KC doing biz in Norway

Caption for photo from Aftenbladet newspaper...

Kevin Costner told Eve magazine that it is good to see Norway has been more successful than the US for security around oil recover. - "I see Norway as an ally," he said. Here along with partner Eric Hoek (right) and Patrick N. Smith, the exhibition area (Photo: Frederick Refvem)

Posted 8/26/10

Headline for article...

Costner will do business with Statoil

Kevin Costner to do business with Statoil, and has been meeting with the company during the ONS.

Link - Use Google Translate, in Norwegian: http://www.aftenbladet.no/energi/olje/1250902/Costner_vil_gjoere_business_med_Statoil.html

*note: if this is true, we can only hope to see more of KC in Stavanger, Norway...

So the spotting fun & adventures is not over yet, there may be more coming soon...

Of course we like his message too, but it doesn't hurt to look at him while he's doing good work?!

New oil era predicted for Norway - KC part of it?

New oil era predicted for Norway: Views & News from Norway

Film star Kevin Costner has been in Norway this week, to promote oil spill clean-up equipment and warn Norwegians about oil spill danger. Meanwhile, a top government official was predicting that Norway’s offshore reserves still have plenty to offer in the years ahead.

Link: http://www.newsinenglish.no/2010/08/26/new-oil-era-predicted-for-norway/

Click on either link above, read more, in English - plus this photo too...
Thank you Nina Berglund?!

KC in action at ONS

Wrangled a ticket, got a friend in for free, crazy woman that she is she got into this conference that normally costs an extraordinary sum--to reach her mission...

Sneak in the back door & capture KC in photos, plus a short video...



She was not the only one--but I'm sharing in her wealth, since I helped?!

So here is the proof the man was here, he did come to speak--he has already sold a lot of machines & we'll see where it all takes off from here...



And I really thought he'd just pass the mic over to his CEO & let him do all the talking?!

Enjoy--More than a Kevin Costner Fan?! I'm sure there's more--as we watched a number of giggling adult women leave the conference speech, with their camera phones up between them (I loved it?!)

There will of course be more from local media, will be keeping an eye out for those - Aftenbladet or Rogalands Avis are the two?!

Stavanger has had it's 15 min's of fame, when a Star came down to town (and I'm not talking meteors mind you either?!)

*note: Aftenbladet found separate article, see next post--but for Roglands Avis there was a longer list of articles or photos, go to this link below & start clicking on them - remember you'll have to use Google Translate to read the articles but you can still enjoy all the photos of KC...

Roglands Avis Link:
http://www.rogalandsavis.no/sok/?q=kevin+costnerrogalandsavis.no/sok/?q=kevin+costner

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KC caught slumming with the little folks...

Celeb spotting out & about after ONS Festival - Closing Concert & Fireworks...
past midnight, Timbuktu Bar & Restaurant - Stavanger, Norway

personal photo by Lena (my Facebook friend, I'm sure she won't mind?!)

Her story in her words:
"well, to cut story short, was standing in the queque, he was standing, took a photo.

I went in to get a drink, he was sitting. I was then standing next to his bodyguard, Kevin got up, girls jumped on him to take a photo, I started to laugh. He looked at me and winked:) that's it, my celebrity story :)"

Ahhh...all the fun we've been having in town & Oh Yeah The King of Norway came too for ONS--but did we notice much?! Sorry!!

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2 more snaps from 'the' ONS PressRoom, thanks to a friend in there...


He says we must give credit to ONS (it was their PressRoom afterall) & you can also go to http://www.ons.no/ & look for more photos in their gallery...










Thanks Patrick for the KC photos?!


See more great photography by Patrick at his new webpage at:
http://www.pdvideofoto.nl/

Also Stavanger Expats webpage just did an interview with him as well -
thanks Fonda & Cynthia?!

Link to go read the interview...
http://www.stavangerexpats.com/interviews-with-expats-patrick-doherty

Scottish immersion night at ONS Fest

photo from 2008 - this year looks the same

only Tuesday it's raining...

