The Origin... of The Origin of love

I really like the film Hedwig and the angry inch. One of my main reasons was the beautiful lyrics and animated sequence that illustrated the song "The origin of love". Today I found out it is actually a speech by Aristophanes!



This week end I look forward to:

Meeting up with as many as possible from Störningsjouren to yack memories from last week end. (Boys and girls, that gymparty was f'in AMAZING.)

Helping my new neighbours... Asynja&Tilde to move and furnish their video-game-room.

hanging out with the rest of the crowd at Bastard, my (fave gallery in Stockholm)to hear and see the work of Tobias Bernstrup. The three songs he just released are great.

Fishmen in Nador

So Frank and Nicolai decided to go to africa with only 50 Euros. They made a film of it. Saw some clips of it months (if not even a year) ago and I'm really stoked to see it next week. The idea, as I understood it, was not to make a budget travel, road-trip guide but a study of hospitality and a search for an answer to the question "Do we live in a good world?".

Intelligent job advertisment (swedish only... sorry)

Today I went out to buy myself a pair of shoes and met Johanna in the shoe store. She had her office in the back room and I got some good perk while she checked her e-mails. In her inbox she had one of the better Wanted/Job Ads I've read in a long time. The booking agency (and label?) Monstera managed to skip all the standard clichés and instead gave the add a tone that people-like-us can relate too...

Hej.

Monstera ska tillsätta ytterligare en bokare/agent-tjänst. Tjänsten är under provanställning/inskolning(om det behövs) 60-80% med fast ingångslön och efter förlängning tänkt som en 100%are.

Vi söker dig som: framför allt har några av nedan nämnda egenskaper, eller känner igen någon av situationerna

kör en framgångsrik pop/dans-klubb och sett hur man arrangerar fester och hur turnélivet kan te sig för ett band/djs och vill kunna sluta på ditt extrakneg

skriver spaltmeter om innovativa remixar av artister från Lautzenhausen för någon nördig webbsida och surar över journlisttjänsten du blivit utlasad från

sitter på något bokningsbolag/produktionsbolag men ledsnat på att jobba med ointressanta gamla rockband, kanske är trött på dina arbetskamrater eller helt enkelt inte tjänar tillräckligt med pengar motsvarande din fantastiska kreativitet

jobbat på något skivbolag och känner till alla intressanta internationella och svenska artister inom dans & elektropop-scenen. Men blivit nedskuren och fått kicken eftersom du inte är över 40 och blev anställd innan mp3-filen dök upp

drivit ditt eget lilla bokningsbolag som vi inte känner till för att vi blivit insnöade och arroganta, men du vill komma vidare och kunna tjäna riktiga pengar

Sedan måste du vara avslappnad, lite av en arbetsnarkoman, inte vara rädd för att ringa främmande folk hela dagarna och vara skön att hänga med. Gilla att gå ut på klubb och kika på dina artister och gilla att resa runt i världen på möten, töntiga branschmässor och softa festivaler med jämna mellanrum. Vi sitter i Stockholm, och det gör du med om du jobbar här.

Hör av dig till: info@monstera.se

Vi ses!
monstera

Not only did I manage to find this great ad to pass onto my friends but I also found a good pair of shoes.

...and the job?

- Well sure, I like music but... It ain't me babe.

Dexter's Lab

Dexter's lab is one of my fave cartoons. Here he really reminds me of my friend Linus Larsson who right now is snoopin' around in StPetersburg.

Art of the day

When I was in New York in April I was staying with Tracy for a couple of weeks. On the last day I started talking to Jonathan one of the neighbours. We said we'd go for a beer and he later wrote me an e-mail asking if I wanted to go to see a band in which one of his friends were playing. I had already gone back to Stockholm and was to psyched out about work to reply.

Today I found a folded pink sticky-note with his phone number and the address to his website. I checked it out and found a video he made featuring the band we were going to go see (My best fiend). It is a cool video... I also really liked some of the pics (nude ladies always get me). Jonathan's website became my Art experience of the day. I wrote him an e-mail and said thank you.

(If you click the right side of his face you get to see the video with the band... )

Photo recap

My camera has been out of order since April but I borrowed one and took some pictures... here is a quick recap of what I've been up to... enjoy.

Graduation: Check! --> Norway here I come!

After handing in a not-quite-finnished written presentation after the deadline I was far from sure that I would actually pass.... Sure there were good things about the report... like the cool frontpage logo that Abbas made and some chapters were cool, but I had a strong feeling that it didn't really make sense to some one who knew nothing about the project.

