YUTSAK WONDERLAND

Found a house.

2009-11-16T17:48:00.000+01:00

In Iogi!

I O G I!

SHOW ME, SHOW YOU

2009-11-11T15:33:00.000+01:00

I'll show you what Shoyu is.

Not too late again.

2009-11-10T16:50:00.002+01:00

It's not even 1am, but having to go to sleep kind of bothers me.
Getting up at 6:30am, leaving home at 7:19 to catch the train to get to work half an hour early.

good life, I thought.

I would love to take a photo of the rush hour I am experiencing in Japan. It will come someday.

At work we were talking, as all these stylish people were walking by in Shibuya, about what could be the possible futures of the employees of these stylish clothing stores. They are all around my age, you don't really see anyone younger or older.
Why, why why.

The guy who has been running away from the police for over 2 years is finally caught!
hooray.

TWS

2009-11-07T04:11:00.003+01:00

I started my work at Tokyo Wondersite 3 days ago and today is my first day off. I really wasn't sure about whether to work there for a while and stay in Kyoto but afterall I am quite glad I will be working there and meeting many different people from all over the world!

I found this beautiful series of experiments on my friend's facebook profile...woot!
Gross but cute.

In Kyoto

2009-10-06T20:22:00.004+02:00

Got to Kyoto yesterday, after all day at Disneyland on Sunday.
Pff, what a great city. Young and old, old and new, they all live together in this city. The calm cityscape filled with energetic people.

I feel something similar to when I just arrived in Gothenburg for the first time.

I feel the inspiration.

The residence program is so far going so wonderful. I am living in a house with the organizer of the program. A nice room as you can see above. Very classy, very old but nice.

It's scary to walk on streets because of the bikes coming from all four directions. I don't know where on the sidewalk to walk on anymore. I feel lost just walking straight. I hope I will conquer the fear of getting run over by a bike very soon.

I got a pink eye, so I couldn't go anywhere today, but yesterday was an amazing day. I went to hanare, which is a cafe open in a house. Good dinner it was, and I met some of the most inspirational people I've met. Everyone works really hard and really happily. It's very different from seeing people I know in Tokyo that definitely overwork, unhappily, but have to do it otherwise they could get fired anytime.

I am thinking of sticking around for a bit in Kyoto after the residency. Any suggestion for a job?

Begin it.

2009-09-24T15:15:00.002+02:00

Photo by Sasa Antic

I am currently working on my project for the Kyoto Residency, which will start in a bit over a week!

Another inspiration for it...

Photos by Michael Hughes:

1.

2009-09-03T11:48:00.003+02:00

Japan's getting colder.
It's so nice not having to sweat all the time.

One thing I never really thought was strange in Japan:
the plastic food displays.

They are so cool.

I found a store in Asakusa, which sells those.
If you want to buy them from abroad, go here:

http://www.maiduru.co.jp

more expensive than the real ones!
Apparently Tom Cruise has bought the sushi clock.

Tack Göteborg.

2009-08-16T19:52:00.004+02:00

Thanks.

Shugo Tokumaru Concert.
Living in an apartment by myself for the first time.
Fresh bread every morning.
Free zoo in a huge park.
Trams.
A nice visit from Yoko.
A random trip to Copehnhagen.
Hönö.
Saltholmen.
Engånggrill bbq.
American youth.
Mango Daiquiri
Cheap beer.
Thai Food.
Printmaking shop, all nighters again.
Trip to an island, being transported like horses.
Cultural Festival.
Pecha Kucha.
Way Out West.

Julia the barbaric.
Oscar the carebear.
Linus the peanut.

It's so hard saying good bye to the days,
when I felt nothing but greatness.
Good apartment, good school, good friends.
There was nothing to be complained about.

Thank you, city, things, friends.

Thank you.

Thank you.

///
uploading photos when I am not getting carsick.

One by One

2009-07-19T17:32:00.001+02:00

1. Start one thing
2. When it begins to be easier start looking other things, but don't start them.
3. Finish that first thing
4. Move onto the next thing.

This is going to be my goal for now.

Thought 1

2009-07-18T21:42:00.003+02:00

Without a defect there is no fixing.
Fixing brings an object or a person back to the beginning, or to the stage when it/he/she isn't broken.

When you make something better, then it's not fixing, it's just making something better, hence it becomes the future.

If you notice when something has been deteriorating, but you don't know when the process began, what is there to do?

What is there to fix?

You start bringing it to a better phase, then you think again, has it been even better before and before that, and even before that?

Deteriorated surfaces are removed, polished.

Erasing the memory to the object, rewriting the history.

Erasing is much more difficult than adding.

Suicide Club.

2009-07-06T02:05:00.003+02:00

...continued.

By Makoto Aida

Estonia / Finland

2009-07-05T18:35:00.009+02:00

Tallinn:
cheap drinks, beautiful tram tickets, friendly, alternative, hot, non-salty sea water, youth alcoholism, standing on a van for an hour, passionate, cheap tobaccos n cigs, 35mm cameras, teenage alcoholism and smoking, cheap dumplings, chocolates, gummibears, Tiitsmann, Sander, meteorite, crater, garlic bread snacks, long walk on the beach, indoor smoking, a huge dog, sauna, MJ's death, Strawberry Icecream, underground cafe, victorian cafe, ferries, island with spas, smelly buses, mean bus drivers, BBQ, walking over fire.

Helsinki:
Couchsurfing virginity, white buildings, Serbian wedding, free clothes at the recycling shop, huge buffet, Finnish Thai food, Bear Cafe, water, Empire State Buidling, Kiasma, Lauri, park festivities, fucking birds stealing my food, pink shower curtains, expensive water, male and female cathedrals, design district, neon orange seats on subways, dual citizen street names.

Fixing.

2009-06-23T02:44:00.003+02:00

If you make a mistake,
own it.

Don't spread it.

Just suck it up as a lesson,
just for yourself,
and no others.

Post Graduation Laziness.

2009-06-21T22:10:00.004+02:00

Just to get my a** out of the bed and to spend my time online for something more useful, I decided to start blogging again, although it's just going to be an update on what's going on in my life.

My Konstfack life is over now and I'm relieved. After my examination I chopped off all my hair, just to refresh myself but now it's grown back to normal.

The Spring exhibition was a little chaotic, for it was really badly organized. I had no lights at the vernissage and I almost gave up on it, but thanks to Clara Terne, my fellow GDI student, I decided to suck it all up and ran to IKEA to buy some spotlights on my own. A little extra money, but oh well.

Everyday of the exhibition I added little things: statements, namecards, photos, tags...it kind of went with my theme of seeing the seen, where work changes constantly by time, how it is viewed and who views it.

The feedbacks were quite good, a lot better than I expected. Thanks to all people that helped me with the set up: Maki Okamoto, Eva Jauss, Basar Önal and Sacharias-Andreas Melander.

Thesis was a piece of cake, since I basically had to fix some things in the preliminary draft and the writing I did for the course at the beginning of the year.

Woohoo, now I can call myself a master storyteller. I will tell you the best bedtime story.

Life since has been really lazy, I basically stay at home logging in and out of couchsurfing and facebook, watching some youtube clips once in a while and eat nothing for days because I am too lazy to cook.

I bbq'ed a couple of times and they were amazing.

HAPPY MIDSUMMER!

I will go to Estonia / Finland from June23-30.

Hooray.

My current obsession:

FUCK.

2009-05-04T02:23:00.001+02:00

Andrew Bird @ Hornstull Strand

It was amazing.
So wonderful that he made me cry.

Music gets the best of me

2009-05-02T23:16:00.002+02:00

I bought a new ipod because my old one was breaking!

An orange ipod nano, which took me 2 hours to decide.
Orange one was the ugliest for sure.

But at least it's not a boring black one or a silver one!

Got a nice case for it - it's ready for some hardcore actions!

Shake shake shake....wooo so many features!

A L L B U R N E D

2009-05-02T02:35:00.003+02:00

This is about the time,
when I push the reset button on myself.

Wake up.

Burn it all, burn it all down to ashes,
when I cannot tell what they have been before.

Tomorrow I will wake up.

R I V A L

2009-04-30T16:12:00.002+02:00

You are your biggest competitor.

::::

Once you meet your own expectation,
that's when you can say you are the winner in your life.

Know yourself a little better.
Make yourself a little happier.

"Can you make it?"
"Are you hungry?"

Ask yourself a few questions each day.

Find out what your biggest competitor in your life is up to.

Shit.

2009-03-24T01:16:00.000+01:00

Something that I couldn't control,
It just suddenly happened.
Without any expectation from their side,
or my side.

But the action coming from my side.

I don't know what to do.

The morning will always come.

2009-03-23T02:39:00.003+01:00

The darkness stands still.
It's quiet and it's lonely.
My diligence and strength is examined.

But the morning will always come.
It will come in a few hours.

I just have to wait,
and wish for the best for the hours,
that pass by in their brightness.

The sky is blue, the air is clean and I am overloaded with work.

2009-03-21T18:17:00.003+01:00

Moving to another country is like escaping the reality.

That might be why I have been moving so much - to escape the real world and trying to create the world I am good in where I don't have to work or feel uncomfortable.

The sky was blue,
and the sun was shining.

But I didn't see neither of them because I was in my dreamworld.
Dreaming of being with someone that is not with me right now.
Dreaming of being the best designer in the world I am not right now.
Dreaming of having a lot of money that I don't have right now.

I avoid conflicts.
I avoid people seeing my mistakes.
I lie.

I'm tired of lying to myself and others about my ability.
I don't want to show off my possessions more than I need to.
I don't want to be different, because I'm just "one of all" not "the one."

