This essay, Pictures from a death-bed, expands on the pictorial genre called post mortem portraits, a field with long history in the western society. A post mortem portrait is an artwork where the artist paint or photograph the model after her or his dead. My survey delineates to treat two specific pictures, one from the seventeenth century and one from the twentieth century. Both of them are portraits of dead boys on their death-beds, but the first one is a painting and the other one is a photo. By this survey I wanted to find both similarities and differentials between the pictures; if they were made by the same reasons, if you could see anything different between the portraits by children and by the portraits of adults, and finally, if there were any cultural or religious connections between the pictures and their existents.

This master thesis deals with two case studies in environmental archaeology and battlefield archaeology focusing on two major events in the late history of the Swedish coastal town Umeå and its nearby village Sävar. Established in the early 1600's, Umeå was known for its export of timber and import of cereals. The town has suffered from numerous fires, the fire in 1888 being the most devastating. Few written records of the town remain from before the 1900's. The latest war in Sweden's history is documented in historical sources and took place at Krutbrånet, Sävar where the Swedish troops suffered defeat against the russian forces in 1809.

When creating a good lighting design it is crucial to know how different types of lamps work. Knowing what kind of light they emit and in which situations they work well is also very important. In this master thesis I present different types of lamps and give an account of how light is spread through the different shapes of luminaires, reflectors, filters and so on. I write about how our eyes register radiation and connections between lighting and how it makes us experience space. Furthermore I deal with the effect of artificial light on living organisms and the environment. After the theoretical studies I deal with the places I have visited to study how different lamps and luminaires work and look like in existing lighting designs. These visits have also been inspirational to my lighting proposal for Bokenäs. Bokenäs is Volvo?s resort and conference center which is situated on the Swedish west coast.

This paper aims to investigate the terms and conditions of a lesbian gaze and a lesbian spectatorship from a feminist and queer theoretical point of view. The empirical material consists of three paintings by the American artist Romaine Brooks (1874-1970).  Brooks was based in Paris in the early 20th century where she was surrounded by a group of intellectual and usually cross-dressing lesbians. The women within this context are the ones depicted in Brooks? paintings and this makes her one of the first artists in modernity to openly portray lesbian and cross-dressing women.

Åfors glasswork was a company which started in 1876 and closed in 2012 due to the bad economical situation in the company. After its closure, the glasswork left behind contaminated soil with different concentrations of heavy metals such as, arsenic from arsenic trioxide, a chemical used to remove bubbles during the melting of glass, and lead oxide, a chemical used in the production of crystal glass. Crystal glass?s production occurred under 1921-1971, but emissions of lead into the air from Åfors glasswork continued until 2011, because of the artist Bertil Valliens? artglas was made in Åfors glasswork from 1970?s and onwards.The aim of this study was to estimate how much lead (Pb) and arsenic (As) that were released by Åfors Glasswork into the atmosphere during the operational period of the glasswork in comparison with how much of lead and arsenic were purchased for the company. Added to the assistance of the data from National Archives the variations in the activities of Åfors glasswork could be shown.

Nina Johansson starts her essay by making some examples of dreams to show the diversity of the ?dream world?. She speaks of how all humans dream, that it ties us together. She wants to translate the ?feeling of dreams? into wearable objects, and to be able to do that, she must try and describe what that feeling consists of.

The aim of this paper is to investigate dominant beliefs and approaches to the "cultural entrepreneur" both within a public context, and also among business owners within the cultural field. What happens when ideas and attitudes in the public sector towards culture driven businesses meets the perspective of individual cultural entrepreneurs?This study is based on analysis of political documents about the cultural and creative industries (CCI) from the European union, national level and regional level. Interviews with six business owners in the field of culture and one representative of the Swedish region with the fictive name ?Alma? has been conducted.

Abstract Peter  Brantsing:  Marknadsföring   och  massmedialt  beroende  - En  studie  av  ett  svenskt oberoende skivbolag.- Uppsala: Musikvetenskap 1997. 60 p.En studie av det svenska skivbolaget MNW Records Group AB och deras marknadsföring mot olika medier. Uppsatsen behandlar mera ingående deras marknadsföring mot musikvideokanalerna Music Television och ZTV.Syftet med denna uppsats är att ge en överblick av hur skiv-/musikindustrin ser ut idag. Där globaliseringseffekten har påverkat de transnationella mediakonglomeratens utveckling och marknad. Att beskriva musikvideokanalerna MTV och ZTV, dess rotationslistor och hur de väljer ut musikvideor till sina programblock.

