Vandersault

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Jens Lekman: Boisa-Bis-o-Boisa

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Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

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Koralreven: The Truest Faith CFCF Remix

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John O Callaghan : Never Fade

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Toi Et Moi : White Waves

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The Hundred in The Hands : Sleepwalkers

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!

February 27th, Munich. Farewell occasion  with the IDEO office for Regi, Wolf, Elli and me.  It was a fun night for sure.

A crazy long and content-rich day today. Supporting on photography for videomaking and stills. The unexpected things happen. I stress. There´s wine. It helps. I´m overwhelmed. Meeting people who have 1 million followers on twitter. Well, maybe that says enough. (it need not implicate so by default, but in this case i do believe so) Persons that have an impact. And little me comes in and gears up for some interviews. I get a bit intimidated. But the videos turned out pretty good in the end.

Got to greet the CEO of IDEO which is a very big thing for me. I am honored to have this chance (despite that they did not give me a seat for the dinner, but that´s ok). Short entry for now.

by the way, i don´t despise the 5dm2, it´s just that it´s not discreet in sound or size. have a video of this, want to play with that one day.

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There is a seat for me in a flight in 8 hours, so this is going to be short. I´ve wanted to make a restrospective of this year, and I´ve been scanning all afternoon, some that I had scanned before (with a lame scanner) and some new ones. The waiting is a good moment. But I don´t think it´s right to post them now, and kill the night hours.

Anyways, it has been an unorthodox year. It started in a nightclub in London with Anna, where over three fourths of the individuals were on drugs. We were appalled, shocked and really not comfortable. The half year in Sweden was intensive with design work, and trying to find an internship. I had good support, and even a push to do it. I do think Umeå is a good place to be, but I was honestly quite drained and needed some change. Still hard to believe, I did find a design internship where I wanted it most, and I am still on it. It has introduced new challenges for the life I had in Sweden, but we have managed mostly pretty well. It was not always easy, and it also feels odd now, to have to choose between family or girlfriend.I am very happy that she will come to Munich in two weeks though, may it be snowy and adventurous.

From last year, a time very magical when we were by ourselves.

So I´m off to “Africa” tomorrow and I will write and post as soon as I can next year. Arrivederci!

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This Monday my team and I took off to Switzerland for project matters, and stayed in lugano 2 nights. We were met with a mild snowstorm on the roads of switzerland, just as we crossed from Austria all the way through San Bernandino, until the tranformation became the less favourable rain. The whole snowfield slowed us down, but it was adventurous nonetheless. The weather did get much better though and specially this morning was perfect. I woke up at 7ish, to go out for a morning jog by the lake, and figured I might as well do a little recording of the moment the sun was rising behind the massive mountains that really are the border to Italy.

Ulrich Schnauss playing subtly from the mac. This is Switzerland, probably the country with the highest standards globally, and also such captivating sceneries. I felt very lucky waking up to this. Might be sorta lengthy, i might make a speeded up version. And sorry about the stupid alarm clock :/

Lugano Dawn from Joachim on Vimeo.

Southern hemisphere, by th Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 10,5mm.

Northern hemisphere, Oslo, Norway. 10,5.mm.

i do love this moment. it is a smile so charming, that forces me to tilt and mirror back the playful look.

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