Jens Lekman: Boisa-Bis-o-Boisa

Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

Koralreven: The Truest Faith CFCF Remix

John O Callaghan : Never Fade

Toi Et Moi : White Waves

The Hundred in The Hands : Sleepwalkers

As the night  transformed the crowd into near about a pool of evaporization, propelled enough for moments of intense dancing flow, the pace and content and face of the music was to be truly to be given the chance to impart in authentic performance beauty.

With that challenge, she stepped upon the stage with the charm and natural delight of a young believer of the arts; and she was just about to sense again in another way that she was undertaking her magical journey with the minds and hearts of many to come.

I thank you again for this musical night, it was very devoted and sweet. It seems I might need to wait to upload the other small puzzles of video added to this night.  On a sidenote it was one of those nights where you really needed to be there to sense it. I can imagine this is like the Scandinavian version of comme des enfants. I listened to their music on myspace, and it must be said the technology of the soundset here in Brooklyn really does not represent how good her voice really is. Like just about to enamore.

The most beautiful part was seeing Linda perform straight from modern times Copenhagen morphing with the timeless cinema rolling at the same time, with some other woman’s love for performance art in a time before ours. Priceless. We want to see you again. In stripes. Living it. Pure. Beautiful.

Never stop.

Hi. One day I will be back blogging for serious. It´s because I meet such lovely people like these that every moment out there is special.

And if you haven´t noticed, I am so in love with Kodak´s 160 NC film, it has the perfect feel to it.

These are quite fresh from the last weeks. More coming soon one day.

Manhattan + Brooklyn. Hasselblad with NC 160. At times in certain places, you don´t want to close your eyes in this city.

You can say so much with so little. Float along. It´s Sunday and nobody can be groundfelt, if you will.

V: Will post a collection of interesting monochrome world later today. Exciting!

Casino Versus Japan / Hello You

When such derives from a pure controlled attachment to the constant.

Shinkansen ver.2 is a pretty fantasy for all of us who are not in the country of the cherry trees.

One of things I love most about New York City is the people you find the chance and invitation to talk with. In this case I will refer particularily to artists and creative minds. The first one is Lenard Smith. I found his work so coherent and pure. Seeing who he is and seeing his work created a fine harmony.

phénomène ,promotional film for a collection by fashiondesigner Laura Reuss

Serene and delicate conversation between world we recognize and world’s of digital.

In account for the endless hours spent at work the last two – three weeks I’ve been able to take two days off in addition to the weekend, how liberating it has been. Much much needed. Naturally It does make little sense to spend more time on a screen so I’ve been a terrible blogger. Every second I am able to be here is so special so I just try to make the most out of it. Instead of blogging I’d rather photograph. But as more people ask me for sharing, I’m happy to do so, and look forward to doing it more often and openly.

from the last weeks in new york.

I told you about the joyspreader. He will help you articulate that life consists of joy and we shall not subject to forget that.

I screamed with him. just one of the thousand reasons to be fascinated about williamsburg. that place has to be one of the most creative places in America.

Mercer street, where the design office I work for is located, it gets quite nice approaching spring and prince street.

wouldn’t have expected to see views like this. what they’ve done along the hudson stretch is really quite lovely though, almost chicago level i’d say. just thinner. kudos for new york gardeners. they do great work!

Canal street by lunch.

the jewish area in Williamsburg is the most surreal place I’ve set ground on. challenging to photograph for sure.

then to another continental shift.

happy birthday girl! they were very keen to pose. sweet people.

Memorial Day nightride home to brooklyn. Brothers from Nicaragua, fascinating relationship. Can you imagine a photographer going unnoticed to make such a photo. Inspiring connections.

Every once in an often enough occasion, you perform work of experimental character, the above which is the pond bridging, a photo from a party in oslo with my friend haidar blended with the luminous double shift of southern manhattan luminous face. Gotta keep experimenting.

‘Swarm Light’ by rAndom International / Design Miami / Art Basel 2010 from rAndom International on Vimeo.

You might fall in love with these. I just did. And then casino versus japan twinkled through my speakers and time was forgotten.

Alison Scarpulla has half a gallery on flickr to dream on to.

Setshuhen shared this wonderful video with me. It is a leading example of what works when instigating an interest in you. Having in mind they were being beat up by economic and geographic forces this is a quite brilliant face to the world saying we are for all time a unique place on earth and nothing that has happened well affect the energy we have (kind of a bit over-romantic to say perhaps).

But this is it. This is what people want. And I hope you want to travel to Iceland (even more) since you always have, after this.

