Curriculum Vitae

Work references the last 10-12 years:

1987
Graduate from Gymnasium. Traveling. Misc. jobs.

1988
Volunteering at a local Copenhagen TV-station, news reporter and host.

1989-1991
Employed by Kanal 2 , Breakfast Televison: "Morgenflimmer", host, news-reporter and researcher."Kanal 2 Rapporten (Evening News) news-reporter, host.

1992-94
The National Filmschool of Denmark, Education to Director of Documentary.
Graduate film" Ticket to Australia" - a humerous portrait of a hustler familiy bringing up the existential question: What is a good life? Sold and broadcast on DR TV. (The Danish Broadcast Corporation)

The main shots from "Ticket to Australia"; a close up of Carsten and a two-shot of his parents. (All of them nonstop smoking) 42-year old Carsten Islington's stories from his life is interwoven with statements from his parents - commenting on his life.

Quote from the film:
Carsten: "I wanted to drive to the Sahara desert to get some work on those oil companies down there. So I bought a cheap mountain bike and just went of."
Mother: "...yeah, and then he called from a phonebox from Roskildevej (10 k's from his starting point) and said the bike was broke. "Oh God", I thought, he is never gonna make it to Africaa...."

But Carsten made it - even he had no official papers on the bike. He had painted the numberplates himself, and when the boarder police between France and Algier wanted documents for the bike, he gave them his birthcertificate. When they asked who the other names on the document were, Carsten explained that it was the people who were insured to ride on the back of the bike. The boarder guard stamped all over his birthcertificate and Carsten continued his drive to the oil company in the desert of Sahara. When he finally arrived, they were just packing and leaving for the season ...

1995
Melodi Grand Prix-Music Event 1995, host. DR TV (The Danish Broadcast Corporation),

Moland Film Company. Directors Assisatant f. movie director Tómas Gislason, on the prize winning project for Bang & Olufsen, an interactive documentary CD-Rom from Kenya, Hong Kong and Milano- about values of the good life, design and aesthetics.
See pictures below ...

Warriors on the road ....

Davids' pet ....

Ready to meet the birds ..

1996
DR TV, "DameXpressen" (lifestyle-magasine), efp-producer (feature-journalist)

1999
DR TV, "Modlys" (film reveiw-magasine), editor and host.
The National Danish Film Institute: public relation work on the film "Addicted to Solitude", by Jon Bang Carlsen.

2000
Decided to leave TV-business for good.
Travelling around the world on the Vartman Tour 2000 (Australia and USA)
Coordinator for the spiritual teachers Vartman & Susanna.
Web-editor, Q-People.dk. In charge of the site about spirituality.
Additional courses in web-design.

2001
Web-editor, www.Qpeople.dk. In charge of the site about spirituality.
Public Relation work f. Director Jon Bang Carlsen, for his new movie "Portrait of God"
Danish School of Journalism, additional 5-month course in multi-media/web-journalism & webdesign.
Establishing "Music In Love - record label and web-shop (www.musicinlove.net) together with my lover & space-mate RajRishi.

2002-2003
HappyLiving work, travelling the world with my partner doing photo features ...

2004
HappyLiving work ...
TV2 "Bo med Feng Shui" - a weekly TV-show, participating as the feng shui master
Feng Shui work !!

2005
HappyLiving work ...
Feng Shui work - lectures, courses, etc.
Clairvoyance training, diploma march 2005. Sessions.