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norwegianfantasia · 2 years

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How to support international stories coming out in English!

I've seen many English speakers ask when they see something not out in their language commenting "Will it ever come out in English?" "[…] Can't wait for for it to be available in English :) I bet it will be a success! 🎉" "I'm having a hard time finding these in English - are they available anywhere?" "I hope your books comes to the US! Looks cool!" "I've heard great things about your book! Is it translated to English? I was having trouble finding it, but I'd be interested in reading it ^_^"

Well, on their website Seven Seas Entertainment has a monthly survey where you can send in stories, this is seemingly the easiest way although you can only usually send in 4* a month/survey (which I won't link directly to as they are monthly and we are already at the end of April and I don't know when May's will show up, so just scroll down to it). So it can take a while, and preferably no repeats, so have a list you can check off those you have already requested. You can also ask people you know to fill it, or borrow their devices, maybe even use the computers at the library, airport, school, etc. You can also send in all the ones you are interested in to Dark Horse Comics for example, but in my experience are the ones replying to this email address on their Instagram account: contestATdarkhorseDOTcom to be much nicer although they don't really reply if they are considering the suggestions or not, nor do they appear to take regular novels which is a bummer.

There's also OniPress which are going to publish Snøkattprinsen, and Arctis who has published Ravneringene, and while claiming to bring the best from all over the world to the US have they mostly taken from their German branch's library (and seem to be mostly taking novels only, but you can try convincing them to broaden their horizons). There's Yen Press, which seems to be going pretty international or at the very least East Asian, as well as Scholastic and Penguin although the latter two might not take much comics/graphic novels compared to the comic and art book exclusive Dark Horse. Apparently these prefer suggestions done by tweeting at them, so this depends on you wanting to use twitter or not. But I'd avoid DC and Marvel as then the stories might have to become part of their established universes which might be difficult for the creators, and honestly unnecessary. There's also Tokyopop that was revived in English recently with Disney and GL&BL stuff, but with their history, do I not know if I want to trust them... Especially since they are proudly showing off the stories which rights they stole from their original underpaid creators...

Whichever you decide to go for, do I personally recommend pasting the urls from the links below or write them as "[story] by [author]" to make them easier for them to find, they are only human after all.

Picture from Alena Pons' Instagram

Want an inclusive story about a magical school that isn't written by a recist TERF? Or perhaps a comedy about monster children attending school and their shenanigans? Or about a non-binary ash elf and their dragon friend? Or about how a prophecy ruins the lives of the chosen ones as they have no choice how to live their lives? Then we have stories for you!

Arkin - Lysets Vokter 🗨️♿

Asynja📖

Born from Death 🗨️♿

El príncipe de la calamidad📖🗨️

Dinokid 🗨️🏳️‍🌈🖤

Dragens Øye🗨️♿🏳️‍🌈🤍

Donde los Árboles Cantan 📖

Krypto 🗨️🖤

Gryphoon 🗨️♿

Leyendas de Parva Terra🗨️

Mia Myhr og barna som forsvant 🗨️

MiniMonsters 🗨️♿

Mørkalven 🗨️♿

Mystical📖

Nidur🗨️

Nordlys 🗨️♿🖤

Oppfinneren 🗨️♿🖤

Phenomena 📖♿🤍🏳️‍🌈

Ragnarok 🗨️♿🤍

Royalty Witches📖🏳️‍🌈❤️

Strawberry Moon 📖❤️♿

Underbyen 🗨️

Under Regnbuen 🗨️🤍🏳️‍🌈

Urara🗨️♿

The Urban Legend 🗨️**

Valhalla🗨️♿

Ville Poter 🗨️♿

보지도 못하고 듣지도 못해도 사랑해🗨️❤️♿

외발로 살다🗨️🤍♿

Legend: 🗨️=comic/graphic novel, 📖=novel, 🏳️‍🌈=lgbtqia+ characters***, ❤️=romance is a central theme, 🤍=some romance but not the focus, 🖤=no romance what so ever, ♿=disabled character(s) in a good light (counts by @cannondisabledcharacters rules), (some may change the more I read or as the story continues).

