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WRUIN – Writing Under Influence

Moa — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:14:41 +0000

WRUIN was started after I at repeated occasions got asked the question: How do you start writing?”. One day a friend asked me if I ever write under influence. The answer to that question was NO, but I fell in love with the expression “Writing Under Influence” and decided that I had to do something with it. And so the website WRUIN [WRiting Under INfluence] was born.

The fact is that most people are afraid of the blank page. Writers and students alike, most of us are dreading that first sentence. With this in mind, and a glass of wine in hand, I started working on putting together a space where people can send their first drafts, unedited and full grammatical errors. A space where you don’t get judged for jotting down their brilliant, silly or/and completely nonsensical words on paper.

Its the space for bad poems, tacky novels, and heartbreaking love letters, written while under the influence wine, whiskey, weed or simply the lack of sleep.

Ernest Hemingway said many brilliant things in a simple way, one of these many things was:

“Write drunk

Edit sober”

On WRUIN we keep to the first sentence and skip the second. We better give the reader something to laugh about when they need a break from the dull mondays.

So grab a glass, a bottle, or a whatever your heart and brain desires, sit down by the computer and write write write.

WRUIN doesn’t judge, WRUIN just wants to be there to hold your hand while you get the words you have inside of you out through your fingers to cover the first page of whiteness.

Lost & Found Copenhagen

Moa — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:14:44 +0000

Things get lost all the time and things are thankfully found all the time as well. This little Facebook group was created so that things that have been lost or found on the streets of Copenhagen can be reunited with their owner.

It has already inspired a man in Norway to start a Lost & Found Oslo ;-)

The T-shirt project

Moa — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:21:04 +0000

- A long chain of friends

Why I started The T-shirt Project

The idea is a continuation of the joke going on between Macaulay Culkin and Ryan Gossling. But instead of sending t-shirts back and forth between only two people this chain is there as a reminder that everyone on this planet is connected to you in one way or another, you just don’t know exactly how. So smile and be kind to everyone you meet.

There was a time when you used the postal office to send letters. And back in those days there was this thing called a chain-letter. You would receive a chain letter that asked you to do something, and afterward you were supposed to send it to another friend. Well, this is based on the same principal, but this time around we send chain-shirts… You can say that it’s like connecting friends through t-shirt. And it’s fun.

Connecting through t-shirts

First friends:

Juliet – Copenhagen, Denmark

Bram – Copenhagen, Denmark

Lene – Copenhagen, Denmark

Rodolfo – Mexico

Giorgio – Reunion Island

Berit – Copenhagen

Reka – Copenhagen

A network that delivers – A shirt for WeiWei

Moa — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:21:41 +0000

Photo by Max Gerthel

Ok, I’ll be honest, in this post (…) I’ll be doing a bit of bragging.

I seen myself as a pretty good networker, connector and visionary. And Yes, that is quite a bit of shoulder tapping, but a day like today, I believe I’m worth it ;)

If you want me to find someone specific, someone with a specific skill sett, someone in a specific city or all of the above, I’ve been pretty bad ass at doing so.

If I hear a DJ play that I believe is rocking the dance floor, I’ll directly make a video of the set and send it to my party planning friends around the globe and to a man I know who owns a record label. If I see a talented bag designer I put him/her together with people I know working within the leather industry making bags, and so on and so forth. I don’t do it for money, I simply do it because I like it, I like the challenge.

Because of my never ending curiosity I have a tendency to stop people who attract my attention on the street and start talking to people wherever I go. It can be two people on a subway talking a language that makes me curious, or a man with two knee-long dreads in his beard (the story behind his beard will put bearded hipsters to shame…), or an old lady who dresses with style, or an guy wearing a shirt that makes me think of Ai WeiWei…

And I did stop a guy who was wearing a shirt which made me think of Ai WeiWei. I saw him 1 year ago outside my favourite bar in Copenhagen [Kind of Blue] wearing a shirt that reminded me of Ai WeiWei that puts a smile on my face today. You see, I stopped him immediately, told him who and why the shirt reminded me of Ai WeiWei and then asked him where he had bought it. He smiled seeing that he knew of WeiWei, and that the shirt he was wearing was a sample from his own label LibertineLibertine.

And so I asked if he would send him a shirt, when they finally came into production, if I could get a hold of his address, or somehow get it delivered to Ai? The answer was YES. I’m not sure Rasmus (LibertineLibertine) ever thought it would happen, but thanks to my network that lead me to a swedish guy called Max Gerthel living in China and having connections to WeiWei, the shirt is finally a part of his wardrobe, and –as you can see– it’s a perfect fit.

Logos

Moa — Sun, 18 May 2014 10:44:09 +0000

I’m not a graphic designer, I just happen to have a thing for graphic design.

I could give you a long rant on why they look the way they look, but if I’ve done my job right I don’t have to.

Bevægelses Mentor

kiurius.com

Lost & Found Copenhagen

MOA

MoHo – Co-creative Architects

Nordic School Lab

Socication

The T-shirt Project

WRiting Under INfluence

Drawings – finding my old sketchbooks

Moa — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:18:15 +0000