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| Thu, 10 Jan 2013, 13:53 | |
Jayenkai
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That sounds interesting. What sort of Mag is it?
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| Thu, 10 Jan 2013, 13:53 | |
Afr0
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Was at a meeting today. I’m going to start working as a freelancer for a new magazine that will be released in Bodø, first one coming out the 8th of March. Expect pics and translated text(s) 
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| Thu, 10 Jan 2013, 14:05 | |
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Afr0
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I'm not actually entirely sure yet! That's what we spent the meeting today trying to figure out (as a journalist student, this is BIG for me (how many students can say they've been actively involved in starting a new magazine?!)). It will probably have some culture stuff in it, but not too much, because our competitors are already big on that. Basically, it will cover the local area in terms of news, culture, politics ++ I have an idea for an article about immigrants living in Bodø that will be shipped out of the country, but I can't really say much more because it is only on the idea stage. Edit: FFS Jay, I'm willing to accept that you can't be bothered with support for the Russian characterset, but can't you at the very least provide support for the Norwegian æ, ø and å??! -=-=- Afr0 Games Project Dollhouse on Github - Please fork!
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| Thu, 10 Jan 2013, 14:59 | |
Dabz
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Sounds good!  Dabz
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| Thu, 10 Jan 2013, 15:13 | |
Jayenkai
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Unicode used to work fine until I upgraded from PHP4 to PHP5. I'm too lazy to fix it. One day I'll open up SoCoder source, and prod around with a screwdriver a bit, hoping that it'll magically fix itself when I put it back together again. If the site breaks, I'll stamp my feet, shout and rant a bit, and blame the nearest person for having sneezed or something. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Thu, 10 Jan 2013, 16:15 | |
steve_ancell
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Jayenkai  If the site breaks, I'll stamp my feet, shout and rant a bit, and blame the nearest person for having sneezed or something. Yeah' too right; I would blame it on that too.
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| Thu, 10 Jan 2013, 18:20 | |
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One day I'll open up SoCoder source, and prod around with a screwdriver a bit, hoping that it'll magically fix itself when I put it back together again. Would Wix work for you or is a Wix site restrictive? -=-=- DNA |
| Thu, 10 Jan 2013, 18:45 | |
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steve_ancell
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OOPS!, I forgot to do what I originally came here for... Congrats Afr0. 
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| Fri, 11 Jan 2013, 02:51 | |
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Afr0 |
Thanks
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| Fri, 08 Mar 2013, 02:58 | |
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Afr0
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As promised, here is my article in the new magazine! It's about a local artist! If anyone's actually interested in reading the text, I can translate it (it was somewhat shortened for the magazine, but I got two full pages so I'm very pleased) -=-=- Afr0 Games Project Dollhouse on Github - Please fork!
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| Fri, 08 Mar 2013, 03:03 | |
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Jayenkai
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Woohoo!! .. Yeah, translation might be handy! I'd attempt to type it into Google Translate, but half those letters aren't on my keyboard!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Fri, 08 Mar 2013, 03:41 | |
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Afr0
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The surfing artist Tone Aaness ' believes that art is like a wave, and that she'd lose her footing if she were to just be surfing the wave. It is this fear of losing ground contact which is one of the main reasons for her position as sixty percent Norwegian teacher at Bodø Upper School. - Working as a teacher gives you priming - people tell you who you are, what you are good at and what you're not so good at, and it's really great. I like to surf the wave, but must have a foothold. Tone is kind and bubbly. Alive. Serving coffee and tea even though it has taken twenty minutes to find her studio, even though it is situated roughly in the center of Bodø. - I get very inspired by living. Being able to go on a trip, stay out and play with the kids, playing basketball, getting out in the woods and on the mountain. To live is very important - to experience life, being with others and talking with others about the things you think are important. Knowing that one is awake, that one is present here and now - all these things are experiences that surround us, which I think is incredibly important. She considers herself more as an idealist than a politician. Last year she performed at the International Centre in conjunction with Women's Day. - I've never really been concerned with politics, but it suddenly became important to me, maybe also because we live right by a refugee center. There you can see how much difference there is in the kind of opportunities we have as women, and it makes you become humble because you live here and you can do whatever you want. She lights up; - That's why this year, I'll be casting tits, I