Dagies Blog

Rubberduck

Just a little sweet something on my summer balcony.

Next Project: Anthotypes

I am going to live 3 weeks on the countryside at friends’ from next week! Roji Japanese Gardens! Not too far away from my Berlin so that I can come home for a day if I forgot anything … yeah but 3 weeks next to garden, fields, vegetables, meadows … eating and working with them. Self organized artist-in-residency!!

Anthotypes is my next thing. Making photo-sensitive emulsions from plant extracts.
And also a lot of pinhole photos … and of course: super 8 films galore! It’s June! “Ode to June # 8” is coming!!!!

Cold Summer Sunday

What can you do when it’s freaking cold and wet outside? Go into the darkroom and make some beautiful pictures!
I had collected some White Lamium (deadnettle / Taubnessel) plants and cooked them to a developer. Now is the time to make some direct positives from my pinhole negatives!

The Rapeseed Field

… another pinhole picture!
10 seconds exposure, afternoon light.
The whole and then a close-up underneath.
I love the blossoms… some still, some swaying in the wind.

Field of Depth

I am amazed. By the field of depth and the depth of field my simple Illy pinhole camera has. Gives. Provides. Look at this picture! Dandelions, Pusteblumen, the one in front blurred because it was windy, the other ones nice in focus. From close to far.
Summer coming!

Comic Cover Coloring

I have so much time at the moment and I’m diving in my pictures and films and ideas and inspirations … one idea is: opening an online shop! Selling what? Original photos, film still prints, a pinhole photo book, a comic book … checking out: can I colorize a cover? Simply with water colors? Yes, I can. Watch me!!! Click here!!!

Mjuk

Sometimes little miracles happen!
I was editing this fresh new film of mine called „Mjuk“ (Swedish for „soft“) and then I though: music! And then I remembered that I had two years ago a little glimpse of a contact to a Vietnamese musician called Nhung Nguyen aka Soundawakener said she likes my films and then I discovered that I liked her music … so I just asked her.
And here it is, the perfect sound to my images, water and moss, waves and clouds, watch it here on Vimeo!

Smilestone and the Sea

My second film „made in Sweden“ is ready! Full of poetry, ukulele songs, blue images and a weird story!

Watch it on vimeo in deutsch and english!!!!

Pinhole Photo Book

I am back in Berlin!
I have scanned all photos, developed all super 8 films (they are about to be digitized right now) … and now I am layouting a photo book. Pure pleasure for me, I LOVE to play with text & images!
How will I print it? Sell it? Bind it? Discovered japanese binding techniques, will try to learn it – so each book will be handmade with an original (baryte) photo as cover … that’s the plan.

55 Pinhole Negatives

Die ganze Ausbeute! 55 pinhole negatives. Not all of them good, but most. I’m leaving Sweden tomorrow, taking the ferry to Rostock and then the train to Berlin. Will scan them then … having a book in my mind … texts already written … watch out!!!!

I See Things In Wooden Walls

This shack that have I lived in more than 4 weeks has wooden walls made of these – I don’t know what it’s called – pressed wooden pieces … and I see people and monsters and animals and scenes and … so much, I will make it a project, wait and see!

This here: a long haired woman reading a newspaper.

Time To Say Goodbye (Almost)

Little glimpses in and from my 5 weeks home.

More Pinhole Pics

My last week at Brunåkra … thanks to Corona I will not be able to take, as planned, the train back home via Denmark, but there is a ferry that goes from Trelleborg (South Sweden, not so far away from here) to Rostock, and then I can take the train back to Berlin. Saturday.
I am taking the last pinhole photos, look:

Four Fingers

All comic characters have only four fingers. Makes it easier to draw them (only god of The Simpsons has five!).
I found a comic glove on the shore!

Pinhole Camera Making Live Session

Happy Easter everyone!!

For all who missed the live pinhole-making event on Facebook yesterday: here it is in full almost 2 hours length, very chaotic, very funny, very entertaining … facebook never forgets so I guess it will be there forever!!! And now also here on my Youtube channel!!

Chairs, Field, Field, Beach

My 4 favourite pictures, positive paper direct copies from pinhole negatives. Very old ORWO paper, developed in rape seed juice.

Easter Moon

Twin Trees

There is a kind of small alley that leads up from the street to www.brunakra.com, my residency until end of April here in Skåne, South Sweden. The entrance is marked by two majestic big old trees (now still unleafed), they fascinate me, they are twins … sisters … pals … lovers … and they look just wonderful negative as well as positive!!!

Dance My Film

The sun is shining warm and I feel like dancing my film dry!!! 🙂

Here’s the film!

Spot The Rabbit

Me In My Studio In South Sweden

This is me at www.brunakra.com … until when? Probably mid April. Can’t take the train through Denmark back home. But there’s a ferry from Trelleborg going to Rostock that is still running … swimming … every day. At the moment.

Fluffy Chicken

I am fascinated by the chickens that run around freely here. Always in a flock. They wear their feathers in a fluffy style, they are old, fearless and very relaxed. Don’t lay eggs any more. Just enjoy the day.

Tree Three

Here it is!

A Treelogy

Can’t wait for tomorrow …

Inside

It is so stormy today, grey and cold, that I don’t really feel like going outside, so I just stay inside and make a film about it …

Chairs And Sugarbeets

My two favourite pinhole photos! Direct positives from negatives in their water bath.

And Where Do I Go Tomorrow?

Live Film Developing Performance Outside!

We set up a table and a laptop to stream the whole performance on Google-Meet, being in contact with 26 people all over … Sweden, I guess, and some visitors from farther away!

I developed a b&w super 8 film as usual in something weird, this time: sugarbeet tea!
It was fun to do it live, explain what I was doing and why it worked and communicating with the other world!!! HERE is a little 4 minute snippet on vimeo!!!

Pinhole Photos Inside

What a stormy, brilliant, icecold, crisp day it is! I better stay inside … and do some long time exposure pinhole photos with my two favourite cameras: Illy and Spicecam. 1 hour / 2 hours exposure.

A Glowing Row Of Trees

… I pass them almost every day. And every day it seems they become a tiny little bit more orange-red … Juice is climbing up their veins and make the twigs glow!!