Art by @cha-c-san

That thing from that country vs just another movie

So since 2012 has Innovasjon Norge where they gave money to fund an animation movie by a little unknown animation company known as Disney over a Norwegian series, that have continued doing that. So Norway's top 3 ways of making money are:

Oil

Tourism

Salmon

So because of the environment, they want to phase out the oil and find ✨𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔬𝔦𝔩™✨. So first they tried increasing the salmon "farming", which led to fleas and birth defects. After the seemingly huge success of Frozen, they funded the side stuff and the sequel. Then they funded a Mission Impossible movie, to have a scene on Preikestolen, the scene was so brief and didn't really add anything to the movie so they had to beg so it wasn't cut. Then in one of the latest James Bond movies they funded it to pretend that a Norwegian mountain is in India. So why do they fund so many American productions? Well, to put it simply, tourism. If they sneak in a little of Norway into these, they hope people will want to go to Norway.

But not everyone watching know that Arendelle is based on Norway, and it goes over to being just another Disney movie doesn't it? The clip of Prekestolen, I haven't heard anyone mention that scene as standing out, honestly, I haven't heard anyone talking about that movie. The James Bond movie, they are told that beautiful mountain is in India, India has many beautiful mountains, but pretending that mountain is in India in-movie will increase tourism there, disappointed when they don't find it. So unless you read interviews or the credits closely, you probably wouldn't know that you were lied to. And if hopefully the pandemic taught them anything, do not rely on tourism too much!

So after a while they just become another movie among many others. But if they support a Norwegian story making it as big as they deserve, it'd be remembered among people as "that Norwegian thing" wouldn't it? This is why I want to support stories not only from my home country but also from others. Among the ✨𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔬𝔦𝔩™✨ they've tried is timber, which Sweden is known for, and like oil, is finite. There's no end in creative people, and they deserve support. Here they get only 10% of what they poored their soul into while the publisher last time I checked get 70%. This the result of a print shop strike where as they only got 5%, where the boss took 90% of that and the actual workers got the remains. I don't blame the print shop workers, they deserved more. But that the publisher snuck in and took the hugest percentage, is just BS as they do the least (here at least, most authors have to advertise in their own free time themselves).

Vegetarian vampires done right, comic by David Ramírez

* This April one asked for at least 1 Manga from Japan exclusively, 2 Manga/Graphic novels/Comics from wherever, At least 1 light novel from Japan exclusively, and 2 any kind of novel from wherever. [edited in April: they want 1 manga from the 90s or older] [edited in by the end of January as they were asking for these specific genres then] For the manga and light novels from Japan: 1 fantasy/isekai manga and 1 light novel 🐉, 1 of each with lgbtqia+ topics, 1 of each with comedy🤣, romance, or drama🎭, 1oe action⚔️, horror👻, or supernaturalψ, 1oe with fanservice, smut, and stuff like that, 1oe from the 90s or older💾, 2oe Chinese (or Taiwanese or any other country they publish stories in Chinese probably), 1oe Korean 🇰🇷 (the two on the bottom of the previous list are Korean, will add some novels here), 1 Hiveworks Comic, 1 International web comic (will add some below the Korean novels), and 1oe international comic/graphic novel and novel.

If you don't read much manga but want to suggest any do I recommend (these have no "fan service") 五色の舟🗨️📖♿🏳️‍🌈🐉 (Goshiki no Fune , about a found family of Japanese disabled people during WW2 as they try to survive, none of the opposing forces are demonized and just they trying to live their lives), I S―男でも女でもない性🗨️♿🏳️‍🌈❤️ (IS - Otoko Demo Onna Demo Nai Sei, about different intersex people and their lives), 斉木楠雄のΨ難 (Saiki Kusuo no PSI Nan/The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. 🗨️♿🤍🤣ψ A comedy about a seemingly aroace guy with supernatural powers he takes all too seriously), 放浪息子🗨️🏳️‍🌈❤️ (Hourou Musuko, about trans children and their lives, not perfect but also sweet, had an English translation that was sadly dropped due to lack of sales), Ballad of a Shinigami 📖🤍♿ψ (one of the first light novels Seven Seas published, but was cancelled as it was in the years light novels and visual novels weren't taken as seriously in the west, hopefully we can uncancel it), もののけ草紙🗨️🤍♿👻 (Mononoke Soushi , well, it has some nudity but not pervy nudity. It's about a young girl Tenome growing up right before WW2 and as an adult during the war, it's a love craftian inspired horror manga with Japanese folklore and she's really badass, and even if you are a coward like me is the art, story, and characters stronger than the horror so you'd probably like it,

