the traditional aesthetics and bring new ideas of film form. The screening was on April 27, 2007.
The festival mission is to present and promote independent, low-budget, innovative and progressive films by young filmmakers. The festival presents features, documentaries, animated and experimental films, this year from more than 60 countries.
More information: www.afianopop.dk.
- Helena Bulaja guest at Filmfest Dresden special
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Helena Bulaja, with other young Croatian animators and filmmakers, was a guest of Filmfest Dresden's special program "Perspectives for Animated Film: An Exchange Forum for Young Filmmakers in Dresden and Zagreb". The program was organized by Filmfest Dresden and Goethe Institute, and supported by Robert Bosch Foundation.
The highlight of the program was on April 20th, 2007 in Goethe Institute in Dresden: information and discussion panel "Europe in Motion - Market for Short and Animated Film", with Barbara Häbe (ARTE-TV), Wigbert Moschall (MDC Worldsale Berlin), Christian Gesell (Interfilm Berlin), Jamila Wenske & Isabella Plucinska (filmmakers), and Helena Bulaja. The panel was about the problems and perspectives of animation and production in transitional Europe.
This special became traditional, and in previous years the partner cities were Prague, Krakow, Tallinn and Sophia.
- "Regoch" by Helena Bulaja on Reel Women Film Festival in Los Angeles!
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Animated cartoon "Regoch" by Helena Bulaja was in the program of Reel Women Film Festival in Los Angeles. Festival showcases features, documentaries and short films made by female filmmakers.
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"Regoch" was in the shorts competition with about 20 other films. RWIFF festival took place on March 8-14, 2007 in Laemmle Music Hall theater on Beverly Hills.
More about the RWIFF festival: www.reelwomenfest.com
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- Helena Bulaja on Radio New Zealand National
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On March 4th 2007 Helena Bulaja was a guest on Radio New Zealand National, in well known "Ideas" on Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw" show about Nikola Tesla, together with Dr. Stevan Berber from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auckland University.
Helena explained some of her ideas about the project, the concept of interactive film, and revealed some bits about connections of Tesla and this project with New Zealand.
The interview is available here...
- Presentation of "Croatian Tales" in Auckland, New Zealand
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This was our first presentation in the southern hemisphere! On February 15, 2007, as a part of Media Design School's "Industry Only Show", we presented our international award-winning project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago".
The guests were Helena Bulaja, project's editor in chief and the author of "Regoch", Christian Biegai, German composer currently living in New Zealand, music composer for "Regoch", Alistair Keddie, Scottish animator and photographer, the author of "Stribor's Forest", one of eight interactive cartoons from the project, and Zvonimir Bulaja, project producer.
- Filming in New Zealand
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The "Mechanical Figures" project team was in New Zealand in February 2007. The reason for traveling so far was a very peculiar story: the biggest existing Tesla Coil in the world located at Alan Gibbs' farm near Auckland...
More details ...
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photo: Alistair Keddie
- Helena Bulaja program director of "Cartoon Night" at fairytale festival Fiabesque in Italy
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Helena Bulaja was the program director of this year's "Cartoon Night" at the fairytale festival Fiabesque in the small and beautiful town of Peccioli in Tuscany.
The animation program Fiabesque Cartoons Night was on January 5th 2007. The special guests of honor that Helena invited were Jakub Dvorsky from the Czech Republic, the author on famous interactive fairytale Samorost which was nominated for Webby Award (a must see!), and the Scottish animator Alistair Keddie, the author of our "Stribor's Forest" from the "Croatian Tales" project.
More details (+ photos)...
- Review in leading Croatian newspapers "Jutarnji list"
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A full-page review of our newest product "Croatian Tales of Long Ago, Part Two" was published today (Monday, Dec. 18th 2006) in the leading Croatian daily newspapers "Jutarnji list". The title is unbelievable - "Perhaps the most important Croatian cultural project of the 21st century". The review was written by "perhaps" - no, in fact for sure! - the most well-known Croatian film critic Jurica Pavičić.
"Don't let your kid grow without 'Croatian Tales'" ... and things like that...
If you speak Croatian, you can read the whole text on Jutarnji.hr Website...
- "Croatian Tales, Part Two" CD-ROM is now available!
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Longly awaited CD-ROM "Croatian Tales of Long Ago, part Two" is finally made and available!
It contains the remaining four animated fairytales from the book written by "the Slavic Tolkien" Ivana Brlić Mažuranić and first published in 1916, and many extra materials and activities. The animations - "Neva", "Yagor", "Fisherman Plunk" and "Regoch" - were made by international team of animators, illustrators, musicians, programmers, actors etc. from all around the world. Another new thing is that the CD also works on Macintosh computers.
More information about the CD is available here...
The CD is already available in USA, you can get it from Harbor Electronic Publishing in New York City ($29.95) - click here...
If you are in Europe, you can get the new CD from our web shop...
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- "Regoch" at its first festival!
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Animated cartoon "Regoch" by Helena Bulaja, the newest addition to the project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago", was selected to its first festival - Euroshorts 2006 in Warsaw, Poland (November 11-21, 2006)! "Regoch" was shown in the category of experimental short films on November 20. This was the 15th edition of the festival. Interesting - another Croatian film was selected in the same category - "The Night of Crystal" by Stanislav Tomić.
- The first presentation of "Tesla" project
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On Interliber, Zagreb major book fair, on Friday November 10th, we presented our project inspired with the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla. The presentation was a part of the program of national quiz for the promotion of reading, organized by Zagreb Public Libraries and Croatian Center for Children Books. We presented what was done so far, together with some thoughts about Tesla by the famous artists that we interviewed for our interactive film. This was the first public presentation of the project.
