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UI design, mead, bouldering
Age 30, Male
Data journalist
Norway
Joined on 10/20/08
Posted by Havegum - February 15th, 2011
I am a Norwegian graphic-design student - I like looking at good design, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
My hobbies are drawing and playing piano.
My boyfriend had a seizure recently (thoughts regarding that here), turns out he has epilepsy.
I'm drafted for the Norwegian air defence. Service due January 2014.
Ask me anything!
I even started dealing with law and anime ja laziness to make gifs ... xD
I'd like to make a request
I'd like to request a commission
I'd like to request a collaboration
Thanks, Gumby
why babe?! <3
Why does your icon remind me of apples?
I'm guessing you associate the colour green/faint yellow with apples. The general "roundness" could also be a factor.
I would dodge our draft if we had one. Would you ever dodge yours?
As far as I understood it's a crime to not attend when you're called in. I'm sure if I truly wanted to, I could find a way not to get drafted, however I'm actually looking forward to this. I could use *something else* for a period, and I'm thinking the army can only affect me positively. Especially when it comes to discipline.
TL;DR No. I'm actually motivated to start serving.
do you think there are any magical piano skill potions you could teach me to drink
My recommendation would be finding a bunch of friends who would like to play instruments and get together as a band to play cover songs or something like that. You could sign up for a piano class but from my experience they just force you to play classical music, which I'm sure is really helpful, but at the same time boring as fuck.
Learning how chords are built up has been the most essential thing to me, so just looking up "[your_favourite_song_here] chords" on google and learning those goes a long way - at least it did for me. Afterwards comes playing the song over and over, and jamming where you can. Scales are good to learn I guess, but it goes under the category "really fucking boring". I recently learnt blues scale properly and I must say it sounds really cool jamming to it.
Oops, I accidentally put this on your newest post... will repost here so you can delete the other one... or answer that and delete this... WHICHEVER!!!! <3
You've grown up and changed a lot since we first met... oh so long ago!! lol!! What do you miss most about those early ng days (if anything)? And what do you like best about the current ng?
I've noticed my personal growth myself. I think if I would ever "chat" with my old self, I'd probably find him too annoying to deal with more than a few minutes. I'm so grateful for you putting up with me!
Newgrounds has impacted my life very much. It started as some ruse of me wanting to make "kewl animootienz in FLASH!! xD". It got me into programming and animation, which in turn got me into drawing. Some point in this journey I got into typography, and later graphic design, which is what I hope to work with in the future.
When I got to Newgrounds, there was always this idea of submitting and contributing in the back of my mind. I think the time from just before I started hanging in the art forum, to when I stopped, has been the most active period of my life in terms of creating.
I miss the short time we used Skype the most. I must've been the most annoying little idiot with my squeaky voice and attention-whoring attitude, but I really enjoyed the time where everyone would join in the voice chat. I miss M-vero, Snowman, Ashman, and everyone else that were active at the time. I suppose I felt I could relate more to those at the time than I feel for the ones that are active now, but I guess that could be connected to me changing a lot since then.
I think me coming back (or wanting to) is a response to my realisation that I miss those times. I think I have a need to create, or doing creative work in general. When I was gone from Newgrounds I didn't really create anything for an extended period of time, I think I lacked the motivation to do anything and thus ended up doing nothing. Coming back could be because Newgrounds was really the only place I've created stuff for/to repeatedly. Other places it has been more sporadic and in form of single, isolated events, rather than constantly creating.
I like the casual feel of the site, while simultaneously encouraging creative work. I love the casual collabs you can join for fun. It's a different portal from anything else I've seen. It really allows "everything by everyone", which is definitely a positive thing. And even though you get annoying people like past-havegum, rockon12, lgnxhll, and icandraw; they might just grow up some day.
tl;dr:
I miss the old environment, users, and skype calls.
I love the casual and (sometimes) welcoming attitude when it comes to creative work.
I can also not thank you all enough for putting up with me for the duration!
Do I still make you all warm and fuzzy after all these years?
Always. I wish you talked more, though the same could be said to me I guess.
Favorite Jelly Bean flavor?
I don't eat jelly beans a lot, but I'd have to go with the red one.
Cat or Dog? Star Trek or Star Wars? What's your favorite piano piece? Can you play it?
Cat. Always cat. Infinitely cuter and gentler.
Never watched either, sorry.
Not a piano piece, but I very much enjoy Paul Desmond's take on "Wave" I can't play it though.
I usually just jam a lot, mostly within the boundaries of whatever song I decided to pick up.
Do you like watching motorsports?
Motorsports have never been interesting to me.
Asandir
That´s ok!
Havegum
cool