My Life's Lying Edge

2005-11-26T13:25:00.000+01:00

Went to see Mugison playing at Vega last night. He was really good. Nothing but icelanders there. Stayed out a little bit longer than I should have. Dreamt about the model so I better get going to school and finish the job.

2005-11-24T09:29:00.000+01:00

Just got here to school the time is 9:12 am and it's Thursday. I got up just a minute before the alarm clock went off. Your body just knows he's going to have to respond to the coming alarm even if he's asleep. Got up and straight into the shower and then out the door. Stopped by to get a bag of frozen bagels, cream cheese and some orange juice at the local food store. Otherwise I won't survive the day. The bagel got roasted in those sandwich grilles that have the last remaining 12 generations melted, now crusted, cheese sitting there giving your bagel som extra flavor. And while the water for the coffee was boiling up, I was struggling, trying to squeeze the bagel bag into the tiny freezer compartment. Two departments here share a kitchen and there are 2 small fridges and they are so full of stuff just rotting away. And packed realllly tight. It looks like those compressed lump of recycled garbage when you open it.
Anyways, I'm sitting here with a coffee and a bagel with cream cheese. Ready to start. Today I'm continuing with the 1:2 of the model and doing the detailed work drawings of the real size so I can go to the work/wood shop tomorrow.
The wood shop is open from 9 to 16 week days and only has room for 16 to 20 people a day. So often if there is much going on and many people doing projects, there is a line forming outside the wood shop from early as 7. Guess that's the feeling that wakes me up before the alarms goes off, tiny stress. Deadline 2.dec
Back to work.

2005-11-23T02:01:00.000+01:00

I think that I'm really afraid of this blog page.
If I miss a day or two I feel like I have to rewind and write them in as a compulsive person that I am.
A couple of days pass and then a week and then a another week and now it's untouchable.

Well in short terms. It's been good.
I'm well and the weather is ok, just to get that out of the way.

School is my only life these days. I'm working on the final project of this semester. This is to be a model of extracted details of the earlier paper models. We are focusing on composition and how the form interacts. I've build something that looks like the new batmobile apparently. It is made out of listening to strange sounds and eating brownbead w butter and staying at school after everybody left. And there it is. Yes it's strange how things get made and when.
And now the only thing left is to build it up to 1,5 meter.

the costume party

2005-10-30T19:26:00.000+01:00

Have done quite a time travel today. Not only did we just change to wintertime "gaining" one hour but going through the whole day more or less not thinking about what day it was. And just minutes ago when reflecting back I for a glimpse honestly thought it was a Saturday coming to an end but not a Sunday.
Otherwise it was a good weekend, just got home from seeing Roy Andersons film Sånger från andra våningen
at a small theater in Cristiania that has sand on the floor and old royal blue and red velvet seats, very nice atmosphere.
I have been on the way to see this film now for 5 years and glad that I finally did..
Anyways as it is Sunday I will throw in the weekly playlist:

1 "Tommib"----------------------------------Squarepusher
2 "Ohio Riverboat Song------------------------Will Oldham
3 "Kaze Wo Atsumete--------------------------Happy End
4 "Love Hurts"--------------------------------Emmylou Harris
5 "City Girl"----------------------------------Kevin Shields
6 "Á Rauðu ljósi"------------------------------Mannakorn
7 "Cry For Everything Bad That's Happened--------Le Tigre
8 "Just Like Honey"----------------------------The Jesus & Mary Chain
9 "Making Belive"-----------------------------Emmylou Harris
10 "Break of Day"-----------------------------Will Oldham

2005-10-29T18:36:00.000+02:00

costume party tonight... going as Donnie Darko.. I got the skeleton suit and the grey hooder. I even got a bike
that goes with the whole thing. hahahah...

2005-10-29T01:55:00.001+02:00

Just got home and checking the mail before I fall asleep. Was at this dinner with the whole class. Very nice..
We had the walkthrough/critic of the projects today. Went very good.
By the way, check out this episode of the radio show: This American Life here (type in "superpowers" in the search window) where they are discussing the question:
If hypothetically you could choose between two superpowers; to be able to fly or be invisible which one would you choose.

