Vandersault

Setshuhen shared this wonderful video with me. It is a leading example of what works when instigating an interest in you. Having in mind they were being beat up by economic and geographic forces this is a quite brilliant face to the world saying we are for all time a unique place on earth and nothing that has happened well affect the energy we have (kind of a bit over-romantic to say perhaps).

But this is it. This is what people want. And I hope you want to travel to Iceland (even more) since you always have, after this.

I’m sure they had plenty of fun just making it. Would be great to see more countries do this so innovately. Fun is key. In making and wanting.

last night I took the 5d for a walk in Ludlow, Manhattan.

event at the mill, production company based right over the ideo offices. it would be a big mistake to miss out on this. great music!

fellow electro affiliate and new york admirer Byron joined for the views and the funky house.

not much energy left to write. work is super busy, any moment to gaze out at the sky between the scrapers is a delight and a reminder of this special time. i have a big plan ;) this blog is far from dead, trust me. three more months in this amazing city, I am so lucky!

New York City, May 2010.

Archive of New York images. Asbsolutely fabulous. This city is a universe of life.

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I have to admit I am weak for noir visuals and the collective visual momentum of things made purely analogue. No animation seems to have been needed in this production, they simply built the whole design in physical form, and played with whites and blacks in floating form. From an art direction point of view I think her performance is a bit pale, but it is something you can forgive given the effect of the set as a whole. To her advantage though, she has a great vocal. At some point this actually reminds of both sin city and ‘where the wild things are’.

This is dedicated to the people who have shown me support the last years.

I would sincerely love to continue this, but I will pack my scanner down now for quite a long time. I had something like 800 images to scan, and that is simply impossible now. Also would have liked to write more around the stories of the photos but I will leave that until one day in the future.

On Thursday I fly off to New York, and I will definitely bring my Hasselblad with me and try to photograph as much as possible when possible. The experience of scanning all these photos and seeing what works and not, reflecting on what I am gravitating towards and doing it. It is going to be such a unique chance and I will make every single second worth it. It feels like this is all a dream. And that is an influence.