Pop-up-vernissage on December 2nd: The Phoenix

On Saturday December 2nd, I’m doing a pop-up-vernissage at H15 Studio in Kødbyen in Copenhagen.

Come and feel the energy of my latest paintings. 🙂

H15 Studio, Halmtorvet 15 (direct entrance in Slagtehusgade).
Saturday, December 2nd from 18 onwards.

Facebook-event: Pop-up-vernissage + Party: The Phoenix

The newest one of the paintings, The Phoenix, is the cover star of the Facebook event and it has been my most time-consuming painting BY FAR so far. Deep work. Difficult, wild, colorful. It taught me a lot

I’m always exploring this in my works: What it is, exactly, that emerges when you spend hundreds of hours creating something with your hands?

Something arises for sure – and radiates from the canvas. Most noticeable when you’re in the same physical space, of course. I want to share that energy.

Many of the paintings are heavily inspired by the very best things from rave culture, so I’m expecting them to send just the right amount of this-is-a-portal-to-another-world energy out into the room. Which will, eventually, if you stay at the fernissage long enough, turn into a dance floor. Come and be transported.

There’s a well-stocked bar – and dj’s (hand-picked with great care) behind the decks. Line-up in the facebook-event.

Yoga progression: How to turn into the future version of yourself (and stay motivated)

Me on my Island of the Gods yoga mat.
The yoga mat below me in the photo is my Island of the Gods mat.

When I started practicing yoga a number of years ago, I was often really bored in yoga classes.

The Bikram yoga classes were particularly hard on the boredom level (90 full minutes and then the same series every time).

But I kept going because it was quite clear to me that I was onto something.

The thing was that I had gotten some very stiff shoulders due to really long hours at my keyboard with many, many article deadlines every week. And I would completely forget about my body for those hours and just exist inside my head and inside the words.

And I had shoulder and back massages quite often, because I had to, but skilled masseurs are expensive, and I could also sense that I probably had to go deeper into the shoulder issue and not ‘just’ doing body treatments

– even though I really like body treatments (and I also expanded my regime with body-sds and acupuncture and reflexology.)

So: Yoga.

And while I was forcing myself to go to yoga classes (yes, forcing myself), I often thought:

“What if I get to a point where I actually LOVE coming to yoga. What if I get to the point where I feel like an hour-long yoga class just flies by?”

Well: I just had a class like that this week.✨

I’ve turned into the imagined future-version of yoga-chriszka, who is just like ‘wow, that was a great class’ and ‘whoa, are we done already’.

I’ve always had a very holistic idea of how much my mood and health is connected to the physical flow in my body, and how much a certain point on the bottom of my feet is connected to my liver which is connected to a tight muscle in my inner thigh which is connected to my eyes etc. etc. etc.

But I STILL felt really bored in MANY yoga classes in the beginning.

So a big thank you to chriszka-of-the-past for getting up and going anyways – and keeping at it.

Yoga HAS become so much more fun now!

And seriously: If you need motivation for sticking with your own yoga practice (or just motivation to get started), my mats will keep your eyes entertained: https://chriszka.myshopify.com

Solving the yoga mysteries, slowly

The yoga mysteries:

How some poses take days to improve, and others take YEARS.

The gomukhasana clasp: I wanted to be able to do it. I started practising, focused. Got there FAST. So satisfying.

The wide-legged forward bend: One should think this was super basic. I mean, how long can it take before I see improvement, at least? Years, apparently. Years. I still feel like a beginner in this pose. A beginner that has just run a marathon.

Luckily, I have done so much yoga by now that I no longer feel annoyed by this apparent lack of progress. More …intrigued.

I’m definitely not a patient person in all areas of life. I like things that move swiftly. I like progress and results. But people looking at my artwork will consider me to be e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y patient. And yoga has definitely taught me new levels of this skill.