2005-10-27T01:25:00.000+02:00

Went to the library today and borrowed as many cd's as they allowed.
I'm totally beat after just finishing a project at school yesterday so today I was just wasting time doing meaningless things.
Though slightly pleasant. I mucked about in the kitchen and stared out the window, then on the floor, opened the fridge
just to see that those pickles that have been sitting there since I moved in wouldn't go so well with an half avocado and this unusual much amount of chocolate milk that my family left behind after their visit last week.
I fixed the wireless network, so now I don't have to be halfway under the living room table just to go on the net.
Did some laundry and hanged around and lyed in my bed listening to my computer eating up those albums, sucking them in.
It gave me a guilty stomach thinking about how easy it was. The library, a weak spot on the ©.
Went to the store and had a phone call in the middle of choosing what kind of bread to buy; it was Elin, so I was there for a good half hour going between the milk cooler and the wineshelves talking. it's like I forget everything around me and you know this mobile phone behavior; walking back and forth picking with things, I was rearranging the shelves there for a moment.
Came home with: bread, fruitbars, orange juice, toilet paper and some more washing powder and a new avocado.

the last seven days and the playlist

2005-10-25T23:50:00.000+02:00

Playlist of the week:

1."Á rauðu ljósi".......................................................Mannakorn
2."Trudy Dies"..........................................................Will Oldham
3."Frozen in Time"....................................................Adam Green
4."Cry For Everything Bad That's Ever Happened"......Le Tigre
5."Les and Ray"........................................................Le Tigre
6."Jessica"................................................................Adam Green
7."Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now".......................The Smiths
8."I see you in my dreams".......................................Django Reinhardt
9."Duplicity".............................................................Andreas Tilliander
10."Weekend"...........................................................Debbie Deb

on a red light

2005-10-18T23:14:00.012+02:00

Guess what I got today (besides a phonecall from Elin)

This: ;D

OOOG ÉG BÍÍÍÐ Í RÖÐ.... Á RAAAUÐU LJÓSI Á EFTIR HINUM BÍLUNUM...TA DA DA DA DA DA!!!!
OG ÉG HELD AÐ.... ÉG SÉ AÐ FARA YFIR UM....... TA DA DA DA DA DA..........

(AND I WAIT IN A LINE ON A RED LIGHT BEHIND THE OTHER CARS
AND I THINK THAT IM GOING OVER THE EDGE.....)

NICE!!!
(I've been itching to hear this song for years.)

2005-10-17T20:01:00.000+02:00

Trying to add more colors to my iCal (my computer calendar) didn't make it more organized and structured...Finished adding all the factors that need to be attended this and the next three weeks. It looks crowded...humm....and very colorful....Drowning in work.
We had class at the wood shop this morning. Got an assignment working two and two together building up a model in MDF (super compressed paper) from two given adjectives. We got "connective" and "dissolvable". The model is to be within 30x30x30 cm and to be build in the two described stages. On Thursday we have to deliver the model rendered as connectivity. And on next monday as dissolved. As well as photography of the process to use in the final presentation.

I have a tingling feeling of stress and excitement. I enjoy this really much but in the same time I'm just wishing for an extra day. Meanwhile all this is happening I'm having two lecture courses two times a week and a drawing course. And I was complaining last week I had too much free time on my hands.
The courses that are voluntary are just so tempting and now I have to face the ones that I've registered to and do the job.
Again the Nescafe Guld coffee kicks in and (hopefully) saves the day.
back to work.

2005-10-16T19:41:00.000+02:00

(do you need glasses?)

(from my visit to Malmö this week: Jonas walking Buster)
Cold outside. I feel slightly chilled on my fingers and toes biking back home. I just came back from dinner at the Sticks and Sushi. It's the best I know.
The wasabi burning up to your nostrils, I almost got a nosebleed it was so good. And then the smooth Sapporo beer to sooth the burn. I should have bought a bag of those wasabi pees "to go"that we used to eat all the time in New York.
I'm still a little bit hungry so I'm having a yogurt with musli for a nightcap.
I borrowed the first season of the BBC TV-show: Little Britain and going to fall asleep over that.
Other than that, I'm going early tomorrow morning to the wood workshop to make parts of my model and learn some techniques.

The weekly playlist

2005-10-16T14:33:00.000+02:00

(at the airport on the way to Denmark 24th of August 2005)

Playlist of the week:

1."Only Love Can Break Your Heart".........Neil Young
2."Jessica"...............................................Adam Green
3."I Dream A Highway"............................Gillian Welch
4."Away and Anyware".............................John Frusciante
5."That Feeling Again".............................Lukas Nystrand
6."Out On The Weekend"..........................Neil Young
7."Indie Berg"...........................................Clemens Eduard Haipl
8."Denna".................................................Isfält
9."Tell Laura I love her"............................Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
10."High Come Down"..............................Junior Boys

Going down town for a coffee in the sun. Though even if braging about the weather (like a true Icelander) the scarf is on cause the wind is getting cold, Even colder racing on the bike.

got to go.

