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)

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)

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

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

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)

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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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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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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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. Here is the final cover:

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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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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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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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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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taken by a photographer who is really making her way. really like it.

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Interesting rendezvouz.

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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I hope we don´t stop photographing the small things around us. The last days I´ve seen black and wondering what course life is going to take.

I found the walk of these two men quite a story. They had no conversation together, well assuming htey were not in the awareness of eachothers company, and yet they behaved, composed the same behaior and crossed eachothers lifeline so close without realizing the parallelness.

I want to keep photographing but I´m finding it hard. Things are changing.  On the long run things are becoming a bit cyclical and that might not be the best thing. I wish for the sun to meet us. To write this, is perhaps to be inspired by the om1 and its master :)

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Prague series. Photographed with Hasselblad 503 CM. January 2010.

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The Golden Filter – “Thunderbird”

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Of the very little I know, I know that I as soon as I finish my master degree I will take my camera with me and fly to Madagascar.

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Recently created London Design Consultancy  KIWI & POM electrified a crazy specter of luminance to these chairs. ”

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January 1st, 2010; Binary date followed with slide play.

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Really loving these posters by Pentagram.

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Apple trailer.

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I could keep on scanning all night. A lot to catch up with. Although my brother is landing in half an hour, and it´s time for a brotherly weekend.

New York does not reply. But I still hope.

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Exploring Prague with misses mariposa. We were both fascinated about being in a new culture, and making the best of the little time we had there. Scanning more as I speak.

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A delicate compilation of visualizations by Kunal Anand. A great example of how gradients may enhance a visual landscape, and not the least what potential is in code.

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on my way to work today :) she did not even notice me.

today´s learning: whenever you write about somebody, they are the first person you meet next day. you happen to be late because you were up very late. odd.

don´t talk to chinese people about chinese noodles being thick, they won´t pronounce it right. auch

whenever you do not bring your film camera wherever, you most likely will see something of a very particular nature. regrets. kid over 2.20 meters. with semi midgety friends.

so this afternoon i finally found the time to deliver some of my films to a lab; they should be ready by wednesday. the whole waiting thing does something to your body.

very well then, it´s time to read a book :)

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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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Northern Sweden / summer of 2009
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very true and honest photographic documents by Mark Steinmetz.

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If you do not know me personally, well I can tell you that I am a student of interaction design; this means I am interested in the realms of the future and how we deal with digital technology. Naturally there will be some posts in here that concern this field of interaction design, but only because it is interesting, and we may benefit in learning from it. There is too much going on, if  I don´t keep a track of any of it I will become a dinosaur.

Light Blue Optics have publicized a teaser of sorts of a technology worth becoming familiar with. Now that the transportation industry is implementing head up display systems on glass, prone to restrictiveness of information abundance, here is a version of the same technology applied to domestic surfaces. The difference is, well the mobility it seems. Considering the context in this exhibition display it is not as mobile as they´d like to show in their glossy/photoshopped renders, although this is fresh new so who of us knows, where the next step is.

“Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology.

Light Touch™ has Holographic Laser Projection (HLP™) technology inside which creates bright, high-quality video images in WVGA resolution. Integrated infrared sensors detect motion and turn the projected image into a 10.1″ virtual touch screen, so the user can control the projector and interact with applications simply by touching the image.”

They illustrate the concept of HLP further on their website.

I found this via  itsnicethat, a good blog source for covering the creative industry. It´s not flashy and it´s quick and simple. I like that.

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Finding music on the web is like going to a zoo as a kid – and wandering this universe by yourself. You want to hear/see every different kind of touch. Unguided you might end up with looking at the same animals for too long. I am doing this though for discovery. I have long wanted to share my taste, because you might as well discover something with me. What interests me as much as the music is usually how the visual language of the albums and material accompanied with it perform/act/speak. For this occasion though I might drop that and allow that more for single features. This time a variety of music that not necessarily is the freshest, but which simply is my discovery for the month of January. And if succesfully it fits the mood of this time. So let´s kick this off:

1. Bon Iver – Stacks (Thomas Barfod Remix)

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2. Lindstrøm and Christabelle – Baby Can´t Stop (Aeorplane Remix 128)

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3a.Lusine – twodots

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3b.Lusine – Still Frame remix 128

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3c. Lisine – Twilight

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4. Apparat- Komponent (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix 128)

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5. Vibrasphere- tierra azul

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6. The xx – Basic Space 128

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7. Casino Versus Japan – Blue Vacation Part 1

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8. Byrne and Brian Eno – Strange Overtones

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Further ado on this tracks

1. According to his myspace Thomas Barfod looks to be somewhat of a figure in Danish festivals and electro labels. The whole thing of posting music online is propelled/driven by the fact that people are remixing originals. Sometimes I think it goes overboard and there is a fine line between credit theft, but inasmuch as I cannot claim a big bite of knowledge on music production I will leave my hat off and appreciate the fact that music is being promoted, it should be credited and the more it gets appreciated this should aggregate the salesforce supporting the artist.

In this case the remix is of Bon Iver, a name that swims much around the music sea, some name I´d have connoted with traditional without having been an eager listener of him, but in this remix comination of danish ´pump refining´it falls of as pretty good stuff.

2.  Oslo fronting Lindstrom (short bio) twinkled with some Belgic Aeroplane culminates into this energetic track. Looks like Aeroplane is touring all over Australia the next months, it´s that summer hipster wave going on. This tracks has got attitude, swirling vocals, synth : a crossover between kid´s computer game world and fearless feminity fronting it.

via betterPropaganda

3.An impressive sound portfolio made this producer stand out. Lusine has played in Fabric London, and is currently working on the soundtrack for some feature film from what I read. If you are curious there is a short bio on the ghostly website, which is his label. Very pleasant!

4.  Berlin based Apparat opens up for a downtempo vocal infused track. I recognize his music from some GU labels, there is something about the vocals that is so desperate, yet so unworrying. I have a hard time to describe it, what I do know is that it is not cliche.

For the geeks, he works with his own tool created in MAX/MSP framework. Effects are controlled by midicontroller.

5. Uppsala duo vibrasphere deliver some trancy but interesting tune here.6. I could not find much info on these guys, but they seem to have a crazy world tour in front of them.

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