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| Tuesday, 30-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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is it really 3:30am?
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there are no working scanners at BEK...
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so here are two details: #1
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#2
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i was ready to go home and then i started this drawing. my sleep schedule is SO WRONG!
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| Saturday, 27-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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the rest of the weirdo workshop
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today was the performance and destruction of the mandala. here's pictures from the week.
the performance was done with every installation having an assigned "voice" and then a score was written so that at certain times certain installations would be active, sometimes all installations would be active for just 30 seconds and then it would hush down to just one piece. it actually worked really well. it's impossible to describe the atmosphere, and i didn't really take enough pictures to show all of the installations (because i thought this was a ton of pictures already), but it was a very eerie and effective performance that lasted about an hour and a half. then the monks did their ceremony.
afterwards i got a lot of compliments on my "piece," which wasn't even really my idea, it was just an idea that i executed for someone else. actually, they complemented my other video that *was* my idea as well, which was a video of people's mouths as they were talking, which i made because i was so damn frustrated with Norwegian. anyways, Trond gave me a really weird compliment because he said i wasn't anything like he thought i was going to be. he said he thought i was going to be some snotty New York video artist or something, but he and Ellen say that instead i'm very open. he also said "you're always looking for the door that isn't there, and you find it." i thought that was odd, but maybe it makes sense.
let me say that although i hate my camera's color saturation, i love the fact that i can play back a video and capture photos right to the memory stick. that helped a lot on this post.
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| Tuesday, 23-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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weirdo workshop!!!
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remember those classes you had when you were 5 years old where they would take all the "gifted" kids into a room and have you play creatively with sand and mess around with abstract ideas? ok, well at least some of you do. anyways, i'm currently in this "workshop" where we're basically all just mucking around and creating weird stuff based on audio/video/tactile material from Greenland and other random stuff, and these Tibetan monks are making a sand mandala in the middle of the whole thing and... uh, maybe you should just look at the pictures. oh, i mentioned that 5 year old thing because there's a bunch of salt all over the ground and people keep playing with it in different ways.
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| Monday, 22-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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dernit.
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i took some hi-res photos today, but i left my camera at the workshop we're having. getting my camera means climbing up a big hill, then going down the other side. if i wanted to come back to BEK and upload the photos, i'd have to climb the hill again, plus it's most likely raining, so you'll probably just see those tomorrow.
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| Saturday, 20-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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blurry party photos.
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last night i went to a house party. it was pretty lame, but i did my best to liven it up. at one point we got a hippie freakout dance party going, which was probably the highlight of the night. another highlight might have been me serving chips to everyone out of a frying pan.
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| Friday, 19-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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bikeaholic
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it looks even more surreal in person.
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let's remember that this camera doesn't have a viewfinder...
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today we were graced with a sunny sky, so i took the opportunity to ride my bike to parts of Bergen that i had never gone to before.
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| Thursday, 18-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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grønn
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apparently today's upload has a greenish theme, which i wasn't aware of. lots of these photos come from my walk to the police bike auction. the policeman that i talked to told me it was a short walk, but it ended up being an hour long, mostly uphill. i got a fairly nice bike for fem hundre kroner, which is like $66. now i just need some bike tools to adjust a few things and i'm good to go.
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| Sunday, 14-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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out the window at BEK
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these girls brought me duty-free scotch. i love them.
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the girls were visiting karen, another fulbrighter. this is her.
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| Friday, 12-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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cuppa coffee
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someone burned a grilled cheese sandwich
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i think it was Gijs. he calls them "tostis".
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I dunno what's up with this camera. Either it's eating batteries at an alarming rate even when it's turned off, or something is wrong.
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| Thursday, 11-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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September 11th didn't happen!!
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Regarding the title: it's an ironic chant some friends came up with to piss people off. I was yelling it tonight at the dance club. Here are some pics from today, all taken with the toy camera.
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