And I Love her...

Long time no update!



Sorry for not writing during the past two weeks. I've been busy. When I'm not with her I think of her and when I think of her everything else seem not so important anymore, this blog for example. But I don't want to leave yet another young blog dead on the internet so I'll try to start updating again once in a while.

Since the last post a lot has happened. We've been to the movies twice, went to the "Culture Night of Skövde" last Friday, she's been at my place and I'm at hers. And I love her. Everything's just getting better and better. The more I get to know her, the more I like her. She's awesome.

Love tends to make me lose focus a bit. Instead of doing my homework I browse YouTube searching for love songs (now I see why there are so many of them!). But well, I have actually been able to keep some projects running. I made yet another contribution to the list of Creative Study Techniques, a board game for our last test in Physics, worked fine and was really fun to do (my teachers even let me do it in class). I and Oscar did some songs for our Swedish test on Friday just some hour ago. I'll soon be entering a competition together with my class where you can win $15 000 if your lucky (and work hard!). It's about creating a web page connected with school, knowledge and creativity. That suits me perfectly, ours is going to be about creative study techniques!


I've also made an interview with Swedish TV celebrity Hanna Johansson, a farmer from the program "Farmer Seeks Wife" (although she searched for a man). That was fun, she was very nice and owned 60 cows. It took a while to get rid of the smell but it was worth it. The interview was for the local newspaper, I work as a youth reporter there, it's neat.

And as you can see I've been drawing too, guess who I was thinking of?




I haven't put my hands into a chainsaw or so, it's just colour. Drawing with watercolour using your hands is great fun! The drawing is inspired from the last movie we saw, but there it was a strawberry. Don't know which movie? Here's a clue:

Love and Good night!

Love's Hard Stuff, Charlie Brown!

Good Evening folks!

This is a strange post.

It feels lovely, but I find it all quite complicated. I can solve the most mind-twistingly difficult math problems, physics is fine, biology makes sense. Love, is so much harder. I don't even know what to think about her, just that I do think about her, all the time! I've been trying to do my homework all day, but I haven't read more than a few pages.


Okay, enough of that for a little while. Another reason for the, not so good, Charlie Brown drawing and title of the post is that my cousins were here Friday to Wednesday and we watched almost every episode of Charlie Brown! It's an amazing show, truly entertaining, although some of the episodes are better than others. One of my personal favourites is "There's No Time For Love, Charlie Brown" where Charlie Brown must get an A on his field trip report on an art museum but enters by mistake a super market instead. All while Peppermint Patty's trying to get Charlie to confirm his (non-existing) love to her. Very amusing, and it all ends well!




So, hopefully Sunday turns out great to (and it did!)!
I suppose there's no need to worry, or what do you say, mr Lennon?
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Beatles!

Celebration Times!

O'boy!

Today something amazing happened!!! I won't tell you what it is. Not yet anyway. But I will say that it made me feel dizzy and crazy and uncontrollably happy. Even happier than this snowman:

And as usual on Thursdays I went to the culture house to draw some life, here's some of it:

Now I have to concentrate on the horrifying chemistry test of tomorrow.

As always, expect marvelous things to happen!
Good Night!

Steal From the Rich and Eat at the Club!

The Club's opened again!

Sorry for not writing in such a long time (6 days!). The reason for this lack of updates isn't lack of things to write about, rather the opposite! From Thursday night to Monday morning I and Oscar worked on a film for our upcoming chemistry test this Friday. We wanted to make a movie that was educational AND entertaining (easier said than done!) so that we and our classmates could sit down and watch it instead of reading the tremendously boring pages of our chemistry book over and over. And still get high grades!

So, we wrote the script on Thursday. Filmed most of it on Friday. Edited and filmed from 4 pm to 4 am Saturday-Sunday and then 12 pm to 2 am Sunday-Monday. And then we burned it to DVD Monday morning and showed it at chemistry class the same day!

It was meant to be about 5-10 minutes in length but turned out around 23. Doesn't cover the whole test but big parts of it. You may watch it on YouTube, divided in part 1, part 2 and part 3. It's in Swedish so you probably won't understand anything but the story is about Karl-Bertil Jonas (me) who falls asleep during his studies and dreams that he is Robin Hood (here named Jonas Hood). Together with Little Oscar and brother Tuck he regains the protons from the evil Prince Ylva (our teacher) to restore the chemical equilibrium in Nottingham.

Also, I went figure drawing last Thursday, here's part of the outcome:

And I promise new posts soon, the Blueberry Club is going full speed again!

One Week Anniversary!

Has a week past by already?

I guess time goes fast when you're having fun! :)

I've been planning on some interesting projects today, more on that in later posts. To celebrate the week-day of this blog the Blueberry Club shows a small collection of life drawings from two weeks ago.

They actually have open life drawing sessions here in Skövde (quite small town, about 50 000 people) this month. Wahoo! Next one's tomorrow, I'll sure be there. Just when I started thinking about how nice it'd be to sit in on a life drawing session my friend Oscar noticed a note on the school's notice-board that said "Open Life Drawing at the art museum" (in Swedish :). I'm lucky!

