~*!!HAPPY 15th BIRTHDAY ADELE!!*~

Adele is my best friend, and a great artist. Find her here or here. She does some amazing stuff - she's especially talanted at drawing dogs with pastels.

17:21 12-09-2009
It happens every fall...

... but never ceased to amaze me: bird migration.
Just around this time of year (mid September - early November) massive flocks of birds is seen swarming under the clouds all over the country. It's so beautiful with those black dots flying in circles, preparing their journy to warmer south. Especially swallows can be seen around where I live. Sometimes they even fly right above the surface of the ground, almost dancing around humans walking in the grass. It's my favorite time of the year.
But not all birds are leaving us. A few northen birds - incl. golden eagels - migrates to Denmark to overwinter. Yes guys, Denmark is not all snow and ice and coldness all year round, as some seem to believe. Accually, I can barely remember the last time we had a good, decent portion of knee-high snow.

Anyways, I realise that I haven't written for a while, but that doesn't mean (small) stuff is happening on the site. There's a few new pieces in the portfolio already, but at least one new drawing will be uploaded September 15th. Look forward to this.

13:31 06-09-2009
Practice II

18:07 04-09-2009
Happy autumn everybody!

It's barely September yet, and I'm already freezing cold all the time. Looking forward to the rain.

11:32 30-08-2009
The oddness of daily day

It's strange. We often complain about not having enough time to do what we'd like to do. I've done that alot lately, and Wednesday morning I woke up sick. Therefore, I stayed home from school, but then I forgot why I wanted to do all these things. I didn't just not have the energy to do them, I didn't even have the energy to care. Strange how the human works.

Anyway. I'm almost at good health again, but still a little gooey, so I'm not gonna write anything meaningful today. Maybe tomorrow.

14:35 25-08-2009
Go into the woods

”Men hvad med regnen?”
”Regnen?” Hun så uforstående på mig.
”Regnen, den altudslettende regn, der falder ned som et tæppe over verden og lægger sig op af træstammerne og vasker dine tegn væk. Når regnen falder, vasker den dine tanker bort og du glemmer hvad du er i gang med, og du glemmer vejen. Vejen, som du gik på, du mister overblikket og står blot i regnen, der langsomt visker din eksistens bort fra jordens overflade.”
”Så jeg må undgå regnen,” siger hun.
”Du må undgå regnen.”

Hun tog lommelygten og kridtet og bevægede sig ind i skovens tætte mørke.

18:30 23-08-2009
New stuff

New drawing in the portfolio! That's what I've been spending my weekend on.

Also, when I get some free time, I'll make a new design with a much better portfolio. With categories.

14:21 22-08-2009
Preview

14:57 18-08-2009
Longing for the goal itself

I had an interesting experience today. A girl from my class was watching me draw, and asked me: How does it feel to be able to draw whatever you want?
After being without words for a bit, I replied: 'Well, I can't draw anything I want', and after a bit thinking, I continued: 'Accually, it's the excact thing I want to draw, that I cannot."

That, my friends, is because we as humans constantly strife to be better. We may take each achievement as a victory, but after that, we will always set the bar even higher. And after my short conversation today, I came to think, that when I glance droolingly over the works of my artistic gods, they have their own artists they look up to, and long after achieving their skill level. And when I think: "Gosh, how I'd like to draw that well", then, if I in fact had those abilities, I would try to achieve even more.

Why? Because the goals drive us forward, and true happiness is a myth. Becuase once we truly have completed all our goals, achieved all our dreams, what then, do we have to long for? We might as well lay down to die.

16:32 17-08-2009
A little something about humanity

Other than being a psysical failure, mankind has two prices to pay for being highly intelligent: Painfull childbirths and being unable to function proberly in the morning.

I'm not sure what I prefer.

Also, I've posted a new essay. And you should all read about Ødipus. Especially if you've read Kafka on the Shore.

16:47 14-08-2009
Hey-oh

Hey, did you know, that a Bikini in Spanish is a cheese and ham sandwich? It's been facinating me for weeks, but I forgot to tell you.

With that said, I might as well say this too: School is hard. In more than one sense. I hope it's just a fase.

Expect new art soon~

19:41 11-08-2009
Kitties

I've been drawing alot of these lately:

18:53 10-08-2009
Oh love

It's so nice when people do something like this.

On that remark, you've probably noticed that it's my birthday today. Among my much appreciated gifts was a wonderfull Wacom intuos4 Tablet, so you will soon be seeing some art of much higher quality than before. This is what I'm currently working on.