The ONS Festival

10 big Pavilions are offering wonderful culinary experiences, music and entertainment in the festival area down town Stavanger.

The ONS Festival Guest cities and company pavillions
Link: http://www.ons.no/index.cfm?event=doLink&famid=106615

Aberdeen and Shire, Scotland - Overseas Guest City
Link: http://www.ons.no/index.cfm?event=doLink&famid=128153

Entertainment - Tuesday evening:
The Northern Scales - traditional Scottish music

(*fiddle my favorite, but no photo found of this 3 pc group)

The Grampian Police PipeBand - 2nd at the worlds competition
Link: http://www.grampianpolicepipeband.com/index.html
*only 1/2 of the band came, they didn't fly them all over

Pavilion Menu:

Haggis, Neeps & Tatties (100 Nok)

Oaties, Beets (free with meal)

Tablet, Shortbread Cookies (free with meal)

Drinks: no beer or Scottish whiskey for me, but it was on offer

Also offer Vegetarian Haggis & Stovies on the menu...

Kevin Costner Spotting Week

virginmedia.com photo

(no other credit given)

ONS 2010
*or will be known forever after as the week Kevin Costner came to town?!

Thursday 26 August 11:50 - 12:20 — Hall K
State of the art oil spill recovery systems
Kevin Costner, founder of Blue Planet Solutions and Ocean Therapy Solutions and Patrick N. Smith, Chief Operating Officer.

ONS Complete Program Link: http://www.ons.no/index.cfm?event=doLink&famid=115464

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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Kevin to give presentation at Norway's ONS...

According to the following link:
http://www.offshore247.com/news/art.aspx?Id=17182

Kevin Costner is "due to give a presentation at ONS this year related to two of the companies he founded, Blue Planet Solutions and Ocean Therapy, which supplies centrifugal oil filtration and clean-up equipment, some of which was bought by BP to tackle the Gulf of Mexico oil spill at Norway's Offshore Northern Seas – ONS – conference and exhibition."

According to the following link:
http://www.ons.no/index.cfm?event=doLink&famId=126798

Kevin Costner is a founder of the companies Blue Planet Solutions and Ocean Therapy Solutions. He will be giving a presentation during the ONS Conference together with Chief Operating Officer Patrick N. Smith. Under the title “State of the art oil spill recovery systems”, they will share their experiences and review the challenges encountered during the massive clean-up operation now going on in the Gulf of Mexico. The presentation will be held at 11.50 on 26 August during one of the conference’s technology sessions.

Norway's Offshore Northern Seas conference website is at the following link:
http://www.ons.no/

The ONS 2010 is August 24 - 27 in Stavanger, Norway
Posted by More Than A Kevin Costner Fan at 1:48 AM

All of the above politely Borrowed & much Thanks go to More Than A Kevin Costner Fan Blog Link: http://morethanakevincostnerfan.blogspot.com/2010/08/kevin-to-give-presentation-at-norways.html

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*Note: without stumbling on her blog post I wouldn't have known what day & what time he was even going to be presenting this week?! We now have all Celeb Watchers warned in Stavanger--that he may be wearing shades or a ball cap or a scarf or be carrying a guitar...I did not know either he had a modern country band?! Nor really did I know he'd gone from Waterworld the movie to Water Cleaning Companies for real either?!

