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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.
Pop-up-vernissage on December 2nd: The Phoenix
Posted on November 19, 2023 2 Comments
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 […]
Current painting I’m working on: The Phoenix
Posted on February 2, 2023 Leave a Comment
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 […]
Ravers Are the Experts: We Love Machines
Posted on December 19, 2022 7 Comments
Ravers love machines, more than most people, and we are really, really good at it. We are probably the best on the planet at loving machines, because we get such incredible amounts of fun out of them. You could argue that gamers are just as good as ravers at having fun with machines. I have […]
How to be a Raver: Food of the Gods
Posted on December 10, 2022 15 Comments
Some people think that ravers don’t eat, but this is obviously one of many misconceptions about the rave scene. It goes without saying that to dance for eight hours straight, you need proper fuel for the body. After a series of unlikely coincidences, an international crew of junglists and psytrancers meet up for dinner at […]
My thesis on psychedelic festivals: Festivals, flow machines and feathered dragons
Posted on January 20, 2021 Leave a Comment
My thesis is about rave culture as ritual: I look upon psychedelic festivals as – flow machines – ilinx generators (what’s that, you say? Read all about it in the thesis!) – and– transformation rituals for the 21st century. Read the full thesis here (in English): Rave culture likes to imagine itself as the direct […]
The playful festival of the future
Posted on September 29, 2012 Leave a Comment
Not many years ago, the ideas spawning at a festival like Boom, which is held every second year under the scorching sun in Portugal, would be too hippie-esque for the mainstream audience. Not so much anymore, where everything is about sustainaiblity, ecology, leave-no-trace and maker culture. Big commercial festivals like Roskilde Festival look to Boom […]