I’m sure they had plenty of fun just making it. Would be great to see more countries do this so innovately. Fun is key. In making and wanting.

last night I took the 5d for a walk in Ludlow, Manhattan.

event at the mill, production company based right over the ideo offices. it would be a big mistake to miss out on this. great music!

fellow electro affiliate and new york admirer Byron joined for the views and the funky house.

not much energy left to write. work is super busy, any moment to gaze out at the sky between the scrapers is a delight and a reminder of this special time. i have a big plan ;) this blog is far from dead, trust me. three more months in this amazing city, I am so lucky!

New York City, May 2010.

Archive of New York images. Asbsolutely fabulous. This city is a universe of life.

www.j-a-c-k.fr

I have to admit I am weak for noir visuals and the collective visual momentum of things made purely analogue. No animation seems to have been needed in this production, they simply built the whole design in physical form, and played with whites and blacks in floating form. From an art direction point of view I think her performance is a bit pale, but it is something you can forgive given the effect of the set as a whole. To her advantage though, she has a great vocal. At some point this actually reminds of both sin city and ‘where the wild things are’.

I would sincerely love to continue this, but I will pack my scanner down now for quite a long time. I had something like 800 images to scan, and that is simply impossible now. Also would have liked to write more around the stories of the photos but I will leave that until one day in the future.

On Thursday I fly off to New York, and I will definitely bring my Hasselblad with me and try to photograph as much as possible when possible. The experience of scanning all these photos and seeing what works and not, reflecting on what I am gravitating towards and doing it. It is going to be such a unique chance and I will make every single second worth it. It feels like this is all a dream. And that is an influence.

Dela and Martin, these are for you>

made a short term friendship with the Finnish Marimekko ladies. they have to get an award for consistency. This is such a loud testimony to simplicity works. This kind of makes me think of Charlie and the chocolate factory.

Above this floor – in Jannelli, I came across the wallpaper factory which was a very inspiring environment. They had a wallpaper with red green and blue channels of which you would see different images according to the filters they would be projected from (either via glasses or adjustable light sources). For all else a mix of eras, materials and ornaments.

Yet first, free cocktails :)

Along this experimentation walls there was one ambassador; in possibly the most surreal room of all, a woman who striked me as being a french woman travelling from the past.

She was shining of some kind of joy, and when I was talking to her it was kind of eliminating everything else around. She told me she based her room design around much of japanese sensuality, blending the geisha in with the tulips, creating this romanticized pastel, a seemingly naive but dreamy world. It was really interesting to hear her talk about her design; she was really into it.

A second feature that was interesting was the glossification of some of the wallpaper; the solidifying of glue and having wider use of the material if desired, also for ground. Matching wallpapers is a challenging mission, especially with same themes, when contrast is less possible.

Designed by you; said so many times. On the spot for this occasion.Nicely done from the architect to have these separation spaces, and ambient lightningt beyond. The enthusiast drawing had to sit on his friends shoulder to finish his sketch. I had to change film, and sadly it took longer than the time before he was done. It was quite comic.

A swiss primadonna, at the design hotel in tortona. ;)

Markeetingwise, always gonna get you there.

What do you do when it´s mid-april and you are waiting a month for a visa? You could go to Milan I suppose, (if the pieces sum up for it so to say).In the name of spontaenity this became my choice, and I know I was criticized for it, but I also had my reasons.

It just happens that this is a wish for many others too; most of which are concerned with the way things look. The way things behave.  The way things comply. The way things flash. You name it.  I say thing because it is the one word that encompasses all. Vague and general, but nonexclusive. You could go and chart a cluster and try to categorize this sea of movements, and what are the general trends towards the material we are surrounded by.

I was interested to go there for many reasons – reconnecting with my friend Stefano whom worked with me in Munich; and experiencing what is described as the largest design event globally. I experienced it as a quite varied event, and would not leave it to the main category of furniture only. It does naturally encompass a certain digital component; as our homes are becoming more technologically embraced. I mention this because there are design events purely focused on this; such as ARS in Austria, or design versus technology at FITC in Toronto which I would believe are quite different from the Milan design week.

Now this image above may incline towards the fashion industry, and not be the photographic illustration of what this event is about, but what I want to share is not a narrative over the trends in design (that is so beyond my scope, but I might try at a miniscule level), but a few selections of personalities and feels that caught my interest during this week.

