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More about SVA

Just a few posts ago I wrote about the new Norwegian fashion magazine SVA. The magazine is currently for sale at Norwegian newsstand-slash-deli-ish-idunnowhattocall it – Narvesen, so Norwegian buyers; go buy it! For everyone, I’d suggest emailing them and they can probably help you! I emailed them and asked for more info, I got this press-release in return (in Norwegian, translated below) :

Det har vært en lang vei, med humper og hinder av større og mindre slag, men nå er første nummer av SVA klart. Vi er enormt fornøyde med resultatet!

Ideen om SVA har lenge kvernet i hodet til Svein Bringsdal. Svein kjenner motebransjen godt og har blant annet jobbet 3 år som motefotograf i Milano. Men etter å ha jobbet med mote i mange år og på kryss og tvers av landegrenser, vokste det frem et ønske om å lage noe etter eget hode. Ikke rette seg etter føringer fra kunder og utenforstående, men kjøre sitt eget løp. Og rett og slett lage det ultimative motemagasinet. Spør du oss, er det nettopp det du holder i hendene nå.

SVA begynte for alvor Ã¥ ta form da Svein møtte Rikke Straus. Lidenskapen for hvert sitt fagfelt, foto og styling, førte dem sammen. Svein og Rikke fant fort ut at de snakket samme sprÃ¥k, nÃ¥r tema var mote og magasiner. Deres to unike stilarter – presist lyssatt, nordisk og naturinspirert motefoto, og gjennomarbeidet, kreativ og en smule eksentrisk eleganse – fusjonerte under en truende, vestlandsk himmel.

SVA er det første motemagasinet med base i Bergen. Hovedkvarteret til Fashion Images, som utgir SVA, ligger i Industrihuset på Møhlenpris.

Neste nummer kommer i April, 2009.

In english:

It has been a long way, with bumps and obstacles, big and small, but now the first issue of SVA is ready. We are incredibly proud with the result!

The idea of SVA has been spinning around in the the head of Svein Bringsdal for a long time. Svein knows the fashionworld well and has amongst other things worked three years as a fashion photographer in Milan. After working with fashion for several years all around the world, a wish to make something from own head emerged. Not to adjust to the lead from clients and third-parties, but to run his own race. Simply to make the ultimate fashion magazine. If you ask us, that is excatly what you hold in your hands now.

SVA started to seriously take shape when Svein met Rikke Straus. The passion for each of of their respecive fields, photo and styling, led them together. Svein and Rikke quickly found out they spoke the same language, when the subject was fashion and magazines. Their unique styles – precise lighting, nordic and natureinspired fashion photography, and precise, creative and a bit eccentric elegance – fusioned under a threatening western [as in the west of Norway, not Western, -a] sky.

So go pick it uuuup if you can find it, It’s gonna be worth it!

sundance kid


{picture: The Selby – words: kent – design: me}

X-rated!

We know you secretly love (and is equally secretly disturbed by) nude pictures of overly skinny fashion models. This is Magdalena Frackowiak from V magazine.

(oh, and I was just called the best insult ever; euro bitch, don’t you just love that?)

Magazine galore!

Norwegian newsstand/thing Narvesen now has a 25 per cent discount on all foreign magazines! Yayzoo!!! So this weekend I picked up Wallpaper*, Grafik and i-D (the issue I already talked about). I also picked up a brilliant cardigan from H&M, which I will post pictures of later.

Oh, and everyone, check out Lookbook if you haven’t already. Not only is it an amazing place for outfit/streetwear-galore, but it features really awesome fashionesque swiss webdesign, very clean and easy interface. Shurely a place I’ll be hangin about.
LOOKBOOK.nu: collective fashion consciousness.

The silence inbetween


It’s quite natural in fact, sometimes you just don’t feel like talking, sometimes you’re too busy, it happens. I’ve been starting a new job, and this weekend we played a gig in Oslo (there will probably be pictures of me in denim hotpants, stockings, doc’s and cat-makeup around soon – hey, it’s halloween right?), sleeping on the floor. Very little, I may add. So yes, yawn, tired today, work tomorrow, non-stop, yesh! Hope yr all fine and dandy, x’s and o’s!

Yep, smile please (it’s the apocalypse, crisis, whatever)

new cover from Dazed and Confused, very cute!

oh, and sorry for the lack of posts, or interesting posts – it’s just cu-way-zee here, started new job, and going to Oslo tomorrow and it’s SNOWING and waaaaaaaah!

