la loko c/o Gefährlich / diary
saturday 26 march
Computer whizard, composer and producer Benny Jøgensen.
friday 25 march
thursday 24 march
wednesday 23 march
Rikke Nogel works with PR at gefâhrlich. We discussed the esperanto dinner with her.
tuesday 22 march
Working on the La Loko colour palette with Tanja and Hamayun. It was hard work, but finally we agreed on a 15 colour palette of colours that can be combined in any which way.
sarturday 19 march
A handshake for international peace and friendship with Rasmus Nielsen from Superflex.
friday 18 march
A digital version of yesterday's Ovo-sketch.
New perspectives.
thursday 17 march
Sketch for Ovo-logo.
A visit from Danh Vo.
wednesday 16 march
More fashion work today with Hamayun. We talked a lot about colours, and got quite confused. We decided to call in Tanja Rau as colour consultant. The first Esperanto clothes will be worn by the personnel in La Loko's food place Ovo, opening at Appendiks, Copenhagen, 7 May.
Bent Jensenius from the Danish Esperanto Association asked La Loko to participate in the Esperanto event during Copenhagen Culture Night 14 October.
tuesday 15 march
Jens Larsen is an Esperantist and seems to be able to answer any imaginable question about Esperanto.
Anja Thrane, a website interface expert, dropped by for a chat and volunteered to check the confusion level of laloko.org.
saryrday 12 march
Amel Ibrahimovic has just come back from filming in Mecca.
Al Mason is an artist and dancer from Marseille.
friday 11 march
Shahab is a graphic designer, Signe studies philology, and Javier Tapia is an artist.
Maria Wandel curates the shows at Gefährlich together with Vladimir Tomic.
thurdsday 10 march
We talked Esperanto food with Gefährlich's chef Thomas Larsen, who showed us some tricks in the kitchen.
Thomas Holmbäck helps us when we have tricky webdesign questions. He brought with him his old friend, Beathe Rønning, who is an artist based in Oslo.
wednesday 9 march
La Loko needs a digital camera. But there are so many different models on the market that one gets quite confused. For the opening Friday, we asked Tanja to bring hers. And, late at night, she offered us to continue to borrow it. But then we had already given her back her charger (cxargilo in Esperanto). So yesterday we found ourselves with a powerless camera. Today, Olof went to Tanja's studio to re-borrow the charger. Afterwards, as he was about to go to the La Loko office, he found out that he had forgotten to bring the camera with him from home. So today, Olof got to the office a bit late.
While Olof was out trying to patch up La Loko's digital needs (because without pictures this diary would not be half as fun, would it?), Joachim Hamou and Staffan Boije visited Daniel in the office. They drank cappuccinos and talked about a new local non-commercial TV-channel called tv-tv and what La Loko could do for it.
Olof arrived just as Joachim and Staffan had gone, but shortly afterwards Mia Joo Rosasco turned up. She asked us a range of questions, which we tried to answer to the best of our ability.
A bit later fashion designer Hamayun Butt dropped by, to talk with us about how Esperanto clothes could look like. Hamayun and Daniel drank lattes and Olof had a double espresso. The discussion was quite vivid — a lot of ideas seemed to be flying around the place. Maybe it was the coffee.
tuesday 8 march
Today Christian Hillesø visited us. He brought with him the news that he has decided to drop his career as a drummer to concentrate on art and theory and all that is in-between. As a member of the Free Floating Faculty, Christian is involved in arranging the W... Wir Wissen show, which is opening in Vienna March 23. La Loko has not decided what to do for it yet, and we found it quite helpful to discuss the matter with Christian.
saturday 5 march
A slight tiredness and confusion from yesterday's celeberations.
Today we were visited by Betty Chatterjee. She has been studying Esperanto for two months and speaks it quite excellently already. We invited Betty to do a lecture about why she likes Esperanto, at La Loko's show at Apendiks in June.
We had lunch with the Gefährlich crew, which was very good indeed.
We discussed with Gefährlich's chef, Thomas, to do an esperanto menu together. And we talked with Gefährlich's general manager, Eva, about the possibility of arranging an Esperanto electropop concert with Intials DC from Frankfurt.
friday 4 march
At his local Østerbro electrician Olof buys six 'kultrådspærer', sockets, and some wire, which to his slight amazement sets him back more than a thousand Danish crowns. Tanja, who finished painting at 2.30, gets into a cab destined for Gefährlich and picks up Olof on the way. At the same time, in Vesterbro, Daniel packs the A4-bretoj shelves in two boxes and goes in to Gefährlich another cab.
Together with Tanja we finally decide what should be where and start to install things. At about 14.00 we come to the conclusion that the idea of using 'kultrådspærer' was not very bright after all. We decide to stick with the fluorescent lighting and hang just one a 'kultrådspære' over the Samideano Tablo. Five minutes to five the floor has been wiped and we are ready to receive guests for the opening event of La Loko c/o Gefährlich.
the opening
This is how La Loko c/o Gefährlich looks like. Olof is the one in light blue chevrons who seems to try to be saying something to Daniel right beside him. In the foreground to the left we see artist and filmmaker Joachim Hamou and critic Staffan Boije. In the middle of it all, is the prototype for La Loko's new Samideano tablo. We made the stools out of the material that was over from making the table. Both the table and the stools have nifty built-in shelves.
Tanja Rau made three paintings especially for La Loko c/o Gefährlich — her interpretation of our work designing an Esperanto world. Tanja is in the middle. To her right, artist Pia Rønnicke.
Daniel discusses an East German Esperanto instruction book with art historian Peter van der Meiden while artists Kristina Malbek and Lone Bank check out La Loko's new homepage.
Peter seems to be quite captured by learning Esperanto GDR-style.
Artist and dj Tarje Gullaksen. The La Loko sign is made out of laminate samples.
Superflex artist Bjørnstjerne Christiansen and fashion designer Hamayun Butt.
Daniel being interviewed by Clemens Bomsdorf from Financial Times Deutschland.
To the left, artist Johanna Domke. A bit into the evening it was actually quite nice to turn the fluorescent lighting off and sit by the light from the 'kultrådspære'.
thursday 3 march 17.30
After three intensive workdays in a wood workshop the prototype for our new pentagon-shaped Samideano Tablo is ready and thanks to its detachable legs we manage to cram it into a taxi and transport it to Gefährlich. Tanja is still working on the paintings and will arrive with them tomorrow.