And that’s one of the many reasons I have found it so meaningful to print my paintings onto the yoga mats. They remind me that things take time and that all the work will grow into a big pattern, eventually. They are also very entertaining to look at while practising, which is great for people with lively brain activity. 😉

The print on this yoga mat is an acrylic painting I made after a (very yoga-filled) journey to Bali. Inspired by the fractal-like rice fields, the sound-healing pyramids, the temples, the surfboards and the electric sunsets. It’s my own favourite mat (currently) and it motivates me daily.

Get your own! Have a closer look at https://chriszka.myshopify.com

Turn your mousepad into a cyberdelic portal

Why settle for something boring and black when you can access the internet with your VERY OWN HAND-PAINTED PSYCHEDELIC PORTAL?! – made by me?

This is a mini version of my WipeOut painting, cut into a circle and printed onto a mousepad to make your daily trips into cyperspace a bit more sci-fi and a lot more artistic.

Remember: “The PC is the LSD of the 90s”, Timothy Leary said (in the 90s). Let’s use it for exploration, not distraction.

The painting on the mousepad is inspired by light machine experiences, psytrance and rave visuals, playing WipEout in virtual reality and the amazing power of our brains.

(Hot tip: If you acquire mouse arm syndrom through all the clickety-click on the www, get yourself a yoga mat (hand-painted by me) to fix it! I can provide).

Link to the mousepad upgrade: Circular mousepad: WipeOut

Current painting I’m working on: The Phoenix

This acrylic painting is inspired by the Boom Festival in Portugal and other events of 2022; events of heat, transformation, travel and mind expansion. Its work title is ‘The Phoenix and the Toad’. It has taken me 87 hours of work so far and it’s teaching me new lessons every time I get in front of the canvas. 

I have never made a painting that has required this many sketches. I have to sketch and sketch and sketch again before putting actual paint on the canvas, trying out new ideas constantly. And even though this painting, at its current stage, looks a lot like my very first original pencil sketches (although a lot more colourful, obviously, since the first sketch was made with a grey pencil), the painting keeps surprising me, taking me in new and unexpected directions, still.

I expect to work on the piece for at least another 20 hours or so before it’s done. Deep and interesting process, for sure.

Ravers Are the Experts: Big Smiles and Extreme Happiness

This has to end with an explosion of emotion, every year.

Enjoy this collection of feel-good snapshots of moments in the past (and the very recent past) where you were all clearly TRULY happy.

This is a big moment for Chriszka – and for JUngLEkalenderen. This is the birthday where I got my first digital camera, small and handy enough to bring to the dancefloors. Proper cameras in phones were still some years into the future so this was as tiny and futuristic as it got. Look at my happiness and joy. JUngLEkalenderen would have been a lot less fun without this little piece of equipment.
A group hug couldn’t be happier than this. Such complexity, such warmth. Elektronisk Picnic 2010.
I have posted this snapshot before, but it’s just so perfect. In this moment, Hjeppe Mann has everything. Water, coconut water, a fan for fresh air, a sunset, a ja-hat, a platform to dance on, the Atmos opening set at Boom 2022.
This was one of the very first days after lockdown lifted in Copenhagen, and Chriszka and Sune are truly happy to hang out at a pretty packed party in Byhaven.
Look at the intense happiness of Sulu in this summer-y hug. This need up in a long Simon & Garfunkel session. JOY!
Extreme triple happiness and a red heart in the morning hours just after the ending of a party, many years ago.
Sofus laughs at his shamanic insights at the Somewhere Festival.
Thomas truly enjoys this splendid summer’s day at the magnificent So Verbot party at Tunnelfabrikken. Copenhagen, August 2022.
Textor truly enjoys this pool moment at Løgtenborg Slotskur 2013.
Dollars looks frighteningly happy at the sunrise floor at RAW 2009.
Rau enjoys himself on the dancefloor in the early evening sun at the Øen Ved Siden Af party at Distortion 2022.
Ah, the intense joy when everything just clicks into place at the Turmbühne stage. Such an amazing feeling. Fusion 2007.
The happiness on this face is the happiness of Sulu getting his food at the Hifly Pigfest 2010.
JSL looks extremely happy about the party situation at an Ohoi! party, 2004. Pic by jonask.dk
Deep double happiness from PZ and Tim Driver, generated by the Hifly Pigfest 2010.

