Tor Rauden Källstigen — Past & Present Works
Brief introduction to current commitments & locations. Please click an area of interest to learn more.
In the time span of about a decade, I've spent a fairly great amount of hope, will and effort to make great things happen. The reason — to open people's eyes to stuff that deserves it.
Through this simple will I've landed a bunch of things on planet earth. The common denominator has been an interest in learning more.
Following as below: web-presence — & recent work, made in collaboration with clever friends and co-workers.
Berlin Office
+49 176 39665972
berlin@torrauden.com
Stockholm Office
+46 73 689 86 56
stockholm@torrauden.com
Daily updates on Loopcam.
Photos! Flickr or The Instagram!
Faces Book, a network.
Youtube channel.
Vimeo page.
An attempt to open a dialogue with one of the most isolated countries in the world. North Korea.
Starting with a blank slate and ending with friends behind the border. Three years later we made it —the first ever jeans from North Korea. A consumer product which symbolic value has played a special role in many former east block countries.
Noko Jeans was a three year long journey of joy, fear, exhaustion and endless thoughts circulating around the last frontier of the cold war.
Get the full story at the website.
The project is now officially put in hibernation mode, but my interest and engagement with North Korea and surrounding East Asia remains strong.
Made together with Jacob Åström, Jakob Ohlsson and a lot of totally amazing people.
Loopc.am is a new way for people to express themselves and share moments in short GIF-based video clips called loops. Loopcam has had a huge user boom in recent months and is supported by some of Europe’s most influential tech leaders.
The animated GIF is an image format more than 20 years old, and it's still loved by people all over the internet. We created a tool for people to animate loops in a new and exciting way.
The result: Loopcam. A super simple tool that captures a series of frames through an iPhone or iPad camera stop-motion style, which is seamlessly and quickly merged into an animation to share. A perfect blend between still photographs and video.
Read more at Loopc.am.
Me and Leo first met in rhetoric class and quickly discovered a similar taste in music, and a shared love for Giorgio Moroder, futuristic trains and machines that goes beep.
After moving into the same apartment complex sweet noises emerged, echoing over the hills of Ersta. The project soon came to be known as Boeoes Kaelstigen, preferably pronounced /ˈbʌs ˈtʃɛlstɨɡɛn/.
Some years later, the back catalogue is featuring EP's as well as indie-to-mainstream remixes. The music has been endorsed by minister Leif Pagrotsky and electronic icons such as Laurent Garnier, Michael Mayer and Özgur Can. The melodramatic melodies later took us all over the world, including Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Paris.
Our debut album Tanum Teleport was released in winter '10, and got nominated to a Swedish Grammy and was on Swedish National Radio rotation. This full length record featued collaborations with London's Sound of Arrows and Sweden's MF/MB, all reincarnated in a futuristic environment.
A dumpling restaurant chain is coming to town. And it's currently in beta!
Beijing8 is a dumplings & tea restaurant in the making. We went to China and shot eight short documentary films featuring interesting and creative people in the capital.
Together with Jacob/Jakob & Dr. Einar we've launched the first tiny portion of the digital platform that is coming soon — on WWW, mobile and motion video.
Software invention that enhances silly conversations.
Emoji (絵文字) is the Japanese term for the 461 picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese wireless messages and webpages. Originally meaning pictograph, the word literally means e "picture" + moji "letter" — Wikipedia
These icons has been incredibly loved on the iOS platforms such as iPhone & iPad, however, they weren't present in the popular chat client iChat.
Enter: Emojify! Me and Mr. Einar Andersson developed a plugin which finally welcomed them into MacOS.
This project was first launched under the name Emoji for iChat and recieved lots of media attention in America, Japan and The Internet.
»I'd like to add: On behalf of everyone here, thank you! Our life is complete again.«
— Employee at Tekserve Apple Specialist in New York.
Online downloading service, and art experiment — manned with real human beings.
Mysterious artist Rich Shapero was going to launch his album in Scandinavia. Rich wanted only the right people to get captured by his melodramatic songs.
When entering the site you'll automatically get a queue number. When it's your turn, you get to talk to someone at the Order Desk — live. And after answering a few questions, you got one selected song — chosen for your personality type — for free.
Two people were working in the order desk for several weeks. The interest was huge and The Human Order desk became very popular among the people on 4chan.org — the world's biggest & most hectic forum. The forum people loved the order desk, they made their own fan posters and waited for hours in the queue.
The Human Order Desk became internet culture, or a Meme, as they say.
My involvement was in the form of an art director, and the site was made with the amazing people at Dist, during the time I worked there.