dane-ish misfit, humanist, immigrant. my work has been in MoMA, my stories often rooted in folly. love over fear is everything! 🇩🇰🇪🇺👱🏻♂️💍👩🏽🇺🇸🇲🇽
Joined April 2011
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16 Mar 2018
my work shows people who take on extraordinary challenges and reveals beauty that hides in plain sight. mostly through film, i do it with great care and a love for honest collaboration. let’s talk if you want to work together.
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6 Jun 2025
you can find me where the skies are blue - with the same handle you’ve known me for during all of these years. ciao for now. svanes.
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14 Jun 2024
a whole lot of @SeymourChwast happening in this animation by arthur sevestre for l'Imperatrice! love the many crowd shots - and the story too. youtube.com/watch?v=YC0ErOoQ…
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christian svanes kolding retweeted
11 Jun 2024
A real illness I have is I still think "if I just make sure people have the right information then they will change their mind."
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17 May 2024
not all paradigms can be flattened to oppressor vs. oppressed. it strikes me how many conveniently overlook the continued existence of anti-semitism. any apparent absence of it doesn’t mean it’s gone while the consequences of forgetting are very, very real. choose slogans wisely.
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25 Mar 2024
i only subscribed to @latimes because of @cmonstah and always looked forward to the weekly "Essential Arts" - essential reading indeed. selfishly, i'm so sorry to see you go. best of luck writing about the chile of your childhood (and today). see you at buttondown.email/cmonstah
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23 Jan 2024
The epitome of doom scrolling is checking to see which of my favorite reporters lost their jobs today. We take local news for granted. It’s disappearing before our eyes.
Really sad, disturbing day for all of Los Angeles.
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15 Nov 2023
yesterday word arrived from NYC that a colleague took his own life. he was alone in that moment. he has no idea how many people are affected by his death and were directly impacted by his life. i wish for his 3 children and for those who loved him that he’d have chosen otherwise.
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2 Nov 2023
tonight, i’m doing a bit of spoken word in long beach, california. part of “speak.easy.” still cutting my teeth, learning how to do this live, but if you’re in the area, hit me up for details. longbeachcommunitytheater.co…
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24 Oct 2023
when you hear a song that's new to you for the very first time and it's magic and tragic all at once. nowhere man and a whiskey girl - hat tip to @courtneymamusic for sharing this on @guardian: youtube.com/watch?v=c7B97fdm…
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30 May 2023
TONI ERDMANN is such a wonderful film, with heart-warming performances from its performers. theguardian.com/film/2023/ma…
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17 May 2023
happy to see @CarriFragoza's “Eat the Mouth That Feeds You” on here. most excellent.
Read Your Way Around Los Angeles nytimes.com/2023/05/17/books…
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15 May 2023
respect to gloria. lots of firsts. and additional respect to the quilters in her group. theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
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15 May 2023
to understand #eurovision in 2023, one could extract lessons from “everything everywhere all at once.” there's a delirious schizoid-silliness at its center which can be read as a subversively liberating form of resilience in response to the socio-political darkness of our times.
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15 May 2023
and to paraphrase another, it’s not the “right” tone but it’s sometimes the subversive political tone we need.
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12 May 2023
if only more angelenos loved #eurovision as much as the euro ex-pats do. it has ALL the things. one can dream. nytimes.com/2023/05/12/arts/…
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3 May 2023
LA peeps! thrilled to announce that i’ll be one of ten speakers on stage tonight as part of “speak.easy” story hour. if you’re down in southern LA county — long beach, man — come by! you’re in for a treat. donations raised tonight benefit @HOUSEofHAVENorg. longbeachcommunitytheater.co…
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3 May 2023
received an email this morning inviting me to “Unleash The Transformative Power of ‘Chief Excitement Officers!’” hmmmn. that would be a hard no.
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