Intermezzo: Read some of Tim Driver’s insights about rave culture right here: My first big raver experience.

Alex beems with internal happiness at the Dyssen party 2010.
Enjoy the look of extreme happiness on Ulle’s face at Stella Polaris 2010.
Christina Britz has clearly been drinking directly from the well of happiness at Roskilde Festival 2006.
Asger truly enjoys the moment on New Year’s Eve at The Jungle Hut.

Intermezzo: Enjoy some more pics from THAT night here: How to be a Junglist: Camouflage

Classic Turmbühne happiness moment at Fusion 2009.
Svingsen and Chriszka feel squeezed by China but are still happy. Shanghai 2004.
Lewis enjoys the moment at the Club Awards in Vega 2006.
Chriszka looks very happy and somehow also very rich on a boat in the Copenhagen harbor. This adventure had Asen at the wheel.
Niels enjoys the happiness of the warm hug.
Binge beams with blond joy at Elektronisk Karneval 2008.
Iboga happiness at the Alchemy Circle at Boom 2022.
Fred Alert tries to hide a smile at Orientkaj Din Ven i Solen 2022.
Another moment of pure joy in front of the right speakers at Turmbühne, Fusion 2007.
Very big smiles at Roskilde Festival 2007. A slightly muddy year, but we clearly don’t give a toss. The happiness beams from all the photos.
Vibs is beaming with Fusion Joy at the Tanzwieze stage (the year with the cosy ‘stuelampe’ deco). This is 2013.
A moment of dancefloor happiness erupts at Orientkaj Din Ven I Solen.

Want more?
In 2015, JUngLEkalenderen finished with Jungle Feelings: The Love, Hugs and Kisses Extravaganza

The third season finale was a very long list of junglists celebrating their birthday on the 24th (of some month), climaxing with Mugge, the predator, and all his darkside fish: The 24th Surprise

DID YOU MISS A DAY OF JUngLEkalenderen? Go here:

December 1st: Ravers are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast Lives
December 2nd: How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special
December 3rd: Blasts from the Past: Birthday Bash Edition
December 4th: The 7 best things about being a raver
December 5th: How to be a Raver: Flags and Balloons
December 6th: Jungle Feelings: Stuff that Glows in the Dark (remix)
December 7th: Ravers Are the Experts: Dancefloors Everywhere
December 8th: How to be a Raver: The Mad Hatters
December 9th: Ravers are the Experts: Party Animals
December 10th: How to be a Raver: Food of the Gods
December 11th: Jungle Feelings: The Weird Faces Special – Extended Mix 
December 12th: The Jungle Diaries: the Meaning of Life
December 13th: Blasts from the Past: The Babyface Special – Extended Mix
December 14th: How to be a Junglist: The T-shirt Special – Extended Remix
December 15th: How to be a Raver: Hands in the Air
December 16th: Ravers are the Experts: Our Natural Habitats
December 17th: How to be a Raver: Nectar of the Gods
December 18th: How to be a Raver: The Power of the Hands
December 19th: Ravers are the Experts: We Love Machines
December 20th: How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special – part II
December 21st: Blasts from the Past: The Well Dressed Raver
December 22nd: How to be a Raver: The Conversationalists
December 23rd: Ravers Are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast Lives – part II

Ravers are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast Lives – part II

Let’s get back to how it all started out this season: With slowing down. On purpose. Here’s another sweet selection of ravers slowing down in the middle of everything.

