home.

I've just seen the most beautiful documentary ever. Watch Home here for free.

anna paddick at 303 poster.

work in progress: band of creatures.

wohoo!

A little song to celebrate that summer started today. Wohoo! Dance yourself clean, people!

great adventure stories.

I love books. Sometimes to read them, but mostly to just own them, hold them, look at them. And design them of course, above all. I also like finding old books with funny titles, weird covers and odd smells that I can use in my work somehow. Today's little findings are not exceptions. These examples will be great material for my design experiments. "Money made us" smells like chocolate by the way.

photoshoot with anna.

Recently I've been helping out my friends with promoting their bands. This is Anna, who is part of Anna Paddick & Band. These are some samples of shots we took about a week ago, which I think turned out really good.

pilot.

food contest.

the falls music & arts festival.

Oh, and another freakin awesome thing is that I'm going to this festival in December with my friends. I'm exhited like you have no idea.

don't change.

One of my absolute favourite songs right now. It gives me CHILLS! Mmmmm...

yo la tengo.

This is a little experiment. Sit down, preferably alone. Think about nothing. Then play this song. Look at everything around you, take your time. Then, when the song stops, write down or draw whatever comes to your mind.

self-assessment and things that helps.

I'm currently doing a bit of self-assessment by going through what I've actually learnt during the last year of supposed "freedom" from academic torture. It's actually very interesting, rather amusing and potentially essential to the progression of my career. My list of advice for graduates (which I blogged about a while back) can possibly be extented with another 40 things, and then be reduced again when I realise it's absolute bull crap. There are simply no easy ways of doing things and I don't know if any advice will ever help. It helps drawing stuff like this in your sketchbook though. It really does. Getting paid helps also. The drawing is obviously for those jobs of the opposite kind.

random answers.

Where were you 3 hours ago?
Right here, watching The Proposal.

Have you ever eaten a crayon?
No, but I once ate a lip balm by accident while using it as teeth protection when I was boxing. I was 5.

Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you?
Yes, my blanket on my bed and my walls are pink. I like to collect pink things in photographs also.

When is the last time you ran?
It feels like I'm running all the time.

Can you touch your nose with your tongue?
No.

Your dream vacation?
I've been almost everywhere. The only place I consider vacation is going to my parents house back home in Sweden.

Worst injury you've ever had?
Concussion in 6th grade.

Are you the kind of friend that you would want to have as a friend?
Probably, yeah. We'd have the same taste in music.

What song always makes you happy when you hear it?
MMMBop by Hanson

What music are you listening to right now?
Band of Sculls - Friends

Does your pet do any good tricks?
My cat back home is really good at pretending to faint in front of my feet, just to get attention.

What's the farthest-away place you've been?
Here.

Think fast, what do you like right now?
Time.

What do you do most when you are bored?
Watch stupid stuff on youtube and drink instant coffee.

What did you want to be when you grew up?
First I wanted to be a seamstress, then a trumpet player, then an animator at Disney, then a photographer, now I hope I can be a graphic designer without growing up.

Do you have a tan?
Hell no. I think I have a backwards tan, sort of transparent almost. Good thing vampires are so in right now...

guided meditation for sleep.

Sorry, mate. Ain't working. It was fun though, you beatiful, shiny being.

australia, this is for you.

This song pretty much sums up my feelings for you.

wolfboy.

Not cheesy Twilight werewolf bullshit. Wolfboy. A boy who is a wolf.

the hippie stole the cookie from the cookie jar.

the boardgame got chewed on by an acid cloud.

the worst thing that can happen...

...will happen. Yep, two days ago I was faced with the horrific fact that my dear, sweet Macie had died. And in his death he took with him everything I had worked on and had forgot to save elsewhere, as well as a massive library of fonts, some handy programs and about 20G's of life-saving music. I was devistated. Crushed. Heartbroken. Angry. My sweet, sweet Macie... it really hurt when you left like that. So I went to the Apple Store and got myself a new hard drive. It's not the same of course. I still cry myself to sleep. But I'll be alright. One day I will be alright. I hope you're free and happy, wherever you are, Macie. Rest in peace.

nostalgia my ass.

Sometimes I get overwelming feelings of nostalgia. Usually connected with maple syrup and associations to pancakes in New York, or when it rains on Collin Street it reminds me of when I went to Paris and it rained the entire time I was there. There is also a massive amount of things that brings my thoughts back to England. Not so strange perhaps, after all I lived there for 3 years. But I guess these types of nostalgia separate themselves from the other kind in the sense that I absolutely don't wish I could go back there. Carlisle was aweful. Uni sucked. Just have a look at these photos from a night out in July last year. Half-naked teenage mums and dodgy, desperate men. And this was one of the best nightclubs in town.

hero of the day.

Dad, you're totally awesome for looking through my entire room and the attic to find a stupid sketchbook. You're the best!

arcade fire.

Unlike Sia, Arcade Fire knows how to evolve with computers and hip crowds. Their latest album "The Suburbs" is big and powerful and they rock without selling out. Each of the album's 16 tracks feel different from each other but still beautifully combined and fresh. There's electronic influences as well as more organic vibes. There are big sceneries, hopes and dreams, simple everyday stuff and a lot of heart. Usually I associate Arcade Fire with chills. Chills in the sense that they create a rather hollow space of sound that makes me shiver, literally. I'd say it's a little like walking home in cold rain in November in Sweden or possibly scooping ice cream in a cold basement. For this reason I was contemplating switching from this album to something else on my ride to work this morning. Today was an exceptionally cold day. But after giving "The Suburbs" a fair chance, it turned out to have a reverse effect; it provided a warm feeling and sense that I had been in those songs before, a sense of home and familiarity. It worked more like a blanket than a scoop of ice cream. This song "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" is my favourite track.