Stavanger

Heres just some pictures from the surf trip with no surf. I just wanted to post some fun pictures, but my flickr account was full already, so here goes :) As I said, no waves, but hey, why not just surf the beach?!

Traces

As I have mentioned earlier, Mari and I are showing a photo exhibition at Base, everything was finally up and running yesterday, on the day it was supposed to start. Heres a little teaser for the show, and... sorry its written in norwegian, but I dont expect any of you foreigners to come anyway so... :)
Ekstremsportveko at Voss is next in line, June 23 - July 3.
We were also inteviewed by the local newspaper, you can read the article here (if you know norwegian that is...)
ps: just click on the image if you cant read the text!

My superstar friends

I had the chance of hanging out with Maria and Anne in Oslo this weekend, and see Maria dance in a real professional dance performance! She was the best dancer there, no doubt, and Im not just saying that because Im her friend! It was a great show! I got to see her school too, and take some pictures of the dancers there. Quite a contrast from shooting pictures of skateboarding 2 days earlier..
I went to Annes school of skin treatment as well, and got a great (not to mention cheap) massage, and my eyebrows fixed. Appearantly I am not very good at shaping eyebrows..
After my little hangout in Oslo I went to Sweden (of course) and chilled with André and his family. Michelle (Andrés little sister) played one of the key parts in the musical "rent", which we all went and watched. I was seriously impressed by the performance these kids delivered, it was awesome! I nearly cried towards the end..
I also figured out how to shoot better stage pictures with my digital camera, so here´s a few from the musical!

Mari x2 travels around Norway

Little Mari and I are working on our final school project, and here´s a picture from our latest shoot in

Hemsedal

We were running around in the slopes shooting at a contest called

Burton Glory Daze

The speaker even introduced the two of us as photographers from a Cambodian snowboard magazine, or something... wonder where he got that from...
anyways, we got some good footage, although we had some minor techincal difficulties, such as ripping one of our films...and wrecking a couple of films from our first snowboard shoot at Myrkdalen.
I´m not going to post pictures of the riders, since we are saving the goods for our exhibition :) Come see!
Thanx to BASE boardshop, and

Burton

we got to meet awesome people and got sweet deals on liftcards and a place to stay for the weekend!
In a couple of weeks we are going to Stavanger to shoot surfing and possibly skateboarding. This is definately the best and most exciting school project I have ever had!

PÅSKEFERIE

means: Easter Break
Sitting in my apartment at the moment. André is practising playing the guitar. He knows two chords now, and can play "he´s got the whole world in his hands". Great song. It´s pretty great not having school or work for 3 whole days.. haha. But it´s back to Shell tomorrow. At least I get paid extra because of the holidays.
Hmm, I should post a picture too, pictures are fun. Which one... hmm. Hard to decide. By the way, after the break "little mari" and I (we go by the names little and big mari) are diving back into photography, more specifically, we´re using analogue cameras with black and white film and some pretty cool lenses to shoot skate-snow-surf pictures. Its part of our final school project, and Its a pretty dope thing to do for a project. I mean who gets to go surfing for their final project?! haha. So, for the end of this we´re having 2 exhibitions at a couple of strategic places for the surf-snow-skate crew in the area.. we´re decorating a wall at the local shop

BASE boardshop

and

"Ekstremsportveko"

at Voss is the other exhibition location we got. So, we´re pretty psyched about them letting us do this.
anyway. Wish I had some photage I could post from a skatesession I shot the other day, but it isnt developed yet.. so I´ll do that later. :)
or... just come to our exhibitions in may. haha.

Picture time

Heres a bunch of pictures from this last month... The berlin class trip, Newcastle school trip, sweden, and Oslo...
Im not going to write a whole load of stuff about the trips, cause it would probably take a while and most likely not be very interesting unless you were there.. so, just enjoy the footage!
The only not-so-fun thing about Berlin is that our extensive walking resulted in a tendon inflammation in my foot. (and yes I know thats probably not the right term) so I cant really walk or run or dance in a couple of weeks. For me, that spells handicapped.

Travelling Month

This month has been really hectict and a lot of fun. At the moment I am in Sweden, during my winter break. Its nice to chill for a while, Ive been working at Shell every single day this last week to make up for all the money Ive been spending lately. One of my work buddies from a few years ago recently was promoted, and is now the boss at one of the gas stations I work at,(yes I work at 2 now)so its been fun working with him again.

