Day 4: Old friends & a steady place

Would you like to see what route we’ve traveled in the mean time, click here.

Mission:
Find a place where we can stay for a few nights, so we can earn some money back
Mission partially accomplished. We did find a place, but we’ll go there tomorrow. This night we spend at a friends place.

Consequences of lack of money

What if: You don't have any.

Not being able to spend any money, makes you value what you have got a lot more. Throw away anything (or accidentally lose something) is going to hurt a lot. Being “rich” you might overeat. Not spending any money, makes you question if you are hungry, how hungry you are, what your body needs most and how to get it. You’ll easily eat less then normal, because you know that you’ll like something the next day as well. If you don’t have any money to spend, you’ll also open up to other people a lot more. Everybody is open for a nice talk, but hardly anyone is initiating one. People are very willing to give you a place to stay, a breakfast and even a lunch for on the road. Hitchhiking seems to be a lot more difficult. Holding your thumb and a sign is very last century. If you ask people in person (eg at a gas station) it is more likely that you get a ride. Especially people who are making business trips (transport, sales managers, etc) are very likely to take you. Keeping in touch with the world is important: internet for free is usually at a library, municipal/city hall or at universities, in some countries bars and restaurants are offering free internet too.

Our day
After sleeping at the Children’s Culture Centre, Maria, our host invited us for lunch at her place. On the way we got lost. We missed going right womewhere and suddenly we were at a different area in Denmark. The shortest way from there was a very nice walk over the cemetary. We’ve passed a small supermarket on our way. They were throwing away tons of vegatables and fruits. Just because there was a small spot on them, they couldn’t be sold anymore. Reminded me on 2012 Recycled Food Dinner.

At Maria’s we found ourself: Homemade bread, biological meat (salami and liver pate), lovely cheese, vegatebles (carrots and paprika), apples in lemon and lemonwater. All of this on top of Maria’s inspiring story made this lunch absolutely perfect.

Afterwards we went to the library (free internet) to search for a place where we could spend a few nights. CouchSurfing host Silas was kind enough to reponse really fast within a matter of minutes. Telling us that we are very welcome to stay till Thursday. Unfortunately he had to go and be home by 22h00. We couln’t get in touch with him before that time. Old friend Morten moved from Rotterdam to Copenhagen and bought us a great dinner with beer.

As one of the members of the organization of Outgames 2009 Morten gave us also some t-shirts, a lovely candlelight and some paper to be able to smoke pot. I wonder, but not going to try, if that’s for real or one of his famous jokes. On top of that he offered us to stay for the night in his lovely home, so we could relax a bit more. Nicholas, another friend from back home, and also a friend of Morten invited us to join him at the Outgames. At the Outgames we also got some beer from a volunteer who was working there.

What to do next:
We got so much out of this trip so far, but we did spend some money in order to reach our destination. So, we are going to give workshops, to make up for that. People can value it at the end of the workshop. Several options for us to give workshops here in Denmark:

• The Hub Copenhagen
• World outgames
• KaosPilots
• The City of Copenhagen, many many homeless / unemployed people here. Wonder if we can inspire them.

All our workshop enhances modern devices and social media. Laura Elsman of www.e-seevideo.com gave us some nice tips in Dutch, translation underneath.

1. video maken: gebruik een statief! Of: hou je arm dicht tegen je aan om het beeld te stabiliseren.
2. Bedenk goed wat je wilt opnemen voordat je op record drukt. Zo blijft je materiaal ‘schoon’ .
   
3. Als je mensen interviewt voor camera, laat ze dan de vragen in de lens beantwoorden. Dat voorkomt lelijke kaders.
   
4. Bij geinterviewden die te weinig zeggen: stel open vragen. Bij te veel: stel gesloten vraag. Of trek de mike weg!
   
5. Film zo weinig mogelijk! Jij denkt dat het interessant is. Online video is kort en krachtig! Less is more!
   
6. het geluid! altijd koptelefoon of oortjes gebruiken! check tijdens het opnemen of het ok is.
7. Scherp stellen: stel in op manual focus (niet auto), zoom in op de ogen, stel scherp! Belangrijk!
8. Varieer in schots: close (beeldvullend), medium (verder weg) en wide (totaalbeeld). Succes!

1. Making a video: Stabalize your camera. If you don’t have a device, keep your arm close to your body.
2. Think, before you record anything. Keep your material clean.
3. If you interview people in front of a camera, make sure they look into the camera.
4. If you interview someone: Closed questions for those who talk a lot. Open questions for those who hardly say anything.
5. Less is more! I=Online video is short and powerful. Only you believe it is interesting.
6. Sound: Use a headphone while recording, so you know while filming if it is ok.
7. Don’t use auto focus, but use manual focus. zoom into the eyes and select this. Very important for “sharp” pictures.
8. Vary the shots: close (covers the screen), medium (pulling of) en wide (complete image). Good luck!

More tips are coming. Feel free to ad anything.

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