Karin Boyes Crisis (Kris) was published in 1934 as a contribution to the contemporary ideas of moral issues, challenging the dominating traditionalism within the literature critisism.With different kinds of stylistic procedures is Crises expressing a self which seeks to relieve itself from the repressing experience of Language. The text shows an attempt to create meaning beyond the conventional system of linguistic signs, beyond the tradition of literature.The focus in the essay is the self; the self is the basic structure and the theme of the text. Crisis shows it?s self-assuredness and points out a dialogue with the nietzschean philosophy. Nietzsche claims that the truth is a rhetorical creation, something which the language produces in the will of power.

Stage Design is design for action and contains décor, side-scenes and properties, as well as costume and grease-paint. The one responsible for this is the Stage Designer, who together with the Director, creates the best conditions for the actors to perform in. The stage, where the play takes place, could be either in a theater, an auditorium, or in another sort of room, at another place, inside or outside, and where the place itself inspires to theatrical performance and expressions. This type of theater is called Site-specific theatre. Two examples of this is the workshop ?Skogen sjunger? (eng.

Denna uppsats underso?ker hur artisten Jaqe har kunnat sprida sin musik och sitt varuma?rke via sociala medier utan att ha na?gra konton pa? sociala medier registrerade i sitt namn, eller o?verhuvudtaget vara aktiv pa? na?tet.Syftet med uppsatsen a?r att underso?ka ett ho?gst ovanligt marknadskommunikationsfenomen som tycks motsa?ga ra?dande normer inom musikbranschen, fo?r att belysa huruvida man kan bedriva effektiv marknadskommunikation via sociala medier utan att o?verhuvudtaget vara aktiv online. Detta underso?ks genom att kartla?gga och problematisera Jaqes strategi samt ja?mfo?ra den mot Sveriges tva? sto?rsta skivbolags digitala marknadskommunikativa praktiker. Empirin besta?r av fyra kvalitativa expertintervjuer.

In this study I have met three authors in a dialogue seminar on their literary work. The discussion, starting from texts by Lacan and Socrates, revolved around the dichotomy of personal and private, and how to benefit from personal material in one?s literary work. The three authors reflected on the writer Karl Ove Knausgård and the photographer Sally Mann, who both are working with their own immediate family as a motif. In Knausgård, you can find a strong and self-dissecting writer persona as a medium of creating recognition in the readers mind.

Rapporten är en erfarenhetsbaserad reflektion över min praktiktid på 3d-produktionsföretaget Kaktus Film i Stockholm. Under min tid på företaget var jag med, från början till slut, i produktionen av en tysk musikvideo till en artist som heter Eisblume. Min roll i projektet med musikvideon var 3d-grafiker. Jag har primärt arbetat med tre olika saker; att skapa och animera blodådror som växer fram i olika miljöer, att skapa vattensimulationer och att färgmatcha och justera de renderade bilderna. Rapporten beskriver min kunskaps/arbetsprocess på Kaktus Film och de problem som uppstod i arbetet.

ABSTRACTThe fauna of the Lower Cambrian is far from fully understood, as is the environment of that epoch. Some of the most crucial moments in the history of evolution takes place during this epoch; the Cambrian explosion and the appearance of ecosystems as we know them. That makes it an important period to investigate. Doing so, the Lower Cambrian offers a lot of problems, one of which is that body fossils are seldom preserved. That has often left us with trace fossils to create an image of the Lower Cambrian life, but also some bedrock features such as ripple marks.The main purpose of this work has been to investigate the possibilities of relating the wave lengths and forms of recent wave-generated ripples to fossil ones, and also to evaluate the methods for that kind of comparison.

I denna uppsats läggs fokus på skivbranschen och vad folk inom branschen anser omdess funktion och roll.Syftet med uppsatsen är att återge skivbolagens egna tankar och åsikter och jämföradessa med årsredovisningar från branschorganisationer, rapporter, litteratur,vetenskapliga artiklar samt den allmänna uppfattningen hämtad från blogg- ochforuminlägg och tidningsartiklar.Uppsatsen bygger till största delen av intervjuer med totalt sex personer som ärverksamma i branschen från den allra högsta nivån av multinationella bolag till deabsolut minsta.Den bild som framkommer i uppsatsen visar på att den vanligt förekommandeuppfattningen om att skivbolagen idag spelat ut sin roll är felaktig. Skivbolagen hjälperartister med bl.a. marknadsföring, utvecklingen av musik, all administrering samt att dehar de resurser som krävs för att nå ut till den breda massan. Det är dock beroende påvar i karriären man befinner sig och vad artisten själv vill uppnå. För vissa kan detsåledes vara onödigt.