Svaaaa

So the Norwegian blogsphere is just BUZZING! At least the most perspective. Not much info out yet, but there is a new magazine out there, based in Bergen… and it has a nice logo and Siri Tollerød on the cover

Interior design/looking outside

…the frames you are used to. If you work/are interested in a creative field (graphic design, fashion, photography, fine arts etc), you probably spend some time online finding inspiration. I’m a graphic designer and spend countless hours online scouring through blogs and sites finding inspirational images. It’s important, however, to look beyond your frames, if you are a photographer – it’s inspirational to take a look at how a graphic designer views things, or if you are a fine artist, it’s inspirational to see things from an architects point of view. I’m a graphic designer with a keen interest in fashion (as this blog is about), but even beyond that it’s interesting to look at other forms of design and visual communication and fine art.

Right now I’ve started looking a bit at interior design, and not just interior design as a design form as ways people design their own interiors. I was long under the impression that the most interesting and inspiring form of interiors was the clean and minimalistic ones, but after looking through some images I’d say the opposite. This conclusion also comes from decorating our home (I live with a interior consultant-cum-graphic designer), where we has a foundation of (actually rather masculine) big black wood furniture (bookshelves, tables etc), but it only gets interesting when you start messing things up, putting all the stuff that means something to you up, making collages on the walls from tear-outs from magazines, prints, scribbles etc. Messy is cozy, and I will most definatly post some pictures of out appartment here when I get around to taking some pictures

The first picture is from here, a portrait of sorts of Ingrid Scram by the very inspirational blog The Selby, and the second is from here, a portrait of tattoo-artist Scott Campbell. I’d reccomend checking out the blog for some very inspirational interiors, and see how inspiring people make their surroundings inspiring as well, and maybe give a thought to redecorating your home/flat/room. IKEA is very handy too by the way, buy your foundation furniture there and look for the things to decorate with elsewhere.

200th post

and my pageviews have today plunged like the american stock markets, hnnngh! Have a lovely weekend, chiao!

The Velveteen Rabbit

“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

Read the whole story with pictures, by clicking:
Continue reading The Velveteen Rabbit…

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Voyeur

So, today, I’ve taken the voyeur part – and I dunno if it has been self-developing and big, or gut-wrenching and horrific. It’s wierd, seeing all the emotions unfiltered, yet faceless – concentrated, but spread, real but still just rendered fonts, pixels, light and clockworks.

I am a human being with feelings and I need love and concern just like any other human beings do

-17 year old

Through WE FEEL FINE – a online “visualizer” that has categorized and indexed millions of entries on the web starting with “I feel” or “I am feeling”. Take a look at it, it’s interesting to watch, be the voyeur without actually seeing something – do you imagine their faces, or do the emotions just remain a (ridiculously well-designed) font… letters, pixels, red blue and green lights.

Sh-sh-sh-shhame

You're gonna walk on home
You're gonna walk alone
You're gonna walk so far
You're gonna wonder who you are

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Forestfires

blogs are dead, long live the blogs

To start the story backwards, I just found this, an article on how blogging is sooo 2004, does he have a point? Is having a blog really kind of obsolete, and most blog-posts just a repost of a repost? Or is this just a really superficial way of looking at it, because pfft, we don’t do it for the fame or the glory or the cash, this is self-expression and not some hunt for readers and fame. I’m guilty of thinking both. Many write blogs updated daily, but still only gets one or two comments, myself included. On the other hand, I rarely comment on other peoples blog, so maybe I shouldn’t say anything. I’m certainly going to keep it up, and I’m going to write what I want, when I want, and I think everyone else who blogs should do the same. Blogs are the technologic ways for everyone to have a voice, no matter how many listens, and no matter what that voice decides to say. That is the beauty of it, it allows a carelessness of the writer, a “I don’t give a fuck what other people think, this is what I have to say”-mentality.

Although this is what smotheres many of todays blogs, they are commercial, dependant on their readers – hey, even I apologize to readers I’m not shure exsist if I haven’t updated for a while, it’s crazy. But anyway, I’m going to keep it up – not for you but for me, but I still hope you enjoy

Rawr, raff


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Not much going on, and so much going on. Still in pain from the effin dentist today, but it’s wearing off. Got a message today that I got a job, yay, finally, money. Probably more dentistry-visits in the time to come, both for me and my fiancé – bleh. On the other hand it’s nice to get to spend some time in the woods, it’s nice, and a bit strange. Very much happening now, but it’s nice. I’m a bit dry on what to write here though, so there will probably be more sporadic, random entries here for a while, while I am busy finnishing my portfolio, beeing productive, real-life stuff is important too, right? So have some lovely autumn days

Slimane

Congratulations to Mr. Slimane for beeing represented by Art+Commerce, and enjoy his self-portrait. We’ve left the appartment for another weekend in the forest, and new dentist-appointment tomorrow. I’ve discovered dentists are much less scary if you bring an iPod with some hard music, I can reccomend skinny puppy for the drill. Yeash!

Now for coffee and ice-cream, haha.