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I’m a Super Hero

The traditional “rustur” is coming up this wednesday, and, for some reason, people need to dress up. I was lucky (well, I cheated) and got “Super Hero”. I wanted to do something different than the common guy-with-a-cape, so I initially chose The Spirit. Thinking about it I kind of doubted that people know who he is, so I chose V, from “V for Vendetta”, instead. It’s probably not going to be very detailed, I haven’t been able to find a cheap hat, but at least I found a pretty neat guide to make the mask with paper… I wanted to buy a real mask, but there’s no time. Anyway, this is the result:

Good enough, I’m going to be drunk most of the time anyway.

Click here for some horrendous acting (and blood!)

I don’t know why I haven’t mentioned this before, but a lot of the movies made during my stay the European Film College, has been put online. One of them is “The Nursery”, a sci-fi horror movie I co-directed and wrote for our final projects (well, I made an adaptation). I’m not particularly proud of the outcome, the acting is mindblowingly bad, but at least I feel we partly succeeded in creating some suspense in the final scene. Also, our budget was 2,500 kr.

I’ve also added direct links to some of the movies I think you should take a look at, “The Sandbox” is an animated film, made with rotoscoping by a group of people who had no experience in this field, when they started at the school. Some scenes haven’t been completed, but that’s actually kind of cool, since it gives you an idea of how much work’s had to be done. You should also take a look at “A Life Depleted”, an extra-curricular (made in the students’ sparetime), written by Simon (polt).

All movies
“The Nursery”
“The Sandbox”
“A Life Depleted”

Foot diseases make me gag

My god, it’s been a while. I’m a Bachelor student now, which makes me all kinds of awesome. Example? I completed this today. Notice the smooth edges, and the soothing colors or are you just laughing hysterically from the ingenious humor? Thought so.

Copenhagen, here I come!

Come September I’m gonna move to Copenhagen to study Medialogy, and I’ve been looking for an apartment for some months now. Last week I finally got one, and I went to check it out yesterday. I’m moving in with a friend of mine, and his buddy, so it’s a four room apartment. It’s located in Hvidovre, which is perfect because it’s pretty close to where I’m going to study, and where he’s gonna work. Also, it’s 15 minutes from the main train station in Copenhagen. The minor downside is that it’s kind of small, 75 sqm with one room being only 10 sqm, on the other hand it’s very close to the train station and the tenants are extremely nice, which is probably the most important thing. I’m moving sometime in August.

So far, these are the only pictures I have:

Stuff I’ve been doing

Hello there, I finally got around to post a new entry, I’ll just kind of write about stuff I’ve been doing the last three weeks or so.

First of I ended my stay at the European Film College, it was rather sad, especially because some of the friends I’ve made live in other countries. On the other hand, staying in touch is easier than ever with Facebook, Skype, etc. The last week on the school was awesome, we didn’t really have anything to do, the only real thing that was planned was the screening of our final projects, so we just partied.

My movie didn’t really turn out that good, our main problem was the actors, we had two kids and two adults, the actor playing the dad was very good, the other three kind of sucked. Also, since it’s a sci-fi we kind of had to built a convincing set and we only had 1500 DKK for the entire project, but the end result was still satisfying (see pictures in latest entries). It was awesome to see the other final projects though, some of them were really, really good.

As a finale we got to see Nimbus Film’s new movie, Det som ingen ved (What No One Knows) because their owner, Bo Erhardt, is the chairman of the school’s board. Leading role is (surprise, surprise) Anders W. Berthelsen, and it’s a "Oh-my-God-is-the-Danish-government-making-chemical-weapons"-kind of thriller with an added commentary to the Big Brother-like society we’ve come to live in. It’s directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen and co-written by Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel’s writing partner from the EFC. I didn’t really like the movie though, seemed like I had seen it before, just better.

Then I got home, just in time to prepare a little doc-like movie for my mom’s 50-year birthday, which was this friday. It all went down fine. I also got to see Iron Man which was a pleasure to watch, well, until the movie’s third act though. I’m thinking of going to the cinema to see it again. On another note, the fourth season of Lost has started again, and I’m gonna watch the tenth episode this afternoon. The season has really taken off, the start was quite boring, but now it’s great. Since the weather is so nice I’ve also bought a bunch of Ray Bradbury books, more specifically Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles. Right now I’m reading the Chronicles, it’s a bunch of short stories about mankind’s colonization of Mars, and they all intertwine nicely. The book’s written in 1951, and the stories all take place in 1999 – 2025, kind of funny to read.