Jaxeed

24.Januar 04:
Shades of Gery has now officially been awarded the regional top price for "Best Student Factual Production" in the North-East and Cumbria 2003 by the Royal Television Society. Among the 7 nominees in this category 3 productions where from University of Sunderland, but according to Uiversity of Sunderland's own press release the decision was unanimous to award Shades of Grey the top price.

19.November 03:
Shades of Grey has been nominated for a regional Royal Television Award for North-East England. Of all the nominees were 4 productions from University of Sunderland selected to compete for the top prices in two categories - best factual and best non-factual student production. The results will be ready in January when the award ceremony will be held.

02.October 03:
The Norwegian part of this site has been shut down temporarily as the text is being reviewed. As soon as this process is done the page will be back up with both parts open live.

The production of the showreel CD-ROM is currently on hold until the media that will be featured on it is digitized. Meanwhile this site will work as a showreel and portfolio, but the video will not be available.

11.September 03
Finally has jaxeed.com become multilingual, and is now available in both norwegian and english. This does of course mean twice as much work to update the webpage, but probably the two different parts will develope unequally. The versions are not completely similar, even though most of it is the same.

The reason for the flat theme above is basically just to celebrate the opening of the refreshed site, and the flags will be removed in a week or so. You will also find certain other changes to the page as the new window feature for all the MP3s, which is basically to avoid what some browswers do which is leaving the entire page and opening a player. Now all the MP3 playing will happen from a seperate window, so no worries of losing track of your jaxeed.com browsing. ENJOY!

14.August 2003:
I have been to the meeting at Fabelaktiv now, and I might be called in to do freelance work for them. I am for that reason considering if I should get an additional job somewhere aound here and take whatever media work I can get from them, or move around to where ever I can get enough freelance work to survive.

This is also the reason I've put up the 'Qualifications' page, so that anyone can see in more detail what my qualifications are and what I have experience in. For anyone interested in a showreel and/or a meeting, please do not hessitate to contact me by going to the contact section of this site. Additional contact information will be given via email.

11.August 2003:
The website is now up again after the privat server I was allowed access to up til now went down again, and most likely will stay down. I have therefore signed up to a new host for this site, and will most likely introduce this host as an affiliate in the future if any of you would like to do the same. This host is fairly resonable on pricing and very reliable, which is one of the most important aspects when choosing a host.

I have now also moved to Norway looking for a job in the media industry here, and will have a meeting / job interview on wednesday this week for Fabelaktiv which is a successful Norwegian media company. Currently I'm looking for a place to live IF i get a job at Fabelaktiv, and is of course shocked of the prices in Norway. (£4-5 for a pint, and sometimes only 0.4L) In other words not the country to buy a round for your mates.

Some new features has been added to the page too, if the text in the rolling news window moves to fast you may simply move the cursor over it to stop it, and even click it if you wish to open the news center which contains all the news enetered to the page. The mailing function does also work, but with a couple of hours delay unfortunately.

07.July 2003:
The results from my bachelor degree has just been confirmed, and I am now a verified bachelor from University of Sunderland in Art, Media and Design: Media Production. The marks I have received was overall quite satisfactory in my eyes, though some modules where probelms with group dynamics occurred received not so good marks as expected.

I am now therefore currently looking for work, and have already a job interview at the end of this month. Hopefully I will be offered some work in the Norwegian media company Fabelaktiv, but more about this will be reveiled at a later date.

19.June 2003:
My latest documentary project has now been added to the website, and you can read about it under projects - shades of grey. The production is finished and had received good critiques on the screening in May, and might even be nominated for an RTA (Royal Television Award) according the the university lectures and tutors.

16.June 2003:
After being offline for quite a few weeks jaxeed is back online, but on a new server. The old server was sold and before the original administrator of this server got the chance to copy his clients webpages it was picked up by the new owner. This is the unfortunate coincidence that has kept me offline for quite a while. The news hasn't been updated much neither as I've been way to busy with many of my projects.

