Tonight we got a preview of the concert we will get to see on Saturday (btw, will be live streamed, link to be added to sidebar in the morning.) Two musicians from England, Nigel Shaw and Carolyn Hillyer played at the culture c
Today has been a very exciting and interesting day in many ways. It started nice with a big, calm hotel style breakfast at the Sandstr
In a school classroom, this evening, a band is practicing for their big performance later this weekend. If you want a peek click here!.
One of things we are trying out with this project is the affordances of new social tools (not usually associated with blogs). We have this little blob (works on PCs with Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher) which tells visitors how many people are looking at the blog page right now (only pc/IE5.5 or higher visitors [...]
audio post powered by audblog Correction: “in the evening than in the night” should of course be “in the evening than in the day“. Sorry about that! And a small illustration: This is Stephanie and Anton on the street outside the tourist bureau – one of our “hot spots”. In daytime this street is totally [...]
After a long day of work I will finally be able to enjoy some of the market. All of our three wireless networks are now up and running. These networks are what we use in order to post our messages onto the blog. The idea is to make it possible to blog anywhere in the [...]
Tonight I was attempting to go to story time, but unfortunately there were too many people who had gotten there before me to get into the room. Instead I went on a poetry walk, which was pretty, but I think could have been done in a bigger way. It would have been beautiful if they [...]
As I was strolling down the market I saw this really beautiful hair barrette in one of the stands: I wasn’t quite sure whether I wanted it though, since I prefer to try things on before I buy them, and I wanted to see what it would look like in my hair. Looking at yourself [...]
I was walking in the museum just now and run up on Anton who is still fixing the network (he WILL blog about it soon, we promise…but he has been working sooo hard). We have pretty good coverage in the museum now, but something seems to keep interrupting the signal. But for now, it is [...]
We were walking to see Funky Freddie, and passed by this ice building, which could not help but catch your eye. We walked inside and it was beautiful. Hanging on the shimmering walls were deceptively simple sculptures and paintings. The marriage of medium and art was stunning. Both the ice walls and the simple lines [...]
Stephanie and I have just watched Freddie and the Rejuvenators play at Aja culture caf
At last I’m back at a keyboard. The handheld PDA is good for discreet blogging in public and group situations but to sit at a key board and write with my fingers is my prefered method. Much has happened to me in the last few hours. My learning curve in regard to GPS and Bluetooth [...]
Well, we have come up with a plan, at least in theory. Today at 16 we are going to go see an American group called Freddie and the Rejuvenators (from Chicago and Memphis). Then story time in a teepee at 17. A quick dinner and then we will go see the two British musicians that [...]
It turns out that Hasse, who’s been commenting quite a lot in this blog lives in Jokkmokk, not far from our “home base”. He dropped by to say hi and chat a bit. He told us about the wireless at the schools here in Jokkmokk, and it sounds like the concert at v
When taking part of a “multi-medial” (the quotationmarks are used to indicate the somewhat non-multi character of my media) experiment of this kind one starts to think about how different types of media reach out differently. Many of the people we’ve met here at the market have read about us in the local paper, Kuriren. [...]
We just arrived at the empty store that has kindly been donated for our use during this project. We are taking a moment to reflect, warm-up, and plan out the rest of the day. On the way here, however, I finally got to see the moose I have been longing to see. Unfortunately, it was [...]
Because of problems with the bluetooth phone used to transmit coordinates from the bloutooth device the gps function does not work right now. But it will be up and running in one or two hours from now. Sorry about this (but this service *is* experimental)
Stephanie is blogging away at the tourist bureau.
I just talked to Anton, and he’s locked up in a little closet over at the still working on the network. He’s hoping that a janitor will come let him out. Now we also have the keys for the old store which we’ll use as our base, thanks to the helpful people at the Jokkmokk [...]
The festival was opened with a short history of the importance of Jokkmokk as a meeting place between the S
I’m visiting Anton, over by the museum.He’s working hard to get the wireless running, since there’s much happening here. There are some problems but we trust that he should be able to fix it.
… that they actually DO have polar bears on the streets up here.
I am just now meeting with 6 of the 10 band members of the band which will play together on Saturday night. Nigel and Carolyn from Dartmoor in the South West of England, Stefan from Purkgaure, Kikki from Umea, Berry from Vuollerim, and me Jim from Goombungee. The discussion revolves around structure and improvisation and [...]
We woke up this morning to a lovely breakfast prepared by our hosts. We discussed the best way to get into town and what the day may bring (technological problems, etc
