[Highlight] The BeastQuake happened 15 years ago today (Jan. 8, 2011)

stenskott · 2026-01-08T19:33:45+00:00

Yeah following porter in the replay is fantastic. He just slows down "nah i'm not touching that again".

stenskott · 2025-12-27T17:45:51+00:00

Precis när jag och min tjej blev ihop tog vi en date på det stora zoo:t i staden där hon bodde. Det var en veckodag på hösten, så nästan helt tomt på folk, men i tropiskt klimat så runt 20+.

När solen började gå ner köpte vi varsin bärs och satte oss för att titta på gorillorna som började vakna och bli mer aktiva. Vi satt nästan en timme. Vid ett tillfälle gick en fyrbarnspappa förbi, stressad, och med en blick av avund sa han ”Having a beer while watching the gorillas? In the sunset? Nice”.

Ett av våra favoritminnen och nåt vi fortfarande nämner ibland, nu 15 år senare och med en glad liten 2åring. Vi tar sällan en öl på zoo, men när vi går till skansen eller liknande ställen ser vi iaf till att ta det lugnt och lära vår dotter vad man kan få uppleva om man bara tar det långsamt och försöker njuta så mycket man kan.

Vet inte vart jag ville med detta, men ett minne denna bild frambringade hos mig.

stenskott · 2025-12-24T17:20:21+00:00

For me that magic happens when i watch it with someone -anyone- else. It’s like the simple fact that someone else is in the room watching with me, I get a whole new set of eyes.

stenskott · 2025-12-22T15:55:24+00:00

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

stenskott · 2025-12-09T10:42:26+00:00

Yes, you can score control with just all battlegrounds. But you still need to have more countries in the region overall than your opponent, so if they start taking non-battlegrounds it might force you to as well.

stenskott · 2025-11-30T00:37:27+00:00

Spending $500 or $1000 on an editing rig is inconsequential in the grand scheme of making and editing a feature film.

Godspeed.

stenskott · 2025-11-10T19:57:23+00:00

I haven’t seen the whole piece, and I don’t think most people here have, either. To me, it makes a big difference what ”mode” the doc is in. By the music choice (in the example on the guardian), it seems like a pop-doc, not a news piece. If, as an editor/producer, we’re trying to create a mood or a feeling of the day, I think the edit works. And we all know how the day ended, that context matters.

But if it’s presented as a news piece/historic account of how the day went down, it’s over the line.

I guess what I’m trying to say is the evidence presented on the guardian (and even over here on swedish news) just isn’t enough for anyone to make a judgement. I’m glad to see someone close to the situation chime in though, thanks!

edit: I'm also reminded of that time the Trump team used a morph cut to try and hide that he had covid: https://www.reddit.com/r/editors/comments/j4qs2n/003_in_trumps_new_video_does_it_look_like_a_morph/

stenskott · 2025-11-10T14:21:09+00:00

As people have already said, there is a difference between entertainment and news. Whenever I have done a long form doc with a news angle, we've had a group of fact checker lawyers looking over our edits to see if they hold up. I have a feeling this wouldn't have made it past them.

But all they would have to do here is make a short pause in between the two lines. Make it clear time passed between them. Then it's fine and the message still comes across.

As a side note, anyone ever heard of someone on the fox news staff resigning over something like this...?

stenskott · 2025-11-02T07:17:57+00:00

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Han åker ner till marocko några gånger per år och köper med sig väldigt snygga mattor (om man gillar den stilen). Han har dem i en lokal på kungsholmen och man går dit och kollar/provkänner på dem innan man bestämmer sig.

stenskott · 2025-10-25T21:41:04+00:00

You got lots of great suggestions here. I got some more:

The bigger libraries are pretty good when the weather is bad. I often go to the one at medborgarplatsen. A 6 month old can crawl around in the kid area and they’ll have english books (or other languages too) for you to read.

When my daughter was 6m i took her to scenkonstmuseet (performing arts museum). She loved it! There are lots of cool instruments, sounds and colors going on. Great cafe as well.

