Washington DC

Safe and sound in DC. They let us into the country without a hitch, and first day a resounding success. Utter civility… Read the rest »

Images from Riga

-three days in Riga

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Born in medieval times. the bookbinder, the GPS and the e-book

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, so to speak. But we see everything in different shades. Some things comes naturally to me; they are lost. Sometimes the shoe is on the other foot.

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Animasjon – prosjekt

Prosjektets framdrift, omvendt kronologisk.

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Animasjon – oppgavene

Her er alle ukesoppgavene i 3Dmodellering og animasjon

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Pick or guess your favourite font – sansserifs

Been awfully bad at writing, these last few months, so I start carefully with a font-post. A sans-serif is not just a sans-serif! All the trad ones are there, with some odd ones thrown in for entertaninment. I don’t get a lot of response on the fontthing, but hey – I like it. Which one is the pretty one?

Go oooon – guess!

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Flight

At last, the semester is over. The last couple of weeks was immensely stressful, even if I forced myself to take it slowly – think, wee b, think! Use your head! A simple command, but with water leaking in everywhere, keeping head above said was not trivial. I remind myself now and then that this is – in the large context of things – a fart in cosmos. Soon I am off – going to rellies in Denmark, play with kids, eat duck and drink scnapps. Read the rest »

An award for silence

I have been given a peer-award for my blog. Linda, over at The task at hand found me a deserving recipient for the Arte Y Pico award. I am of course honoured. That someone reads what I write is flabbergasting; an award is mystifying. Read the rest »

Do I still have it?

As exam dates starts to show up on the best-before-dates on the perishables, the educational pressure cooker is heating up. Some are dropping out of some courses, some hang in there by the skin of their teeth, some stay under the comfy duvet. The wheat from the chaff, possibly, or maybe just bad judgement under strain. Doing things in media courses can be pretty stressful – there is a lot of lugging heavy equipment around, and with no hierarchy democracy is prevalent in every bit of production. Design by committee. And we all know that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Useful for certain places and certain tasks, but not a versatile, esthetically pleasing object. Read the rest »

pottery. art, craft and atomic weight

I used to do pottery.
In fact, I used to be a potter. A full year full time course in Derry, learning from the eminent renaissance man, Brian McGee, and I worked for a while as a production thrower. We build and fired electric, gas, raku and wood kilns, nearly blew up the building, made a mess of glazes; getting our heads around molecular calculations, triaxial blends and the fundamentals: the periodic table and the building-blocks of the planet. Everything under your feet.
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Large things, close up –

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.

bucket
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Back to the grind – higher education, year 2

This blog was initially ment as a school related project, but I am a fickle person, it seems. There are so many other things that interests me, and expanding connections, ideas and thoughts simply seems more fitting to the blog format instead of a record of day-to-day minutiae.
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Six faces of the moon – partial lunar eclipse

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.. Read the rest »

Creativity and alphabet love

‘…qualities like quiveriness and vulnerability come to mind when I think of creativity… creativity requires a sense of smell, a palate to taste the scents that make brilliance. All life feeds upon the random. Creativity is the haute cuisine.’

-Douglas Hofstadter-

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Pick or guess your favourite font – serifs

Not sure I’d do so well at guessing these fonts myself. I imagine I’d get about half of them right. And which one do I like the best?
It certainly is not number eight….
Go oooon – guess!
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