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.
Archive for the 'life' Category
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.
phénomène ,promotional film for a collection by fashiondesigner Laura Reuss
Serene and delicate conversation between world we recognize and world’s of digital.
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.
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.
Archive of New York images. Asbsolutely fabulous. This city is a universe of life.
I’m coming to believe there is no synergy to the collection without the street photographs that are always an important part of the whole journey.
So far these are the ones that stand out the most. Most of them are neopan 1600 shot with the 50mm zuiko 1.4.
Dela and Martin, these are for you>
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)
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.