Martin Thörnkvists blog

After exploring really good Danish pop music last weekend at...

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:31:44 +0200

After exploring really good Danish pop music last weekend at Øresundsfestivalen, I feel kind of ashame for not paying more attention to what’s going on on the other side of the bridge.

This is a playlist I put together with my favorite Danish pop songs.

- John Cleese on creativity. Time, time, time. Timing.(via Brain...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:40:00 +0200

- John Cleese on creativity.

Time, time, time. Timing.

(via Brain Pickings)

“The @Spotify Play Button” ->...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:47:01 +0200

“The @Spotify Play Button” -> http://t.co/BOasgwNJ Yay. First they took Facebook, now they’re taking the web. Just like Facebook did. Love it.

And, I love the embedded song even more. It’s from the soundtrack Moto Boy composed for Lubiewo-Kärleksön at Gothenburg City Theatre.

Waiting to get a haircut (Taken with Instagram at Avenue Barber...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:32:22 +0100

Waiting to get a haircut (Taken with Instagram at Avenue Barber Shop)

“This Charming Video Game”, mashup by The Reborn...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:49:49 +0100

“This Charming Video Game”, mashup by The Reborn Identity between “This Charming Man” (The Smiths) and ”Video Games” (Lana Del Ray).

(via Ludvig Knutsson)

Shameless self promotion: överraskad och glad över att vara en...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0100

Shameless self promotion: överraskad och glad över att vara en av de som Internetworld tycker är de “62 mest kreativa i Webbsverige”

(Taken with instagram)

Carved Book Landscapes

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:09:00 +0100

Carved Book Landscapes:

Istället för att hugga i sten, hugga i bok

Being photographed by my lovely friends @simonklose &...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:43:30 +0100

Being photographed by my lovely friends @simonklose & @brokep #smiling (Taken with Instagram at Minc)

Found on Google Streetview

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:56:00 +0100

Found on Google Streetview:

jjk2012:

Helt, HELT ~~underbart~~ fantastiskt och tankeväckande!

Wow. I think perspective(s) is the word to best to describe this collection of images.

All the blurred faces reminded me of the video to Manic Street Preachers “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”. The song itself also correspond well with the horrific reality those snapshots of our world show.

“Access is more powerful than ownership”- Brian...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:09:25 +0100

“Access is more powerful than ownership”- Brian Chesky, co-founder AirBnB.com, at the DLD 12 conference.

(via Collaborativeconsumtion.com)

Wow! This, the final episode of Kirby Fergusons Everything Is A...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:04:00 +0100

Wow! This, the final episode of Kirby Fergusons Everything Is A Remix series, is truly amazing. An important document about evolution, the creation of ideas, copies, patents and how an intention to serve a common good became a good for a few, aka the System Failure. Is that just evolution gone wrong, or can we do something about it? I think so.

The four episodes is a great document on how our contemporary digital media world works and how counterproductive our law enforcers and some companies are. I truly recommend you to also watch the the first, the second and the third episode.

Also, check out Kirbys presentation at last years Media Evolution The Conference.

I love Kirbys speaker voice and his very intelligent narrative. If you do too, support his new project This is Not a Conspiracy Theory over at Kickstarter. I just did.

- Lady, by Chromatics New song by Chromatics, who we tried to...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:07:02 +0100

- Lady, by Chromatics

New song by Chromatics, who we tried to book to our live club Pastell. Love the video.

(via Discobelle)

Bike in livingroom (Taken with Instagram at Gamla Väster)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:40:36 +0100

Bike in livingroom (Taken with Instagram at Gamla Väster)

Visionen som blev verklighet - Media Evolution City

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:41:53 +0100

Blir nästan lite rörd när jag tänker på det. Det började som en vision i en förstudie, den verkade djärv, många “på stan” har viftat bort den som prat, många skulle behöva förstå, men nu är den verklighet. Idén om att samarbeten mellan personer, företag och branscher händer mer och oftare om man är i varandras närhet hela tiden och inte bara när någon fixar mötesytor för att uppnå det. Ett hus för 400 personer i mediebranscherna.

Jag har haft viss insikt i resan och vet att den inte varit spikrak. Jag är inte säker på att jag själv hela tiden trott att det skulle bli verklighet. Men nu är det det. Huset. Media Evolution City.

Jag har världens bästa känsla för det. Mötesrummen, apberget, medieskogen, restaurangen, inredningen, människorna. Världsklass.

Om några veckor flyttar jag in med mina Media Evolution-kollegorna. Inspirerande var ordet.

Alla stora kontor är uthyrda. Massa grymma företag och människor gör oss sällskap. Det finns fortfarande möjlighet att köpa en fast plats i medieskogen eller köpa tillgång till ett skrivbord i flexdesk-delen. Kom och gör oss sällskap vetja.

Kul med nytt kontor, ja. Men framförallt tar jag med mig några lärdomar: Våga vara visionär. Stötta de som är visionära. Lyssna. Prata mycket med många.

Tack Magnus Thure för Media Evolution City.

Energy-sharing is the new internet

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:53:17 +0100

Energy-sharing is the new internet:

Jeremy Rifkin about how an “internet of energy” will be the Third Industrial Revolution.

A distributed power supply network sounds like a good solution to the problem that fossil fuels are, and increasingly will, cause us.

"when looking at the effect a certain record release has, one in the world of Spotify has to look not..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:56:00 +0100

“when looking at the effect a certain record release has, one in the world of Spotify has to look not just at the first 12 weeks, but actually look at six months, and probably even a year after, because it keeps playing.”

- - Daniel Ek, Spotify to Evolver.fm.

This is the point I keep making, and what I’ve discovered from the data I get, about what makes streaming music services interesting. Again it’s about increasing the lifespan of a product. What make this model extra awesome is that the longevity of your product correlate with the level of revenue you are able to gain from it.

Hopefully this will help record labels invest more in artists that take some time to grow on you, but on the other hand also lasts longer.

Interesting about how the interest graph is the important...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:52:25 +0100

Interesting about how the interest graph is the important extension to the social graph, by Gary Vaynerchuck.

(via Tine Thygesen)

I just saw Fredrik Gerttens new film Big Boys Gone Bananas!*....

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:47:00 +0100

I just saw Fredrik Gerttens new film Big Boys Gone Bananas!*. It’s the story of how the fruit company Dole sued him for his film Bananas, about how workers in Nicaragua got poisoned by the pecticed the company used.

Apart from being an interesting documentation on how a big American corporation tries to scare a filmmaker and journalist to silence, its a breathtaking defense on our freedom of speech. Easy to take for granted, important to defend.

I strongly recommend you to see it. It moved me.

If you’re in Malmö you can see it already this Saturday at Moriskan.

Also, help Fredrik fund the film through his Kickstarter campaign. I just did.

A tiger on the streets of Paris. Made by Le3.(via PSFK)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:13:39 +0100

A tiger on the streets of Paris. Made by Le3.

(via PSFK)

Having breakfast with Majlis, Dennis, Bob, Emil, Jenevieve, and...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:57:00 +0100

Having breakfast with Majlis, Dennis, Bob, Emil, Jenevieve, and Albert. Painted by Elizabeth Mayville, Sam Persson, Thomas Broomé, Azin Ashourvan and Johan Furåker.

(Taken with Instagram at The Real Casa Thörnkvist)