I´m all wound up over my new lens, the EF 50mm f/1.2L USM. Everything looks good!

My favorite Japanese restaurant is surprisingly located in the middle of northern nowhere, Sweden. Unfortunately it burned down to the ground about a year ago. It´s being rebuilt in Östersund which is alittle more somewhere of northern Sweden. Östersund is actually a pretty nice town. It will reopen this winter.

I saw Lou Reed perform Berlin last wednesday and it was amazing. He´such a cool, grumpy old man. It was pure joy to hear Berlin in its entirety live.

I´ve been waiting like a madman for the iPhone to come to Sweden but when it finally did telia decided to over price everything so hysterically that I´m just gonna wait and see what happens. Meanwhile I´ll hold my iPod Touch to my ear in hope of passing as one of the cool kids *shrugs*

Wednesday morning I leave for Marseille. A week long excursion of Marseille, Hyère and Nice. Will most likely not bring a computer so blogging will be at its usual low update rate.

Neil Gaiman is a great author in my humble opinion, I´m reading Anansi Boys right now and I´m laughing my dandruff off.

Anyone who´s into good music and feels that a trip to Sweden is important should meet me in Göteborg for Way Out West on august 7th. Amazing line up! Just amazing!

I rode a train the other day for 5 hours. The car I was in had 4 fours that were out of order! How safe is that really? If something would happen I would´ve needed to get into another car to get out! It did feel a bit strange actually.

Music: The White Lane :: Alex Gopher

Kevin wanted to know. Styled by brisk walk to lunch in pouring rain.

Motion blur is a nifty feature, yet hard to capture well. This old beauty was passing by and I tried to get the focus on the boat but it only went so/so. This beauty is probably around 70/80 years old and still going strong. In impecable state. I can´t imagine owning one because for every hour at sea there´s at least 40 hours of grinding and polishing but it´s easy to admire the craftmanship involved in maintaining an old boat like this.

Isn´t it weird how things shift focus when you get older? Going crazy nowadays means daring to drink a cup of coffee after dinner (no, decaf is not really coffee) and threatening that nights sleep. In the good old days going crazy meant downing 10 vodka on the rocks while clubbing.

music: Canton :: Japan

I seem to be in two modes. At work or at the ocean looking at boats. Sort of. I supplied my hairdresser with some new music today. I was her last client before before her vacation. We ended up being silly but my hair looks good.
I go to Gothenburg on friday for a quick job. Back and forth. Then just a few more days before Marseille.

Seems like I´m not really cut out for blogging, I´m such a boring person it´s a waste of digital space. Maybe I should just post weird random pictures instead with surreal bylines? We´ll see.

Dramatic interlude by the sky above.
Is nature imitating art and life
or the opposite around?

Is there
or is there not
flying saucers?

music: Sometimes :: And one

This old school guy set up shop in Helsinki harbour, just like he always has. And his dad before him. The sugar snaps were great.

Tinnitus interpretation
Dolby noise reduction gone hay wire

sail away
sail away
sail away

music: The other side of the world :: The Tindersticks

It´s been such a wild ride for the past week. Events out of the ordinary, both here, irl and in the blog world it seems. For me it all started last friday while I was a dermathologist talking pictures of a new laser treatment machine and the phone rang. I ended up seeing Dolly Parton perform that night. Being a music whore I really appreciated her as a musician even though perhaps she´s not really some one I listen to. It was a good show at Stadion which is an open air stadium. Work has been crazy in a good way but not leaving much time for blogging or commenting (sorry about that).

On sunday I went to Helsinki with a very good friend. We had a great time. The kissing ducklings were captured there. Helsinki is such a beautiful city. The architecture, the light and the overall ambience there is just great. Finish people are a bit more relaxed than Swedes. You see old ladies going to Stokkmans wearing hats, gloves and matching hand bags. Gentlemen strolling around being seemingly proud over their age. We (Swedes) look more neurotic when you look at us. We go to the gym, the plastic surgeon and when nothing can be done to trick youth we loose all need for style. We get sloppy. Ok, I´m totally exaggerating here but you get the picture. Finland is 30 years behind us while being totally tech savy at the same time. That creates a very interesting environment.

Tomorrow is summer solstice, and happy solstice to you who celebrates it.