Swan II

I made it a bit too pretty for my taste. Almost borderlining on "eco-porn" :D. But it's something and I'm quite pleased anyway. It was fun to do something I don't usually do also. Maybe more animals in the future?

My painting class visited the Natural History museum last Friday and I did some sketches in my notebook of the animals they had there. We had an assignment to gather inspiration for our next project so I took heaps of photos also. It's something very intriguing with places like that. So much death but still very beautiful. You learn much also so that's good.

Fever

Finished two more paintings last week. But the other one sucks. This one too but its ok. This oil painting thing is really hard but fun. It's a portrait of my friend Linus. Painted on plywood.
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Finally, FINALLY!

I've been waiting for this for several years. But I've been missing it over and over again because I havent been in Sweden or living in a remote location on the countryside. But now. The moment is here, raise the trumpets, throw your graduation ceremony hat, sing hurrah hurrah and press the eject button!

Karin Dreijer Andersson, aka Fever Ray, the worlds greatest musician, is going to play live for me on december 1st! Yeah!! ONLY for me!! Okey that last statement isn't true but it could almost be true, because I'm gonna be so psyched about seeing her playing live I'm gonna be so into IT.

Caroline is a sweetheart and is going with me even though she's not that into them :). She's awesome! ♥♥♥

Fever Ray is playing on the December 1st at Cirkus in Stockholm. Be there or miss out on the greatest event ever since the beginning of MANKIND. Eherm..

If I Had A Heart from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

Kanashibari

Pencil sketch, Ballpoint pen. "Swan".

Well I'm not sure what to write. But I guess I could write about this weird dream I had a few days ago. I had another sleep paralysis dream which was really terrifying. For those who don't know what is it, don't worry, hold your horses, I'm gonna explain it first.

A sleep paralysis is when your mind wakes up from your deep sleep, called REM-sleep. But your body is still in sleep-mode. And when you're sleeping your body is somewhat paralysed to keep you from kicking and playing out all your dreams while lying in bed. But anyway, so your mind wakes up so you can see and hear and everything. It's like being awake, buuuuuuut the terrifying thing is, you cant MOVE! Your paralysed and cant move a muscle. What you can do though, is still be dreaming, hallucinate and everything that involves dreaming. So think about that for a second. Your awake, your dreaming up stuff but you cant move!

So back to my dream. I woke up and I was lying there in bed on my side and I was so certain that someone was behind me. I could here something and in the corner of my eye I saw this short blue-ish over-weight scary looking kid who was slowly moving closer to me. So of course I try to turn over and see what the hell is going on. But my sleeping body wouldn't move a bit and I got terrified and started to panic. I tried to scream but nothing would come out and he got closer and closer. When he was just next to me I started to wake up from the dream but my mind was still in panic-mode so tried to scream and finally I could get out a big NOOOO!! (but in Swedish) and at that moment I could also turn over and saw that there was nothing there, of course.

The Second phase

"2a Fasen" - Illustrated by hand, coloured digitally.

Don't miss your flight

If anyone was wondering, you caaaan send a letter from abroad to Sweden and not write the country, full name of receiver and make it a little tricky for the postman to see the correct adress, if you would want to :D

Got inspired by Harriet Russels letters she sent to herself in london where she made some very different letter and ways to write the adresses, very funny!

*Just coz I'm paranoid, I blurred the postcode, street adress and surname.

PS: For english readers, "otursnummer" means unlucky number, which is 13 of course.

There will be oil

Phew, finally finished my first oil paintings ever! Not that great but it was fun and quite a challenge!

It's Saturday today and I'm gonna treat myself to doing nothing, well almost anyway. It's really nice spring weather today which made me feel creative, so I'm gonna chillax and work on some drawings and maybe update my homepage! But it's more fun than "work" actually :).

Words that inspire me at the moment:

Mercury, Hennes, Mnemonic, Illusory, Tusen, Nova, Universe.

Close

So, I'm sitting on the plane back from Melbourne, eating a bag of mixed nuts, drinking a ice cold coke and reading a really good mystery comic and realising how much I LOVE to sit on an airplane, eating mixed nuts, drinking a good cold drink while I'm reading a good mystery comic/book. It could be the combination Eating-while-reading also. But I definitely think the airplane has something to do with it also. A friend told me a few months ago that your taste buds reacts different while at that altitude the plane is in, so it could be that?

Oh, and the music plays a part also. It has to be good music you're listening to while ur eating/drinking/reading/flying (EDRF). It's awesome anyway! Especially when the book is like extremely exciting!
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Today I went for Joshuas and Lisas graduation ceremoni which was really fun! It lasted pretty long but it was fun to see my friends on stage getting their bachelor degrees (diplomas?). After the ceremoni there was free food and champagne, and lots of it! Free is awesome!

