Sunday, December 13, 2009

The Changeling


Currently working on a poster for a movie a friend has been working on called Trollungen (The Changeling). First finalised version above. Except for the credits which are obviously not finished, still waiting for a proper credits list so that will be changed. Then I'm probably gonna do some other versions of the entire poster.

Friday, December 11, 2009

New Prints Available






New prints are available of Kira Kira, Ghost in my phone, Unfinished business, Skin of the Night and Anniversary.

  • Size 13x18cm
  • Glossy high end photo paper
  • Framed in a beautiful Birch veneer wood frame (ek)
  • Signed and numbered
For the price of 400 Kronor each (56 dollars). A perfect Christmas present to friend or family member ;).

Limited Prints available. Email my at martin.rinman@ymail.com or write in the comments if interested! :)

Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Ring


Apparantly, I got some sort of picture challenge from Johannes, so okey, I can play, for now, this time.

There were rules. To choose the fourth or seventh picture folder and then choose the fourth or seventh picture and then tell something about the pic.

So I found this old picture I shot in the studio at school last year or something. Shot on 4x5 film with a monorail Cambo camera. Borrowed the little fairy from my housemate Veronica and built the little "set" in a lightbox with stuff I found on the way to the studio.

So now I'm actually supposed to send the "challenge" to someone else :p Like a good old curse. But as I actually dont like these stuff I'm not gonna. It ends here! HA! But if you want, find an old pic and tell something about it. :)

Friday, November 20, 2009

Family Fun

Last time I was home I scanned my brothers baby-photoalbum and got some really cool photos of my family, especially my grandparents who passed away a few years ago. They were really cool and so nice to us. It was always a treat going to there countryhouse and to their apartment for dinners. I also took some photos today of portraits of them when they were younger, I think the photo of my grandfather was from when he graduated highschool, not sure how old my grandmother was in this photo but she should be in her mid 20's I think. Quite a handsome couple. So anyway, here's some family photos hehe.Lol, I always smile when I see this picture above, coz my grandpa looks like he's done something sneaky or something haha and the worried look from my grandmother; Oh no what is he up to noow!

My brother, caught when trying to make an escape from bed prison.

I would totally say that my grandma had quite a fashion sense.

My brother (left) looks kinda looks like a girl here. Lame.

Ha! My grandpa's djungle hat that he got when he did a stop over in South Africa going on a freighter ship to India.

Grandpa in the navy.


Kents song "Vals för Satan (Din vän Pessimisten). My favourite song from their latest album Röd.




Lägg dig där
Röda majvärmen erövrar stan
Bland fanor, stöveltramp hör jag din puls
Det är då jag önskar att jag kunde
Stanna tiden, tysta alla nätverk, stoppa trafiken
En stilla bön om lugn igen
Att kunna ta besvikelsen

Blås din vind ur din tro på
att tron i sig själv räcker till
Att någon i sig själv kan vara nog
Och jag, jag står maktlös inför kärleken igen
Man blir ödmjuk inför kraften i rörelsen
Om man tror på någonting som du gör
Att aldrig någonsin ge upp

Om jag hade lite kraft kvar att ge dig
Om jag hade lite hjärta att dela med mig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Om jag hade lite kraft kvar att ge dig
Om jag hade lite hjärta att dela med mig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Så var den till dig

Säg ditt namn
Och din hand den öppnas och sluts
Du lever din dröm i ett hörn, du lever din dröm
Och det är då jag önskar att jag kunde hålla käften
Tysta pessimisten, bara vara din vän
En stilla bön om lugn igen
Att slippa ta besluten

Om jag hade lite kraft kvar att ge dig
Om jag hade lite hjärta att dela med mig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Om jag hade lite kraft kvar att ge dig
Om jag hade lite hjärta att dela med mig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig

Om jag hade lite kraft kvar att ge dig
Om jag hade lite hjärta att dela med mig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Ja, den var till dig

