A New Crime Drama on Television

Diary page.

After wrecking my body in the snow (I got the papers out on time, but to a price)... not storm exactly, but mighty heavy fall, I recouperated in front of the television with the new detective series, "Shetland".

Also, I attempted to sketch the actors on the screen (without freezing the picture, which would have driven the husband crazy), with a watercolour brush rather than a pen - what I don´t do to amuse myself! At least there are no trees in the background to be frustrated about. Just grass and sea and sky, as far as the eye can see.

Anyway, this post is really to say that "Shetland" is based on the series by Ann Cleeves that I read four books of last year and still felt a bit ambigous about. I was apprehensive about the series - Douglas Henshall looks nothing like Jimmy Perez, after all - but heck, I love it. The landscape I couldn´t imagine, the tweaks they have done to the stories, the acting (which is superb: Henshall - whom I don´t remember seeing before - is simply wonderful and so are the rest of them), it´s all really, really great. I recommend that you watch it if you can.

Oh, and read this. Love it, too.

Actually, I did get a minute with this scene while the husband replenished his tv-dinner plate... 

Christmas Ghost

I found this very cute little film on youtube, about Laban, the Little Ghost, who is afraid of Santa.

(on youtube by Lilla spöket Laban)

Ghost Worker

I think anyone who works at night can feel a bit like this guy.

He is so cute, reminds me of Laban, the Little Ghost. I found a cute film about Laban on youtube, where he and Prince Mischief tries to convince the Queen´s friend that ghost exist.

(Put up by Jordan Raikonen.)

Animations

This is so incredibly cool!

Aug(De)Mented Reality. How do they come up with this stuff?