Here are the Club's choices from the first session (my first life drawing session ever), each five to ten minutes:

Oh, and another friend of mine, Josefina, turned 17 last Sunday so I and Oscar bought her a present, broke into her locker at school (we did by a new door lock) and hid it there. The gift was a box of the most delicious raspberry truffle you can imagine. I think she liked it!

The Club's opened 'til 00.30 this evening, if you buy two blueberry pies you get a bowl of raspberry truffles for free! Give it a try!

G'night!

A Club Visit in the Moonlight!

I'm really tired, haven't got enough sleep over the last nights. Partly due to this blog. That's cool though 'cause I love posting here!

Anyway, I didn't do much today. Went to school, tried out a new magic trick which turned out good and in the afternoon I visited a speech therapist!

I can't pronounce the so called "alveolar trill" (rolled r), that is the kind of r made by letting the tip of the tongue vibrate behind the upper teeth. That sound does almost never occur in English but is quite common in Swedish. When I'm speaking I'm using more of the English version of r. I've had this problem (not really a problem, people might not even notice it except on some specific words) since I learned to talk and I had a therapist in pre-school who tried to help me but we didn't succeed. So a couple of weeks ago I decided to give it another try and sent e-mails to every therapist in town. All of them where very nice and helpful and at today's appointment with one of them I got a lot of useful tips and exercises to do. And I will do them!

Other than that nothing much happened today, so I think I'll go to bed now. We've got full moon tonight and it's beautiful! At least to us not afraid of werewolves...

Didn't find any camera so I just did a simple painting of the nightscape, called "Time to Sleep!":

Run Blueberry! Run!

Good evening folks!

I see that I'm starting to get some visitors! :)

The Blueberry Club has so far had guests from every part of the world except Australia (where are you mates?), amazing!
If this continues we might have to hire more people!

Great thanks to you visitors! Feel free to post some comments ("orders").

Today I ran. I'm practising for a race called "Billingehusloppet". 10.5 km (about 6.5 miles) in rough terrain, lots of hills and steep uphill slopes. It's an annual tradition in our family. Most of my relatives are coming and almost everyone participates in the race.

This year's comp is extra important, because I've made a bet with a quite fast friend of mine. We've met in races twice before and the current score is 1-1, so this is the ultimate showdown!

My chances of beating him are probably rather small, but I'll do my best!

I'm also planning on making an art work of leaves. Autumn seems to be the perfect time for that kind of thing! I plan on using red and yellow leaves, and the green grass to fill in the empty space. My friend Oscar let me do a sketch of him that I'm going to use for the work. Here's the sketch and the colour plan for the leaves.

If you watch the bottoms of the posts, you'll see that according to blogger they're all posted around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I don't know what time zone is used but I'm writing all my posts when I should be sleeping. So if it says 2.30 pm it's actually half past midnight using Swedish time (GMT+1).

Okay, I better get some sleep so that I don't miss school tomorrow, or well, today.

Blueberry Club's closed for the night, come back tomorrow!

Tonight's Magic Night!

Weeehoooo! :)

The magic show turned out a success. I had more fun then I've had in a long time and I think the kids had the same experience.
It was... magical!


From the very beginning I got immediate response from the audience. They seemed to enjoy every trick and when the show was over I was overwhelmed with happiness. It went better than I could've ever expected!

The true magic does not happen when the magician snaps his fingers, but when the spectators' lips bend in a curve similar to that of a hammock with a fat guy in it!

And what's more: I got money for it! They're letting me have super fun while making other people have fun and they pay me for it. Faaaantastic!

I've already got two more shows planned, which means more fun, and more profit!


That's good because I need money. I'm actually hoping to get enough to be able to go for a language travel (I'm not sure about the word, it's "språkresa" in Swedish) next summer. STS (language travel agancy) has got this amazing USA Coast-to-Coast trip which seems really cool.

It's a pity the price is set to about 23 000 Swedish crowns (just over $3000). But if my reputation as a magician spreads then perhaps I'll be able to gather that awfully big heap of money. If I succeed then you probably won't have to stick with my grammatical/spelling errors anymore! So wish me good luck! :)



And finally, to celebrate the wonderful outcome of today's magic performance, we've invited the just as wonderful Sir Elton John to cheer us up with a croc rock on the Blueberry Stage:

To the Blueberry Club, and Beyond!

I just watched Toy Story 2 from my Pixar Complete Collection dvd set!

It's a great movie but in my opinion it's not at all as good as Toy Story or A Bugs' Life. Sure, it has a lot of fun jokes in it, but the story doesn't feel as interesting and inspiring as the ones of its predecessors. And it's always hard to make a follow-up to a great movie, especially when the great movie is Toy Story.

Toy Story (1) is my favourite movie in every category, it has the story, the style, the cutting phrases, almost every emotion there is and the great music (plus amazing Swedish voices (e.g. awesome singer Björn Skifs as Woody), haven't heard the English ones but I guess Tom Hanks is pretty good)!