17:22 06-08-2009
It is very exhausting to travel

Okay, I accually slept 12 hours straight last night. And almost missed my doctor appointment. Just thought you should know.

22:11 02-08-2009
Vacation-vice

So I'm in Barcelona. After being here for three days, this is what I've learned:

- Buying new shoes and hoping to break them in on a city-vacation is a bad idea. Bad.
- I feel very uncomfortable in dirty cities.
- Barcelona is a dirty, dirty city.
- I feel very uncomfortable in crowded cities.
- Barcelona is a crowded, crowded city.
- Waves in Århus are baby-waves.
- Waves in Barcelona are big waves. Very big.
- Big waves are fun and nice.
- But only if you can accually swim.
- Seawater is not nice when entered through your nose or eyes.
- Barcelona is very noisy.
- And very warm.
- But not as humid and warm as Tokyo.
- Yet, more crowded and dirty than Tokyo.
- Picasso drew small sketches, like normal artists.
- Gaudi was insane.
- Gaudi was a genious, perhaps, but he was very, very insane.
- Very insane.

11:12 30-07-2009
Cat-habits

My cats are really strange. Even though there's always water in their bowl, our youngest - Tjat - seem to prefer climbing out the window and drink from the gutter instead. She's even gone as far as drinking from the toilet.
Once, my brother gave them some canned wet food, instead of their usual dry food, as a friday snack. Tjat seemed to like it at first, but we discovered that she didn't accually eat it. She just licked off the sauce, and left the clumbs of meat lying on the tray. Furthermore, our oldest, Mis, doesn't even seem to like eating fish (except tuna). Or eating pretty much anything besides dry food.

Well, with the food cleared, they still have rather odd habits. Tjat seems to have figured out how to climb out the window, through a hole in the roof, into the attic, down the back stairs, scratch the door into our apartment, and repeat the whole thing. Keeped my mom busy for half a day. Mis, on the other hand, seems to believe every woolen sock in the apartment is her kitten, and walks around with them in her mouth. Then she lies them down, tries to make them walk over to her, and when she's unsuccessfull, the tends to forget were she put them.

Our cats are rahter old (11 and 15 years) so perhaps this strange behavour is because they're getting a bit senile. Although, I think it's just because they know they can.

11:41 29-07-2009
Practice



Hey, look, I made an animation! My first handdrewn animation, might I add. It could probably be a lot better, and I still need some extra frames to make it run more smoothly, but I kinda like it. Yes, I am aware of her ever size changing googles, which is just one thing among a lot of issues. It's just made for fun, anyhow.

15:47 27-07-2009
This is fish

13:00 27-07-2009
Not a great day for wildlife

AMOUNT OF DEAD ANIMALS I SAW LYING ON THE HIGHWAY YESTERDAY:

Fox': 2
Hedgehogs: 5
Rats: 7
Pidgeons: 1
Unidentified Critters: 2 (one of them looked like a racoon, and the other a meerkat, but that didn't seem right. If so, they'd both come to the wrong continent to die)

That was rather depressing.

11:48 25-07-2009
Dream Vision

So okay, I know I've already once made a blog about something I dreamt, but I really think you should hear this;
The dream started like any other, boring "normal" dream. A girl I know invited me to a sleepover, but I said no. When I got home, I changed my mind, and decided to call her after taking a shower. When I got into out apartment, I noticed a wierd smell, like gas. But it went away after a short while, so I didn't put any more thought into it. I went to my room and for some reason fell asleep. And then the wierd things started to happen:
I woke up - in the dream - and suddenly I couldn't move my body, and I had a very hard time opening my eyes. Furthermore, the wierd smell was back, and I realised that the gas leak had made me numb. After trying for a while, I finally got my right eye to stay open, and I could see the tip of my nose and a corner of my room. Seeing that my door was open, I knew I had to get to the neighbor to ask for help. But since my body what numb (have you ever tried running in a dream, and suddenly, your body feels heavy and clumbsy, making it hard to move - it was like that, only 100 times worse) I couldn't walk over there. I tried dragging myself towards the door with my feet, I even grapped my desk to pull me up, but nomatter what I tried, I couldn't get anywhere. That's when I started to get really scared. I couldn't reach my cellphone, my parents wouldn't be home for hours, and my head was lying in an awkward position, making it hard for be to breathe - I was afraid I'd choke to death before being found.
Finally, I got by other eye opened, and - woke up. Accually, I wasn't even sure I was avake, since I could see excactly the same as I could in the dream. Everything was on the same spot, even the door was excactly as open as it was in the dream. The only diffrence was, that I thankfully could move my body properly again.
Then I realised, that my left eye, the one I'd had open in the dream, had accually been open. I had dreamt with an open eye, explaining why it was so hard for me too keep them open. It was a very wierd experience. But the strange thing was, I could see clearly during the whole dream. I normally wear glasses or contact lenses, since I don't see very well, but in the dream, my vision seemed perfect. Very strange indeed.

