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Twitter is sweet

I�ve mentioned it before: I�m a sucker for good communities.

When we first met I thought Twitter was a silly idea. A web service for sharing 140 characters of "what-are-you-doing-now". Would be good for what? If I had money to place in web 2.0 stocks I would never dare to guess that "microblogging" was worth considering as part of the near netsocial future. At the second try I found it real charming. It�s small, it doesn�t attend to conquer the world (even though it might?), it�s quick, practical and keeps a connection among friends who are too old or too busy to chat on IMs...

The Twitter site design is pretty lousy in itself so go get a good looking (and well working) client as Twitterific or something PC-compatible.

Then feel free to add me.

Oh. And while you�re at it, watch twittervision.com...

Short norwegian digression

For dei som les norsk: skrivebloggen min er oppe att.

If you couldn't read that, please ignore it. Thanks.

Big in Thailand (pirate market)

Sarah dropped me this note: "I was just in Thailand, I saw that shirt in most of the places they sell touristy things - from Bangkok to Chiang Mai to some of the islands in the south."

Hehe. It�s sort of funny. I know the Threadless gang has had a lot of problems with these t-shirt pirates and I�ve got the impression that they don�t find it amusing at all. My Threadless shirt has been around on ebay for a while, now it�s coming to a cheap street-seller near you. I understand that Threadless find it annoying that they can�t charge you $15++ for it. Anyway the Threadless shirts are the best quality in the world so if you got any good taste at all you will buy it from them...

BTW: I handed in this new illustration yesterday. Comment on my Flickr page. Thanks.

2 new illustrations, ipod and Jericho

I did two new illustrations at the end of this week: Brian Jones and three kings. My flickr page also features my sons new card game project. He�s a great and inspiring artist.

I went and bought a 30 GB video-ipod this autumn. I used to think that I didn�t need one of those since I have almost no spare time at all but the truth is I use it ALOT. Ofcourse it�s nice to have music wherever you go but the videofunction is really underrated! I read somewhere that surveys shows that nobody really uses the videofunction. I do! If you�re a TV-series-addict like me you can watch the last (bunch of) episodes whenever and wherever you have the time. I also love the podcasts, following radioshows and news/fanstuff when I�m working or washing the house.

Finally, tip of the day: If you�re looking for a new tv-series to get hooked on you should try out Jericho from CBS. It�s good.

Intel Mac (Macbook pro) crash problem

My new macbook (6 months young) had a total breakdown last week. It kept crashing over and over again, I couldn't even reinstall the OS. The machine returned from service today, they removed a corrupted ram-chip and didn't find anything else. My company has had this problem with 4-5 first-generation intel-macs so far this year. I'm reinstalling all software and trying to recap mails and project files... (One more crash now and I will consider returning to PCs.)

New illustration and Flickr love/rant

I handed in a new illustration yesterday. Check it out at my Flickr page. I could try to explain the idea or story behind it but... I think I�ll skip that.
Flickr is my new portfolio now. I can�t keep the old one updated. And I can really get used to the great community for artists/illustrators over there at Flickr. Too bad then that the Flickr admin people has banned me for posting most doodles and drawings and not enough photos. Well I�m not fully banned (I pay for that shit!) but my images wont get listed by tags or in any listings. I guess they prefer their users posting endless partyreports, flowers and pictures of kids eating and/or playing with water. Too bad really. Flickr doesn�t know what they�ve got. Or they doesn�t fully appreciate their user culture/subculture. If I had to guess, I�d say it has something to do with the Google Map/Earth coop. I understand that my doodles may be irrelevant on a world map. They could easily work themself around that with a special "illustration" tag or something. Now they ban illustrators from all tag features.

Anyway. We still love it.

Calendar 07 illustrations

I finished a bunch of illustrations today, it�s for a 2007 calendar from the waste managment business (not in the Sopranos meaning of that term). It�s a story of a year with a young man moving home to his lazy slacker dad trying to get the old man act more conscious about recycling and sorting the trash. See the illustrations at my Flickr-portfolio.

So whats up?
We are working on a wiral/community project for the Insomnia Festival these days. Looking forward to share it with you. Coming soon. What else? I�m working on the graphic design of Troms� International Film Festival creating illustrations, flyers, ads, posters etc for this years festival. The overall profile (Logo, typo etc) is done by Bleed a few years back. And? Also working with material for the Troms� cinemateque Verdensteatret. Ads, flyers and monthly posters.

Three new illustrations and TV update

Some new illustration work handed in today:
- Venus
- A winner
- Digestive system

Apart from that: spending too much time trying to keep track of all the stuff I�ve missed of good television the last few years. I realize that I�ve spent far too little time in front of the TV. (That said - I prefer watching the series on DVD anyway.) Have caught up on Sopranos, Prison Break, Lost, Arrested Development, Deadwood. Currently looking into The Wire, Rome and Carnivale. What else did I miss?

Icemat for productivity

If you�re still stuck with a sloppy old mousemat, here�s a tip to increase your flow when pushing and pulling the old mouse all day: check out the Icemat 2nd.edition from icemat.com. I bought a 250 * 300 mm brushed glass mousepad and some hard "flat feet" for the (infrared) mouse. It�s an enormous improvement of comfort and workspeed. Hereby recommended.

MUD is back

Word-of-advice-to-young-people: if you want to waste some hours of your life on a semi-litterary text based online adventure game you should read on.

At the end of this summer I�ve spent some night hours (totally around 12 hours I think) on an free online adventure MUD (Multiple User Dungeon) called Discworld Mud. It�s a classic Mud based on Terry Pratchets books from The Discworld, I played there at some time in the 90s long before the huge online RPGs like World Of Warcraft, Anarchy Online etc came along. I was happy to see that it�s still alive and I even found that it�s still great fun to play around with. To start off, here�s a few helpful links:

The game�s homepage
Map of Ankh (huge city, good place for starters)
Thieves Guild info (I�m a Cutpurse Thief named Klomse)

Obi shirt back in stock

My first submission to Threadless, the Obi Wan Kerrist shirt, is back in stock! You can actually order the shirt right here and right now. Click this link and order your new fav textile threads. The nice people at Threadless will ship it neat and quick to wherever you are on the planet.

If you want a blue shirt you can look for pirate versions over at Ebay. I don�t think those asian pirates have the same high quality on their textiles as Threadless has, but who knows?

New illustration and new Flickr-page

Here�s a new illustration I just did.

Here�s a new Flickrpage I have started to show off sketches and more experimental stuff.

Things to do when spring

It�s spring and the brain starts taking input again like it used to when working permanently. Here�s some advice:

1) Read (over) the story HATE by Peter Bagge
2) Listen to The Pixies
3) Kill zombies
4) Watch a movie with cowboys in it
5) Read a good documentary about the moon

Music video: Teenage summertime suicide

About ten years ago I did some music videos shot on 8mm. One of them, done for the band Lost at last, is now out on YouTube, that means you can watch it at this link: 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FAZLQtDYM0. It was fun to do, hope it�s half as fun to watch. (Notice the groundbreaking animation...!)