Rauour kjoll svartur har

I had a photoshoot yesterday with Adele, a friend in the village. She used to model back in China and she was very good. Stanley was with us and helped with the lighting this time also. We had really fun and we did two different sets. First this one and then we went home to eat dinner and then went back out after Adele had changed her clothes to a "at the office"-kinda look, which worked really good actually. I havent started edit them so i upload them in the next post, maybe.

Midsummer?

Im very confused these days, and i dont mean "oh im so confused with how i feel-kinda-confused", or that also actually but this is more of a old-man-lost-in-the-woods-kinda-confused. Today when me and my roomie Veronica went to get our pizzas we had ordered i went in to the wrong store :O.. And had a long conversation with the man working there, didnt understand a word he said coz he spoke with very bad english, and then he finally said: Pizza? Me: Yeah, i ORDERED ONE! Kebabguy: Next door!!

Then when finally got the pizza i just gave them the money and left without taking the change, or all the other stuff we had ordered too. So i went back and got the change and got the garlic bread and pepsi bottle.

And then that previous Cinema incident of 2008 a last week... Confucious says: OH SNAP!

Anyway, midsummer came and went (in sweden) but no little frogs for me. But i celebrated with good old swedish music a la Kent, Bo Sundström and just for fun; Nina Rochelle and had a happy zombie marathon with Dawn of the dead, [Rec] och Diary of the Dead. They were goood! Especially [Rec] which was one of the scariest movies ive ever seen :O.

Last sunday me, Stanley and Zura went to the south to the town of Mandurah. It was basically like a smaller version of Fremantle, which is great. This wasnt so great but i think in a few years it will be very up-and-coming. They are building new houses and apartments there which look great, right by the river and harbour and it got its own marina also. We went there to shoot some pictures just for fun and we also got to see dolphins which was really cool. Right there in the river swimming up and down and playing infront of the boats. Kinda neat. Can upload som pics next post. Speaking of pics, the above one is from my shoot with Veronica for my Images & pleasure-class.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, i really need to show you this video. Especially for those doing something in the creative business, or actually any people who feel they are doing something they really want to do in their lives but struggling with. I "tested it" on Lopez a few weeks ago and he said it was really good that he saw that video. It's very inspiring. So please, for your own sake, take a few minutes and listen to what this guy got to say, it will be worth it. Without no further ado, I give you Ira Glass.

Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the confused moviegoer

This photo is from the shoot i had with Paige a few weeks ago. It went pretty good and i got some pretty good pics of her. After my parents shipped my yukata from back home i could finally use it for something useful. So we went down to a little local/pond not far from here and took some pics. I used my old Nissin flash this time which went pretty good. Paige was really good and for this shot i asked her to look furious in a subtle way which i think came out pretty well haha. I dont think the colours come out as good as they are supposed to be when i make it into a jpg and upload it on blogger, but its supposed to be pretty colorful anyway.

Yesterday me and some friend went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. Björn, Cathrine and Marcus pickd me up in their nice pimpmobile (family wagon) and we went off to Morley Galleria to see it. It seems like not many people in Perth actually order tickets when they go to the movies, coz we were almost the only ones who stood in that cue while maybe 20-30 people tood in the other cue for people who hasn't booked a ticket. Anyway, we got our tickets and i could feel the excitement kicking in. I was gonna see Indiana Jones for the first time in my life, in a cinema! Amazing! So we walked towards the ...saloon? (the big frikkin room where they show the movie) :p when i suddenly heard: Sir, excuse me, you have a ticket?

I turned around and saw all my friend laughing and i then understood that i had something to do with it. i had walked right past the ticket guy without even noticing my friends standing in line waiting to get their tickets checked. What a noob i was and what an embarrassment to the Cinema Gods. I showed him the ticket and excused myself, i must have looked really confused but it didn't matter. I was in Indiana Jones-land :)

I had waited to see this for years and now, the moment was here. I had heard some bad reviews of it so back in my mind i tried to keep my expectations down and just hoped for a fun little adventure. But what i got was the complete opposite...

