teeth

i don't really know what this blog post is about, except it revolves around a photo i snapped of an ad for an art show in an old magazine.


i've tried to look up what the art show was about, but it doesn't seem as interesting to me as the ad. i just like teeth and bones and all sorts that has to do with the body. i like how this weird sculpture combines manky human remains with silvery jewellryness - like a type of unwearable occult piece of jewellry. i wish i had loads of teeth to make scary jewellery of! (oh wait, I DO, i just have to get them out somehow.. )

ich bin ein berliner!!

ach helga!! ho ho. berlin is great!! i'm enjoying some of the cheap, tasty beer as i write this blog entry.

the best thing i've seen so far in berlin, has been a house in no man's land. no man's land was a part of the city that was not occupied by either east or west. soo nobody really owned it or had any control over it.

aahh a freak's heaven! so. a freak with creative, alternative thoughts in his head built a house on a part of no man's land while the city was still divided. when the wall came down, nobody could do anything about it.

i've seen this house, and it was amazing. it was something like what my younger brother and i would build when we were younger and into the tree house business. total anarchy! and the best part was that it was totally surrounded by streets and proper houses. it was not hidden away in the back yard of anything, it was in the middle of a street.

i didn't get any pictures of the house when i was there, and i couldn't find much about it on the net, so here is the *only* picture of the place that i could find:


i can't believe this is the only picture i could find? if everyone was like me, this place was a major tourist attraction. i'm glad not everyone is like me, though, as then, maybe it would not be a major tourist attraction at all - maybe this would be what a normal house would look like..

i'll go back to the anarchy-house and get some pictures for you all at some point.
for now: i'm glad to be at HOME in berlin, - in a home with an internet connection - so i can keep up my blog - it's becoming an addictive habbit :s

berlin installation 65 % completed

i'll be away from blog-land for a while, as i'm moving to berlin. my boyfriend and all my creative playthings are already there, waiting for me to finish everything i have to do here in norway before i can fuck off to the land of cheap beer and uhh.. other german stuff, to join them. needless to say, i'm very busy doing the things i have to do, as i'm itching to have fun with my boyfriend, my creative playthings and the cheap beer.

i'll be back in blog-land as soon as i'm successfully installed(geek-speak!!) in berlin. till then, look at these amaaaazing photos by eugenio recuenco!!



treeeee houseee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love tree houses. when i was little, me and my brother spent most of the summers far up in the trees, building mad constructions. i constantly walked around with my pockets full of nails and my head full of grand building plans. i wish i never grew up.. oh wait, - i didn't!!!









i don't really get fashion photography. not that i don't get these photos; they're beautiful, i just don't see why they're "fashion photography". it's not that i'm not interested in clothes either. i love weird clothes - but i don't see how the clothes is the most important thing in these photos? or maybe i've got it all wrong, and fashion photography isn't about clothes at all?? then why call it fashion photography?? i think i'm allergic to the phrase "fashion photography". it's such a shame, as i often love the actual photos. oops, couldn't resist ranting. i can't wait to be back to rant some more!!

marilyn manson's watercolours

the idea of marilyn manson doing watercolours is a bit contradictive to me. maybe because of the associations i get when i think about watercolours. i imagine a watercolour artist to be a jolly pensioner with a lot of time on her or his hands, who likes to do landscape paintings of sea shores and the like.

i'm happy to see this cliché being put to shame - it's also well cool to see what a skilled artist marilyn manson really is. you can hate or love his style, but the man has skills.






ooh this made me want to get my watercolours out!!!

all makt åt tengil!

"all makt åt tengil - vår befriare" translates to "all power to tengil - our liberator".

this is tengil:



he is the evil dictator who wants to enslave and rule all the people in the swedish film "bröderna lejonhjärta" - a film that all scandinavians are more than familiar with after seeing it countless times at school.

if tengil had motivational posters at his desk, i bet they would go something like this "arbeit macht frei"..

here are the main characthers, the two brothers skorpan and jonathan who have to fight against tengil. jeezus don't they look swedish, or what??:


in hindsight i can see why they made us see it so many times. even though it's a film for kids, it covers a lot of grown up themes like illness, death, tyranny, rebellion - and love, loyalty, hope, courage and pacifism. yet i didn't really care so much for that, and i still don't. my favourite part of the film is the same as it was when i was 10. the reason for why i'm writing this blog post is to share this scene:


ahh fantastic. you just witnessed tengil's dragon katla coming into battle. katla is shocking.
it's so great that they didn't care about their limitations in budget or special effect abilities, but went along and gave the dragon a major apperance anyway. and in my opinion, everything that makes this dragon crude, amateurish etc, makes it better, scarier - and more entertaining than polished hollywood effects could ever accomplish.

some stuff i knitted last night

yes, i knitted these simple little numbers while watching x-files.



ok, it's maybe not entirely true, but i wish it was. i get really stressed out by watching television/dvd's without knitting/drawing/doing some sort of extra project on the side. last night i knitted an ipod cozy for my boyfriend. it was nearly as amazing as these dresses though, i swear..

taxidermy art by polly morgan

polly morgan's work is the super-coolest. she works with taxidermy, but not in the traditional way where the taxidermist tries to re-create nature/reality. polly morgan creates a fantasy, brought to life with the bodies of real animals. and i find it completely beautiful, serene and melancholic.

"Morgan won't call herself a taxidermist. 'I'm nowhere near as competent as the taxidermists I've learnt from,' she says insistently. Plus her ambitions are quite different. 'What [taxidermists] are trying to do is to recreate a wildlife image in 3D, a classic pose, something you'd see in the countryside. I am more interested in the moment between something dying and decaying - anything between a few hours and a week. There's something beautiful about that. The wings aren't used for flying, the eyes aren't used for seeing, the beak isn't used for pecking… it just becomes an ornament. When it's taken out of context, people can see that it's beautiful. They can appreciate it for what it is.'" link

i love animals. and death fascinates me. as i've said before, i'm not fascinated by violent death, by gore, i'm fascinated by peaceful death - the mysery that is important to understanding life. i've always wanted a taxidermy animal (i've got one now, from etsy of all things, but more on that later), i can see how it might be deemed a tasteless wish by some. i'm not a hunter, i don't want to show off my "prey" as a proof of my hunting skills- but doing so is maybe more acceptable than wanting a taxidermy animal because of a fascination of death.

i think taxidermy can be dignified as much as it can be tasteless, and in polly morgans case i find that it's totally dignified. she doesn't kill any animals for her work, it is all road kill and such. she doesn't portray them in a humiliating way. her work is all about the beauty - and melancholy - of mortality.