Trip to the west coast

We took a trip to the west coast a week ago to visit with the family. Probably not interesting for most readers.

Instant gratification

I've been taking pictures for a while now and it's one of the many things that I enjoy a lot and spend too little time doing. During university I learned the basics of film development and got a decent SRL for Christmas one year. It was a great camera, but the pain of having to wait to get the pictures developed was always something that bothered me since I'm very much an instant gratification kind of person. Later I got several mediocre digital cameras until picking up a pretty fancy model this last Christmas. Although the camera takes great pictures and obviously delivers the results instantly, the digitalness of it has never appealed much to me. Printing the pictures is ok, but it still feels like an artificial second step to a system where the pictures want to remain digital, uploaded to my Picasa album.

While I was in Mexico in March I managed to get a friend of mine to lend me his vintage Polaroid SX-70 camera, the worlds first SLR. Old-style Polaroid cameras are wonderful because they give you instant printed pictures. I feel that I can give up a little quality and portability in favor of 70s colors and the uniqueness of pictures that come from these simple machines. However, the camera turned out to be quite broken. It didn't close properly, I couldn't actually see anything out of the viewfinder and it neither took pictures nor ejected the film. After hours of thumb-numbing work I've manged to fix it and took my first pictures this weekend. I still need to install an ND filter on it to fix the exposure, but it works!

During repairs

Repaired / First pictures

Concierto de Magos Herrera en Xalapa

Mi cuñada, Magos Herrera, va a tener un concierto en Xalapa, Veracruz el 3 de mayo. Mi casi-cuñada, Maru, lo está organizando. Vayan!

Adios México

It's been hectic these last few weeks, traveling to Mexico to sell all the junk we had there and bringing Paola back to Norway. It's quite amazing to see how much crap one is able to amass over a few year and to see it's actual worth in cash. I swear to never again buy so many useless things. Leaving Mexico City was really sad this time, it's been home for almost 10 years and many of my friends are like family. It was also a bit hard to feel responsible to ripping Paola away from her life there knowing that adjusting yourself to Norway is not an easy process. In some ways it makes me feel responsible for her happiness in Oslo now. On the other hand the business side is going well and I expect to witness the power of my fully armed and operational outsourcing firm within 6 months.

Pictures:

Anti G8 poster

I'm helping a friend with some posters for a anti G8 Japan meeting soon. Shepard Fairey is my all time favorite artist (right next to Coop) so a lot of it is inspired by him, along with pirates and good ol' commie propaganda.

Comments on my crap are very appreciated...please.

Update: It's finished now, no thanks to you readers who can't be bothered to at least say "nice colours" or something.

Suite XVI logo

I'm working on a common profile for all of Copyleft along with it's products. It's quite a big job, but it's also lots of fun since I'm in full control. There are at least 3 companies, 5 products and maybe 10 smaller systems, each with it's own logo, website, etc. Comments are appreciated.

Suite XVI is a platform for making asset management systems. An asset can be just about anything, people, cars, computers, training courses. The platform is design to be easy to implement and very flexible. To be honest, we don't quite know what the limitations are for it.

Here's the logo:

Luscious Lips

Went to a new Fleshoticas show on Thursday, Luscious Lips at Pigallen with a couple of friends.