week 16 - meet Bob

the leading man in my socially deprived life here in O. 

week 15 - and my territorial attitude is...

pure evil. i might be found one morning in the studio killed by my territory, while it's running around in the ventilation shaft.

week 14 - Bjølsen

so the wait is over. i've moved. i'm feeling giddy and exited. the studentvillage is new, cool and so pretty. the houses are... well studenthouses, but pretty nice nevertheless. and the landscape architecture is made by snøhetta... sooooo cool. my dormroom has an own bathroom (yay... no more unindentified hair in my drain.. no sir). the room has a feeling of a ships cabin or a hotel room, sterile but not unpleasant. the furniture is nice and what is the best part- no more babypoop colored walls. yeeeeees! the view of my room triggers a dèjá vu from my past. nothing bad, but nice... something from my childhood. i think that this will help me to connect with place more. so all is well in oslo....

here's some pictures from my place. you have the street views, my room, views from the common room window and last but not least - an estonian house warming present, bread hedgehog. cute, isn't he.

week 13 - Båntjern

week 13 - candle factory

i've done my fair share of odd jobs in the past (the best example maybe being a worker at the canned food factory.... that was such a donald duck- summer...ugh) but this was the best one. just a couple of nights of dipping candles in dye and then packing them all christmasie. totally jump started my christmas spirit early this year. the factory is a part of the folkmuseum in bygdøy. everything is made by hand and by a real person. i just hadn't realized that making candles is such a craft. it was such a lovely way of earning a couple of extra krones for the holidays. maybe now there will actually be presents to give out.... hah. or a pair of new shoes in my closet.

week 13 - Villa Schreiner / Sverre Fehn

week 13 - details

after starting to lug my camera everywhere i go and shooting anything that i think could work as a picture (btw, about 0,1% of the pictures take end up here...) i've started to notice different kind of things. i'm starting to see the world as snapshots of moments. see the situation for the details rather than the big picture. and it helps when i'm here (and no, it's not that terrible here, i'm just a complainer, it's actually really nice). maybe it's a coping mechanism while being the orphan of the group (to truly evade whats happening around me has always been a personal gift, ask anyone who knows me) or maybe the photographer in me is finally awaking who knows... what am i babbling about, i dunno. it's early. anyhoo, took some detail pictures, here they are.

week 13 - mortensrud church / JSA