It's all changing

Hey guys!
Hope your well.
as for me, well, its snowing! haha i think thats a good thing. at least for now. A lot has been happening the last few weeks. i finished school friday but that feels like forever ago. ive been hanging out with all my friends since then. A lot of the really good friends ive made here are semester students, and so now they are all leaving to go back to their home universities and some of them are even graduating. Im excited for them but i the same time im really sad about it. everytime i see one of em i have to wonder if thats the last time ill ever see them, or if we will stay in touch or what. Good people. Shout out to all you UVA, Wash U, and UC Boulder kids. You made my life better! thank you.

that said, let the good times roll. Ive gone ice skating with my american friends, had a christmas feast with my Danish friends, saw avatar in 3d, partied with myamerican friends (i love the meat packing district;) and so much more. But why read about it when you can see it..

The beautiful and frigid view from my window


This is a sad moment. Its Mark walking with all his stuff to the Metro to go to the airport. He spent the last night on my couch cuz he needed a place to stay. i feel slightly stockerish documenting this moment..but its a symbolic picture of everyone who is leaving.
This is my room yesterday afternoon. I have three peoples luggage. Marks plane left the next day but he had to be out of his room. Ryan's flight got cancelled so he had to being his stuff somewhere for a little bit to get things sorted out since he also had to be out of his room. And then there some of Andrea's stuff cuz she also need a place to put things while she moved to her new housing.
This is the Christmas feast i had with the people in my kichen. it was fantastic! it was a traditional Danish Christmas dinner, with roasted duck, pork, potatoes, caramelized potatoes, red cabbage and two types of gravy. and yes, cabbage is amazing! you havent good cabbage if you still think that is horrible. We also had a really good rice pudding desert covered with warm cherries and sauce. Wally says that Jeanie makes the best hes ever had, and he would know.
Some of the people from my floor. Ill post better pictures once i get them from people. From left: Rille, Kenneth, and Jeanie. They are the greatest.


Ice skating in Fredriksberg. From left: Andrea, Charyl, Ryan, Mark, Annie
They cleaned the AD studios...this is the result. facilities must hate us hahaha

Pecha Kucha

This was an art instalation that happened to be there. you had to walk by it to get to the event. its a whole bunch of large shards of glass suspended. its really cool and really trippy.
This was one of the presentations. this guy develped a cool music mixing device called Mixitui. i suggest you go look it up. its amazing.
This is a blurry photo of all the people there. mostly cool young danes as you can see. half the people were in chairs, and probably more than half lay or sat of large bean bags and pillows. i was a part of that group. good times.

About a week ago i went to Pecha Kucha night here in CPH. For those that dont know, its an event started by architects where people can get up and present anything. Usually they present recent projects, or research, or art projects, or whatever captures their imagination. Its kinda expanded tho, at least here in CPH, to other fields. web designers, spoken word, instalation artists, etc presented. The format is that you get 20 slides, and 20 seconds per slide. oh, and the entire thing was in Danish. Even if i didnt understand most of whats being said (i did try, and could pick out the occasional sentence) it was a lot of fun. This time it was located in a contemporary art museum downtown thats inside of an old church. What could be better than God and Design in the same place?

Co2 Cube

This is another one of the pavilions set up in copenhagen. Its a cube with the volume of 1 ton of co2 at room temperature. but it just looks cool. They projects images and videos on to the side. its also floating, located at the bottom end of the lakes, next to the observatory. OH! and im assuming there is sound to go with some of the clips, but i went to check it out sometime around midnight, so im assuming they turned the sound off. no sound pollution in this town baby.

*UPDATE* If you want to see more great images of the cube, check out my friend Mark's post. he saw it a night or two before me and took some amazing pictures. serious props!
http://whereismark.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/co2-cube/

Studio_2

Here are a few pictures from studio working on the final project. im not good about taking pictures of the whole process, or the whole class, so i have only two to show ya.

The Summit

Hey you.
This weekend ive been working on my final project for studio. Its not as a big as the last, and is worth less, but i had a fun time with this one. its just a small pavilion for the square round the corner from school. but rather talk about it, ill just post my board so you can see for your self. i already have it printed and pinned to the wall in studio. the physical model is pretty rad too. ill take pictures of it sometime.

Polar Bears and Brad Pitt....this is COP15

As you've probably heard, COP 15 is this week here in Copenhagen. actually, its the next two weeks. There are a bunch of cool things around the city now, most of which i have yet to see, but here are a few in the square close to school:

First, this is a melting ice sculpture of a polar bear...complete with creepy bronze skeleton inside.



This is my friend Yvonne next to the skeleton bear. the thing is huge..well life size i guess. also notice the lil film crew in the background.
This is also there..but i dont know why. it didnt look like there was really anything inside, but ill keep checking. His name is written even larger on the otherside of the trailer. oh, and website bradpitt.dk is written on it aswell. i had no idea such a site existed...im afraid to visit it..you do it.

Street Art

I think this place sold drugs... but the mural is great!
Pilzn (city where the first pilsner beer was made, about an hour from this spot)

Overlooking the city from on of the highest points. There used to be a giant statue of Stalin above this but it was destroyed with a few well placed explosives. Now the park at the top has been commandeered by skaters.

Images From Pargue

Ive got lots of cool pictures to show. In later posts ill be showing Christmas stuff, and awesome street art. but here are some other cool pics:

View from a bridge at sunset, looking toward the charles bridge.


The central station in Pargue. The dark, low ceilinged soviet era passages ways, ticket areas and stores below were much more busy than the platforms.
Mark, Annie, and Ryan on the metro. (this is not anywhere near the same type of train as pictured above, just to clarify)

The Czech countryside. View from the bus to Pilzn.

This is cool, but its not intentional

Another story from Pargue.
there is a playground by the charles bridge.its right on the river. And you know me. I have a weakness for swing sets and other manners of play equipment. So we went and played. Somewhere ein the process of playing on an unfamiliar contraption my camera slipped from my hand and hit the ground. *thud* and then it acted a little funky. The lens periscopes out and it one part got miss aligned so it wouldn’t close. I realigned it *read small amount of force* and now the camera works just fine again! so thank God for that. The only thing is that some of my photos taken after have a small black shadow curving in one corner. Just look at my new nifty profile picture to the side. But I think that the lens just needs to be cleaned.

Anyhow, in the process of fixing it I took this test picture. And I know this isn’t the way its supposed to look, but it does look pretty good. And you can kinda see the odd contraption that is the source of this whole debacle. They should really make playgrounds less interesting.

Digital Design Videos

Since ive been back ive spent a lot of time working on two videos that i needed to complete for my digital design course. I really dont want to post school work, esspecially since its not my best, but ive spent about 4 hours or so on each over the last two day. I want to share the experience with you.
The first video is of Gronjords kolligiet (which is where i live). The purpose was just to demonstrate movement and animation of things which aren't really moving. i think i did 90% of this today. I left studio early to take pictures while the sun was still out. The second video is more of an animated story board for chapter 9 of the Neuromancer. I had already made the images for another assignment, so i just had to go back and edit them some, then animate them. Both videos are created in adobe premiere, a program that i dont really know. most of what you see here is what i got out of an hour and a half tutorial on the program. I think they could be better. A few parts move too slow, and they could respond better to the music. In the second video (which i actually made first) i added the music later, which was a mistake. But since they are due tomorrow and im just learning the program, i think they are pretty good. Hope you enjoy!