New looks!

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Hooray! The brand new version of my site is now up and running!
I spent a lot of the summer building this thing. It might not like look a spaceship on top, but trust me, under the hood this thing is an intergalactic juggernaut. The whole header section is designed as a blank canvas, that funky elephant (made for an event in 2008) is just the starting point. More after the jump! (more…)

UPOP; sketch vs final version

I made a poster for an event hosted by UPOP.no  this spring, thought i should share the results. I initially had loads of sketches, resulting in a mayhem of ideas. I finally went for a design based on photographing different objects i had lying around on my desk. Mind you that  it’s all in the shot; nothing, save color, was added in photoshop later.


Sketch. Click to biggify.


Final version. Click to biggify.

New visuals for UPOP!

Just finished up a new visual for the renown local webmag UPOP.no, espescially for a party they are throwing next saturday. It’s based around the same basic concept as the last one, but this time more refined, more fancy, more everything. I think it’s gonna be my thing from now on, putting a glow effect on everything i do. It’s like reverb, but for video. And reverb is good!

Thanks to Sebastian for the soundtrack, please don’t sue me when people think i made that too. And yes, I am indeed playing at the party. Most certainly going to spin some Sebastian.
Please comment if you have likes/dislikes!

UPOP.no visual #2: “kjør” from Jacob Fantastisk on Vimeo.

New drawings and stuff in the portfolio

Awrite! I just uploaded some more of the stuff that I’ve been up to lately, some drawings i did for REWIND! and a couple of the front page illustrations i did for UPOP. Take a look in the portfolio section if you wanna see!

The drawings were basically a quick way for me to get rid of some of the exess energy I’ve got building up for this saturday’s gig. My dub siren is finally completed, and I can’t wait to rock out with it. I’ll post some footage and video for the sake of the dub siren project when it’s done, since I’ve been following up that project here on the blog.

Making MySpace readable


Ever since i first found out how to pimp my MySpace profile so many years ago, i have been tugging my hair in frustration. The cause of my woe is of course MySpace’s horrible page layout, it’s never-W3C-compliant-code, and the never ending “an error has ocurred”, among others. But it is the de facto standard for bands and a lot of other things on the web, so we just have to make due.

Don’t get me wrong though. Emo kids aside, MySpace has revolutionized the way we look at music on the web, and finding new bands to listen to is ever-increasingly fun and easy. Not being represented on the space of spaces is ridiculous, any good band knows not to say no to free advertisement.

My main DJ alias, Totem, has had a myspace page since 2005, from shitty glitter to glorious GIFs. I revamped the entire page recently, being to embarrassed to have such a horrid thing represent me professionally, trying to make it more simple and striking, but still using myspace’s usual layout to help people navigate. I wrote the whole thing in dreamweaver (with photoshop doing graphics) to control the code, and the result is a piece of HTML markup that even your grandma could read and make sense of.

Now, where am i getting at, where is the newsworthy item?
The thing is, my main club, REWIND!, has been in dire need of MySpace representation for some time, and now i finally got around to it. Since my other page was just finished, i simply took that design, snazzed the color scheme around, and there you have it. It’s not revolutionary design, but than again i’m not trying to do that. I’m just a brother trying to make something that loads fast and looks pleasing, cool?

Now that i said all that, you might want to take a look:
here’s Totem, and
here’s REWIND!

Comments and feedback is appreciated, as i haven’t tested this in every browser out there yet. Bugs should be minimal at least.

silk screens for the barista championship

I pitied the posters for the local qualification rounds for the national barista championships (made in MS word), so i whipped up something in inDesign real quick and silk screened some new posters for them.

These are hand numbered and signed, only eleven pieces in existence, silk screened on 200grams paper that we painted brownish first. I wanted the design to look real classic and conservative, i think i achieved that pretty well, despite the hand painted brown stuff underneath. And the odd format was great to work with too. And a big thanks to Dino again, silk screening alone is a bitch. If you wanna see it bigger, you can see it on flickr

barista championship poster