I don't want to be scared to place my feet on the ground.
I need to start walking instead of floating around in the air.

Tomorrow I will wake up with the sun.
Tomorrow I will see how a day in Stockholm starts.
Tomorrow I will see how the school functions.
Tomorrow I will see how a day ends in the town I live.
Tomorrow I will see how the city sleeps.

Tomorrow I will see how to see myself live with the city.

Time: Not To Stop

2009-03-19T20:37:00.002+01:00

You can never stop.
You can never stop dreaming.
You can never stop making and creating things.

It's good to stop and look around.
But looking around doesn't mean you stop your heart and die.
I can't die yet. No no way.

Long Long Time Ago and After

2009-03-17T20:08:00.002+01:00

I'm a little panicked. Honestly.

I don't know what to do with my life.
I thought it's alright, to just fuck around, but I really can't anymore.

I'm trying to remember the day when I decided to be the way I am.
I think I'm slowly changing into myself, that I dreamt to be but now I have forgotten
why I wanted to be that way.
Time and place changed, since the last time I knew myself.
I get lost, I get found, I move, then I lose and find.
It's the continuous process that I will never be able to get out of.

I am trying to remember the day, when I decided that I wanted to be an artist.
I am trying to remember the day, when I decided to come back to Europe to study design.
I am trying to remember the day, when I thought I should go back to Japan.

But I can't seem to remember. It's just the things move around too fast around me.
I'm trying to grab onto things flying around. I jump, then I lose things that I have been collecting in my pocket.

They are not to be caught by my eyes until they start flying in the air again with the other objects.

Leaving things behind, although I have done it so many times, gets more and more difficult as I live longer.

Love myself, love my past, love my future, I tell myself. But it ain't that easy.

I've got all I need to make moves. I just need to know how to use them.
Yup, all I need.

!!!!

2009-02-13T03:36:00.000+01:00

A wikipedia specially for SAILOR MOON!?

WOW.

www.wikimoon.org

The NEED to change

2009-01-24T06:42:00.004+01:00

It might look sturdy outside,
but the fragility of the object lets itself break.
Just with the wind,
that blows in a circle around it.

There is a need to change.
To make the outside layer break.
To let the fragility inside come out.
Make it bare and make it visible.

When all collapses onto the floor,
they are all in pieces,
merged into a big pile of crusts.
Inside and Outside not to be recognized.

But to break the outside,
and to burst out the inside,
it takes a lot of force.

A force that is born from the energy of diligence.

The gown I cannot take off.

2009-01-23T19:42:00.000+01:00

I repeat.

I cry.

I hate.

I really want to get out of it.

Toothache.

2009-01-12T22:52:00.003+01:00

The toothache has come back.

Apparently, according to Mr. Sacharias I grind my teeth quite HARDCORE when I am sleeping. Tomorrow I am going to the dentist at 7:30 in the morning so I will ask them what I should do.

I tried to look up some stuff online and I found out that grinding teeth comes from a lot of stress.

I feel like I am not spending a lot of stressful life though here in Sweden - it's much more laid back than any of the places I have lived....but I am starting to understand where this stress comes from.

I am struggling to be myself. I am struggling to find out who I am. I am struggling to have a life.

I've never had this problem before. I've always been quite a busy person that just does what's been told. Easy it was, but now I have time to do things I want to do....but it takes a tremendous amount of organizational skills to fit everything I want to do and the things I have to do each day. I've been struggling to do that. I know I need to sleep. I want to watch a lot of movies. I want to just lay in bed and do nothing except watching some stupid youtube clips. I want to write a blog. I want to do a lot with art. I want to apply for jobs. I want to fika. I want to travel....

There are only 24 hours a day. It's not much. A regular person sleeps 8 hours a day. The other 16 hours they have a life. They work hard to get a life. I don't.

I do nothing, get angry about it, get stressed and that bothers me from doing work. Then I get tired from the stress. Then I sleep for 16 hours. The other 8 hours I just get stressed.

But this will all change! I started writing down what I have to do each day in my planner!!

Today I will finish the cutout book, then finish the books for the book project from last semester....and start a blog, which I have already done! Some thesis research on top of it....

If I start making a list then I just have to do those....Even if I have to sleep less. If I don't write anything then I just don't do anything. Why didn't I think of this earlier? Oh well, it took this long for me to realize. I needed the past year and a half to really regret and realize. No need to regret anymore. No need to feel ashamed.

I missed an important meeting or critique today. My bad, I didn't work hard enough. I probably lost a lot of respect from my classmates and my professors. But that will also change. I will work hard and gain the respect back. I will work 4 times as much. YES, I WILL.

YES I WILL.

YES I WILL.

YES I WILL.

スウェーデンが好き．．．なの？！

2009-01-09T07:40:00.003+01:00

アイスランドからもどってきたとき、
「帰ってきた」
と思えた。

もうスウェーデンが「帰る場所」に
なってしまったのだろうか。

確かに、買い物の時はもうスウェーデンクローナで換算する。
雪のない冬は寂しく思える。
スウェーデン人より感じのいい人種は全て「やさしい」。

空港から市内へ向かうバス。
でっかい青空と真っ白の雪。
俺の大好きな光景。
でっかい空は
たくさんのものぎゅうぎゅうにつめても
ちっともいっぱいになりません。

その日は空に
飛行機雲３つと
虹と
ヘリコプター見ました。

全部広い青の中で
ぽつんと浮かんでました。

こういうの、
好き。

ICELAND 2

2009-01-06T20:39:00.003+01:00

All the things I had never seen before,
It was like being on Mars.
Starting with the people, food, the system and finally the nature,
They all live together in a harmony.

The water I used to shower and to take a bath,
Came from deep underground,
Heated naturally.

The sky was so close,
You could almost see every rain drop being created in the cloud,
And falling on the ground.

SO
SO
SO
Beautiful.

ICELAND! 1

2008-12-30T08:24:00.005+01:00

Last evening I got to Iceland! It was a nice flight, except the fact that they didn't have any complimentary drinks and whatnot.
The flight just felt so long because I had my book on the overhead covert and couldn't get it out, and I couldn't fall asleep because I had a good night sleep...

I got to the Iceland and immediately I was greeted by signs everywhere basically saying "Buy this buy that buy everything..." in Iceland, when you get off the plane you can also buy tax free things - so I consumed tobacco, a little rum and some snacks and it came down to something like 2000 yen (approx. 150SEK), which would cost me much more in Sweden and elsewhere...Y E S.

----

Took the bus, and was astonished by the view of the nature everywhere. It seemed like there were no houses at all for about half an hour from the airport....people didn't exist. But nature did - this was strange for me, because I've always been surrounded by people. I'm used to assuming that there is nothing without no people. But here in Iceland you don't need anyone around. Just looking at the sky, feeling the wind, and listening to the breeze makes you satisfied. All the energy coming from earth, will be enough to keep me entertained for the next 7 days.

The apartment is located in a very nice neighborhood right by the city centre. Its really close to one of the main churches, so it'll be easy to relocate ourselves when we get lost.....and the best part of this apartment is that it has a HOT TUB!!! Weee
I am so going to get myself in that tub everyday of this trip!!!

Overall we are all satisfied with the apartment....it was a little too pricy, but it's very comfortable and we have a great view from the window. They were practicing some fireworks during the evening I got here and I could really see everything out the window! (It was just a practice for the new years and it lasted for an hour.....cooooool!!!!)

SO FAR SO SO SO GOOD!

ICELAND!

2008-12-29T07:09:00.001+01:00

Flight to Iceland in 6 hours!
Leaving the house in 4 hours!
Haven't packed yet!!
Aaaaaaaarrrgggh!

1.Inside:Outside

2008-12-20T18:49:00.002+01:00

This is the real beginning of thesis thinking:

-The appearance of an object vs the function
-Underestimation from the audience
-The dynamic between expected & real outcome
-The Real function: over-time vs chance?

I'd like to explore the relationship between expectation that you as an artist put on the audience, the expectation of the outcome, the real outcome of the creation, and the final result of creating a dynamic difference between the outcome and the expectation.
What something looks is not necessarily what it really is. The objects I will be creating for the final exhibition will only be interpreted correctly, according to the rules put by me, when the viewer understands the "difference" between what they have expected and what they encounter. However, the outcome can be more settle, that it will even be hard for some people to notice that it is an event.

How much of the"real part" of the work should be hidden?
Could I add an element of time, which introduces the idea of "chance" for the experience of the audience?

Yoko is Here.

2008-12-20T09:27:00.002+01:00

Yoko got in town!

...and I got sick!!

Well on Thursday, the day she got in, there was a portfolio showing at GDI department and yeah, of course there were drinks (it was organized by two German girls...)

But it was fun fun.

So yesterday after the Friday lecture I went out into the city with Yoko but then again, I got sick so I had to come home at 4pm'ish already....thanks to the Swedish sky that gets dark really early, we both felt like it was the right time to go home.

We woke up at around 10pm, and headed to the Konstfack Christmas Party!!!!

Oh yea, people get crazy in this country with alcohol!!! All the people I knew were greeting me, without really hm recognizing me I think. Their eyes were definitely somewhere else.

We saw a fight at the subway. The train waited until the fight was broken up. Oh ye, again, a weird country!

Cutouts

2008-12-16T06:05:00.004+01:00

Yoko is coming on Thursday so I am trying to get things done before, so we can relax.
I went to the Driver's license place today but they told me I have to call them.....so I wasted a whole day there!

