rockbear award

YESTERDAY THE ROCKBEAR award show was commited by the leftist paper Aftonbladet. A lot of prices was given away to bands and artists like Lars Winnerbäck, Adam Tensta, Sahara Hotnights. But is Måns Zelmerlöw actually a rocksinger? One thing is for sure after councelling Google trends, the Rockbear award are fast forgotten fenomenon just remebered some days. But rock n roll still lives.

studio work

WORKING IN STUDIO with some great guys. Installing sound cards, Steinberg’s Cubase, trying out software, playing guitars etc. We recorded some guitar channels. Kent plays his Aria Pro guitar here. We also have some Framus, Hohners

Fan Day (Thu 24 Jan)

T O D A Y · I S · T H E · D A Y · dedicated to the fans, yes thats you! :D From the dude living in a shack in the forest going up at 5:00 in the morning running to the bus in the rain for a two hour ride to the job, to the girl living alone with her cat in a big city sleeping all day. I love you all. I hope I can perform live some day with a little strong band.
Take care!

d u d e · w h e r e ’ s . m y . p u t e r ?

W O R L D S · T H I N N E S T · laptop, MacBook Air, was introduced at MacWorld Expo last Week. 1.36 kg weigth with new controll technology from the iPod touch, new keyboard, the optical drive replaced with wireless Bluetooth 2.1 technology.

a l o t . o f . a w a r d s

A · L O T · O F · M U S I C · A W A R D S · in Sweden right now. This week we had the Grammis Award 2008 the Swedish Recording industry award. A lot of old actors and some new. Adam Tensta the great hip hoper got his award in "the best hiphop category". Later we will have the Rockbjörnen (The Rockbear) awards for best rockmusic, and 1 february the Bandit Awards 2008 for best swedish metal/hard rock music.

E S C A W A R D S · Maybe the EscapeZine Awards for best local extreme artistery will be annonuced.
www.escapezine.tk (we will see in the future)
The categories are (prel):
best extreme artist all categories
heaviest alcohol/drug/sex-addict
greatest "mediawhore" (who wants to be seen everywhere and not producing anything)
most missunderstood underrated artist
best pro-stalker
greatest to early past away artist
N B this last passage was a bit ironic part of the blog entry.

d i g i t a l . g a r d e n

T · E Q L S · M I N U S · 7 5 to the Breakpoint demoparty, the biggest pure world leading Scener event in Bingen, Germany, in Frankfurt metropolitan area. This year as allways held at the easter weekend friday to monday. Several competitions will be held. The Scener Award Show with the best Demos, music, graphics etc will be presented. Seminars, lectures and concert will also enteratain the visitors. And don’t forget the outdoor BBQ party with strong german hot dogs.

n a m m . v s . m u s i k m e s s e

W H I C H · M U S I C · fair and trade show is world’s leading business event if you are a music freak? NAMM is taking place now in Januari 17 in Anaheim, CA, USA and Musikmesse in March 12 in Frankfurt AM, DE, EU. It’s USA vs EU in some way.

a p p l . a n d . m a c . w o r l d . e x p o

T H E · P R I C E · right now is USD 180 for the Apple Stock APPL Earlier 28 Dec. the Apple stock was hitting USD 200. When the iPhone was released and later the prices cuted, the interest in Apple search on Google rised.
The price dropped today due to the report on slow down in the ecconomy and job growth. Apple the greatest gainer in 2007 among IT manufacturer lost 7% today according to Bloomberg online.

MacWorld Expo will be held in San Fransisco 14–18 January, with exhibitors and conferences.

i n v e s t . i n . s w e . v g i n d u s t y

N O W · T H E · S T O C K M A R K E T · has slowed down for half a year. It could possibly be time to invest and why not in Swedish game industry stocks. We have Starbreeze (Star), 24hour poker (24h) (formerly Daydream) and the entertaining conglomerat 2entertain (2ent) notated on different Swedish stock trading lists. EA (ERTS) owns Dice (Battlefield) with over 200 emloyees at Sodermalm, Stockholm.

If you are interested in Swedish stocks and market visit Avanza a leading trading site.The cheapest stock trader in Sweden is Aktiedirekt with a 1 EUR prize per courtage. But the most respected agent I think of is Handelsbanken, the banker for the Wallenberg family. The OMX that owns the Stockholm Stock Exchange is possibly going to be bought up by NASDAQ.

t e c n o . t r e n d s . o 8

T H I S · N E W · Y E A R S · clear trends are Web 2.0 and Video on internet. Flat LCD/TFT computer screens are getting better and better. More contrast, better resulotion with over 1000 pixels verticaly, wide screen, larger wiveing angel etc. Printers are also getting better with resolution close to high quality 4-color offset printing. Both printers and screens are getting cheaper. One trend is that Apples products are still very high prized, like designed B&O consumer goods for trendy geekchick design nerds.

v g m . r o c k s . e v l

T H I S · W E E K E N D · the yearly recurring computer convention and LAN Magfest take place in Hilton Mark Center Alexandria (close to Washington DC). It’s the 6:th volume and 1.600 attenders is estimated to show up to listen to video game metal monsters like Powerglove, and learn from lecturers, listen to game music in kiosks etc. etc.

Attenders are showing up from all over the world. One much appreciated guest is Wire the mastermind of GameOver gamemetalists from Sweden.

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