Via Sissi and Christoffersen a while back. This is insane. Maybe no story but a crazy crispness. Music by Italic.
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The more I have been away from my family, the more I am curious about them, also the evolution of the family. Yesterday I went to see my grandmother, whom has always tried to embrace family and friends with open arms. Have not since her since half a year, so that was really good to see her again, and always as a guest with her you feel cared for. And she is a world class chef.
She lost her husband, my grandfather over twenty years ago, and it´s amazing how strong she has been in the time after. I know she held him very high, yet I hear of many stories. She told me yesterday about a vision she had where she actually saw my grandfather walking across the hills to her; nothing needed to be said, it was a surreal encounter where the world she knows to be tangible submerged and time and space became interpreted fully diferently. She was wide awake.
I have a vague recollection of my grandfather but I was fortunate to play with him. He was also very passionate about photography and I rediscovered yesterday with new eyes, a wide collection of photos he made from the 60s up until the 80s. There is really a lot of treasures in that material, that both reveal cultural styles and people´s interactions. Not all is interesting of course, I actually think he photographed with the same frequency as a digital beginner.
To find a few street like photographs in there really got me excited, to be able to see the world the way he did. My grandmother has perhaps not seen some of these at all, or if so quite a long time ago. So it was a real nice discovery moment with her. When we saw this portrait of her taken by my grandfather we were stunned. It´s beautiful and classical photography. Filled with dignity and illustrating depth of a person. I am quite frankly a bit obsessed with finding all these, they are sort of puzzles of their life, and also mine. Ancestry that were lit with the light of the 60s. Wow!
This image striked me! My aunt was already the best fashionable back then.
Seeing here a very released and spontaneous body language between my father and aunt. They had a nanny while living in Rotterdam. Today I think she is a priest. The man with the dark hair was my favourite uncle, very generous kind man.
From John F. Kennedy to Heathrow two winters ago.
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Pantha du Prince: Saturn Strobe
Mamiya RZ6, South Island, New Zealand.
Working on a series from these. I was told to stay inside this day because I was sick. I’m still grateful that I did because these were special moments. Englishcer Garten with Kodak 400 VC (Vivid Color). I felt sorry for this elegant dog because a mad German lady was shouting out at her like a monster, but funnily enough it really did not seem to care and strolled all around on her stream down the curious and frowned crowd.
Little did I know that Peter was hosting a blog with his sketches; this was a great find, as it always is to see his work; never recalled that he would have any effect of mainstream and very driven to do his own things and I think he makes very great work! It really reinforces the acknowledgement that Umeå Institute of Design draws great talent to its programmes. Unique style comes with unique character.
I had planned to cooperate with Peter on an animation of his futuristic compounds of transportation, but there was quite a time constraint to animate this model. I did give it a small try though. Anyways, it looked like Rohan ended doing that the year after, although with his thesis on a nuclear fuelled spacecraft..
If that was not enough, Peter has got authentic style when it comes to music, and I thank him for the introduction to the likes of Ellen Alien. Keep it alive PQ! This image is from the Canadian Embassy at Scharinska, there was great light to photograph in.
I intended to make a post like this during my last days in Munich but it just didn´t turn out like that. I was quite excited about picking up new film today, especially since I had forgotten some of the frames. These are recent moments.
by now in more of a random order; but I am too exhausted to keep going. I am quite happy with their cosmicness.
Portrait of Fredrik at Malpensa airport, Italy. Hasselblad 500cm with Carl Zeiss 80mm 2.8.
A well handled night photograph by Kevin Cooley. So it makes you wonder where is that little person who just set of the firework running out of the frame, or in it like a ghost. The first images are from Iceland; I see a cycling tendency of a lot of imagemakers to go there. It is a natural logic.
First Western Photographers in Moscow after Stalin´s time. Of which has been publicized you might say. You never know. There are special and valuable frames in there. In one way you can imagine it must be easier to photograph people then because that was much of a more rare occasion, which at the same time could draw much more attention to you, singling you out. But then this was not any confrontation with a big mechanical beast. This is pure 35mm love.
This is very fascinating to discover. More images here.
Most surreal and yet a bit of an intimidating experience. The 3d audio from the barbershop:
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Behold, this will only work if you hear it with your headphones. I warn you it might get a bit uncomfortable.
Just like those times when you involuntarily end up in a haunted house or something. Not pleasant but it is intriguing how our intelligence for sound is so sensitive and aware. And this “experiment” very much illustrates this phenomena. And the guy with the crazy accent will not stop from remind you about it. Insanse.