And after Lisa and Joshua had taken a few thousand pictures :D it was time to go for diiiiinner at a Singaporian restaurant. We were like twelve people or something and it was like a big family dinner coz many knew eachother or had friends in common. Really good company and some very inspiring people. It was really cool to meet everyones families also! Congratulations Joshua and Lisa!! :)
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What else is new. Yeah I've been to Melbourne! Went with Joshua there to deliver some of my artwork for this years Scanart exhibition and then we also did a lot of shopping and sightseeing. I think we walked a distance of a 1000 BILJON kilometers, something like that. So my feet hurt coz my shoes was worn out, so i bought new ones :p. We also met some of Joshuas friends who was really nice and showed us around half the city. One of them, Benny, knew everything about Melbourne and showed us about EIGHT different bars. Which also was like really hidden and difficult to find for the mainstream tourist.

I love Melbourne. I wanna marry Melbourne and put it in my chest pocket. It's so cool. So much more of everything; culture, people, life, skyscrapers, clothing stores, good food, cafées, comic stores and it's like a car ride to the nearest mountain (with snow)!!

Anyway, everyone here knows how much I've been talking about Melbourne this and Melbourne that :p. (its awesoooooome!! *whispering)

Pics can be found HERE and HERE!

First Site Gallery Melbourne

Some of my artwork is currently being displayed at First Site Gallery (RMIT Gallery) in Melbourne for the annual Scanart exhibition. Check it out if you're in town! :) On display until the September 12.

Dreams and thoughts

Aaaah, after weeks of waiting for the correct size, I've finally found it and bougth it, the Moleskine A4 Portfolio size. It's so huge and theres so much surface to draw on. Level up! (comparison to some of my previous Moleskines on the top pic).

Anniversary

Me and Älsklingen is celebrating our six months anniversary today :) (15th august). Definitely worth a mention because this is HUGE I tell you. The only bad thing is that unfortunately we are continents apart from eachother at the moment. But its awesome anyway :) Oh so I love that girl <3 <3 <3 x 2 :D

Shade and honey

Some pictures from some summer events. Couldn't get a picture of my brother when we met so he got represented by a picture from his youth :p. Below are the pictures chosen to be in the ScanArt 2009 Exhibition.


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Back in Perth

So I'm back in Perth after an awesome summer in Sweden. Two months sounds like a long time but it's actually a small amount of time to fit in everyone you really wanna meet, so if anyone who reads this which i didn't have time to meet up with, I'm really sorry! But don't worry, or be mad :p, I'll be back in November again :)

What have I done, a bit hard to remember but here goes; I've off course met my darling Caroline a bunch of times. I mostly went there because she had to be a working lady most of the the summer but we had a great time anyway, so I got to be the desperate househusband, except that I wasn't desperate, but we really used the time we had which I'm really happy about. She also came to Stockholm he he heeee :D. I surprised her a bit with going to Hasseludden Yasuragi, a Japanese spa outside Stockholm in the archipelago. We both love Japanese stuff so i think it was a jackpot :p Pics here and here.

It was our first trip together so it was really special for me. First we took the boat from Strömkajen in Stockholm, where almost all the boats to the archipelago leaves from and then after 30 min we arrived at the spa. Which was awesome, I've been there a couple of years ago with some homies but then it wasn't completely finished but now it looked amazing. We just chillaxed there and swam in the hot springs, ate from the fruit buffé, read our nerdy books, ate an awesome Japanese dinner buffé, had drinks from the bar and did a whole lot of walking around in our japanese yukatas, morning robes. :)

I've also helped some friends who's making a feature movie called Shaman for a couple of days with the lighting and other stuff, which was fun and made me wanna go back to making movies again, so I'm thinking of selling my current camera and maybe buy a Canon 500D or a Nikon D5000 so I can shoot some video also coz they can shoot in full HD.

Oh yeah and I helped Niklas to scout some movie locations for a short movie he is working on at the moment and we also had a really nice dinner the night before.

And I also got some time to go to our countryhouse with my dad and I did some fishing, caught three fishes, two Perches and a Pike. But I threw them back coz they were pretty small. I've also met some friends, gone In-door climbing, hanged out with my family, watched a lot of movies, and even gotten some sunlight haha.

Some portfolio news:

• Got chosen to be a part of ScanArt 2009 exhibition in Melbourne.
• Got a new website: http://martinrinman.com
• Got featured on Foto.feber.se
  

Yes, I've finally bought the domain http://martinrinman.com and its up and running since a few weeks back. So take a peak!

I'm probably gonna go to Melbourne at the end of this month to deliver some of my artwork for this years ScanArt exhibition which they got chosen to be apart off :). WohoO! This will be my second exhibition, which is cool, a big step in the right direction I would say.

On the way here I stopped in Bangkok for 18 hours, which would have been awful unless my parents where there at that time. So I took a taxi to their hotel in central Bangkok and got some sleep, then we headed out too Central Plaza for some shopping and food which was really nice. We also met my cousin who we had dinner with and then she took us to the airport to send me off.

After 6½ hours of flight I was back here, got picked up by Joshua and then slept for the rest of the day. That's about it I think?

I've finished my Photomedia Major so I'm gonna study some more painting classes this semester and a photo unit also. I haven't chosen the fourth unit coz i haven't figured out what to study, but I will choose this weekend though.

Laters :)