The Jeff Mills party at Culture Box in 2006 was so much fun, noone wanted to stop afterwards. What happens when you really really don’t want to stop but just want to keep talking to your friends about all your insights, you might end up falling asleep in the middle of everything. When this happens for several people at once, the party has been truly epic. This is perfection. 10 out of 10. (You can read more about this phenomenon in 5 problems only ravers know about.
Bateman slows down completely while still standing up at the Zerrbild party at Culture Box, August 2007.
2000F slows down on the sunrise floor at RAW, 2009. Jeppe looks a tiny wee bit tired as well.
Chriszka has a quiet moment of internal bliss at the Kasra party at Culture Box.
Psytrancers slow down in the shade at the Boom Festival 2022. 42 degrees, people. This is a festival of initiation. You come out the other end stronger.
When the dancing stopped and the lights went on at Luna Tec (Copenhagen, February 2022), Thomas decided to sit down on the dancefloor and just slow down. Masterful, another 10/10.
Two mädchens slow down and build flowery sandcastles on the dancefloor, just before Bongo & Pusk start playing. Juli 2019.
A large circle of psytrance yogis slow down on purpose at the S.U.N. Festival in Hungary, 2013.
Sims slows down on the strong jungle shoulders of Chriszka in Beijing, 2004.
PierreL slow down on the broad shoulders of Liquid at the Hifly Pigfest 2010.
Andreas slows down on the broader shoulders of Anders at the Dyssen party 2010.
Now THIS is excellence! Slowing down completely in the middle of the dancefloor at Elektronisk Picnic, July 2010. Again: 10/10.
Ah, the beauty of beaming like an enlightened being while having a nice, meditative moment of complete inner peace at the edge of the stage on Roskilde Festival 2010.
Vibs and Liquid slow down before speeding up again at Fusion Festival 2010.
Ouafa and Andreas have a picnic at the Bachstelzen stage at Fusion 2010.
This is what slowing down completely on the dancefloor can look like. Elektronisk Karneval, May 2010.
Lau slows down like you’re supposed to in the middle of a chill out festival. This is The Best Stella Polaris Ever, 2007. When you have checked out Lau, notice the situation on the right.
This is the situation on the right. Masterful “I Haven’t Just Slowed Down but Pulled the Plug Completely” on top of a Stella Artois. 10 out of 10.
Collins slows down, but a little bit less, at Roskilde Festival, 2006.
Three young ravers slow down in camp at Fusion 2009. This was a great camp. But it was also one of my last moments in it, I think. Trancefloor and Turmbühne were calling. Coooooooome toooooooo uuuuuuuuus.
Svingsen slows down in the middle of the birthday dinner before Chriszka’s Birthday Bash at Nadsat, 2005.
Someone slowed down completely backstage at the Kraken party, and Evil Sulu decided to turn it into a Kodak moment. Stengade, 2007.
Slowing down in hammocks next to the Sonnendeck dancefloor at Fusion 2019.

– Read more about the ‘slowing down in the middle of everything’ skill here: 5 problems only ravers know about
– Here’s some family fun for the Christmas days: The DIY Test: Is my Child a Junglist?.

DID YOU MISS A DAY OF JUngLEkalenderen? Go here:

December 1st: Ravers are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast Lives
December 2nd: How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special
December 3rd: Blasts from the Past: Birthday Bash Edition
December 4th: The 7 best things about being a raver
December 5th: How to be a Raver: Flags and Balloons
December 6th: Jungle Feelings: Stuff that Glows in the Dark (remix)
December 7th: Ravers Are the Experts: Dancefloors Everywhere
December 8th: How to be a Raver: The Mad Hatters
December 9th: Ravers are the Experts: Party Animals
December 10th: How to be a Raver: Food of the Gods
December 11th: Jungle Feelings: The Weird Faces Special – Extended Mix 
December 12th: The Jungle Diaries: the Meaning of Life
December 13th: Blasts from the Past: The Babyface Special – Extended Mix
December 14th: How to be a Junglist: The T-shirt Special – Extended Remix
December 15th: How to be a Raver: Hands in the Air
December 16th: Ravers are the Experts: Our Natural Habitats
December 17th: How to be a Raver: Nectar of the Gods
December 18th: How to be a Raver: The Power of the Hands
December 19th: Ravers are the Experts: We Love Machines
December 20th: How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special – part II
December 21st: Blasts from the Past: The Well Dressed Raver
December 22nd: How to be a Raver: The Conversationalists

Find all seasons here (long scroll): JUngLEkalenderen.