When dreaming, your brain shuts down your muscles, making you unable to move (which explains why I was numb), to make sure you wont hurt yourself when reacting to your dream. I can't help wondering what would have happened if I wasn't numb - I'd probably have walked straight to the neighbor in my underwear and knocked on the door. Man, that wouldn't have been any fun.

16:34 23-07-2009
Phone Friendly

So, my new cellphone has access to the internet, thus was I able to see my website from a mobile. Boy, what a mess. That should probably be one of my goals - making my site phone friendly.
It's pretty low on the list, though. I have a thousand other things to do. I'm sure you'd all like to see what all that fuss of Pilot is about? Haha. Ha.

13:03 23-07-2009
News flash

Oh man, is it 1 pm already? Gee, time has been flying by with rapid speed lately. Like a raptor with a jetpack on its back.
Anyway. I updated my portfolio. Added two drawings. Throught you wanted to know.

23:10 20-07-2009
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince

So I've watched the latest Harry Potter movie, and despite not being a great Potter-fan, I think it deserves a review. Mostly because it's one of the few (and defantly the only HP movie) to which I've ever cried.
And why is that? Well, because the "bad guys" - Especially Draco Malfoy - is added so much more depth in this 6th movie. In fact, Malfoy was the one character I had the most sympathy for during the whole story.
In general, all the characters really start becoming real persons here, especially Malfoy, Snape and Dumbledore show their flaws and negative traits. Sadly, it's only these 'minor' characters that undergoes this development, while our three main characters still might as well star in a romantic comedy, rather than a more serious movie like The Half-blood Prince. Of course, I'm not saying that our main protagonists is pure Mary Sues, just that their flaws are more hillarious than serious.

As I said, I'm no Potter-fan in general, so the story alone couldn't have touched me as it did, if it wasn't for the excellent filming. Just like the 5th, this movie succeeds it's predecessors in composion and mood. The directors have furthermore done a great job editing and shortening the script, so that the telling pace isn't too fast, but you still understand what's going on, and what they're trying to tell, even if you - like me - haven't read the book.

Allthough, it's required that you've seen the previous movies to understand the meaning of the title, The Half-blood Prince, since the movie itself only even deals with the subject because of this title. It's not given much time, and sadly doesn't have the wanted effect while watching. Nomatter, the movie is certanly worth watching, given you have seen it's predecessors.

And as a finishing note: Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince does have a remarkable quallity, that the other movies in the series lacked: Zombies.

17:48 16-07-2009
Get ready

Tomorrow I am going out. In the real world.

09:09 16-07-2009
My Dream Personality

I find it strange, that while dreaming, one can transform into a completly different person, without any apperant similarities in looks, personallity ecetera. Just now, I dreamt I was a girl with another haircolour than mine, another eye colour, even another skin colour, and I/she had kleptomaniac tendances. If I sit down and think really carefully, I may figure out some connection between her and me, but currently, it almost seemed like I was in another host body, in fact becoming a different person.
It's dreams like that, that could make you think ofalternate theories, like past lifes and out-of-body experiences. As a child, I often imagined how at night, my mind would leave my body and switch with another person (in this world or another), and I'd experience their life, just like they'd experience mine.
Because, is it really possible for your mind to chance personality like that?
It never felt like I was 'pretending' to be a different person, like in a roleplay, but I was in fact this girl. If somebody in the dream had asked me to tell something about Emma, the me that's sitting here writing this, I'd have no clue, other than apperance, since this girl was 'hanging around' our family.

Science doesn't know exactly what happens when we dream, but a commenly accepted theory is, that dreams are the Id and Super-ego, telling the awoken part of us - the Ego - how to live our lifes better and solve what problems we might have.
But Jung, a famous studier of dreams, talked about archetypes, which was simply put understandings all mankind have in common - like being able to recognize a tree as something fruital. It's generally what makes us able to communicate on some level, and also makes all human have the same kind of dreams - meaning that we can help each other find out what the dreams are trying to tell us. Perhaps that is why one can transform into someone else, without knowing anything about this person - because of the archetypes.

Enough about that. I could talk about this for hours.

