Now THAT is Radio
A post for our danish readers. I just have to share a revelation I had a few days ago:
I was reading a book as I started to think about danish national broadcasting radio and the quality of danish radio in general. I came to the conclusion: Danish radio only have one channel that is worth listening to, P6 Beat.
I was still missing more talking and discussions about the music. What’s the underlying theme of a certain track from The Smiths? I’ve always been fascinated with the lyrics Matt Berninger writes, what does he mean? How did Bowie come up with that sound? And so on. Just as I was thinking that, the show “Album” with Kristian Leth and Ralf Christensen started. They play complete classic albums, talk about it in between the tracks, and it’s exactly what I was looking for! How weird is that? I love music nerds…
I strongly suggest that you tune in to P6 beat every Saturday between 13-15 – it’s so chill and inspirational. These shows already aired, you can listen to them online, but unfortunately not as podcast(!):
13-08-2011 Verdens bedste plader
02-07-2011 Steve Reich – Music For 18 Musicians
25-06-2011 The Cure – Disintegration
18-06-2011 Prince – Sign o’ The Times
11-06-2011 Bruce Springsteen – Darkness On The Edge Of Town
04-06-2011 Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit
28-05-2011 Joni Mitchell – Blue
21-05-2011 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
14-05-2011 Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
07-05-2011 Talking Heads – Remain In Light
30-04-2011 Paul Simon – Graceland
23-04-2011 Pixies – Surfer Rosa
16-04-2011 The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
12-04-2011 David Bowie – Heroes
Nicklas
Understanding the essence of influence
INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment.
The whole documentary can be seen at influencersfilm.com
Nicklas
Mediagraphic Designer at your service
Today I graduated as a Mediagraphic Designer after my almost four year long apprenticeship at Ritzaus Bureau, and I’m feeling a bourgeois urge to give a free dance. (I learned that word watching Fraiser!)
Check out my portfolio, and feel free to pass it on to anyone you might know, who’s in need of a young creative guy with gumption and cravings for new challenges!
Nicklas
I love Fraiser and Niles:
Niles: Well, there’s room at Roz’s table.
Frasier: No! I find her cousin Jen just a bit judgmental for my taste. Yesterday she told me my show was bourgeois. I pointed out that anything that had mass appeal could be said to be bourgeois. She then said that my argument was bourgeois. Which I found to be jejune.
Niles: People in their twenties are always like that. The world is so daunting at that age. They comfort themselves with the idea that everything’s just trash. We were like that in medical school. Acting as if we were above it all, smarter than everybody. It passes.
Knowledge makes the decisions better
Exactly.
Designers are always working for the future
How to become a good Graphic Designer
I just finished a small course in typography and calligraphy lead by a mentor of mine, Steen Andersen, who is teaching at Copenhagen Technical Academy. In a few weeks I’m graduating as a Mediagraphic Designer, and it made me wonder: What is the most important things I have learned these past four years? Have I become more sure of my choices as a designer? More critical?
One of the most important thing I have learned, is that every designer should be able to argue for the choices he makes. Only by experience, hard work and education I will be able to do so. This will be my mantra. Well, it might just sound a bit trite, but I have learned, that graphic design solutions often are based on an intuitive feeling or a premonition. At least it should always be followed by a well argued reason. I say; don’t excuse your lack of knowledge by calling it ‘art’, call it well argued design – with a personal touch.
Funny thing is that, just as I asked myself these questions, I stumbled upon a couple of interesting interviews with skilled designer from all over the world, discussing questions every designer should consider answering themselves.
The next couple of weeks I will post the interviews I found most inspiring.
Nicklas
A ‘pressing’ problem at Roskilde
Like last summer and the year before, I’m planning on attending Roskilde Festival. Urinal problems are a big issue at the festival, therefore a group of architects and representatives from various major cultural events discussed the problem at a seminar last night in Copenhagen. One of the suggestions on how to solve the hassle was by the dynamic Dutch duo, Aandeboom. The duo consists of the two designers Sam van Veluwe and Rogier Martens. Their clever bid for a urine solution was their so-called P-Tree, which basically is a plastic urinal which is clamped to a tree. The pee is then lead to a tank under the ground.
