Awesomepedia.org is the #1 internet hang out place for Jakob Burrows and his internet pals (including you)! Jakob is this guy from Dalarna, Sweden, who makes films and music and comics and such, and this site is basically where he puts those things and anything else that happens to leak out of his brain.
Did you know that Ingmar Bergman was Swedish? Well so is Jakob Burrows! Ergo: Jakob Burrows makes fantastic films! Although his films are usually not very angst-filled or Bergmanesque (except when they are). Jakob has studied filmmaking and screenwriting at Dalarna University for years now, so yeah some would say that this whole filmmaking thing is like his "main thing".
With the ukulele as his weapon of choice Jakob Burrows assaults the world with lyrics that touch on important subjects such as zombies, nihilism, super villans, fanfiction, answering machines and feet. He's currently working on his first full length album, which will be called All Our Atoms.
Jakob is interested in banging different types of culture together just to see what happens. Ocasionally he has live performances where he re-interprets and re-contextualizes pop music (and makes people dance their butts off!). He does this under the stage name PLAYLISP, and there's a whole website for these tunes and videos over at www.playlisp.com. 2 Eyes 2 Ears is his most massive mashup project to date - a 40 minute mixture of different music videos, availible in it's entirity on playlisp.com
Awesomepedia is the home of a number of webcomics created by Jakob Burrows. One of the earliest and most notable is Apathy Adventures, which had several hundred thousand unique visitors during its 2008-2009 run. Also notable is the Hourly Comics project, where Jakob makes a quick autobiographical comic every hour, about that hour. He does this on the first day of every month, as well as every day throughout July, since 2008. Needless to say there is an enormous amount of comics in the hourly comics archive. There's also the journal comic Multiclassing and the experimental Ventriloquism Made Easy, where new words are written for old comics.
Almost everything on this site is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence, which means that you are free to share it and remix it as long as you give credit to Jakob Burrows and link to awesomepedia.org. The NonCommercial part means that you are not allowed to make a financial profit off of this material, so you are, for instance, not allowed to embed material into a site that has ads (without first getting permission from Jakob).
Exceptions to this licence occur where Jakob Burrows is not the sole creator of the work - feel free to get in touch if you are uncertain if the licence applies to something in particular.
(Also: feel free to get in touch in general!)
nice stuff you got here, pretty awesome. are those swedish facts really true? ever heard of encyclopedia dramatica?
kitpic - October 9, 2008.