2005-10-14T10:32:00.000+02:00

Havrekudder and milk for breakfast, going (finally) to register into the country. I now have a functional bike so I can stop being illegal here and have my self put in the healthcare-system. Residing the day to sitting at school and doing the axonometric drawings for next Tuesday. I just got Live 5 (music making program) and now (more the one year later after I got it originally) going through it's manual and discrovering it's full potential. Very nice!
I'm all so searching frantically of a song that I just have to hear. Mannakorn's song: "Á rauðu ljósi" (over on a read light) from 1987 it's been haunting me for more than a year now and I was so close to hear it yesterday but no luck. So I'll keep you posted if the breakthrough dawns soon.
out the door.

the weekly playlist

2005-10-09T14:25:00.000+02:00

Playlist of the week (based on the "smart" playlist in iTunes sorted by most played in the last 7 days) :

1."Away and Anyware"............................John Frusciante
2."That Feeling Again"............................Lukas Nystrand
3"Glitz"...................................................Miss Kitten
4"Indie Berg"...........................................Clemens Eduard Haipl
5"Shit Schiesse Merde, pt 1 and 2"..........!!!
6"The Revolution will not be Televised....Gil Scott Heron
7"Tell Laura I love her"............................Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
8"Everybody"..........................................THOR
9"Denna"................................................Isfält
10"City of Light".....................................Fennesz

I've just been eating breakfast and listening to the radio. Toast with avocato and ruccola, salt and instant coffee,
juice and crackers. Tasty. Im thinking of heading out to see the Statens Museum for Kunst.
Write more later..
watch out for the podcast, coming this week.

2005-10-03T00:40:00.000+02:00

I don't think this blog is letting loose any exciting news. There is not much to tell you since last time I wrote. I have been consumed by school and there is non stop work. I'm enjoy it though and there are few things better than having the coffee close by, the music in your ears, brooding over your desk and work on the project. Thanks to these in-ear headphones I don't hear a thing that's going on around me. That's how I keep my focus at least.

Anyways I'm packing up for tonight. I've finished the things I planed to do today and I can go and sleep the 2nd night in my new bed. Went to Ikea yesterday and finally I can throw out the sponge mattress and give my back a break.
Well have to be back here 9 in the morning. so I'm off. good night

2005-09-28T19:54:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I started taking the blue bike apart after it had been sitting in the courtyard over the weekend. I took it up to my room so I wouldn't look like a total criminal in the late afternoon cutting and sawing this poor bike apart with all the following noises in the courtyard where every bit of sound echoes up to all of the windows.
Very excited about building up my own bike from the scratch. Well the idea is to repaint it.
And to do that I have to remove all the existing paint and the rust spots that are spread over it. And to do that I have to take it to a shop that removes the paint by blowing sand at high pressure on the frame so it ripens the paint off. So to make it ready for that treatment I have to take it totally apart and bring only the frame to the shop. Some parts were so rusted that they just didn't come loose.
And this morning I went out the door at 9 o'clock with a stripped bike frame on the shoulder and walked down 20 minutes to where the frame can be sanded.
But because I couldn't remove the chain and the pole for the seat as well as the pedals my self the guy couldn't take it in and directed me to a bike shop close by where they could take the rest off the frame and I should bring it again the day after.
So tomorrow morning I'm getting the bike from the bike shop and take it to sanding.

Not very much happening besides that. Very broke. That broke that I'm relying on that no one has stolen my only orange thats hopefully still sits on my desk at school. Scrambling coins everywhere you can look for them takes a whole new meaning now. As well as the quarters, they are taken well into account now.

School is very good. Had my 2nd critic at my department yesterday. Write more about that later. too tired.

2005-09-26T02:36:00.000+02:00

Haircut status

2005-09-26T02:15:00.000+02:00

Dire!