It´s a real lift that you will find process discourse on cinematography on artofthetitle.com
Danny Yount talks of his iteration on Sherlock Holmes, a film I thought was quite well acted, and memorable for it´s script and speed. The title sequence turned out quite differently then this but that is namely the hint of progress. I think this was one real great touch to it though. It would´ve given the film an entire different oulook though. Perhaps a more interesting ones. In the end, you are not the one who decides what fits best I suppose.
Generally, I must say that artofthetitle is a great source for typophiles and cinema lovers and connoisseurs. There is a lot of inspiration to be found there if you ever want to look at comprehensive and consistent tones of language.
You see a new movement of abundantly music videos being created by a vaster majority (the new wave of slrs with video capabilities, advancing slowly by each day). It will make a serious push force for data storage, and demands a greater introduction to video editing software, simplifications and enhancements to existing systems. It sure is coming, and we don´know what it means yet.
Some of the videos produced by not necessarily educated videographers if you might call them that, (I´m sure many are selftaught )are as beautiful as this. Well the music certainly enhances; in this case Telefon Tel Aviv – The Birds (cut)
I find these illustrations by Gianmarco Magnani interesting. Somehow though these is a very strong resemblance to North Kingdom I must say; if must be the word monarchy.
Beyond that parallel, it must be said that this is good work. The treatment of type and color is harmonious.
It starts from the birth of the cosmic travel. Whenever the planets reach the same line they perform an artefact of a sound; as such the collective contribution is on a musical level. Very nicely done SolarBeat.
February 27th, Munich. Farewell occasion with the IDEO office for Regi, Wolf, Elli and me. It was a fun night for sure.
As part of a project during my internship, the team and I travelled to Italy for the initial phase. I had the chance to fly back to Munich for the weekend, but a friend of mine – Stefano had moved there, to finish his thesis at Politecnico and saw I got the chance to hang out with him. My choice obviously, was then to spend the weekend in Milan. For the great benefit, I had color film with me and this was a great time to start using medium format 400 iso film. Learned later from a lot of mistakes; it´s far too easy to underexpose this during a rainy / cloudy day. You really need to get down to 1/60th or otherwise photoshop will be your next best friend, but not any form of guarantee for cranking it back to its level.s Even this image could have been exposed a stop higher, but I think the result is quite balanced. I´m getting more excited about doing street with the hasselblad; I have some 400 VC film waiting to be used during my now last two weeks in Munich. Just hope to kill this cold that has hit me the last days.
Fabio Lendrum : “Trouble (CFCF remix)
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This London chap looks just like the guy living a floor below. I sense a quality of sound to have more a lookout for.
“Trouble” rivets through an incerdibly pleasant piano upbuild, coming through after a softbeat climatization and its big city lyrics of detached states.
Paul Kalkbrenner : Aaron (Ted & Francis Vocal Version)
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I did not know Paul Kalkbrenner released hi first tracks under the name of Paul dB+.
Appearently Kalkbrenner does not only produce music and dj, but he also is involved with acting. In 2008 he composed the sountrack for the German movie Berlin Calling in which he also is the leading actor. The theme song Sky And Sand, featuring his brother Fritz Kalkbrenner ended up in various European charts.
Paul plays in Munich April 16th, two weeks after I´m out.
Hot Chip : Take it In
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Having a glance into their soundmaking, and getting a feel for who these guys are, I enjoy their sound much better knowing that they are someobdy I´d like to have a conversation with. They´ve got character, and deliver interesting music.
Phoenix : Lisztomania
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These guy´s seem to be on every music blog out there. Can´t have restrained that force from being the main sountrack for New York I Love you. They need no introduction, but Lisztomania is brilliant material!
Miami Horrors Make You Mine (Fred Falke Remix)
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Curious Displays from Julia Tsao on Vimeo.
“Curious Displays functions simultaneously as a form of design research and as a proposal for a new product, a future display technology.
The project explores our relationship with devices and technology by examining the multi-dimensionality of communication and the complexity of social behavior and interaction. In its essence, the project functions as a piece of design fiction, considering the fluctuating nature of our present engagement with media technology and providing futurist imaginings of other ways of being.
Curious Displays is a product proposal for a new platform for display technology. Instead of a fixed form factor screen, the display surface is instead broken up into hundreds of ½ inch display blocks. Each block operates independently as a self-contained unit, and has full mobility, allowing movement across any physical surface. The blocks operate independently of one another, but are aware of the position and role relative to the rest of the system. With this awareness, the blocks are able to coordinate with the other blocks to reconfigure their positioning to form larger display surfaces and forms depending on purpose and function. In this way, the blocks become a physical embodiment of digital media, and act as a vehicle for the physical manifestation of what typically exists only in the virtual space of the screen.