＋アニマ🗨️🤍♿🐉(+Anima, a darkly cute series about children gaining animal powers, was officially in English once, but deserves more love again), Luck Stealer 📖⚔️🤍♿ψ by Hajime Kazu (story about an assassin taking lives by stealing their luck by coming near them, really satisfying and badass and understandable why he does it. There's one annoying character shoehorned in by an editor it feels like, but he doesn't appear much fortunately), 心霊探偵八雲📖🤍♿ψ (Shinrei Tantei Yakumo, a mystery series about a guy who can see ghosts, can get really dark), and finally 恋の神様古味直志短編集🗨️❤️🤍🖤ψ🐉🤣 (Koi no Kamisama, a collection of Komi Naoshi one-shots before he went mainstream with Nisekoi, a collection of weird and kind of psychological one-shots that are a lot of fun within few pages). P.A. (プライベートアクトレス) ❤️💾♿🗨️🎭 about a "private actress", pretending to be people's lover, daughter, themselves, whatever is needed, seeing her act and grow as a person, not perfect and shows it age some places but mostly surprisingly accepting. アノニマス🤍🗨️🎭 (Anonymous, about some Japanese teens from the 20s, raised without names or purpose other than to follow orders, but they meet some other teens they to their surprise befriend and so they decide to live for themselves). 周刊少年Girl 🗨️🤣🤍ψ(Weekly Shounen Girl, an absurd and wacky manga that takes full use of it's medium, it's amazing). スミレ♡16歳!! 🗨️🤣(Sumire♡16 years old!! Weird manga about a puppet attending school and somehow getting friends. Oddly sweet).

These don't quite follow the rules but are 💾: F. Compo (weird trans manga from the 90s, a cis man's desperate attempt at being "accepting", interesting to look back at), クロノクルセイド(Chrono Crusade, has some unnecessary fan service but is still my favourite manga. Is about a nun and a demon hunting demons in USA in the 1920s), ストップ!! ひばりくん! (Stop!! Hibari-kun! I remember some problematic moments, but a impressively progressive trans manga from the 80s!).

The promised Korean novels:레지나레나 - 용서받지 못한 그대에게 📖❤️♿(Regina Rena: To the Unforgiven, has a webtoon on... Webtoon and a region locked translation of the novel), 필리아로제 - 가시왕관의 예언🗨️🤍♿(Philia Rosé: The Prophecy of the Crown of Thorns, the WebToon is translated but not the novel), 마땅한 살인📖🤍♿⚔️ (Justified Murder, novel about a doctor forced to kill the father of a patient in self defense when he doesn't want her to tell authorities that he abused the patient. Her cop husband helps her dispose of the body by drawing a lipstick heart on him, the signature of a serial killer only going after the worst, it works a little too well as the killer contacts her and recruits her as the killer is actually a group). International webcomics/WebToons (those i do not know where are from don't have flags, some are already in English): City Vamps 🇪🇸, Heartblood🇫🇮, I Want to Be A Cute Anime Girl, Born From Death 🇮🇩, @XXIII, Angel's Quest 🇪🇸, Watermelon 🇸🇦, Seed 🇹🇷 (I think), Love Advice From the Great Duke of Hell 🇨🇭, The Witch and the Bull 🇹🇼, Project Novos 🇦🇹, The World Where I Belong 🇹🇭(I think), and more. Remember that the ones further up are the ones struggling to come out in English.