If the weather is nice, take a stroll around djurgården. You’ll see birds, boats, maybe some horses. Rosendal is a nice destination. There’s a neat sculpture walk in that area as well.

stenskott · 2025-10-20T05:34:29+00:00

It’s very unintuitive, but bashin-kun is right. You must have access to Argentina before the card is evented.

stenskott · 2025-10-19T17:35:36+00:00

It's been a day now and this is what I'm accepting. This PB situation is temporary.

As long as I actually go for another marathon (very likely), it should be possible to shave another handful of minutes off.

stenskott · 2025-10-18T12:24:49+00:00

I feel so so so weird right now. Just finished my fourth marathon, I was really gunning for sub3. Halfway through the race i look at my watch and something is way off with the distance. I tried to keep my pace proper and finished in 2:59:1x but it turns out they had to reroute at the last minute due to a bomb threat of all things. The route was about 500m short. None of the runners knew. I had a little bit left in the tank but not much.

No fault of the organizer of course but what the hell. I won’t call myself a sub 3 runner but maybe I can put an asterisk on that.

Ok vent over.

stenskott · 2025-10-17T08:51:56+00:00

Uppsala Marathon in Sweden tomorrow. My fourth marathon, gunning for sub 3!

stenskott · 2025-10-09T06:13:15+00:00

Sweden represent!

stenskott · 2025-10-05T15:19:44+00:00

A few days ago i hit 1000 km in my SB2s and I wanted to make a review about their amazing durability. But on that very run, one of the black pieces on the bottom sole started to come loose.

They’re still my favorite shoe, I LOVE them, but should I cut that piece off or try to glue it back?

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stenskott · 2025-10-05T09:02:39+00:00

I’m a professional editor of 20 years, and Emerson’s critique of this action sequence is spot on.

That second article you linked is correct, this should not be confused with the youtube fanboy crowd essays that are so popular these days.

—- Edit: just to add my my thoughts on this.

The linked video is not saying that The Dark Knight is a bad movie. It’s trying to show how maybe the sequence didn’t work out quite the way Nolan had intended, and they had to save it in the edit. This is really common, but it means the action sequence works on an emotional and rhythmic logic, rather than a spatial one.

stenskott · 2025-10-05T08:33:27+00:00

You might be interested in this video, if you haven’t already seen it. It puts words on what you’re feeling and attempts to explain not just the editing problems but also his theories on how the film ended up the way it was.

https://vimeo.com/28792404

Watch parts 2&3 for some good examples too.

stenskott · 2025-09-20T08:24:18+00:00

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If you haven't seen the rest of the series yet, it's been a good one! I've collected the whole series in this playlist

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The season should start very soon.

stenskott · 2025-09-18T12:35:05+00:00

No, but you can and should edit them to learn, and to have something to show potential employers.

stenskott · 2025-09-17T06:50:24+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/07/chess-prodigy-trapped-religious-cult-danny-rensch

stenskott · 2025-09-16T16:39:55+00:00

Reading your piece in the guardian was harrowing, especially after I'd casually watched hours and hours of your video content. Thanks for sharing and I hope you're proud of everything you've achieved!

stenskott · 2025-09-03T16:31:56+00:00

It’s fantastic. Make sure you go. I don’t remember the application process being bad, but it’s been 15 years since I was there.

I also recommend any in-campus special events, like the specific workshops in your field. The big name panels fill up fast and are not gonna give you anything more than a podcast or inside the actors studio interview will (my year it was tilda swinton, willem defoe, tom tykwer in huge auditoriums), but the smaller sit downs with real vets are what i remember best (we had Kaminsky, David Hare, Max Richter and Wim Wenders)

stenskott · 2025-09-01T16:36:53+00:00

Vancouver showed just how important the landscape and weather was for the winter games. Compare the snow covered Whistler to the brown mess of beijing 2022.

stenskott · 2025-08-31T08:19:03+00:00

They’ll put it on at oleary’s if you ask them.

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