1. Municipal Waste
2. Enslaved
3. Fever Ray
4. Bob Hund
5. Magnetic Man feat Skream & Benga
6. Bon Iver
1) Maharishi Snopants
2) Canon 50mm 1.2
3) Goldring Eroica MC pickup
4) Rancilio Silvia Espresso Machine
5) Wacom Cintiq
Check out my pictures from the trip to Rome/Tuscany on Flickr
The website I did for Oslo Filmfestival 08 was given a nomination/diploma at this year’s Visuelt competition. The video i did for Jazzkammer was nominated for the main competition for this year’s norwegian short film festival, Minimalen.
Just finished: cd and vinyl cover for rockers The Reilly Express, cd cover for Bladed, silkscreen posters for Bladed. In the works: new website for Electrocompaniet, vinyl cover for Bladed, t-shirts, silkscreen posters for Lasse Marhaug.
1. Sealab 2021
2. Bill Hicks
3. Red Meat
4. Harvey Birdman
Diogo for his high standards, Ken for being able to be both relevant and interesting, So for his design approach to so much more than just visuals, Jonni for making me believe designers can be photographers too, Vegard for the attention to detail and tactility, Keith for his Ma, Anna for daring not to be hip, Halvor for his touch of personality, Chris for daring to look abroad, Marius for being an artist, Erik for the love of typography, Teipu for his playfulness and Suzie for daring to be different.
A tribute to Patrik Fitzgerald – coverdesign for gatefold vinyl and silkprinted cd-cover with 24-page booklet, identity for hi-end producers Electrocompaniet, interactive applications for Øyafestivalen 09, logo for black metal heroes Thorns, cd-cover and logo for my good friend Trond’s new band All Trouble, and probably even more covers this spring. Stay tuned.
I was very happy to see that the Oslo International Film Festival website I did is now listed on Styleboost.
(Unordered) List of Favourite Concerts Ever:
This video for Jazkamer was shot as still frames using a digital SLR, by me in Tokyo at the start of this year. Turned out quite nice…and appropriate.
I’m very happy to be published with several works (1349 cover, Seid cover, Jazkamer logo, Thorns website, Sonu website and Thorns website) in the book “1000 music graphics” in the company of many very talented designers.
Had a great time in Lisbon during OFFF festival, great talks by Natzke, Joshua Davis, Karlssonwilker inc, Hi-res!, Group94 and Fallon (among others). Super seafood, nice people, beautiful women and great city. Other highlights included Aaron Koblin | Minivegas | Alex Trochut | Manuel Lima
OFFF/Lisboa at Flickr
12 pictures
Two works featured in the latest Web Design Index book: Kong Tiki Record and no magazine. Other Norwegian companies featured in the book includes Sigarett and Yokoland
Also, I was happy to see that my website for Oslo International Film Festival was nominated at the “Visuelt” contest this weekend.
Some awards at “Sterk Reklame” competition: art direction of “Films from the South” identity, co-designer on profile for “Kloss” (identity animations) and co-designer on flash website for “Canal Digital”.
I love the early stuff of Metallica, and though my enthusiasm was slowly decreasing with the “…and Justice for All” album, it is still a record I’ve listened to – and like – very much. Finding this video f**king with the song on YouTube just made my day. Watch it here.
Went to Japan (Tokyo/Kyoto) for 7 days to document concerts of Jazkamer and Sten Sandel Trio. Took lots of pictures, and shot material for a new Jazkamer music video.
Japan concerts pictures at Flickr
Some keywords from the trip:
Spacefood. Yummy triangle rice cakes. Looking for Scarlett in Hyatt Hotel. Perfect tempura. Cool toilets. Hair fixation. Neon extravaganza. Noise. Foot massage heaven. New heights of sushi excellence. Cute girls. Drinking with Jim O’Rourke. Sake is dangerous. Great concert with Jojo of Hijokaidan. Weird tv-shows. Really. Calpis is super. Missing Anja. Nature/temple/park retreat. Best bathing experience ever (Onsen). Friendly and polite people. Feeling safe. New Tokyo Porter bag. More camera equipment. Jazkamer and Sten Sandell Trio rocks. Real Wasabi. High speed trains. Gyoza. Asahi. Sayonara!
Japan pictures at Flickr
I stopped by this place by chance today, and it is no doubt the best espresso you can get in Oslo. It is probably one of the best cups of espresso I’ve had ever. It even beats Jonni™ homemade cup of espresso (my previous favourite). Check out Tim Wendelboe coffee.
