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Article: Aarhus And The City – Part 2/3

Published on December 1st, 2007

 

Martin Roald on top of the house in Brooklyn, where he was living in fall 2007.

In my second article about New York, I focused on how to get there. How can you get to experience the life in Manhattan if you are from Denmark and do not have a work permit?

I asked two Danish students, who were doing internships at the time.

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Article: Aarhus And The City – Part 1/3

Published on November 1st, 2007

 

St. Marks Place in East Village, NY. There is always something to do.

During my fall 2007 stay in New York City I wrote a series of articles about life in the city, compared to my home town Aarhus. The articles were published in the student magazine Delfinen. In this first article in what became a trilogy (published in November 2007, #136) Read more.

 

 

High-end Fashion store: Komakino 4.0

Published on October 1st, 2007

 

Preview of Komakino 4.0

The Komakino Guerrilla Store is an amazing men’s store in Vancouver, BC. It moves to a new location every year, following the constant fashion flux. With every move, there appears a new website and for me it was an honour to design this year’s. First, I developed the version 2.0 website, with panoramic images of the physical store. Read more.

 

 

Talk: Entrepreneurship in a different way

Published on September 21st, 2007

 

How to become your own boss... poster for event at In Spe

Yesterday, I gave a short presentation on “entrepreneurship in a different way”, at In Spe (the entrepreneurial network at Aarhus School of Architecture). Usually, entrepreneurship is all about business plans, budgets and investors. My key point, in this presentation was that (especially as an architect) you can acually just start work. There is really no need to slow yourself down with all that planning.

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Book review: City Of Glass

Published on September 8th, 2007

 

Sample of the graphic novel adaption of City Of Glass by Paul Auster.

In the September 2007 issue of Delfinen (#134) I wrote this incredibly short power review of the graphic novel adaption of Paul Auster’s City Of Glass.

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A writer’s website: Thorkild Borup

Published on July 29th, 2007

 

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The idea of designing a website for a writer was a new challenge for me. Thorkild Borup has written several books about famous Danish authors including H. C. Andersen, Benny Andersen, Ludvig Holberg and Tom Kristensen. Therefore, he needed a simple website where the main focus would be on the text/words and he showed me a couple of examples from other websites.

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Written exam: Photography and reality

Published on June 1st, 2007

 

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This paper discusses the use of digital manipulation in fashion photography and how this is changing our general perception of photos in general. Read more.

 

 

Article: Fashionomics

Published on May 1st, 2007

 

Cover of the May 2007 issue of Delfinen (#133)

After a short break, Helle Rohde Andersen and I resumed our scribblings about fashion. In our fifth fashion article, published in the May 2007 issue of Delfinen (#133), we provide an account for how fashion affects national economics.

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Movie: Udsat

Published on April 22nd, 2007

 

Still image from the movie 'Udsat'

The story is relatively simple, yet it has a certain ambiguity that adds an overall tension to the movie. We did worked most on the pre-production of the movie.

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Lassegruppen

Published on February 5th, 2007

 

Lassegruppen anno 2006

Lassegruppen was a study group at the department of Information Studies (at the University of Aarhus), collaborating on exam papers from October 2005 through April 2007.

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Online shopping guide: LidtMereLuksusIHverdagen.dk

Published on January 18th, 2007

 

LidtMereLuksusIHverdagen.dk, a personal shopping guide by Pernille Skovbjerg Pederse

LidtMereLuksusIHverdagen.dk is a personal shopping guide designed and researched by Pernille Skovbjergs home website . The site also is a clear statement about how websites can be more interesting, inspiring and feminine. Read more.

 

 

Written exam: Body and clothing

Published on January 14th, 2007

 

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This paper examines the move from a Cartesian distinction between body and mind to a phenomenological body in-the-world.  Henceforth, it discusses how clothing in many ways became an integral part of our body, since covering the body is the rule, since public nudity is considered unappropriate .

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Written exam: Out of the iron cage (OA)

Published on January 5th, 2007

 

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This paper describes the movement from Max Webers verstehen sociology, to Bruno Latour’s and John Law’s actor-network theory.

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