The Blog. An Introduction

I've been debating for quite a while whether or not to take part in this phenomena. I don't really care to much for the way a lot of bloggers publish their lives in what seems to be no more than an effort to get a feeling of those 15 minutes Mr. Warhol was talking about. Another thing that has held me back is that I am a formidable half-asser. That is, I have a tendency to start out with things (ideas, projects and stuff) and not finish them. This is why photography is so good for me. 'Click' and it's done. Well, it's not really that simple, but I guess I'll come back to that some other time. I thought it might be difficult to do it, making the blog (I had a sneaking suspicion that it was indeed fairly easy, but it was another more or less good reason to put it off). I study photography, which I guess could mean that I won't have any problems with putting pictures in this thing. I do all my photography on film and therefore there will be some delay between events actually happening, and me posting pictures of them.

I am in England, away from my land of birth. And several people have suggested blogging as a way of giving updates. For reasons given above I have waited quite a while with this. But it just so happens that I have a lot of time on my hands, and while I do not hope that the blog will become an all-time-consuming thing, I will try to write every now and then. Today was the day to start it. 

Another debate has been whether I'd write in English or Norwegian. I'm fairly sure you'd be able to guess what the outcome of that debate is. Seeing as I gave giving-updates-to-my-Norwegian-friends as a reason for writing this thingy, it would be natural to write in Norwegian. To be honest I've been somewhat bothered with the fact that I know a language that I can speak to 4.5 million people with (and maybe slightly (mis-)understand another 10 m) while I live in a city with more than twice that many people in it. My university has more students than my hometown (incidentally a wicked song by Adele) have inhabitants. Norwegian is simply too limiting. Anyway my mother needs to learn English badly, and if she ever discovers this thing hopefully there'll be so much stuff on it that she won't be able to get someone else to translate it to her.