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Trackside view - Icelandic graffiti!

Submitted by hvati on Fri, 05/03/2010 - 09:17

LCF - 3OS 1LCF - 3OS 2

So, on my way to work this morning I couldn't help but to notice that there was some chrome paint on a freight car. Luckily enough I had my pocket camera in my bag and snapped to shots of the piece.

The most brilliant thing about it all is that it says LCF and 3OS which are two rather big Icelandic graffiti crews - a bloody brilliant start of a Friday if you ask me!

With a trackside view!

Submitted by hvati on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 09:48

Kolding Tracks 1 Kolding Tracks 2 Kolding Tracks 3

Some people (for instance my wife-to-be) would hate to live or work next to a busy train station. But WOW, although it's a small "country-side" station I love it.

I love graffiti and lately I've got to see a lot of it due to the great placement of my office window! I get to see a lot of freight trains coming by. That leaves me with the thought of where they got "painted"... Leaves my imagination on full speed.

Today is a beautiful day in Kolding and I decided that I should get my self out once and snap a couple of pics of the freights. May not be the best examples of graffiti passing by but hey, at least it's not snowing or pouring rain.

Peace!

Represent! Hip-Hop artists and their hometowns.

Submitted by hvati on Fri, 26/02/2010 - 09:26

For the past week I've been listening to a lot of music, mostly Hip-Hop.

What hit me all of a sudden is that I realized I had been listening to 3 songs that involve the artist's hometown. One of them is in Icelandic so bear with me on the lyrics.

Pato Pooh Feat. Adam Tensta - Follow me

Jay-Z Feat. Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind

7berg - Reykjavík

I'd love to hear some more examples of neighborhood-patriotism!

Current Top 5 on iTunes (3.2.2010)

Submitted by hvati on Wed, 03/02/2010 - 23:02

So, I thought today that I should write down a current top 5 list. It's fun to look back at, too!
These songs are hard to find online so I leave it up to you guys to get them.

1. Tower of Power - Back on the streets again
Kick-ass track from 1970 of the album East Bay Grease. The chorus has been going on in my head for the past days. Just love it!

2. Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the cradle (Harry Chapin cover)
Of the album Americas Least Wanted from 1992 - A pretty similar case of wont-go-out-of-my-head-syndrom. For some reason I stumbled across this song a few days ago and I find my self repeatedly wanting to listen to it, again... and again... and once more!

3. Owl City - Fireflies
Absolutely my girlfriends fault, I might end up taking to Copenhagen to see Owl City on stage. It has this reality-escape feeling, all jolly and adventurous.

4. Marco Polo - War Feat. Kardinall Offishall
A true, East Coast underground track! In fact Marco Polo's Port Authority (2007) is one great album. This track is great for workout exercises as well!

5. Tower of Power - Diggin' on James Brown (Live)
Yes, been listening quite a lot to funk and soul these days. This song from the 1999 album Soul Vaccination: Live, has such a great drum pattern laid down by David Garibaldi - a true funk legend! I just want to go out and have fun every single time I listen to this track.

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I guess there will be (I hope they meet my demands) some songs by Ginger Ninja (DK) as I have read a lot of reviews and articles about them in Danish magazines and I plan on getting my hands on their album soon.

Stay tuned!

Confessions of an artist

Submitted by hvati on Tue, 26/01/2010 - 23:11

I have always, and I repeat, always said that function follows form in design. I've just always thought of design that way. I even stated this in my final exam.

Until now!

First, for the past days I have been working on a website and the more I read and more I did my research I have come to realize how important the function part of a website is.
I've been through numerous articles on Smashing Magazine and that has certainly altered my aspect to designing websites.

One of the things I have come to learn are the grid systems - although you know they are there you somehow manage not to use them when designing. I think it has slipped my mind for the past years.
A good friend of mine, Atli Þór, told me about a book (The Grid System) couple of months back that discusses these grids and best practices. It is definitely on my shopping list now!

Second, I have always thought of user experience as how one looks at a website not how he uses it (yes I know, this is why I'm confessing). This is mainly due to the fact that I have mostly done websites that this new-found-understanding of "user experience" has not so much existed.

So, as the title reads - I needed to get this of my chest.

I am looking forward to designing websites with this approach!

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