Further links...
Blue Planet Solutions (can't find a link for them just yet)
Ocean Therapy Solutions Link: http://www.ots.org/

Article from Cnet news - BP eyes Kevin Costner-backed oil clean-up tech by Green Tech Martin LaMonica Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20007591-54.html
(*complete with a youtube video from CBSnews.com - Washington Unplugged)

Modern country band Link: http://kevincostnermodernwest.com/

Kevin Costner's Link: http://kevincostner.com/

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More going on at the ONS Festival in Stavanger, Sentrum...

around the harbor - not all under the tents -

also at SKUR2 Gallery

or a bit further afield at the Stavanger Concert Hall

(but you could walk to it from Sentrum)


Tuesday 24 August 13:00 - 18:00 — Skur 2 Gallery
Wednesday 25 August 13:00 - 18:00
Thursday 26 August 13:00 - 18:00
Friday 27 August 13:00 - 18:00

ART EXHIBITIONS

- ONS 2010 artist Roald Kyllingstad. Exhibition in Skur 2 Gallery
- Sujata Bajaj - Indian-born artist with exhibition in Galleri Sult
- Mohammad R. Bonakdar - Iran-born artist with exhibition “say no more”
in Neo Galleri
- RETHINK —Nordic and international contemporary artists working in the intersection between art, culture and climate change. At Rogaland Kunstmuseum, near the ONS site

Tuesday 24 August 17:00 - 23:00 — Stavanger City
Wednesday 25 August 17:00 - 23:00 — Stavanger City
Thursday 26 August 17:00 - 23:00 — Stavanger City


The ONS Festival

Enrich your mind with a spectacular blend of business, know-how, entertainment and enjoyment.
10 big Pavilions are offering wonderful culinary experiences, music and entertainment in the festival area down town Stavanger.
The ONS Festival Guest cities and company pavillions

Link: http://www.ons.no/index.cfm?event=doLink&famid=106615

Tuesday 24 August 19:00 - 20:45 — Stavanger Concert Hall

OPENING CONCERT

A galaxy of young and very talented performers will appear at this year’s ONS opening concert on 24 August at Stavanger Concert Hall, including Susanne Sundfør, Katzenjammer, Polkabjørn & Kleine Heine, Charlie Siem, together with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.


Thursday 26 August 21:00 - 22:30 — Vågen inner harbour

FESTIVAL: Closing Concert

Åge Aleksandersen, Sivert Høyem and Katzenjammer.
Millenium Market, main stage, Vågen inner harbour.


Thursday 26 August 22:30 - 23:00 — vågen inner harbour

FIREWORKS

Firework display and festival concert sponsored by the Stavanger region’s hotel and restaurant sector.

Holy Toy

Black Queen - Hew Locke (UK)
*decomposition made of plastic black guns, plastic flowers, plastic lizards, plastic colored shiny beads (I would call Mardi Gras beads) & more layers...are they toys anymore in this context?


Summer Exhibition: Holy Toy

Jørgen Furuholt
20 June 2010
Saturday 26 June opens Sølvberget Gallery 's summer exhibition.

Holy Toy argues that toy through four contemporary artists.

Toys as a material and expression has been a renewed interest and dissemination of contemporary art in recent years , both at home and abroad.

Holy Toy is an exhibition that reflects this fact and argues that the toy applications through four very unique artist .

Haugar Tone Lyngstad Nyaas is a curator for the exhibition , and selected artists who all use this type of objects in a playful and humorous way.

At the same time connects the art references clearly depends to different societies current problems .

Recently deceased Kjartan Slettemark must be regarded as a key persons within the group, and as a leading figure in terms of using the toy as ready- mades in his artistic production.



Briton Hew Locke

Who with this show for the first time, show their work in the Nordic countries , uses like Slettemark an almost karnevalistisk (Carnivalesque) expression in her large portrait reliefs. With humorous edge cuisine , he highlights a number of ingrained and oppressive social mechanisms.

The Danish artist Maria Rubinkes small porcelain figures relates to an surreal as illogical combinations , and shows lovely objects transformed into an expression of more taboo feelings of desire and imagination.
Her exhibition in his gallery Alf in Copenhagen this spring , aroused great interest and was featured in full pages in Politiken , the Stock Exchange and Elle .

