Work work

Some dance while others work...

Ke' det går i?

We went to an exhibition at Askøy last thursday and as we where enjoying the beautifull little harbour of Strusshamn we were approched by a journalist from the local newspaper Askøyværingen and asked if we wanted to be in their page 2 column "Ke' det går i?" ("Whassup?"). According to locals we are now 1/3 of the way to super-celeb status at Askøy ;)

Buying chocolate scorpions and Bastet statues

We are almost in production. Atm I am buying chocolate covered scorpions, a statue of Bastet, the egyptian cat godess and just recieved a package of chocolate linguine in the mail last week... Fun times :)

In addition I am making an overview of the media we need and of the work we need to do...

Major areas to take time to think about: The middle division, the screens shielding the exhibition, light fittings, how to send in the eating pictures... :)

Sad old man

I find it sad that a man like Steinar Lem who has spent his life working for important issues like the enviroment and against poverty, now spends his last breath on the propaganda of fear. He claims Norwegian culture is being destroyed by muslims. In Dagbladet today he says that we will get a society built on scriptures from year 600. As opposed to now? When was it they wrote the Bible again?

Fortunately the kids are still sensible. In the same paper they respond that they cannot take over a country that is already theirs, and wonders what Norwegian culture really is and what it is Lem thinks will be destroyed.

- Dette er det dummeste jeg har hørt. Hvordan kan vi ta over vårt eget land? Vi er også født og oppvokst her, sier Somaya Choukri (16).

- Jeg er født her og oppvokst her, men det betyr ikke at den norske kulturen vil bli utryddet, sier Boulahloud, som også er muslimsk.

Vanessa Shaqiri (14) lurer på hva norsk kultur egentlig er og hva Steinar Lem mener blir ødelagt.

Kulturnytt

A nice presentation of Fiskeboller i karri on NRK Kulturnytt this morning! I talked to a very nice young lady, Rebecca Strand, just before easter and it was aired this morning. To hear it, try to access the incredibly difficult NRK nettradio, make a search for 'kulturnytt' and choose the date 15.04 2009. I can't promise the nettradio works, but it's worth a try.

Getting there

Office...?!

Believe it or not; i have my own office!

Si ;D - we are all immigrants!

Nice text in Aftenposten's page for young people's opinion 'Si ;D', last saturday. Written by Johanna B, 15 years old.

Kill your dahlings...

I just re-read an old blog-post with advice from Havlandet. it said:

Kill your darlings, before they kill you.

It fits with todays decision of ditching one of the first exhibition ideas that came up. I think that the original idea of "This is your connection to the world" - is good, but as it had been worked into deal with everyday food instead, it didn't quite sit anymore. And it certainly didn't justify the amount of money we were going to have to spend on it. That is now freed up to spend on other things that would be nice, like projections of footsteps walking around the exhibition space and shadows moving across the walls. Perhaps.

Frode ftw

Frode Ljøkjell (link in Norwegian only, sorry) has started working with us as a 3D designer to work out details and volumes. We have had several meetings and it seems to me that this will work out well. Here is one of his first sketches.Frode's responsibilities will be to shape and construct the various parts of the physical structures.