I'm somewhat really motivated to make things....so I've been working on this cutout book that I have meant to finish for a long long time (in the last 2 years) but never got to finish....so yes, now I am finally getting a grip on working on it and it's going ok....I will just cut cut cut and then see what can happen to it. It just gives me time to move away from thesis a little bit...But I really need to try not to spend too much time on it otherwise it will kill all my time for thesis!

Here is the photo of my progress:

I am also working on finding my own graphic style....so looking at a lot of patterns and also diagrams. I like system...lines, circles and simple shapes, so I figured I should really just start with those diagrams!
If you have any other suggestions please let me know!

I want to be trendy!

Tomorrow's plan:

-picking up the new shoes from a store near Stadion! (Hooray!)
-working a little more on the cutouts (try to finish the stack on the desk!)
-thesis research (3 hours)
-Swedish Course
-Hanging out with Sachy
-Fika with Christoph!
-Call the License office

Oh boy, my life is busy!

...and it's really good to list up things! I will update this blog everyday now.

Tempura

2008-12-14T04:54:00.002+01:00

I made tempura with Koji today!
Accompanied by Adam and Michelle.

It's always really nice to cook Japanese food and share it with people that are not from Japan....

So yes, another immersive cultural experience with my own culture.

Hooray.

::::::::

The feel of "being needed" is well desired.
I believe that's what puts a value on your life.
If many people need you, your life is more valued.
Of course, you needing your own life can also be essential.
...or actually, it really is.

Sometimes I feel like I am not playing an important role in my life, but just being the bothering element.
When I start thinking that about myself I can't help but to assume that I play that role in other people's lives.

and I've been feeling that quite often.

Time to change, I think.
But it's really not easy to make that happen so suddenly.

I've tried hard, and I've gained so many things in the past, but I feel different in Sweden.
I feel like I just play the role as "one of many;" feeling not important, even in my own life.

I've got friends, that I can hang out with.
I've got classmates that I can share my ideas with.
I see so many good things in them - their skills, ideas, personalities;
and yet it is so difficult to see that in myself.

Every time I argue,
every time I say something,
every time I do something,
I think so hard on the outcomes.

I'm becoming scared of things I do.
I'm becoming terrified.

I once had a friend whom I considered a best friend.
The one I could always count on.
But he's now long gone from my life - and his life is well.
That's how much impact I have on others.

I'm not really hoping for any sympathetic comments or the situation to be better,
but I just have to work on it and I needed to get it out of my system....of course at 5am on a Sunday.

I hate being scared.
I hate being unimportant.

I need to find something.

I don't want to be more than what I am.

2008-12-10T06:51:00.004+01:00

Things seem to be winding down quite a bit -

the Christmas Market is Over and I just finished my last course at Konstfack. Now I only need to focus on my own work - and it feels just super wonderful!!!

Christmas market went alright - I guess we made SOME profit, but not much. But it was definitely nice to be on the other side of the market from last year - on the selling side. People trying to bargain or being cheap...ugh I didn't like it so much. But we sold. So that's good.

The line for the market was C R A A A A A Z Y !!!!!

There was a long queue in front of the market in the rain....oh god, it's just a school's market afterall!

Ok this is the line about half an hour before the market even started.....!!!!

There were really nice things though, and I think a lot of people did well!!!
Congrats to those who sold out!

I got my VISAAAAAA!!!!!

The end of November

2008-11-30T23:45:00.002+01:00

１１月もあと１５分で終わります。
時が経つのは早いです。
あっという間でした。
今月は色々プロジェクトなどで頑張ってたので
ほとんど学校でした．．．外出などしてません。

来月はクリスマスシーズン。
思いっきり冬を楽しみたいと思います。

今日はCorridor Mates (寮に一緒に住んでる人たち)が
Luciabulle、クッキー、マフィンなど作ってくれました。

徹夜しようと学校に夜中の１時に行ったら
ドアが開きませんでした。
２時間かけて
帰ってきました。

やる事沢山あるのにー
くうう

Even More!

2008-11-25T00:33:00.002+01:00

The snow is more
more
more
and there is more snow

and yet more more more.

snowy.

2008-11-23T18:32:00.002+01:00

The Winter Has Come.

It snowed,
and there is still a lot of snow outside.

So calm that it gives me time and space to think about myself.
I can feel alone, but safely alone,
surrounded by all I've got around me.

I feel calm, relaxed. All the things that mattered,
are far far away.

ご　め　ん。　も　う　わ　か　ら　な　い。

2008-11-18T23:04:00.001+01:00

あと半年。
先月までは半年以上だったのが
あっというまにベルリンやらロンドン行ったりで１ヶ月過ぎてしまいました。

もうゆっくり歩いてる暇はなくて
休んでる余裕もない。

走ろう、
と今日思った。

スウェーデンでは時間がゆっくり流れて行きます。
人も、自然も。
冬が近づいてる最近は太陽出るのがゆっくりすぎて
暗闇に追い越されてしまってます。

ho ho ho winter is coming.

学校で一つ下の学年に、
とても良い刺激をくれる子を見つけました。
日本の北海道から来ている子。
作品は本当に凄い。　テクニックもコンセプトもプレゼンテーションも全て完璧。
同じ日本人として頑張らなきゃ、と思わせてくれる。

普段はへらへらしてるのに、
やるときゃやるって
本当にかっこいいもんです。

スウェーデンに来て久しぶりにそんな刺激を与えてくれる人と出会いました。
大学の頃を思い出させてくれました。

よーしみてろよー
俺もそうやって誰かに尊敬してもらえる人になります。

B E R L I N

2008-11-16T18:09:00.002+01:00

It's the place I call "home."

It changed me in many ways -

this is where I started my clubbing.
this is where I started smoking.
this is where I learned how to sing.
this is where I became Jesus.
this is where I met the friends of my life.
this is where I formed my own sexuality.
this is where I found my passion for art.

I moved there when I was fifteen - stayed there until I graduated highschool when I was eighteen.

OK, not a long time, I know. But it was definitely the most valuable moment in my life.

I went back there last week to celebrate my friend Christoph's birthday.
He was the first person I talked to at Konstfack.
We just clicked immediately, although our class, departments and interests are all different.
Sometimes I wonder, how we became friends - but all matters is that we are good friends now.

I met up with Hanna, my best Swedish friend, who at the time when I was living in Berlin, was living in Sweden.
Now she is a med student, becoming a doctor in Berlin.
I met up with Leena, who won the best dressed award with me in 2002.
I met up with Jenn, who gave me a pineapple when she visited me in NY.
I met up with Momo, who was the first Swedish person to show me around Stockholm.
I met up with Tien, a German born Vietnamese whom I can relate to more than anyone else.
I met up with Sadie, the one from NY that I still regularly talk to.

It was a moment, where all my life experiences came together - I could talk to people about highschool, college, Sweden, Japan...everything.

So I still call it home. This is where my life began - and this is where I will always go back to, to remind myself how fortunate I am that I have had an experience of going all over the world. This is where I will compare myself to me in the past to see how much I have grown and what negative features I have acquired.

I feel like a new born child again.

It's getting cold and I think.

2008-11-04T07:39:00.002+01:00

The cold is finally starting to go away!!! Thanks to all the soup, ginger, oranges and kiwis that I have been diligently consuming in the last couple of days! 4 days until Berlin, I think I will be able to fully recover until then. I'm going to be meeting some new folks (Tien, Jon) and old friends from highschool (Cindi, Leena), Britain (Hanna), college (Jenn), New York (Sadie, Helen) and Stockholm (Christoph, Momo)

I've always kind of loved and hated leaving friends all the time - having lived in 4 different countries in 25 years - that would do but now, thanks mostly to Christoph for having his birthday this weekend, I feel like all is coming together.

Right now it is almost 8am and I have already been at school for almost 3 hours. I am standing in a line right now and guess what for---Konstfack's annual christmas market. Believe it or not it has become such a good reputation that it is one of the biggest events in Stockholm (or at least it seemed so last year!) Right now the students are in a line, some people even stayed all night at school, to get tables to sell their stuff. I was too lazy to stand in a line so I watched a movie in the studio, then just got in a line about 20 minutes ago.

I hope I will sell something!

KINJO

2008-10-27T02:10:00.002+01:00

I am getting ill - well I think I am sick, but oh wells, another all nighter trying to work on the åland catalogue project.
I was given the materials quite late and I've lost interest for working on it but I guess I have to...it's due Friday this week, and the proofreading and all have to be done before then...I don't have a lot of time!!! WOOOOT WOOOT

Oh wells, I guess I should do this otherwise the exhibition will have no catalogue...boo.

GOOD OLD DAYS!

2008-09-20T08:35:00.001+02:00

I just found this clip on youtube....oh yeah, this is one of the songs I sang in Honor Choir 2002, back in highschool!

Good old days! I think we were much better than them!

Some findings.

2008-09-19T01:42:00.002+02:00

Here are some things I've been looking at:

She's really what makes me proud to be an Asian.

But on the other hand:

Yeah....

I like this design office NODE in Berlin/Oslo: www.nodeberlin.com

She's so proud! I love her narration a lot more than her works....
but it's good to know what people do with scraps...like I do with paint samples:

Kräftskiva Virginity

2008-09-09T22:56:00.009+02:00

On Sunday there was a party on my corridor : CRAYFISH PARTY!

Apparently in Sweden because of the decrease of the crayfish population (due to over-fishing and the pollution) they only have one period in a year when they can eat the crayfish...and apparently now is the season.

More Info Here

In Japan they don't really eat crayfish - they usually live in gutters and kids catch them and keep them as pets. Yeah - what a pet, right?