How To be a Raver: The Conversationalists

Back in 2016, I had a JUngLEkalender conversation with fellow junglist Sofus about our first many years at raves. And how we always always always had to be the last person standing on the dancefloor. How important that was.

This is a bit of the conversation:

Sofus: “Now, it’s a lot easier for me to leave a party or a rave when I feel tired. But back then, I stayed ’til the last drop of blood – every time . It wasn’t exactly like doing sports, but it was something like it, and you felt super cool and kind of like a cyborg and definitely very future-like!”

“I know exactly what you mean!”
Sofus: “Sometimes I had these inner struggles on the dancefloor where I was really tired and had to sit down for a bit, but I always got up again. I had to stay on the dancefloor until the very end. […]There’s something euphoric about it, the fact that the body can just keep going. It’s a meditative quality, almost shamanistic. All of us doing this tribal dance together. A collective consciousness. You are actually doing it for the community. You don’t just go home, you stay and dance until the end.”

“Exactly!”
“And afterwards you feel really proud and sore in all your muscles for days and days afterwards.”

Here’s Sofus, doing some shamanistic work at Elektronisk Karneval 2010.

Obviously, when you do important work for the community on the dancefloor, talking to people has to wait.

(That’s what afterparties are for. We talk about this as well. You can read the interview here: Jungle Confessions: I had to stay on the dancefloor until the very end.

Buuuuuut sometimes all your shamanistic movements bring GREAT insights into your brain that you just HAVE to communicate with words to your fellow raver next to you! Immediately!

These snapshots are dedicated to those moments.

Here’s a classic ‘I just had a super important insight’ moment between Kresten and Indy in the middle of the dancefloor at Elektronisk Karneval 2010. You can feel it from all the way out here, on the screen, 12 years later.
And here’s Chriszka clearly sharing a super important insight with Eske at her birthday bash at Nadsat.
Tim and Mrtn share their sudden insights surrounded by ravers at Elektronisk Karneval, 2010.
Casparados, definitely sharing something super important with Breakfast at DNBZone 2006.
Filip from Ticon seems to share something truly profound, according to the look on Pontus’ face. Trancefloor on Fusion, 2014.
Here’s an edge-of-the-dancefloor conversation so deep, Hanzi seems shocked by the camera.
Thomas and Emok share one of their thousand insights – surrounded by dancing ravers at Fusion, 2014.
Ah yes, here he is again: The master of dancefloor conversations, Emok, having another one with Mikkas at Byhaven.

Intermezzo by Dancing Sofus:
“When you’re at a rave with a lot of people you don’t make a lot of conversation – you use your physical body to express your feelings and the sounds in the music. We don’t use our language but the bodies and the rhythm and pulse of the music instead. And you start to recognize eachother when you’ve experienced a thing like that together. You feel connected. There’s a poetry of the body – a compassion and inner knowledge that we’re all in tune with each other. When you get home from the raves, you feel that there has been a bond, that we turned into a tribe. That’s why afterparties are so popular for ravers. It’s hard to let go of that bond. And all the things you didn’t get to say while dancing… You get to say all that at the afterparties.”

Here’s Chriszka and Svingsen after many hours of shamanistic service on the dancefloor, getting to share all the things they didn’t get to say while dancing.
And here’s Kristobal, leaning deep into conversation with Tim Driver.
Ah yes, all the insights. But some people are just chatterboxes. Here are six grown men, all simultaneously stuck in conversations on the dancefloor at the S.U.N. Festival in Hungary, 2014. I had to take a picture of this.
More deep insights shared at S.U.N., 2014.
…..and even more. Many deep understandings of life come to the surface when dancing at +140BPMs.
Many years earlier, 2000F tries to escape a conversation by hiding at the Club Awards at Vega, 2006.
…while Daniel endures a conversation with a polite zoning out. The Club Awards at Vega, 2006.
…and Mathias Mesteno uses a more aggressive approach: The Dominant Conversation.
….and Rune RK just has a phone conversation with the music. Still the Club Awards at Vega, 2006.

