Photoshoot and cinematic experience

Rolf and I have delivered our written exam or project report and the 21st we're having our oral exam in Århus. We're leaving Amsterdam the 15th to celebrate May 17th in Bergen and Oslo.

These days we're preparing for our oral and trying to secure financing so that we can keep working on our project after we've finished the pilots. As a part of this we had a little photo shoot with Marit, Marit, Anna, Morten and Guro. Here are some excerpts.


Today Anna, Marit and I decided to go to the cinema. The film was Spiderman 3 - good stuff, highlight being the very nice and corny session in the middle where Peter Parker becomes cool. But the absolutely best part of the experience was the cinema itself. The Tushinski was built in 1921 and is pure Art Deco.

Queens day and wonderful visit

Canal stroll right by our favorite record shop

Thursday, Gaute and Lars came to visit. We walked the streets, admired the canals, shopped for clothes and vinyl and partied like it was ninteen freakin ninety nine. Just wonderful.
Card night

Morten and Rolf dancing while Lars is rocking the drums in the basement of some random artists fantastic apartment.

Due to some bad planning, communication and emergencies, both Gaute and Lars left before Monday which was Queens day. This is the day where all Dutch people dress up in orange, jump in their boats, drink all their booze, play all their techno music and are allowed to sell all their stuff on the street. Very Dutch, very crazy and one day per twelve months is plenty.
Yes, there is a canal there somewhere.

Does this seem familiar?

For those of you who know Rolf Arne a little bit, you've probably seen him in the middle of a circle a couple of times. Today he entered the circle again, but this time not voluntarily, without a great deal of control and in the middle of Dam Plass, the center square of Amsterdam.





The only big shame is that I missed the moment were Rolf unexpectedly slapppps the street performers ass while he's in chains.

Work, work, work ... and helium

I'm working harder than I think I've done any time before in my life. The clock is now 23:23 and we're still at it. And it's not like this is some sort of exception - we do this at least two or three times a week, and the rest of the days we keep it going 'til at least eight. It's all pretty exhausting (at least right now) but it's a lot of fun as well, so I'm quite all right.

There was a new guy at work today, Ody. It's not very long since we had our first day in the church, so the feeling is not very distant. That's partly why I'm really impressed with the stunt he pulled this first day at work.

He basically filled a hundred balloons with helium and attached an introduction note about himself on each of them, and then let them fly. The nerve!



..and then some of the balloons didn't make it to the roof..



..and wow, I'm actually shockingly pale!

Family visit and a fantastic store

This weekend my parents and youngest sister, Lotte, came to visit. The days were spent eating out, going to museums, shopping and general enjoyment of Amsterdam.

Planning the weekend
Lotte spent so much at American Apparel that she got two sports bags for free
Lotte and El Papa
While looking for the shoe store Patta

The shopping part of the weekend gives me a good opportunity to tell you about a very cool little shop and factory - Universe on a T-shirt. They make all their stuff in the store, and you can get it customized as well. It's no pull-back either that they make sure that their gear is produced environmentally sane and under good worker conditions.

Me outside the shop
Lottes new hoodie in production
The family went bananas and bought eight items or something

A cool way to say goodbye

Christof is the creative director of the company we're working for during our exam project, but today is Christofs last day at work. He's leaving for another company tomorrow. Some of the people here came up with a cool and of course viral way to wish him good luck in his new job.



The video is available in Arabic, German, Serbian and French as well. Feel free to send him a text message and make his last day even better!

A truck load of photos

Our apartment by night from the bridge.
There's a Greek restaurant at the ground floor, and we've got a nice little bench just outside our door where we can enjoy an orange or a glass of wine - like here
What a beautiful view! Singel is the name of our canal. Just beautiful.
We found an apartment! Rolf Arne is enjoying the furniture.
Rolf Arne is amused of a street artist with a well-trained dog
Setting up a time scheduele, forming it like a church (because we work in one)
Street life somewhere close to Fredriksplein
Tram times. Smooth public transport!
Celebrating Elisa, Annas room mates birthday and Driloln fra Macedonia introduced us to the up-beat, Turkish version of 'Happy Birthday' - 'Happy-de-Birthday to you-o-u'
Dining at the fantastic Bazar. Great middle eastern coocking and thirty meters to the roof

A roof over our heads

Yesterday Rolf-Arne and I finally found a place to stay. I've got some better pictures, but for now we're only hooked up to the net from Rolfies computer. Well, we've got a fantastic view over the canal and enough space. The only negative thing is that there's a peculiar smell of cabbage in the starewell. Hm.

Right now - relaxing in our new living room
Stay tuned for some more pictures of le crib

From where I sit

This is my view from where I sit. If you were to put the one in bottom at the far left and the one on top to the far left (and the one in the middle, well, in the middle). I think you will get a rather good fell of what its like - life in the church.





And finally I just need to link to a Wikipedia article about the old and the new dansih grading system. The old 13-scale was a bit complicated, so they came up with a new one that should be easier to understand. It starts at -2 and ends at 12.. Go figure.. Check it out here!

Finally in Amsterdam

So, a few pictures on how we are doing in Amsterdam. Busy, that is why it is not more extensive. And I haven not found the apostrophy-button yet, so that is why this might be a bit strange and formal to read.

Rolf Arne is enjoying our new workplace. There is free chips, drinks, lunch, wine and beer - I like!

Sleeping bag and piles of clothes. This where I lay.

Staying at Annas place. Marit and Arpi together with her in the couch.