15:29 15-07-2009
Love and whatnot

I love the rain. Really. It's raining right now, and other than the grey blanket that has been laid over the world, rain is perfect in every way. The sound of the raindrops landing on my windows, the smell being brought in with the breeze. The feeling alone of being in here and the rain right out there. Must. Stick. Hand. Out. Of window!
Gee, I love the rain. And clouds.

But now to something completly different (imagine a serious man in a suit saying that - Kudos to whoever can guess the reference).
When school ended for the summer, I was like, yay, I'm gonna be so productive this summer, I'm going to do this and that and this and those. But here, three weeks later, I find myself more inproductive than ever. I wonder why that is. Perhaps it's very important to me to be with other people to bounce of my ideas somehow. It's not that I don't have any ideas, but my creativity is zero. Maybe I should get more out.
Not today. It's so gray.

19:08 11-07-2009
Vacations

Don't you just love all the new stuff on the internet, like mails, updates and such, that waits for you after a week of vacation.
Or maybe you get horribly overwhelmed. Like me. ARUGHRUNAWAY!

20:12 01-07-2009
Zombie

Zombie,
As we step through the grass,
Where did your dreams go?
How many stars have you counted,
Zombie?
Emerge from the earth
Our watery grave,
Where the sun choke.
Your teeth are so rotten.
As you try to ponder.
Zombie.
You reach for our skulls,
Blathering ‘braaaaaains’.
How many stars did you count today,
Zombie?


I wrote a poem today.
And didn't really bother to put it up for download.

22:46 30-06-2009
ARE YOU PUZZLED?

Rens bare fødder smeltede og frøs igen til af brostenenes kulde, mens hun forsigtigt bevægede sig igennem menneskemængden. Pigen hang stadig ved hendes arm, klamrede sig fast til den hvide hud som en udhungret igle, mens hendes blege blik flagrede forvildet rundt på sommerfuglevinger.
”Jeg kender dig ikke,” påpegede hun for anden gang, men pigen nikkede blot fraværende, som svarede hun på noget helt andet. Måske havde hun ikke hørt det. Ikke rigtigt. Hendes sommerfugleblik fløj stadig rundt mellem snefnuggene, der dalede ned fra himlen med en lydløs musik.

Well. Are you?
Oh well, this is something I'm sorta, kinda working on. Some kind of novell maybe. Just gotta figure out the details. And maybe finish Pilot first....

00:23 30-06-2009
Oh my god

Oh. My. GOD! No. Oh my gosh, that's what I should be saying, really. I'm accually trying to stop saying 'God', since I'm not religious in any way. It could be considered blasphemy.
But is it really that big a deal? You might say, if I don't believe in God, I won't care if it's blasphemy or not. And I doubt I'm offending anyone. If I am - sorry, but geez a rather silly thing to be offended by. So much worse religious harasment is going on out there.
So why do I feel so bad for saying 'oh my god'? I don't know. I mean, it's just words, after all. Even though I'm not religious, I don't belive that - if there's a god - they'd care wether or not we say the right thing. I accually doubt they'd even care if we worship them, as long we try to be good and kind to each other. Most religions want the same thing really - for us to be nice and friendly. They just can't seem to agree how to do it. It's just like politics.

It's just words. Oh my goshy god~


(Don't worry, I'll stop writing blogs for today. 3 in a row is rather overwhelming.)

23:46 29-06-2009
!

Oh my gosh, I just found out that 'Hear the Wind Sing' has been made into a movie! Got to see that, got to see that!

23:20 29-06-2009
Everything and Nothing

Have you read some of the works of a Japanese author called Haruki Murakami? His most famous work is 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle', which I am currently reading. I've read a few more of his books as well: 'South of the Border, West of the sun', 'Sputnik Sweetheart' and 'Kafka on the Shore' which I favor.
Anyway, he's been praised as 'world's greatest living novellist', and that's well deserved - his works are amazing. Really, truly amazing. With simply constructed sentences, he's able to capture beauty of the moment, of the whole, the simple essence of life, everything and nothing. After I've read one of his novels, the world seems so much more lighter and simple, yet more complicated than I could ever imagine. His texts bears a simple elegance, without excessive use of complicated words - in fact, a child could read his texts, and understand - if not the deeper meaning - the overall plot. Yet, you have to think not twice, but trice, maybe more, before coming to a conclusion about what the story is really about.

So yeah, it's amazing. You should read it. Seriously, I suggest you run to the nearest bookstore as soon you see this.
What are you still doing here? Run!