So here we go, my Crayfish virginity! I've eaten crabs and shrimp, so I had nothing against it but my horrible childhood memories were definite coming back - my friends always used to catch crayfish (and I was a good child who didn't kill.) and they would kill one using a BB gun, then take the shells off to get the meat, which they used to catch other ones.

But with all that being said, the party ended up being great!! People were making salads garlic bread and cakes.
The website above is right - lots of suction noises....people are really sucking the juices out of these crayfish til the end!
It sounded like the ramen restaurants in Japan, where they slurp all the noodles.

But it's kind of funny, that it's become a tradition since the decrease of the crayfish...I mean...are we celebrating the extinction of this poor fish?!

I am now working on a piece, inspired by Allie Rex in my studio. It's totally a spontaneous piece and I just got one fabric board (the cork board made out of fabric...) to place random objects that were on my desk. I like the versatility of the board - I can pin things up, take them off and move them.

Art is good - you can make things out of crap.

So my birthday is coming up soon - this Friday. I've been trying to think of what kind of things I should do for it.
Here are some ideas:
Slip n Slide

Back to the Future:

Or check this out:

Something along this line....

Or...maybe these:
Peter Pan
Furry

Something like these...

by the way I am making some animal costumes for fun!

NEWS:
Yuta Sakane's first exhibition in Stockholm:
EVERYWHEREPHOTOSATONCE.COM
September20-October4
Show Konstfack
Riegeringsgatan 14, Stockholm

www.everywherephotosatonce.com

Check it out!

Some thoughts about Blogs

2008-09-03T02:13:00.002+02:00

Since I started another blog for the course I am taking called Trendspotting, I am not going to write much useful facts here but I think I will mainly be complaining and glorifying my life here.

I was just reading the blog of a Japanese friend from New York, who now lives back in Japan, doing quite well after starting up his own internet business. He and I joined the same Yosakoi team (a dance team) at the same time back in 2006, and quit at the same time in 2007. We were really good friends and got center positions together in one piece. 2 years younger he is, but oh my he's a successful man!

I'm slowly realizing that it's not just skills, but diligence is what really brings people to the top. His blog is just so deep in thoughts and really interesting to read. Hopefully this blog is going to become as interesting as his is...soon or later it will be.

Japan -> Sweden

2008-09-02T20:53:00.004+02:00

I am finally back in Sweden - or rather, I have been back for two weeks already but it's already been a rollercoaster ride going up and down.

The classes are fine and I am very excited about this year for many reasons:
1. There are a lot more international students than last year
2. My friends from last year are all motivated and they are still as cool as they were last year.
3. The trendspotting course that I am taking seems to be really cool.
4. We get to get out of school in less than a year!

Luckily besides this long paper that we have to write for our theory course, I was given a space to do an exhibition in downtown Stockholm from the middle of this month until the beginning of October. It took me a while to really figure out what I will be doing and how I am going to do it, and I am still kind of in the middle of figuring out, but I will be doing a photo exhibition of photos from all around the world that are taken at the exact same moment.

I am still building the website, but it will be done in 2 days and it's here : www.everywherephotosatonce.com

What else has been up in my life...hm,

I bought a new SLR in Japan which I am in fond of and I've been taking a lot of photos with it.
I haven't come up with a name for him (yes it's a male camera) but it will most likely be a western name.
If you have any suggestions please let me know.

Here are some photos I've taken with him:

By the way I had the greatest summer and I will write more about it later!

wisdom...

2008-08-01T00:15:00.002+02:00

....teeth.

urgh.

F it.

2008-07-04T04:40:00.002+02:00

Japan is nice and humid!

So yesterday I randomly decided to throw away all my belongings except what I need right now -
meaning:
all my photos from the past, artworks, books, clothes, random stuff, documentations are gone.

GONE.

NADA.

It feels damn good. Of course I regret it a little, well a lot, to be honest. But now I am new.
It's like I got rid of my history. I got rid of all the good things but also the bad things that happened.

gone, gone, gone.

Here is another start.

Worried but excited.

2008-07-01T19:42:00.002+02:00

Every time I come back to Japan I feel this urge to be successful...
Seeing all my friends working, earning money and all...and now my younger brother is working and also getting married!!!
URGH!

But I am kinda excited about my life after school because someone I KNOW that I will be somewhat successful...
well my goal is to get a life that people can envy. Yeah I want to be popular and famous.

Wee.

Now I am back in Japan.

2008-06-27T20:11:00.004+02:00

Hello.

So you've probably read in my previous post that I have been traveling quite a bit in the last couple of weeks.
Basel...Gotland...Japan...YAY.

I haven't really uploaded the photos nor have I really described what happened, so I will just blob right now, since it's 3:00am in Japan and I still can't sleep because of the jetlag.

BASEL::

I flew out of Skavsta, with Nick who was going to Paris, to get to Basel. As soon as I got there I took a tram to the new Scope Art Fair site, which was really "out there."
I had to drag my baggage for a long time and man, in such a hot weather it really was a torture.

I met with the new staff from Scope and yeah, also the Baldwin dudes. They were the staffing company that hired me to work at Scope. I thought they were a little older but they were almost my age, which was kinda crazy....all muscular "dudes," which was kind of intimidating but I really ended up liking them during the fair. They were so cool.
So they told me as soon as I got there that I would be doing the night shifts....7pm-7am to guard the tent.

!???!!! for three weeks?!

Yeah so basically I ended up sleeping at the tent for almost the entire duration of three weeks, where there was no bed and it was friggin cold at night. I couldn't really sleep because there were so many expensive pieces around me, and the tent looked kind of fragile. I hated it hated it hated it but loved it at the same time. I wish I knew people in Basel so I could have them over to have a party but that never happened. Some days I would just walk around, feeling like the fair was just for me, which was cool. But I really had to try to enjoy it.

I ended up working around 300 hours in total in three weeks - because there were so many things I could just do during the day.....yeah I had no time to really party, and the only fun thing I did was this one time when some staff and I went out for drinks....yeah that's it, but it was fun.

At the end, although I was sooo tired, I enjoyed it because I got to meet a lot of cool people there....just so cool. Anthony, Naomi, Sven, James, Alex, Shayna, Hannah, Stephanie and of course, Nadja....m m m m m m m soo good!

Gotland::
So the day after I came back from Switzerland I got a call from Michiko and she and I decided to go to Gotland right before we leave for Japan...yeah. Just for a weekend over Midsummer (the day with the longest daylight of the year!)
We took a ferry to Gotland from this town called Nynäshamn, and getting to the ferry stop was a pain in the butt.
-
The ferry was leaving at 7am on Friday. So we decided that we should leave Stockholm at around 5, but then we realized that because it was a holiday the trains were running on the holiday schedule - so we had to catch the last night bus going there, which was at 2am...and then wait around for 4 hours just to sleep on the bench or whatever.
So we left at 2am, but the bus didn't come so we just took another bus and got closer, but then there were no connections until 7, so we ended up taking a cab, which cost 120 dollars....UGH

But regardless of these hassle at the beginning, the trip went really well overall...Gotland was so so so beautiful, the town of Visby where we stayed was amazing!!!!
..and I got to drive stickshift- which also went well besides the fact that there was a little accident and I scratched the car quite hard!

...and now I am back in Japan and I am jetlagged!

No wonder

2008-06-18T23:38:00.002+02:00

No wonder I can't go to sleep anymore...
look at this:

this photo was taken at 2am

PRETENTIOUS

2008-05-18T03:41:00.000+02:00

I will not be pretentious anymore.

I have been, but that's a sign of insecurity.

Basel here I come!!!

2008-05-16T01:57:00.003+02:00

Hello everyone!

I am going to Basel again to work for Scope!! Yippie!!...well not so yippie since I am not going to get paid that well and also I will be doing some shit job......and I have to be there for almost 3 weeks which is a lot longer than I expected....but aaanyways, I will try to have as much fun as I can!!!!

So here is my schedule for the summer:

:::::May 16th-20th
Working like a slave, no break no fun...except the Y.A.C.H.T concert on Saturday!!!!

To Do List:
-Print Exchange labor
-Individual Project Start and Finish
-Typography
-Sky Book
-Cutout Book
-Business Cards
-Help for Artists
-Getting portfolio done for HGB and Rietveld

SO MUCH TO DO!!! But I am finally getting ready to do a lot of work!!

:::::May 20th-27th
A surprise visit from Nick Chow, my friend from MICA
I will be hanging out with him a lot...and I guess I will have to do a lot of work meanwhile.

:::::May 22nd
Final Presentation for the Design for Innovation Course!!!

:::::May 26th
Final Critique of the whole course!

:::::May 27th-June14th
BASEL!!!! Working 12 hours a day, seeing a lot of art and being professional while making money.

:::::June 22nd
MIDSOMMER!!! GETTING F'ING WASTED!

:::::June 24th-August 18th
JAPAN!!! Again working and relaxing, doing a lot of stuff I can't do in Sweden!

To Do List:
-Eat Ramen at least 10 times
-Eat Sushi
-Conquer the Convini.
-Get a job
-Work on a website
-Learn how to use Flask
-Fix all the teeth

SO MUCH TO DO!! YUPPIEEEEE

I am a busy man.

-------

I am getting into looking up new artists/bands on lastfm!!!

So far I've found:
-Four Tet (his videos are AMAZING!)
-YACHT (hip but I like!)
-White Williams (Nice Stuff!)
-Nick Drake (Good calm music!)
-Mates of State (Weird but hmm...I kind of like it)
-Japanther (Brooklyn band that I saw the posters of everywhere but I never heard it until now!)

P.S. I earned about 60SEK just collecting cans from the Spring Exhibition.