** Self published, but has been looking for an official publisher forever according to interviews.

*** a work not marked with this still could have some later, is not clear enough, I haven't read enough yet to know, or I haven't asked the author. But even if one seemingly does not have any does it not mean that the author is phobic or not part of the lgbtqia+ themselves, and as far as I know, no one on this list are phobic as far as I've checked.

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Feel free to reblog with stories from different countries that aren't translated into English. The ones I suggest here are in languages that I understand or have accessed by other means. Also, many thanks to @godteri-takk for encouraging me and @ittibittium for making this post (which is very much have been the reason the series came out look at slide 2) and inspiring me. If you have any questions about the stories I've included here, feel free to ask ^^. If you wonder why I didn't link to Phenomena, Mørkalven, Under Regnbuen, The Urban Legend, and Underbyen on the booksfromnorway website is it that they're simply not there, the publisher haven't added them. I'd also link to Norway Comics more often as the website looks good, but haven't been updated in about 2 years, maybe they started to give up? I don't know. Thank you for your time and hopefully we can give more than a few authors a cool gift before the end of the year.

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aroaceconfessions · 2 years

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I've love the Norwegian book series Phenomena* since I was 12, and my favorite character is Ilke (the blue girl). She's energetic and cheerful, has frost powers, flawed, but not annoying, I'm tired so I'm not the best at describing things right now, trying my best, it's 4:03AM at the time of writing). At one point she saves a man's life, and even though she was 10 at the time and he's a grown adult, I was terrified he'd become her boyfriend because that was normalized back in 2002. The chapters went by, and they became best friends but nothing more. She never seemed interested in boys either, even if they were interested in her. The most attraction she has shown anyone was saying that she thinks women smell good.

So I asked the author by email, if Ilke by chance is an aroace lesbian. His reply was "yes, and I'm honesty surprised anyone noticed, relationships aren't her thing, that's her brother's thing (also writing something implying that he's bi/pan", I started crying tears of joy, one of my favorite characters from my childhood is representation 😭:'D

* since tumblr managed to get Shimanami Tasogare** licensed, what if we manage to get Phenomena come out in English using the survey at Seven Seas too? Put it in as Phenomena by Ruben Eliassen or the provided url due to the generic name. If you haven't decided what to put in the Graphic Novel fields, may I recommend Nordlys (no romance and the author got disgusted when someone shipped the main characters Sonja (14) and Espen (100+) remember to use the url or include the author's name as searching for just Nordlys in general will only get you nothern lights), Ragnarok (no romance, generic name alert), Arkin (generic name alert, no romance here either), and/or Oppfinneren (yet another generic title, no romance). (this I have some practice writing but not had guts to post before now 😅🥱)

* it has ace rep too! 🖤🤍💜

Thank you and take care 💕

#aromantic #asexual #aroace #arospec #acespec #aspec #aroacespec #arose #Phenomena #representation

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godteri-takk · 2 years

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Hi, fun to meet meet another Norwegian here 😀. So I thought of something... In the notes of that comic asked me "what is wrong with Scandinavia"... I've also seen many Americans talking about wanting to cancel Spain over their history... Which is honestly unfair. Yes Scandinavia, Spain, Japan, and wherever has much terrible history, but so does USA, let's look forward and at good people rather than judging everyone..! Anyway, so I have an idea but no matter what I do, I'm terrible at sharing it, so maybe you have more luck.

