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Creepy castings and hurried headshot shoots
I went to a casting recently and after my audition I was asked by the producer/writer to stick around for...
South West-side story
So after a very intense month in Edinburgh, performing at the Fringe Festival with Elicit Theatre Company, I'm now back...
2016/09/23Ida Thomasdotter
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Day 20 at the Fringe and only six more performances of "Femmetamorphosis" to go. We had a bit of a...
Elicit Theatre Company
So I've now been in London for a little over six months. I still feel a bit homesick and I...
London
Okay, it has now been ten days since I landed at Gatwick Airport and seven days since my new flatmates...
Happy new year!
The day after tomorrow I move to London. Tomorrow I'm ordering a new passport. Today I started on some new...
On the cusp of a Low
I've been running overdrive, as usual, something that I foolishly consider my thing and since I have about twice as...
2015/07/24Ida Thomasdotter
inHOUSE festival & post-production
So the week in London was a rollercoaster! inHOUSE festival was definitely a great experience and if nothing else, I...
Film festivals & motorcycles
Finally Bury me in the backyard has started its journey, selected to the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards and...
Video Art & talent programs
I've finished two video art pieces—the first ones ever!—I've submitted them to a couple of festivals but I'm not holding...
Just watched “Gone girl” in the cinema
Second night in mine and Jassa's new flat and it already feels more like home than our previous place did...
Moving and campaigning
So once again I've cleared out a rented bedroom. Funny how you always feel like you barely have any of...
Mosaic and meditation
Between the post-production of "En sekund i taget", the pre-production and crowd funding campaign of "BLODSMAK" and being commissioned to...
And we’re off!
As of this moment, the Swedish crowdfunding campaign for the BLODSMAK film pilot is officially launched!
En sekund i taget
The shoot of "En sekund i taget" (a short film based on the first seven pages of a novel by...
Of the inability of taking time off
So we've shot "Lillstrumpa & Susterdyster". It was two fun and relatively relaxed days with some minor technical hiccups (that...
Working too hard, even though I do know better
I really need to learn how to turn down job offers, both creative ones and (especially) "day job" shifts. Just...
Of day jobs and juggling maybe one too many projects at once
First day off in two weeks, and in real need of Doing Nothing, but having one project in pre-production (shoot...
2014/07/26Ida Thomasdotter
Bury me in the backyard artwork
// Finished the first two sketches/drawings for the Crowdfunding benefactors (my mum being one, she got the first drawing.)
Of disastrous short film screenings and disruptive card games
Sitting on the platform at T-Centralen waiting for the tube, and it's oddly ordinary. Yet it's only been a little...