Out On The Weekend

2005-09-25T09:22:00.000+02:00

A Sunday morning starts at 9 o'clock , woke up by the slam of the outdoor. Yes the door is strange and you have to slam it good so it locks, so coming home late at night it's hard to be discrete. Anyways, Anine told me yesterday that she was going to her sisters summerhouse for the day.
I got out of bed and grabbed a towel and straight into the shower. This day is from the start planned to be spent at school hopefully finishing the model work which didn't go so good yesterday.
Somewhere between putting on my clothes and brushing my teeth I put in the laundry. This I thought maybe will save me a couple of minutes of waiting for it to do it's cycle, and I can hang it up to dry and get my self out of the apartment and to school. So while I'm waiting I just did some breakfast, yesterdays croissant and a melon, black instant coffee. There is no milk in the fridge so black is fine. I'm lucky that there is a fruit stand very close by and I can get melons there, 2 for 15kr which is almost as good as in France this summer. They always remind me of Elín and how we ate those melons non stop.
Anyways Neil Young is playing in the background and I'm bored. The shock you get after a night out. It still sits in me from the friday's party....

Friday, Jonas came over from Malmö. And me and him and Rasmus made some dinner here at my place.. Halumi cheese with créme fraiche sauce, pasta and rukkola.. ufff that was the best food that I've had for weeks. And don't forget the Brooklyn Beer that we found at Irma. We continued the night with a stop at the fridays bar. There was the Icelanders table waiting for us in bare view as we came through the crowd, the smoke and the pitched music (very slack this time). I've told you about this bar before, dangerous.
We played the football table before the lights went on and the party was over. We had one beer to go and Me, Jonas, Rasmus and Arnór the birthdayboy and his friend Anna went to the first local pub that we saw.

We invited us into this dusty bar where we got the suspicion look of the local drunks. There were speeches, toasts, another speech, another beer and then away to the next bar. (The variety of bars here is a worthy challenge and we have to explore more than one a night if we are going to get comprehension of the scale of pubs here in Copenhagen before we finish school in five years time).
This is how the night continued and we got home in the morning light at 6 o'clock each on his stolen bike. Well there is another thing to it than calling it stolen. Unlocked. The plague of bikes here in Copenhagen is so grave that the police can't keep up in cleaning up bikes that are just lying around, so basically the rule of thumb is: if it's unlocked it's free to take (+based on the moral sway of your judgement)
Anine told me the same story, "no sane Copenhagen-er buys his bike.. hehehe.. mine is also just fresh from the street".
So now I have my own bike. I just have to fix the chain and pump the front tire then it's good.

Yesterday morning, Saturday, I woke up with the sun in my face and a bad breath, fumbling for the water glass. Drank it up in one gulp. Nobody was awake went I went to get some more and take a piss. Tried to go to sleep a again cause I still felt a little bit drunk or hangover. Either way not ready to wake up.
Later ,after an on and off sleep, I got out of bed and took a long shower. Then to the bakery and got some croissant and bread.
After a good long breakfast, I went to school and said goodbye to Jonas who went to the station to get the train to Malmö.

The rest of the day turned to thin air and the hours passed fast, mostly talking to friends on Skype and writing emails that also just turned into thin air. I got so depressed after I realized that the long letter to Elín just disappeared when I tried to send it. So I started over but as I sent that, it also got deleted. I just sat there and felt really miserable and I wished I could call Elín but no money on the phone. I packed and went out to get the bus home. On the way home the random mode in my iPod started to play Neil Young singing a song called "Out On The Weekend" and the lyrics go something like this:
"The woman I'm thinking of she loves me all, but I'm so down today, she's so fine she's in my mind, I hear her calling.
See the lonely boy out on the weekend, try to make it pay. Can't relate to joy, he tries to speak, and can't begin to say.
She got picture on the wall that made me look up. from her big brass bed, now I'm running down the road, trying to stay up in her head. The woman I'm thinking of she loves me all , but I'm so down today, she's so fine she' in my mind, I hear her calling. "
And I couldn't help just laughing to myself. How sinister could this get?
Like a bad movie.
Anywas. Now the laundry is hanging to dry and I got to get going to school to finish this and this time leaving the laptop at home.

A tribute to Nescafe Guld

2005-09-22T20:08:00.000+02:00

Well today I didn't go diving like some people somewhere on the other side of the globe. Instead I had a walk through in the metal and tree workshop. That was three hours of getting to learn and respect the machinery and how not to get killed. We were carefully told "not to wear sandals in here god damn it." And at every machine the tutor stopped by he told an example of how things can go wrong. "Yes and on 3000 rounds...a finger is just like toilet paper...and the blood."
Well I think the most innocent machine in there and the most impressive one is definitely the 3D printer. It's just out of this world. It basically draws out your 3D drawing into a live model. Like the Plastic machine hadn't already made my day. wow!