So due to their survey, Seven Seas Entertainment published (look at the second slide Shimanami Tasogare. And late last year they started accepting stories from all over the seven seas rather than just Japan. So what if..! We tell friends and family, and somehow make a viral post (maybe blazing it? But I have no idea how to make people interested in actually reading it...) where we suggest people fill the likes of Nordlys📒, Phenomena📔, Ragnarok📒, Krypto📒, Dragens Øye📒, Arkin📒, Underbyen📒, Oppfinneren📒, Mia Myhr og barna som forsvant 📒, Mørkalven📒, etc (Both Snøkattprinsen and Ravneringene have been licensed in English already if you are wondering why they aren't included). And from other countries such as Royalty Witches📔📒, Asynja📔, MiniMonsters📒, Phantomland📒, Dinokid📒, Nidur📒, Leyendas de Parva Terra📒, Incanto📔, Strawberry Moon📔📒, Cronache del Regno della Fantasía 📔📒, Donde los Árboles Cantan📔, Mystical 📔, etc. Into it! Some with “[story] by [author]" others by pasting the urls..! One can also send them to the likes of Dark Horse, but they do not seem as open to suggestions... And by this, maybe we can help more creators getting out there like they deserve! It'll be amazing to give them that as a present before the year end!

(📔=novel 📒=graphic novel/comic 📔📒=hybrid)

Feel free to answer with the chat as it's a little bit difficult send links in the asks. Vi kan skrive norsk om du vil, but I'm more used to writing English online 😅. Well then..! Thanks for your time! I hope you have any ideas ^^. I unfortunately don't know how many suggestions are needed, but as a shy introvert I have a difficult time telling people... So I need help from someone extroverted to spread the word..!

Sorry if I bothered you...

Idk that much about Seven Seas but it seems cool and a good place to buy books! I filled in the form with Mystical, Phenomena, and a comic i actually own, Oppfinneren bok 1: Jakten på evighetsmaskinen! I love that book SO much and can't wait for the next in the series. Everything about it is just so good.

And no worries its no bother, i love books and I'd love for these books to get read by more people! U put a lotta work into that ask it seems, i like your engagement

#books #comics #literature #graphic novel #light novel #seven seas #seven seas entertainment #Norwegian literature #norske bøker #norsk

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svendbergdotcom · 2 years

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Til ettertanke...

Til ettertanke…

Til ettertanke🍻🇳🇴 Oppfinneren av tredemøllen døde i en alder av 54. år.Oppfinneren av gymnastikk døde i en alder av 57Verdensmester i kroppsbygging døde 41. år gammel.Verdens beste fotballspiller, Maradona døde da han var 60 år gammel.James Fuller Fixx ble kreditert for å ha hjulpet med å kickstarte Amerikas treningsrevolusjon ved å popularisere raser. Han døde av hjerteinfarkt mens han jogget i…

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#Ettertanke #humor #livet #menneske

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cannondisabledcharacters · 2 years

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Today’s disabled character of the day is Kobolt from Oppfinneren, who is an amputee and wheelchair user

Requested by Anon

#amputee character #wheelchair user character #Oppfinneren #disabled character of the day #Oppfinneren kobolt

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everyonesonthespectrum · 2 years

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Today’s Autistic character of the day is:

Kobolt Kong from The Inventor (Oppfinneren)

#headcanon #kobolt #kobolt kong #kobolt the inventor #kobolt kong the inventor #kobolt oppfinneren #kobolt kong oppfinneren #the inventor #oppfinneren #autism #autistic #actually autistic #autistic characters #autistic character of the day

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your-fave-is-pupy · 3 years

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Syv, Daisy, Fenrir, this Dragon, DranAkhos, Arol...

Some of you are probably curious about these pupys. Where are they from? How can I read about them?

Well, putting it simply, when was the last time you read a book or graphic novel from Norway that wasn't a crime/mystery, something by a crime author that happened to be translated because of their previous works? And no, old books or Roald Dahl as his books were released in Britain first does not count, nor the Raven Rings as their publisher was made exactly for bringing European books that aren't British or Irish to the North American market.

They deserve a fair chance just as much as other books. And it so happens that recently Seven Seas, the ones publishing fan-favorite Shimanami Tasogare after many requested it in their survey. And it so happens that recently in their most recent survey they do not only ask for manga, but "What non-licensed MANGA/GRAPHIC NOVEL would you like us to license and publish in English? (From any country.) Type it here.". So choose your 2 favorites or 2 random among the graphic novels, and put them in there (maybe links directly to them using the website I just linked to (as it has all the contact information they need), or maybe "[story name] by [author]", up to you). This would mean a lot to the authors (who really want to reach the international market), their international fans who often ask them when they come out in English and the author cannot give a clear answer and would make me really happy too. It'll also bring the world closer together.

