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there is something very intimate and beautiful with self portraits. Here are two I took recently. In some days I will hopefully be in my new flat. I hope so. So that I can focus on school projects. I've been in London for one and a half month now. That sounds like a long time. I haven't gotten anything done though. It feels like. Idiots at Apple still have my computer.

Coffee and corporations and stuff

I am sitting in the Bond Street campus, listening to Nize techno while drawing coffee cups and and coffee beans and stuff. Nice! I'm starting to handle this massive work load now. I made a schedule for myself. It helps. So now it's time for coffee and food break. So I better go. I can actually handle this work load and it feels great. And it turns out I'm only doing projects on how bad big corporations are at the moments. Turns out I become more and more like a radical rebellion, just like my father...

Learning Zone

It's so weird when someone make a place that have only one means: learning. It almost never works. Recently my Mac have been at Apple for maintenance. So I went to the learning zone at University of the Arts' site in Bond Street. It turns out I can borrow a Macbook and head phones here. Life is good. This is zuper nize! I finally feel the value of paying ridiculously high tuition fees. I actually have several spaces I can visit and work creatively in.

Right now I'm working on a brief where I am to make to opposing brands and give them a typographic brand identity. It sounds very easy. And it could be. So I made something easy. Two different café concepts. But in fright of that it was too easy I hesitated working on my idea further. What change does this answer to the brief give to the world? And what do I learn from it? I feel like it's all things I already know. 

I want to make design that can help people. Design that moves people and changes the world. I'm not saying I want to save the world, even though that would be very nice. But I'm saying I want to affect it in some kind of way. I'm trying to find out how my design can affect the world. And if I can't move all human beings, then some of them. As many as possible.

back on track

Henrik and me taking a taxi Helsingborg-Copenhagen led to massive post drunk anxiety the day after

sketches from a project I'm working with now

Flat mates Bjørnar and Marte in arty warehouse flat while signing tenancy contract

Mari in Primrose Hill with gorgeous dogs Zero and Bandit

Zero in Mari and Michael's house in Finsbury Park

After a few weeks of anxiety and troubles I am now hoping for better times to come. My mac has been broken, my camera was stolen, I didn't have my own flat, my iPhone broke, I don't have head phones for my iPod, had troubles starting my school briefs and I spent quite a lot of time alone in London.

Everything has been sort of a mess lately. 

And when you're alone you get to think a lot about a lot of things. Like life. And all that.

And... I've been so extremely ambivalent recently. I can't choose what to eat or where to go. I'm hoping everything is going to solve in the time coming. I found a flat yesterday. I'm going to move in with graphic design student Bjørnar and fashion designer Marte in a converted warehouse in Seven Sisters. It's gonna be finished in two weeks. It's the completely ideal situation. We will possibly live very close to one another. But we are going to make the perfect art and design workspace together with super high ceilings, art on the wall and tons of art and design neighbors. And it's cheap. 

Home, Malmö and London

Wow. A lot has been going on lately. Everything is sort of a mess. I had a small vacation in Malmö. Went to Helsingborg for a day. Went to Copenhagen for a night. With a Taxi! Bear with me! I flew to London. School has started. I don't have a flat, I hesitate starting my school projects and my mac is broken. I haven't played my own music in ages I'm barely breathing. I can't wait for things to be a bit more settled. I miss time to eat more than two meals a day. I miss knowing how much money I've got.

It's almost sick how addicted you get to your computer. I have my whole life in there! It's like nothing works when I'm without it.

I'm bringing sexy back

www.andreasryalen.com

Hair is sexy

And I can't believe it took me so long to understand it.

Roads

Status Quo

Roads are to split

Standing still

Going back in time

How will it be

Changed forever since

Or just the same

Will tomorrow be

Like in the past

With beers, conversations and laughs

Like if yesterday was a sweet melody

When it was just like today

Times will come with greater moments

Than in the present

I will not dwell with the past

Fredag på Tynset Hotell. Jeg har tre timer jeg må slå ihjel. Men det er helt greit. Jeg tror jeg brukte de første 5 timene av arbeidsdagen på å våkne. Den siste uka har jeg ikke klart å sove ettermiddagshvil. Det har resultert i at jeg bare sover 5-6 timer hver natt. Det er altfor lite. Jeg kjenner jeg er sliten inni kroppen. Virkelig. Alt er et stort tiltak. Jeg ser en tallerken jeg må rydde. Jeg tenker "skal jeg rydde den?". Jeg tenker lenge på det. Kanskje fem minutter. Jeg gidder ikke rydde den. Jeg er tom for energi altså.

Men nå er det fredag. Og jeg vet godt at i kveld er jeg i Oslo. Det er alltid deilig med en helg hvor det skjer noe helt annet. Jeg håper på bra club-nights på Blå og The Villa. Jeg trenger det. Om bare noen uker flytter jeg til London igjen også. Jeg gidder ikke helt å tenke på hvor slitsomt det kommer til å bli. Det er alltid jævlig å flytte. Masse ting man må bære, mange stygge leiligheter man må se på før man finner den man vil ha osv.

Det har akkurat vært en episode av Hotel Cæsar på TV. Nå er det 7th Heaven. Det er kjedelig. Jeg håper Oslo blir morsomt. Men jeg kjenner at jeg ikke har noen forventninger. Uff. Livet. Hva skal man gjøre med det da?...

Livet mitt er ganske kjedelig om dagen. Jeg kommer hjem fra jobb. Er sammen med familien. Spiser middag. Ser på fjellet. Det er fint. Ser på de røde og gule trærne. De er fine. Skrur på Facebook. Skifter status. Kjeder meg. Overspiser. Skifter status på Facebook. Bestemmer meg for å slette profilen på Facebook. Ombestemmer meg. Overspiser litt mer. Legger meg. Gud, jeg må få et liv. Jeg vet det kommer snart. Når jeg flytter til London. Noen ganger har jeg lyst til å slette alt. Alle Internett-profiler. De gjør meg ikke noe godt uansett. Det er bare tidsfordriv. Dessuten er det deprimerende. Og jeg gjør det fordi jeg kjeder meg. Jeg skulle ønske det var mulig å leve et liv her. Jeg skulle ønske det bodde folk her. Ungdommer. Det er ikke noe rart jeg synes livet suger her hjemme. Det er jo ingen jevnaldrende. Og det er ingen moro. Det er bare en kiosk hvor det sitter 17-åringer og drikker Cola. Jeg er lei av å skape min egen underholdning.

Golders Green
Warwick Avenue
Heathrow
Copenhagen
Helsingborg
Roskilde
Oslo
Hodalen
Tynset
Trondheim
Oslo
Helsingborg
Malmö
Copenhagen
Hodalen

some words to enumerate my life

irrelevant questions
can't compete
with the real things in life

words
can be hard
to find

silence can say more than words
because it is in silence leave nothing unchanged

Snapshots with smoke

Here are some goodies from Helsingborg earlier this summer.

Web page

I'm workin on my web page project now and It's actually evolving real good! I'm using Dreamweaver and Fireworks learning it all by myself with online tutorials. I've been hesitating starting this project for a long long time. Maybe almost four months. Web takes so much time to complete. But I can't wait to get it all online. It will be such a proud moment!