Jak se mas

Hey everybody.

I have to brag about being on a professional set. Some people from school were brought in to help on a music video for the UK rapper Ghetto. I was lucky to get the sparks position (setting up lights and such). The director, Luke Biggins, has done over a 100 videos for various artists such as Ludacris, All Saints and more. So this was a very nice opportunity and very fun through and through, despite the massive rain and finishing at 6 o´clock in the morning.

So I uploaded a school project. It wasn´t my own but I acted in it and was in charge of the lighting. It´s here: One person, One life, One Moment . Please leave a comment for it. I like the look of the footage. It was shot on super 16mm film over one day. We had about 15 locations in total so all in all a very successful shoot.

We are working hard on our fourth project although I have second thoughts about my story. This weekend we are shooting a mini project on our own. Since we can get the equipment for free in school then this is the chance. It is a short story that takes place in a toilet. I won´t tell more and just show you the result when it comes to it.

Me and Benni figured there can´t be much unemployment here in the Czech Republic. And here are 2 reasons for that.

1. All the sidewalks are made of tiny stones so it probably takes weeks to put down a sidewalk for a street and then they have to put down the slightly bigger stones for the street itself. 

2. There are hardly any trash bins here but the city is relatively clean compared to Copenhagen for example. The metro stations have absolutely no trash bins so there must be a lot of people cleaning up in there.

3. How many army store does one city need. There is approximately an army store every 200 meters here.

I will surely find more solid reasons soon. 

Anyway keep safe and have a nice day.

Já sæll

So I´ve been busy, or lazy, or something.

We have been busy in school and have shot 3 projects already. Yes they will be online soon. I am working on it. They will be put up on youtube before the week is out at www.vargur.com. So it´s been working out allright. I´ll try to put up all the films I worked on. Acting, Gaffing, Camera and all that can be done basically.

This week I´m editing project three. A satire inspired by the financial crisis and how it affects the average Icelandic student who is studying abroad.
The idea for the fourth project is a couple that has come to a point in their marriage where the verbal communication is long gone and instead they communicate through Post-It notes.

Otherwise I´ve been having a great time in Prague so far. Although there is little time to do things because of the school.

Anyways keep an eye out for the photos as I am a little bit more efficient posting photos than writing blogs. FlickR

s1a

jedno blog prozim

Hmm. Looks like I forgot the blog. 

So the first days of school have been great. Good teachers and good fellow students. This saturday we shot our first assignment, a simple action with no dialogue that takes place around a bench. It took two hours to shoot and we start editing today. The end result is a one minute film and I think I have a good result.

Later

Anglitcky

Since I do everything for my girlfriend, this blog will now be in English. She absolutely insisted on it!

So I´ve been here 6 days now. Still don't have internet. Vladka has ordered it for me though. They tried to call me this morning but their english was about as bad as my czech so I'm still waiting for an english speaking person to call me. A few moments later I got a call from Slovenia. That guy talked straight for 2 minutes and when I told him I´m not czech he just hung up.

I just delivered 6 films for developing and will probably post some pictures on thursday-friday.

I had a nice time with Sigrids friend Kali in Prague saturday night, which resulted in me hanging at home yesterday. I went out for breakfast/lunch and got some pretty weird food. It was a chicken steak baked in potato mash. I´ll probably never have it again.

Stuff will hopefully be more interesting when I start school.

Nejsem Czech! Anglitcky?