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CONTENT4-8 . filmreview of submarine

10-17 . birdly interview

18-23 . fly away to dreamland

24-25 . albums of the spring

26 . ear space playlist

27 . 5 favorites for spring

LENAJOURNALISTLoves Pepsi Max, has an unusual great passion for shorts and love to sing to the sweet sounds of The Black Keys.

ERLINGJOURNALIST/PHOTOGRAPHERLoves to work on films and editing. Say what i mean and adore Skrillex.

MARIEJOURNALIST/GRAPHICSleep is the thing. Loves to laugh and really really enjoys M83.

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LENAJOURNALISTLoves Pepsi Max, has an unusual great passion for shorts and love to sing to the sweet sounds of The Black Keys.

SIMEN GRAPHICA true jibber by heart, loves Kid Cudi and preferce to rap to his beats.

ANNAPHOTOGRAPHER/EDITORAlways wears nailpolish, known as the sheep and lives by the qoute “to travel is to live”.

This magazine was born on the idea of creativity - the idea of thoughts forming products. We are a group of young students that attend our second year at Hetland VGS - Media and Communication.

We all love different things here in life, and we would love to share some of the great things that we so truly adore. We’ve made this magazine to show you the youth’s creativity and interest. A mix of what we’ve learn over the years, what we want to continue to explore and what we think is pretty damn cool.

Enjoy.

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SUBMARINEA filmreview by Lena Karin Børtveit Tvedten

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15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and her ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.

The British movie Submarine is a film adapted by the novel of the same name, written by Joe Dunthome. Richard Ayoade, who also is known as a comedian and an actor, directs the movie, so it was no surprise that the movie contains a certain sense of humor. The movie was released in 2010 and was shown at cinemas in many countries, but in my opinion, it hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.

Submarine is a movie about Oliver Tate, a 15-year old boy in 1986. He is madly in love with a strange, straight-talking girl named Jordana. He will do anything to impress her. He even bullies an overweight girl in his class, just so that Jordana will like him. Suddenly, Jordana invites him to meet up in secret after school and tells him to bring a Polaroid camera. She takes a picture of them kissing, which makes Oliver confused, but of course very positively surprised. But the

happiness does not last for long, when Oliver finds out that the picture was part of a plan to make Jordana’s ex-boyfriend jealous. The plan backfires, and Oliver and Jordana get bullied in public. Oliver even gets beaten up for refusing to call Jordana a “massive slut”. Walking home from all of this, Jordana takes Oliver’s hand

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and they kiss. This is the start of their kind of sweet, but somewhat strange, relationship. At home, Oliver struggles to keep his parents together. He is concerned that their relationship and sex life is falling apart, and that his dad is depressed. This has much to do with the fact that a new age guru has moved in next door, and happens to be Oliver’s mother’s ex-boyfriend. Most of Oliver’s time is dedicated to try to keep the relationship of his parents together, as well as his and Jordana’s. Oliver’s relationship with Jordana keeps going, and Oliver learns that Jordana’s mother suffers from a brain tumour. He decides that Jordana is at risk because the emotional events surrounding her will “make her gooey on the inside”. He cuts all contact, because he thinks it will make her ordeal easier. This is an example of his incompetent social methods. Of course, I won’t tell you how it ends, but I can say as much as: it is great.

I laugh trough most of the film, but at the same time I am having a sad and tragic feeling. The music and the pictures are so well put together that I cant help to fall in love with the film, even if it is so tragic and kind of helpless. My stomach turns along with Oliver’s life, and I can’t help but to feel sorry for these people. The movie appreciate small things in life, as well as the big ones, and

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the music performed by Alex Turner makes the whole atmosphere very romantic as well as heavy and sad. Submarine is a film worth seeing. Especially if you appreciate a good love story, mixed with a lot of awkwardness.Craig Roberts, in the lead role as Oliver Tate, does a great job as the socially awkward boy he is supposed to be. The face expressions are priceless, as well as the body language. You can’t help but to feel sorry for this kid. Since most of the characters are as awkward as Oliver, it is not a surprise that the whole movie has an awkward, weird and kind of unbearable mood. There is something very cute about this film, and I recommend it deeply.

TASTE THE RAINBOW

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TASTE THE RAINBOW

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BIRDLYText and photo by Erling Thorbjørnsen

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Birdly, who is Birdly?

I’m walking into a café knowing I’m going to meet the man behind the musician Birdly. The name of the café is Amy’s, and is located in a narrow alley, downtown Stavanger. In the café, there is a relaxing and comforting atmosphere. Suddenly I understand why musicians hang out in such places. Inspiring environment. Just inside the door a young man is meeting me. His name is Joakim Guldberg Fugelli, also known as Birdly. We sit down, I start recording audio, opening my Mac displaying the Birdly Soundcloud page, and the interview is then ready to proceed.

Who are you? I ask- I’m Joakim Guldberg Fugelli, born and raised in Stavanger. I have an enormous interest for music. There has never been any limitation to listening. Everything from Mozart to Jazz Electro or Metal. I used to participate in sports, but due to a back injury, it can’t be more of that.

