2010 Image Archive

The music track is "Hyper Threading" from the album Ambient Pills Update by Zeropage. The track, and this movie, is released under the CC-BY-3.0 license.

Making videos is for me more of a learning experience and a chance to play around with image processing than any actual attempt at producing pro-grade movies. (But you've probably already noticed that.) I've also updated the Video Editing With Blender article based on my experience with making this video.

Korean Hangul writing on the bridge.

A souvenir shop - Joe's Souvenirs - sits in the water tower, about one-third from the south shore.

Music: Garden by Lumin. This movie is released under the Bulgarian version of the CC-BY-NC-SA license. (Take note, the Bulgarian version only allows sharing under the same license, not under any similar license, as the international version does.)

This is the moon, as seen in a two-minute exposure. One doesn't often think about how bright the moon really is, but consider this: The bright part of the moon is directly lit by the sun, and that is being reflected down to earth. What that means is that we're essentially getting the illumination of the ground during a bright summer day sent to us from the moon. Consequently, while one has to have a shutter speed of several seconds when photographing stars, if you want to photograph the moon and see any details, you should set the shutter to 1/80th of a second.

This is the end of the cave. The first explorers spoke about an underground lake being about 50 meters in length here. The vaguely mushroom-looking rock to the left is a part of the ceiling that has fallen down since, and it is believed that the lake was drained through a crack or other opening that may have opened in connection with that event.

The Perušić town well.

Ripe plums, used to brew the local plum brandy.

This mushroom proved to be very difficult to photograph. It grew on a tree trunk that streched out over the water, an element cameras and photographers alike tend to avoid without waterproofing. It was also positioned so that when the camera was correctly positioned, it was impossible for me to look through the eyepiece, nor see what was on the camera display, due to the ground being in the way. I ended up using the auto focus to see if the distance was roughly correct, and by gradually adjusting the tripod (which stood with two legs partially submerged in mud and one in water) to get the composition right. Then I switched to manual focus and stepped through all focus distances, hoping that the f/8 aperture would give me enough depth of field for one of the shots to turn out all right. (All that said, when I look at it unsentimentally, it is just a yellow mushroom.)

The second attempt at a panorama. Same equipment as the first. This time the field of view was 64 by 42 degrees, approximately equivalent to a theoretical 18mm macro lens, and made from three separate exposures (left-center-right).

The first attempt at a panorama using the Raynox DCR-250, Nikon D40, Nikon 18-55mm VR II and Nodal Ninja 3. The field of view is roughly 76 degrees horizontal and 68 degrees vertical, which makes it approximately equivalent to a theoretical 12mm macro lens that is cropped horizontally. For comparison, at 28mm the Nikon 18-55mm covers a 52x36 degree field of view. The boredom of the subject is, for me at least, offset by the excitement of actually being able to create it.

This is a new development in Husby. A year ago the whole area looked like the part between the two white houses - sand and gravel.

The water stairs at the south end of Husby Centrum. Unlike the fountain in Rosengård, this fountain has been foamed a number of times, yet not filled with concrete.

An overview of the "Small Forest" area. The previous four shots were all taken from the area at the bottom right of this photo. The narrow slit between the trees that the sun shines in through is seen clearly.

You'll have to go to WikiLeaks to find the price of watermelon here.

In memory of Jenny

Now this is a weird place. There was this shallow well in the middle, surrounded by winged poles, of which one can be seen just above left of center.

Bridge over the E4 highway near the northern park entrance.

The Copper Tents, built in 1787 to house guards and stables. Today they house the park museum, a cafe and a restaurant.

Cafe tables near Gemstone and China House.

The trails near Gemstone and China House.

The gravel road toward Haga Palace and the Copper Tents.

There used to be a fountain surrounding this sculpture. But since kids would piss in it and older kids would throw shampoo into it, the water was removed and replaced with cement and cobblestones. Of course it is stupid to vandalise a nice fountain, but high-school kids have been pouring shampoo into the fountain in central Helsingborg every year, and sometimes even more often - yet nobody would suggest we simply turn off the water and plug the holes with concrete there. The fountain in Husby Centrum, Stockholm, has been shampooed a number of times and is in a poor neighborhood, but is still filled with water, not concrete. It appears to be assumed that those living in Rosengård are acting together in a big conspiracy. Thus the fountain in Rosengård was built with the implicit condition that if anyone of the 10,000+ people there should damage it, then we'll take it away from everyone, because the act of the one is assumed to be implicitly sanctioned by all. It is the "if you can't take care of nice things, then you can't have them" line of reasoning, but it can't reasonably be applied here. If the people of Rosengård had the means and the time to guard the fountain 24/7, and we lived in a society where such a demand could be made of people, then we definitely can demand that the fountain not be touched. But they don't, and we don't, and we can't. The end result is that a few people are allowed to leverage Swedish local government against the majority, because if they just do damage to a good thing, like the fountain, then Swedish government steps in and completes the destruction of the good thing for them.

What about the people? If one is to generalize, the people from the political left view people here as noble savages who just need to be enlightened by Swedish civilization, and the people from the political right view people here through a rifle scope. There's something to be said for both approaches. While there I met and talk with what can be described as the local gang: As soon as they saw me walking around with a camera I was challenged. They thought I was one of those who come to Rosengård to snap a few shots with a very long tele before getting out at Mach 2; I managed to convince them otherwise and we talked through two points:

The ladybugs had some kind of meetup here - they were everywhere!

