BRACAU 27 BLOG'S

Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American television and film actress as well as former stage actress. She has received a Satellite Award and Saturn Award, and has been nominated for a Television Critics Association Award and Teen Choice Award.

Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American television and film actress as well as former stage actress. She has received a Satellite Award and Saturn Award, and has been nominated for a Television Critics Association Award and Teen Choice Award.

As I mentioned a couple of blogposts ago, we have three new co-workers here at Hyper Island, and now it is time to introduce our third newcomer!


Inga Ramsten has a background as a journalist and has mostly worked with radio.

- I've been a presenter of almost every kind of program, both in news and lighter entertainment, she says. I started at Radio Stockholm, continuted to Ekot and then into more basic programs at the Swedish Radio P 1. I was one of the founders and strategic people when the youth oriented Sveriges Radio P 3 started and I managed the Stockholm programs and staff for several years. Since, I have been doing consuntancy work for radio and television stations, mostly in Sweden and Finland for several years. I´ve been involved in programming, feedback, coaching and management and strucutural work. I had my own company, Mediekompetens, which now is resting in peace!

What will you be doing at Hyper Island?
- We are now planning my role here, but I will probably be doing coaching and feedbacking to start with. Hopefully, I will soon be involved in UGL training.

You have been here for three weeks now, what is your impression so far?
- This is a fantastic, brave and futuristic school, where every student is seen as an individual from the start. I knwo for sure that all students really feel appreciated, which also is rare and so challenging for everyone. The size of the school is great, the people coming in to lecture and support are of the highest standard.

What do you do when you are not at work?
- I try to work a lot on our house and the garden, I work out, I read a lot, I sing in a choir and also try to meet up with friends and collegues as much as I can. Also, I´m the mother of three girls - even though they are quite grown we try to meet and talk as much as we can. I love to travel to the south of Europe as much as I can, but my favourite destination is New York. Last visit there was in April this year.

Zhang Ziyi shoots for Lady magazine.

Zhang Ziyi (born February 9, 1979, in Beijing) is one of the best-known Golden Globe-nominated Chinese film actresses working today, with a string of Chinese and international hits to her name. She is also one of the four most promising young film actresses (四小花旦) in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun.

[photo : chinadaily]

Chinese mainland actress Vicky Zhao becomes the cover girl for a fashion magazine.

Zhao Wei is a Chinese film actress and pop singer. Audiences sometimes refer to her by her English name, Vicki Zhao.[1] She is one of the four most promising young film actresses in China (四小花旦), along with Xu Jinglei, Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun.

[Photo: yule.sohu]

To many people around the globe, Hyper Island is all about developing great, highly employable, creative talents - with a digital twist. And that’s true. Very much so. And we are so extremely proud of the nearly 300 students right now in training in our daytime programs in Karlskrona and Stockholm. But it is not the whole truth about Hyper Island.

Hyper Island is also very much about:
- Master Classes (open and tailor made courses for – almost - everyone)
- A whole range of Leadership & Management courses
- Different possibilities for the industry to participate in and share the Hyper Island experience

Here is today’s Top Five List: Reasons To Sign Up For a Hyper Island Master Class Today

1. Many talk’s about the unique Hyper Island learning experience, a few has had the opportunity to actually experience it. This is your chance to get a close look at what learning really can be.
2. You will learn more digital - by actually doing more digital.
3. You will learn how to learn more for the rest of your life by exploring your self as an individual and a team member.
4. You will expand your professional network as a member of the Hyper Island family.
5. Today is the day. Tomorrow may be too late. Limited number of seats available.

Sign up today! Find a Hyper Island Master Class that suit your needs here.

Please feel free to tell us about a Master Class that you want us to create and offer. We look forward to interact with you.

/Mattias Hansson, CEO, Hyper Island

The last semester at Hyper Island consists of a module called the Final Project. Our Karlskrona students Karl Nord and Dag Månsson produced a music video for a Swedish band called Maskinen as their final project this spring. I asked them some questions about it:

Can you tell me something about the music band Maskinen?
- It's a collaboration between different Swedish artists that had a big hit last year with "Alla som inte dansar". "Segertåget" is the second single off their upcoming debut album.

How did you come up with the idea to make a music video for them?
- Dag knows some of the people in Maskinen from before, so we approached them regarding doing a video. They liked the idea so after a chat over a couple of beers we went for it.
(Please note that Karl and Dag's Crew 12 could choose their own Final Project clients. This hasn't been, and might not be, true for all Hyper Island classes.)

Why did you choose to animate it?
- Both me and Dag had waited for an opportunity and especially time to do a larger animated project. But above all we chose to animate the video so we could get all the freedom we wanted and needed for our "odd" ideas. The skull-opening scene for example might have been tricky to do with live footage...

