Now that I’ve officially finished my fieldwork, and with all the talk going on about Open Access Anthropology, I thought I’d try my own little Open Access experiment. I’ve decided to publish the question guide I’ve used for my fieldwork under the GPL. I’ve even indented and commented them in proper code fashion (or, at [...]
A long time ago, I wrote a fictional news article of an election in the East-european state of Syldavia and how they dealt with the continuing problem of having two similar political blocs fighting over a small decisive vote to win political power for the next term – as is seen in so many of [...]
I recently came across a Youtube video which questions our ideals of beauty. With digital editing, all the images we see in advertisements, model photos, and feature films can be – and are! – cleaned up of every blemish and subtle mistake. Digging around, I found a few other examples of how advertisers and stylists [...]
I tried hard to find a better title for this blog post, but I guess I failed. Having been a long-time fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work, I remember watching the first of the “Lord of the Rings” films and being sorely disappointed, even somewhat angry at how badly the film’s art directors had concretized many [...]
Rainy grey Seattle. Yet always the magical thrill of seeing the hint of mountains in the distance. Staying with Stefan and Karen Lise: Disappointment at the Space Needle. They should have kept it orange. Walking through Pike Place Market. The inevitable curiosa shops, the throwing fish market. The convinced Left Bank Books where fierce hope [...]
More notes from my trip abroad: Rainy grey Vancouver. Yet always the magical thrill of seeing the hint of mountains in the distance. Meeting up with James, Stefan and Karen Lise – sharing our secrets in Danish to be drowned out by the multi-cultural roar of the city. The “strip” of Granville Street in downtown [...]
I’ve just arrived back in Copenhagen after two weeks on the west coast of North America: San Francisco, Vancouver and Seattle. I barely managed to blog while I was there, simply because I was so busy taking it all in. Luckily, taking it in for me also means taking down some notes once in a [...]
When I tell people that I do fieldwork among Free Software developers, I often try to relate it to more traditional anthropological ventures as a way to make it clearer to people what it is I do. Traditionally, anthropologists travelled to the part of the world that used to be colonized and lived among the [...]
I just came back from 4 days in Norway late last night, having only two days to prepare for my trip to California. Going to Norway is like entering a big Danish thesaurus. All the words are recognizable and usable in Danish, they’re just not that common. Here’s a list of some of the Norwegian [...]