Anyway, unlike HFF, this school holds lectures, two per day all this week. But beware, it's dangerous. As everybody are seated, in this huge lecture hall, the lights go dim. The lecture starts. A big screen with projections gives a colorfull reflection over the audience faces. And the Danish just starts to flow and it's like sleep therapy. I tell you no matter how interesting the topic is, it demands quite an effort to keep your eyes open 2 hours in a row. So the only way to go is a coffee marathon to keep your focus.
I want to give good credits to Nescafé Guld instant.

Well the model making is going ok. Im trying to decide which one to develop further to my final results due on Tuesday.
So while I'm thinking about it I'm just making some more. So we'll see.

I added a couple of links to my link list in the "lobby" check it out. One is Valerie Solanas SCUM manifesto, a thing Jonas pointed out to me a long time ago but I remembered just recently. The other thing is a strangely true profile of me in a text drawn from Max Rebols diary of his stay in Iceland this summer. Max was working with me at Truenorth on the Sigur Rós video. I enjoyed very much. Thanks Max. ( http://www.max.cyclopsarts.com/iceland/13.html )

A picture totally irrelevant to the text.

2005-09-21T17:48:00.000+02:00

Im sitting here at school reflecting on the last three years in Sweden and laugh to myself when I think how I got myself straight from there to Denmark for 5 more years.
In Sweden starting my photography studies 3 years ago I remember how everything in my surroundings was new and unfamiliar but gradually got to known and then just got used to. And leaving Gothenburg this summer I see how much work my body has laid on mapping and adjusting to this place. And I´m starting over.

Waving my hands in the dark, peering my eyes and fumble on the things that I bump into.
I have to many things around me to be able to chose from. There are to many possibilities to be able to decide that one is it, enough and I'll go with that. Im supposed to be finishing my model for next Tuesday but I'm going through 600 something
pages Maya (3D design program) manual.. You know how that ends. Well it starts with a day of enthusiasm (after too many days of watching downloaded CSI:NY or basically doing too little(or nothing at all) going to the library, as you think that's the place that everything intellectual starts, the collection of everything and all ideas. So as I don't know what to choose I end up browsing the computer guide books. As that will be a step by step fast results, a quick gained skills "in no time". So after borrowing 3 to 6 books ranging from Macromedia Flash, Maya, Photoshop and whatnot, I sit my self down in front of the computer to start the process of mastering these programs, but as I start to look through the content list of the Maya book I hear that CSI is starting on TV and run and get the crackers, the chocolate butter and a liter of milk and watch the TV for the rest of the evening, forgetting all about these pre determent goals of mine. So a month passes and I get a letter from the library. And back the books go. Until later the circle repeats itself.
Now starting over I'll let you know later what distracted me this time.

Outside my window at 1:51AM

2005-09-20T02:01:00.000+02:00

This is what is happening outside my window right now... and It's 1:51AM
The house actually is shaking in vibrations from the pressure drill..
thanks for that... The guy working the drill has to get a lot af bad vibrations
right now from the neighboring people.

He has long time ago broken all the noise records hold by the local
drunks or this American lady who's sharing her phonecalls with everybody
speaking loudly out the window, echoing up all the narrow courtyard.
I hate a Texas accent...

the sandwich and other things

2005-09-19T21:46:00.000+02:00

many thanks to Anine for the sandwich wich you see in this picture.

So this is my life now: Walking to school because the tire is flat on my bike. Too busy to fix it..(ehhhlazy).
Making paper models, drinking coffee and forgetting to eat. Drawing. Going out to smoking pauses though I´m not a smoker. Hanging on the Internet (too much), Checking my bank account, checking my mail account. Checking my mail again just in case, listening to This American Life (www.thislife.org) Trying to get my phone to sync with my laptop. Downloading music, making playlist nobody is going to hear, imagining that I´m a DJ. Dreaming about new jeans, because I only have one pair. Giving out apples that I pluket two weeks ago, thinking that I was so self-sufficient and saving a lot, but forgetting to eat them.. Watching too many movies missing the ending(thats the worst thing I know). Meeting the night securitygard now three times in a row, this time we had a little chat. Going last out from school all the time. Thinking about where I can get the cheapest month-pass in a not so crowded gym relativly close to my place, but never doing anything about it.

Has anybody seen this girl?