KONSTFACK VÅRUTSTÅLLNING - MAY 13-28TH!

Sunny Days!

2008-05-15T03:59:00.003+02:00

Stockholm has been just so nicely super sunny since I got back from Milan!
Oh yes, I just realized that I haven't mentioned anything about my Milan trip, but that will be done when I have more time.

The sunny days are making me really lazy, but since yesterday it's been a little chilly so it's time for me to be productive again!

This past Sunday I went to the flea market, and I found some stuff so I want to share with all the readers of this blog.

The flea market was mediocre as always, except I found these people that were selling cans and books...oh they were so beautiful!!! I was expecting some "Stockholm Prices" on these things, but I overheard the conversation going on right next to me and I heard 10 SEK! Hm that's extremely cheap in the Stockholm standard! So I looked through all the stuff and I found a nice can for pencils and hm yeah, two interesting books. They looked nice, so I bought them all for 20SEK. Yeah, a bargain.

The guy asked me if I knew what those books were, and of course I didn't know so I asked. Apparently they are from the WWII period and yeah, one of them functioned as alcohol coupons and the other one was for food....yeah, they had dates that were July-August 1945. Classic. They both had names and seemed a little TOO PERSONAL, which kind of scared me but I take this as a destiny and I will take a good care of it.

I put them by the window, with a little pile of salt and I also lit a candle next to them. (as recommended by my mother.)

I ain't

2008-05-07T22:38:00.002+02:00

I feel like I have been stuck in this illusion,
where I thought I was the best,
and people just didn't understand my brilliance.

But I was wrong.

I think that was the illusion I got in the US.
They teach you how to be good, and how to think you are the best.
That's how I learned to defend myself, and offend the others.

But I was wrong.

So here I stand, in Stockholm, Sweden,
rethinking myself and being more aware of where I stand in the world.

Darn, I've got a lot to learn.

:::::::::

Anyways, I think that's quite enough of a depressed thought.

I started cooking again today, to make myself a little healthier. I think I succeeded as you can see below:

I can feel the summer coming, but it's getting cold again!
I like this season when people are just so excited about what's coming next in their lives!

CHEERS :)

P.S. I can't upload the photos so I will later...it was potatoes, salad and salmon with cream sauce :)

Valborg

2008-05-01T21:17:00.002+02:00

Last night, April 30th is apparently the day when Swedes gather around to make a fire as a celebration of the coming of Spring.
Of course we went to the real one too...but that wasn't enough.

We went to Gamla Stan, the old town in Stockholm to see the fire. It was a small fire...well, not as big as we expected.
It was nice though. There were guys jamming and some (maybe 4 out of 70 people there) were dancing. Of course I whipped out my moves and people were like wow. Haha.

A guy started playing the guitar, and one of the jamming guys took the guitar from this poor guy and started playing. But he broke the guitar and the guitar went into the fire.

It was just so nice; I mean I always thought Swedes were too delicate to just sit around the fire and talk and laugh and drink. No offense, but I really thought so. It was just nice to see that they also like the things I like to do. It made me want to stay here a little longer. You know, I've been thinking about leaving Sweden at the end of the summer, because I felt like it wasn't right for me, but last night showed me that I could stay here and enjoy myself....we will see what happens.

The night didn't end when the fire ended. Beatrice, Koji, Hannah, Matt, Daniel, Anne and I decided to go back to school to watch a movie or something. But when we got to school we immediately decided that wasn't good enough to end the night, so we started a dance party in Vita Havet, which is a big hall when you come into the school.

While we were dancing, Hannah thought it would be fun to make an imitation of a fire and dance around it, to go with the theme of the night. But then we realized that the cafeteria chairs were red and they could do a better job as fire. So we started stacking them on top of each other, until all the chairs were in the pile.

We danced danced danced. Around the fire, one person leading each time and etc etc.

We were dancing until around 3am, when we all passed out on the floor sleeping.

It was just an amazing night!

ARGH

2008-04-26T02:44:00.000+02:00

I am just frustrated and I don't know why.

My butt is still on the chair.

In Milan

2008-04-18T03:09:00.000+02:00

I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art
I want to make art and money.

She didn't love me anymore.

2008-04-11T02:33:00.004+02:00

So I was in Berlin for a week. It was a nice week, going away from all the workloads and stress and what not....and it was during the beginning of the Berlin Biennial, which made it even more perfect!

I was staying at my old family friend's place in Charlottenburg by myself...and I tell you, it was a brilliant apartment!! It was strange to live in a place that's nicer than my real apartment in Stockholm, but oh well.....I was never there anyway. Too busy working and partying.

I met some old friends...Leena from highschool (whom I didn't really talk to all that much although we sat next to each other in class) and Hanna, my sweetest Swedish bestest friend that I met in Brighton in 2001 but we've been keeping in touch. So nice to see them, I tell you. We've all grown up and Leena is now working as a designer and Hanna is studying medicine!!!!

B O A H.

What am I doing...? Still a student. With lots of student loans!

I also met up with Helen, my ex-boss at Scope in New York. She is now working as a director at a gallery and yes, she's wonderful. She took me out to the openings of the biennial and bought be a cup of wine. So nice. She's my age but she's a workoholic and she is successful....looking at her being happy and working so hard, I was really inspired and I decided during this trip that working for an artfair is something I would like to do in life.

The day I met Helen was a weird day. When I walked into the gallery she works at, I saw my old classmate from highschool, Sandra, working there. Strange.
We went to an opening and I ran into Adrian, who was working at the admissions office together at MICA.
Strange.
Right after I said goodbye to Adrian I saw JY, who was one of my really good friends back in highschool.
STRANGE!!!!

Yeah, it was a great day...thanks Helen!!!

I went to a lot of nice cafes and bars and clubs...and also galleries. What surprised me the most were the cafe Hanna works at, where you pay whatever you want for the brunch (because Leena and I got free coffee from Hanna, we only paid 4 Euros!) it was just soo nice...I mean, I didn't eat much, but the food was great!
That night Hanna also took me to a restaurant, where her friend was cooking and yeah, this place also you pay whatever you feel like, so I had a 4 course meal and 4-5 glasses of wine for 10 Euros!! NICE!

But the city disappointed me a little. It didn't have the hype it used to back in the days. There were so many American and British tourists and English teachers (of course!) and I probably heard more English than German in this week I was there. Things were more expensive, sometimes even more expensive than Sweden. Fucking Euros.

I felt like Berlin didn't love me anymore. It was like seeing your ex again. The city didn't love me anymore. She, that I loved, is now long gone. But in a way it was good, because since I left the city I have been dreaming about it the whole time. When can I go back there, what should I do there....all those things were fantasized in my head but I never made it back. I have even regretted leaving. But now I'm not an 18 year-old highschool kid anymore. I have moved on with my life. I couldn't appreciate the things I used to like 6 years ago.

I've heard a lot of good things about Leipzig while I was in Berlin...so maybe that will be my next destination??

I LOVE LÄTTA and KNAKERBRÖD!!!!!

bratwurst from lidl

2008-03-30T21:34:00.003+02:00

8 pieces for under 30sek.....good deal.
It tastes super.

忘れてた。 (I have forgotten.)

2008-03-30T19:57:00.002+02:00

Today was a really nice day....a sign of spring coming, although it wasn't as warm as I wanted it to be.

Last night was a nice night. I relaxed all day, grabbed a beer with my friends Koji and Michelle in Sofo (a hip area in Stockholm) in a Persian bar, and went out to a birthday party and a club with Christoph (because I have been complaining that I haven't gone out for a long time!)

Thanks to Christoph, all the stress that has been making me inactive and just heavy in my moves has vanished from my body! I woke up fairly early today (11am)...wait, at noon, because it's finally switched to summer time since last night!! I cleaned my room and it's a great atmosphere to relax in. I was supposed to go out for a fika (coffee break) with Beatrice and Basar, but since one of them slept in and the other one was unreachable I decided to go for a run and then go into town by myself.

Instead of Sofo, where I would like to explore more to absorb the Swedish hipness, I decided to go to Vasastan/Kungsholmen area , where there are lots of more laid back cafes and bars and stores. I had been there a couple of times, since that's where the city library is, and also to an artfair that was mediocre and to this nice bar, where Michelle had her birthday party.

I got there at around 5pm, but it was still light out, thanks to the magic of the clock set an hour ahead. A lot of cafes were closing in an hour, so I decided to walk around the area for a little bit and look for a cafe that was open later.

I don't think I've really walked around the city all that much since I got here. The last seven months have been just the trips between home and school, working all night or watching youtube clips online and of course, sleeping much more than I need to.

I had no clock with me, my phone isn't working because I haven't paid the bill. It was just me, without any distraction, walking through Stockholm buildings and air and everything by myself.

I never knew that the city is so beautiful. The sky was closer to me than anywhere else I've lived, and the sun was the biggest I've seen, reflecting on colorful buildings. Suddenly all the small stores and supermarkets and even the little stands that I am used to seeing, looked so adorable.

I found a cafe that was open until 8, so I got a cappuccino and started writing about a lot of things that I have been thinking about.

Recently, or rather, since the moment I got here, I haven't been really sure if this is the place to be. Konstfack seems to be not the right school for me, because its lack of motivation and the level of the works; Stockholm is expensive; I'm not developing as a person. I even talked to Michelle and Koji about leaving this town and taking some years off to do whatever and earn some money....

but is it really something I should be doing right now?

What does it mean, if I say "something I should be doing right now"?

Who is deciding what I should be doing and why should there be something I must be doing, in first place?