The other fields

You might have noticed 3 other fields, 2 light novel and sadly just 1 Web comic field. If you looked at the Norwegian graphic novel website you might have noticed that Phenomena wasn't one of them. But if we consider light novels illustrated non-brick (bricks are books the size of of the twilight, multiple hp, etc. books), Phenomena can be suggested as such as there's at most about 318 pages per book (but most stay at around 220 pages) compared to the aforementioned two series' 600+ at times while their minimum is Phenomena's maximum). While I do not know if there are any pupys in them, do I quite like Laia López' art, and her book Strawberry Moon, as well as two she's illustrated and helped write a bit to my knowledge Mystical and Royalty Witches look super cool too if you don't know what to suggest for the other field. Many ask her as well when the books release in English on her Instagram. Cronache del Regno della Fantasía looks pretty fun too.

For webcomics containing pupys that are already here are there Days of Hana with werewolves (Kor/Eng), Verona and Doran from Watermelon, Lookism (Kor/Eng) with quite a few, Heartblood with other werewolves, City Vamps with Zoe (Esp/Eng), Lumine with weredogs and werewolves (especially Lumine himself), Shnee from City of Blank, Hail from Rebirth, and more.

Again, the links so you don't have to scroll up to see them again: Seven Seas Entertainment, the September survey (that will eventually expire and then you have to look for the new one on their website), Norwegian graphic novels* and Phenomena

Let's do this!

* Personally I like Nordlys, Ragnarok, Snøkattprinsen, Dragens Øye, Arkin, and Oppfinneren the best. Sidequest is a more typical Norwegian comedy comic and too crude for my liking, but if you like it that's okay.

#submission #PSA #norwegian literature #gif #long post #Admin note: We replaced the August survey link with the September one; and edited the links at the top to be more consolidated!#This has been in our inbox since August so sorry it took a while to get to! You put in a lot of effort to this ::-O

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shahinmarkus · 5 years

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Internet Carpentry Intro

Å lære verktøy etc, uten fokus på grafikk, bruk eller innhold, men på verktøy og oppbygging. Internetthåndtverk.

Man må kjenne materialene man jobber med for å effektivt kunne bruke de.

Sketching: 1. Paper 2. Wireframe 3. Hi-Fi mockups 4. Clikcable prototypes 5. Programmed prototype 6. Implementation

Lars liker å gjøre: 1. Paper 2. Prototype / Implementation

Vi skal lære

HTML og CSS Lars har en interessant historie om oppfinneren av css som jeg ikke tør å skrive her.

Fordelen ovenfor Adobe XD etc. er at det funker. Funksjonalitet kan implementeres. Det er ikke lenger en “visningsmodell” men en funksjonell mockup.

Users Devices Browsers Code Content

Front end (browser) og Back end (database & server)

Html = Content, CSS = Appearance, Javascript = extra?

Directory structures

Ha styr på innholdet og folders: (prosjektmappe, html(index), CSSmappe, Grafikk, Script)

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lesserknownwaifus · 3 years

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Linnea from Oppfinneren for Fearless waifus, when a machine exploded inside a garage, she still crawled over to her best friend who had lost both his legs despite losing an eye and a lot of blood herself in an attempt of saving him

#submission

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daglignorsk · 5 years

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Den oppfinneren sa at hun skal flytte.

