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Rave Culture: Aliens, spaceships and cosmic adventures
Posted on December 21, 2025 Leave a Comment
You might have noticed that mainstream culture has turned its gaze towards UFOs, aliens, and possible parallel universes in recent years. But as always, ravers are decades, if not eons, ahead. Rave culture is PACKED with references to space travel and aliens and has been so since day one. The entire festival looks like it’s […]
How to be a Raver: Party Animals – the extended mix
Posted on December 7, 2025 Leave a Comment
The magical landscapes of rave culture are filled with mythical creatures like dragons, unicorns, white rabbits and deep sea monsters.
Blasts from the Past: Public Service and The First Strøm
Posted on December 8, 2024 Leave a Comment
Here’s a pic from the last day of the most recent Strøm Festival: Always trying to make sure that the time-traveling is elegant and on point, I thought this would be the perfect time to find a picture from the very FIRST Strøm. And to my surprise and joy, the collection of photos I found […]
Blasts from the Recent Past: Birthday Bash Edition 5.0
Posted on December 3, 2024 Leave a Comment
Last year, I celebrated my birthday with a pop-up-vernissage that would slowly transform into a party and then into a jungle rave. These are the rare photos and videos from the event.
Ravers are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast Lives – part II
Posted on December 23, 2022 1 Comment
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. – 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 […]
How To be a Raver: The Conversationalists
Posted on December 22, 2022 2 Comments
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 […]
Blasts from the Past: The Well Dressed Raver
Posted on December 21, 2022 4 Comments
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. Do […]
How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special – part II
Posted on December 20, 2022 4 Comments
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. DID YOU MISS A DAY OF JUngLEkalenderen? Go here: December 1st: Ravers are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast […]
How to be a Raver: Nectar of the Gods
Posted on December 17, 2022 7 Comments
To everyone out there who enjoyed How to be a Raver: Food of the Gods – here’s the drinking version. Featuring mystical garden potions, synchronous drinking tricks, bottle magic on the dancefloors, electric boogie coffee, Ohoi! rum, people pouring bubbles like experts, and a little bit of schnapps and glögg. DID YOU MISS A DAY […]
Jungle Feelings: The Weird Faces Special – Extended Mix
Posted on December 11, 2022 13 Comments
Ravers are effortlessly good-looking because of their glowing I-have-danced-all-day-in-the-sun skin, their beaming eyes and their positive attitude towards life. But not in a vain way. Vanity (or pride, if you want) is one of the 7 deadly sins, as anyone who has seen David Fincher’s “Se7en” from 1995 might remember. Or read Dante’s The Divine […]