Get your war on

I just re-read the old Get your war on-strips while having a break from deadline-chasing.

Guess what? They are still hilarious.

Into pamphlet 3 - Pentti Linkola

Into pamphlet 3 - Pentti Linkola, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

The third Into pamphlet is on the street. Here´s the cover done by yours truly.
An image my mate Ville called "wonderfully morbid". That´s how it goes when Linkola is argumenting for ecology through genocide. It needs to be said and Linkola is the man to do it.

Liars

Not only one of the best songs I´ve heard this year, but also the best video.

Helsinki eastern outback up on Flickr

30, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

Wildlife, beasts n shotguns. Ride on to Flickr to take it all in.

Truth stranger than fiction part XIV

Neatorama shows us the 10 strangest anti-terror patents filed.
This is for real and not taken from Facts from the world. Promise.



Link

Moro for barnslige nordmenn

Om du har ingenting bedre å gjøre, stikk til Ruka Rock!

Alt er relativt

Dagbladets rapport fra finsk St.Hans.

Finske YLEs rapport fra finsk St.Hans.

NYC

How bout some highlights from nine days in NYC?

-Munich Airport had a Fabriano outlet. I have never before been able to buy quality cotton cold pressed 300 g watercolor paper at an airport before. Thoroughly amazing to me and no one else.

-Flight from Munich with Lufthansa. Beer and sausage as inflight nourishment. Sehr gut.

-25th floor studio apartment in Jersey, balcony view to Manhattan skyline, rented by these guys. Hugely recommended. Cheap, friendly, practical and cosy.

-One of the first things I saw on street level Manhattan was a puking nun and a midget in a pinstripe suit.

-Good music almost everywhere. Normal coffeeplaces playing Dead Kennedys, Talking Heads and Joy Division. Never had so many "shh, they´re playing THAT song"-moments. Not that I actually shushed people, mind.

-Lady telling me to hide my camera better on the subway, ending with the zinger "I´m your mother".

-Heatwave making aircondition a condition for life.

-Picture box store. Good finds from Taylor McKimens and Matt Leine.

-Mocca. Meeting Keith Knight, Ruben Bolling, Ted Rall and dozens of others. Partying with Falk, Fiske, Holtestaul and Jason. Interesting to see the difference from european festivals. People are far more extrovert. Not sure if that´s always a good thing.
Recommended: Rat fever by Ian Harker. Good guy, good stuff.
Prints by Nik Moore.
Selfpublished, beautiful books by John Mejias
A dummy copy of Pushwagner´s Soft City

-Moma. Highlights:
Suprematist and early russian avantgarde
Ernst and Hilla Becher photos
Diane Arbus

-Feeling like I have entered a cult compound at the Apple store. Blankly smiling, identically dressed twentysomethings slipping words like "voltage independent" into the conversation like it´s the most natural thing in the world.

-Seeing Manhattan getting electrocuted in a fierce thunderstorm from a 25th floor Jersey balcony while drinking Urquell and going "woah" a lot.

-Desert Island Johnny Ryan signing, followed by the open studio afterparty, followed by the warehouse party following that again. Interesting watching a chick crowdsurfing a crowd counting about 50 people. Good band, lovely experience.

Have to get back...

Freedom in the land of the free

Me n Lady Liberty 4 ever, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

NYC @ Flickr

Big city, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

Been posting a bunch o photos from the NYC stay at Flickr. Rock on over there for sidewalk bunnies, ice cream beacons, fetish shops and MOCCA.

Munich Airport blogging

Slept maybe four hours after being part of the festivities at FST´s summer party yesterday. We won FST´s Program price for Boktid! Amazing! Staffan, Petter & Anna has done such a beautiful job, it´s not hard to understand. A fun program about literature that doesn´t back away from depth. How often do you see that on TV?

Anyways, flight to New York City leaves in an hour. I´m excited.

Boktid

FST Boktid TV comix: Frankenstein, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

Just uploaded 15 pics from the comic adaptions I have made for FST (Finland´s national Swedishlanguage tv channel)´s program Boktid (Booktime).

To say it´s been a joy working with this material and together with the Boktid-team, would be an understatement.

Polishing off my last contribution for the spring now, we´ll be back with new programs during the autumn.

Click the pic to check it out.

OCX

Spent the weekend last week in Oslo and oh my, what a festival.

There was much rejoicing.

I leave you with this image that somehow ended up on Facebook.



(no, that is not perspectival distortion, that is Roy Søbstad´s giant hand helping me clean my ear)


I´m off to NYC and Mocca at the end of the week. Sweet.

Procrastination

Another dead hero

Will Elder died this thursday.

[via TomTheDancingBugBlog]

Tom the Dancing Bug

For those of you who are not in the know, Ruben Bolling, of Tom the dancing bug fame has his own blog right here.

If you don´t know anything about Ruben, go here. Really. You are missing out.

And I assume that Ted Rall and Tom Tomorrow is common knowledge. In a perfect world, it should be.

Facts from the World @ Electrocomics

For all of you who has been wondering what all this stuff about "Facts from the world" is all about, go here to find out.

Facts will be published in english every sunday starting from today.

And Electrocomics is maybe the most interesting place to be at the moment, take an hour to peek around.

Gandhi Into pamphlet - draft 3

Gandhi Into pamphlet - draft 3, originally uploaded by Karstein Volle.

Observant eyes may have noticed something familiar with Into Kustannus´ first pamphlet "puolueiden kriisi".

I did the cover and I'm doing the covers for all the pamphlets in this series.

Into Kustannus is a new publisher dedicated to publishing political pamphlets on topics ranging from the new political dividing lines, Pacifism/Gandhi and Pentti Linkola. That´s just the first three of them.

To say I´m a proud contributor, would be an understatement.

I Fremtiden blogg

I fremtiden har fått sin helt egen blogg, dere. Der blir det lagt ut en stripe per dag.
Gå hit for å få vite hvordan det vil bli!

http://ifremtiden.blogspot.com

Through the habitrails



Just received my copy of Through the habitrails by Jeff Nicholson. I first noticed his stuff in early nineties indie horror anthology Taboo (the one where Lost Girls did its first run, r.i.p.). Just one of those "How come I haven't seen this guy's stuff all over the place?"-moments. Then I remembered my taste is pretty weird. Anyways, I tracked down a collection published 1994 on an indie called Bad Habit, California (?) it plunked down in my mailbox yesterday and god damn, this is good.

To quote Artbomb.net:

The guy in THROUGH THE HABITRAILS has a job that involves getting taps installed in the back of his neck so his ghoulish bosses can drain him of his juice. His main boss is apparently a gigantic, fat little bastard of a hamster wearing a crown. The job gets so bad that he fashions a jar around his head so he can remain pickled in beer all the time. He has to live with his coworkers, professional politics intermingling inescapably with the personal. These coworkers are egomaniacs, sycophants, drug burnouts, or hollow shells of humans living in cages. He dates some of them anyway.

My point is, track down this man, Jeff Nicholson, make sure he gets his due, elevate him to celebrity status and saturate the market with the products of his imagination.

Really.