Do you want more to talk about? Jump into 5 problems only ravers know about
If you prefer less talk and more action, jump to How to be a Junglist: Body Language.

DID YOU MISS A DAY OF JUngLEkalenderen? Go here:

December 1st: Ravers are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast Lives
December 2nd: How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special
December 3rd: Blasts from the Past: Birthday Bash Edition
December 4th: The 7 best things about being a raver
December 5th: How to be a Raver: Flags and Balloons
December 6th: Jungle Feelings: Stuff that Glows in the Dark (remix)
December 7th: Ravers Are the Experts: Dancefloors Everywhere
December 8th: How to be a Raver: The Mad Hatters
December 9th: Ravers are the Experts: Party Animals
December 10th: How to be a Raver: Food of the Gods
December 11th: Jungle Feelings: The Weird Faces Special – Extended Mix 
December 12th: The Jungle Diaries: the Meaning of Life
December 13th: Blasts from the Past: The Babyface Special – Extended Mix
December 14th: How to be a Junglist: The T-shirt Special – Extended Remix
December 15th: How to be a Raver: Hands in the Air
December 16th: Ravers are the Experts: Our Natural Habitats
December 17th: How to be a Raver: Nectar of the Gods
December 18th: How to be a Raver: The Power of the Hands
December 19th: Ravers are the Experts: We Love Machines
December 20th: How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special – part II
December 21st: Blasts from the Past: The Well Dressed Raver

Find all seasons of the calendar here: JUngLEkalenderen.

Blasts from the Past: The Well Dressed Raver

Dressing for the dance floor is not an easy task. You need to be comfortable, flexible AND possibly in for the (very) long haul at the same time. But you also need to entertain your fellow ravers. Elements of joy, sensuality and surprise are welcome.

We all have different strategies. Let’s have a look.

Let’s start at the very top. This is Ulle, dressing to please his fellow ravers at Turmbühne, Fusion 2007. Notice that this is a WHITE suit on the fourth day of the festival. This is what people want and need to see. This is perfection. 10 out of 10.
Super perfect (and timeless) raver outfit at Elektronisk Karneval 2010. I’m talking about the one in the middle, in case you’re wondering. Flexibility with layers (if the party lasts for 48 hours or more, temperatures WILL rise and fall, and this is preparation) . Belt bag provides free arms for psytrancey happiness movements. A clash of colors so that your fellow ravers are entertained. Definitely 8 out of 10.
Claus is properly dressed in a sailor’s outfit at the party by the harbour water. Lækker Lytter, June 2006.
Noone wears Adidas like Mariii. <3 This is Chriszka’s moving-in-and-thank-you-for-helping-dinner.
Stefani wears a Badalamenti Tribute Top 3 months and 8 days before Badalamenti’s actual death, which is a remarkable and very witchy thing to do.
Chriszka wears a Badalamenti Tribute Skirt 4 years, 7 months and 15 days before Badalamenti’s death AND travels to other dimensions, which is also a very witchy thing to do.
Tøndering dresses like an exquisite corpse drawing game at Turmbühne, 2010. Perfect ‘Spot Me on the Dancefloor’ strategy.
Jonas wears a futuristic safety jacket from the future to a party at Nadsat.
Here’s the best dressed man at the Øen ved Siden Af party at Distortion 2022. This is the Easy to Spot on the Dancefloor strategy, again.
A very late Friday night at Roskilde Festival, and Laura brightens up the table with this mood booster of a top. 2006!
To be prepared for anything – trance floors, time travel, techno, talkshows, television, tapas – I just always wear a colourful AND comfortable dress. This dress, for instance, has been absolutely everywhere. This is the Boiler Room boat event in Copenhagen, 2014.
Lulu wears a golden dress to the sunrise floor at RAW 2009. Djuna runs the ship in a captain’s jacket.
Some pieces of clothing gets iconic just by being used a lot. Who remembers Bateman wearing this? This is the Club Awards at Vega, 2006.
Miss Popo is ALMOST dressed – in a bikini that matches the main floor deco which is a perfect raver move. Turmbühne at Fusion 2008.
Sometimes being perfectly dressed is being prepared for rainy mayhem. This is the wettest Fusion ever, 2011. (To the left: Evil Economist dressed up as a hippie, out of necessity.)
Casparados turns up impeccably dressed for New Year’s 2005.
Andreas in one of his many excellent looks for hot days at the Henry’s Dream festival 2013.
Chaca strikes the balance with this morning party outfit: Colourful jacket and giant sun shield. Pirate Party Pack 2006.
Fred Alert is effortlessly well-dressed in a yellow shirt on a summer’s day at Hangaren.
Sven Dohse in his classic Sven Dohse outfit at Turmbühne 2008.
But he’s not the only one to wear a tie to Turmbühne! This is 2007, a great year.
A tie AND a dress. Two properly dressed people meeting at Henry’s Dream 2014.
The best skirt I saw at Boom 2022. A perfect “Find Me on the Dancefloor” strategy.
Bezz wears a sunshine’y Spot Me on the Dancefloor masterpiece at So Verbot 2022.
Sofus wears a bowler hat at the excellent Rotundum Reunion party 2022.
Sims wears a white suit impeccably in 2004.
Ginda wears a beautifully colored dress on a summer’s day at Fusion, 2008.
Here’s the ‘Spot Me on the Dancefloor’ strategy, Extreme Version, by Textor. Fusion 2012.
Perfect head dress by Mariii at a beach party, Copenhagen 2009.
Two summer’y girly looks at the Somewhere Festival 2016.
And there I was, dancing away at the Township Rebellion party, where Lampé was playing absolutely excellently, and it WAS very hot, and then the music stopped and I turned around and realized that NOONE was dressed anymore!

