What you see below is a screenshot of my 'Suggestions' page on Facebook. For those of you, who don't use this social networking platform: on this page you find a list of people that Facebook 'suggests' to you to become friends with. These 'filtered' people are in 99% percent of the cases friends of your friends on Facebook (so you might actually know them). It very rarely happens that someone completely unfamiliar pops up and if they do, the connection is something like same school, same university etc. – but at least there still is some sort of connection...

As for the girl I circled, Päivi from Finland, I also know her. We met on an online apartment search forum about two years back when we were both looking for a place to stay in Copenhagen. We exchanged email addresses and had planned to find an apartment together – opening up a flatshare seemed easier and cheaper than finding something by yourself. To cut a long story short, finally we both actually did end up finding something on our own but decided to at least meet up for a coffee just for kicks when we were in Copenhagen. So we also exchanged phone numbers, met, had a coffee, found out that we had very little in common and that was that. We never had contact after that again. Not via email, sms, anything. And now she pops up in this very 'Suggestions' page.

And here's the really scary part: we have no mutual friends on Facebook, we never visited the same school or university – she studied at Copenhagen Business School – heck we most likely don't even have the same interests posted. We only lived in Copenhagen during the same period of time. So I ask myself: why, of all the people that Facebook could possibly pick for me as a 'potential friend' it for fuck's sake chose Päivi?! How the hell does it know that we had contact (and that only very briefly)?! Maybe it doesn't know, maybe it was just a very stupid coincidence. But actually I just can't believe that. My head just went into paranoia mode and now I'm thinking that Facebook somehow, somewhere pulled this information off the internet – email records, phone bills, whatever. I know that sounds ridiculous, but seriously, what are the odds?

So here, as promised, the logo I did for Kiteforum.no, André's little baby. The old logo consisted of a flying eagle silhouette as well as the initials 'KF' in a script font – you can see it here. André wanted to keep the eagle for recognition / identification purposes but spice the image up a little and maybe add a logotype – and so I did. All in all it was a three week process, most of it done after hours. I don't think I've ever made quicker decisions...

Natas Kaupas – god on wheels.

As already mentioned before, they're quite bright :P But they do have the advantage of being able to grill and chill outside until at least 11 p.m. Like at Magnus' going-away-barbecue last Tuesday at St. Hanshaugen park. They also let you kinda lose track of time. So you might end up drinking wine with your roomies at 1:30 at night without even noticing while you in fact have to hold a presentation the very next morning ...

Other than that, not much has happened here since I got back from Germany. Working hard as usual, trying to deal with some issues at home and slowly getting accustomed to the thought of moving back in less than two months time. Next to Bleed I'm doing some side projects at the moment – logo and t-shirts for André's (our flash developer) online kitesurf forum and a book illustration for a publication due this fall. While I'll be putting up some final results of the first task very soon, the other will take at least one more week. Also enjoyed a nice dinner at Astrid's last weekend, some after work wine and sun rays on Wednesday and Thor Viggo's very first live performance at one of my favorite bars here, the tiny Sound of Mu. Stian, who fixed him up with this gig, djs there on a regular basis.

By the way, please excuse my mediocre choice of movies these past weeks, it's just that lately I'm usually quite mashed at the end of a day and not really in the mood for anything demanding. And well, aXXo provides me with just the opposite sort of films :)

Last Wednesday, two of my flatmates – the swedish ski bum duo Niklas and Magnus – left the building for good. The guy who's originally renting the room wants to move back in. While Niklas is staying in Oslo and just signed the contract for another flatshare (with more swedish ski bums), Magnus headed home for a couple of days before jetting over to Los Angeles to try his luck on a very expensive music school. Really sucks that he's leaving as he is definitely one of the three or four people here I actually had something in common with, a sort of connection or whatever you wanna call it. Anyways, good luck over there buddy, don't catch any STD's off them american biddies and maybe someday we'll go wakeboarding on swedish lakes :D

Definitely my favorite DJ from now on :D Here's part two.

EDIT: Something's wrong with my account, meaning for some reason I can't add more blog posts at the moment. Hope I have it figured out by the weekend 'cause there's new stuff comin'!