Not every day you can enjoy the company of Earth’s Flash gurus. Erik Natzke, Branden Hall, me, Joshua Davis.
One more list I’m working on (not ordered yet this one either):
“15 favorite metal albums…like, ever”
Cathedral – Forest of equilibrium
Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Thorns – Thorns
Anathema – The Silent Enigma
At the Gates – Slaughter Of The Soul
My Dying Bride – As the Flower Withers
Sepultura – Arise
Paradise Lose – Shades of God
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Breach – Kollapse
Tiamat – Wildhoney
Slayer – Reign In Blood
Deftones – Adrenaline
Korn – Korn
Voivod – Nothingface
Perhaps sometime later I’ll admit that I really like Guns N’ Roses – “Appetite for Destruction”, but never got into either Iron Maiden, Kiss or AC/DC – but that is talking about Rock and not Metal (as my good friend Snorre would say, in his sarcastic tone saying the word “Rock”).
I also want to add that the best track of the 80s, whatever genre, is Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”, and that’s not debateable.
I see a lot of people as I make the rounds
And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town
And I’ve never gotten used to it, I’ve just learned to turn it off
Either I’m too sensitive or else I’m gettin’ soft.
Huzza! 3rd place at doubles foos tournament (with Trond). Team-Monkeyball-Darkside can stay at home though. Congrats to Brendan and Tore for the 1st place!
Off to Hong Kong, see you in a week! I’m back. Amazing food (dim sum, sushi, pizza (!) and thai), great hikes to the islands outside, and camera shopping (now the proud owner of a Nikon D300). Pushed the food-boundries hard, and came back happy.
Hong Kong pictures at Flickr
Ok, first sketch for a new list: “Best albums of 2000-until-today” (not yet ordered list):
Radiohead “Kid A”
Scott Walker “The Drift”
Joanna Newsom “YS”
PJ Harvey “Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea”
Taraf de Haidouks “Musique des Tziganes de Roumanie”
Quasimoto “The Unseen”
Interpol “Turn on the Bright Lights”
Sonic Youth “Murray Street”
Thorns “Thorns”
Björk “Vespertine”
Breach “Kollapse”
Q: And, in the end, the love you take is equal to what?
A: The love you make.
Company trip to Iceland = heavy drinking in beutiful scenery (perfect combination).
Iceland gallery on Flickr
Two works featured in Web Design Index 9: Lorenzo Mariani and Thorns LTD
Q: What is the prettiest thing you’ve ever seen?
A: Black on black, blue on blue, green on green.
After 6 and a half great years at Klapp, I am now looking forward to starting at SDG. This Way Design will take a break, but this blog will continue – but with more strange stuff, like, photos by me, inspirational links and the in-between-quasi-philosophic comment.
With MTV no longer showing music videos (and when they do, all being generic-rnb-videos, this homemade video has all the magic music videos can have. Remember: don’t skip. And watch it all.
Some images from this summer vacation to Bolga (outside of Bodø, Norway).
Related
Bolga image gallery at Flickr
Facebook sucks. Together with 216 other people we’re tomorrow commiting Facebook Mass Suicide. One month was enough. My MySpace page will have to go too. One can only bear a certain amount of web 2.0.
New list! This list is probably going to see a lot of additions in the time to come, here is a start:
1. You start reading manuals for products you buy for the first time in your life
2. You manage admit to yourself that early Bruce Springsteen rules
3. Some songs (like “Blue” by Joni Mitchell) can make you seriously sentimental
4. Going out drinking more than once a week just gets tiresome
5. Spending time alone in nature suddenly makes sense
6. You buy your first fishingequipment and boat (seriously!)
7. You rediscover Kate Bush
8. The Quest for The Real Wasabi begins
9. You meet Schopenhauer’s Will, and some days it seems real
10. You’re happy you don’t have to be a teenager again
11. You turn up at work with baby-burp on you shirt
12. You spend more time talking than doing
I’m a part of this year’s Varsko! design exhibition in Trondheim, Norway, and David Carson is coming to do a talk! Good stuff, looking forward to it.
My life’s #1 priority changed from “World domination” to “Have Joanna sit by my bed and sing me to sleep”.
Work featured in Idn magazine.
Death comes suddenly, and to all, we will all experience the same – and noone knowing what comes after. Sadness is just a sign of love, fear is just love of living. Be mindful of God, be as good as you can, and then try harder. Seek universal love.