Frederick Raddum plays cartoons, popart and massmediale clichés in their complex objects, where the seemingly naïve in the formulation only reinforces the existential theme .
For this exhibition he has created a new work with a slide set up among vrakdelene of a crashed aircraft.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog and open to the public Saturday 26 June at 14.00. Maria Rubinke will be present at the opening

Link to Culture House Gallerie, Stavanger: http://www.stavanger-kulturhus.no/soelvberget_galleri/sommerutstilling_holy_toy

Link to Kuntsforum, the Norwegian art magazine for more photos of all 4 artists:
http://andregali.blogspot.com/2010/02/holy-tou-haugar-vestfold-museum-of-art.html





(note: just click on the photo of the white porcelain baby head in an ice cream cone with pink icing on top & what looks like a melted golden candle, or I dare not guess...we were not allowed to take photos when we went in - most of them I wouldn't want to take photos of?!)


Congo Man - in this series, called "How do you want me" he's actually standing inside his art as someone else photographs


Hew Locke Bio:

Hew Locke was born in Edinburgh in 1959.
He completed his BA at Falmouth School of Art in 1988 and his MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1994.
In recent years Locke has focused on his fascination and ambivalence around ideas and images of Britishness in a global context, such as the royal family. Locke explores global cultural fusions, creating complex sculptural collages with an eclectic range of objects, including mass produced toys, souvenirs and consumer detritus.
The artist's personal history - he spent the first seven years of his life in Edinburgh before moving to the newly independent Guyana and later returning to London in the 1980s - feeds into his ongoing interest in the links between personal and national identity.
Locke has exhibited extensively within the UK...
In the US he has exhibited at the Luckman Gallery LA, Atlanta Contemporary Arts and at the Brooklyn Museum...
Hew Locke is represented by Hales Gallery, London.

Link to BP Artist Talk to hear Hew Locke speak about his art & show slides...

http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/22448950001#media:/media/22448950001&context:/channel/search?searchQuery=hew+locke

(Note: it's really long, over an hour, but if you're up for some interesting insight into this artist's work then click on the link to the video - esp. after going to stand in front of his pieces on exhibit at Holy Toy here, which may make you curious like it did me....)



*close up of another decomposition - said he screws everything onto to a board, or he has assistants now that do as well (cannot imagine the nuts & bolts behind these constructions)

List of ways to describe him/his art, taken from the BP Artist talk...

• Uses prizes, layers, power, metaphor & not just Carnivalesque



• It is an invented culture, more complex, mythical constructions, history unexplored



• Inspired by traveling around the world, slave trade, the historical, personal history



• Why the dripping of the beads? says from waterfalls of his Guyana



• When included in Caribbean art, he considers it the Caribbean diaspra



• Many times his work is referred to as exoticism



• On the monochrome & color, are 2 different sides of himself (ie classic/vulgar)



• Some of his drawings/paintings in museum exhibits include images from the actual museum, pieces of them taken apart & then put back together into one (usually giant) piece

Sinclair oil company share, Dino the mascot (*I remember him at gas stations when I was a kid, he was green & usually a blow up)

• Current work: old company stock shares (draw/paints on the actually paper certificates)
  
  
  Sikander - Hew Locke
  In the running for the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square, London
  On the short list to be decided early 2011
  
  
  Photos: copyright all to Hew Locke and DACS
  
  Artist webpage Link: http://www.hewlocke.net/

*Note: I would love to shop for this artist & I'm thinking that box load of leftover Mardi Gras Beads in storage would be right up his alley?!
*anything noted above with this asterisk (aka from latin--meaning little star) are my own notes, in case you didn't get that--just wanted to make it clear

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Oslo Blog Gathering 2010 is on, as of today

Oslo Blog Gathering 2010 is on, as of today...

And I'm 'not' there, due to mother nature tossing me a curve ball & no transport - so I will have to enjoy it all long distance this year & troll all the Bloggers on the list living in Norway to find out what I'm missing?!

Read more below & if you're in Oslo & a Blogger, then jump on in--join 'em & Blog about it & then tell me too, Tusen Takk!!