I saw these two gentlemen (let´s assume the best first right), as we arrived to Salone, and exuberating their presence via just the way they looked. I thought it was so milanesque the whole context, and my instinct called me to converse and get a photo of this moment.

If I could´ve gone back to this moment I would have tried to make a single portrait of the Russian eccentric on the left, he was quite interesting. The other guy I believe was his agent from Bresca. Richard and Sergei.

A few minutes before Salone was shutting down (Satelite department, where all the young designers exhibit), I was rushing through to try to see as much as possible the best of what was there. The last location was with a group of Austrian Designers from Innsbruck, whom where presenting for the fourth year in a row or so, and admittedly their last time this year. You are not allowed to exhibit after a certain age group.

They had the most homely stand of all; this feeling of being on a mountain came through, and particularily so when all the designers where there and exchanging some thoughts in German. Then it was like relocating to the alpes if you could ignore the rest of the surroundings.

Anyways, Nina was the girl sitting there and I thought she was very photogenic and an interesting study. Then her partners came and offered us some prosecco, and mentioned the guy with the hasselblad who had walked by them earlier. I had to say, “yeah I never go unnoticed with this baby”. It allowed for a nice encounter and the chance to make some frames of some designers.

Honestly, when seeing their promotional material they lack no form of professionalism, but I don´t get the feeling of the things the way they were presented here. So, this was pudelskern.

We were enjoying those proseccos; any chance to sit down to is always appreciated in an event like this; you walk forever. Your feet really pay for that. Nina was thinking less about the camera as we intermingled and that is the best chance to get a lively frame.

I don´t know if these two girls were exhibiting, looked rather like a scene from the fashion week; it was really like they were staging for a photo to be made. She gave me a questioning look aftwerwards, but she must know I am harmless.

It was certainly among the days were the volcano ash was affecting air traffic worldwide. What could ever make an impact on the culture of clicks like this? And I am always curious what happens with their compact flash cards after their european travels.

I overheard him ask the girl in the stand opposite him, and he was talking about some stuff being stolen.

They were two sweet girls, and it would be so funny and coincidental if they would be what the names imply respectively. Must have been interesting to see the world from their perspective.

I made some frames with the olympus from the same day as well, have not had the time to see them yet, but the tendency is to dedicate more attention to medium format photography, because the photos have such incredible elevation in terms of resolution.

The press photographer makes a self portrait at the end of the event.

no photos of the irish lady but a selection of others (which i barely remember).

roisin murphy was imaginably the crowdpuller, and she was playing already as I made it there with my friends (thanks to them I could get in). wish I had some images from when she was playing, even of her and better with her, but she left when the night was still young, or it might have been that my recollection of time was distorted with all those aperitivos..

it was wild and crazy, remotely an intact memory so it was a revelation to see what I photographed this night.

Roisin Murphy : Mommas Place (beaumont remix)

Martin, thank you for that night!

Can´t decide whether this are complying to much more than immediate aesthetic. Digital sculptures have come to stay I believe. Produced by german digital hub depotArt.

Las Palmas, Spain.

This is a from collection of portraits I am working on with my Hasselblad.

Wallpaper design by Dan Funderburgh. Dig the new take on pattern content, morphing nature with daily artifacts.

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If this impresses you, this is only the beginning. Peter Root embeds all that meticulous signifies. He also built a city with potatoes, if you are curious. But mainly you must be able to appreciate the effort and detail of his work.

His personal artist statement:” The work I create regularly involves highly labor-intensive, mantra-like procedures of construction and assemblage. As well as being simple, playful experiments the work often touches upon themes of impermanence, repetition, structure, pattern, scale and architecture. My work often takes the form of extremely fragile, temporary arrangements, with works subject to micro-apocalyptic events such as a light breeze or a falling leaf.”

We all need to learn simplicity. Enjoyed seeing this from renan molin, for it´s analogy to ethnic diversity. What will the overall illustration really mean  in terms of impact? It is the very least a driver of positive thinking, and it will certainly gravitate your attention. I hope. I am curious to see what it feels like to live in one of the most diverse metropols out there.

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – These New Knights ( JOCKS REMIX )

The New Knights though was a favourite track this last week, and after a brief quest of reasearch, the following reveals, these guys want to be so cool that they have nothing informative whatsoever on their myspace, except their UK tour. Congratulations, that is actually uncool.  Also, I do hope they make some better music videos. Either way, The New Knights is a track to listen out for. Not the others. Perhaps it´s half craft of the remix?