I will miss you grandpa, fürchte dich nicht.
After several requests, here comes my subjective list of 3 5 best places to have sushi in Oslo:
1) Nodee
Everything taken into concideration, I hold this to be the best place to get sushi in Oslo. The prices are fine (half of Alex), the service very good and waitors friendly, and the interiours some of the nicest in Oslo. A hidden pearl is their 3-part lunch (sashimi-maki-nigiri) for about 220,-
2) Alex Sushi
The menu offer great variation with super ingredients and composition – and the sashimi comes with an amazing ponzo sauce. Bring at least 1000,- and order the most expensive menu. Tacky 90s-interiour, and the waitors are a bit too posh – but the sushi itself is probably the best you can get in Oslo.
3) Sushi House (“every-day sushi”)
Their sushi house menu at 220,- is more than enough for two hungry people and is probably the cheapest sushi you can get in Oslo, which at the same time is really tasty and the perfect everyday-sushi-deal!
Earlier on the list: Jonoe and Nippon Art.
Bergen: Go to Red Sun for one of the very best sushi experiences you can get in Norway.
The Web Design Index by Content.02 features two sites by This Way Design – my portfolio and the website for Lasse Marhaug. The previous edition also featured work by me, the website of Jazzkammer. Fun.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Putting clients first by putting employees first, immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibility and leveraging profitability toward exceeding by empowering our employees to put clients (and themselves) first, in a diverse and respectful environment of only those that come first, first.
I spent three great days in Brighton recently going to the Flash on the Beach conference, met many nice people and enjoyed great talks by Erik Natzke, Neville Brody, Aral Balkan, Hoss Gifford, Hillman Curtis, Brendan Dawes, Branden Hall and Chris Pelsor.
In addition, a bonus I would say, the vegitarian breakfast at Jeff’s was soo good!
Another three great days were spent in at the All Tomorrow’s Partiesmusic festival on the west-coast of England. Amazing concerts by The Stooges, Sonic Youth, Melvins and Dinosaur Jr! Other bands worth mentioning: The Dead C, Be Your Own Pet and Gang of Four. Without getting too sentimental, it was really special going to all the good concerts this time, as I feel my festival-days are coming to an end. I feel so lucky for this experience.
The jury (me, that is) has spoken: Album of the Year 2006 is Joanna Newsom – “YS”. Run and get it. She’s kinda cute too, in an elvish-level-3-kinda-way…
(price taken in consideration)
More to follow…
I was born. I lived. I died. When I lived, I smoked and I drank. I laughed and I played. I traveled and observed. I danced and sang. And I was happy. Help your brother, and fear will stay far from you. My thoughts are wide and my wits are with me. I have the forest. I have the rivers. I have the clouds, fire and water, gold and silver. Look inside yourself and go on looking, and be friendly if you want friends. This is what I heard, dear Brother Bhar. Now I must dig in the earth for a while. Not much is left.
Geijutsu = function + purpose + aestethics.
We mistakenly perpetuate the idea that there is a clear-cut distinction when it’s more a matter of shading than dividing.
I took comfort knowing black is every color shining brightly at once.
“Some will concider the works of This Way Design to be art, others will claim it is advertising. I like to think about it as the art of advertising to come.” Ivar, High Times.
Mark Jenkins is taking it to another level with his new “Embeds”. The sculptures are made of tape and then clothes are added.
Check out the video to see how people react to the sculpture…
2 days of good talks here in Oslo during the Visuelt days, really liked the works of Klaus Haapaniemi, Gary Baseman (“hi Toby!”), Anisa Suthayalai and Group94. Klapp Media got a prize for a webproject for TINE that I was involved with.
Crazy danish animation. A must see. Here.
1. Origami
2. Calligraphy
3. Fold-out record sleeves
4. Hieronymus Bosch
Even though I usually keep with Bruce Mau’s wise words (“Don’t enter design-competions”), it was fun to see that two of my last year’s works won in Norway’s second largest advertising/design-competion: Siås (Studentsamskipnaden i Ås) got a silver in the profile category (no gold was given in this category) and my poster for the short movie “Vakseriet” won silver in the poster category. A webproject I contributed on for TINE, won silver in the interactive category. The website can bee seen here.
Reading Adrian Sahaughnessy’s book these days, good stuff and comforting to read other designers’ experiences about the returning problem of customers’ fear of doing anything out of the box. A quote: “…the ones that cut through the drizzle of unremarkable one-size-fits-all communications – are ones where the designer’s thumbprint is clearly visible: the ones that contain a rebel-yell of defiance”.
