Bokmässan dag 2 3 4

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Jag strundade i mässan igår. Det fanns inte några föredrag jag ville se och lördagar är vanligtvis väldigt trånga. Jag har bara varit här en kort stund idag. I väntan på att förlagen kör sin vanliga tok-rea med fyra till priset av ett så sitter jag bland toma vinglas i pressrummet. Mässan avslutas med någon kort presentation för pressen där man otvivelsutan förklarar evenemanget en strålande succé och välkomnar oss åter nästa år.

Vet inte varför jag inte har haft samma entusiasm det här året. Vanligtvis lallar jag runt som förhäxad av alla böcker och shit, men nu har jag mest varit uttråkad. Delvis så beror det på att de seminarium som erbjöds var bland det lamaste på länge – väldigt få var värda att gå på – men framförallt så tror jag att jag saknade ett mål med att vara här. Tidigare har jag haft som mål att antingen få med mig så många böcker härifrån som möjligt, andra gånger så har någon varit här som jag verkligen ville intervjua, men i år så har jag bara gått runt i cirklar.

Det är en timme kvar innan allt stänger. Jag ska kolla om det finns någon att träffa eller något att göra. Syndikalisterna hade en presskonferens som jag missade tidigare idag eftersom de satt Bonniers leveranser i blockad. Det är löneförhandlingar som har strandat. Yelah.net har en kort notis om det här: SAC blockad

Bokmässan dag 1 video

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Här är lite video från gårdagen. Jag har fortfarande inte kommit iväg idag – behövde sova – men jag ska i stället ta det lite varligt och vara världens softaste människa idag, inte det minsta fylld av bitterhet.

Här är några bloggare från bokmässan som jag hittade på Youtube. Hah! Jag kan åtminstånde exponera ordentligt. Å andra sidan så har jag ingen koll på vilka som bloggar och jag har ju lovat mig själv att bli bättre på att mingla. Måste monetärisera bloggen som det heter.

Bookfair

I’ll be reporting from the Gothenburg bookfair this year again. Last years reporting can be found if you click on this text. In the meantime, I’d like to try out which of the video formats work. I’ve heard complaints that some of the video that I’m putting up on Revver don’t parse properly, depending on platform and browser.

I’ve been using Revver for the past year for two reasons:
1) The video quality is slightly better than Youtube and the like. It’s still not as good as hosting my own high-quality Quicktime movies, but that’s a bandwidth issue.
2) I get a pittance every time someone clicks the ad in the end. This hasn’t worked out all that well since Revver don’t localise the ads to audiences. Many of those reading this are from Sweden, so have no interest in the latest blockbuster crap that is premiering in the states.

I’ll be switching hosting company within a month, and will hopefully get an updated version of the blog software and unlimited bandwidth. I don’t know if there’s a point in putting ads on the blog, but on the off change that I get Slashdotted or Boingboing-ed, it might work. Anyway, what’s your kneejerk reaction to ads, and ads in the videos. Let me know, I’ll pretend like I care.

From the top, here are four different versions. Let me know in the comments if any of them don’t work, and in case you like one over the other, let me know that as well. Oh, and don’t forget to mention your browser and platform. (The last video is too big, I know, but I’m interested if it works)

Flash using Javascript:

Quicktime:

Flash embed:

Quicktime using Javascript:

Finishing a job, drinking wine: cough & boredom

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I’ve been a bit knocked out by a cold the past couple of days. Sunday was horribly boring. Before going to bed I realised that the only actual conversation I’ve had with anyone for the whole day didn’t add up to more than three sentences:

1) Saying hi to Eskil when he came by to pick something up
2) Saying bye to Eskil ten minutes later
3) “One pack of LM Light please” at the 7-11

I am looking forward to getting my last salary from Yfo next Tuesday – until them I’m on 50 kronor per day, and since smokes cost 40 I’m not in a happy place. Today turned out to be nice since Tobbe visited – we went to the driving range and he did a handbrake turn. I was impressed.