Traditionally, displays are fixed-size/ratio surfaces that provide an entry point to a defined experience with digital media content. This content is varied–informational, filmic, auditory, at times even spatial. However, the relationship between the user and the digital entities within the defined surface of the screen creates a sense of fragmentation between two distinct spaces. The virtual space of the screen provides a surface for media content to come alive, but is a distinct and marked separation from the physical space that the user occupies.
Projection begins to create a kind of a hybrid space for the physical and virtual to blend. Projection can appear anywhere. It can appear on any surface at any given time, and can disappear again just as quickly, providing many space-saving benefits and new opportunities for mixed reality interaction and augmentation. However, the nature of such a transitory medium defies basic rules that are core to our understanding of the physical world. This begs the question of how virtual objects and entities can manifest themselves in the physical world without the “here one minute, gone the next” nature of the projection medium.
Curious Display “blocks” are tangible and tactile. They occupy and move through physical space, and are thus subject to the same spatial rules and limitations faced by any other physical objects. These constraints lend themselves to potentially interesting outcomes in terms of interactivity and negotiation. An abundance of questions quickly begin to surface–how do they move? How do they behave? Does this movement and behavior begin to allude to the development of a type of personality? How does one communicate with them? Where do they go when you’re not using them? What role do they take on in our daily lives?”
Well I wanted to try to put a description to this but as you embed the video you are encouraged to post this comprehensive description, so maybe that will do. From my part, I find this kind of work really interesting. She is not dealing with implementation of a system. She is questioning and pushing the people who would make the technology envisage and explore any sort of metaphors carried within here. Truly great work. I love her portfolio overall!
Newcastle based creative Paul Hollingworth created this visual playground for the release of adobe´s new suite. The tagline, shortcut to brilliant is quite clever. I would have to comment on that though, that flash would really have a very thin rope tied to the others. Or to put it more diplomatically, the road for them to bond is still larger than the other software. But anyways html 5 is coming and will they keep it up to that?
anyways, looking at this, a nice view of process and realization.
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There is a number of imagery I am interested in sharing in the lapse of time; basically because there is a history of travelling and there was a time when I neither blogged nor flickred and so there is much on disk, which i perhaps never shared.
Cambodia is one of those place that made a lasting impression. It´s probably the most intruguing place I´ve set foot upon. What shines less, as you learn of the past though is that the history of Camobodia is shadowed by a very dark story of which there is much learning to be made from. Above those layers of horror and disruption, the country has a mystic face with tempels and nature as you have seen nowhere else.
Little Mowgli met me during a one day visit to Siem Reap. I have no words for how incredible it was to visit this place. Incredible wonders; yet reminders for the opposite.
I promise to post more from various travels. I don´t even know who I´m promising to cause I do not know my readers. But that´s another story.
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One of the most powerful films you will ever see in your life. From the salvage streets of Brazil. One little small soul with attent eyes and a camera can make a difference. I think you really have a counterpart in Slumdog Millionaire too. Incredibly strong films with nested messages of ethics.
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I thought it was going to be a pretty pleasant day, the weather certainly pulls you out, the chill is rather gone and there are delicate rays of sunlight. The river sweeps smoothly between the Englischer Garten and the day make you think are alright. Oddness took on, and I witnessed just recently a scene where I wish we had been more people in, to make an act. Actually I really wish mariposa had been there.
For my little walk through the englischer garten (it is quite an enormous park close to where I live) I brought my cameras to do some documentary. Anyways, as I had done my fresh tour of air and impressions I decide to walk back to see the surfer river scene; I´m not expecting any surfers today but surely something must be happening there. As the movement and figures around this area become prominent I was seeing some strange behavior of kids being very animated with their hands and immersed in something I thought, in the river. Then through the shadow reveals a kid stuck down there being throwed snowballs at. I immediately was provoked and cut through the naked vegetation to get a clear view of the scene. In my mind there was a strange conflict of saying to myself, that I want to take these kids and yell them out of this place for being such brats, but then on the other side the kid was walking towards my direction and I wanted to help him out. For a moment when I saw a new kid throwing a snowball I made a frame, because I was provoked and wanted this moment to not be one that would simply become invisible to those I´m sure (oh-so-good-i am-lawayer-son or something) brats who get together in groups of 5-6 and show total lack of respect for fellow beings. The kid stuck in the river (not really in the water, as it was low, but having to go through it) was someone you could identify would stand out from the crowd, but looked like the most innocent kid. He had his back all wet and had appearently fallen. The snowballs I witnessed throwed at him seemed to even make no indifference for what had already happened.
