No one is in Control said Zygmunt

In the news

 recently read about the election of Austria new leadership. I read the day before that the bad man

won so then I felt surprised and glad that it was not so the day after. So close between the rightwing

Norbert Hofer and an environmentalist Alexander Van Der Bellen. Alas, nature won over the strong

opinions from an angry man(and also almost 50% of the voters)

The article about the election in Austria tells me that two other European countries has a extrem

right leadership already, which is something to worry about. If you didn't care before I mean,

connected to this is the man whom visited Stockholm ten days ago, a man that has a lot to say about

the human society For me other news is Zygmunt Bauman, 91years old, is still alive,

a short interview is available on SVT (Swedish television), I so could have been listening to him IRL

if I wasn't jetlagged from the Berlin trip and happy to be home in the garden that sunday. I could go

on and on about how beautiful that city was and also filled with heavy memorabilia from the war, but

also green and bohemia that like vegan and bio-markets, its more to choose from that in Stockholm,

ecological and arts, picnic in the park. I've

seen the remains of the Wall that has so many songs written about it from like the Who, Bowie, Ebba

Grön to name a few. I left Berlin with memos from contemporary art and In the Hauptbahnhof museo

there was a video room where Cate Blanchett played 13 different characters that were synched in

moments, called Manifesto, I visited with my mates the site, Teufelsberg were some scenes had

been recorded with a view over Berlin. It was amazing abandoned but still entrance fee and graffiti

all over the place... [insert pictures here/link to album]

The old man that is Zygmunt tells about how evil has spread into society more broad then before,

and how technology has changed our society. His english speaking voice reminds me of

that of Count Dracula in Bram Stokers Dracula(1991), the way Gary Oldman talks.

To look at the swedish society shows really how things

are with a computerized wealthy place how the nature of sociability has become less and

more people are more stressed out and sure we are more connected online with cellphones

but at the same time more unavailable because of it.

He talked about power and politics. Power means make things done. The politics are there for to

decide what to be done. No one is in control. Things happen randomly.

What will the future be? There is always hope. Hope, yeah.

I like that the green party, the environmentalist won in Austria. There is still hope of a better future. 


Folklore: yesterday I read that Loki(Loke/Lodur) was the one that named Saturday/Lördag in

Swedish/northern society before the Christianity decided to change it. They kept the holy beings of

Sun(Sol), Moon(Måne), Tyr, Oden, Tor and Feja as naming the weekdays.

So it was OK to have the warrior God Tyr, God of wisdom and death Odin, God of Thunder and

Freja - the godess of love for friday but no to Loki, the giant creative/destructive (also most human

force) because the day in the roman calendar was Saturnus, so close to satan.

The church had a meeting the year 1153 in Nidaros and decided to change what for the priesthood

sounded like a satanic Lodursday to Laugardagen (a washing up/holy water day) for it to sound

alike. So what was taught in school was a lie. The Seventh day is no longer bathing day

it is Loki day.

I wonder how much more little lies there are written in books. I dare not think about it. 



No one is in control... 

but the people voted Ukraine to win ESC2016. 

"I could not spend my youth there

Because you took away my land

I couldn't have my homeland" 

translation of the difficult crimean tartar refrain

words the story of the singers aunt/ or grandma? 

and it is not political? It resonated with many anyhow.

The one with the remote control got the power. Sad but true. 

sometimes words are not enough

Like doves cry or maybe like swans cry

RIP Prince,  rock on in heaven

thanx for Diamonds and Pearls

I am ok, Im o key, I am k

The will and the word ought to make things happen.

Wouldn't it be nice to see Faldors farm in the next TV-series, with Polgara, Old wolf and Garion?

Make that happen. Make that into film. I wish.

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Last seen film Valhalla(1986)

It's an anime made by 16000  something drawings with the help of old school Disney Studios

with the danish-born Peter Madsens comic book Valhalla to draw from.

I read those comic books when I was in my first years in school and as I come to think of it,

them books were freshly printed some of them back then. I ran to the library on the during the days

school breaks, to not have to be outdoors with trouble was what I longed for,

no trouble just reading about how Loke fooled Tor, how the kiddies got along with

the Gods in Asgard. And when all comic books was read, heavier books came along ...

Now in this cartoon film there's is a fantastical scene of the figures of the chess game

 being alive

(which film had that first? I've seen it being copied later in Harry Potter?)

as Oden plays with a talking head as opponent(a clip is shown 2:08 in the trailer)

I like then how the great Tor has to challenge the Trolls for to lose against their trickery,

although the story has happy ending of course. It's a weird film sometime and funny as well.

This above is the trailer. A gem for me becoz I have a connection, it brings me back to those carefree

days and at the same time one sees the story differently with oh like 20 + years or something have

passed and I know a bit more about what work that is behind the film 100 people in the studio helped

coloring this handmade work of art and it amazes me that I can go to the library

next week to find a book or two in the saga of Valhalla that I haven´t read yet,

becoz I had forgotten about it, I wondered if this is the first time I saw the full film,

It maybe so as I haven´t heard them speaking Danish before (they were swedish in my head)

Another work Peter Madsen has done is said to be his better which

is to have drawn a tale of Hans Christian Andersen, the story of a mother,

and I'm sure it's beautiful,

though I have to go to Denmark once more to get it. Meanwhile I got the saga on the Youtube and it

sure is something touching about it that goes to all that has a heart about the loss of a child,

a mother's sorrow


Last seen cinema film one week ago: The Danish girl. It's good if you feel like crying for 2h 

that´s the film you will see. How identity, how body and mind can be so different?




Next mission on top of all the others: Make Eddings Belgarion into a Disney stylish Peter Madsen

comic book or something ?