Om jag hade lite kraft kvar att ge dig
Om jag hade lite hjärta att dela med mig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig
Om jag hade lite kärlek så var den till dig

English translation:

Lie there
Red May, the heat captures the town
Among the banners, boot steps, I hear your heart
That's when I wish I could
Stop time, silence all networks, stop traffic
A silent prayer for peace again
To take the disappointment

Blow your wind out of your belief
That faith in itself is enough
That anyone in themself can be enough
And I, I stand helpless before love again
You become humbled before the power in motion
If you believe in something like you do
To never, ever give up

If I had a little strength left to give you
If I had a little heart to share with myself
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little strength left to give you
If I had a little heart to share with myself
If I had a little love, it was for you
It was for you

Say your name
And your hand that opens and shuts
You live your dream, in a band, you live your dream
And that's when I wish I could shut up
The silent pessimist, just be your friend
A silent prayer for peace again
To avoid making decisions

If I had a little strength left to give you
If I had a little heart to share with myself
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little strength left to give you
If I had a little heart to share with myself
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little strength left to give you
If I had a little heart to share with myself
If I had a little love, it was for you
Yes, it was for you

If I had a little strength left to give you
If I had a little heart to share with myself
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little love, it was for you
If I had a little love, it was for you

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Back home again


Three finished paintings and the original to my intervention of an old painting. I wish I had had more time on them but I had to finish all my school work a week earlier as I was going home to Sweden earlier and at the same time finding a new apartment and dealing with other a lot of other crap.

But, finally, I'm back in Sweden! Yesterday I came home from Dalarna where Caroline lives after a few days of total relaxation and fun fun fun! We had a Harry Potter-marathon (1-5) as the latest movie isnt out on dvd yet. But it's awesome, I was lucky enough to see it on the plane here as I had missed it when it played in the cinemas. I also borrowed the first book and it's actually, really good :D. We also met her friends and had a nice double date dinner haha :). But it was really nice actually and I had Taco pie for the first time in my life :p When Caroline was working me and Bastien (the cat) had a guys night, watched some movies, played with his toys and just chillaxed a bit. Talked about life and everything, it was nice!
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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Spectrum Project Space Grad Show


Some pictures from before the opening of Spectrum Project Space Grad Show where I had two photographs exhibited:

"Are we to have nothing tonight?" (fox)

"Rauour Kjoll Svartur Har" (red)

Joshua, Nicky and Joshuas girlfriend Rachel was also there.

Friday, November 06, 2009

Music Recess


I have just bougth Kents new album Röd (Red) from Itunes. It cost me not more than 90Kronor which is like 14 aus dollars. It's a really reasonable price for an album in digital format :). And you get the booklet that comes with the cd also. The album sounds great! Here's the video to their first single Töntarna.



And yes I made that Kent picture in Paint :p

Friday, October 30, 2009

Fourth Circle




It's Alive!


My book arrived today after a long wait. Looking at the shipment tracking it went through; Seattle, California, Alaska, Singapore and eastern Australia before arriving here today. Which was a bit unfortunate because I thought it would get printed in Sydney so it would get here faster. But, it's here now and I'm really satisfied with it. Blurb.com did an awesome job printing the book for me. These are just some of the photos from the book which is as I wrote before, 100 pages long.

Monday, October 26, 2009

But my sight is better than this


One of our assignments in my Painting class is to paint over an old painting that we have found/bought to make it into something new. Here's the first layer of my add-on (The gray parts) on this painting by NE Johnstons painting called Haast Past Road. Which I might ruin or make into something new, Sorry Johnston :p And yes I am a Sci-Fi geek.

Below it is a drawing I'm currently working on.
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Yo Kanye! I'm really happy for you! I'm gonna let you finish, but you and Spike Jonze made the best video of the year!

Check out this music video/Short made by Spike Jonze with Kanye West. It's truly something different! Watch till the end. Brad Pitt/Tyler Durden at 04.49? Even though Kanye is a bit weird these days, he makes some awesome music! Just listen to the 808's and Heartbreakers album! Yikes! It's good!

