Anthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts (wikipedia).
It is human to see human responses around us, and we have the ability for abstraction. So we apply human patterns to animals and objects. “An evil wind blows..” Continue reading “anthropomorphism – you are like me” »
Life at the SPCA shelter. That people lie are not surprising. What is surprising, is that they are so bad at it.
Someone mailed the shelter, asking them to take a kitty back or have it put down, as it was catching mice. Continue reading “a shelter life” »
“Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth...”
Encyclopedia of life is an amazing, insane undertaking. E. O. Wilson did a delightful, rambling TED-talk, and things actually happened. Continue reading “a ux look at (the encyclopedia of) Life” »
Back in DC. Back to the bones, the squirrels and the schnapps. back to squirrels and bones
oh, what joy!
Again, after the new-years spin it is still great fun to board the cardboard plane and visit the clouds! more pics of the world from above here
My brother got his licence a while back; he blames it all on me (whom he should blame though, is the eminent Thore ‘propell’ Thoresen who started it all. So finally, I got to go up ..and see flat, flat Denmark from a tiny, cardboard plane with a lawnmower engine: fab! more! Continue reading “up in the air!” »
If you ask a norwegian what s/he is most proud of, you might find a usually quiet person prattling on endlessly about natural beauty. Waxing lyrically, this norwegian might go on and on and on and on (and ON) about snow, mountains, deep forests, long rivers, rolling farmland, dramatic coastline, the mad explosion of spring. Ad infinitum. Yawn. Continue reading “norway, my stupidly beautiful country” »
words on paper; from where no signals reach: Continue reading “out in the woods” »
Gulls are not the most popular birds. But they are beautiful, in their specialized and very able ways. The ducks don’t have a chance..
I have always had a dream of sailing. A few years back I did some serious research, and was pretty close to go either across the Atlantic or across from Africa to India. I had a look at a few shorter, less dramatic alternatives too, but things go the way they go, and I ended up doing that bachelor thing instead. In addition, I am not entirely certain of my own seaworthiness either. I have been on large boats and ferries, where everyone had green faces and fed the fishes. I was bored. It was not entirely comfortable, but most of all I was bored; that there was no-one to hang around in the bar with, telling tall tales. I wove my limbs and sleepingbag through some bolted chairs, locked myself in and slept. Then a variety of ferries in Asia, with chickens, wired-in piglets, and locals throwing up. Continue reading “white sails” »
I haz nut.
Work work – no time to sightseeing or go arty photographing. Little snippets, though. Continue reading “wildlife, geeklife” »
Photos are not always meant to show something. Sometimes they are only there to contain shapes and colours. Sometimes, it is not a magic moment, but a play of light and an interesting composition. Could it surprise you? Continue reading “images of no-things” »
Squirrels are the best pea-brains I know of. Oportunistic, curious, adaptable; and wonderfully forgetful. It always makes me smile when passing a tree, rock or building, with a little tree growing out of it. Forgotten nuts moves nature around. Continue reading “squirrels & nuts” »
The worst snowstorm in over 70 years, the Washington Post says Continue reading “DC – the end” »
I study digital media. I was born in the early 70′. I am a dinosaur. My fellow students are 15+ years younger than me – born in another era, on a different planet. We learn roughly the same things from opposite directions; we each hold an end of the stick. Continue reading “Born in medieval times. the bookbinder, the GPS and the e-book” »
I like textures. I like odd angles. Beautiful concrete, several hundred year old wood, steel beams. Physical, almost abstract. Everywhere. Character. Decay. Details containing the whole. Childish attention to details.
Continue reading “Large things, close up –” »
The moon was beautiful tonight, and playing with my new camera is a delight. It turns out it was a partial lunar eclipse that I was totally unaware of. It makes it so much more delightful to be suprised by things like that. Reading everything in newspapers is overrated. Being prepared is overrated.. Continue reading “Six faces of the moon – partial lunar eclipse” »
I took a trip to the zoo. And was reminded of how annoying humans are.
Continue reading “Threatened by extinction – the nordic ark” »