think it is a good measure in the superficial society we live in now, people will see that they are good enough as they are. Tone's studio is chaotic, filled with sculptures of various sizes, paintings, drawings, and various equipment. She smiles and apologizes - she has just started working again, and the people she shares the room with fortunately do not mind that she takes up a lot of space. Between coffee drinking and talking she made time for a tour. She shows how she incorporates the logo and the name of the current exhibition in the images she paints; - See down here? It says Freedom and Change. She points at a large painting on the floor, and continues into a room next door, where she has a closet with custom stamps with logos for each exhibition; - This is When The Story Changes, and this is for Freedom and Change. Back on the sofa more coffee is consumed. - What I think is good about having students is to get a little insight into how time and everyday looks for the young. It amazes me constantly that I can put on a really heavy movie about Darwin in the classroom, and so ... Suddenly she breaks out in laughter, surprised at her own anecdote; - ... so they are happy for it! This is the great, they say. I put on a twenty year old film, Rose's name, to give an insight into the distinction between medieval and Renaissance. I asked if we really wanted to watch this to the end, and they insisted on seeing the end! It makes me think that perhaps it is good with some counterweight to ease - that indeed sometimes going into the curriculum and spending some time on it is a good thing. By the way - Tone is not unknown for the written word, and has written since she was twenty years old. Again, she breaks out in laughter; - For twenty years I've been rejected! And I submitted a manuscript as late as last year! I've written short stories, poetry and novels for years, but I do not take it as seriously as paint. It's something I probably should work at more, but I am often tired if I am working with both. Life as an artist and teacher has given her many experiences, but first and foremost Tone is keen to keep the joy of the little things in life. - I think we often forget them. For instance, it is easy for me to look forward to an exhibition I'll have - it will be absolutely fantastic, but in principle it is perhaps only one or two weeks a year. And if I should live only for that joy, it wouldn't be very meaningful for those around me. -=-=- Afr0 Games Project Dollhouse on Github - Please fork!
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| Fri, 08 Mar 2013, 03:53 | |
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Jayenkai
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Kewlykewly!
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| Fri, 08 Mar 2013, 05:17 | |
waroffice
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Awesome, good work indeed. /off to google Bodø
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| Fri, 08 Mar 2013, 09:17 | |
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Afr0 |
Thanks
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| Mon, 27 May 2013, 05:12 | |
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Afr0
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New article, yay! I don't have the transcript, cos I forgot my computer at home, but at least you'll get to see what it looks like till I can post the translation... -=-=- Afr0 Games Project Dollhouse on Github - Please fork!
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| Mon, 27 May 2013, 05:26 | |
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Jayenkai
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Wootsocks!
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| Fri, 31 May 2013, 13:19 | |
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Afr0
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Unedited, translated transcript (the transcript was slightly edited in the magazine, supposedly because there was too much dialogue): Creativity at the core Tor Halvorsen calls himself The Creator, Transformer and Pastor. All, of course, plays on his name, revealing that this is a man who has devoted his life to creativity. The first thing that strikes you when entering Tor Halvorsen's studio in central Bodø is the size. Where the first artist in this series, Tone Aaness, had a small and a large room at her disposal, Halvorsen has at least three, four, in which the largest is gigantic. Tor Halvorsen is an artist with many talents. As he himself says - his studio in Bodø includes a hair salon, and functions as a showcase for his unfoldment in interior architecture and art painting. In addition, he is a coach and event organizer. - My mission in life is to inspire and provoke people with my speech, when I create interiors or art, and when I'm hairdresser or stylist. Every time I get someone to be more happy in themselves, I am more in love with me. It's all about what you send out and what you get back. If you have a fantastic day, every other wonderful and if your day is python as you speak ill of people. Presentation Halvorsen has a presentation which he presents for businesses, where he works as a motivator and inspiration for those present. - What I'm talking about the speech - besides being the Creator, the eighth wonder of the world, Pastor Halvorsen, God's gift to mankind and an alien from the planet love - is that people are the eighth wonder of the world. We have the seven amazing wonders, the eighth is me and you. Most people do not know how wonderful they are, they compare themselves to everyone else. Instead, they should go back to their core. You are always half of every event, positive or negative. Never put yourself under anyone, always put yourself above or at least at the same place! In Jante's great Christmas carol, Norway, one should not be too much and not too little. Everyone attempts