Catwalk at the Opera!

Anne Berit Anti is making one of her models ready for the show

Today Anne Berit Anti, also from Karasjok had her graduating catwalk at the Opera in Oslo. She has studied fashion design for 3 years in Oslo. Anne Berit has made me a few of my cotumes that I use in dancing and singing perfomances. She is well known designer. The sami media has been following her since she stared her studies.
Her collecion was just awesome! I am sure she will be accepted to show her work at Oslo Fashion week, which she aims to do. There is no doubt in my mind that she will. Her clothes are just awesome! The catwalk was perfect! She had the perfect music, and the models were really professional, and the clothes where very special, modern and newthinking! I love it! I hope she will make me some new clothes soon, as I have used her stuff so much, I need to get more! :D





I was lucky enough to be asked to play at this catwalk as an opening act and very excited about that. I was more nervous then I have been in a long time..



Status update:
My plans for today: 1. Practice singing, 2. find some nice clothes to wear in the Opera 3. Sing at the Opera with Juhani Silvola. 4. See the catwalk at the opera! Yay! It will be a good day!

The first Official Isogaisa dance is made!

I was asked to make a dance for the upcoming Isogaisa festival this year 26-28 august. The idea is that people will learn this dance before they come, or at the festival, and whenever they hear this song at the festival people can start dancing it. This dance is easy to learn, suits everyone, and has very typical sami moves.

So, just before this weekend I bought a new camera! Canon Eos 60D, and I filmed the whole thing myself. It was my first real movie project, as my old camera was so crappy I never wanted to watch anything of what I had filmed. It all looked so bad!
But this was so cool, everything looked so great! I still have alot to learn about lighting and all sorts of other stuff, but I am very proud of this video, since I eventually ended up doing the video myself, I am pretty pleased with the outcome.

This video will be out on youtube anytime now, and I will post it here the minute it is official!

www.isogaisa.no






Odd- Erling Simensen is helping me make the video

Dreamcatcher in Tromsø and my first live internet broadcast

Juhani Silvola, my überguitarist, and me are in Tromsø to play at Dreamcathcer. A event that a girl, Liselotte Holt Hansen, from one of my university classes makes.
It was awesome cause it gave me a chance to visit my brother, who lives there, and Juhani has lived there many years so he has lots of friends there.

The cool thing about this concert was that it was also braodcasted live online through www.justin.tv/DreamcatcherMusic!
That was my first live show braodcasted over internet, and it was so cool to hear that people from Venezuela and Germany had been watching! That was the coolest! And I know many from the uk had been watching too!

I really want to experiment more with this live internet braodcasting and I hear there are a few different features to chose from.


Do you have any experience with live internet braodcasting? Can you recommend me any other channel than justin.tv?

Våravslutning på Alta magedans

Forrige lørdag var jeg i Alta under elevforestillingen til "Alta magedans" for en gangs skyld! Jeg var kjempeglad for at det klaffet slik, og i tillegg spurte Ingunn om jeg hadde lyst til å være med å danse på forestillingen, og det hadde jeg selvfølgelig!
Ikke bare det, men samme helgen ble Dansens Dag feiret over hele landet, og i Alta også. Ingunn hadde masse dansing den helgen, men desverre var jeg altfor sliten til å være med på noe av det. Når jeg skulle opptre på forestillingen var jeg så lav på energi at jeg ikke var sikker på om jeg skulle klare å gå opp den lange trappen opp til scenen... Huff det er virkelig an rar følelse å ha at man hele tiden er sliten. Men nu har det gått en uke til der jeg ikke har noe spesielt program, og jeg har fått tatt igjen endel kontorarbeide. Jeg føler at jeg sakte kommer tilbake til meg selv. Ringene under øynene er nesten borte...
Ganske merkverdig, og veldig overraskende også at det tar sånn på å reise rundt på konserter og shows. Jeg kunne ikke tenke meg å gjøre noe annet, så derfor er jeg så overrasket over kor sliten jeg er nå etter 2 mnd med intensiv jobbing.

Men uansett, på våravslutningen danset jeg en solo også danset jeg sammen med elevene til Ingunn som var med på Tribal Fusion kurset mitt jeg hadde i Alta ifjor høst. Det var skikkelig arti! Jeg syns de er så flinke og var veldig stolt over å danse sammen med dem! Takk til Tina, Live og Hilja! Jeg håper jeg får sjangsen igjen en annen gang! :D

Som sagt, denne uken har jeg sovet mest, jobbet bittelit, og slappet av masse....:D DEEEIIILIG!

Venezuela!

