Behold the view - had nice and mild weather some nights ago, so i took my trusty old joybook outside, enjoyed the skyline and skyped with friends.
Have been mighty busy this week, with a great sculpting workshop (silicone, my love) and various other workaholic endeavours. Started to chill out with “Secret Pizza Party, pt.2″ on saturday evening, where our hero and friends had delicious homemade pizza, spent most of today idle, fiddling around with a piano-keyboard M gave me, visiting Amanda Steggell’s [Emotion Organ] show and playing it for quite a while, cooked noodles for the gang and had my finger almost chewed off by a pet rat.
Today was a good day.

I remember that the first computer game I ever played was “Sokoban” on my dad’s old IBM-PC. After I found those old Toshiba Satellite Notebooks (200CDT and 4xxCDT) I got so nostalgic, that I sokoban(n)ed (horrible pun, sorry) my studio-neighbours workspace around the corner, which means that I can now actually move there, maybe even work..
Hooray!

Bad weather - nice view. Win some, lose some. Great day, nevertheless. Feels good to put on your hiking boots in the studio, go out, turn around a while later and enjoy a view like this. And the hailstorm wasn’t that bad either..

The Bergen drill - the sun shines - drop everything, forget about the studio, grab a good friend and take a hike along the shore, ending up at Georgenes Verft, enjoying the surf, the sun and a good conversation.
It will rain tomorrow, for sure.

Done with day one of the [Urban Interface | Oslo] Conference.
Heard some very interesting talks, spiced with new media slang and only one which I didn’t like at all - [Telart.org], but made myself heard in the ensuing discussion. Didn’t bring my notebook to stop me from googling / trillian during the talks, but thumbed some “sms poetry” into my crappy Nokia Fashion Phone, while the in-crowd was taping the talk in progress on their iPhones.
The result was kinda Coupland-ish, so here you go:

Digital content is placeless. Always on. People search engines. Return of the “social”. WiFi-Hogger. Deconstructing the grid. GPS-Drawing. Loca.

The above picture was taken at [Michelle Teran]’s Friluftskino, intercepting and broadcasting wireless surveillance camera feeds on site, in this case a bar at Sofieberg gata and Sarsgate. Also on the picture are [HC Gilje], most probably [Laura Beloff] and [Drew Hemment], founder of [futuresonic], who gave a very interesting presentation about urban arts, including - to my utter delight - parkour, and who dished out very clear and precise answers / questions in the Q&A sessions after the respective talks. Am almost sure of attending futuresonic 2008 in Manchester early May 2008. This will of course collide with the romania-relocation, but I’ll manage.

Spent the rest of the evening roaming Oslo with a very nice girl, talked too much and plunged right into another discussion when meeting my incredibly friendly host upon return.
Should definitely stop doing these 20h days.

Ear candy: Some random song by King Midas

Today I got a neat little 26.000 Volt shock cutting the anode connection to a cathode ray tube of a tv I am working on at the moment. Or: how our hero learned of something called “residual charge”. My heart tells me to not get such a zap again.

Am sick and tired of people and internet at the moment, hence the lack of updates. Will try not to get myself killed, and keep you updates on my efforts of doing so.

Since I’m blogging via Notebook again (UMTS too expensive), I might aswell revive an old custom: The “ear candy” plug:

Ear candy: William Elliott Whitmore - Cold and Dead

Yesterday was the last sunny day in Bergen for this year. So instead of working in the studio, I hiked out of town and into the mountains.

Insert coin to continue

Bergen

Kunsthallen, Bergen