Do you want more absolutely fabulous clothes? Go to Blasts from the Past: The Dressed-Up Junglists.

DID YOU MISS A DAY OF JUngLEkalenderen? Go here:

December 1st: Ravers are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast Lives
December 2nd: How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special
December 3rd: Blasts from the Past: Birthday Bash Edition
December 4th: The 7 best things about being a raver
December 5th: How to be a Raver: Flags and Balloons
December 6th: Jungle Feelings: Stuff that Glows in the Dark (remix)
December 7th: Ravers Are the Experts: Dancefloors Everywhere
December 8th: How to be a Raver: The Mad Hatters
December 9th: Ravers are the Experts: Party Animals
December 10th: How to be a Raver: Food of the Gods
December 11th: Jungle Feelings: The Weird Faces Special – Extended Mix 
December 12th: The Jungle Diaries: the Meaning of Life
December 13th: Blasts from the Past: The Babyface Special – Extended Mix
December 14th: How to be a Junglist: The T-shirt Special – Extended Remix
December 15th: How to be a Raver: Hands in the Air
December 16th: Ravers are the Experts: Our Natural Habitats
December 17th: How to be a Raver: Nectar of the Gods
December 18th: How to be a Raver: The Power of the Hands
December 19th: Ravers are the Experts: We Love Machines
December 20th: How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special – part II

Find all seasons of the calendar here: JUngLEkalenderen.

How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special – part II

Days couldn’t be much darker than they are RIGHT NOW here in Scandinavia, and we need to add our own lights to the situation, so let’s enjoy another round of pics from brighter days in the rave-o-sphere.