#daglig norsk #daily norwegian #norwegian word a day #norway #norge #norsk order #bokmål

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wiadomosciprasowe · 6 years

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Historisk funn på Teknisk museum: Et av verdens eldste lydopptak gjøres tilgjengelig

https://www.y6.no/historisk-funn-pa-teknisk-museum-et-av-verdens-eldste-lydopptak-gjores-tilgjengelig/

Historisk funn på Teknisk museum: Et av verdens eldste lydopptak gjøres tilgjengelig

Thomas Alva Edison, med sin fonograf, 1878. Foto: Levin C. Handy/ Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons. Dato: 13-12-2017 15:57 CET Opprinnelig tittel på pressemeldingen: Historisk funn på Teknisk museum: Et av verdens eldste lydopptak gjøres tilgjengelig Kategori: , Bibliotek, museum Vitenskap, teknikk Historisk begivenhet på Teknisk museum:

Historisk begivenhet på Teknisk museum:

Ett av verdens eldste lydopptak blir nå tilgjengelig for publikum

Norsk Teknisk Museum har funnet ett av verdens eldste tinnfolieopptak i sine samlinger. I samarbeid med Nasjonalbiblioteket er det nå digitalisert og det forskes på hva og hvem man hører på lydopptaket fra 1880-årene. Kan det være lyden av selveste Thomas Edison, oppfinneren av fonografen?

Til nå har innholdet vært ukjent, da tinnfolier er sårbare og ikke tåler avspilling uten å forringes. I dag finnes det imidlertid teknologi som kan skanne skjøre materialer og digitalisere innholdet. Amerikanske eksperter, som har utviklet denne metoden, og teknikere ved Nasjonalbiblioteket i Mo i Rana er nå ferdige med arbeidet, og innholdet kan endelig presenteres for publikum. Hør lyden fra 1880-tallet på tekniskmuseum.no! Kanskje kan du hjelpe oss med å finne ut hva vi hører?

Thomas Edison og den korrekte ingeniøren

Høsten 1940 ble et skjørt tinnfolieark overrakt Teknisk museum av den da 80 år gamle ingeniøren og telegrafinspektøren Einar Rasmussen fra Blommenholm. Historien forteller at Rasmussen arbeidet tett på Thomas Alva Edison i New York i 1880-årene. Det var rett etter at Edison hadde oppfunnet fonografen.

Tidligere hadde Rasmussen overrakt nettopp en fonograf til museet. Fonografen er den første maskinen som kunne gjøre opptak og spille av lyd, forløperen til den mer kjente grammofonen. Thomas Edison gjorde de aller første opptakene på fonograf for 140 år siden, den 6. desember 1877. Drøyt 60 år senere kom ingeniør Rasmussen til Teknisk museum med et ukjent, tilsvarende gammelt og ekstremt skjørt tinnfolieark. Tinnfolie ble brukt helt i starten på fonografens sylinder (senere gikk man over til voksruller som var langt mer bestandig). Man kan se på Rasmussens tinnfolie at det er gjort opptak på den, men grunnet materialets sårbarhet vil det ikke tåle å bli avspilt på en fonograf. Tinnfolien ble derfor kun registrert den gangen og bevart for ettertiden av konservatorer, uten at man egentlig visste noe om innholdet. Bare museets gamle håndskrevne inntaksprotokoll gir oss et hint:

«Fonograf-tinfolium innspilt av Edison».

Men hva betyr «innspilt av Edison»? Kan det være et opptak av Edisons stemme? I så fall vil tinnfolien være enda mer unik – kanskje det eldste, kjente opptaket i verden av Thomas Alva Edison.

Til NEDCC i Boston for digitalisering – et komplisert puslespill

Dagens teknologi gjør det mulig å skanne den skjøre tinnfolien, men man måtte til Andover, USA og Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) for å finne de riktige ekspertene til dette. Lyden som gjemmer seg på folien er interessant og viktig å bevare for ettertiden, men det store spørsmålet meldte seg raskt: Hvor sannsynlig er det at det er selveste Edison som snakker inn på opptaket? Og hvordan havnet tinnfolien hos den norske ingeniøren?