It is absurd to be here in Venezuela! I have always wanted to come to South-America too see how people live here. I have met many Indians from these countries around the world, but have never actually been here, so this trip has made me understand a few things about the Indians from here.
It is very unusual for me who am from one of the richest countries in the world, Norway, and come here to Venezuela and the prices are twice as high as in Norway. I am just shocked about the prices! No wonder people are poor here, when even I with my salary much higher then people here have, have big problems with these prices. To buy anything is a big deal anyway, I would rather not buy anything, cause everytme I want to buy something they need my passport ID, name and address where I am staying.
Makes me kind of paranoid... There are a few things here that I dont understand, I must say...Why am I not allowed to take a picture of the Hotel? and why do they need my finger prints to exchange money? How come you need my passport id to buy a t-shirt? Why do I have to sign that I ate breakfast for 250 bolivares, when a breakfast buffest is included in the room? Simple questions, but I doubt there is a simple answer...

But besides all these political questions Odd-Erling and I have had a wonderful time here! We did a duo-concert where he played the baryton-guitar and we also played the traditional sami drum.
The event we where playing at was actually the opening of a photo excibition by Antonio Briceño called "520 Renos" (520 reindeer). He had been i Sapmi for a while taking pictures of sami people and learned alot about the sami people. He had some portraits of some people I actually know, which was really fun to see on the other side of the world. I was really touched when we got a guided tour through the exibition with him. I don tknow how to explain the feeling I had when I kind of came home to Sapmi on the other side of the world. The exibition was just perfect! His art was fantastic and so thought through, I dont have words. I actually had to stop myself from crying while I was there. It was such a big honour for me to play at the opening!


While we were there we also got to participate in a meeting with the wise-president of the Indigenous peoples standing commite in Venezuela. The wise president of The Sami Parlament in Finland,Irja Seurujärvi-Kari,was also there. And I was hosted by the Norwegian and Finnish embassy in Venezuela, and also the Swedish embassy was there. It was very interesting to hear about the differences between the sami people and Indians in Venezuela. There is such a big difference in the law and rights for the different indigenous people in the different countries. But it is amazing how we are helping and learning from each other and sticking together.


Info about the exibition

Homepage of Antonio Briceno

Lihkku Niehku vocals are recorded

Today Juhani Silvola and I went to studio to record the vocals for Lihkku Niehku/Dream of Fortune. I am really happy about how it! It sounds great! I really hope you guys will like it. This is a song about being free, and letting oneself be happy, like I hope you all do! :D

AUCH! I bit my tongue.

I had made dinner with some bacon and I was talking about how I dont eat much pork meat. I was saying that the pig is kind of a grouse animal. And then I bit my tongue.
It reminded me of my mother who would say "That's what you deserve for talking badly about other people."

One time when I was making fun of one of my former class-mates occupation, I hurt my elbow in the table, and she said those words to me. Now whenever I hurt myself like that, I always stop and think about what I have said or done, just when it happend.


These small signs are guideline for you to remember whats important, I think... So when I bit myself in the tongue while talking badly about the pig, I just remembered how lucky we are who can choose of any foods we want, and that this pig actually has given its life so that I will not starve today. I respect that alot. '
Another issue is how these pigs where treated. I can only hope they got treated with the respect they deserve.

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The Northern lights!

I have been thinking alot about Gardin/Ravnastua fjellstue/Ravnastua Mouintainhouse lately. I just wrote a small article about it, I will show you later.

This place is so special to me. It is a place up in the mountains where peope who are travelling in the wild can rent cabins and rooms. There is also showers and sauna there, dinner and meeting rooms too. My Grandma ran this place for 50 years,and we spent all the summers and easters up there! Now my uncle has taken over. It is the most beutiful place on earth. Did I tell you that?

Anyway, my cousin Eva, whom I shared alot of fun time with up there, found this amazing video on youtube. Many people travel to the north looking to see the northern lights, and this must be the most perfect place to watch it. It seems so close when you watch it out in the nature, away from the lights from the houses and traffic-lights. It feels like it is about to wrap you up.

In the old times they said that you should never tease the northern lights cause then it will catch you and you will get trapped...

Anyway, look at this amazing video!

by:Larm /NOKIA album

by:Larm and NOKIA have made an by:Larm 2011 album and my song Aibbas Jaska/All still is on that one. :D
That means you can get songs from most of the demo-bands at by:Larm in one place.

Here you go:

Link to the song at Ovi Musikk:
http://music.ovi.com/no/r/Product/r/r/14780107
Link to the whole album:
http://music.ovi.com/no/r/Product/r/r/14780092

Enjoy!