We entered the cinema and it was almost empty, weheeird. But we had great seats, right in the middle. It took almost 20 minutes before they actually started the movie but by then i was still really excited. Actually, I relived my entire childhood of watching the old ones for the first time, i got one of the greatest adventure movies ever! Yes, for me it was that good even though i can see many flaws with it i really liked it and it gave me exactly what i was out to get. Adventure, humor and alot of well executed action scenes by one of my fave directors, mr Spielberg :). Thanks!

WE CARRY ON

Phew! I'm back in business! Schools over and ive just finished my new look on my blog. I have also finished school for this loong, boooring, endless, dull, troublesome semester :D So no im on my winterbreak, which feels so goooood! I love the rain after so many days and nights of 30-40 degrees. Warmth is nice, when it comes in lagom periods.

The school went fine except that I have had a really hard time concentrating on it.. but omg Im not doing five units next semester. I took a fifth one i kinda failed last semester, but hopefully its out of the way now and i can continue doing what i came here to do.
What that is, im not sure :D But now im done with Images & Pleasure, Advanced digital Photomedia (which was a 2nd year unit actually), Representations & Interpretations, Contexts of Modernity and Creativity: Theory, History and Practice.

Hmm what else has happened. I've been working on a album cover for a band called Ancient Free Gardeners and finished that a few days ago. You can see it here. Ive made the drawing in my Moleskine and then shot the background from an IKEA-bag :D and then put it together. liek using texture backgrounds, so ive have now officially made my own texture library :).

I've also made a comeback on Deviant Art and uploaded everything new and old, which you can see here. It's really good coz i can sell my photos there too.

Oh yeah, this may dissapoint a few and me very much. Im not coming home to Sweden this holiday :(. The tickets are too expensive and the holiday is too short. It sucks coz i really miss people back home and the foooooooooooooooooooooooooood.

Dont know if i wrote this before but in every post from now on, im gonna show at least one new artwork/photo also. Just to keep a flow going on. The artwork at the top is my "Dada"-style artwork form Advanced Digital Photomedia. We were gonna cut stuff out from magazines and then put them together in PS. I cut stuff out from Vice Magazine, Creative Magazine and Attittude Fashion Magazine and the background and the red thingy is mine. Laters!

Pathic communion

Some stuff i did for Advanced Digital Photomedia. We had to change the meaning in the picture somehow either by adding text or edit the photo somehow. The pic of Nicky was a pretty random shot but in the re-edit (to the left) i wanted it to look like she was getting out of jail in the states during the 70's.

Yheapp.. thats about it. SIGH!!..

"They were the puppets..."

Finally finished with my essays! WOOOHO! Now i can relax, and concentrating on keeping it coool :p. Paintball on friday! YES!

I looked, and behold, an ashen horse...

Today has so far been a waste. But I've enjoyed it non the less. I drank some goon-wine yesterday when Björn & Co had a "warming-party" (moving in party) and the brand of wine wasn't so super good i guess so it left me with a really bad hang over today. But it was fun over there, i met some really nice Americans from Alaska, which was a first for me. Someday i really have to go there and go camping by a really nice lake and hopefully not get eaten by a bear.

Today I woke up at eleven and watched an episode of Band of brothers. Which is awesome btw and really worth watching if you like realistic war movies. After that i fell to sleep and woke up at 4 in the afternoon and had breakfast. I couldn't help myself from watching Black Hawk Down again just love that movie. Then i finished my drawing you see above and made dinner. Now I have two essays to do! Yaaaaaaaaaahoooocrap!

Clearly or darkly?

As I see my work here, I feel a little bit releaved that this part is over and then I realise that i have so much more I have to do, and want to do.

The first picture is for my Creativity; Theory, Practise and History class. Where we was gonna write an essay about if we thought humans as a spiecies has become more creative now than 150 years ago, oor we could choose to make a poster about the same topic. So, write an essay on 700 words or squeeze down your opinions to just a few sentences, could be equally difficult. Anyway, as u can see i went for the poster which im glad i did.

