Even numbers

Im reading a book called Naiv.Super. by Erland Loe, it was a gift I got from Carro. Its already one of my favourite books and im getting closer to the end now. The author have really written it like it was a diary, or as if the main characters thoughts were poured onto the pages so it almost feels like your are reading ur own diary. Not just because the way it is written but also what he writes about. The book is about a young man trying to find consistency in life. It's about a ball, a good friend, a bad friend, a hammer peg board, a girl, a scientist and an invitation by his older brother to New York.

Speaking of gifts, i also got a n AWESOME painting she made, a cd with tons of music and a letter from her. The painting looks like this:

Yesterday a bunch of us went to Subiaco for a random photoshoot, the pics are here to be seen. The rest of the weekend was spent in Freo on a birthday dinner for Stanley and Nicky and then on to a birthday party in the village. All in all, it was good.

Oh yeah, the first picture is from a shoot i had with Nicky last semester.

But you can really see me

Random drawing became Angelina Jolie, sort of. At least her lips haha.

My old room mate Veronica came by today and gave me two postcards from her brother James, who sings and plays the guitar in Ancient Free Gardeners. They made postcards out of the album cover i made for them. Really cool to see them being printed :)

After my graphic design class i have tomorrow (thursday), my weekend officially starts, i cant wait!

Speaking of my classes. I have made myself an art-class-kit, ooor officially called A.C.K or also AC-Kit. I needed to have some sort of pencil case so i went looking for one and fortunatley my friend Ira found me one when we were in the city the other week which was exactly what i was looking for. Sleek, simple and sturdy! Yes, stuurrdy. After that i bought really good pencils, a sharpener, erasers and rulers to be prepared, which i love to be. Ladies and homeboys, i give you..THE ACK:

These tales of our stay

Attempt number 3 to write something meaningful and interesting:

...I always end up sitting here in front of the computer, trying to summarize everything thats been in my mind lately but then i end up writing some really uninteresting event story instead. I think i feel too exposed on this blog to write something really really honest. The same goes for my art i show here, i feel to exposed to show my art the really means something to me but im gonna try to start showing those stuff too more. Sometimes i actually feel ashamed of what i draw/shoot just because they are very private thoughts and ideas drained on paper/photographies. So from now on im just gonna post whatever it is and not care so much what people think. Phew, feels good to get that out :D

So to celebrate this enlightenment i start with this picture above i made a few days ago.

I just dont feel it

This was the first painting i made in my new bigger Moleskine when i got it back in July or something. I started with the background with some random aquarell pencils and a brush and then used ink to draw what i saw in the colours. Turned out pretty decent and it seems to be making people happy.

The text is from the Kent song "det kanske kommer en förändring". and it reads:

"Älskling, jag vet att du är vaken.
Signalen når din del av världen, men får inget svar.
I värmen står luften dödligt stilla.
Tänk om du kunde se hur processen tappar fart.
Älskling i natt kom du tillbaka.
Och allting var förlåtet i en återvunnen dröm.
Och just i ögonblicket när jag vaknar,
hänger skuggan av hoppet kvar på mitt rum."

One of my favourite songs evahhh. Its awesome. no, AWESOME.

Earlier tonight me and a company of ten went to Little Creatures in Freo again, we had to show some of the new people our favourite brewery and restaurant in Fremantle. And yet again, it was gooooood. People ate their wellknown pizzas, nachos, frites (probably the best in perth) and kangaroo. I ordered a supertasty plate of tiger prawns and then a really nasty dish of cold marinated octupus, just to try it out. It eventually came down, and it was pretty okey to eat but i think they should use more garlic and tone down the sourness. Some who tried it couldnt stand it but me, Gordon and Astrid managed to squeese them down after we added some aoli sauce to them. :)

och så läste jag

I met an old friend yesterday night, my The Shining book and i spent some time together before i fell asleep and it was good. It feels though, like the book is never gonna end, its so long, but its good so its ok. Havent read that for so long now and it was something i really needed to do i think, to just turn off the computer and go to bed and read for a while. its good for the soul :).

