There’s No Place Like Home
Where and what is home? I’ve been giving this a lot of thought recently. In 2008 I moved away from home (albeit after half a years travel), to the other end of Denmark, to Aarhus. Growing up, home was the house of my parents, but why? I imagine it was because I saw it as [...]
20 Questions For Every Spiritual Seeker
Reference: 20 Questions For Every Spiritual Seeker. 1. Why is there poverty and suffering in the world? It’s easy to blame other people, nations and the past. But it doesn’t absolve us from not helping now. But why? Nature. We build corporations that take advantage of lesser developed areas, by using the cheap labour. Warlords, [...]
The Luckier Sex
Men are the luckier sex, not the stronger sex mind you, but the luckier. Women are the superior sex, in nearly every aspect. So why are men the luckier sex? That has nothing to do with the millennia of the man being the stronger sex, the dominant gender, right up until the second women’s rights [...]
Refresh
I told myself that I’d do one post per month, here I am, on the last day of April, reminding the internet of the self portraits I do, realising that I haven’t done this since February, and my March post was secret. It’s not that I haven’t got anything to say, I’m just a terrible [...]
“As Time Goes By”
Wow, was the last time I wrote about my photo project really January 11th? Ouch. I’m not going to go through every single picture since then, but I will present my favourites: January 12th: Plain old fun, I took 6 separate pictures with a moustache drawn on my mirror, and put them together. January 15th: [...]
u2π
I have started a second blog, yes I know that I very rarely write here, but this other blog is in Danish. I made it for two reasons, that I would like somewhere to write in Danish, and because I thought of a great name. The Danish word for utopia is “utopi”, which is pronounced [...]
2009 Inauguration
One year ago today, I woke up in Montevideo, a new life, a new world and a time filled with unexpected surprises in store for me. I had no idea of what lay ahead of me, only that the immediate future was mine to decide, where I went, what I did and with whom I [...]
Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colours appear
I love the title of this post, it’s beautiful. I’m not gonna go out and shout at the top of my lungs, that I’ve had a terrible life. I’ve never been abused, maltreated, misused or neglected. But that isn’t what the quote aims at either, it’s a balance in between the good and the bad. [...]
Bush, The Memory
This article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7783286.stm Argues that George W. Bush might be remembered well as a president, as he made tough calls that had to be made; similar to the situtation Truman was in; and justifies this statement by saying that at Trumans lowest point, he had a 22% approval rating, far below anything George W. Bush [...]
365 Days… 11 Days Down.
I’m doing a “365″ project, which means I will take a picture of myself every for a year, challenging my creativity in photography. So far some of mine have been good, while others have been more generic, but I’m absolutely happy with the project so far, and I’m looking forward to continuing with this for [...]
Trainspotting
Very nice day indeed, I spent 7 hours at work not doing much. When I got home I spent about an hour or so cooking, in preparation for the arrival of Sine and Kra, two of the scouts from my group, who were coming for dinner as well as Trainspotting. It was a lovely evening, [...]
365 Days
I have begun a new project, on flickr there is a group, where the goal is to take a picture of yourself, every day for a year. Mine can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twaize/sets/72157612073169406/ The little flash banner on the side, has been updated to show the pictures. The goal isn’t just to take a picture, [...]
Simon
December 11th, 2008 Having celebrated Christmas and my birthday at my uncles place, eating duck and other traditional Christmas food; I was given a candle holder and a photography book which I very much appreciate, although my uncles praise for my own book superseded it. On the way back, DSB didn’t disappoint me. The train [...]
Crazy Christmas Cabaret
December 17th, 2008 There are certain traditions in my life, and one of them is watching the Crazy Christmas Cabaret every year, together with my very good and old friend Christian Løber. First year we did it was back in 1997, when the show was “Tarzan, King of the Swingers”. The show has sexual undertones, [...]
While we wait
To kill the wait, I will post some of my favourite pictures from flickr: Quite possibly one of the happiest, come-to-life pictures I have ever seen, it is as cheerful as Hoppíppola. I wouldn’t call it happy, but it’s beautiful, serene and secretive. Incredible action shot, although as a photographer, I’d be afraid to get [...]
Out and about, AIDS
Today and yesterday, I was out for the AIDS foundation collecting money; I was standing in something called Bruun’s Bazaar”, asking everyone who passed (well… mostly), if they wanted to donate to the struggle against AIDS, and to as many as I could, I gave out condoms. When you’re standing around for that long, you [...]
To err is human, to moo bovine
I love Denmark, it’s my country, but I hate Danes. Our royal family, what a royal pain. I mentioned Billed-Bladet before, the royal magazine of the week, they leech off everything remotely related to the royal family, if someone spent a weekend with one of the princes, they will come back 2 years later for [...]
Rød Grød med Fløde, Blåbærsyltetøj, Angstskrig & Røget Ørred!
Is there anything more Danish, than those 4 expressions? They are tongue twisters, designed to make foreigners turn into question marks, trying to comprehend, why any language would develop such sounds. But that’s not what I’m here for, I have a rant. I have a rant about Danes, being Danish and the values connected to [...]
The Party
Saturday night (25th of October), Andras had arranged a party, from our dorm of 10 people, suddenly we were 50 in a not too big room, with loud music, singing, talking, all the follows and some Hungarians playing chess. The music was great, so was the mood and people were very cheerful, however as buses [...]
The City That Sometimes Sleep
I have now lived in Århus for nearly 2 months (on the 24th of October), and so much has happened, when I came here, I had no idea of the changes to come, it has simply startled me, what a difference it is, not only to live on your own, but far from home, in [...]
Thank You
I have just arrived back in Spain after 5 months on the road, and what a ride it has been; certain people have followed by trip the entire way on my blog, and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. It’s very early to have a certain view on the trip in retrospect, [...]
The Last Transit
20th: Forgetting everything about time zones, I thought I would be able to sleep, so around 23, I took out my contact lenses and closed my eyes to sleep, however it was then announced that the descend would begin shortly, and I remembered everything about timezones, put in a new pair of contact lenses, and [...]
Boston
17th: I landed around 11.30, my bag came out very fast, and in no time I was on the metro on my way to my hostel. The hostel is fairly central, and very nice, with a great selection of cheap places to eat around. However I had plenty of time left, it was still early-ish [...]