My opinions about this subject is that i don't think we have become genetically more creative. I think we have just found new ways to using our creativity and that the "only" handicap that a person, who traveled to this century, would be that he wouldn't know how to use our tools, but be as smart as we are. Maybe just a little but outdated on whats going on in the world.

I named the author John Q Locke after the philosopher and political thinker John Locke. Who thought that humans are born with a blank slate and only gains his knowledge through experience.

I took the shot in North Fremantle where they are growing a lot of trees.

After that picture comes my batch of pictures from my assignment on Still-life (stilleben) which was kinda boring, but a challenge non the less. I made twelve different set-ups for this assignment. We had to hand in five pictures with different set-ups and the ones who became choosen by the teacher was the first five. I made three more set-ups that i havent finished working on yet, but im not sure i want to show them coz im not so pleased with them.

And then ther is the three pics i posted a while back ago. But the Fairy picture is the same set-up but i choose to have it in black and white, and that picture above is taken with the Cambo, an old large format camera.

Speaking of cameras, i used four different cameras on this assignment, my very own Canon 350D, Canon 5d+shift lens, the Cambo large format and the Bronica middle format which was quite hard to use, but very fun.

The Shoe picture set-up was built in the studio. The brown paper background i used is painted by Björn, and was used as a wrapping paper around a giant chocolate egg box i got on my birthday. So it was like a little tribute to him.

Im quite proud of the picture with the small characters running around, even though its not actually still-life. or i wouldnt call it that anyway. More like an action shot with toys haha. But anyway, i built up this big stage on my desk. Out of magazine paper, toys and alot of imagination. It took only six hours to build it all and paint the stuff, and one hour to shoot it so it went pretty fast anyway.

The other pictures; Jewellery, Head-less man and the flower pot was shot in Off the Wall. Which is a really nice second hand store in Fremantle. Im gonna give them copies of the photos and hope that they would like them.

The I-Love-my-Penis picture is really open for interpretation :p

I made the drawing a few days ago, and the magazine layout was also for the Creativity class. We were only going to do an interview and hand in but i wanted to make something more, creative than that, coz hats whats the course is about? But i got really tired of doing it and i just kept procrastinating it all the time, so this is just something i threw together tonight.

And i guess thats it. I have two essays due this week, two tutorials and another photo-assignment for Advanced digital Photomedia. Its gonna be a tough week but after this week we have a entire week off!

My Greenhouse

GUL&BLÅ

I shot the pictures above this weekend in Fremantle with my Canon EOS 350, Polarisation filter and using my Nissin Flash, which works extremely good i would say. Even if its like 15+ years old. The top picture has the flash light coming from the left side 2 meters from the camera. Which gives a little surreal light coz the sun is coming from the right side.

The next picture has the flash light coming from the right (duh). But the cool thing about this is that it is taken during the day. It's behind a building so its pretty shadowy back there. The colors got really good to. I'm proud :p. We went a whole gang to Freo to shoot stuff for our coming assignments. We also had lunch there and looked around in some stores and we even had time to go to the Shipwreck museum. Thanks to Kat and Nicky for posing in the pics.

Long day away from my greenhouse. Finally home...

"A slice of ice in your heart"

I love her embarressed look, and i tried to get the colors very pastell-ish, which i think i succeded in doing pretty ok. Started on it in Hong Kong when i was sitting in the Pacific Coffe and wanted to make something happy-looking haha.

Today, was a great day for inspiration! I had my Creativity; Theory, Practice and history class. First we had the tutorial where we talked about Frank Gehry, an architect we saw a documentary about last week which also was really inspiring. It really opened my eyes up to architecture, again, and i felt that one day i have to take a architecture class or just design a building somewhere :D. The reason why, is that Frank Gehry, who designed the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (in spain) e.g. didn't seem to be limited in his designs by the safety aspects or how materials can bend and so on. He "just" made his designs, starting with a drawing, and then moving on to a model , and then he had this team of people who had to worry about what was gonna be on the inside. Almost like designing a jet plane coz he loves to work with metal in many different ways. So, step one, look up Frank Gehrys work, its amazing and if you can, try to watch the documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollack and i promise you, you will get inspired.

