Visual Diary of Joachim Falck-Hansen

Happenings of the moment: planning, doing, calling, blushing, eating fruit, upgrading to leopard, finding photographic moments a little too late to take the camera out, meeting friends thinking it might be one the last encounters before for this time, but never a last anywhere. Designdrinking, nauge & sage´ing, observing snow, steeping on it at its too easily transformed stages, listening to the first bird songs (although that was last week), organizing, dreaming, wishing, taking care. 

The things that have happened in Sweden lately gives thought to the memories with the animated Irish Seter. I hope she is alright.

Here in Munich, done with my second interview, now better approach some more across the sea, just to have the options open, but all in all, besides tripping a bit on some words, I´m getting great practice and learning the process of selling your skills. What do they want, what can you bring to them. I have an interesting feeling for the things that might come. Have to see what the options are.

It feels so good to have upgraded OSX; basically my mac has been halting and bumpy and slow, and a clean has been called for. Better get the playlists on itunes right now :) 

Yesterday I found a beat by Paul Kalkbrenner that has been a pleasent listen the last hours. Everyone is wearing sunglasses as usual at night, which is total ridiculous. But the music, the feel. We know it when we hear it. And you want to dance. But not in the snow. Maybe though.

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United Visual Artists outdo their installations this time in New York City at the Fashion week.

“A white monolith of light created a void out of which the models emerged. Using white lasers, UVA built an illusion of architectural forms that defined the catwalk area, shifting in shape and composition over the course of the show.”Gets you curious about the technology.

View the full display sequence at Y-3.

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Found this via the portfolio of Julius Brockermann, quite a beautiful intro to what is a game ( I´d say this has other potential).

I´m strike by the way it is animated, because the real foundation is the matte paintings, whereas the animation part itself comes out of what looks like some superimposed 3d, but for the most part working primarily with a camera moves in an already 2d world.

To add on the curiosity there was some illustrations in his collection that are an interesting take on textures and perspectives.

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This time around I want to get the spotlight on a friend of mine – Lars, a Norwegian singer knowns as Mr. Andresen. We have worked closely together over the last two-three years and it´s been one of the projects I´ve loved most working with. It´s been a nice mix of photography versus design work. Lars is inspiring to work with, he has much energy and passion in what he does; as I´ve learned him more I´ve been all the more immersed in his artistic world. It´s this reflective place where great songwriting is born.

Mr. Andresen released his first album in August 2009, and this is where we really got excited. For both of us, we wanted to create something special; detached from cliches and the shallow.

Over two different days, respectively January and March we had two shoots, there was snow on both occasions. The image above was the only 35mm used for the album art, as the majority was on the medium format front.

I´d been listening to the tracks a while before starting design work or the photographs. It helped feel the music for how to later portray the ambient and feel to the images.

From mrandresenmusic.com:

”A part of this puzzle” is a well composed record. It has a great flow, a large amount of catchy choruses and good guitarriffs, all accompanied by beautiful and melodic pianotunes. It is easy to get the vibe of years with perspectival development throughout this record, and surely this is something that Mr.Andresen will provide in the future. He is an out of the crowd-, interesting- and worth-listening-to – artist.

You can find the album ” A part of this puzzle” in record shops in Norway (platekompaniet), on spotify, last.fm and itunes. The music video for “Looking Back” is also online.

I promise you that you will hear his songs in a future not too distant.

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From the isar ventures quite a few months ago. Ventured the same streets today as it was lovely weather (but very cold).

Track to go for a Sunday: Jesper Ryoms – Hold On

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As the MacBook decided to not collaborate anymore it has been harder to keep this blog alive. I went to a mac reseller shop in mailingerstrasse yesterday and it was at least promising that service would be covered by apple care. I was surprised how fast they were in detecting the issue, took less than 20 seconds and they had a full diagnostic.

This week I got to freelance for a few days which was fun because it involved the really last steps and seeing things come alive. Two of my colleagues have now left Munich and so it stresses the question of the future. I’ve had a dream since I was 16 and this is what I’m pursuiting. The sooner I can get the mac back I can prepare myself a little better.

This is it for now. I’ve got 16 rolls of neopan to shoot before I leave munich.

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a first try at posting via mobile; somewhat more timeconsuming but interesting to have the possibility..

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