That’s your dark story?He hesitates for a bit.-Yes… It was after the injury I first really discovered I could express my feelings trough music. My music is inspired by feelings and emotions, and my earliest songs are funded on more negative and frustrating feelings. There is much aggression in my music, the chords I’m using are dark and unbalanced and I think it originates to the fact I got badly injured. But now, I’m working on a project with a more happy feeling too it. But I cannot work with a happy song, if I’m in the opposite mood. My music production is strongly connected to my mood.

You are totally fine with saying your music is your emotional expressing? -I’m totally fine with that! The music can be, what shall I say, an escape from the reality. It gives expression to a lot of things. In the beginning it was like, “Oh, making music is cool”. I never learned to play guitar or any musical instrument. But I have a brother who played the guitar, and he introduced me to a program called Fruity Loops, were I got to play with different beat patterns. Then I met Ketil Jansen, the man behind Lemaitre. He was like a mentor to me. He showed me a lot, but he never wanted to make anything for me, I saw it important to let me do it myself.

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So you’ve had a mentor?Joakim turns his head to the side, speculating over my question. -Yeah, in a way. He gave me many samples and tips. But he has never been as a classical music teacher, because he is not the most musical person himself, but he has the patience.

Patience? Is it important to you?I do not come far without patience. I’m impressed by the fact that Ketil can sit down for twelve hours simultaneously and work with is music. I cannot say I’m the most patient person myself, but I’m trying. I can listen and tell something nice from something horrible, even if I play it myself and do not even know what the name of the chord or interval is.

Was Ketil your biggest inspirational source?-He and many others. Daft Punk has always inspired me, and how they are the godfathers to the electronic genre. Ehhm, I also find much inspiration in both Black Metal or more easy listening music. You got Justice and Dada Life, with their big audio-visual pictures but the biggest inspirational source must be Wagner or Mozart.

Mozart? Wagner? Is not they kind of outside your genre of music?He smiles. -But there is so much more to them if you just listen. They layered music with instruments like clarinets and violins, I layer music with synths and samples. It is in a way the same.

I noticed you are not talking about the most known artists like Swedish House Mafia, Skrillex, Deadmau5 or Knife Party, why is that?-The commercial electronic music genre has completely taken off. Many people know that I make music similar to that, and they keep coming to me pushing with the sentence “Why don’t you make more music like them? That’s what people want to party to!” But as soon you go the commercial way, the meaning of making music fades away from me. You will become known and rich, and after many years you discover what you made was just shit. Take David Guetta as and example. He uses four chords in almost every song and muffles. And Skrillex! I can understand why people want to party to it, because it is intense, but frankly, he sounds like he throws a rock in a blender.

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We both laugh at his fantastic metaphor. I realize that my impression of this musician as a hardcore techno drum zombie is about to change.

But back to the feelings in the music thing. What is the message Birdly sends out?

-Do I have a chaos mood; I use lots of synths to create a massive sound picture. Do I have a happy mood; I use easier and softer melodies. I think my message is about the present. Now! What I feel now! Yes, my message is the present.

But with what music do you send that message? What genre is the Birdly music?Joakim looks terribly surprised over my question. I now from his facial expression, this was not an easy question. -Oh wow… I started with House, because the composition in House is easy to learn. It is a lot about looping and repeating themes. The House part was a good way to learn the technics of making electronic music, but now I have started to use more of my self, and not the commercial “oh, that sounds cool” part. But in difference to “sounds cool” I have got my song En-Na. I was in USA, injured and had to do something. So I found some chords and everything just worked out.

Like the track was building itself?-Yes!

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But when you had learned the technical, did you not need some technical gear? Software, keyboards, drum pads?-I’m always dreaming about new equipment. I use my Mac, with Ableton Live 8 and my piano home to try out melodies and chords. I buy a lot of synths, like Dada Life’s Sausage Fatner and instruments from Native Instruments like Massive, FM and Absynth. I love Massive, because you can use 24 hours just to make one perfect sound.

Have you been playing with Massive’s Modern Talking?-Oh yeah, cannot be any House music without the Modern Talking.

But do you not have a MIDI keyboard?-I lately invested in a MIDI keyboard. It has been a revolution for me to actually be able to play and listen directly from the synth.

Have you ever played live?-I have not performed live, but I have been DJ to different parties and in addition played my own music. I have never had my own concert, and I do not think I will do that, especially not alone. For a concert to be great, there has to be a good show. We are now trying to do this, with a fresh new group of three persons. In a while, after releasing our EP, we might try to perform concerts at local bars and clubs like Folken or Checkpoint Charlie.

But are performing live and getting famous, your biggest dream?-The rush you get from playing your music for a big crowd must be insane! So many people, who are there, because your music make them happy. Actually, I cannot answer your question right now, because I have not felt that feeling or done that action. And I have nothing against getting known, but famous … might be too heavy for me.

