#WeekEighteen

[songaweekorg]

Week 18 is here! - https://goo.gl/nQ6JDA - #songaweek2020 #saw20 #weekeighteen #haha #hoho #huh To hear the songs, join the mailing list, and learn more about the project, visit = www.songaweek2020.com Love and art to all <3 (at Cookeville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_vV1eCDr-B/?igshid=cjnlv6juike9

[joenormandesign]

Zones of Retainment - One of the ideas I explored in my presentation was ways in which birdlife could be kept for a brief period of time within the city. The main path of flight through the city are birds migrating from Zealandia to Mt Vic and vice versa, I wanted to look at how these species could be enticed to stop and how that would affect the flow through the city.

The areas I am looking at are Frankits Park, the empty lot by Massey University and the old tip top factory in Newtown. These three zones are evenly spread and located centrally between the two major habitats. Each park would focus on a different form of natural interaction whilst providing a green link and breaking up the distance between the two major habitats in Wellington

[klvnhrpr]

#weekeighteen #justintimberlake #lovedstoned (at Tangible Fitness)

[whereareyoureallyfromfrom]

Week Eighteen-Twenty

Week Eighteen/Four and a half months Week Nineteen/Almost five months Week Twenty/Five months:

On the language front:

I've finished the first two levels of my Norwegian course and we started level three this week.

Last week I posted a list of the things that I am confident talking about in Norwegian.

In the last two classes we had before the break I formed two sentences that I was really proud of, both about grammar:

Adjektiver er ord å beskrive substantiver. [Adjectives are words to describe nouns.] Adjektiver med siste bokstaver 'ig' har ikke 't'. [Adjectives with the last letters 'ig' don't have a 't'.] [As I explained in a previous post adjectives are conjugated along with the gender of the noun they are describing. One of the exceptions are words that end in 'ig' (such as koselig [cozy], hyggleig [nice/pleasant], deilig [delicious].]

Due to the holiday season we spent a lot of time with family and my Norwegian tends to improve when I'm around more people speaking Norwegian and holiday drinks don't hurt either.

I've been joking about how my flatmates don't feed me unless I ask for things in Norwegian, but really it's a good way to practice everyday words. Kan jeg få smoret? [Can I get the butter?] With all the dinners over Christmas I got a lot of pratice in.

I was required to read all of the gift cards on lillejulaften [the day before Christmas Eve] and the four “young people” (yes, including me) took turns on julaften [Christmas Eve].

On the last day of class before the break we sang a few traditional Christmas songs and the fiancé and I spent an afternoon going through them to make sure that I understood everything (it was actually quite hilarious, but when I wrote it down it felt like one of those 'I guess you had to be there' situations and I had some formatting issues so I didn't post. On lillejulaften I got to choose the song we sang so I picked the one that I knew best and it was a success.

On julaften svigermora reads one of the Moomin books in which they prepare for Christmas. I first heard it two years ago and understood nothing. This year I understood some words, but not sentences or full thoughts. We've decided that it will be a good measure for how well my Norwegian is coming along, whenever I spend Christmas here.

Weather:

All the snow melted before Christmas and we didn't get any more. I have to admit that I feel a little cheated. If I was to specifically go somewhere seeking a white Christmas Norway would be high on my list.

The ‘not that cold’ temperatures have persisted.

It snowed really hard yesterday, but it didn't stick.

I kinda feel sorry for my North American friends and family this week, judging by my Facebook newsfeed people are losing their minds.

Culture:

Christmas and New Year's Eve

This post is behind schedule because of the holidays. I'm trying very hard to differentiate between typical Norwegian behaviour and just my new family things, but it seems that Norwegians celebrate for the entire month of December until the beginning of January. Romjul is the period between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and the majority of people have it off as holiday.

Christmas Eve is the big deal over here and is usually reserved to spend with family. The days before or after can be spent with friends.

As a couple we've tried to arrange a schedule to take turns spending the holidays with my family in the US, the fiancé's family in Norway, and my family in the UK.

I've found that because the holiday is somewhat stretched out here there are more traditional things to do. I started to list them all but it was too long. There were like eight bullet points.

We also watched a helluva lot of films which I will list and review another time.

It has been decided, I am getting a new phone! Hopefully an iPhone, but I may have to wait unitl I get paid at the end of the month. I still miss Instagram… In the meantime the following is a list of images I would’ve Instagrammed if I had a new phone:

My first “sewing project” in which I didn't even use my sewing machine.

My new doll, Mini-Lee, which was handmade in Tehran. My fiance' gave her to me for lillejulaften. I have visions of getting some sewing practice by making clothes in miniature for her.

My for real bowtie that I tied by myself.

[jessmith18]

"WEAPON OF CHOICE" (2006) - Fatboy Slim

I chose to analyse a different sort of screen dance this week which uses the camera in exactly the same way as the others. The camera uses a variety of jump cuts to change the scene behind the dancer, throughout the music video the camera is following the dancer around the building almost as if he is taking us on a journey which can only be experienced through film.  As the dancer is facing the camera the whole time it is as if he is aware he isn't alone and is performing to the camera as an audience.

[songaweekorg]

Week 18 is here! - https://goo.gl/bbKvGP - #songaweek2019 #saw19 #weekeighteen #present #equine #mouth To hear the songs, join the mailing list, and learn more about the project, visit = www.songaweek2019.com Love and art to all <3 (at East Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxFjZdKACPc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ukzcwc0dexph

[songaweekorg]

Week 18 is here! - https://goo.gl/Vxdmyn - #songaweek2018 #saw18 #weekeighteen #juicy #freshbaked #mmmm To hear the songs, join the mailing list, and learn more about the project, visit = www.songaweek2018.com Love and art to all <3 (at New York, New York)

[jessmith18]

Our work needs to draw people in and take them on a journey.

McPherson, Katrina (2006) Making video dance: a step-by-step guide to creating dance for the screen Abingdon: Routledge

[jessmith18]

"WEAPON OF CHOICE" (2006) - Fatboy Slim

[jessmith18]

"WEAPON OF CHOICE" (2006) - Fatboy Slim