toonNews » oslo http://blog.toonpool.com the latest stuff about toonpool.com Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:15:33 +0000 en hourly 1 Letter from Oslo http://blog.toonpool.com/interview/letter-from-oslo/ http://blog.toonpool.com/interview/letter-from-oslo/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:38:32 +0000 Battlestar http://blog.toonpool.com/?p=4672 For this new issue of Letter fromcolumn, we asked toonpool.com artist Janne Christensen about her life and begged for some photographs of her working place and the city she lives in – Oslo, the city of 40 islands and 343 lakes within its boundaries. Janne is an art student in 2010’s second most expensive city in the world. Her biggest dream is to become a prestigious illustrator.

Janne is just doing a reversed snow angel

1. What was your dream last night?

I forgot my dream when I woke up, but normally I have some crazy dreams.

2. Next plans or ideas?

This is my last year studying illustration. I’m really not sure what to do after that. Some years ago I wanted to be a graphic designer, so I may attend a graphic design school here in Oslo or abroad.

3. Your food today?

Crisp bread with cheese, noodles, and water.. I’m a broke student.

The Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Breakfast at Bryggekanten, favourite restaurant and bar

4. Do you like your place or would you like to live somewhere else?

I love Oslo, but I will not stay here for the rest of my life. I think I might move to London or New York. You know… I’m twenty years old. I have my whole life in front of me.

5. What was the huge mistake in your life you (unfortunately) never made?

Travel all over the world before starting to study!

6. Who are your neighbors?

My neighbor next door is a grown up man so I don’t talk to him very often and there are actually some neighbors I’ve never seen!

View out of the window

Janne´s working table and toonpool.com's frontpage looking back at us

7. Tell me the shortest joke you know

Well.. I have a Norwegian one:Det var en gang, så ble det en korridor”
(note: in English “Once upon a time (but “gang” olso means corridor), there was a corridor”)

8. Tell me the biggest prank you did on a friend.

Unfortunately I can’t remember.

9. How to ruin your vacation?

The vacation can’t be ruined, because I can’t remember the last time I actually had a vacation!!

When creating, never run out of markers!

10. In 1977 NASA has sent orbiters Voyager 1 and 2 into space which will never stop to fly through the universe by gravity. They contain the Voyager Golden Records with many testimonials of the whole mankind, greetings in 55 languages introduced by US president Jimmy Carter (“This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings….”). The Golden Records with a lifespan of 500 million years at least are including drawings of a naked man and woman, detailed genitalia, many scientific graphics, sounds of planet earth and music by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart – and Chuck Berry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3haYAbqKjA

Maybe aliens out there will be shocked in some million years! But in case such a NASA mission will be replayed: which (1) of your artworks should join it?

My illustration named “Skaters”

The Skaters for Nassa

11. Please give us an answer to a question we didn’t ask!

It’s raining.

Having fun with the classmates

Perfectly balanced

Credits to Nicoleta Ionescu for talking with Janne Christensen

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