Nov 29, 2010
Hooray, I just finished my newest print!
This began as a commission for the Oslo based magazine Kokong, who asked me to make something on the topic of “want” for their next issue. After a long doodling process I asked myself what I wanted to do, which was as you can see, to go out and run in the forest. What can I say, it was november, it was inner city pressure.
After I made the exclusive prints for Kokong, I kept on working with the idea, since I liked the kids running and the stone/trees. So I remixed the motif a bit, working on a slightly abstract sun flare, and made a second edition of 102, available to all of you.
If you like it, give it a “social media thumbs up” and if you really like it, go get one already!
Nov 5, 2010
We have been working a lot with Cinema4D at school lately, doing 3D modeling, animation and so on. I decided to hit two birds with one stone and make some visuals for some stage shows that are coming up. I’m playing this saturday together with Dj Fett Burger at Electric Café, and then there’s the DASO event later this month. 
It’s a lot of fun working with these things, but I’ve tried to keep things simple, and focus more on making things pretty, rather than technically advanced. Later I would love to go into making more complicated machines, for example modelling a working maltese cross (used in clocks). Check out the videos below.
Oct 2, 2010
I recently re-did the whole graphic presence for my electronic music pseudonym, Lysgaard. The concept behind the design was based on the visual language of old viking lore, combined with semi-modern space exploration. Seeing as I’m a hearty Norwegian, travelling the fjords of techno, it’s a fitting image. If you’ve seen the techno viking video that’s already a classic on youtube, you might get a glimpse of some strange inspiration, too.
The biggest exposure areas for this new profile is mainly the Lysgaard website, (made with cargo), and the MySpace page. There are plenty of other branding elements coming in the future, for posters, records and so on, but first thing’s first. I’m in no hurry.
Sep 18, 2010
When I started my own web store a little while back, I tried to do my fair bit of homework beforehand, trying to find out how to do this thing right. There are plenty of solutions and services available, some great, some bad, some cheap, some free, some stupendously overpriced. In this post, I’ll try to share what I have learned, making my own shop.
In my case, I had spent the last year designing and printing art posters, some for clients, other just for myself. I got a lot of great feedback on them, and I had sold some to people I know directly, but I didn’t really have a big plan about them. I was running out of storage space and needed to defend paying so much for paper and art supplies, so the idea of selling the prints though my website emerged. And here we are!
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Sep 13, 2010
Over the weekend we (Put Your Hands Up For Neo-Tokyo, this time) went on a mini-tour, playing at Hulen in Bergen and Tou Scene in Stavanger at the NuMusic festival.
I tried to document the trip as good as I could, here goes:
Geir pulling apart the synths, ready to go from the studio
Everybody ready? All right, let’s go.
Check out the whole set inside the article! (more…)
Aug 27, 2010
Me and Kiki were interviewed as “up and coming” designers, for this Raff magazine that came with BT yesterday. It’s all in Norwegian, though.
See it big and read it at Flickr!
Aug 17, 2010
My newest silk screening project, entitled “Indianer” is finished, and now available in the store!
This art print is the next incarnation in my ongoing series on juxtaposing portrait photography and illustration. The last piece in this series, as you might guess, was the one with the viking kosmonaut. The boy is my little brother Mons, who were so kind to spend an afternoon chilling out in the photo studio. Here’s some behind the scenes footage:
And here’s some quick shots from the process, my silk screening frames for example:
Whipping out some paint:
The print is available in the store as of right now, and the older prints are going on a big sale, to clean out my stocks. As we say in Norway, Løp og kjøp!
Aug 6, 2010
I just finished a new poster for a Nabovarsel event. I started out with the image of the glacier, and decided to be inspired by this Jay-Z cover:
And so this is what came out:
Okay, so the Jay-Z reference might not be too obvious. But it’s what started me thinking. What do you guys think?
Aug 4, 2010
We have been working on a short video to promote the Lysgaard/Beatlite project, since it’s such a visual concept, and hard to convey through the traditional mixtapes and so on. Jonas Bødtker is doing the filming, while Jørgen Håland is whipping out his motion graphic skills. Here are some stills from the shoot!
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, see this post on the BeatLite, which covers the technology part of it. The rest of the explanation is just what the video will be for!
EDIT: The film is done, see it over here!
Jul 31, 2010
Moebius/Jean Giraud
When I was a kid, my father had these comics that I read all the time. The crown jewel in his collection were Moebius’ Inkal series, which chronicles the adventures of sci-fi private investigator John Difool. Ever since this first meet with Moebius, I have kept an eye on his work, and tracked down everything I could find of the old stuff he did.
He is perhaps most known for his creation of the western comic Blueberry. He started this comic in Pilote, and went gradually over to doing science fiction when he started Metal Hurlant, a french science fiction comic (later incarnated into Heavy metal in the english-speaking world)
One especially noteworthy story is that he was deeply involved in the film adaptation of Dune, together with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Salvador Dalí, among others. The entire project was killed due to distribution issues, but then the gang said “crap. Now what?”. So they made Alien instead, just like that.
Now that we’ve seen Avatar, Star trek and so on, it’s only a question of time before someone picks up the pieces and makes the Dune film, for real this time.
Another film project with Giraud that was actually finished? The fifth element, that’s what. Oh, and Tron, nothing less.
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The eminent blog Sci-fi-o-rama has collected some of Girauds work for Dune, it’s all amazing.
It is now impossible for me to read any of his comics for more than a couple minutes straight, before I have to make a run for my sketchbook.His complete mastery of form achieved by simple line work is incredibly satisfying and inspiring. I have a pocketbook copy of Arzach, which now is quite a bit heavier than when I bought it, thanks to all the notes and paper clips I put in there.
As an interesting side note, Giraud is a good friend of Hayao Miyazaki, the heart of Studio Ghibli. Apparently, Giraud named his daughter Nausicaä, after the lead character from Miyazaki’s film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Which just happens to be on my top three most awesome films ever list.
his official homepage is in french, so you’re better off at wikipedia. Here is a really nice documentary about his history as an artist.
Egon Schiele
This guy really brings the human figure to a whole new level. I don’t remember much about him from my art history class, so use Wikipedia if you must know. Anyways, he was a protégé of Gustav Klimt, another of my favourites. He was an early expressionist, although his style is being referred to as art noveau a lot. And he got himself in quite a bit of trouble with the morality police thanks to his continuous portrayal of naked women, and on one point got locked up for it, too.
His paintings are awesome, but it’s his drawings that interest me the most, where I can analyze it for myself. I remember a lot of the stuff I did in early art school was all based on my references of Schiele.
I guess that does it for this edition of Jacob tells you what makes him tick. If you want more posts like these, holler back in the comments!
