LAVERBREAD

Had a total relax day today. Went down town around 11 ish to buy after sun and some nose spray. Didn't have the greatest of sleeps last night, blocked nose which means me waking up every 30 min drinking water.... Then I needed some energy, so did a 6,47 km/4,02 miles run.

Yesterday when went to the beach I met a guy, Nathan, who works as a gardener and he's also a vegetarian. He told me about a Welsh specialty, laverbread. Laverbread, or Bara Lawr in Welsh, is a local made dish, made by seaweed (yes you heard me right, seaweed) which is boiled for several hours and then minced. It has a salty taste and is rich on iron. I asked where can I buy this and he said down in the market. So that's what I did, head down to the market and bought meself some laverbread. You can serve it on toast, crackers or I also heard you can fry it with bacon and cockles (muslinger). I fairly enjoy, at bit weird in the beginning, but still good. So gonna try to fry it tomorrow. Don't have cockles though, but do have bacon.



"My philosophy in life is to never regret anything you do, it's what makes you who you are." Music is important to me, it's a way for me to show my feelings. Lyrics that touch you and makes you smile and help you live your life to the full. Feeling the rhythm going through your body, giving you a pace when you're out running or a beat to dance to.

Music is you, music is life and life is one long song. Live your life and never let anything stop you.

Today's song: 30 Seconds To Mars - Closer To The Edge

THREE CLIFF BEACH

We went to Three Cliff beach today, by Gower. SOOOO NICE! Thanks for the ride Guillaume :D Like we agreed on, it's gonna be a slight disappointment going back to Norwegian beaches after being here:



We had well over 25 degrees in the shade and we lay tanning most of the time. AND we went for a swim in the Atlantic. It was a bit chilly still, probably around 16-17 degrees, but it felt a bit warmer the fourth time we went in. Gonna be so lush to come here when we get back to Swansea in September, warm warm sea.

Source: BBC.co.uk

Tomorrow we're having a bonfire night down at Swansea beach. If you live in Swansea you're more than welcome to come.

Have to start packing soon... really don't want to... Have to sort out what to bring to Norway for the summer and what to bring down to our new house. This time I at least have two suitcases, or technically one suitcase and one massive backpack. It's just a hassle having to choose what to bring where... Oh well it's worth it in the end ;)

Now I'm listening to the Judge Jules show on Radio 1, with the best and freshest club tunes. Tune in you too!

Today's song: T-Spoon - Sex on the beach

PICAS OF THA CHICAS

Elise and Christoffer is leaving Swansea soon and won't be coming back in September :( So they hosted a bye-bye party in their posh marina apartment. I'm gonna miss both of the very much <3 Pictures are shot with my 35mm film camera and converted to black&white in Photoshop. Thanks Elise for helping me out with the negative processing.



As you probably have seen, Swansea City (football team) has made to Premiere League, as the first Welsh team ever. This makes the whole of Swansea celebrate. Over 10 000 people took to the street to see the winning parade Monday. Me, Thea and Christoffer saw the opportunity and grabbed our cameras :D Shot on my Canon EOS 450D.

Today me, Johan, Nora, Helene, Ingeborg and Inger have been tanning outside halls. It was about 22 in the shade today and lush and boiling in the sun. I used my lovely sun oil and got the beginning of a tan. Tomorrow it's supposed to be even hotter, so we're going to Three Cliff bay to swim, play, BBQ and get a tan.

Three Cliff - Source: multiple sites

Today's song: Ke$ha - Blow

FUCKING BLOODY PERFECT

Finally after so much trouble with the export and codec, Vimeo has finally accepted my file. My new film "Fucking perfect".





I decided to make a piece about eating disorders amongst men, to prove that it isn't just a "girl-thing" or a "TOP MODEL issue". The reason for this is because I suffered from the early stages of bulimia at the age of 10-11 cause of bulling. It never got to a serious state cause I managed to stop it. Read more HERE

I was thinking of making a documentary, but because I didn't know anyone in Swansea suffering from a eating disorders I looked into getting into a hospital or teatment center. I found out it would have taken months to get all the permissions, so I decided to make a fictional piece in a documentary style.For me it was important that the actor was apart of the character development. I wanted to do it all by "controlled" improvisation. I gave the actor films, articles and stories to study and told him to develop a person. I had designed moodboards, bullet-points, so I could guide him, but still let him keep his "independence".

In retrospect, it might not have worked out as I had hoped, but I learned a great deal from this film. I'll probably never be a 100% happy with my films, cause you'll always think what if I had done this or that instead. But you learn from it and advance, that is the most important thing, so that one day you can get close to 100%.

Could have been better:
- Lighting during interview (those shaddows are killing me)
- Some audio disturbance
- Could have tried with more cutaways

I'm very inspired by people and stuff around me and very much music. Music is a great to express one self. You can almost always make out my mood from the music I listen to. I try that the "Today's song" on my blog reflects my day and normally it does.

For this piece I was inspired by P!nk, Kelly Clarkson and Christina Aguilera.

   
The Fucking Perfect gave me the title for my piece. That video and its lyric is so strong and a great song. So What is an about just don't give a fuck really, pardon the language. I've listened to that sooooo many times when I wanna be a rebel.
   
Christina Aguilera's song Beautiful is an great song! The lyric and video is song strong and says everything and much more of what I try to say in my film. And Breakway, cause well it's my favorite song and symbolizes freedom.

I was also inspired by this piece Joshua by Phoebe Sexton, a picture story about his fight against eating disorder.