As far as my title goes, here is why this month has been travelling month:
5 weeks ago- weekend trip to sweden, quality time with André :)
4 weeks ago- Boat trip to Denmark with shell
2 weeks ago- Boat trip with my school to Newcastle, England. Gotta love the british!
Now - Back to sweden, chilling out with André and friends for a week
Tuesday- Going straight to Berlin, Germany for a class study trip thingy, to visit museums and galleries and such.

Good thing I love travelling so much.. Except that I am a little short on cash, and my web-project money hasnt come in yet.
so, thats whats up with me.
Its been a while since my last post, so I thought I should be updating :)

and.. isnt this a cute picture!

The joy of resembling a celebrity...

Hi, and happy new year, and all that. I think Im starting the year with saying this:
This is going to be a GREAT year. And I wish that for all you people who read my blog too. The exciting part is not knowing whats gonna happen next, who we're going to meet, what new friends we'll make, and even where we'll live. Lovin an exciting life!

I celebrated newyears at Anne's family cabin in Trysil, a great place full of snow. we went snowboarding, good times, it took a little while to get the feeling back like it always does early on in the season, but the last day we finally didn't hesitate at the bigjumps, and had a jolly good time. Phil got majorly trashed in the slopes, and that kind of put a damper on things, but him being ok after a day at the hospital, just made his memory loss kind of funny instead of tragic. haha. (now he's completely fine, by the way)

check out the pictures at Marias blog!

At the moment Im at school, working on a project for one of my dad's coworkers Its a website, and I'll post the link soon, but it needs to be done first.

At school today, the guys in 3d found this picture of an actress, Rebecca Gayheart (great name, i bet she never had any name issues) and they all said she was my twin. So. Im posting a picture of her. I sort of disagree about us looking alike, but I dont know, maybe a little. haha

Posting from a foreign country

Actually, Im only in sweden, but it can pass for a foreign country I guess.. Well it kind of is, really. It´s not Norway, but at least people understand norwegian. Mostly. so, that helps. Theres a few sweet things about sweden.. the language is really cute, and the people are really awesome. The food is good, and a lot cheaper than norwegian food... and they have these really good porridge thingys, that comes in a little plastic roll, sort of like a sausage. mmm.
So, whats up with me? Well, my parents just got back from california, where they had the time of their life, they ate at a redneck trailerpark place which they thought was so funny and they got to handshake an american cop, which my mom was pretty stoked about. It was kinda cool to see how much fun they had, and you know how you sometimes think of your parents as old and boring. Well, theyre like young people inside, im pretty sure! haha. anyway..
2 days ago alot of my friends got together for Tronds new DVD release, they´re 4 guys and they call themselves ANTI-bikes. But surprisingly they´re not against bikes, they´re pretty dang good at riding them.
we watched the movie, Amulet had a rocking consert and as a sum-up, we had a great time. Maria and myself even got to wear silly little tshirts with the ANTI-symbol on them, and walk around promoting the DVD.
check out the ANTI-bike-site here..

click here to get to antibikes site

and now Im spending a couple of days in sweden, and keeping my blog up to date while André is at school.
If Im lazy and dont update my blog... have a very merry Mari Christmas!

Renates Hawaii-party!

Last night I got invited to a Hawaii party, and I was told I didnt have to wear a costume if I I didnt want to, so I went with a pretty mellow, not all out, Hawaii outfit with pants and a shirt. But I realised that was a huge mistake when I got there and everyone was chillin in bikinis and boardshorts. Man, I wish I had a moo moo. Anyway, this girl had a "dance Revolution" playstation game, and that turned out to be great fun, even though some people showed some scepticism.
After David and Daniel had tried both the "work-out-session" function, and the regular dance-off mode, they decided to invent a new sport: Hand-dancing. (just look at the picture..) haha. Well, it was fun, and after the nights grand dance finale going wild on the chairs, we chilled out maxin, relaxin all cool with the infamous 80s movie North Shore. You gotta love "Turtle". haha.

some recent happenings

Well, Ive turned 24 since my last post, and I must say, Im starting to feel OLD. But I guess its ok to grow up too. It was pretty awesome to have Hannah here for a week, and we had tons of fun and laughs just hanging out, catching up and talking about old times. Here are a couple of pictures from the days she was here...