But you are kind of known. You have almost a thousand listens to some of your tracks on SoundCloud. -It is always great to receive feedback in all ways. The coolest I know is too meet people that recognize me because they have heard my music. “Oh, it’s you! You make awesome music”, is always great to hear. But I always ask, which songs they have heard, since I do not like my older tracks. The old tracks are a part of a learning phase, and not proper music in my head. Sure it is House music, but that is not my style any more.

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But what if you fall in to a black hole here? What if your listeners wanted to hear brain-dead House music with some few cool licks and drops?-I could never live of my own music if I did not like it myself. Four simple chords do not do anything for me. It is not challenging or expressive enough. It might had been fun for a few years, but sooner or later you discover that your music is just garbage. I cannot understand why the easy commercial music sells that good. Dubstep is not going to last long. It seems like a fight about the hardest and biggest drop, with no focus on the musical part, at all. Or the dirtiest synth or bassline.

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We heavily discuss the fact that the most famous electro-musicians sell themselves out to record labels and companies. It gets pretty intense but I do not loose the grip on this meeting between us is an interview and not a debate. After been discussing with Joakim in approximately ten minutes I return back to my noted questions.But Joakim. If Birdly should play as a warm up band on a large-scale concert for a famous artist, who would it be?-Oh… I do not like everything Madeon does, but he is at its way upward. Or Crystal Castle, Digitalism, Deadmau5 or Daft Punk. Daft Punk would have been the greatest in my opinion. Choose one of your favorite tracks to play at this concert.-En-Na. Everything just worked out.

The breaktrough? I interrupt.-Yea. It was great, I remember. At one point it topped the most listened track list. To go past Filter and the big electro artists in Norway was amazing. It was my fifty minutes of fame. I never topped most listened monthly or annularly. En Na has big and massive chords that feel relaxing to listen to.

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But En-Na is pretty much the past. It is an old song now. What are you working on now?-Right now I am working with Tommy Jacobsen (Gitar, Silver Bullet). He is a metalhead but combining our interests we make pretty cool music. In a Russesang for a group who call themselves Adelen (Norwegian for the Royal) singer Eili Harboe joined us for this project. But the song for Adelen suffered a quality related breakdown. My project crashed and I lost many source files and recordings. I had to rebuild the track with lower quality. That sucked real hard…

So you are releasing an EP?-Yes, we are in production of an EP. This time there is money in the picture, so we will have to see how it goes economical. And this time, we are not going to release anything before the EP is finished.

So we just have to wait.Sometime Birdly and the unnamed group will release an EP, and from what I have just learned from him, it is going to be good.

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Fly away to dreamland..Photos by Anna Torst Saatvedt

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Fly away to dreamland..Photos by Anna Torst Saatvedt

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Foster the People

Foster the people is an American indie pop band. The group was formed in 2009 in Los Angeles in California. There are three people in the group, Mark Foster who do the vocals and most of the things, Cubbie Fink who play the base and sing back vocals. And then there is Mark Pontius who plays the drums. Their music is described as melodic dance-infused pop and rock and spans many genres. Their first successful song was “Pumped Up Kicks”, this song was their breakthrough.

M83

M83 is a musical act by French musician Anthony Gonzalez. The band’s name is after a spiral galaxy, Messier 83. The band was founded in 2001. It consists of Anthony and a former member was Nicolas Fromageau. But they parted after touring the second album. Now it’s mostly Anthony and his brother Yann Gonzalez who plays together. The musical style of M83 has a lot of reverb effects and lyrics spoken softly over loud instrumentals. Their musicstyle is electropop and ambient.

Album titles of the spring

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Text by Marie Kavli Opsanger

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Foster the People

Foster the people is an American indie pop band. The group was formed in 2009 in Los Angeles in California. There are three people in the group, Mark Foster who do the vocals and most of the things, Cubbie Fink who play the base and sing back vocals. And then there is Mark Pontius who plays the drums. Their music is described as melodic dance-infused pop and rock and spans many genres. Their first successful song was “Pumped Up Kicks”, this song was their breakthrough.

The Black Keys

The Black Keys is an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001. There are two people in this group, Dan Auerbach who plays the guitar and is the vocalist and the drummer Patrick Carney. Their music is described as a kind of garage rock slash blues rock. The band’s debut album was “The Big Come Up”. It was recorded in Carney’s basement. It didn’t sell that good, but it attracted attention from critics.

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Text by Marie Kavli Opsanger

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PLAYLISTNova Baby – The Black Keys

Helena Beat – Foster the People

Emmylou – First Aid Kit

California Sunrise – Drity Gold

Teleport 2 me – WZRD

Midnight City – M83

Born to die - Lana Del Rey

I’m not a hero – Hans Zimmer

Somebody that i used to know – Gotye

Some Die Young – Laleh

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5 SPRING FAVORITES

.The smell of the spring swoshing through the fresh streets.

.When the sun’s peeking out, and gives me the chance to put my sunglasses on.

.Knowing that there are minimal days of school left before the summer arrives.

.Oh, the sweet springfling.

.Last but not least, people smile more. Happytimes are here.

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bye bye…