2005-09-18T16:58:00.000+02:00

If you see this girl tell her to call me.
Her name is Elín Ösp and I miss her very much, even more if I listen to Gillian Welch in the background.

waste of time

2005-09-17T23:51:00.000+02:00

ok. this is a waste of time.. completely. I've been here since around five o 'clock today. just reading on the internet, listening to the radio, photoshoping, blogging, eating grapes and drinking coffee, copying films from the server, waiting and watching downloads, checking out websites I haven´t been to in a long time, checking my mail. And I realize, when the night security guard pops his head in the doorway and asks me if I´ll turn off the lights when I leave, that I´ve been here almost 7 hours. jesus...got to get going..

fridays review

2005-09-17T19:42:00.000+02:00

The day started at 14 o'clock. I had a nice hangover from last night... I told you about this friday bar.. dangerous.
Anyways. my last night story came back to me when I saw the bic mac™ packaging in the trash.. ufffhh. I was that drunk..
Well 3 years of McD free gone back to square one... Well it was fun. Me and Arnþór and Lilja went scouting as many bars as
we could find (after those warm 4 cheap beers at the fridays bar).
Check out the video at www.undertheorange.com/blogvideos.html
After a fridays bar run I can recommend: Den Smilende Gris, This Kareoki bar on vesterbro called La Belle (Good Time Charlie, fat, sweaty guy in striped suit singing Kim Larsen and I do it my way), The Basement(the little I say through the doorway, idealbar(next to vega, mainly for a good Fiedel Castro and the overhead projection playing).

Anyways I spent most of today just cleaning and doing laundry. What can you do with a hangover and no money. I couldn´t stay
in all day. So I went to school and stopped on the way in Netto and bought some instant coffee and digestive crackers, grapes and a jogurt.. I wish it was a club sandwich with cheese, bacon, lettace and some fat sauce.. but no I go for the digestive dry cookies and some water.. Thats how it will be the next 13 or so days.
I have canceled the Venice trip do to my money status and to have a chance to visit Elín (wich I miss very much) at Reounion in December.
The flight over there cost marely around 100.000 ISK (1600$) with return. So I have to lower the bar cost and cut down on
Tino's nice italiano(chezh I think they are) pizza no.24.

models

2005-09-15T19:27:00.000+02:00

2005-09-15T16:16:00.000+02:00

These pictures you see here below are from the first week of this month. Jonas and his sunglasses came over for a visit from Malmo. Went to Louisiana museum to check out Jean Nouvel and hanged out and played frisbee. The frisbee didn´t work out that well at Louisiana where I had to show my skills in throwing it outside the spiked barbed-wired fences surrounding the museum. Getting the frisbee was a stunt and took a while so... We continued the game the day after in sunny weather in Kongenshave (witch is one of many nice parks in the city center).
Now almost two weeks later the weather has changed gradually and we see less and less of the sun, just more and more wind. That´s why the school lets us just go to Venice for a couple of days. Yes my friend I love this school. Not only do we get to drink as much coffee as we possible can we are also encouraged to check out the Venice Bianalen. And one more very important thing. Every friday there is a fridays bar and there, coming to the point, you can only buy 3 beers at the same time. Not 1, you have to buy 3! Not that it´s bad because it´s only 20Kr ...muHAHAHAH!
So if you´re going to "fredagsbar" as it´s called you will have to decide if you´re going for, three, six or nine beers... ufffffhh.. At last but not the least...
They sell it in the canteen aswell.. Haa..??! Strange... Beer in Icelandic schools.. I wouldn´t even start dreaming about it... very alcoholic they are here these Danes.
And for you smokers out there, thinking about applying here, they smoke almost everywhere.
Besides trying not to drink beer before 3o´clock, it´s been a busy week at school. Im on line 6 that is called "space and form".
We started our first day with drawing alot on these huge pieces of paper and after three days of non stop drawing we had a critic. That was last week. This week we continued by taking these drawings and extract out details that would inspire some basis for a model. And working only with paper the results, I think is nice. I´ll throw in some pictures of them models later on.
Well back to work.

a few moments from copenhagen

2005-09-13T16:56:00.000+02:00

picking apples

2005-09-10T13:24:00.000+02:00

Nice to have a weekend actually waiting for you in the end of the week. This summer I was working six days a week, so I just forgot that Saturdays were a day off. So this day was a nice surprise. Anyways today Anine, who I rent a room from, showed me this second hand marked out on Holmen and beyond.
It was this huge old industrial space, like m2 in the thousands. We browsed around and I bought this old black phone. With the turning numberpad.
It´s made out of this nice material. Something like plastic but fragile as porcelain.
There was so much nice furniture. And thats why as hard as it gets to chose from.
It´s a nice area over there. It used to be a ship construction peers and platforms.
But now the biggest building over there, that obviously was to inhold a big big ship is now and inhouse golf course.
And the beach line gradually being transform to beach bars and house boats parking.
Along the roads we passed a few apple trees. And for an Icelander, this is very unusual so I could not resist climbing up and pick a few.(8kg)
Funny how small things can make your day. Climbing trees. I forgot how much fun it is..
Anyways going over for a visit to Arnórs and Haukurs apartment for a beer or two.

