It was a thick layer of dust and smoke that greeted me as I came into landing. India is just as hysteric as I remembered it to be ten years ago.
I am here with a couple of friends to participate in the 2012 Rickshaw Run across India. We are taking a notoriously unreliable Tuk Tuk all the way from Jaisalmer, by the Pakistani border, down to Cochin some hundred miles south. So log onto our team website and donate as much as you can for our worthy causes!
It is loud, crowded and hot in the main gaming hall. Over 10,000 computers framed by an array of fast food stalls. It is the bi-annual Dreamhack festival held in Jönköping, Sweden. It is largest LAN party and computer festival in the world. Gamers from all over the world make their pilgrimage here twice a year to participate in the 72 hour festival.
Trailer for Swedish director Michel Wenzer’s “At Night I Fly”. The documentary opens on a tantalizing note. Upon entering California’s New Folsom Prison, a level-four maximum-security facility, Wenzer and his crew are told there’s a ‘no exchange policy.’ Which means? “No one can be released in exchange for you if you were to be taken hostage,” the warden says. Sounds promising.
I was featured in THIS article in the Arts London News.
I will be working together with the friendly boys at InMyKitchen, we are going to do some shots for the fantastic Sea Lion. Took a trip to the islands outside of Gothenburg to find a scenic location.
I just finished watching Gasland by Josh Fox. It is heartwrenching.
I keep trying to wrap my head around how these things happen over and over again. It astonishes me how we fail to learn from our mistakes.
It is easy to become cynical, but that haven’t helped anyone. Instead, this really shows the importance of creative and talented people, like Josh Fox, to be able to tell the stories and bring important questions forward.
Inspiring words from Ira Glass
I had a broken focus dial on my new Yashica, but I managed to sort it out with these precision tools. Hurrah! I’m off to Rome next week, hopefully I’ll get some good shots out of it!
Roy / Tidaholm, Sweden
Went to a storytelling workshop with the brilliant Pieter Ten Hoopen at his summer house in Hjo, Sweden, last weekend. Really intensive and very inspiring! South Africa based photographer Per-Anders Pettersson joined us as well as a mentor. The focus of the weekend was to develop our storytelling skills through the tempo and the construction of a reportage. One line that kept being repeated throughout was Kill your darlings, meaning, how the images play together are more important than the strength of a single image in a reportage. If it doesn’t fit in the story, get rid of it.
I think it will take time for everything to sink in properly but I am sure something really interesting will come out of it!