Anyway, back to today. Later on during the lecture, we had a guest lecturer; John Harman. Author, Scriptwriter and Ghostwriter. Who was really inspiring as well. He talked about where and how he gets his inspiration and how he processes it. He always walks around with a tape recorder and record everything that could inspire him someday. And that is also a really important thing for me. I love to find little details everywhere, which maybe its not obvious if u don't look carefully and fortunately i always carry my notebook around where i can write or draw the stuff down. Which is really helpful later on coz i have a lousy memory heh.

So think of this; where from do you get your inspiration from, and how do u channel it into something new? I get my inspiration from, well anything actually; movies, comics, people, places etc. But i try to read as much as i can, except that I'm really bad at taking time to read books. But i read a lot on the computer, and it doesn't matter what you read as long as you read something, whatever makes u going right? I channel it through my pictures or drawings. Most of the time to get my feelings out or when i want to create emotions in whoever is watching the things. I don't know why, but that is really important to me, to evoke emotions in other people. I guess everybody got different reasons of why they are creative. What is your reason?

I found this really interesting link today. Or first i have to explain something. I'm really fascinated about really old looking library's like the ones you always see in movies. Ive never been in one except the ones in Sweden and they aren't so exhilarating. So today i found this link, some of these libraries are really amazing coz they look so old and magical in a sense. Imagine sitting in a library like that and reading a really old dusty book about..errrr...i don't know :p anything i guess? There are even two Swedish libraries on that site, the Bernadotte Library and the Riksdagen Library. But i don't think you can gain access to them if u don't work there or something...

More inspiration :)...

Player 3 has entered the game

Congratulations to Danne and his girlfriend Sara for giving birth to Ronja. Must feel great and so nervous at the same time, i can never imagine. Ronja entered this world at 28th of February 2008. Welcome to the club Ronja, best wishes to Danne and Sara, hope the the upbringing (?) will be as smooth as possible haha :D I wish i could have been there and taken some pictures for you, anyway, good luck again :) Geesh, time goes by fast, dont it?


A little something i put together, started with it back home in Sweden before i came here, cut the read craters from a magazine and then drew around it, scanned it and played around in PS.

The Tree

Three of my latest pics im gonna use for the Images and Pleasure class. We are going to shoot five "Still-life" photos. Im gonna take the next two next week. We are using these really old cameras where u have the hoody on urself. Im talking ancient cameras here. The format is called 5x4, i think its bigger than medium format cameras? We are also using Canon 5d with Tilt & Shift lens, which allows the user to tilt or shift the lens at different directions but still remain still? Does it makes sense? i guess not but its cool.

One great thing has happened, one extremely great. i bought a pair of INLINES! YES! I found back to them. Inlines was my favorite sport when i was younger, i just loved to roll around on them and feel the wind :p haha. But seriously. After i quit them when i was 17 i think, i haven't really found a sport that i really enjoy, except riding my Ripley, who btw is located in the northern part of Sweden right now coz i had to sell it to some truck driver who wanted to give his son a nice birthday present :). Ripley, is for u that don't know, my last bike :p And anyway, i have inlines again which i bought from Joakim, and a big thanks goes out to him coz i feel that i found a part of myself again! And i hope you get a nice stay in Scotland!

And oh yeah another funny thing. There is a new program on the swedish channel ZTV, called Uppladdat. They show different funny and weird videoclips from youtube and the rest of the web and then talk about them. And, coz i know one of the people who works with that (sahar), i could get one of my videoclips i shot in Cottlesloe last semester, IN THE OPENING TITLES of the show :D oh yeah, but you have to look really fast to see it haha but its there alright! Its the clip where you see someone walking on a beach. Take a look>>>>>>>> HERE. <<<<

Here is also some pics from Hong Kong!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3 (More pics to be added soon)

Me and Phoebe have been together for four months now! Woho!