Visit to HyperIsland School of New Media Design, April 2002

The HyperIsland school had me come up for a couple of lectures. The school is in Karlskrona, an old navy town. It's actually in an old naval prison building. Here are some views of the Baltic right outside the school.

That's a diving tower on the left. There must be about two days a year when it's warm enough to practice diving into the Baltic Sea.

The area around the school building has one or two neat buildings.

Lots of old naval objects around, like this cannon and sub.

There was a really nice naval museum next door. Somebody put some serious money into this gorgeous building, then decided that the finishing touch had to be a palm tree made out of old guns.

But the really great exhibits were these figureheads.

The town itself is small, with really only a few downtown streets.

This is the school itself, the old prison building. Each student shares a cell as an office. They've done a great job restoring this building and as prisons go, it's a pretty pleasant place.

The prison from the outside.

I stayed with Roger and David, the founders of the school, in their cool house about ten minutes outside town. Very stylish.

Roger and David's yard.

Here are two students working on an exercise I gave them. They were good sports, considering we'd had to wake them to get them to come to the talk. Most students had been up all night before finishing an end-of-semester project.

I don't think I've ever had anyone write me a note like this one: 'Andrew, this is the key for you to be able to get into the prison.'