Great names make great chips...

In Italy this summer, Juls and I discovered some amazing potato chips. The Fonzies. We loved them, and ate a whole bunch. They actually almost taste like cheetos, only better. And next to "Teenagers" on the shelf I just had to take a picture. A pretty random post. But definately worth it...

another visit from sweden

My boyfriend came and spent a few days here in bergen. Unfortunately I didnt take any pictures this time, but heres one of him when he was a kid! A really adorable kid too... :)
This last week I was so stressed out because I had 3 huge school projects due, but today I turned them all in, and I had time to finish them all, even with André around... I guess Ive had to do some major time planning lately, and hey: it worked out! All was done today and I now get to work on a brand new school project, an even huger one this time, but I think its gonna be good. We´ll be working with an organization that helps families and friends of suicide victims. Pretty intense, but I think it will be a great experience.
Oh, and next week Hannah Adams is coming!

Hannah time!

So, I got a random email from Hannah Adams the other day, saying she was in Germany, and asking me if I wanted to grab a coffee any time. And, since Germany is kind of far far away, I suggested she came to Norway. I didnt really think she would, but hey, guess what?! She is flying in just in time for my birthday! Super awesome!
We had some great times back in Hawaii! Here are some good old pictures from my Hawaii album...

what we do at school...

Today we learned how to make good portrait shots in a studio. And heres my study group. I just thought the picture was funny, cause we look like some weird band, with all our different styles, kinda like the spice girls, only mixed. You can categorize our looks if you like, but i dont really know what role I fit into... But hey, I'll be the lead singer!

By the way, this is a link to my school

(Oh yeah, and if you click on the image, it is really huge, cause i didnt take time to shrink it, but you could always use it as a wallpaper... for your living room)

The Main Crew

Here´s a picture of my boyfriend. He´d be a great hip hoper, if he tried... This was a fun day, we went hiking in the rain, and we found this barrel along the way.



Probably the sweetest smile in the world. What can I say... this picture just makes me happy!



Maria and André came to visit. A great weekend that was! Here's the crew, Daniel holding the Norwegian pride, The Cheese Slicer.

Lets go to the beach!

There's this place in Norway called

Stranda

, which, in English means; The Beach.
(and yes, for some weird reason, that's the name of the mountain)
And this is where we go snowboarding every winter. The snow is amazing, theres no people in the slopes and the rides are just heavensent. So, heres a couple of pictures, and if that doesnt make you come to Norway I dont know what will.
Man, February is so far away...

My work

This is where I spend about 50 hours of my week... The place where people mingle, talk, play on the slotmachines, get gas or hot dogs, or just leave their children to get free coffee and be watched by us, the faithful employees.
Six years, and the gas station life is still a pretty huge part of mine.
When will I ever get a job I really enjoy?
It has its upsides too, though. I just can´t think of any at this moment. Probably because I just finished an 8 hour shift. I dont think I even had one good laugh today...
hmm.

Croatia!

I was in Croatia this summer, visiting Juliana Rosic. She is an awesome girl, and we had a ton of fun. To name a few examples, we accidently appeared in Italy, we were swimming in the streets during an unbelievable rainstorm, and we founded a Barbershop Band. We cruised Venice (including charging through the streets at night to catch our train) and we were interviewed on tv about some random Korean Pop Star! Here are some of our unforgettable moments...




After surviving the craziest rainstorm I have ever witnessed, our tent was still standing, and we decided to hitchhike to Italy, with Amanda and Jim.



A picture from verona, Italy, the place were Romeo and Juliet supposedly was from. Even though they never existed...




I dont know whats up with this pose, but appearantly this is the way I jump off diving boards.



We went to a museum to see a mummy that some dude picked up in egypt, and then gave to his girlfriend in Zagreb a couple of hundred years ago. Pretty romantic gift I must say...



My digital camera is waterproof. Its a sweet deal, and Juls is totally pulling off the Im-smiling-under-water-because-this-is-such-a-natural-environment-for-me-to-be-smiling-in-look.



We had a couple of sunny beach days too. The water was lovely!