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This Saturday I finally went and took some pictures again, so I'll write a bit about those and explain a hobby or activity I like to do with my friends ever once in a while.
Back a few years ago I took media-classes with some classmates and we had to make a short film. The film we ended up making sucked pretty badly and got us some pretty bad grades, although it was fun to do, so we decided to keep on meeting up a weekend every month or two to be a little social while making more bad films. Now everyone has gone to theirs and started on various schools around the country far apart, but we managed to get a few people together for another bit of social activity last Saturday.
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In the time we have been doing this, we have managed to put up two lousy movies on Youtube and we're hoping to start a small series. I'm not going to ask you to go and see them. The reason why we do this is not to make good and entertaining material for others, but rather it's an excuse to get together once in a while and great fun for ourselves to see the final product and how absurd it always gets. If you still are really pumped by reading all this, titles are "Captain Galactica: The Hand of Odd" and "Searider Falcon" so far. Whoever saw Battlestar Galactica has a big chance on guessing where some of the inspiraton came from.
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While I was in Taiwan, my friends had been working on a third compilation that were to be called "Captain Galactica 2". It's currently on pause, possibly infinetely, due to main actors being too busy with universities that are too far away. Instead we're now working on that series which is to be called "The Searider Chronicles".
It's going to be a kind of webcast hopefully, continuing our most favourite story so far by the similar name mentioned above.
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This week, wednesday to friday, I participated in a short 3 day trial period on a university in Copenhagen. Not that I can get into university just yet. I was just checking how how it was to get a better idea of what I'd like to do when I'm done in Gymnasium (~High School).
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The story in what we've recorded that saturday is in a post-apocalyptic setting. We start out an unknown amount of years more than hundred from the evens in "Searider Falcon", here I come running in a cool outfit at first, chased by a guy in a car. Then enter a man hiding behind a tree up the road and all three carries guns. Sooner than you know it, randomness breaks lose and people end up dying in lots of continuency-lacking clips. Apparently the kingdom of Roelsgaard has fallen out of dominance in the forsaken lands.
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During these three days where I was in Copenhagen I was checking out some special computer education. I heard the danish word for it is quite unique and maybe doesn't have a perfect eglish equivalent yet, but if it had, it'd probably be Datalogy or Computer Science. It's a university education specialising in the development of mostly simulations: It could be weather or fluid mechanics simulation or algorithms to process data from experiments to robot programming, machine learning and artificial intelligence. There's a bit more hardware in it too compared to other IT-educations it seems to me. I had hoped to see people build a robot or something like that, but at the university I went to, Københavns Universitet, they're more focused on software development and processors.
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Actually, apart from seeing the university, I also visited a laboratory for medical research. That was really cool, was like jumping into the future for a short while. I believe Denmark has quite a lot of those, actually. I would not mind working in such a place, actually.
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The camera we're recording with is actually a lot smaller than the one I have. It's actually point-and-shoot, but the quality it records is quite rich and it's pretty good at autofocusing.
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Now, I'm done with the try out. I wanted more. Actually a few things didn't turn out as expected for the planners so we didn't get to see many actual lectures and I think the level was a bit low on the material we got, as the target group for the activity probably was people with little to no programming experience. I talked a bit with the students there, though, and got the impression that one actually had to be pretty sharp at programming and learn a few languages all by themselves in order to get all of the classes, so I'm not dissapointed in any way. Might as well go there some day.
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Finally, let me dump a few more photos from the film-shootout:
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Pictures were taken in Slagelse Lystskov. You can click the link to see the rest of the photos that I uploaded.