Roisin Murphy – Mommas Place (Oberheim Remix)

This Irish Madame has kept delivering great material for the past years. Having glimpsed a performance of her in Milan last week, it is all the more fun to listen to her. She has performed in some fashion shows there, and it really seems like there is a natural connection between her music and the North Italian lifestyle.

Roisin Murphy – Mommas Place

Burial & Four Tet -  Moth

Fantastic cinematic music. Also recently discovered Burial´s first release thirtysixtwentyfive; beautiful material! Also interesting that Burial might be remixing some of Massive Attack´s new album this year. via ResidentAdvisor

Miami Horrors – Sometimes

The appeal from Australian act Miami Horrors is just as much for their branding which has this youtful, nostalgic feel to it. They released a new single now, moon theory which is more upbeat than this, and touring the winterly Aussie coast for the matter. Watch a cute snap from Sometimes.

Florrie Panic Attack (Fred Falke Extended Mix)

Pantha Du Prince – The Splendour

Japan – The Strange Country (Japanese ver.) from Kenichi on Vimeo.

This is my final thesis project. I created info-graphic, motion piece. My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn’t that normal. So I created this video from foreigner’s point of view, rather than Japanese people’s point of view.

I found this very interesting. May you too.

Umeå, winter 2008 with my roomate. Damn, this film got a lot of light leak, but these kind of accidents usually are mostly interesting. I was having a pleasant chat with Annika, and sneaked into my room between as I could not resist photographing her with this morning winter light and her top that titled her so well. RGB versus Greyscale mode.

- update: so I am posting some old frames I found that I had at home in Norway; as I wait for a very substantial number of films to be processed. I am having a total obsession with medium format photography, and some night photography with the olympus, which culminated in a delivery to studio technika today of 27 rolls of medium format and ca. 15 rolls of 35 mm. Yes, that basically means I am going very far in this passion. Over half of this is material from my stay in Italy for 9 days recently; I wait in apprehension, as I barely used any form of light meter for this, only experience.

I was talking to Stefano about this form of investment, and it must be said that even if you pay 6 euros for 12 photos, and later 6-9 euros for having it processed and there is a visible amount of failed technical aspects, if only one frame stands out and turns out magically, you have more than paid off the investment.

Also this week I saw a brilliant exhibition by Stanley Kubrick, it was good inspiration. A must see in Milan!

The last days I´ve been meeting my family from south and north respectively, and now recently with my grandmother going through perhaps some 500 slides yesterday. It is very interesting to see what my grandfather photographed and get these vintageness to the surface. They have a remarkable potential to become something else. Although I have to admit there was a lot of flat images in there as well, but you have to seek out the particular. I might just get addicted to play with them graphically and see what comes out of it. What is left out is still quite a lot, but what has been found is actually quite valuable. It set a new perspective on the life that has preceeded.

According to my grandmother, this was taken on a trip from Bergen to Oslo. Now check out the luggage compartment; today we just want to have everything in our cars, while here there was an authentic twist to it.

I rediscovered it for the first time tonight. and realize that no other frame needed to matter so much, when this turned out just the way I hoped. I even got a crazy light leak in this roll of 120, and it just mesmerizes me what character and cosmic context this was. It was my last night in Punta Cana, and I brought the Hasselblad with me due to safety reasons, and then I met this party midget in the toilet and asked for making a photo.  This has to be one the most surreal frames I´ve ever made.

Zona Colonial – Santo Domingo – Dominican Republic. Hasselblad + Carl Zeiss 80 mm.

Loved that balcony view but had the odd moments there too.

Somehwere there are numerous slides from these days. Will post these one day.

Eran Hilleli is an Israeli filmmaker to have an eye for. Yes, it is rigorous, dramatic, and suspenseful, but it is told with minimality and its immediately effective sound design.I could tell throughout the work that it was made from the same author; enough so to still be experimental with new techniques and explorations of mediums. I believe he is still a student so it will be interesting to see what use he makes of his talent and what he wants to say in the years coming.

Dear, that level of pencil detail is just ideal. Getting drawn into this world of Lisa Corbett you can twinkle in a world that is very feminine, but nonetheless leading you into place where the figures outlive and embody some form of detachment; a metamorphosis that often comes through certain art. It reminds me partly of Max Ernst, but perhaps more solitary and dreamy. There is a certain eccentricity to the work – a strive, a curiosity, a melancholy, a reflection. It is a developing world of imagination, and for that it is great. Liza resides in New York from what I can see on her website and it is cool to see that beyond her now very comprehensively rich gallery, hosts how she gets there through her blog. It´s a good thing people do that!