6.6.11

Our Daily Bread (Unser täglich Brot)

I cannot recall any recent viewed documentary that would be as bewitching as what Nikolaus Geyrhalter delivered with his documentary on the food industry around Europe. Setting itself apart from thousands of other documentaries handling the same problem, Our Daily Bread dives with the audience into a passive and well planed documentation of the development of food in the developed countries around Europe. And it does without muttering a single word.

Geyhalter chooses a more daring method to deliver the message, alienating his work from the harsh data throwing Discovery Channel has us used to. And it does with the aid of a magnificent photography and the plain and sterile sounds of the industry of food. The director even introduces us to some of the people involved in the process, the hands that still in a way continue to work on the industry, and he does this not by interviewing them, but by letting us stare into their work and their food, what do they eat, because they have to eat right? Which rises the question, what do one eats when one's cutting cows and breeding chickens by the millions? What do they think, we do not know, but we can see at all and all they are still humans inside this big machine.

It's a daring project, but I would dare to say that it works perfectly as it does leaves it entirely to the audience to process what is happening in front of them, it allows us to think patiently on how it all works and where do our food come from, without pointing suspects or delivering conclusions. It's just there, laying on the plate, ready for us to digest it.

13.9.10

Pisando, pisando.

Sois el himno de la madre, que canta el hombre en hermandad.

Sois el alma del lucero, destello grave de la soledad.

Sois el arma de la guerra, grito mudo en la oscuridad. 

3.9.10

Pandas in the sky

I have a friend that by some strange reason has a huge fixation with pandas, she loves them. And what's not to love? They are huge, furry and hugable, or at least they seem like all bears, from a safe distance. The thing with pandas is that you probably don't need a safe distance right? They are so cute!

Either way, a couple of years ago this friend inspired a few panda drawings all spread over my school notebooks. 




Higher education.


At the end she inspired a new panda, which I now uploaded into a motive for a t-shirt, because we all want a panda on our clothes, even though they can be a bit agressive from time to time.

 Paaandaaaw

Spreadshirt Markedsplass motiv

Paaandaaaw

I strongly believe pandas turn agressive due to a temporary state of chinese hypnosis. 

2.9.10

All new Tor-Sven.com

Yesterday I was told I was being awfully creative with my domain name.

So I've been working a bit, actually a lot, in the last couple of weeks trying to get my web site ready, it all came as an idea I had a couple of years ago when I started learning a bit about webdesing, but it never really materialized into something useful. At the end I only ended up with a so-so portfolio which after a few job interviews handing an usb-memory stick to the client became rather impractical. So I thought that a website would be a more practical and presentable way to introduce me and my work, that way at least they'll have an idea of what to expect.

So I set to work on during the summer, which wasn't a very good idea to start with, but I managed to at least get a layout of how I wanted the site to be, after that it was just a matter of puting everything on the table and crack my head open with code language and syntax problems.

Now the website was supposed to be ready yesterday, but in a classic "Murphy's Law" situation the hosting takes about 24 hours to grant me any access to the server. Well at least I saved about $2.-. 

That said, I did managed to finish the Demo Reel I was puting up for the site, and I also did managed to uploaded to YouTube, now don't be discouraged by it, I won't be embedding any YouTubes on my site.




6.5.10

Tattoo


This is to be my first tattoo :D.


5.5.10

I got published again!! (sort of)

Well a few months ago a dutch artist contacted me asking for permission to paint one of the pictures based on a painting that I have on my Flickr site. The picture was one we tok last year as our illumination exam, the task was to emulate a painting as closely as possible, the picture was La Mort de Marat by french painter Jacques-Louis David.

La Mort de Marat
This is our version.


Now, Martin (that is the artist) contacted me asking if it was possible to reproduce this picture as part of his project 'At the Museum'. As he explains the project, he paints his dreams (calling them dream photos), and this time he dreamed being at the museum where all the paintings came to live, so he started painting pictures based on paintings to complete the collection.


You can see some of Martin's work here.



This is Martin's version.

And here is some info on La Mort de Marat.

David's original.