Andrés Nordgreen´s Journal

Well 2010 is a busy year for me as most are. I try to get a contract with a publisher this year and become a part time writer. My aim is to send in 10 or 12 stories. I am working on one a month. It is going great so far.

As far as in graphic design I am in hopes of receiving a dream freelance job. If I do I will be able to pay for my next apartments deposit (as I move out of my dorm in June when I finish my course) and hopefully pay all of my bills until I get a full time graphic designer position.

My company website is in the works as is my portfolio site. Thanks for visiting! Bye

I have started keeping a word file open while I design and writing my thoughts as I design. I find this very helpful and I feel like I am growing more as a designer. It is keeping me sharper and I am constantly looking for keen ways to make more creative designs now. I love it! I highly recommend it!

So ever since I was little, I have wanted to own a tourist product company. Well, the dream has been to start with a tourist product company and sell other products in the future. While I was in Thailand I ordered 1,500 copies of a calendar I designed and took pictures for of Oslo. Oslo 2010 it is called. My calendars arrived last week and right now are in three stores. Hopefully I sell them all and make all the contacts that I need for the future. I am in the process of forming my own company too called Min Drøm (My Dream in english).

Other than that school is hard work but going great. I am really looking forward to Christmas in Cayman (and maybe Cuba). Thailand was great! I want to move there if my company does well. I saw a dream house for US$ 100,000. Thanks for visiting! Hope everyone had a great summer.

Hey everybody, I am in Thailand now for two months. It has been a long semester for me. I am visiting my family here. I am learning the things I need to learn to be able to provide Marketing CDs when I come back to Oslo and finish my 100 picture CD of Grand Cayman. Thank you for visiting. I hope that you have a great summer.

Here I am sitting in school working on Higgs Johnson Truman Bodden & Co´s first marketing CD. Last week my laptop started making sounds and the smell of smoke came out of it and is now in the shop for one or two weeks. So I am in school working. My friend Jason joined the project and is making an instrumental for the introductory video of the marketing CD. I am stoked that he joined!!!! One of his last works was producing part of the instrumental for international star Rihanna´s latest single ´Tide is high´. My older brother Paulo also helped out in the project by teaching me how to implement scrolling text into the marketing CD, something that my marketing CDs haven´t had before. I am happy with this project, which is also going to have a lot of my own pictures. Bye

Here I am, relaxing in my apartment enjoying the fresh air coming through the window and the nice weather outside. I got hired to create a marketing CD for the newly formed Higgs Johnson Truman Bodden & Co law firm in the Cayman Islands. The law firm I usually do work for Truman Bodden & Company has formed with leading Bahamian law firm Higgs Johnson. I will be finishing the project next week and am excited to work on it and see its final result.

My mother bought me a plane ticket to vacation in Thailand for two months this summer. I am very excited! I will also be vacationing in Germany for a few days in the beginning of summer. Keep posted to see various new things from me online this year! One love. Bye

Here I am sitting in my apartment drinking my daily morning mint tea thinking about my blog. I am not able to upload pictures from my laptop anymore because of a wordpress bug and can only upload them at school. I think this is a big reason for me not having been posting posts on my blog. Yesterday I decided to write a nice post though so I hope you enjoy it. I am verry happy with this blog. I have received over 7,000 hits so far which is the most for me so far. By x3! My last website (which I was just in charge with its contents not design or uploading) was the no longer viewable www.kriptkeepa.com. It was a site for my now finished KriptKeepa Entertainment mix tape producing venture. I made 7 mixed CDs with my own mixes, sampling and remixes which I sold around the island from when I was 15 until I was 17. It was a lot of fun to do and my highlights where having two of my CDs played in a college radio station, some of my remixes being played in night clubs and one of my remixes being played on one of the island´s most popular radio station various times. The website contained a very popular picture gallery and guestbook. It received a total of 3,000 hits or so.

School is going great. Right now I am waiting to hear back from my brother who is finding out if my backup disk which was storing a lot of last semesters school projects can transfer the files or if they have been lost. So how I spend my Easter vacation is up in the air because of this as you probably can imagine. I bought a My Passport the other day with 160 Gigs which will serve me well in the future.

I have been recording songs since 2006 and I think that I am finally producing good ones. I am trying to make a cool mixtape with my own stuff that I can listen to while designing and will probably make very design oriented songs in the future. My Mom and stepdad bought me a Digital Voice Tracer which I take to school everyday and record my classes with. These are cool files to have and I am glad that I am not missing anything in class anymore. I will soon be able to record everything that I do on my screen too and am thinking of making a video blog. Primarily because my Dad might finally launch his company. I´m his graphic designer and think that if I make a weekly video blog with the coolest stuff that I have come across with that week he can gradually get a good idea of what he wants and nitpick at the coolest things on the net to have on his site.

I got invited yesterday to extend my vacation with my aunt Gladys and her boyfriend Patricio in Germany this summer with a trip to Italy and some of its surrounding countries. I am extatic for this and very happy!

I am working on my own website www.andresnordgreen.com. It will hold my design and photography portfolio and my short stories and audio books. I am trying to make it a good representation of me as a person, make it welcoming and to have a great ´about us´ text which will let the visitor know of my good work ethics and previous design experience.

I won an award when I was in primary school in the island´s National Festival of the Arts competition for my story ´Save the Parrots´. My story got printed in a book! I had not written another story outside of school since and started two months ago. I am trying to write stories for people my age and for children and including the best values, morals and lessons that I was taught. I am recording an audiobook for each story. Everything will be available on my website soon including a Donations page for if anything wants to support my hobby. My dream is to one day re-record my stories in a professional studio and maybe making an audiobook CD with all of my stories, the covers and audiobook files.

I am happy that I am in a creative mode and that the year is going great. I thank God for what appears to be a beautiful spring forming here in our ´unpredictable weather´ city of Oslo.

Until next time…

Bye

Andrés Nordgreen

I am back in school! I am in a new group and am the group leader. I passed last semester and had one of my projects voted by the other students to be hung up on the wall. I am also one of the class representatives and am getting great feedback from the teachers - so I am very happy!

I had a great Christmas vacation in Cayman and Cuba! I went diving six times, got to drive around in my Mom´s jeep, went to a few restaurants, watched a bunch of movies, went out a couple of times, visited a friend and saw a bunch of other friends and contacts. Christmas Eve (when I celebrate Christmas) was great and I received many gifts. I also am very happy with the gifts I gave to my Mom and stepdad this year (I will place pics of these on the blog at a later date). New Years was a lot of fun! I saw a great fireworks show from the top of Seven Mile Beach (where I was - Calicko´s). I could see the fireworks in the centre of town, and all along Seven Mile Beach.

I had a great trip there and back too. A great year and start to a new one!

Here is a picture of me standing in front of one of my projects that was displayed on the school´s stairways. There is also a picture of the project.

My cousin Gaston recently suggested I follow the Colo Colo football club from Chile! I am going to start following them in the beginning of next year! Here is their logo with the FC Barcelona football club, which I also follow.