Showing posts with label misc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misc. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 May 2009

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 ;)

Friday, 6 March 2009

MGP

I was watching MGP last weekend(?). MGP? The Eurovision Songcontest (Norwegian part)! They said the show was the best in 10-15 years. I certainly enjoyed it :) and I haven't watched for... maybe that long, maybe longer :)

In the beginning of the show one of the presenters said;
...og dokker trur sikkert at det bli litt sånn kniving når en reise rundt med MGP, men sånn e det ikke! Vi e verdens beste venna!"

("You probably think there is rivalry (between the artists) while travelling around with this kind of show. That's not how it is! We are the worlds best friends!") Then all the artists had to say something nice about the artist that was about to sing. Maybe that atmosphere of friendship is part of what made the show so good? Research has now shown that schools that work against harassment (mobbing) have better academic results. Ofc for a lot of us this is not news. Others need research to prove it. :)

Thursday, 12 February 2009

Medvandrere

In Aftenposten saturday I read a about Safia Y. Abdi. She came to Norway from Somalia in 1992 with her three daughters. She is an amazing resource and she reminds us that we are a globe of migrators and says we should call each other co-migrators. She says that she herself has finished migrating and is as such no longer an immigrant.

Look here for a clip from norwegian NRK.

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

westwards brave soldiers!


ready to go home after another day at the office. my faithful furry fury dragon is also ready after a fitful sleep, so we mosey westwards in the cold dusk. life aint too bad...

Thursday, 22 January 2009

Supernordmenn!

Finn-Erik Vinje, mighty language fighter, always on the barricades for correct use of language has criticized the Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise and her husband for the names they have chosen to give their children. Be that as it may.

What interested me in the article was the new definition this paramount of correct language has introduced into the debate. He defines the semi-royal family as "supernordmenn"! As if we didnt have enough with "norsk" "første generasjons nordmann", "andre generasjons innvandrer", "etnisk norsk" and when to become so.

Can we start making a list?
  1. First generation immigrant
  2. Second generation immigrant
  3. First generation nordmann
  4. Second generation nordmann
  5. Nordmann
  6. Supernordmann?
Oh wait! This reminds me of a list I saw in a museum in Mexico last year. It's a list of the casts in Mexican society after the Spanish. Sorry for the poor quality of the picture.

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Pouring coffee in the laptop


...yet another reason to drink cortado instead of latte... -_-

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Museumssenteret i Salhus


The museum centre in Salhus is a gem of a museum! Situated in an old textile factory it has beautiful locations and interesting permanent collections that are well presented. In the glass on the photo you can see the reflections of the windows overlooking the harbour. When in Bergen take the trip!

Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Abstractions of Designing Culture

My dear sweet Mac has started trying to help me out by simplifying my thoughts, my visuals... heck, everything I do! These are some of his recent works... Quite beautiful! But kinda hard to work with... So its off to major surgery and rehab for the little one, while I try to work out how to get the project description done in time without the proper software... Fortunately we are a two computer family, I guess I can persuade the PC to actually do some work and not just hang out being cool and play WoW like he usually does. Just need to get a copy of Word, maybe they have a loaning version at school? Stay tuned for the developments in this exiting thriller!

(oh and dont click on the pictures to see better; I dont have the software to make them screen sized ^^. Allthough if you do click them you will see some of the rather beautiful nuances of the colors in the stripes :-))

Friday, 23 November 2007

Friedman on sharing ideas

I was just sent this clip from a friend. It's a little story about Milton Friedman's thoughts on plagarizing, or actually on idea sharing. Let it be an inspiration for all of us!

The story starts at 00:50 and ends at approx. 01:30
Milton Friedman on Plagarizing Ideas

My sympathies

I don't read Garfield anymore... I used to. When I was 11 "Pusur"(Norwegian name) was the coolest cat around...

But, as one of the
1. first research fellows in a
2. freshly started programme for research and development, in a
3. field that does not have a long and solid history in research,
I sympathise with Jon in this strip.
Although, fortunately, I am not that desperate atm ;-) (it might come back later I suppose... :-p)


Thursday, 4 October 2007

"Review" Freedom of Speech exhibition

In Klassekampen yesterday Dagfinn Nordbø writes about the new freedom of speech exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. As it only opened last week I have not been able to see it yet, but will see it when I go to Oslo in two weeks. Nordbø is a text writer, mostly writing humorous texts for newspapers and radio. He has not set out to review the exhibition, but through his humorous comments he has made one of the better exibition reviews I have read in a Norwegian newspaper. ^^

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Reviewing exhibitions

I received Museumsnytt (the Norwegian museum magazine) in the mail yesterday, and was happy to see Åse Enerstvedt doing a review of Kongospor at Museum of Cultural history in Oslo. I went there this summer and was not too impressed. But whats more was that I decided not to read here review before I had written my own (a quick one anyway), using my structure of Narrative, Method and Design.