To minimise the size of the webpage the free MP3's has been removed, but to compansate for this more of my music will be available as short mp3 examples soon. A couple of new features will soon be available too as a free stuff section, but I can still not promise a date for this as I have many balls in the air at the moment.

25.April 2003:
Just come back from Boston after a 3 day shoot for a documentary about madness and in particular schizophrenia. I can not reveile whom our main character in this documentary is at the moment due to copyrights and privacy, but more will be reveiled on a later date.

A fresh new webcam feature has been installed to jaxeed.com, but unfortunately it seems my ISP does not approve of uploading jpegs every 5 seconds, however the problem might perhaps be more local then that. The window will be left where it is till the problem is resolved, but will be regretably off air most of the time.

09.April 2003:
The webpage has not been updated much the last month due to me being very busy with the various projects on university. However, some updates have been done now, and under projects you can read more about the latest documentary that have been finished.

Even though the box against the war on Iraq has been removed, I still strongly question USA's intentions in Iraq, and I have yet to be proven wrong here and therefore strongly oppose to the war. Also I'm frankly quite shocked of the very partial media coverage of this war, something I will be writing more about as soon as I have more time.

28.February 2003:
The site is recently been made fully compatible with Mozilla and thereby also newer versions of Netscape. There are still some problems with Opera and Macintosh, but the site is at least more compatible with these browsers too, though, the news scrolls does not work properly and there are some graphic problems.

A subject is chosen for the new documentary that will be finished in May. More information will be available as soon the proposal and treatment is done, which will be fairly soon. But I can reveille at this point the keyword 'schizophrenia'.

16.February 2003:
I have just been down to London and participated in the peace march 15th of February and the turnout was amazing. The organisers say 2 million people marched, and Guardian reports 1.5 million demonstrants.

Which ever estimate is more correct, it is a record for a demonstration in London. 3000 busses were parked around Hyde Park, and some had to leave quite early with their lot to arrive home before late night. However, there were 750 000 demonstrants left in Hyde Park til it officially ended 12AM.

11.February 2003:
The webpage is now made more compatible with Mozilla and Netscape. Work on making the it compatible with Opera and hopefully also soon Macintosh IE and NS is commencing.

Feedback on the webpage so far has been almost merely positive, all thought parts will be re-writting and reworded for looks sake.

01.February 2003:
The radio play which I wrote and directed is now available for you to download and listen to. It is 25 minutes worth of sound, and is compressed to about 10MB of MP3 stereo.

To listen to the play please click your way to 'projects' - 'crash test dummy'. A link to the MP3 example is supplied there.

31.January 2003:
Finally the webpage is up and running, even though all elements is still not available. Most of the reading is ready, but there might be some problems with certain MP3s. This will be addressed soon though.

The shop is currently closed and I can not yet promise a opening date. When the shop opens you will be able to buy records and CDs with my music using your VISA or Mastercard.

The games arcade does only contain one game so far. As soon as I've had the time to program more games they will be posted, but as things look now this may take a while. Enjoy.

Today is also my birthday, making the webpage launch day the same as my birthday. I will probably go out tonight celebrating a little, but not much as the nightlife in Sunderland isn't much to speak of in my eyes.

27.January 2003:
Semester 1 of the 3rd year of my bachelor degree is now over, giving me just about enough time to finish this webpage. However, due to internet service provider problems the launch is delayed further.

The finishing touches on the page layout has been done, and work on the contact section has started hopefully to be finished next week. A theme system has also been employed to give the graphics a different feel according to seasons.

25.January 2003:
All work with the radio play 'Crash Test Dummy' is now done, and the entire play will be available on this webpage soon as compressed MP3.

The feedback on the radio play has been merely positive after it was played for an audience on the university. I've been told it will be available on the university webpage, as well as being broadcast on Utopia FM.

To read more about this, please look on the 'projects' section.