- Interviews with Terry Gilliam, Andy Serkis and Christopher Priest!
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The team of the interactive film inspired by Nikola Tesla was in Frankfurt at the end of September 2006, to film interviews with Terry Gilliam and Andy Serkis. A week before the team was in London to film an interview with the British writer Christopher Priest.
The interviews with Gilliam and Serkis were filmed at eDIT festival in Frankfurt. The festival is intended for film professionals, primarily in the field of special visual effects, and for the 9th time it united the VE elite from Europe and America.
Three years ago, at eDIT 2003 festival "Bulaja Publishing" presented its award-winning international project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago"!
[Here you can see the trailer of the eDIT 2003 festival with Helena's interview...]
photo: Mare Milin
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On September 16th 2006 at Tate Modern Gallery in London we filmed the interview with Christopher Priest, author of the novel "The Prestige" in which Tesla is a key episode character. The newest Christopher Nolan's film with David Bowie as Tesla is based on the book (coming out in October 2006).
More details ...
photo: Mare Milin
- "Croatian Tales" CD-ROMs now available in local Amazon online stores!
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The CD-ROMs "Croatian Tales of Long Ago" (in English, German and Croatian) is now also available from local Amazon online stores:
- amazon.ca (Canada, CDN$ 27,72)
- amazon.co.uk (UK)
- amazon.de (Germany, 22.50 EUR + free delivery!)
So, if you plan to order the CDs from any of the above listed countries, visit your Amazon site first - you will get it cheaper and faster!
- "Croatian Tales" in Seattle
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Four cartoons from the project "Croatian Tales of Long Ago" - "Stribor's Forest", "Quest", "Neva" and "Yagor" - were shown in Seattle on Sunday, October 8th 2006, as a part of the program of the CroatiaFest 2006 festival, organized by the members of Croatian community.
- New CD-ROM - "Mozart's Magic Flute"
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Croatian edition of the third CD-ROM from "Interactive Classics" series - "Mozart's Magic Flute" - is now available!
For more details about the CD and its English language original follow this link...
- Tesla's birthday - filming in Belgrade
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On the 150th birth anniversary of Nikola Tesla (June 9-10, 2006) we were again filming in Belgrade.
The reasons were the performance by conceptual artist Petar Grimani in Tesla's Museum, in hotel "Moskva" and on the streets of Belgrade, and meeting Laurie Anderson, who gave a concert dedicated to Tesla in Belgrade, as well as Terry O'Reilly, the director of the opera Violet Fire that premiered at the National Theatre. We also filmed an interview with Dana Budisavljević, Croatian filmmaker and Nikola Tesla's grandniece.
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photo: Mare Milin
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More information about our newest project inspired by the world famous scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla is available here...
- Tesla Project: Belgrade - Budapest - Zagreb
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The team of the interactive film about the scientist Nikola Tesla was in Belgrade and Budapest on May 18-26. Among other things, in Belgrade we interviewed Terry O'Reilly, the director of a multimedia opera Violet Fire inspired by Tesla's life. The opera will premiere in Belgrade at the National Theater in July 2006, as a part of the celebration of Tesla's 150th birth anniversary.
In Budapest we were shooting in the famous City Park (Varosliget) - the place where Tesla came to the idea of rotating magnetic field while he was watching the sunset and saying verses from Goethe's "Faust".
After we were filming in Zagreb - we interviewed the famous Croatian actor Rade Šerbedžija and the magician M. G. Taylor.
- Tesla project - more filming in New York
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On March 22nd the team of the interactive film about Nikola Tesla was in New York again, where we filmed an interview with the famous performance artist Marina Abramović. In 2004 Marina Abramović made a performance Tesla's Urn in Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
photo: Mare Milin
- Tesla project - filming in New York
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On January 11-26th, 2006 a small team of our Nikola Tesla project was in New York City.
In the two weeks of intensive shooting we filmed about 10 interviews with acclaimed artists and creative people whom Tesla inspired (Laurie Anderson, Eric Orr, Douglas Rushkoff, Samantha Hunt, Matt Dilling, Craig Marin & Olga Felgemacher, Jamie Mereness, Joseph Kinney, Stephen Whitty... more about the artists we interviewed you can read here...), and most of the fictional materials for the film, with Josipa and Marijana Bronić, Sabina Hahn and Christian Biegai.
- photos: Mare Milin
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More information about our newest project inspired by the world famous scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla is available here...
- Our Secure Web Shop is online!
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Finally!
Thanks to Ouroboros from Zagreb we have set up our online shop, where you can place an order using any of major credit cards (American Express, Mastercard, Visa and Diners Club).
The order form is using the most advanced security technologies, security protocol Secure Socket Layer (SSL) with a 128-bit key, and all other technologies and security procedures according to the highest standards. The exchange of information between the system for online payments and authorization centers is using a virtual private network (VPN) which is not accessible from the Internet, and therefore fully protected from unauthorized access.
Your credit card data goes directly to the credit card company for authorization; neither us nor anyone else has a chance to see it. So, the secure shopping is now possible on our website too!
If you want to order "Croatian Tales" (in English, German and Croatian), or any other of our publications, simply click here.
- "Croatian Tales" CD-ROM available on Amazon.com
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CD-ROM "Croatian Tales of Long Ago, Part One" is now available on Amazon.com! The price there is $24.97. If you buy something else with total value over $25, shipping costs for USA and Canada are free.
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