the last two weeks

2005-09-08T21:12:00.000+02:00

This has been crazy two weeks here in Copenhagen. I flew here from Iceland the 24th of August to move here for the next five years. I've just started the Architect school here in Copenhagen.
And as usual I'm a little bit late to realize that I'm actually moving out here for a long time. So my last days in Iceland where
chaos fixing things and saying goodbye to everyone. I had been so sure not to get in the school that I had planed the next year working and starting a family... Me and Elín had this nice little apartment that we could live in for the next 6 months at least so... the answer from the school was a complete turn-around. Now Elín is in Reunion witch is an island outside the south-east coast of Africa. She is studying Anthropology at the University in St Dennis if I remember correctly.
Anyways the school started the day after I got here with the so called intro-week. And we, the 200 something new students, were bid welcome by the supertutor Mats and some girls playing cowboys. This unofficial week is held for the new students and is to shake everybody together, very danish...:D
This week is best described as a long beer drinking contest,( how did we survive this? ) The so called tutors (and super tutors) are older students from the school that work as groupleaders. Everybody were devided up in groups with various names, such as Drømmeland(Dreamland, that was my team), Graceland, Grønland(Greenland), Sicilien, Zulu,Åsgaard, Zion, and few more. And each team had a tutor, then we went on "Rus tur" witch is a trip somewhere, I don't know where to, somewhere in Denmark to this strange western theme camp...very ridiculous... Anyways the whole week had these strange themes going on, witch was fun. The tutors were all dressed up as airline stewardesses , then I mean everybody the guys as well. Arch-Air I think the airline was called. The day this rus tur started we had to show up at the schools lunch hall to check in and some music from airports was being played and there was a real check-in desk, where each group had it´s gate and bus.
In the bus, the stewardesses were very helpfull in selling beer and adjusting seats.

Well after 2 hours in the bus, we arrived to this camp that had aparently been very popular in the 80's and build up in this western theme.. (and you thought this was build specially for this rus tur, but no, it is like this western family camping facility that people actually go to, to spend their vacation. HAHAHAHA)
Anyways, it was alot of fun. We were then devided down to huts that were scattered all over, found our bed and then off to the meeting point where the presentations were to be held. Each group had ready a presentation through a show, and I haven´t been in drama school or anything but this was far beyond any decency. We had nylon socks over our heads running and screaming spraying ketchup all around and on everybody, very kinky. While the other groups were a little bit more on the sane side and kept their dignity.
We got our half applauds when the guy in the sumo-outfit finally stopped miming intercourse on the lead dream lady.
The show was part people dressed in white outfits as the good guys(nice dream) and people dressed in black outfits as bad guys or the nightmare. The show was to represent a dream. (yes very strange indeed)...
The first day ended with dinner and then off to the disco to survive the night, drinking through as many tuborg plastic glasses as you could. The smoke machine did it's job i can tell you.