I asked him if he was alright, and as he crawled up the side of the river side (it´s really a micro river) I gave him a hand and pulled him up. I think he was a bit perplexed and he knew I had a tool, which made him ambiguous. I kind of wanted to follow up and learn what happened, if he knew those kids, if they were classmates. As cowards as they were they had already disappeared the scene, and you could not spot them anywhere. I told this guy I was provoked and I just wanted to help. His english was not bad, but he did not want to talk, and I understand that very well. As i said, I really wish somebody else had been there because nobody did anything to the kids doing this. They were five against one! Come on, he was defenseless and what can he have done? They have this idea that they are perfect kids. And that is a sentiment that can come through Bavaria sometimes, there is this apparent ideal reality of rich, well established people, and then when an outsider steps into that world, it gets disrupted and those faces of society pop up.
Being a witness to this too put me in an ambiguous situation. I could have just quickly run up to them, shout at them, scare them away (surely to later have one of their lawyer father´s step in and say nothing happened), or be there, show that somebody is watching and wants to help. And making a frame, it may seem nonchalant, but it is this kind of documentation that also is important in society. It was provoking!
The guy was worried that I had made a video and asked me to delete it. I nodded, and i will not publish this image. It might not have even turned out correctly as I was doing it so fast and spontaneous. But it was a story that we need to remember, everywhere in the world. It happens all the time. So when you and i see that again, let´s be better prepared and act in the name of justice and respect for others, whatever they look like.
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Munich last week. The world turned all white in a matter of a few minutes.
The refuge, the conversation, the fashion, maybe the generations too in their natural ascendence, I do not know but I moved fast to get this frame.
I struggle a bit with the fashion perception, both clothewise and hairwise. Nonetheless that´s their business.
This should put the frames in context. It´s the street where the particular light leak image occured. Also the same street as the french camera repair man has his shop. The hasselblad is up and healthy again too. So the plan is to take it out for a walk today.
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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.
“Finding this peace” by Mr. Andresen
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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.
Final album art of the album “A part of this puzzle”. Photography and Design by Vandersault.
Thank you for reading.
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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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Reviewing old photos of mine, I realized these never got posted.
120 tx vs 135mm velvia @ hk ´06.
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Matthew Lyons shares some unique analogue illustrative scenes on flickr. Definitely worth having an eye on his work, it´s got a very distinct signature, color palette and storytelling perspective. Matthew contributed to a post for iso50 on his process from idea to creation which is quite interesting on the matter. It really does not matter how you format it´s initial roughness, as long as you know technique and keep the vision alive.
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Michal Chelbin is one of my true heroes in the world of imagemakers trying to create a vision.
Always loved her work and can much recommend going to see her, if you should be in a city where she is exhibited. Michal has been featured in Aperture and won several prizes, among them her homecountry Israel.
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Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo. Very cool installation. Via SmashingMag
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There are only a few things left reminding me when a Friday is just that day. One is that I have no force left. I feel quite exhausted after this week; sleep is messed up and a new deadline is up. Above that this week is my last week at work in Munich. But it also comes in the name of change. It leads to fear but at the same time a form of relief. I have been the intern for 8 months. I never did not have work to do. Countless hours. Inspiring talks. Great lunches. Travels. Discussions. Encounters. Much. And Much more.
I wanted this to last longer, but I have come to peace with myself about dealing with not knowing what is ahead. It used to be an interesting feeling. This time it feels different though. It may be a force of nature, a call for something else. We will see.
For the first time, I actually have no more film in my cupboards that need to be processed. This week I got them scanned, and saw them for the first time this morning. There were frames in there I had forgotten I had taken, and those are some of the nicest moments. After all, memory has sandlike features; it may not be firm, but it dissolves and travels and reconfigures continuously. Sometimes it feels like memory pieces displace themselves, yet they are not gone, they just find new places to go, and you have to find those again.
So now, it is time to scan again, since I have the time and can´t wait. This man has a repair shop close to karsplatz in Munich. He repaired a camera my friend asked me to help him with. I was picking it up. And then I said thank you so much for selling me the 50mm 1.4 zuiko – for the olympus. He did not remember that, but he remembered me and went on about with his very likable French (so unexpected in this country).
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A series of diptyches taken last October; it might just grow. They might be speaking in tones of romaticizing the area, but there really is something exquisite and clean about the place, in that it might sparkle imagination or zoom out and seeing cultures cross. What I´ve wanted to do is capture the experiencing of this place. I know half a million people go through her everyday, but the experience by itself is something interesting, particularily for the young and oriental.
One korean guy travelling with 4 girls. They had been through Switzerland and Paris, and they happened to sit in on the same wagon as me. We conversed, joked, misunderstood. Later we bumped into eachother by the entrance and I was amused by his manner of posing for photos. His spirit caught onto me and I decided to take the Hasselblad out and finish the color film. He showed me polaroids he had taken during his trip and I was impressed with the vividness and flavour of the “prints”.
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