FREDRIK SCHEIKE

och jag körde, rakt in i stormen,  där blixtar och åska, lät himlen ljuda runtomkring,  det lilla,  som var mitt. jag mätte mig själv, med vädrets stickor och vindens vimpel,  men fann mig själv, otillräcklig, bräcklig, oemotståndlig för vädrets   otymplighet. Och där stod jag, med moss under fötterna, och predikade ett återhållsamt liv, med skökor hack i häl. Don't be a stranger! Loves

I write when I feel I have to get something out. Or when I feel I've pondered something for a long time. I rarely lately write for the pure passion of writing and that's kind of sad. I wish I could take more time to actually do it. Well, there is time, there's always time, it's just a matter of priorities and choices really, two of the skills that sometimes I wonder whether or not I will ever acquire. Because how do you? How do you become an expert decision maker? By experience and by making the wrong ones is the easy answer, by making uncomfortable ones is an extension and by never abstaining from making one is the ultimate component. Honestly, I wasn't even going to write about decision making, but as decisions are what have led me to the point I am and what I was really going to write about, it serves as a good starting point. Being poor is expensive. Never have I understood that phrase until I've actually lived it. It's more expensive not to afford...

As lists of all sorts and topics is the new "black" on the internet with new sites popping up daily dedicated solely to the new "You won't believe your eyes with these 10 amazing"... and so on so forth. It's kind of like a widespread infection, because a lot of these lists end up going so viral that almost every kind of traditional news agency now has to jump on the trend. Well, this is not about the trend, this is actually about a list I stumbled upon while reading an article online. I got attracted to click on it because I saw the grinning face of Jack Gleeson, better known as Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones, and the headline that read "10 celebrities who quit the business and never looked back". Since I had no idea he actually quit acting after shooting the series I was intrigued. Each and every one of these people go through their reasons for leaving but his is the one that I want to tackle, because it's a reason that really pisse...

Instagram is an amazing app that most of us now use more than daily. We upload anything and everything and can receive commentaries, images and videos from friends and we can even connect with our favorite celebrities and catch up on trends. We can use it to laugh or to be moved and we can use it to motivate ourselves. It's a truly great tool for self-promotion and I personally, as an actor, can tell that the pictures that I've uploaded from either something creative, or a project that I'm involved with are the images with the highest impact. I personally have almost 600 followers and I follow a little bit more. A lot of the friends that I have on my lists post stuff about everyday life, some of my actor friends post the occasional headshot or set picture, there are Mom's and Dad's who publish their babies, photographers who publish great pictures, models who publish stuff from their latest photo shoot, and selfies, selfies and selfies. On any given moment of a...

So what happens when we lose track of who we are? What's our true identity, where is our true self anchored and how does it all tie into creativity? In the assumption of various characters that we play during our everyday life we tend to reflect parts of us that correspond to the certain prerequisite of that part. Meaning, we choose in which moments, which parts of us, we deem appropriate to share with the world. It's not appropriate to go to a business meeting in slacks and call your boss a loser, it's not appropriate to do this, say that and the other. It's the fragmented way that's the societal way. But when and where do niceties, politeness, manners and the will to be appropriate end and where is there a room to explore who we, under all the layers that we've accumulated, really are? It's all just a bunch of semi-philosophical thoughts running around my head, because lately I've been feeling shattered. Shattered into small, not to say ti...

I'm just beginning one of the most exciting weeks of work for a really long time. Today I was off to do a fitting for a commercial that I'll be shooting on Wednesday, it took a little longer than expected so the audition I was supposed to have got pushed until tomorrow morning. Then tomorrow I'm basically learning how to teach in one of their classes. All to prep for the classes that the theatre has hired me for as a teacher of an extend program that they have in a neighboring village on Thursdays. So Wednesday's the shoot which I hope will be quick and then on Thursday I both have an interview for a language academy to teach English at corporate level, then I teach the aforementioned class. Then on Saturday we hit it home big with one of our birthday celebrations at the theatre. It's going to be really easy, and we've already prepped all of it. I should also mention I've started teaching private Swedish classes on some Sunday afternoons, and that I...