to be just right instead of being who they are. I think the poet Oscar Wilde puts it very nicely: "Why don't you be yourself, because everyone else is taken!" This day he arrives straight from Namsos in his car, where he has held his presentation for the local trade industry, on his way to Svolvær. He's about to open a new studio there, in addition to the ones he has in Bodø and Røst. Interiors In an old fish factory on Røst, he has a studio, as well as a gallery and event venue. Everything is of course decorated by himself, and therefore it serves as a kind of artwork in several dimensions. About seven years ago Halvorsen bought a cottage in Marakech, and was, as he says, "very fascinated by the weather, peoples and above all the landscape - this desolate desert landscape." - I was probably the second Norwegian who bought a house in Marakech, or a Riad as it is called. A Riad has less than seven bedrooms and Dar means anything above that. My cabin only has two bedrooms, so it's a very small Riad - but upstairs has a roof terrace. In Marakech they live much freer than us, because in Norway, I feel that everything really is allowed, but everyone cares very much about what their neighbor thinks. Therefore I do not feel that we are free in Norway, but down there where nothing is allowed, everything happens very openly. It's exciting to be down there, because I feel that's where I can be the other Tor. That's where can I take in the energies not found here, so I will be more perfect in me. Nevertheless, I am a very open person and love to be on stage and love to provoke and inspire. Creative Soul Halvorsen was trained as a hairdresser, and thinks it might be because he was forced to be creative at an early age. - When I was a kid - it was not that we were poor - we had very few toys, so therefore all four siblings always sat together, drawing. In sixth grade everyone had to paint a picture, and most painted a house or some flowers or some trees. But do not Tor! He wanted to have a big picture of a nude woman standing and holding a jug over her head. I hadn't learned to paint genitals yet, so all you see on the picture is a huge black triangle, he chuckles. Yet he ended up with an A in art class. - In a way, you only have yourself to relate to, and I've always been very creative. When I was eleven years old, I started to redecorate in my room, and when I was playing in the sandbox I never played with cars. I built the most wonderful bungalows and villas, and my parents are just ordinary people. My mother was a housewife and dad was an auto mechanic, so they do not have creativity. Where I got the idea at that age to create the wonderful bungalows and the big houses in the sandbox, I have no idea. I made amazing parks - this must be something I have carried with me from past lives. I know I have lived past lives and also know some of the lives I have lived. Already when he finished high school he knew he wanted to be an architect or interior designer, but this proved to be difficult. - I had go to the Art and Craft School, which at the time was the only option in Norway. The problem was that they didn't want to include anyone under twenty-three years. So I took a year of decoration, advertising and painting, but the following year I was still only sixteen or seventeen. So I thought, "I'll take a year at hairdressing school, then, that's also something creative." It turned out that I was going to become best in class, so I thought "ah, if I become the world's top hairdresser, then ..." And I am on my way! I'm waiting At this point Halvorsen enters a room next to the studio, where he apparently stores all his pictures, and comes back out with a big picture of a tree with pink leaves. All of a sudden, his talking enters a new dimention of speed and exhilaration. - I made this painting after I had been hung over for three days in a row, when I had been with five Moroccans home, drinking homemade Moroccan whiskey. I'll never do that again! The third day I went out on the roof terrace to sunbathe - I was supposed to become brown - and suddenly something clicks in my body. Then I have to go down to paint, and end up standing there for seven hours. The next day I wake up and realize that this is the picture I have painted. It's called "I'm waiting." What's funny is that pink is a healing color, and I needed pink healing after three days with a hangover! The finest - Painting is probably the most important, or the nicest, thing that I do. When I do it, I am in fact deep down in my soul, and I rarely produce photos, paintings or other forms of art those days when the sun shines. It happens when you've been deep inside your soul and feeling shit. The greatest artists of all time have either been miserable from heartbreaks, been totally mad or been dependent on drugs. I believe that the more pain you have in your physical life, the better of a job you do in the universe. If you manage to transform the negative - the sorrow and the pain and longing in yourself - into something artistic, it will be something that someone will recognize and think "wow, that painting went straight to my heart!" Halvorsen believes there are three categories of customers: - There are those who buy to invest, and they do not care about what they buy as long as it is made by a famous artist, or they see that it can become pricey. Then there are those who buy to find something that matches the living room, and finally there are those who just end up finding something that they end up loving. They say, for example, "You know what, I can not afford that picture now, but I totally love it" And then I usually answer something like "yes but let's just take it in four installments." When you find something that goes straight into your heart, you're is supposed to have it. -=-=- Afr0 Games Project Dollhouse on Github - Please fork!
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