The next day some people woke in right huts some didn't, I did by the way..
Anywas there was nothing that was in the way for the most hardcore drinkers there to take one cold Tuborg in the morning hours. I think I ate something first. Well we got out of bed and had breakfast and coffee.. Thinking back I can really remember how good it was to get coffee.. there was nothing better that black as oil, coffee to kick you in the face and get you ready to not lose your manhood in drinking to little.. After everybody had got a shower and something to eat we were announced that we where to head out of camp, walking, and bring with us , a bread knife, and some swimming gear. Waiting for us was a nice meeting point outside of course, next to the a small river with small boats fasten to the peers. The bar was of course up and running with people already lining up( 11 in the morning).
Anywas the super tutor Mats stood up from the crowd after everyone had arrived and got something to drink. And anounced the plan of the day. And that was gameday. There were 6 or 7 different posts that were scattered around this basecamp we can call it. And on these post there were different tasks to solve.
Two teams met up on each post in battle. Drømmelands first post was the discodancing. That was that 5 from each team had
to step up one by one to trow a vinyl album, and depending on where your album landed you had to dance for so many x seconds. The judges were made of some of the tutors, and depending on your dancing skills your team got some very
subjective points.. And this progressed to everybody trying to top one anothers dance and in the end everybody in my group stood up to support the last dancer and ripped of our clothes and those in swimming shorts ran to the water and jumped off....
Somebody spotted that I had my swimming shorts under my pants so I was immediately given the suggestive eye. And I took one for the team and before I knew I had jumped in so very nicely cold water.. hehe but it was a huge score for us and we broke even with the team that had been way ahead of us after the half the way stripdance and limbo acting something in their team.. So we came out even after the fist post....And because the posts were some far apart and teams finished with some time in between, all teams returned after each post to the basecamp at the peers and where the bar was. There, next to the bar, had been laid out some long plastic, like 2 x 20m that was all wet with soap and water and people were challenged to come forth and try the bungie-run.
That was you had some belt around you that was attached with a bungiecord. Then on the opposite end of the plastic they placed a cub of Tuborg beer. So take your marks, rEAdy GO!!! and you had to run as you could before the bungie started to pull you back and really fight it through the slippery surface and the pullback of the bungie to get to the beer.. Most people didn't make it in their fist try.
Then the day continued with going through all the post and solving more puzzles and battles.
One was very nice... On that one the two teams had to perform a sort of race through these strange opstacles. The opstacles were these, like small football goals but with no net. Instead there was some elastic strings forming this kind of spider chaos web over the opening of these goals. These goals were there lined up in two rows, 6 or 7 in each row, with like 10m in between each one.
So each team had a line of those goals in front of them. And what we had to do was that everyone had to hold hands. ANd never let go, then go as fast as you could through these goals and with out letting go of the chain, remember we where like 20 people. And on the other end after passing through all the goals were 10 beers that we had to finish and with out letting go of each other hands. Then run back the same way through to the starting point. That one was great. And we won! heheh

After the posts had been finished, people gotten on their 6th, 7th, 8th beer, performance was obviously starting to slow down, and in the quiz post, people were hardly standing what then thinking logically.
Anyway after a good day at the peers and the posts we returned to the western camp for an hours brake before the final score count of the days battles.
The two teams that had the highest score met in this strange football that was hilarious!
see the picture.

Later we grilled and set the party with the drink competition, that was: each team had to make a drink from their
award that they got at the post and present it at the beginning of the party. Gustaf in our group, now know as kinky Gustaf
was to take the plunge for the group and act out the presentation of the drink before three judges and the whole crowd.
He dressed only in tiger stiped speed'o'like underpants, and his mustache of course!, and some whipped cream over his chest was a crowd pleaser and a good high score for the judges, as well as the drink was looking tasty.
We came in second in this competition after some nude scene from Asgaard.. Can't beat the porn show. ha?.. though Gustaf was more than half naked with some socks shucked down his tigerpants. Well. the party continued through the night. And againg the smoke machine scored high....
The next day the busses arrived and we ended up back in Copenhagen midday.
The following days after the trip went into our group project that was to build a boat to cross a kanal in this tradition simply called "CANAL CROSSING". This is a canal witch lies behind the school, between the opera and the school.
And this boat or vehicle had to be in some consistence to our group name.
Some freakish ideas were laid out and we ended up stringing a wire across the canal from the third floor window of the school to the other side of the canal. And on the opening day of the school all the groups, one at a time performed their canal crossing. Sicilien had a giant floating pizza with two chefs that paddled across on it. hehe... The plan for our group was that this girl would be on an air mattress and float on the middle of the canal. I had on this divers suit and frogfeet. and was in the water steering this matres so it would float in the same place. And when it was under the wire, Anders in the role of Ole Loka, (can't remember the english word for him) came down on the wire, slowly and threw down some torn papers down on the girl, telling her to go to sleep with not so good results ending up in him screaming at her to get the f''k to sleep and emptied the bucket on her. In that moment the rest of the group came of in strange unforms and jumped of a trampoline into the canal...
Graceland had a nice canal crossing, where elvis himself came on a motorbike jumping of a platform circled in the ring of fire and 2 meters down to the water.. very nice.. they won as well..

Anyways that was last week. and now we just finished selecting our departments in school. There are 10 departments that
we had to chose from. I got in on number 6, that was my first choise. Very interesting things that they have been doing there. We'll see how things go.

Anyways.. better send this text in before my small mac will crash and everything will be lost.
yeah and other news. The new Sigur Rós video " Glósóli" is out. Checkit out at www.sigur-ros.co.uk