RennyBA’s Terella

Official Program Site

Oslo Blog Gathering 2010 – The Participation list

The official list of the confirmed participants at the Oslo Blog Gathering;

A compact guided adventure for everyone in Blogsphere –

A chance to see some of the attractions presented on this blog.

After the first day’s guided tour:

Highlights of Oslo,

you’ve learned how to navigate in Oslo,

use the public transportation and chose your favourite attractions such as museums, historical buildings, boat trips or hiking in the woods.

The official participants list:

(2) Norway/USA: The Host Renny and his wife Diane at DianeCA’s Metamorphoses *
(2) Norway: TorAa and his wife Anna at TorAa’s Mirror *
(2) Sweden: Mrs. Lifecruiser & Mr. Lifecruiser at LifeCruiser’s Travel Blog
(2) France: Claudie & Pierre at LazazandCruisers
(2) France/USA: Vagabonde & her Significant Other (SO) at Recollections of a Vagabonde
(2) Portugal: Lelé Batita & her SO at Pérola de Cultura
(1) UK: living in Norway – Nicola at Facebook *
(1) Russia: living in Norway – Svetlana at Facebook *
(2) Denmark/USA: – Rachel & her sister at Happily practising Danish. And I run too.
(1) Indonesia: – sherinesky! at Once upon a blog
(1) Latvia: living in Norway – Edgar Valdmanis at Norwegian Computer Society *
(1) Philippines: living in Norway – Anna Lyn at Nothern Angle
(1) Spain: – Maria… at Facebook
(2) Canada: living in Norway & his SO – BeaverBush at Canadian in Norway *
(2) Norway: returned from South-Africa & her SO – Caroline at Returne to Norway *
(2) USA: living in Norway & her SO – Michele at My Grand Adventure Part II *
(1) USA: living in Norway – Corrine at Northern Natterings *
(1) Indonesia: living in Norway – Cecelia at This Indonesian *
(1) UK: living in Norway – Karen at Facebook *
(1) Philippine: living in Norway – Charles Ravndal at charlesravndal.com *

Associates:

From VisitOslo:
Managing Director: Tor E. Sannerud – Director Marketing & Sales: Heidi Thon – Manager Tourist Information Centres: Katrine Mosfjeld – Convention Director: Anne Wallin Rødven

From First Hotel Millennium:
Managing Director: Johan Appelgren – Area Sales Manager: Berit G. Trøen – Reservations Manager: Stine E. Antonsen

Blog Link:

http://www.terella.no/oslobg/guests/

*Note: all Bloggers in Norway with a * at the end on the list above - so you can go check them out, add them to your Blogs if you like...Of course there may be some "last minute" Bloggers joining up late so will keep an eye out for them - to think I was almost one of them?!

Leaning Tower of Stavanger

Leaning Tower Jåttåvågen or Oblique Tower

Facts:
50 - 60 meters high
74 degree gradient
leans 3 times as much as the Leaning Tower of Pisa
seats 80
part of Viking Stadium Conference Center
built in 1984
to prove they could do a diff. angle & thickness
used to make cement in it's cavity until 1994
Hinna church meets in from 2007
view of the Ryfylke Gandsfjorden

This year, as perhaps in the past, the Int'l Chamber Music Festival concert was held here today at 12:00 pm - I was lucky enough to buy the last ticket I was told yesterday?!

Besides the music I was there for the view & the photo op - I have wanted to go up the thing since I first lay eyes on it 2 years ago probably...

And so here are my photos for the day--I want to have a party up there?!




























Oh too--no one was allowed to take the stairs up
of course it being Norway somebody did ask
we all had to queque up for the elevator
it was quick though, no time for a photo
& maybe 10 people at a time max

Int'l Chamber Music Festival Link: http://www.icmf.no/index.cfm?id=289245

Facts Link: http://www.wikipedia.com/

Tourist Link: http://www.visitnorway.com/