Chriszka lets her inner hippie shine through at Roskilde Festival.
Experienced ravers enjoy the sunny days for grown-ups at Kaj Din Ven I Solen. Notice how Karsten Loud, the host of the party, packs a lot of raver skills into this shot: 1) Two drinks in one hand 2) Optimistic hand sign and 3) Wearing the original LOUD t-shirt. The only LOUD.
Binge wears sunglasses without wearing sunglasses in a perfect casual way at Fusion 2007.
Dollars wears something much more fun than sunglasses at the Hifly Pigfest 2010.
Wearing superlarge sunglasses on a grey day at the Fusion Festival adds a mysterious movie star vibe to your being.
Wearing sunglasses inside adds the perfect rockstar vibes to your look.
Wearing sunglasses at night AND a gold top adds a rockstar vibe to the entire event. This is Elektronisk Karneval in Fælledparken, just after dusk.
Feltman wears the light summer party look and a dark drink at the Culture Box Day Party at Fælledparken. This is July 2008.
Mikado is wearing aaaaall the cool-down gear at Kaj Din Ven I Solen. Yup, you thought that was earphones, obviously, but it’s a wind-in-your-face mechanism.
René (probably) enjoys the moment behind mirrored sunglasses at Turmbühne. A hot and sunny day at Fusion, 2008.
Mikkas wearing classics at Elektronisk Karneval 2008.
When relaxing by the ocean with a bunch of other hippies at the Somewhere Festival, definitely wear pink shades.
Zimmermann goes for the early 70s look at Roskilde Festival 2010.
Most excellent sunglasses vibe in this dance floor shot at Elektronisk Karneval in Fælledparken, May 2010.
Le wears sunglasses AND swimming goggles to the RAW party 2006.
Jkamata has traveled from a dark future back to Stella Polaris 2007 to deliver a troubling message.
With a noteworthy attention to detail, Tøndering has made sure that his glasses matches his shirt that matches the trailer that matches the brand of his drink. Casually fractalizing the universe at Roskilde Festival 2010.
Hjeppe Mann – wearing optimistic yellow shades – shares all his secrets about a modern life without a smartphone at the Tanzwütze stage, Fusion 2019.
Santa Claus wears sunglasses at Turmbühne 2013. (This turned out to be the most exhausting costume to wear ever, by the way. At a festival packed with unicorns, pink elephants, fairies and hundreds of other mythical creatures, Santa Claus just appealed to absolutely EVERYONE. Do you need human contact? Do you want hundreds and hundreds of strangers to talk to you with great enthusiasm, all day? Get yourself a Fusion ticket and jump into a Santa Claus suit. You will not walk alone.)
Probably the coolest pic in this selection. Red-mirrored sunglasses adds a perfect vibe to this Turmbühne shot: Kind of menacing and also action-movie-like but fun at the same time.
Oddly similar body postures but very different sunglasses. Walking between music stages at Somewhere Festival 2016.
Neo hides his friendly face behind a pair of supervillain glasses, dark as black ice. An otherwise happy moment at Distortion 2022.
Speaking of supervillain-y sunglasses: Behind Friendly Sommer and Friendly Daniel, check out David’s glasses: Pitch-black portals to a dark, alternate universe.
Svingsen steals Lewis’ sunglasses at Roskilde 2006.
Let’s end this on a sweet, summer-y note: Ginda wears discreetly glittery glasses to the dance floor at So Verbot.

DID YOU MISS A DAY OF JUngLEkalenderen? Go here:

December 1st: Ravers are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast Lives
December 2nd: How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special
December 3rd: Blasts from the Past: Birthday Bash Edition
December 4th: The 7 best things about being a raver
December 5th: How to be a Raver: Flags and Balloons
December 6th: Jungle Feelings: Stuff that Glows in the Dark (remix)
December 7th: Ravers Are the Experts: Dancefloors Everywhere
December 8th: How to be a Raver: The Mad Hatters
December 9th: Ravers are the Experts: Party Animals
December 10th: How to be a Raver: Food of the Gods
December 11th: Jungle Feelings: The Weird Faces Special – Extended Mix 
December 12th: The Jungle Diaries: the Meaning of Life
December 13th: Blasts from the Past: The Babyface Special – Extended Mix
December 14th: How to be a Junglist: The T-shirt Special – Extended Remix
December 15th: How to be a Raver: Hands in the Air
December 16th: Ravers are the Experts: Our Natural Habitats
December 17th: How to be a Raver: Nectar of the Gods
December 18th: How to be a Raver: The Power of the Hands
December 19th: Ravers are the Experts: We Love Machines

Find all seasons of the calendar here: JUngLEkalenderen.