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.

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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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Fuji Provia 400. January 2009. Photoshoot with my friend Lars. A prolonged entry with his album and the work soon.
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Isar river / Fall / Winter 2009. Ilford delta 400 w / Hasselblad 80mm 2.8

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Matt has collected his work under one house now, and it was fun to see swissmiss (a design blog pretty many of us visit) posted two consecutive posts on his work. If it helps anything for me to help exposure his work here we go. (compared to swissmis-  a kind of mouse and elephant comparison). Anyways, a very varied and distinct portfolio. I am keen to scan the images we made out in town that night. Matt worked on the future of food for his interaction design thesis; to the school more of an unchartered front, and so it did not go unseen, and it was rather very much attention around it. Seeing Matt develop his style has been good; there is something very original and technically right about his work.

You may find Matt´s website here: skrov

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2 days,7 ilford delta 120´s, 3 neopan 1600 and some regular ilford delta. What am I trying to do? well, the Madame and I have been reflecting on that on the trip back.

so last week we were planning a trip to Berlin, but it did seem a bit far fetched to buy train tickets there for the price of a trip where you could cross the atlantic. I don´t think so. Vienna was still an option but just for curiosity of possibility we checked Prague, and found a very good deal on a train/bus journey from Munich via Nurnberg. Took us 5 hours. We did some useful research on where to stay, and although none of us have been there we recognize that the older parts of Easter cities can pull of charm and offer something authentic. In the case of Prague that meant proximity to the castle itself, which we loved. It was very cold, I partly lost my voice (as I know it) on saturday, and it was tricky for misses Mariposa to not get caught by the motion of the cough and sore throat. This meant we had plenty of tea and took it generall easy. Even some shoes hopping was not a bad idea, given summer shoes won´t last much this winter. A little late to figure, but shopping is not a top priority.

We had a very awkward day today, very different from yesterday, twofolded though, a great morning with the slowest snow dive and beautiful light. we were listening to classical music in the hotel room in the morning, opened our windows towards the river and it was something i will always remember. i´ve never been so eager with my hasselblad.

there is little hesitating the statement, Prague is a work of Art! Now art is not about beauty only. It is a ground for communication, what is reality. It may be an escape, but with the tools at hand it is working towards truth, at least attempt wise.

In only these two days we had many encounters, those which were the regular meetings, for food or drinks, accommodation were of course mixed. i dare say we were lucky with the hotel but we have mix feelings for the attitude among some people we met. whenever that is the case you have to zoom into the landscape of tourism, and look at the fact that you are part of this conglomerate, and Prague does pull great force and god knows what crowds overall look like going in and out of this place all year long. anyhows, we are small dectectives who strive to find beauty but today we found ourselves in a complete discomfort on the return trip.

I am reminded by Obama´s speech at the nobel conerence, not of which originality should be claimed, but of who a big crowd will listen more carefully at, and that is which is the dark side of our existence, which cannot be denied.

my brave lady made a small clip with her new ipod on the train, while we were sitting next to what we believed was explicit anti semitism. her ipod is pink flash and we were sitting opposite isle of these very obnoxious people. we acted in with as if we were listening to music, but right now we would just be happy we are safe home and have what we recorded translated. I dare say it was not any good. maybe we will find a way of posting it. the only thing we know is that ( although we don´t understand german) we know when you hear a muslim prayer on a ringtone disrupt into the sound of a bullet, you are not surrounded by people of any good intentions.

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Somewhere deep inside the universe of words. What a clever realization and analogy.  By atypyk.

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No room for failures of any sort.

After a certain point (such as the middle of the night) the focusing sharpness has simply a dubious efficiency, but writing this now, is only happening because I managed through it. Now I can finally find some time for all the other interesting things outside work ( work has also been interesting lately, although I sometimes wonder how incredibly strong pressure it must be when you are hired, when just being an intern can pull out a lot of your energy; as in: where is this path going to?). My lady is in town and since we now have seen Munich it would be interesting to see Berlin or go back to Vienna. Both are new for her. Philip, who studied in Umeå with me, is in Vienna and it would be great to see him again. Anyways we need to figure that out the next days. Or better, tonight. One very strong reason for going to Berlin is to go to “All Saints”, both of which we dig as fashion.

We are both a funny sight, cause we are both walking around the streets of Bavaria with our small olympus analogue cameras, just a model apart, and we now exchange lenses and all. We photograph the same people at different times without knowing of it.

For the time she is her, I don´t find myself doing any scanning of any sort. I do have plenty of film though, and really wish for an adventure to another city.

So for now, here are some frames I scanned from oktoberfest; they were frames that for me talked to you.

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The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

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December and January are great movie months. It will be a root of this blog to bring to light good cinema.

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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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