GOING HOME TO SWANSEA

HAPPY WANNABEE-BIRTHDAY TO ME :D
We celebrated my birthday two weeks early since I'm not in Norway on the 13th of May. I'm turning 20, halfway to 40, but let's not dwell on that now... Thanks for all the great gifts and money (to support the buy-a-new-DSLR-before-end-of-June-pot) :D

The plain leaves tomorrow at 11:50 from Rygge, before a 5 hour bus ride from Gatwick airport. It's gonna be good getting back to the daily life and all the people and Swansea. 4 weeks of easter holiday was way too much for me, I'm back home in Norway in 6-7 weeks already, so... Started packing today and I swear my suitcase is smaller now then when I got home to Norway... maybe?

(Yes I know the picture quality is shit, but my DSLR wasn't nearby xD) I'm bringing my inline skates, which I finally located. It's no point having them home in Norway since Åros (my village) is ALL hills and many roads don't have tarmac. Wherever you wanna go somewhere it's in 99% of the cases a hill and in 50% of the cases it's not tarmac, so a bit unpractical. Haven't used it so much in the last two years, so gonna be great. I love inline skating and got my first pair when I was 9 ish and this is my 3rd (?) pair I think, maybe 4th? Forgot that I needed a new brake pad so had to order it, but hopefully I'll have it by Monday, Tuesday latest. And I need knee-, wrist- and elbow protectors cause I have no idea where my old set have gone. I'd rather use wrist protectors than to brake wrist. In Swansea there's a nice 12 km/7,4 miles cycling/walking path down by the beach which is perfect for skating and cycling.

Source: Flickr.com - Entropic Remnants

Got my grandmothers old SLR today :D I've been thinking about buying a cheap used SLR 35mm film camera for ages to experiment, but two weeks ago I suddenly realized; HELLO, I can ask my nan! She bought a digital camera ages ago and uses her camera on her phone to take pictures and films, so she doesn't need her film based camera. She said; it's no point for her, cause it's hardly anywhere it can be processed anymore and digital is much easier. So the first thing I'm doing on Sunday is run down to town to buy a load of film and experiment. We've got a processing room and negative scanners in uni I can use. It's something special about film, both for still pictures and moving pictures (which I also wanna try). The picture seems more "alive" and the excitement when you see the finished product. As my teachers have said up through the years, plan your shots! That's what they had to do back in the days when film was the only thing. Film cost money, so you have to think before you shoot. We've all seen the Japanese tourist that takes 22 pictures of the same statue while turning his/hers camera, thinking that at least one picture is gonna turn out good...

Have a GREAT day peeps and I hope each and every one of you have had a great easter holiday!

Q: What have you done in the easter holiday?

Summer is coming people, so get those shorts on and run down to the beach! :D

Today's song: James Blunt - Stay the night

FEEL THE BASS

Some of you know Christiane, or Trulte, from the wine night we had. Today I visited Hansa, her boyfriend, and her. They came home from Paris last night after an amazing holiday by the sound of it. Nice photo of them on the top. She did forget to buy me a souvnier, but I'll forgive her this time. I love getting souvenirs AND I love giving them too! I did text her saying I wanted one, but she was by the gate. Saw the pictures they took, so beautiful city and the view from the Eiffel Tower.... So want to go to Paris, anyone wanna join? :D



Anyway, had to check out Hansa's stereo in his room. I'm sorry about the shit auido quality, but it's just to show how much the speakers moved and how much bass it was. So lush sitting down and feel it shake in my spine <3

From that to something completely different: Yesterday I made something really cool! Chinese Easter eggs with an twist! They looked amazing, except the fact that I boiled them 3 minutes short, so the egg was a bit soft inside, but never mind.

Aren't they cool?! Found a tutorial for it when I was "stumbling" through the net. For the record Stumble Upon is a great site. You tick the topics that interests you and click stumble and it gives some great sites, the more you use, the better it gets. Anyway, found this recipe because I'd ticked design and food/cooking. You can read the tutorial, but basically what I've done is use food colouring. Check it out and remember to boil the eggs enough!

Remember this one, 1999? The lovely 90's when the whole western world discovered Latino pop.
Today's song: Jennifer Lopez - Let's get loud

CINEMA SCI-FY MEETS COMEDY

There several movies coming up in the summer/autumn that I'm looking forward to watch:

  
I laughed so much when I watch the trailers for The Change-Up and Bridesmaids!!!
  
Really looking forward to Green Lantern, looks good and one of my favorite actors is in it, Ryan Reynolds. I'm a bit skeptical about the Cowboys and Aliens, but maybe I'll give it a go.

Films that are released in the cinema now which I might watch:
    
    

AND the first film I'm going to watch when I finally get back to Swansea is Beastly, which for stupid and idiotic reason is not released her in Norway! After I am number four Alex Pettyfer is also one of my favorite actors (so let's see how long he's gonna stay there)



I swear that some day soon (meaning withing 3 months) that I'm gonna devote my time and blog to the films I love. In the meantime, get going to the cinema people, so much good to watch :D

Today's song: The Buggles - Video killed the radio star

THE GATHERING DONE

Sorry I haven't blogged in a few days, but just been busy at The Gathering, the biggest LAN party ever. It's in total almost 6000 people gaming, designing and working for 5 days. I worked as a camera operator with some AMAZING people that I really look forward working with next easter too, can't wait :D Such a great experience!



Uploading/downloading seems so SLOW after TG where we had a incredible 100 GB/s connection. In Åros (hometown) we only have a 20 MB/s connection, but that's quick enough, it just seems slower. So uploading the pictures you see above took what felt like ages, haha!

I'm really looking forward to going back next year, can't wait. On TG it's something called "TG-tid" (TG-time) which means that the normal feeling of time doesn't apply. You're "trapped" in a timeboble where time isn't relative and 12:00 can easily feel like 21:00.

I felt a bit sad leaving, but I know that I gonna be back next year. Gunnar, Runar, Johan, Leif and me made a deal; that we have to be in crew for five years and every year one person buys cigars/cigarillos for the group. Gunnar bought this year, so at least four years left (and hopefully many more).

Today's song: Bryan Adams - Summer of 69