It's the Rebecca-Bear!

Langebro is the big bridge right in front of my doorstep. When I came home from school tonight, they pulled it up for the first time since I've been here – and my roommates also told me that it actually only happens once or twice a year. Quite impressive I must say.

200m from my door.

This weekend was very laid back, which comes as quite an advantage as I wanna focus on my illustration a bit more. On Friday I worked til 12, had a chat with the girls (see below) and ended the night with a nice 'reunion' with Pete and Lasse, who I hadn't seen in ages, at Lasse's house warming. Saturday turned out to be quite relaxed as well although I had to get up at 8 in the morning to attend Jonas', Simon's little brother, Bar Mitzvah. Quite an interesting experience to take part in this three hour event at the synagogue...

In the evning I first met up with Johannes and a friend of his at the vernissage of a small exhibition of the very talented L.A. based illustrator Josh Cochran at Rumkammerat – quite a small place but therefore very familial. We were handed a beer two minutes after our arrival and, as there wasn't many people around, were able to chat with Josh and his wife for quite a while. Very nice and enjoyable folks, who are visiting Denmark for a couple of days in line with the opening. Josh is also gonna hold a lecture at DKDS (my school) upcoming Thursday. By the way, that guy is only 28! And for all those long term design students out there: he also studied for seven years...

After the gallery the three of us went on to the Cinemateket to see the Helvetica movie as part of CPH:DOX. The building is part of the Danish Film Institute and houses a cinema, restaurant, bar, film & book store as well as exhibitions – and it's got some nice neon animation thingy on its exterior wall. The movie was very good by the way, better than I had expected. I can only recommend it to anyone who's at least a bit interested in typography. We finished the night by having a drink at Loppen and meeting up with Guilom, Dora, Chloé, Gabo and his sister in Christiania for a short 'sight seeing tour'.

12:00 p.m. in our workroom with Louise, Elena and Andrea.

1) November Butterfly. No clue where he came from.
2) First snow in Copenhagen. Not much, but it's a start.
3) View from my workplace at school at 4:30 p.m.
4) Bastard child of skateboard and snakeboard with only 2(!) wheels.
5) Window decoration of a local hairdresser.
6) Officially accepted in Denmark.

Topic 'World record'.

No comment. But thanks to the Funkanimal for the link!

Just a short one today. Tonight Dot and I went to Ideal Bar to see the world premiere of the movie Break Hit, a french documentary about breakdancing. It ran as as part of the CPH:DOX, a documentary film festival here in Copenhagen. The festival lasts for ten days and it's mostly movies but also includes events like parties, concerts and other live performances. The movie was quite good (with all the french stars like Salah, Lilou etc.), the location was nice and they even threw in what the host announced as 'Copenhagens Best B'Boy Crew'. Well... uhm, yes, they were b'boys and uhm.... ah, what the heck, it was for free and it was still far more than what I could ever do, so I'm not gonna complain... :)