I think that might actually work, and it would be great to enjoy the music and parties without all that stench. Enough pee on a friday.
More pee-talk? Read about the seminar at pol.dk
Nicklas
…crushing decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds.
I never really thought about what will happen during my dying seconds. I guess it’s not really an uplifting thing to think about. Nevertheless, I fell over this beautiful animation created over the poem “The Art Of Drowning” by Billy Collins, and it made me wonder how ones life eventually will come to and end, and what I will be looking back at. My thoughts on that, I will spare you from, but I hope you will enjoy this as much as I did.
Nicklas
(via fubiz)
I wonder how it all got started, this business
about seeing your life flash before your eyes
while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,
could startle time into such compression, crushing
decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds.After falling off a steamship or being swept away
in a rush of floodwaters, wouldn’t you hope
for a more leisurely review, an invisible hand
turning the pages of an album of photographs-
you up on a pony or blowing out candles in a conic hat.How about a short animated film, a slide presentation?
Your life expressed in an essay, or in one model photograph?
Wouldn’t any form be better than this sudden flash?
Your whole existence going off in your face
in an eyebrow-singeing explosion of biography-
nothing like the three large volumes you envisioned.Survivors would have us believe in a brilliance
here, some bolt of truth forking across the water,
an ultimate Light before all the lights go out,
dawning on you with all its megalithic tonnage.
But if something does flash before your eyes
as you go under, it will probably be a fish,a quick blur of curved silver darting away,
having nothing to do with your life or your death.
The tide will take you, or the lake will accept it all
as you sink toward the weedy disarray of the bottom,
leaving behind what you have already forgotten,
the surface, now overrun with the high travel of clouds.
- Billy Collins
Thief with taste: Art worth 100 million euros gone in 15 minutes
Le pigeon aux petits pois. Pablo Picasso. 1912
Early Thursday a thief cut a padlock over and then broke in through a window to Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. After 15 minutes he could leave the museum again, with these beautiful artworks, and no one had discovered what was afoot.
I would not mind having one of them on my white walls on Musvågevej. But who would.
Nicklas
Siong Chin Chan
What defines heroism? Superman? Fidel Castro? Afghan resistance fighters? Our soldiers in Afghanistan? Captain America? Heinrich Himmler? Where does one cross over from heroism to terrorism? Where is the line separating freedom from oppression? Protagonist or antagonist? What lengths do we go to gain that bit of ego inflation?
Read the full story at this amazing blog: http://www.siongchin.com/.
Nicklas
I judge a book by its cover
I must admit, that I am the kind of person who generally gets manipulated by beautiful packaging. When it comes to wine, books and food, I normally choose the more tasteful or even beautiful package (Well, of course I also chose recommended books and music, and also if I know the author is remarkable). If I read a book, I get irritated if the cover is inappropriate, I can’t explain why. The worst thing about the hilarious and great book “Populærmusik fra Vittula” by Mikael Niemi, which I just finished, is the hideous cover.
The cover above must be my favorite; I love the vintage photo combined with the handwritten tittle in the black cloud, and also the contrast between the book-spine and the front. It fits perfect! More about Natalie Smith, who designed the cover, her thoughts behind and more images at faceoutbooks.com
Nicklas
via
http://covers.fwis.com/
http://www.faceoutbooks.com/
http://nytimesbooks.blogspot.com/
What do you think? I found some of my favorite covers and shared them with you.
The Oscar goes to…
“Audrey Hepburn is sitting beside her mother in the audience, the 24-year-old star of Roman Holiday nervously nibbles a finger as she waits to hear who will take home Best Actress in 1954.”
So, tonight the annual Academy Awards are held. Personally, I haven’t seen as many of the nominated movies as I used to. It looks like Avatar might pull a couple of statuettes; Best Picture, Visual effects etc. For me, I think it’s exciting to see if danish Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller’s Burma VJ can pull one for best documentary, it certainty was interesting. Regarding the show tonight, and the people surrounding it, I think that it’s safe to say, that the people in the film-industry are far from as charismatic and glamorous as they where. LIFE magazine published the images I posted here, which I think is fantastic. Enjoy the show!
Nicklas
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