Tuesday 18 September 2007

High: Expec-Tech-tions

After the terrible discovery that there was an unexpected extra day of the weekend I started to crawl up the walls of Duckburg. Quite literally, just ask anyone in the collective. Tuesday was a bliss, finally something to do! Te lecture was good and the first assignment was fun. I’m relay positive about my group that will work trough this uncharted wasteland of opportunity and dreams during the weeks to come.
The Lecturer we had today, Björn Renner, cold best be described in the original meaning of the Swedish word "flunmmig". This will require some background, especially for the international readers. Flummig is a word that now-a-days basically is a combination of weird and wasted but in the 70's it meant something quite different; shocking and trying to shake your believes foundation but in a safe and secure way. There is to my knowledge no word in ether Swedish or English with that meaning so I, from time to time, actually say "Flummig, in the words original meaning." in conversation where I see it fit.

Tomorrow my dear Sony Vaio will go on a holiday to France, because PC's suck and Mac's rule. It will return in 5-10 workdays. See you all then.

Sunday 16 September 2007

T shirt mock-up



This image might benefit from some explanation, even if I feel that art should speak for itself. Firstly there is a pun that’s quite hard to get unless you know that Adobe is pronounced with a silent e in Sweden. Secondly it’s a comment on piracy, the ridicules cost to purchase CS3 and the state of the digital nation, the obvious use of a Photoshop filter is meant to emphasize this. As allways, click the image to view it in full size.

Thursday 13 September 2007

Hear me now and beleve me later!

Sitting in the dining hall in Duckburg, diners just over and everyone has turned focus to their laptops once again. The coffee is still fresh. Kasper has just run out of strange music.
I’m tired.
Dead tired, to be honest.

We had our presentations earlier today, and to be quite frank our class really needs to work on the presentation skills. A few groups made sort of nice motions but the constant talking, agency after agency dissected, how many employees, what their specialty was going on forever and ever and ever. Can't say that my group was any different, if anything we had more computer trouble then the rest and kept to formula for the rest of the presentation.

I bought a portable hard drive today, rely useful since I'll have to send my partly broken lappy for reparations in the next few days. Just hope that Sony sends me a backup computer.

These blogs of ours (or in Isak's case weblog) just keep growing in numbers, what are we really meant to use them for? Most of them just contain a "hello world" kind of message and maybe the 15 sec motion we did for this Monday. My two former blogs where complete failures in the end. no one really read them, hand i didn't care to update them often.

Here are the links to the old and dead blogs: Oraklet talar and Ickebloggen. Ickebloggen was written under the clever pseudonym Johan.

Wednesday 12 September 2007

Another day, another deadline

Today we had another deadline, the written stuff for information Society. People had a lot of different ideas about how to interpret the email with instructions. I must say it was quite unclear (like the majority of the information we get from Hyper) what we were expected to hand in. However we had time for last minute text layout and some other nice stuff.

Yesterday was the 11:th of September and like every year since the twin towers I recalled what I did that year, how Tom Clancy was the first one to actually comment on the events. I don't recall the interview word by word, but basically he said that he himself could organize a terrorist attack of that scale in with only a few days planning.

For comments on America’s political behavior post-9/11 I will refer to the excellent series Studio 60 on the Sunset strip.

Roy Andersson was in the latest issue of Nöjesguiden, he had loads of sharp things to say about the terrible state of the Swedish film industry, my favorite part was about the movie script and its place in Swedish drama " It's so dam idiotic, because a screenplay guarantees next to nothing. There has been an overwhelming trust in the screenplay. The whole damn Swedish film industry has attended those screenplay classes and that’s why all these fucking movies look just the same. They all read the book "How to write a selling screenplay". Even Dramatiska Institutet who is meant to be the most important film school in Sweden bought it."

On a happy note I got CSN, and won’t have to work extra at Sifo during the evenings.
TTFN

Tuesday 11 September 2007

E-motion

Hello bloggreaders!
This is the first entry in my new blog, Jocke goes Hyper. Itt will escribe my experience of being a yper Island studen, my thoughts about the assignments we are given, problems, solutions and so on. I will try to keep this blog proffesional, but since my life in Karlskrona only circles around Hyper Island the border is quite thin and sometimes hard so see.

A few days ago I finished my first personal asignment, a 15 sec long animation. My intentions wasa to make it feel like the animations in Montey Pythons Flying Circus, Terry Gilliam eaven makes a cammeo. I worked mainly with photoshop during the assignment, building and creating art took way longer then the actual animation, i also keept to basic transforms, pre comps and masking and didn't start to mess around with different animation f/x or filters. Partly because i didn't want to run out of time with a compleatre mess to how and party because i culnd't make them feel werry Gilliamish. If I have sucessfully learnt to use YouTube the film will be watchble below.