As a contribution to the art of this blog I made a quick Buzz drawing in Photoshop, here you are:


Tomorrow is exciting, because I'm going to perform a magic show for about 80 kids at a sports club. Previously I've only had some small shows for family and friends, and friends of family and friends. But now it's for real! I haven't performed any magic shows in a year, I don't know anyone in the audience and I haven't had shows for kids in these ages (7 to 14) before so I don't really know if they're going to like it which makes me a bit nervous. But it feels good sharing it with you, dear reader (even though the total amount of people reading this would probably be, hm, *setting up an equation*... zero!).

I had a hard time deciding whether to take the job or not. But in the end I think I made the right decision. Because if I'd said no, tomorrow wouldn't have been exciting. It would just be an ordinary day. I prefer extra-ordinary days before ordinary ones. You have to take chances when you get them. And if I fail, so what? If I do my best I can't be anything but satisfied and it's good to fail once in a while so that you can learn from your mistakes. That's how you get better at things, you know!

Keep your fingers crossed for me tomorrow :) I'll report after the show!

Now may I present tonight's entertainment here at the BB Club: Great Mr. Gilbert O'Sullivan singing a song about ordinary days. Hit it, Gilbert!

We Have Every Kind of Chocolate!

Third post. I'm getting quite used to this!

As you'll know if you've checked out my profile, two of my main interests are drawing and animation. I sort of like to experiment with different mediums, and the choice of today was: Chocolate!

It was a bit more difficult then I expected it to be. The one to the right is supposed to portray one of my little brothers (I've got two of them) lying on the couch watching TV. You might or might not be able to tell what is what. A clue: his face is the lighter part between the centre and the left edge of the pose and he's wearing glasses.

This one goes by the name "Everyone loves chocolate"!

Not very elegant perhaps.

I don't think chocolate is a medium of the future. But the paintings sure smell lovely!

One of my (not so) secret (after this) dreams is to be able to attend California Institute of the Arts, more often referred to as CalArts!

It seems to be a truly magical place for anyone who wants to learn the art of animation. They're having guest lectures with well-known artists from Disney and Pixar and you're able to create your own student film every year and all the classes seem great and it's in California!

To get in there you have to be able to draw really well, especially life drawings. I've got a looooong way to go before I'm even close to the standards of a CalArts student. But with persistency, hard work and a little bit of luck everything's possible, right? Right!

And hey, everyone's allowed to dream!

Animation is an amazing art form. The finest of them all, I'd say. To give your drawings life and make people feel for them, laugh with them, cry over their fate. That's cool.

Most of my not so many animations are on our non-working hard drive but here are some very small pieces I did for a presentation in school (about Brazil):

The character who's dancing and kicking a football is named Samba, Samba belongs to the growing population of the Bloys. A Bloy is defined by me as a two-eyed living ball with two legs and feet attached to it.

The last one says "Global klass" which is Swedish for "Global class". That is, a class where you learn about global matters, it's great!

Well, time to close the Club for today. G'night!

Anything Refreshing?

Okay, here comes post number two. Exciting!

Hopefully I'll be able to update this blog quite often, which seems a realistic hope since I've got a lot of things going on to write about!

And I love writing. This whole blog thing gives me great vibes! I'm actually trying to learn to write readable with my right hand so that I don't have to stop in the middle of something due to hand cramp. Oh and yes, I'm left-handed!

Hope you don't mind me not always being grammatically correct and/or speling tinghs wonrg. English isn't my main language. I'm Swedish if you didn't know (actually I'm Swedish either you knew it or not). So if sometimes you can't understand what I'm writing, it's not your glasses fault. Feel free to correct my linguistic mistakes, I'd appreciate it.

I've also created a logo for the Blueberry Club! Ta-daa:

Well, now you know a little bit more about me. Return as often as you wish, preferably ten times a day! I'll do my best to keep your thirst for tales of more or less interesting happenings in a random Swedish 17-year-old boy's life under control!

Feel free to grab a cookie! I'll see you later.

Hello World!

Original eh? :)

Well, welcome to the Blueberry Club!




I'd like to thank the creator(s) of the internet for making this whole communication-from-my-computer-to-almost-anywhere-in-the-world-thing possible and the garbage men for cleaning up our streets. So, with the formalities settled I think I should introduce myself!

My name is Jonas and I live in Sweden, a country in northern Europe with about nine million inhabitants. If you want to know about my hobbies you better take a look at the "interests" list in my profile!

So, with that said (longer introduction of myself later) you probably want to know why I chose to call this blog "The Blueberry Club"? The Blueberry Club was originally (and still is) the international name for the parkour crew "Blåbärspatrullen" founded by me and my friend Oscar. But as it sounded pretty good and I wanted to add a sort of cosy mood to the blog, i thought it'd be a good name. For the blog. Too!

So welcome to the Blueberry Club! Take a seat and calm down for a while. Order a blueberry pie or two or put a nickel in the jukebox just to hear the tune of your favourite song! I hope you'll have a great time here at the Blueberry Club and if you don't then you probably want to complain to the owner... and that would be, Google!

Good luck mate! :)



Thanks for stopping by at the BB Club, feel free to return any time you feel for it!



Cheers,
Jonas