Ah well, allright, you can wait a bit. I accually have some more to tell you about this subject. I was reading a bit about Murakami, and was stunned by this; He first got inspired to write, while watching a baseball match. Well, that doesn't sound so strange, really, you can be inspired by everything. But appearently, it was the moment an American player - Dave Hiltion - hit a double, Murakami realized that he was supposed to write. The same night he started writing his first novel, 'Hear the Wind Sing'. I have to read that, when it gets translated.

Well. Read his stuff, then.

21:46 27-06-2009
Cloudy

I'm going to write about clouds today.
Why? Because clouds are truly spetacular. Have you ever just sat and watched them? Well, you should, really. You get the same feeling when you watch stars. At least I think so.
So anyway, clouds are rather amazing. They consist of frozen crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter (at least on Earth). When a billion are together, they become visible. Furthermore, clouds are divided into four classes - A, B, C, and D.
But's that not really what I was going to discuss, accually. You can read this article, if you'd like.

What I really wanted to say - well, what was that, anyway? Clouds. Countless nuances of colours. Does the wind blow them around, or do they decide where to go themselves? So far away, yet very close.

Seriously, I don't know excactly what I'm trying to conclude here. I love the clouds, they are amazing. I feel wonderful watching them. There. Man, I need sleep.

07:34 23-06-2009
Point

Why grading with numbers is so much better than grading with letters

17:56 22-06-2009
Hey, Guess what

Yeah. New design. And a week early, woohoo.
Accually, I wasn't going to upload it until next monday, but it would be better to have it up now for various reasons. So well. Here it is. Tadaah.
To be honest, I still need a single page (About - Character Sheets, if you were wondering), but since finishing that will be alot of work, I'm going to do it during the summer. Wonder if I'll get it done before fall, haha.

Other than that, there's not much to say. Just that I'll have some advertising up soon, I hope. Oh, and remember to look at the clouds. They're pretty.

Enjoy.

19:19 17-06-2009
What makes it all worth it

This is made of pure love and win. Just that you know.

16:31 15-06-2009
Check-up

Well, I don't accually have anything to say. Just wanted to let you know, that the new page is moving quickly forward. There's a preview in Art.
The page will be fully done in about fourteen days, maybe a bit more, where my summer vacation begins.

Oh, and another thing. Check out this great artist. His tecnique is really amazing, so is his colour combinations. That's kinda how I'd really like to be able to draw someday.
Well, that's it I guess.

Take care.

16:22 3-06-2009
Ah well

Hm. What is this? A blog? Why, yes, it is.
As a teenager, your mood swings alot. And when your mood swings, you have your ups and downs. Eventually, you get the feeling that everything is use- and meaningless, the things you do are mediocre and nomatter how nice people are to you, it's hard to appreaciate. What you do, just doesn't seem good enough. When this mood comes over me, I cling to the hope that it will pass by. Because I know it will, eventually. Yet, when you can't draw, write or do anything for that matter, you get a little grumpy.
But then a day, you're walking home. All of sudden, your body feels light, even though you've just been complaining silently about all those stupid teenage issues. There's something.
Maybe the sky is a certain, blue nuance.
A tree branch wobbles in a certain rythme.
A bird flies over your head and drags your eyes along.
Some guy talks on his cellphone a certain way.
Your footsteps makes a special sound as you walk along the sideway.
And then you think, 'Well, hey, life is pretty nice'. And keep walking.
Just keep walking.

I'm a person who likes to watch the clouds float by, to listen to the wind and smell the rain.


With that said, I have some news. This website has been down for way to long, so I'm going to make an effort to get it up and about again. I will also make a few changes;
- First of all - lets get rid of the 'stuff' section. What is that, anyway? Stuff nobody really cares to read, and just takes up space on the server. Besides, I don't care for adding new stuff onto it, anyway.
- This means, that tjatter.dk will mainly be used for two things: Blog and portfolio. Regarding the blog, it's not going to be the usual teenage-blog 'hey-guess-what-I-did-today' kind of thing. I'm a person who likes to think. I can probably put some meaningful things on here.
I will add ALL my art to the portfolio. That means drawings, photographies and texts. Alot of it will be uploaded elsewhere too (like deviantArt and Tegnebordet) but this will be the 'base'.
- Furthermore, I consider making a shop and adding some Google Advertising to the site. Simply to make money. I'm not allowed to have an after-school job (Even if I was, I'd be to lazy anyway), and in about a year or so, I will have even less time. (I'm considering taking TWO educations at once = no time), and if I'm going to travel after school, I gotta make some money somehow. Besides, my parents do SO much for my - thank you for that. I love you guys - so I feel like I should be paying for some things myself.

Anyway. Enough about that. My summervacation starts in late June, so from there, tjatter.dk is going to the updated. Yay.

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