Have you done animations before?
- Yes and No. Dag have been doing 3D for a year or two but both of us really got into animating when we did our time in the old prison at Hyper Island.


Can you tell me something about the process with the client?
- We started to pitch our ideas about the look and feel. After that we did a script for all the scenes and took it from there together with Maskinen. Under the production we got a lot of freedom to do whatever we wanted and they said from the beginning, "do your thing" and that's exactly what we did.

Are they happy with the result?
- Maskinen and their record label are very pleased.

What will happen next?
- The video will turn up on ztv and Mtv.

What are you guys going to do now that you have graduated?
- Dag is going to start looking for a job in Stockholm. And I will continue working for Perfect Fools where I hade my internship.

Have a look at the video on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/1274811
Or on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kZ8U3WWHTU (Lower quality)

Actress Jessica Alba presents the award for Special Achievement in Fashion during the taping of the 2008 "NCLR Alma" awards at the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, August 17, 2008. The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) gives out the ALMA awards to honor outstanding Latino artistic achievement in television, film and music. The show airs on September 12 on ABC.

As I have mentioned earlier we have three new co-workers here at Hyper Island. And it is time to introduce you to co-worker number two. Jessica Clarén started two weeks ago and is also a former Hyper Island student. She will be working as a project manager.

What is your background?
- Well... it has been quite a jumpy road before Hyper Island. I am a former university graduate that never could find my satisfaction in any education, just recently before I started as a student last year at Hyper Island, I was abroad working with World Class International as a Product Manager. I have always in so many wonderful and terrible ways had the ability to take my life to the next level.

What do you think of your own learning experience at Hyper Island?
- It was the best experience so far in my life. Though it wouldn't have been the same if I wasn't ready for the challenge.

How did you end up working here after your graduation?
- For me it was to finally be in the right place at the exact correct timing in life. I had the picture quite clear after just a few weeks, that Hyper Island is an environment I want to work within. And that here I can get as much as i give in so many amazing ways. So when the opportunity was given to me every single inch of my body just said yes.

So you must be happy to work here now?
- I am shining like the sun.

What do you do when you are not at Hyper Island? I heard something about working in a gym?
- hahha... well both me and our co-worker Micke share the same passion for fitness and we both are teaching at World Class. Making Sofia sweat, by the way. And I have my superheroes in my beautiful friends, family and my dogs, that I looove to just spend time with.

I wonder why - and at the same time think it is quite strange - that there are so many (the far majority) educations that don’t include being a human being (in a practical context) in the curriculum. At least, educations focusing on preparing people or expecting people to apply for a job position after graduating should focus on those issues. A recent study made by SFS (a national Swedish student organisation), TCO and Lärarförbundet (two trade unions) put forward that private enterprises want graduated students to be able to handle flexibility and changes. If you hold the ability to cooperate and to function in an effective way in a team they claim you will increase (by far) your chances to get an employment. Entrepreneurial and innovative skills are highly appreciated.

At Hyper Island a core part of all our long term programs focus on such issues (mentioned above) making graduated students employable. Sometimes when I meet people and talk about Hyper Island and I tell them that we run educations focusing on digital media they directly think that we only focus on theoretical subjects to support students to become cutting edge within digital and interactive media. How wrong they are and how suprised they are when I tell them that...

we direct courses to support students to learn how to learn
we create situations that put students into situations to practise how to handle changes
we train students to deal with problems all the time
we run almost all tasks through team work to make students develop experiences in how to make team work effective
we support students to gain deep self insight
we train students to develop entrepreneurial and innovative skills

...and finally we do set up courses to develop students to become cutting edge within digital and interactive media.

Last week our admitted students to the Business Management, the Digital Media and the Interactive Art Director program started the first module in their learning process and during three weeks they will not focus a single moment on digital and interactive media. Instead they have a rigorous and strongly experience based module looking into oneself and interpersonal relations as a foundation to increase their learning potential and to create a dynamic learning environment. All this to make them employable.

/Roger Sjögren, Director at Hyper Island, Stockholm

This year we have more students than ever at Hyper Island, and since we want our students to be in a creative and comfortable environment, we are extending our space at Telefonplan.

Construction builders, carpenters and painters have been working hard all summer, and even though we are not completely ready, it is starting to look fantastic. I decided to ask Andreas Bylund, our Janitor and Technical assistant about the reconstruction.

How is it going so far?
- Good I think!

Why are we doing this?
- Because we have more students now and we want this space to be more functional and we want to create the right climate for them to work in.

What kind of a climate is that?
- We want an open space because we want an open atmosphere where people can be creative. That also suits the character of this building.

What colours are you using?
- Black and white as usual. But also some red and purple.

Who is the architect?
- Fabian Wanqvist from HOW Architects.

When will this be ready?
- The first step will be ready any day now. But then we will start to build a lecture room which will be ready in October or November.