Turning heads (and torsos) in Malmo
Nov. 23rd, 2007 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusNewspaper Sydsvenskan has today published a little video report about Krets, the gallery in Malmo where I'll be performing a little action called Down With Fun! tonight. Click the picture to see the report, and if you're in Malmo come to the gallery to see the performance -- it's at Kristianstadsgatan 16 and starts at 7pm.
In the background of the report (which starts at 1min 30 and ends at 4mins 30) you can see drawings by Matt Furie, and tonight is really a finissage party for the end of his show at Krets. You can also hear the Swedish language (naturally) in the clip. It's currently spoken by nine million people worldwide, which makes it too small, apparently, to warrant a place in Google Translate.
You can tell Swedish is a minor language because absolutely everybody here speaks excellent English. Unlike in Germany, where English-language TV programmes are all dubbed into German, in Sweden they're subtitled, which allows Swedes to learn the kind of English spoken in bad comedy shows. (By the way, did you know that up to 90% of the 6000 languages that exist today will have died out by the end of this century?)
I must say this Swedish daily paper shows better taste in its choice of music than a British paper would -- the soundtrack to their report on Krets seems to be Maher Shalal Hash Baz covering "Georgie Girl". Okay, I'm off to see Calatrava's Turning Torso, out in the Malmo harbour.
In the background of the report (which starts at 1min 30 and ends at 4mins 30) you can see drawings by Matt Furie, and tonight is really a finissage party for the end of his show at Krets. You can also hear the Swedish language (naturally) in the clip. It's currently spoken by nine million people worldwide, which makes it too small, apparently, to warrant a place in Google Translate.
You can tell Swedish is a minor language because absolutely everybody here speaks excellent English. Unlike in Germany, where English-language TV programmes are all dubbed into German, in Sweden they're subtitled, which allows Swedes to learn the kind of English spoken in bad comedy shows. (By the way, did you know that up to 90% of the 6000 languages that exist today will have died out by the end of this century?)I must say this Swedish daily paper shows better taste in its choice of music than a British paper would -- the soundtrack to their report on Krets seems to be Maher Shalal Hash Baz covering "Georgie Girl". Okay, I'm off to see Calatrava's Turning Torso, out in the Malmo harbour.
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