I thought thought thought and wrote wrote wrote.
...with a delicious cappuccino on the side.

I've forgotten about why I wanted to come to Stockholm in first place. So I started thinking over why, and here are the reasons:
1. I was really fascinated with Swedish art and design for its aesthetics.
2. I came to Sweden a long time ago with my family and I really really liked the people and the country.
3. I wanted to relax after spending 5 years of ridiculously busy life at MICA and in New York.
4. I wanted to move to Europe, since I felt like this is the place I would like to live for a long time.
5. Swedish music is just so fabulous.

Of course, things do change over time, but I just realized, through writing these things today, that I haven't really managed to get myself to experience any of those 5 points since I came to Sweden.

I haven't really looked carefully at Swedish design since I came here....I am at a good design school and I am always surrounded by many designers, but I haven't talked to them or learned anything from them. I don't have any good friends that are Swedish, nor have I learned any Swedish. I have been working like a monster doing allnighters for no reasons and exhausting myself. I am always thinking about New York and Japan. I haven't gone to any concerts and I only listen to American 90's music or Japanese music....

who am I to complain about my stay in Sweden, if I haven't taken any advantage of being here??? I came here for many reasons and I haven't really done anything to satisfy these reasons.

I suddenly got really motivated to get my ass up and then experience Stockholm and Sweden more. Before I complain anything about it, I should just shut my mouth and do things. Try to enjoy it as much as I can and absorb as much as I can. I want to go to more exhibitions and see the art that I was fascinated with a year ago, I want to learn design that I wanted to learn a year ago, and I want to live the life I dreamt of a year ago.

Yup, I have finally figured out what I need to do and it feels damn good.

Japanese Xanadu???!!!!!!!!

2008-03-29T20:12:00.002+01:00

Today I relaxed all day at home watching random clips on youtube....

...and I found the Japanese 21st Century version of XANADU!!!!!!!

CHECK IT OUT HERE!

This random music part....cheesy graphics and the angel!!! ANGEL IN TOWN!!!

The whole film was horrible, but this part of the movie is worth a look!!!!!!:)))

Earth Hour!

2008-03-29T20:08:00.001+01:00

Let's be nice to the earth!!!

www.earthhour.org

A Dream Trip to Berlin

2008-03-20T22:15:00.006+01:00

My imaginary trip to Berlin to make up for my cancelled trip.

A combination of images found on the web from my friends and words that are written from my memory of the city.

Cooling down.

2008-03-20T18:57:00.002+01:00

Yesterday was the final critique for my Words and Image class.
I had stayed up all night with my friends Beatrice and Basar working on it but the crit for two of us (lucky bastard, Basar!)
went kind of bad...

But the class is over...over and over. I like that.

The guest critic I didn't like, so I wrote not-so-great things about her on the evaluation....hmm maybe that was a little too much????

I think I want to live in a straight line. Only one direction. No disturbance.
But it will be a wide line.
I want to go go go.

...only grasping on good things.

I wish I could focus on one thing at a time.
When I do one thing I think of 100 other things.

Like now, as I am writing this blog entry I am thinking of when to do the laundry and when to eat dinner and when to go back to school.
But now I will finish watching this TV show then reserve the time for the laundry and then cook dinner and then go to school.

13 bucks.

2008-03-16T23:22:00.003+01:00

So Berlin trip was cancelled this weekend, but I found a really good deal on Ryanair that if I fly in April I don't have to pay tax.

...13 bucks. That's exactly what I paid.

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.

So now I am in Berlin 2-8 April, in Milan 12-23 April.

Here is what my schedule looks like:

...it's beautiful!

Today was a nice day.

2008-03-15T00:53:00.002+01:00

So this morning I was quite bummed that the trip to Berlin was cancelled, due to my work load.

But the day started out nice. Daniel Mencak (my partner in crime and a NICE humble DESIGNER) and I figured out a lot of things for the Milan project.
He went away during lunch...so I thought I was gonna do a lot of work, kind of depressingly.

Then Johan in my class asked me if I wanted to go to lunch. So I went with him to the cafeteria (which is kind of expensive....about 10 bucks for lunch!) and yeah, it ended up being a fun lunch with 4 classmates of mine: Karin, Petter, Mehrdad and Johan. It was nice. It had been quite a while since the last time I had lunch with classmates!! We talked about some random things and it was just soo relaxing. After a nice meal we had coffee and talked about more random things.

My classmates are just really good about switching to English...if someone starts speaking Swedish then others switch back to English... I really have to start learning Swedish!!!!

After lunch I talked about chicks (dude-talk) with Mehrdad and Jesper. No work done.

When I was getting ready to do Ada came to take a break from her tedious bookbinding. Pontus joined the conversation.Woot woot.

Haaa....after that I was watching some clips on youtube, then Malin asked me to join her to this event at school called THE BAR, which basically is an event organized by the interior architecture program, with beer, wine and food. So I went there with Malin, Karin and Matilda. Drank a few beers and I started talking to Anton, who is also working with me for the Milan Furniture Fair. He's a very good designer / artist and also a very nice guy. I'm really inspired working with him and I'm excited to get to know him more!

I met up with Nao and Michiko, two Japanese students. We danced a bit and then they disappeared suddenly, while I found Christoph, this magical Swiss man, whom I met on the first day at Konstfack. We've been hanging out since then and we just get along, although I think our personalities are so different. Today he gave me a bottle of Becks (a very typical beer in bars in Berlin) to make up for my cancelled trip to Berlin!

Yes, the party wasn't so great and I didn't get drunk or do much, but it was just a nice relaxing day with lots of nice nice people :)))

I am happy.

Check it out!

2008-03-13T21:26:00.003+01:00

I am working on this project, in which I ask my friends and people I know to take a photo at the exact same time. This time of the sky.

It will be an on going project, so if you want to participate in the next one leave a comment!!!

Here is the flickr album

No Berlin....:(

2008-03-13T17:30:00.002+01:00

I had to cancel my trip to Berlin that was originally from today until Monday!!!!
Sad sad sad.

There goes 40 dollars down the drain...but I am earning it back someday......
someday.....

Moving out!

2008-03-09T11:39:00.002+01:00

So I am finally moving out of the apartment.....it's been 6 months of one hour commuting back and forth and now it's come to an end....it's 30 min instead of an hour....still not close, but not far for sure!

I am moving to a student housing...I got my keys the other day. It's old, not so clean, but surely it will be nice to meet other students!!!!! :))))

The project for the Milan Furniture Fair is going alright, the book...not soo well.
I am doing this project, where all my friends and people I know are taking photos of the sky at exactly the same time on earth!!!! yeah! If you want to participate leave a comment:)

WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK!!! I need to do worrrrk!

Note to Myself 2:

2008-03-06T01:09:00.001+01:00

-Prioritize
-Responsibility
-Better time management
-Commitment
-Modesty

p.s. It's snowing and it's march!!!! SPRING, COME, PLEASE!

Note to Myself 1:

2008-03-05T16:54:00.004+01:00

-Organization skills
-Knowledge
-Diligence
-Being Loyal
-Self Awareness
-Research AND Practice

:: REMEMBER!!!

P.S. I started a band called "Banand" with Thea.

Time.

2008-03-03T07:12:00.002+01:00

I am just fascinated by the time difference recently.

Since I came to Sweden I have been talking to a lot of friends in Japan and the States....and so often I have to stay up really late at night to talk to them.. pugh, it has been a little hard, but it's also been fun.
Just for a test I tried to visualize all the time zones where my friends live on my fabulous new macbook....

OI OI OI!

D(eath) ENTIST!

2008-03-02T02:10:00.004+01:00

So yesterday (Friday) I wet to the dentist to put another filling where it used to be. I thought it was gonna be an easy, 10 minute job....but when I went there the dentist suddenly covered my face with this purple latex, so I could barely see anything. She started giving me an injection and my mouth was numb....weird.

Then she started digging...digging...digging. Like a gold hunter. She finally reached the root, but she kept on digging...OUCH. It really was the worst pain in the world. I was trying to scream but I couldn't. I was trying to express the pain through facial expressions but the purple shit was getting in my way.

So she started reaching for the root with needles..it seriously took her 45 minutes to try to get it out....it was hell...I tell you, HELL. When everything was over she told me it couldn't be done because the canal was too tight for her to get the root out....FUCKING HELL. So I had to pay 250 bucks for her to "try." I better get some money back when they succeed!!!

But that means I have to go through the same pain again on Tuesday...I am thinking about taking some sleeping pills so I can just fall asleep.

Today was a nice day. I was working in the studio from really early in the morning, since I passed out for 20 hours after the dentist. In the late afternoon I went on a fika with my friends Koji and Anja to a REALLY nice cafe called Sturekatten. The interior was decorated like an old livingroom and man, they had the best princesscake!!!!!
Here are some photos!

Afterwards we found super cheap salmon in a supermarket so I bought 8 piecessssssssss that's 1KILOGRAM!
In Swedish supermarkets, even the basket is designed well for people...look at this!

Comfortable shopping experience...how about that!

VIKINGS

2008-02-27T05:53:00.003+01:00

I went out tonight with Carl, a friend of a friend, whom I met through mixi, the Japanese version of myspace, I guess. He took me to a medieval bar in Gamla Stan. Woah, it was a little strange. Through an iron door, down to the basement and there were people dressed up in a hmmm...I guess medieval manner? So yes, we sit in the basement. We had some good conversations about Japan and Sweden and everything over four rounds of beer, which were served in some kind of ceramic mugs....on the side a girl was blowing fire, a guy was playing around with fire and I just didn't know where I was anymore. But the time went by so fast and without realizing we were there for five friggin hours.