When We Were a Fairytale from Melody Robinson on Vimeo.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Pollenchock & Stjärnfall


The top painting appropriately called Death is now finished. Started the other one last week and has done two layers on that one. Tried something different this time and did a layer of red and green (which I later put a beige layer on) as the bottom layer and added "grisailles" on top of that as the bottom layers for the figures and little objects in the picture.

Sorry for the lousy quality of the photos, my phonecamera isn't all that unfortunately.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Presque vu


There have been almost only updates about my porfolio or artwork lately. So I'm gonna write something different. Something about myself maybe? Well I'm 25 years old and.. :p..

nah something else! I love to read a lot. With this new invention called "the internetz" it's so easy to find odd and interesting stuff to read about. There's so much stuff out there that is just waiting to be found and read. So much stuff you wouldn't have any clue about if you weren't a millionare and could travel to every bit of space on our small planet called Urrfh. I can spend hours of finding these unusual articles and Wikipedia entries. So recently I've been reading through this entire list of people gone missing since the year 1021. It¨s really interesting and a bit sad but the interesting stuff takes over the sad part. Don't know why but I'm fascinated with people who've disappeared mysteriously. Some highlights:

1587

  • The Roanoke Colonists, comprising 117 men, women, and children, were recruited by Walter Raleigh to establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. Soon after arriving at Roanoke Island on 22 July 1587 they petitioned their governor, John White, to return to England for supplies. White left on 28 August of that same year, expecting to be gone for less than three months, but was unable to return to the Roanoke Colony (later also known as The Lost Colony) until 18 August 1590, when he found the settlement abandoned.[7] The fate of the colonists (including White's granddaughter Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents to be born in the Americas) has never been determined; the Lost Colony DNA Project and others continue to investigate "...the biggest unsolved mystery in the history of America" to this day.[8]

1900

1925

  • Percy Fawcett (58), British archaeologist and explorer, together with his eldest son Jack and friend Raleigh Rimmell, were last seen travelling into the jungle of Mato Grosso in Brazil to search for a hidden "city of gold". Several unconfirmed sightings and many conflicting reports and theories explaining their disappearance followed, but despite the loss of over 100 lives in more than a dozen follow-up expeditions, and the recovery of some of Fawcett's belongings, their fate remains a mystery.[18]
And so it continues! It's fascinating, inspiring and a good timewaster, I might aswell learn something while I'm cruising the webs.

I'm thinking about starting a new blog called ** *** ** *** ******. To gather stuff like that and cool tech news, inspiring places around the world, space stuff, nerdy news and plain inspiring pics, news and texts. I really want to show people how cool the world actually is. But the thing that's holding me back is time. Maybe it could be a good summer break project?

What else, oh yeah, I've also made a picture archive with old sci-fi/movie character pictures :D. Why you might ask yourself? Why NOT? It's funny :) And yes I do plan to put then to good use (in the new blog actually).

That's how I roll! See you on the interwebs people!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Portfolio book


My portfolio book is now finished! You can take a look at a preview of it in the link above. The actual book is 100 pages long and features my latest photography and art works with some awesome inspiring texts.

Unfortunately the preview only shows the first fifteen pages or something. But I will probably upload some more pages from it here on the blog instead.
And YES! You can buy it from there, now, at this very moment ;)

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Konstpaus

The A4 exhibition at Spectrum Project Space earlier this week went pretty good. A lot of cool art, a lot of people and good food and awesome wine. I also sold three artworks which was a nice and it went to the fundraiser for the third year students graduation show (for me?). As it was an exhibition they asked us not to spend any money on the artwork more then we already had so we didnt have to invest in frames or anything. After that me, Joshua, and Gordon went to the jazz club which is almost next door to Spectrum Project Space to show Joshua hiw way around the club because he is gonna start to work there. While the dudes went around the place, I celebrated with a drink; Jazz jepul. Tasty!



The top picture is my progress off my latest painting. Not finished yet but on the way :).