SUMMER READS

I am enjoying my holiday and spending a lot of my free time reading my books. Finally! On exam periods I try not to pick up a book of my choice because I don’t want to get distracted. Oh my, how I missed reading books. It’s about to go down. I usually don’t read several books at the same time because I forget so quickly but I am just too excited. Oh yeah! Here are my five summer reads. 

’CREATIVE CONFIDENCE’ by Tom Kelley and David Kelley. This book is inspiring, informative and motivating. Need to boost your creativity? I think this book will help and guide you on how to think differently and creatively. 

’graphic design school’ by David Dabner. I got this book for my birthday ages ago. My best friend and I were talking about our dream jobs and I said that I wanted to work as a graphic designer. For my birthday that year I got this book from her. This book is a good introduction to graphic design and as a Multimedia Design student I thought it wouldn’t hurt to reread it again. It explains in a simple way the fundamentals such as layout, colours, composition and typography.    

’STEN SAKS PAPIR’ by Naja Marie Aidt. Aidt is my favourite Danish author and her short stories are the best I have ever read. It is because of her I began writing my own short stories. ‘STEN SAKS PAPIR’ is her first novel and I wonder if it is as raw and bizarre as her short stories. 

’BROOKLYN MAKERS’ by Jennifer Causey. Rereading this book because creative people are inspiring and so are the pictures in this book. Causey interviews thirty craftspeople living in Brooklyn who will make you jealous when you read what they do for a living.    

’Lynch on Lynch’ by Chris Rodley. I am a huge fan of David Lynch so of course this book is on my list. I have a habit to write down words and sentences I find inspiring and I guess this is why I haven’t finished this book yet. My notebook is full of words and quotes from this interview book.  

TWO THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN

Is it too late for me to say ”Happy New Year”? Time flies by so quickly! I actually did mean to blog on the very first day of this year. I did start writing on the post but I simply just forgot to get back at it. The post was just a bit of rambling of how my year was in 2013. To be honest 2013 was a bit of a disappointment so I guess it was all depressing to read anyway. Now that we are pass 2013 and in the very end of May I seem to have thrown most of all the negative vibes off my shoulders. It wasn’t all bad and I got some very dear memories from 2013 too. One of my most favourite memory and event from last year was the Lumineers concert. As I said at my previous post, my boyfriend and I went to see The Lumineers at Vega. They are one of my favourite bands and I was so excited to see them live. The concert was amazing, intimate, and absolutely fantastic – and we were front row! Now picture your boyfriend wrapping his arms around you and your favourite band decides to go closer to us audience because they want to sing without any microphones so it would be more authentic – and hey, they also sing your favourite song from their album too. No words can really fully describe that moment. It was just so pure.

Now we are in year 2014 and I cannot believe we are entering June in an hour. 2014 has been good till now. Quite busy these past few weeks because I am in the middle of doing an exam project. I am always a bit of a wreck on exam periods. Nothing new under the sun since I have exam anxiety. Anyway I just wanted to say hello, I’m {perhaps} back. I really want to do more catching up right now but I have to get back to the exam project. Priorities, you know. By the way I imported some old posts from my other blogs. I wanted to just have one blog instead of seven {?!} with all my posts. Most of my old posts are private but there are some for your eyes to see too. Okay, I really have to go now. I promise to catch up real soon. Bye!

HERE COMES THE CAVALCADE

My boyfriend and I are going to see The Lumineers tonight! I'm so excited! We immediately bought the tickets in September when I found out they were giving a concert in Copenhagen. There were only a few tickets left so I couldn't wait for my birthday in case they got sold out. So instead I bought a ticket as an early Christmas present for myself. My boyfriend likes them as well so he tagged along and bought a ticket too. Earlier this year I experienced the amazing hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and only in a couple of hours I’m going to see and listen to one of my favourite bands, The Lumineers. 

CHRISTMAS FEVER

I think there is something gruesome happening with me - I'm in a serious Christmas mood! I've been Christmas shopping, I made a squeaky sound of excitement when I saw snow yesterday, I voluntarily went outside to enjoy the sight of what seemed like a white soft duvet surrounding every single corner, I’m looking forward to decorate the apartment today, I’ve collected twigs and pine cones from our park, and right now I’m listening to the Michael Bublé Christmas album. Honey, call the doctor!

THAT'S NO MOON, IT'S A SPACE STATION

I have wanted to blog earlier and make small updates but I have been so busy! Crazy busy! I have been doing so many things lately but the fun part is I actually can’t remember what I’ve been doing. I just know I’ve been busy and I’ve missed blogging. Perhaps doing a bunch of stuff has made me want to write about it. When I finally have time to do so I’ve used that time to rest instead. Now when I’m finally fully rested I have of course forgotten all my recent activities and thoughts. So since I can't remember what I've been doing except from school and a bit of Christmas shopping I just want to say Merry Christmas in here! I can’t believe it's already December and a new year is just right around the corner. I thought I would turn into a Grinch {just less furry and green} on the first day of December, since I usually hate Christmas, but not this year. I don't know if it's the many strings of glittering lights outside or the beautiful orange sky early in the morning that has un-Grinched {yes, that’s a word now} me. Maybe it’s because my sweet sweet sweet boyfriend has given me the ultimate advent calendar of all time! I wish you all a very merry Christmas :-)

{Lego Star Wars brushes found here}

SUNDAY

MR. DARCY

It is pouring outside! How cosy! I wish I could hide under my soft duvet, eat cookies, drink tea or a cup of hot chocolate and rewatch ‘Pride & Prejudice’ - but I have to start writing a report. We are currently doing our second project and it is to be hand in this Friday. It is going well with it. I am content with my group and we haven’t had any struggles yet. By the way my lecturer has seen my first project, evaluated it, and I have passed! Before I started at the academy I was curious about how they would grade us. Therefore I have attached my lecturer’s comments {last image} if some future Multimedia Design students are here and curious as well. This is how they evaluated my first project at my academy. Well, unfortunately that report won't write itself. Till we meet again Mr. Darcy.