So that took a lot more time than I expected. I also drank a lot more than I expected - so now it is 6:17am and I am still doing my work. Bad bad me.

Technology!!!

2008-02-25T00:49:00.001+01:00

I just missed my bus home from my friend's place and I am in the middle of the woods in Nacka, right outside of Stockholm. Woods woods and buildings. I saw some office spaces so I tried to get wireless on my computer.... (since I have to wait 30 min for the bus!) and it works!!

Sorry I just wanted to share the joy of surfing online in the woods in Stockholm with you!

To Use Lautrec

2008-02-22T16:12:00.002+01:00

The exhibition of my class at the National Museum in Stockholm started.

It's called "To Use Lautrec"

The theme was to use something about Lautrec's life, works or ideas to make it suit for the Stockholm today.

I made a book that is as thick as the difference between my height and the height of an average Swedish man: 16.2cm.
Here is an image of it:

There is a theory that Lautrec was probably feeling inferior to the society because of his physical disability, and hence he associated himself better with other social outcasts such as prostitutes. Well, it is just a theory but I wanted to use that. So I thought of my physical feature that I could use to outcast myself from the Swedish society. Well, conveniently, it happened to be also my height. Swedes are tall, I can tell you that much.

So the two openings we had, one 2 days ago for VIPs and one last night were both really successful, I think. It was really full of people and they were happy with our works. The guests also asked a lot of questions, which made me really happy. I got a few interviews from papers and such. It was a little embarrassing, I must say. All my friends were there and that was wonderful.

I can finally sleep....

I <3 iChat!

2008-02-20T03:56:00.004+01:00

It is right now almost 4am.
I haven't been able to sleep, because I slept until 7pm yesterday.
I feel like I can sleep as long as no one wakes me up.
I hope I am not suffering from narcolepsy.

I chatted with my friends in Japan on iChat.
it's a great thing that a lot of my friends have macbook or macbook pro, so we can all video chat.
For my friends Ryan and Annie in the states for their birthday, Thea in the Philippines and I organized a chat conference.
Thea in Asia, Annie in California, Ryan in New York and I in Sweden, all got together and because of the time difference, it was both Ryan's and Annie's birthday at once. For one of us it was midnight, for others it was just after dinner, just before lunch, or just before breakfast....how cool is that!!!!!

So I did the video chat again with my friend Yoko in Chiba.
She had some people over including Jake, who studied at MICA with me but now is teaching English in Yamanashi as a JET program participant. And also Maki....crazy friend. She wants some BLOOD...pudding. We hang out for a couple of days when I was back in Japan this winter...he's a cool dude. We talked about random things while I was eating, cleaning up the room and whatnot...but yes, it was fun!

I am waiting for my parents to get skype on their computer and also the headphones and whatnot so we can skype all the time....but hey, hail to the technology!! Now I don't have to feel lonely anywhere as long as I have internet!

I am dying to dance on stage....I miss the days in New York when I was involved with the Yosakoi group there....I am searching for an amateur dance troop in Stockholm. Let's see....and BTW, I am MOVING! I don't know where yet, but I will be....

Artist's Book

2008-02-19T02:08:00.004+01:00

As some of you might know already I am in love with making books.
I haven't really figured out why exactly, but all I know is that I love making them.

The tedious works that are required, use of paper, threads and other materials...opening and closing, type...all these things are just my favorites.

I had to go to the national museum to pick up the dummy of the book that I turned in in the morning, so I was about half an hour late to the meeting of this class.

The teacher was giving a lecture on his works...he is interested in royalty (from what I understood) and he has made books about kings and queens and whatnot. People were already falling asleep when I went into the classroom, but hey, I really like his works ALOT.

His name is Leif Elggren, and he is even on Wikipedia; I don't know if that says anything, but for me it means a big
deal since that means he's well known.

Check out his website: www.leifelggren.org

I do like people's website that don't end with ".com"
It tells me that they care about the address of their websites.

It's like moving to a place that has a nice address.
(Although personally I have never really cared about it.)

It reminds me of the street in Baltimore, Lovely Lane that was behind the school.
Or "1st Place" in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
I have told myself that when I can afford decent apartments I will live in a place that has a nice address, so everytime I have to send a bill I can at least enjoy writing my address on the form.

Back to this Leif guy.

He is also the founder of this original kingdom called Elgaland-Vargaland.

Basically he has created a kingdom, that even has embassies all around the world, currency, culture and constitution.
It's awesome. I hope they will ask Peter Callesen to build their castle someday.
This is their official flag:

A new course started today....Artist's Book.

This course is an individual practive based course, meaning I only have to see the teacher for half an hour a week and prepare an exhibition at the end of the course. It's cool. I can finally relax....but this might make myself lazy so I asked one teacher that is teaching this class called words and image to see if I can audit his course. We shall see.

So here is my to do list:
-Make a website --www.yutsak.net (has been under construction for 5 months)
-Make prints (for exchanges with Konstfack group and a friend of mine in Hawaii)
-Learn Flash
-Learn After Effects
-Read a lot
-Clean up the room

the last task is never going to happen...I can tell you that much!

Cheers!

Nano book over. over.

2008-02-17T02:05:00.002+01:00

Yo.

So the deadlines for the two projects are over, and I am done.

Well I didn't finish both projects but they are done, I can forget about them.

I just then realized that I have never created a piece that I am totally satisfied with.
I like to wait until the last minute and I meet the deadlines by pulling ridiculous amounts of sleepless nights.
This time I didn't sleep properly for two weeks and now I am dead. My projects are deadly too.
So sad, I say.

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I think one thing that has helped me since I came to Sweden is that I have had so much time to think about myself.
Until now, I have always been so busy with talking to friends, doing work and managing everything else around me
that I didn't really have time to figure out things. I start things, then I just work work work until they are done without
thinking too much about why I am doing them and what they are.

I have always been spending a busy life. People always tell me to sleep more. But I have been happy because I never had to think about being unhappy or what I should be doing otherwise.

But recently I have really been thinking a lot about what I could be doing instead of what I am doing. Am I really doing the right thing? Am I at the right place?

The more I think about it, me coming to Sweden was really meant to be. Although I am having a lot of problems with financing it and the systems for a lot of stuff, I like that I can finally be myself. It will be a two year off my busy meaningless life I have been spending for 24 years. Now I will live. I will relax when I am tired. I will work hard when I really want to. I will think when I need to stop. No one bothers me here. Teachers will come to you when you need them. You need to email them and set up a time. Friends will only meet you when you aren't busy. I like that.

I want to be more poetic. I want to use more intelligent words that are more alive than the ones I already use. I want to be more organized. I want to be more into what I do.....see, there are a lot of things I need to work on. But I still have ALOT of time. Two years...that's what Sweden is giving me.

I like that....a lot.

january is:: over over over.

2008-01-31T22:02:00.000+01:00

Hi.

so it's been a while since the last time I wrote something here. I really need to get in the habit of writing a little bit to keep people updated -

SO lately I have been busy preparing a piece for an exhibition coming up at the national museum in Stockholm!! The exhibition will start in mid February!! Our first year master group in Graphic Design / Illustration and Textile will put together a show that is inspired by Toulouse-Lautrec, which will be exhibited in a form as a correspondence to his exhibition that will go on at the same time!

I am creating a book that is exactly 16.2cm - which is the difference between my height and the height of an average Swedish man. I got the idea from the feeling of inferiority that Lautrec had because of physical disability. I wanted to compare myself with the "average" in the place I live in right now. So yes, kind of outcasting myself through this book and also materializing my complex fully in the book that I will have none to talk about after finishing writing this.

I am also working on an interactive book for my nanotechnology class. It's a wonderful class taught by two wonderful people. Except I really feel like I am not taking the full advantage of what is offered. I really don't know how to work in this field and I don't really know when to start. So it's already been three weeks into this course and I still don't know what to do!!! I really have to start thinking really hard!!!!!!!!!

Anyways so the big wave is gone for a day or two so I can relax a bit...I should be sleeping right now but instead I am at school at 2am doing nothing just surfing online and doing nothing!!!!!!

But I have found good friends here in Sweden...Beatrice and Basar, my two favorites!!! I think I wouldn't be surviving the school life here without them!!! Here is the photo of our mighty trio....

Look at how beautiful we are!!!

Here is another one...

Yes, I am slowly liking Stockholm!

A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!

2008-01-10T23:22:00.001+01:00

Sorry for the delay and for not updating this blog so frequently, but a happy new year to you all!!!! :))))))))

I went back to Japan for Christmas and the new years.....it was nice.

But I lost my laptop on the way back!

NO WORK : NOW AWAY

2007-12-07T07:37:00.000+01:00

This week (as well as the previous 5 weeks) I have done absolutely no work and I need to get my butt kicked. So I am going to London tonight!! I will be seeing my friend Elisa from highschool and Nick Chow from college. Nice nice nice. Get to see them all at once. Finally I have found a place where I can see friends from Germany and the US!!!

I will be shopping, going around galleries and looking for hotties all at once, I won't be updating the blog so I will see you all when I get back!!!

Came to a realization

2007-12-06T10:25:00.000+01:00

Where I belong is so far away from where my heart belongs.
I can't imagine myself being what I want to be!

Nice weekend, again

2007-12-03T01:26:00.001+01:00

Friday:
I woke up early and had a nice breakfast, packed lunch and off I went. It was such a beautiful day, I thought. Well, I saw the moon in the morning....I tried to capture it but the zoom on my camera wasn't working properly so this was my best try!

