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Dance Around The June Fire

My favourite month is almost over!
Time for a little fire dance!

Kleeol / Cloverol

I’m in my June film bubble … filming every day a little piece of my life … this is June 20: developing a photo in clover juice / Kleesaft!!
Click on the photo to watch the film snippet!!

Ode To June Time Again

You know that I am an Ode-to-June film maker? Every June I have to capture June, my ultimately favorite month, in picture and sound.
Diary film, Berlin portrait, life excerpt, colorful poem, something like that …
There are now 8 odes, all between 16 and 32 minutes long. And there will be more each year as long as there is Super 8. And me.

There’s also a website for all my June films! Click here!!!!

Three People Being Afraid Of A Cat Skeleton

Back in Berlin!
My films are already digitized and I’m eagerly browsing them. I found a weird still: is it … three people being afraid of a cat skeleton?

Greenblue

This green-blue! The colour of May going into June, I love it!
My last day at Konstepidemin … summer feeling all around and slowly packing. Hej då!

The Photo Map

Here it is! The map! How to find all my hidden 10 photos!
Come to Konstepidemin and take a nice walk!

3 Women On A Bench Drinking Red Wine

My last photo in a series of 10 is hanging now at its original place where I took it. Trinidad‘s house wall, at the bench where the three were sitting!

Some Super 8 Stills

… of my photos preparing and hanging documentary!
Better versions coming later … these are just phone photos taken from the super 8 film running through a projector – projected on the wall. Anyway … I like them.

9 Photos

Baryte photos have to stay in the water for hours … and then dry over night between towels. Best moment: unveil them in the morning!

“Kiss The Moment, It‘s Not A Pyramid”

… is the title of my pinhole photo installation.

It is a give-it-back-where-I-took-it-from:

I am hanging my pinhole photos (baryte cardbord, each one developed in an appropriate developing soup like Magnolia Juice, Coffee, Kompost Tea, Gurkol aka Cucumber Pickle Water) carefully to where they came from: on a tree, on a special place somewhere at Konstepidemin area!
 
Of course they can get stolen or destroyed the very next day, they will wither and rain away with time and weather, but that’s part of the game: baryte paper with robust grommets and cords can stay hanging for months! Or disappear within days. It doesn’t scare or bother me: it’s just like life, things come and leave, nothing lasts forever, kiss the moment, it’s not a pyramid!

Red Rabbit

Just a red rabbit.

Open Studio Day

Konstepidemin has 4 international guest artists at the moment and we opened our doors yesterday afternoon! To show some work in progress. Me: to talk about my vegetable developers 😉

Blueberry Darkroom

I reveil secrets of my darkroom! Come in!
Click on the images!

Some Fresh Film Stills

Not scanned, just filmed off the wall from Maria’s Projector, digitally inverted to positive.

Magnoliawashing

This is a photo of a Magnolia tree developed in Magnolia juice!!!!!

Click on the image to watch a little film snippet!

Biking And Analogy

No rain yesterday, so I took my chance for a little bike ride all down Linnégatan and along the harbour down that beautiful big bridge to Röda Sten and then up the hill across Slottskogen back home.
I took my camera and my Solstickan matchboxes for animation with me, was sitting on a bench in the park, thinking about running girls … and then I saw this statue: a running girl / woman with roots under her feet! Somehow it matched my thoughts and my film … so I filmed her too. Analogy. The story will come.

The artist of the rootgirl is Klara Kristalova!

Fresh Photos

Baryte photos need to dry over night between towels.

Good morning! These are my results from yesterday’s darkroom session, I developed some in Caffenol, some in Blätterol – tree leaves tea! Some are too dark, some are wischiwaschi, must try more. It’s not so easy with the right light exposure time but I’m already in love with my improvised toilet darkroom!!!

Magnoliacooking

First Super 8 Stills

I just couldn’t wait … I have already developed 4 TriX super 8 films here in different potions like Kompostol, Gurkol, Caffenol, Beetrootol … and since I don’t have the possibility to digitize my films here (I will do that when I’m back in Berlin) I chased them through Maria’s lovely Eumig projector and filmed some snippets with my phone. Inverted them in iMovie.
Here come some stills!!!! Blue tone because of slightly brownish tint of the film plus the warm projector light = inverted colour = blueish.

Konst Och Kompost

Workshop i miljövänlig filmframkallning!!!

It was just a 2 hours workshop for 3 people – thanks for being part of it, Ina-Marie, Matilda and Ben-Hui Grace!

It was fun … though very cold and wet, the rain just wouldn’t stop all day long …
But anyway … we filmed a little and then we developed the stripe in Kompostol (made from banana and potato peels, some bell pepper remains, some black tea I had this morning …) – a powerful and very ecofriendly developer! Foodwaste for film!!!

Vad ska vi göra?

Kort introduktion till Super-8, inspelning av en spontan film tillsammans (bara 30 sekunder lång), blandning av en soppa gjord av material från det som växer runt oss (Magnolia-blommor och mer) plus lite matavfall från Dagies frukost! Enkel filmframkallning och den lilla gemensamma filmen är klar!
(Denna framkallningsvätska är stark, smaskig, helt miljövänlig och fantastisk att bearbeta sina svartvita negativ i, både stillbilder och rörlig bild, samt fotopapper!)

Beautiful Lake Stora Delsjön

Only 7 km away from Göteborg‘s Center: beautiful, calm lake Delsjön, in the middle of a forest! Nice bikeride for me, easy to find. Some tough people took a swim! Can’t believe it … the water is just a few degrees up from zero … and they jump into it! Vikings! Cool!!!

Styr Och Ställ

… is my new bike connection … like Nextbike in Germany. Not too expensive … and there are many here in the streets!
Yesterday: first warm day! So I went to a nearby park (Slottskogen) and watched some ducks and had a peace ice.

My Next Favourite Pinhole Photo

Ooooh, I love this one even more! Me and friends in front of the Konstepidemin meeting tent! 30 seconds exposure time, cloudy weather!

Up The Hill

This is my favourite pinhole photo of the day!
There’s a kind of hill opposite my house … everything is just beginning to bloom and to grow leaves and animals seem to live in / on it.

Solstickan

These matchboxes! I just HAVE to do something with them … play … film … animate …

Solstickan is a Swedish charity foundation founded in 1936 for aiding children in need. The money for the foundation is gathered through the sales of the Solstickan matchbox or lighter which over the years have become the most well known and purchased matchbox in Sweden. The art work of the matchbox was made in 1936 by the artist Einar Nerman and is a painting of his own son.
Today, the money from the Solstickan foundation goes mostly to science and research in child diseases.

Wikipedia

Shaking Coincidence / Wackelmagnolie

I love coincidences and accidents you might have noticed by now 😉
I wanted to take a nice pinhole photo of my favourite Magnolia tree in bloom … but the camera was not really well fixed to the tripod so it wobbled a little during the only 2 seconds exposure time …
Doesn’t matter, the result is so cool!!!!