School begins on Monday and im not really looking forward to it so much. Dont know why though, coz im gonna study subjects that i really wanna study and can forget about those really boring units i had the last two semesters, coz now im a sophomore student and not a freshman student haha. woho. This sem im taking:

Studio Applications for Advertising
Images & Narratives (also a photo unit)
Printmaking
Graphic Design Foundation (which combies design in drawing on paper and in computers)

So a littlebit of everything i need for my third year unit when im, for example, designing a portfolio book for my photographies and some other stuff aswell.

Good nighty

^ s. 199

Det kanske kommer en förändring

Finished the backside of the album cover i was doing for Ancient Free Gardeners a few weeks ago, yes i am pretty lazy to update my blog. (bigger versions here and here.)

Speaking of nothing, can someone tell me why i meet so weird people all the time? Maybe its just me who attracts them, but in some weird way i have a tendency to run into very strange behaving people. OR another theory, all the people out there, is frikking weird. Yes it has to be like that, and that of course, includes me. Actually i like weird people, but what i don't like is people who don't have any manners. Yes im oldschool but i like manners in people, when they are good :p

More than a month ago during my Creativity class, we had an assignment for our group project. We had to go to the library and borrow books to share within the group and get inspiration for our coming project about *drum roll*..THE FUTURE! So all the groups went there and borrowed stuff. I borrowed two movies, A.I. and another futuristic movie, i had already seen those and i even owned my own copy of A.I. but i wanted to let the others see those movies and get inspired. So i gave them to my fellow group members.

After a week or so we are ready with that assignment and we meet and i ask everyone if they have returned the movies, which of course they have, or at least the two that was there. We finish the class for the semester and i starts to enjoy my holiday. One day, maybe around a week after we have finished the class, i really feel like i wanna go to the library and borrow some omvies from their really good movie section. I pick two awesomely movie; Ghost in the Shell and something else, but when i come to the counter they say that i cant borrow anything because i havent returned A.I. on video to them. GRR. So i go home and email everybody in my group and says that someone havent returned A.I. And everyone seems pretty sure it is *** ***** who has borrowed the movie. So i text her and says pleease return it a.s.a.p. so i can borrow stuff from them. She replies and says: oh, sorry yes im going to return it on Monday (after that weekend).

so i think its okey and that she is going to return it on monday. Of course she would, why wouldnt she?. More than a month goes by and the school is releasing our grades from last semester. When i check my grades, they say that they are BLOCKED! Uh-oh. what does it mean? No one knows. So i go to the Student Central to ask them coz they handle questions like this. And they say it is because of a library fine i have and that i cant check my grades until i have paid that fine. Ooooooh okey i say, i thought i had done something really wrong and gotten so worried about it, but its just a small fine for one or two days the movie was late. Or that is what i thought anyway.

I go to the library and ask them about it. They say that i have a S I X T Y DOLLAR FINE!!!!!!!!!!! But it will go down to 40 if i return the movie. I say that its actually not me who have the movie but this evil girl from my class. Nothing to do, someone has to pay it they say. So this was last week. I have been calling her repeatedly since then, texting her, leaving messages on her phone, finding her on facebook and written a long mail, written to our teacher and explained the situation and asked if he can contact her which he was gonna do, talked to her friend who finally answered the phone and sounded like a really bad liar and claimed that she had left her phone there and said that i could try tomorrow if it wasn't urgent, i said it was urgent and explained everything and hes aid that he was gonna ask her to call the next day, which of course she didn't.

Oh yeah forgot to write the biggest problem for me, i really need to check my grades so i can print them out and send to Sweden so i can get my government funding money (CSN) and pay for my units im taking this semester!!!!!! ARGH!!

So now i have to pay for that and then try to find her and give her the receipt. OR sacrifice my own Special Edition version of A.I. on dvd :(. LUDER!!!!

Drug deal in Perth

Förvirringen är total.

Till min förklaring måste jag tillägga att några glas vin hade druckits :).