People complain about the darkness and how they get tired...but I am actually starting to like it! I like it that I feel so guilty when I get up at 3pm after an all nighter. I like how everything is natural. I like how you just have to live with it. I like how everything is so calm early in the day. I like the cold clean air . I like that the illuminations around the town go on for longer because the nights are longer....but when I saw the moon that morning, I really really loved Sweden.

So I sat around at this lecture in the morning. It was about nuclear waste. Not so particularly interesting, but it was something, at least. I ate lunch with my friends Beatrice, Diana, Jenni and Basar, although I ended up talking intensely with Diana about a lot of political things and not so much to Jenni or Basar. Sorry, guys!

In the afternoon I read through some design magazines for ideas in the library, took a quick nap on my desk then my friend Ali taught me how to print black and white photos...pretty intensely. So thanks to Mr. Matay! I had good pizza with Ana and Kalle, and I took a long long sleep.

Saturday:
After my intensive 22 hours of sleep from Friday night, I went to school to kill time and do some work, until I left to go to the Stereo Total concert. Oh gosh, it was A M A Z I N G!! They were both our parents' age, but they were rocking like there is no end. Seriously, screaming and singing and dancing like woah. I kind of knew them, not really though, so I was nervous if it was going to be worth SEK180, but hell yeah it was!!! They invited ME up on the stage to dance to some of the last songs....I thought I had to sing along with them or something (and I didn't really know that many songs) so I refused to go up, but hey, I did anyways... what the heck! There were some people who went up too, but they were not INVITED. UNINVITED. BLAH.

After the concert Beatrice and I picked up her friends from Italy (and they are beautiful.) and went to the Konstfack party, which was actually pretty good! As you can see below we were trying to be HIP.

Sunday:
This weekend was the Christmas Market at Konstfack. Apparently it's a huge deal where students make a lot of cash. I didn't participate because I was afraid that I wouldn't make money, but that didn't seem to be the case for anyone who participated. EVERYONE MADE SOME KIND OF PROFITS! Man, that's a good deal! I didn't go on Saturday but I heard it was crazy and people were pushing and pulling and fighting over stuff.... it is kind of sad that the Christmas market at an art school is the place to be over the weekend for the whole city, but it seemed like that's how it was.

I went around 4pm, just about an hour before it was closing. Man, I saw some really amazing stuff!!!!!! It was a big hall with lots and lots of tables. It was great to see my friends were all doing fine. I bought two things, one neon yellow scarf that my friend Fumi made and a notebook from Naoto, a Japanese guy.....and oh yes, a pin from Jenni!!! I am in love with the scarf so here it is!!!!!!!!!! I will share the love with everyoneeeeeeeeee

After the market I hang around the city with Michel and Davide (I dont know how to spell their names....ugh) from Italy and they were nice and beautiful. I don't mean beautiful as in they look beautiful, although I am sure they do, but they are just nice and smart and all. I don't know if they enjoyed my stupid tour of Stockholm, but I surely enjoyed hanging out with them! I talked to them and Beatrice for a little too long and I missed my last train so I have to stay at school and yeah, maybe I will finish some goddamn cutout books!

Poor Student

2007-11-30T14:05:00.001+01:00

I am so poor I can't even go out this weekend!

Moshi Moshi Sushi

2007-11-28T00:55:00.000+01:00

This past weekend I made a sushi dinner with Fumi, my host mother and her daughter's family....oh yes, and George, Fumi's boyfriend, of course.

We made so much. We barely could finish them....but yum yum!!! And looots and lots of alcohol!!! The dog was the cutest thing in the world and it was so obedient (unlike the dog of my friend....Puky. But Puky is adorable!)

I went back to the school at around 1am on Saturday, after the Sushi dinner and partied like all the other past weekends!!

One of the great things about Konstfack is definitely the party factor. You are allowed to have parties here and even smoke in the building during then!! Yeah, it's so wonderful. The quality of the party isn't so great, but it does its job. At least when you get drunk it gets better and this is a good chance to meet people that you see but don't talk to often.

I have started to adjust my sleeping schedule a little so I live with the normal people's time. I go to bed by 1am, and wake up at around 7am. I started two days ago and it works so far. Now it's 1am already but I am still awake. But it's ok, I don't have school tomorrow so I will wake up at 8am instead, I think. But hey, it's really great to have the sun up when you are awake. I am appreciating the sun a lot more than before, now that I only get to see it for 5 hours a day!!!!!!!!

The Lautrec Project is going just alright, I came up with a new project but I will let you all know more about it when I have a little more time. Now I need to go to bed, so good night!

Wishful thinking.

2007-11-23T08:03:00.000+01:00

In my graphic design department I started to promote print exchange idea.
Basically people make prints and trade them with everyone.
I thought it would be nice, because I really haven't seen any works nor have talked to anyone in the department.
At MICA, where I did my undergrad, it was such a popular thing that you had to sign up for it the day it was introduced, but here, although I limited to only 20 members I have managed to get only 12 so far. I need 8 more!!!!!

PLEASE, people, participate!!!

I have made lame flyers too.

So if anyone of you knows someone from GDI at Konstfack tell them they should participate!

Parappapaaaa

2007-11-21T11:56:00.000+01:00

hej.

I just had my first crit on the Lautrec project today.
Hells yeah to my research skills, I managed to BS a little.

It's hard to do an artpiece that corresponds with the works of an artist that didn't have clear intentions.

What am I supposed to do???

The man was short, I am short. Could that be something that I can use???

WOW

2007-11-20T15:51:00.001+01:00

I just slept 16 hours!!!

Time for some photos!

2007-11-20T02:36:00.000+01:00

Hej hej.

So finally I am getting some work done.....Right now my class is working on this project called TO USE LAUTREC which is going to be exhibited at the national museum. Basically we are supposed to make an exhibition with our artpieces that will correspond with the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition that will take place there in February. Quite cool, my work will be in the national museum!!! WOOHOO!! But it's been a little hard motivating myself because we've been drawing from fashion magazines and it's really not the most interesting thing in the world. But we are now working with Stina Wirsen, one of the most famous illustrators from Sweden....YA!

So now it is almost 3am, I just got up from a nice nap and I will be working my nights away to come up with an idea!!

Meanwhile I am also uploading the photos from the crazy night we had last Friday....aah
Most of them taken by Mr. Wakayama

Man man man

2007-11-19T03:52:00.001+01:00

I have not been working at all lately and I have just been partying and hanging out with friends and what not.
I really need to start getting my ass kicked.

Meanwhile....

WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD!??

the worst news

W O A H

2007-11-17T07:17:00.000+01:00

I just had a nice but a little crazy night.
Photos to be uploaded soon.

7:17am. Just got home.

Have a great day.

This odd thing....

2007-11-15T20:49:00.000+01:00

My friend posted this on his blog so I want to share with other people too!!!

It's kind of disturbing when they do the eyes....

http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/iobrush_quicktime_small.mov

White

2007-11-15T00:07:00.000+01:00

I woke up to this light today. Yes, I've been going to bed early in the morning and getting up in the late afternoon, which doesn't let me see the sun as often as I would like to.

It's already snowing in Stockholm, and it's beautiful:

I can't believe it's so cold....man, it's just NOVEMBER!

I better get a nice pair of shoes for winter...I indulged on a Filippa K coat yesterday which I am going to love forever.
Hahaha, I feel like I am becoming a girl or something.
All the ladies, come to me for some girltalks!! :-)))))

Speaking of girls, congrats to the Spice Girls for their reunion!!!!!
At Konstfack 4 girls and I, who will be replaced by another girl, formed a reunion as an oathe to the original ones.
LOOK AT OUR SWEET SWEET PHOTO:

(From left to right: Sporty, Baby, Posh, Ginger, Scary)

Ok, I know you are thinking we are dumb....but seriously, I don't care.

Forget it!

2007-11-14T03:43:00.000+01:00

OH NO!

I was gonna go visit my friend Thea in the Philippines, but that probably won't happen.....

FRIGGIN CIGARETTE BUMMERS!

2007-11-14T01:25:00.000+01:00

I really must do something about it....
I have been bummed for a cigarette at least once a day.
My classmates, people at school, people I see on the subway or people who just walk up to me.

Screw them, they earn more money than I do, why do I have to give them something?!

Here is a thing I noticed about being asked for a cigarette.

1. If you give them, you feel stupid.
2. If you don't give them then you feel bad
(and the person will look at you like you are the worst person in the world.)
3. If you lie and tell them that you don't have any, you feel really bad for lying.

Swedes are very nice once you get to know them, but the strangers here are just so rude.
When they step on your foot, they walk away.
So I stare at them until they apologize.
I give my special "boy in the grudge look" like this:

But seriously, man. I have said no to cigarette bummers and they really yell at you.
Am I doing anything wrong?! Why do I have to give my cigarettes away?!
SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE!!! BUY YOUR FUCKING OWN IF YOU THINK ME GIVING THEM OUT IS NOT A BIG DEAL!!

My new heroes:

2007-11-07T14:05:00.000+01:00

So today my classes were all in Swedish, so I decided to stay out of it and just look through some magazines in the library.
There were really cool stuff I didn't know, I found some artists that I LOVE.

Here are some examples.

I am going back to the library so you will see some more later!!

Sam Winston:
he is a typographer and graphic designer, but he plays with words; he reorders them and reaaranges them to make aesthetically and also conceptually more striking.

His folded page piece is amazing.....ah!

www.samwinston.com

Yuri Masnyj:
An American artist who does drawings of books books and other things.....nice!!!

Marco Maggi:
Ah, just some BEAUTIFUL papercut pieces.....aaaahhhhhhh
He and Callesen...man I love them.