Førstekonservator Frode Weium forklarer:

– Akkurat hvordan dette tinnfolieopptaket kom i Einar Rasmussens eie, vet vi ikke. Han har heller ikke latt seg spore i fortegnelsene over Edisons ansatte. Men det er flere tegn på at Rasmussen var i kontakt med Edison: I et brev hjem til Norge skrev han i 1883 at «Edison ser jeg temmelig ofte», en skisse som han ga til museet skal samme år ha vært tegnet av Edison «ved mit tegnebord», og et diplom viser at han tilhørte «Edison Pioneers». Rasmussens etterkommere forteller dessuten om en mann som ikke likte å fremheve seg selv, og som var beskjeden når det gjaldt å fortelle om alt han hadde opplevd som ingeniør, sier Weium.

Frode Weium forsker nå videre på saken. Teknikere både i USA og ved Nasjonalbiblioteket i Mo i Rana har jobbet hardt for å hente ut det beste man kan av lydopptaket. Oppdraget har budt på utfordringer, ettersom folien var brettet og delt i biter, for så å ha blitt limt sammen på feil måte. Det er altså ikke bare skanning som er jobben, men også analyse og puslespillbiter som skal settes sammen.

Etter at folien ble scannet og lyden har blitt hel, har lydfilene blitt bearbeidet og gjort mer lyttevennlige. Men fortsatt er det et mysterium hva og hvem som gjemmer seg på et av verdens første opptak av lyd.

– Noe som lyder som en mannsstemme kan høres gjennom store deler av opptaket. På ett sted synes det også å være et piano. Men det er mye støy, og innholdet er fortsatt et mysterium. Vi klarer foreløpig ikke å fastslå om opptaket faktisk ble gjort av Edison eller ikke, sier Weium.

Kanskje vil fremtidig forskning gi oss svar. Vi gir oss ikke, Mr. Edison!

For mer informasjon og flere bilder, kontakt:

Frode Weium

Førstekonservator

Norsk Teknisk Museum

[email protected]

Mob: 934 54 489

Camilla Marie Klevstrand

Kommunikasjonsrådgiver

Norsk Teknisk Museum

[email protected]

Mob: 975 08 738

Nina Bræin

Presseansvarlig

Nasjonalbiblioteket

[email protected]

Mob: 951 50 912

Fakta:

Thomas Alva Edison oppfant fonografen i 1877, og da ble det for første gang mulig å ta opp og spille av lyd. Lyden ble spilt inn på stykker av tinnfolie. Disse tålte kun få avspillinger. Om lag ti år senere ble tinnfolie erstattet av voksruller som opptaksmedium. Kun et fåtall av de gamle tinnfolieopptakene er bevart i dag, anslagsvis 10–15 stykker. Edison er ikke selv på noen av disse (andre) opptakene. Det er bevart enda et tinnfolieopptak i Norge, som er fra 1879 og kun varer noen få sekunder. Dette er utstilt ved Norsk Teknisk Museum. Historien om digitaliseringen av dette i 2009 kan du lese her: https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/nyheter-fra-samlingene/1232-lydlagring

https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/utstillinger-2/348-juni-09-musikkmaskiner (Lyden av Norges første lydopptak)

http://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/Lyden-av-fortiden-253474b.html

• Einar Rasmussen var utdannet fra Kristiania Tekniske Skole. I 1881 reiste han til USA, der han arbeidet som ingeniør i flere firmaer.

Rasmussen ga sitt tinnfolieopptak til Norsk Teknisk Museum i 1940. Museet samarbeider nå med Nasjonalbiblioteket om dette prosjektet. Tinnfolieopptaket har høsten 2017 blitt digitalisert ved Northeast Document Conservation Center i Andover, Massachusetts, under ledelse av dr. Carl Haber fra Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California. Einar Rasmussen. Fotograf ukjent, familiens eie.

Bildet fås på forespørsel til [email protected].

Einar Rasmussen. Foto: Norsk Jernbanemuseums fotosamling. Gjengis med tillatelse. Større bilde ligger vedlagt.

Diplom om medlemskap i Edison Pioneers, fra familiealbumet.

Foto: Fotograf ukjent, familiens eie. Gjengis med tillatelse.

Thomas Alva Edison med sin fonograf, 1878.

Foto: Levin C. Handy/Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons.

Kilde: Pressekontor Norsk Teknisk Museum – PRESSEMELDING –

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