EDIT: Almost forgot. The pics below are from my third shoot with Adele, who was really good this time also. We went into the city to the business district, the only part of Perth which actually feels like a big city. Stanley helped us this time also, thaanks alot!





EDIT 2: I have bought a new Moleskine notebook. Im on my third now and it feels great, GREAT! I felt like a kid on christmas after i'd bought it and me and some friends were on the train back home from Fremantle earlier this week. I asked Paige:
-maybe i should open it now? should i open it now? *giggling inside like a little schoolgirl*
-err.. yeah you can do that... ..
-maybe..maybe ill wait until i get home heh.. *cant stop thinking about it*

I waited till i got home and opened it by myself. i was in dreamland. The best thing about it, that its twice as big as my previous ones. So now i can make bigger and better drawings and paintings. I have already started on five different things and i have bought watercolour which is really fun, maybe i can posts some next time.

I feel, that i have to share some Moleskinerie with you people. But yes, i know its really not interesting for the uninterested, but considerings this is my blog so :p... here goes:

HOW TO UNWRAP A NEW MOLESKINE:

1. Unwrap the plastic
2. Pull the paper sleeve from the cover
3. Tuck the post card and stamps in the accordion pocket.
4. Kiss the history of Moleskine pamphlet, and reflect how fortunate you are to be using a notebook favored by Hemmingway and Van Gogh
5. Open the notebook, and turn to the middle, or thereabouts
6. Bury your nose between the pages, rooting as closely as possible to the spine.
7. Breath deeply
8. Repeat Step 7 until filled with a sense of well being

From Geekmouth via Moleskinerie.com

Rauour kjoll svartur har

I had a photoshoot yesterday with Adele, a friend in the village. She used to model back in China and she was very good. Stanley was with us and helped with the lighting this time also. We had really fun and we did two different sets. First this one and then we went home to eat dinner and then went back out after Adele had changed her clothes to a "at the office"-kinda look, which worked really good actually. I havent started edit them so i upload them in the next post, maybe.

Midsummer?

Im very confused these days, and i dont mean "oh im so confused with how i feel-kinda-confused", or that also actually but this is more of a old-man-lost-in-the-woods-kinda-confused. Today when me and my roomie Veronica went to get our pizzas we had ordered i went in to the wrong store :O.. And had a long conversation with the man working there, didnt understand a word he said coz he spoke with very bad english, and then he finally said: Pizza? Me: Yeah, i ORDERED ONE! Kebabguy: Next door!!

Then when finally got the pizza i just gave them the money and left without taking the change, or all the other stuff we had ordered too. So i went back and got the change and got the garlic bread and pepsi bottle.

And then that previous Cinema incident of 2008 a last week... Confucious says: OH SNAP!

Anyway, midsummer came and went (in sweden) but no little frogs for me. But i celebrated with good old swedish music a la Kent, Bo Sundström and just for fun; Nina Rochelle and had a happy zombie marathon with Dawn of the dead, [Rec] och Diary of the Dead. They were goood! Especially [Rec] which was one of the scariest movies ive ever seen :O.

Last sunday me, Stanley and Zura went to the south to the town of Mandurah. It was basically like a smaller version of Fremantle, which is great. This wasnt so great but i think in a few years it will be very up-and-coming. They are building new houses and apartments there which look great, right by the river and harbour and it got its own marina also. We went there to shoot some pictures just for fun and we also got to see dolphins which was really cool. Right there in the river swimming up and down and playing infront of the boats. Kinda neat. Can upload som pics next post. Speaking of pics, the above one is from my shoot with Veronica for my Images & pleasure-class.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, i really need to show you this video. Especially for those doing something in the creative business, or actually any people who feel they are doing something they really want to do in their lives but struggling with. I "tested it" on Lopez a few weeks ago and he said it was really good that he saw that video. It's very inspiring. So please, for your own sake, take a few minutes and listen to what this guy got to say, it will be worth it. Without no further ado, I give you Ira Glass.

Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the confused moviegoer

This photo is from the shoot i had with Paige a few weeks ago. It went pretty good and i got some pretty good pics of her. After my parents shipped my yukata from back home i could finally use it for something useful. So we went down to a little local/pond not far from here and took some pics. I used my old Nissin flash this time which went pretty good. Paige was really good and for this shot i asked her to look furious in a subtle way which i think came out pretty well haha. I dont think the colours come out as good as they are supposed to be when i make it into a jpg and upload it on blogger, but its supposed to be pretty colorful anyway.

Yesterday me and some friend went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. Björn, Cathrine and Marcus pickd me up in their nice pimpmobile (family wagon) and we went off to Morley Galleria to see it. It seems like not many people in Perth actually order tickets when they go to the movies, coz we were almost the only ones who stood in that cue while maybe 20-30 people tood in the other cue for people who hasn't booked a ticket. Anyway, we got our tickets and i could feel the excitement kicking in. I was gonna see Indiana Jones for the first time in my life, in a cinema! Amazing! So we walked towards the ...saloon? (the big frikkin room where they show the movie) :p when i suddenly heard: Sir, excuse me, you have a ticket?

I turned around and saw all my friend laughing and i then understood that i had something to do with it. i had walked right past the ticket guy without even noticing my friends standing in line waiting to get their tickets checked. What a noob i was and what an embarrassment to the Cinema Gods. I showed him the ticket and excused myself, i must have looked really confused but it didn't matter. I was in Indiana Jones-land :)

I had waited to see this for years and now, the moment was here. I had heard some bad reviews of it so back in my mind i tried to keep my expectations down and just hoped for a fun little adventure. But what i got was the complete opposite...

We entered the cinema and it was almost empty, weheeird. But we had great seats, right in the middle. It took almost 20 minutes before they actually started the movie but by then i was still really excited. Actually, I relived my entire childhood of watching the old ones for the first time, i got one of the greatest adventure movies ever! Yes, for me it was that good even though i can see many flaws with it i really liked it and it gave me exactly what i was out to get. Adventure, humor and alot of well executed action scenes by one of my fave directors, mr Spielberg :). Thanks!

WE CARRY ON

Phew! I'm back in business! Schools over and ive just finished my new look on my blog. I have also finished school for this loong, boooring, endless, dull, troublesome semester :D So no im on my winterbreak, which feels so goooood! I love the rain after so many days and nights of 30-40 degrees. Warmth is nice, when it comes in lagom periods.

The school went fine except that I have had a really hard time concentrating on it.. but omg Im not doing five units next semester. I took a fifth one i kinda failed last semester, but hopefully its out of the way now and i can continue doing what i came here to do.
What that is, im not sure :D But now im done with Images & Pleasure, Advanced digital Photomedia (which was a 2nd year unit actually), Representations & Interpretations, Contexts of Modernity and Creativity: Theory, History and Practice.

Hmm what else has happened. I've been working on a album cover for a band called Ancient Free Gardeners and finished that a few days ago. You can see it here. Ive made the drawing in my Moleskine and then shot the background from an IKEA-bag :D and then put it together. liek using texture backgrounds, so ive have now officially made my own texture library :).

I've also made a comeback on Deviant Art and uploaded everything new and old, which you can see here. It's really good coz i can sell my photos there too.

Oh yeah, this may dissapoint a few and me very much. Im not coming home to Sweden this holiday :(. The tickets are too expensive and the holiday is too short. It sucks coz i really miss people back home and the foooooooooooooooooooooooooood.

Dont know if i wrote this before but in every post from now on, im gonna show at least one new artwork/photo also. Just to keep a flow going on. The artwork at the top is my "Dada"-style artwork form Advanced Digital Photomedia. We were gonna cut stuff out from magazines and then put them together in PS. I cut stuff out from Vice Magazine, Creative Magazine and Attittude Fashion Magazine and the background and the red thingy is mine. Laters!

Pathic communion

Some stuff i did for Advanced Digital Photomedia. We had to change the meaning in the picture somehow either by adding text or edit the photo somehow. The pic of Nicky was a pretty random shot but in the re-edit (to the left) i wanted it to look like she was getting out of jail in the states during the 70's.

Yheapp.. thats about it. SIGH!!..