Cheers, Happy Easter holiday- Gla´ påsk

Je suis bruxelles, jesuisLahore, Je suis Paris, Je suis le femme - Bless them as they do not know what they do. 

Dear die ary - die area - diarrhea?

Hear comes som word blubbering once more feel free to join in.

The art of being an artist is like that an artform in itself

if you do not have any significance

then you are just you

In the mind of a teaching of eastern origin it is so

that we are all one and the same,

You need to be good to yourself first and then in meditation

you take in the one closest to you in the same room as the one most far away,

you set your mind to make those close to you and the opposite meet and greet.

Pick n choose that person that is your worst enemy and put him to into that imagined room

in meditation breathe in, breathe out

make opposite ends meet to make the circle of life by a thread

Stay optimistic, be prepared for anything and reach out when needed

Be nice

Karma is what decides how the future will be, what next life will turn into

so listen carefully to this tune

the Karmapolice by Radiohead

Oh my another year is gone

2015 so dark it was. in my diary the year began with Charlie Hebdo and the worry for freedom of speech globally. Twitter began #JesuisRaifBadawi soon after for the poor father of small children imprisoned for having blogged freely against an old regime. The year ended better after the climate summit made an agreement on things also in Paris like a month after another attack in Paris. People all over the world  Stars have returned to heaven (anita ekberg) What does Paris matter for me livin in Stockholm then? For the western civilisation it is France which has a lot of history and I was there in Paris 2013 and hope to go visit in the future. All weapons should be banned from earth. Who needs a gun but the hunter? In these days the hunter is overdue because food vegetables are grown in the soil. All vegetarians are set. Thats a future to look into?

In January I returned to Visby for spring in Gotlands Konstskola. We learned about filmmaking, to take a photo, make a 3min film, even some stop motion. Then as it were an exhibition in May we got the time to do our own projects. Alba chose photo, Sofia body painted and photographed the dancers, Elin made a wall full of printmaking screen, some clay figure, aquarelle, a bit of this and that. Elina made three lamp shades with beautiful pattern on silk paper like, Desiree made a puzzle, Gabriel had his nice oil painting, Amanda had her scary short film and there were some thing more on display because we had two rooms at the Gotlands konstmuseum to exhibit. I had my two wooden marionettes named Joe and Dot, the wall of Visby in dry pastell (a painting that still await to be framed in a roll because it got a bit too big for the local frame maker), a 3rd thing I did combo of Percy and Marguerite from TSP and the words "the greatest thing I'll ever know is to love and be loved again" (from the song of Nature boy). Bye to Gotland and Hello Täby.

In the summer I became more involved with Roslagsmålarna, and offered to make their new homepage which is done six months later, with a little help from my friends... by halftime I threw out the first idea and begun with a new, wordpress made it easier

printmaking screen, 3 colors 

This august she begun Printmaking school where she got the opportunity to make her first book "It's handmade with 200 blank white pages, sewn in and glued all by myself." Me like. Many books to come I hope for this year.

So a shortlist for the 2015 in culture for me personally

Happening of the Year: Trip to Barcelona(mom 60y birthday)

Fun fact: Win of ESC 2015: Sweden, Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes

Song of the year: Sabina Ddumba - Effortless

Film of the Year: Så ock på jorden av Kay Pollack

TV-serie of the year: Jordskott av Henrik Björn

Book of the year: Global Eating Disorder by Gunnar Rundgren(Released dec 2014)

Summing up the year, I've learned lots and hope to someday find that somebody to share it with.

Ballerina, oilpainting, October

Barcelona, May 2015

Printmaking, linoleum, Nov

Cold water, April

Christmas/Julafton, December

Visby, January

Visiting Finland in July

The Fog, Visby, February

making donuts and buttercoffe, August

Marionette ,May (for the exhibition) 

Gotlands konstskola, printmaking, copper ,Mars

the wall in progress, April?

collografi, September

raining, August

Passing through June

Pepparkaka? Peppercookie?

I will hear Edith Piaf songs in the back of my head all day long now.

It has gone a century this day since she was born. I was not into her music before I met a frenchman.

Those french are something...  I cannot describe in any way, well they're lively. Passionate. 

In Lucia 13th of december it was sung about the light that will comfort us in this dark time of winter.

Celebration of St Lucy every year in Sweden since 1865 something, it started as a "spex" with 

apparently a male student at Lund University dressed in the white nightgown with light in her/his 

hair. There are a few mocking songs but even more beautiful christmassy songs most of them about a 

star that show the way to where a child was born according to a fairy tale book written some time 

ago.

Every child likes to be Lucia nowadays, who wouldn't want to be the center of attention for that day?

The lady in white dress with red ribbon round her waist and candlelit crown in her hair. Followed by 

the tärnor, stalledrängar, tomtar, pepparkaksgubbar, mest stjärngossar. 

Then the popular song Lusse lelle could be heard from voices 'elva nätter före jul ' (11 nights before 

christmas) 

which means its not long now 19th of december. Edith Piaf born 100 years today, only her music 

lives on now. 

Strong lyrics from a chanson that lived hard, loved a lot and sang with power and that charm.

Todays assignment: Baka pepparkaka, a part of christmas tradition, in this house it's about making a 

gingerbread house for the little santa figures to live in, each year a bit different. And the taste of 

gingerbread dough is always pleasant y'know that mix of ginger, cinnamon, kryddnejlika and what 

else. It's an old recipe.

I wish for a peaceful christmas, thats all. 

40 years ago this day/ 40 år sedan detta hände

The appearance of Cher & David Bowie was aired 23.11.1975

which means it was 40 years ago today

so you youngsters do you recognize any of them songs?

för 40 år sedan uppträdde Cher och David Bowie med detta medley på

 the Cher Show, CBS den 23 november 1975.

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