January 13, 2011

More music of instruments made of recycled materials

Filed under: Recycling,Videos — Sigrinn @ 09:45

And a video about how and why they do it (questions in Cantonese but answers in English):

January 8, 2011

One man show instruments out of recycled materials

Filed under: Photos — Sigrinn @ 16:31

January 3, 2011

What I’ve been reading in 2010

Filed under: Photos — Sigrinn @ 01:51

Following is a list of books I read in 2010. Or should I say a list of most of the books I read during the year, I tend to forget to write down non-fiction ones…

Rated between * and ***** where five stars means great book and one star stands for lousy. And no star stands for unrated.

PÃ¥ svenska (In Swedish)
Brev frÃ¥n ljusÃ¥rs avstÃ¥nd – Jostein Gaarder ***
En hyllning till aporna – Steve Bloom ****
Fallet Ewenius – Peter Gissy **
Fotografens flickor – Miranda Beverly-Whittemore ****
Fuck the forces not letting you be as you are man. Vol 1 – Modern Monastery (tyvärr inget jag kan rekommendera) *
Högtidsnoveller – frÃ¥n Sveriges Radio P1 – En bok för alla **
Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan ***
Kastellet – Vibeke Olsson **
Konsten att vara kreativ: pÃ¥ vandring genom livet – Julia Cameron ****
Människohamn – John Ajvide Lindqvist ****
Saker som aldrig händer – Johanna Lindbäck **
Skriv om och om igen – Ylva Karlsson & Katarina Kuick ***
Skymningsfursten – Kristoffer Leandoer **
Staden som försvann (Salems Lot) – Stephen King ***
Tänk om det där är jag – Johanna Lindbäck **
Utflykt frÃ¥n tyst planet – C. S. Lewis **
Vad mina vänner inte vet – Sonya Sones ****
Vad min flickvän inte vet – Sonya Sones ****
Vildhjärta – en kär lek mellan människa och skog – Maria Westerberg ******
Vill gÃ¥ hem – Jonas Gardell ***

In English:
Blackwater – Conn Iggulden
Elantris – Brandon Sanderson *****
Fiskadoro – Denis Johnson ***
In dreams – Shane Christopher ***
InterWorld – Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves ***
Mistborn 1: The Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson *****
Mistborn 3: The Hero of Ages – Brandon Sanderson *****
Mistborn 2: The Well of Ascension – Brandon Sanderson *****
Pegasus in Space – Anne McCaffrey ***
Runemarks – Joanne Harris **
Shadowmarch – Tad Williams ***
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York – Gail Parent **
Surrender none – Elizabeth Moon *****
The Cloning of Joanna May – Fay Weldon **
The Graveyard book – Neil Gaiman *****
The Law of Nines – Terry Goodkind ***
The Magician’s Apprentice – Trudi Canavan ****
(The Night Angel Trilogy, Book 1) The Way of Shadows – Brent Weeks *****
(The Night Angel Trilogy, Book 2) Shadow’s Edge – Brent Weeks *****
(The Night Angel Trilogy, Book 3) Beyond the Shadows – Brent Weeks *****
There’s no such place as far away – Richard Bach
The way up to heaven and other stories – Roald Dahl
Unexpected magic – Diana Wynne Jones (betydligt bättre än boken av samma författare jag läste förra Ã¥ret) ***
World without end – Ken Follet *****

Graphic novels:
Buffy the vampire slayer : season eight. Vol. 1. The long way home – Joss Whedon **
Gängkrig 145 – Jens Lapidus, Peter Bergting **
House of Clay – Naomi Nowak ***
Kolonialsjukhuset : en kolonialläkares anteckningar – Knut Larsson **
Mara frÃ¥n Ulthar – Karl Johnsson *
Second Thoughts – Niklas Asker ****
Syncopated – an anthology of non-fiction picto-essays ****
The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity – Mike Carey, Peter Gross *****