I was tired as shit when I returned to Aarhus and I had to search deep inside to find the last bit of energy that could push me over the finishing line - presenting the project to a three-person panel consisting of Paul Natorp (The teacher who has followed my project and head of studies at the KaosPilots), Nanna (Knows the KaosPilot stuff) and Karen Thomsen (Executive producer at Nordisk Film the biggest production company in Scandinavia)

(Thank you/jo for the picture..)

I found the energy, and I made a great presentation. The prototype of the strategy tool I had developed turned out really nice (the colorful stuff on the right) and I had models and stuff covering the whole wall behind me which worked really well. I presented freely without any written stuff in my hands. And listened carefully to the questions before answering.

Half way through the Q&A-session I started to feel I had done well. The questions showed that they had understood everything and that they were convinced about the quality of my work. So, I started relaxing. Relaxing from a month of really hard preassure. I had worked all the way through the night before the presentation and I suppose my eyes were in need of some lubrication... So when i got a question about what I was proud of... well, I started crying. Sobbing I managed to say: - That I didn't give up. I started laughing at my own crying and my three censors offered me water which I accepted.

After my presentation and the questions I sat down out on the terrace with some of my team mates. Paul, Nanna and Karen seemed to have a lot to discuss because it took them an hour and a half to write the feed-back and decide on a grade. I got a 10 on the wierd Danish 13-scale (where 13 represents "reinventing the field", 12 does not exist and there are five levels of failing). So, ten is good, and considering that I thought I'd flunk only a few weeks earlier it is really great.

After giving me the grade I got a question that really surprised me: - What happened to Chelsea? I told them that she is coming to Stockholm in August. Before leaving Karen Thomsen gave me her card and said: - Have a great summer holiday and call me when you are back at work.

Wednesday I am doing a workshop about Interactivity and Public Journalism at NRK in Oslo.

Nike

For the past year I have been following one of my good KP-friends from a distance. Nike decided to go to Kenya after her KaosPilot graduation and has been working with Masai. My team-mate Emil has just been there with her for four months developing a business education programme for people without business experience. Here is a short film about Nike and her life in Kenya.

Great lake sinner

Went to Jonas Joelssons b-day party. Woke up in Abbas' sofa, hung out and had pizza.Went with Leenus to see Great Lake Swimmers at Berns, then to dance to Ellas hottest electro tracks at Olsons and then to Spyan... Dude I've got to relax or I'll be relaxed out.

T11 Workin' their asses off --> Beach 2007 looks promising

There are only four days left until Team11 is supposed to be handing in our individual final exams. All over Scandinavia there is important work being done at all hours of the day... if you zoom in enough on Google Earth I am sure you would see a pattern of 35 mac-laptop screens shining with pale light through the night.

Today I zoomed in on Hanne to send some good vibes and too see how she was doing.

...sorry Scandinavians only. :)

Hanne Flaten 07-04-29 13.46
heeeeeeey, her har det endelig løsna
07-04-29 13.46
good vibes right back at u baby
Jonas Boutani Werner 07-04-29 13.46
Gott att höra.
07-04-29 13.47
Det har lossnat riktigt bra här med.
Hanne Flaten 07-04-29 13.47
FINNALY
07-04-29 13.47
fy faen, men nå har jeg mye å skrive
Jonas Boutani Werner 07-04-29 13.47
Jag höll typ på att börja gråta för ett par dagar sedan
Hanne Flaten 07-04-29 13.47
FINALLY
07-04-29 13.47
hahahahahaa
Jonas Boutani Werner 07-04-29 13.47
Vet precis vad du menar
07-04-29 13.47
Nu är det bara PRODUCERA!
Hanne Flaten 07-04-29 13.48
jeg har hatt flere nervesammenbrudd, og har hvertfall ligget i fosterstilling og grått to ganger den siste uka
07-04-29 13.48
jepp
Jonas Boutani Werner 07-04-29 13.48
haha... gumman
07-04-29 13.48
har du någon som tar hand om dig
07-04-29 13.48
äter du ordentligt?
Hanne Flaten 07-04-29 13.48
ja ja, mange
07-04-29 13.49
he he
Jonas Boutani Werner 07-04-29 13.49
Gott
Hanne Flaten 07-04-29 13.49
tuna and eggs baby
Jonas Boutani Werner 07-04-29 13.49
Tunin those legs?
Hanne Flaten 07-04-29 13.49
nettopp