Saturday was mini-out-day and Jan was kind enough to buy me beer. And wine. And whiskey. And I was coughing my lungs out at the same time. I recall Lenny Bruce (Woody Allen?) making jokes about tuberculosis being a sexy disease; None of the people I spat pieces of my lungs at seemed to appreciate it though.

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Nuclear reactor DIY

* A while ago, David Hahn tried to build himself a nuclear breeder reactor, and hilarity ensued. As a kid I read a lot about blowing stuff up, but never did more than smoke-bombs. This kid started reading up on physics and chemistry and collected radioactive materials. Very good article: harpers.org

* This is rather odd. My old domain guiltyguiltyguilty.org has been taken over by a spam blog, but Google still shows the domain when a search for “mateusz pozar” is made. Yes, I do vanity searches occasionally.

* I once downloaded a video with a guy in a mullet describing how to fight with knifes. I don’t know if any of the pimple-faced boys that bought it found use for it, but it’s fun to watch. Here’s a video of a British person showing you how to defend against two assailants.

The best part is the one lonely comment beneath the video:

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Windy art

A video with some random crap I’ve caught the last week or so. The opening at Röda Sten, Thomas Hirschhorn lecture at Konsthallen, and a crap party out by the bridge. It ends with a moneyshot of me. Ten years from now I’ll be looking at that video and thinking “Dang, I really looked quite nice before all the world war III radiation mutated me”.

Kawaii!!!!!!! and Aqua Teen Hunger Force not so kawaii

Insanely cute dancing robot thingy. Slightly reminiscent of a dancing coca-cola can that I had as a kid, but just so much nicer. And the video is just kawaii beyond belief. Read more here: www.beatbots.org

I listened to Dangerdooms album, and thought that I recognised a few samples. Checking it out on the trusted Wikipedia, I learned that much of it was themed around Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a semi-retarded cartoon series. Naturally, I decided to download the feature length movie that just came out, Aqua Teen Hunger Force colon movie film for dvd, and it proved to be a nonsensical piece of surrealistic something. I guess it might not be a perfect fit with you pallet, but I thought I’d show you the intro anyway:

If all anti-pirate copyright messages were like this, I wouldn’t object as much.

Google word search

Googling random words can give good ROI.

Proper: www.apropersite.com
Funny smell: www.netdoctor.co.uk

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Avurt. It sounds like a yoghurt but is actually a “non-lethal” “self-defence” “weapon”. It shoots something that might make you vomit. And it’s available in pink. You have to check out their webpage – the infomercial video that autoplays when you get there is gold.

If you want to get me a present, get me one of these: www.avurt.com

And here is an example of a certain lack of finesse in a gaming commercial:

Making movies and taking pictures

Jan Pilgaard, the up and coming maverick director, was graceful enough to let me take part in his latest production as a stills photographer. Two days of loitering and taking so many rolls of film you would not believe, (Yeah, I know, film, in this day and age) if you’re unable to believe any number higher than 20. Fun, but leaves me thinking I should do more. So I’ve decided to start doing porn-art; the worst of two worlds, or the best, depending on your disposition.

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Also, there is a sky over Gothenburg, and we have birds, and occasionally family that visits and anti-nato grafitti:

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A while ago we were on a roof, drinking wine and discussing good sniper positions for two hours. My insight into proper sniperish behaviour is exclusively derived from movies and camping in Ghost Recon, so obviously I’m an authority:

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At a certain point in the evening I became, against my better judgement, involved in some sort of vegan debate. This spectacles are more often than not unfruitful and leave me bitter and with yet another dead body to dispose of. Judging from my gesturing and Petters cowering/laughing, it’s easy to surmise that whatever I said about vegan hot-dogs was brilliant, and whatever anyone else said they can stfu and keep to themselves:

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Todays theme: It’s too warm! It’s too cold! It’s raining! I’m tired and my body aches!