1. Bogstadveien (enough sunglasses to feed an African contry)
2. The amount of indifference needed to survive everyday life here
3. Damn crazy taxidrivers running me down, bicycling to work
1. Fürchte Dich Nicht (Bertold Brecht, September Songs)
2. Syk pike (E. Much, Kari Bremnes/Løsrivelse)
3. Stjernesludd (Dum Dum Boys)
4. What a Wonderful World (Nick Cave & Shane McGowan)
5. We’ll Meet Again (Johnny Cash)
1. The brown-haired girl undressing for me by the seaside
2. The curly-haired blonde smiling behind the bar
3. The high, freckled girl falling asleep
4. The sleepy girl hugging me goodbye
5. The girl behind the bar, so clear, yet so far away
It is all a matter of timing. It is no use meeting the right person at the wrong time.
“Det vesentlige ved lykken er ikke rikdom og nytelse, men aktivitet, den frie utfoldelsen av evner, samt vennskap med gode mennesker”
“…livet er alvorlig (men alvorlig morsomt), mennsker har et felles ansvar, vi deler forpliktelser, tiden er knapp, vi lengter og vi fortjener bedre enn jappetid, børsspekulanter, høy-og lavkonjunktur, vilkårlighet, kunnskapsløse makthavere, kitschy kunst (eller: underholdning), skipperluer…”
“Barnet trenger ingen konsekvent konsevens; jeg tror det ville få en like god oppvekst med en konsekvent, pålitelig inkosekvens, Det er jo slik livet er; hvis foreldrene bare ville akseptere og rose inkonsekvens, ville ikke barna bli så skremt av foreldrenes hykleri og uvitenhet”.
“Are you such a dreamer, to put the world to rights? I stay home forever, where 2+2 always makes a 5″
1. Make new friends
2. Icecream at Dolche Vita
3. Dim sum at Taste of China
4. Lost at Sikka
5. Coffee at Dolche Vita Wendelboe
6. Bento box at Nodee
7. Wonton soup at Saigon
1. Kaizers Orchestra
2. Amulet
1. JR Ewing
2. Jazzkammer
3. Satyricon
4. Maranata
1. Lasagne, Vegard
2. Vegetarian pie, Anja
3. Curry, Jon
4. Sushi, Eiliv
5. American Breakfast, Ken
1. Asahi Dark
2. Budwar
3. Dahls :)
4. Grolsch
5. Spitfire
6. Aas
1. Aardbeg (10)
2. Springbank
3. Bruichladdich (17)
4. Laphroaig (15)
1. “The Aleph”, Jorge Luis Borges
2. “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, Raymond Carver
3. “Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works”, Kurt Vonnegut
4. “A prayer for Owen Meany”, John Irving
1. “Jimmi Corrigan – Smartest kid on earth”, Cris Ware
2. Red Meat, Max Cannon
1. “Blue”, Joni Mitchell
2. “Helter Skelter”, The Beatles
3. “Where is my mind?”, The Pixies
“White Album”, The Beatles
1. 8 ½, Federico Fellini
2. Extension du domaine de la lutte
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Step Across the Border
5. Drowning by numbers
1. Thorns
2. Motorpsycho
3. Cadillac (r.i.p)
4. Dipsomaniacs
5. Lullaby League (r.i.p)
1. Credo
2. Puro (r.i.p)
3. Havfruen
4. Jadab
5. East
1. Morning-swim at Pirbadet
2. Breakfast at Dromedar (Tuna-salad bagel and “today’s coffee”)
3. Bring+drink lots of beer at “Marinen” in the summer
4. Burger from Sesam (eat in the park nearby)
5. Punk concerts at Uffa (drunk)
Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star
And I said, constant in the darkness
Where’s that at?
If you want me I’ll be in the bar
…livet är underbart
allting är möjligt
jag vet inte om jag klarar av det här
- Deres Eminense, jeg er ikke lykkelig.
- Hvorfor skulle De være lykkelig? Deres bestemmelse er ikke det. Hvem sier at vi kommer til verden for å være lykkelige? Origenes sier i sine Homilier: “Extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Utenfor Kirken, ingen frelse. Extra ecclesiam nemu salvatur. Utenfor Kirken, blir ingen frelst. Salus extrae Ecclesiam non est. Det finnes ingen frelse utenfor Kirken.”