After doing that and reading her review I saw that we agreed very much on the Narrative side (although; she writes it, I just nod enthusiastically at everything she writes!) but we disagree on the design side! She finds it elegant, I find it dark and unrelated to the subject. Very interesting! Maybe she would be interested in collaborating on exhibiton reviews with me?

Tuesday, 15 March 2005

DC.no

(etter samtale med … (husker ikke navn! insert here: ………………) i drosjen ned til byen igår:)

Nettside. En kombinasjon av tekst – bilder. Lyd og levende bilder hvor de som ønsker det kan gå så dypt inn i materialet som de ønsker – med animasjoner – collager – rene tekstlinker etc! + det er utrolig nyttig for videre markedsføring av meg! Alt skjer på nettet nå, all research skjer på nettet. Også lett å ha både norsk og engelsk versjon. Intervjuer med utskriving av teksten mens samtalen går i bakgrunnen – burde jobbe med noen som kan Flash og grafisk design godt – holde kontakt med Nina kanskje?

Etterpå var jeg med på juryeringen av NIL-prosjektet. ganske ok diskusjoner. Om hva NIL er og skal være. ~ og det var fortsatt viktig for dem å vise forskjellen på interiørarkitekter og –konsulenter. Det gamle argumentet: ”De kan ikke rive en vegg, det kan vi!” Litt gammeldagse distingsjoner? Ja, vi har 4 1/2 års utdannelse, de har to – det er selvsagt en forskjell! Men skillene mellom de forskjellige profesjonene er i ferd med å brytes ned. Kanskje? Og bør de det? For ikke lenge siden tegnet arkitekter møbler og bestikk…

- Merethe(?) scenograf fra Sixsides sa hun hadde tatt scenografi eller teaterdesign utdannelse fordi det inneholdt så mange designretninger at det var lett å jobbe innen mange forskjellige jobber etterpå. Hun nevnte bl.a. ”fortolkning” som et av temaene… Jeg annonserte at jeg kunne ha lyst til å snakke med dem i forbindelse med mitt stipendiat. Hun var positiv til det.

Friday, 21 January 2005

første dag i mexico d.f. frokost på majestic som både pappa og guttorm likte så godt!utsikt over zocalo og mexicansk frokost. litt kjølig, men det var bare fordi jeg hadde bare ben i sandalene! ingen regn og sludd. ingen vind!

Deretter drosje til Museo de Antropologia. – et monumentalbygg! fra 1964 tror jeg. de hadde 40 års jubileum i fjor – og bygget kan se slik ut. Det har tydeligvis også blitt renovert ca 2000. utstillingene er flotte og vel gjennomført. Selvom noe av teknikken allerede er moden for utskifting – fargeskjermer med forskjellig kallibrering og sånn… særlig første etasje er smakfullt og spennende designet. Mye mørke og dramatisk bruk av lys. Dramatiske skift i skala fra små figuriner til reproduksjoner av pyramidevegger. God bruk av materialer. Stein i alle montre f.eks. Veldig vakkert! I annen etage handlet det mer om indianske grupper av i dag. Her er det ikke fullt så gjennomført. Eller er det bare det at jeg er mer interessert i utstillinger som prøver å si noe om dagens samfunn? Jeg tror det er hovedsaklig et problem i det narrative (jmfr. min analyse modell!) fordi det hele er vakkert gjort, god lysetting, fine rom og områder, med gode installasjoner i montrene. Litt kjedelig med dioramaer nok en gang, men disse var ikke av de værste. Det var også fint at figurene av og til gikk ned fra plattingene og stod med ryggen til og betraktet et annet monter! Men det første som slo meg var: det virker som om de prøver å si noe om Mexicos indianere av idag – montrene inneholdt bl.a. colaflasker og sigaretter. Hvorfor er da alt fokus på det sermonielle og religiøse, hvorfor ikke også på dagligliv? På mixen av mennesker. Hvorfor bare indianere, hvorfor ikke også spanjoler og mestiser og hva det nå heter. De har vært her såpass lenge at det hadde vært mer interessant å se på møtepunkter og daglig samvær enn å drive en fortsatt oppramsing av typer indianere og ders respektive sermonier. Forskjellene mellom gruppene var mindre fremtredende enn likhetene. Kanskje var det noe en kunne spillt på? Hvordan de alle har påvirket hverandre.

(250105) ~ og guiden på Nasjonalforsamlingen understreket poenget da han sa, om den blåøyde babyen, at ”og det er det vi mexicanere alle er. (en blanding av kolonistene og de innfødte).”

Monday, 22 March 2004

When in conferences the talker acknowledges another scholar in the audience, or even one not present, he not only acknowledges the greatness of the other, but at the same time he raises his own status, firstly by his own connection to the other, secondly by putting himself in a position where he is fit to judge on the others merits. Sweet.