I have no idea if it is trying to attack the camera, or just curious.

Another "Happy Fish" - this time an evolved type with arms and legs.

This is the "Happy Fish", designed by artist Pez in 1999.

Example of art on the roller shutters of a store. On the right shutter a pair of something that looks like the "Happy Fish" by Pez can be seen making up the eyes of the face.

Josep Maria Subirachs, "Monument to Ramon Llull", 1976, based on the "Escala de l'Enteniment" ("Ladder of Knowledge") of Catalan mystic Ramon Llull, 1304.

These plastic fruit bowls make for delicious breakfast.

Music: Stojnele' Stokole by Lumin. This movie is released under the Bulgarian version of the CC-BY-NC-SA license. (Take note, the Bulgarian version only allows sharing under the same license, not under any similar license, as the international version does.)

The posters in the background are called pashkevil (pl. pashkeviln) and contain statements on how to lead a virtuous life. While some of them are signed by rabbis, most are posted anonymously. They can be seen as components of a public discussion, where readers can cover them up or remove them if they disagree, or simply adhere to them if they agree. They are also a way of trash-talking others anonymously as partof internal power struggles in the community, although such use is against the Torah.

I have no idea how this one came to be called "Swedish". The best I could come up with was a theory that Selma Lagerlöf's "Jerusalem", a pair of novels about Swedish migration to that same city, had some truth in them and that this was one of the footprints left. But according to any source that I could find, the Swedes that did emigrate ended up joining the American Colony here and were absorbed. Either way, I haven't found any connection.

The graffiti reads Am Israel Hay, or "Long Live Israel!" (lit. "The people of Israel live!")

Centurion tank of the 679th. The tanks were scheduled to undergo a modernization program over a three-year period when hostilities broke out. Despite this, the 679th was considered a "good" brigade - slightly inferior to the 188th "Barak" Brigade (which was the main brigade covering this area) in terms of equipment, but still suitable for front-line duty.

View of Hezbollah positions just north of the Israel-Lebanon border.

Israeli memorial.

The houses of Ahuzat Barak, seen from the north. In the foreground is a new set of houses being built along the northernmost street.

"Caroline & Axel.H 24/4-09 för alltid" / "Caroline & Axel H. April 24th, 2009, for ever"

"du och jag, för evigt" / "You and I, for ever"

Marko, taking one of the over 300 photos he shot during the evening.

The birth of a legend... Little Marko had been looking at my camera all day, and I let him snap a few shots with it. It was obvious that "a few" wouldn't cut it, so for the dinner I put it into programmed auto, set it to what I thought would give good results most of the time, and let him have at it.

The caravan, on its way to the church.

The groom makes his entry, preceded by a band.

Music: Void Sensor by Zeropage. The music, and this movie, is released under the CC-BY license.

Music: Ambient Voyager by Zeropage. The music, and this movie, is released under the CC-BY license.

Day 4: Touch-ups & done!

Day 3: Two layers of paint later.

Day 3: Done sandpapering. This is where a lot of the dust went. I wonder if the spackling paste isn't mixed with Bolivian marching powder, because by you just keep going like a sandpaper robot...

Day 3: Spackling paste, being sandpapered.

Day 3: Preparing the office. The wallpaper had to be cut and covered with spackling paste, which is drying here.

Day 3: Kitchen done!

Day 3: Hallway done!

Day 3: Living room done!

Day 2: Rolled the hallway with the first coat of paint.

Day 2: Painted the edges & switches.

Day 2: Preparing the living room.

Day 1: Preparing the hallway and switches, electrical outlets, etc...

A flower pot outside City Hall.

Music: Ambiphonic by Zeropage. The music, and this movie, is released under the CC-BY license.

Music: Ambiphonic by Zeropage. The music, and this movie, is released under the CC-BY license.

Christ the Pantocrator ("the almighty"), surrounded by words from Revelation 1:8 in Greek.

Links

[a]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/23560
[b]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/3263
[c]	http://www.zeropage-media.com/
[d]	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
[e]	http://monochrome.sutic.nu/2010/06/14/video-editing-with-blender.html
[f]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/26737
[g]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/3661
[h]	http://www.tryad.org/
[i]	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
[j]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
[k]	http://www.joes-souvenirs.com/
[l]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/594120
[m]	http://www.myspace.com/luminmusic
[n]	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/bg/
[o]	http://monochrome.sutic.nu/2008/07/28/moonshot.html
[p]	http://monochrome.sutic.nu/2010/09/02/raynox-dcr-250.html
[q]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_recoilless_rifle
[r]	http://monochrome.sutic.nu/2009/01/18/husby.image.newdev.html
[s]	http://monochrome.sutic.nu/2010/08/06/rosengard.image.fountain.html
[t]	http://www.flysas.com/
[u]	http://www.royalcourt.se/royalcourt/royalpalaces/hagapark/buildingsinhagapark.4.1a6f639212652d9b15a80005035.html
[v]	http://monochrome.sutic.nu/2010/08/06/foam-avalanche.html
[w]	http://monochrome.sutic.nu/2010/08/27/return-to-husby-centrum.image.fountain.html
[x]	http://collect3d.com/news/pez-nukod-happy-fish/
[y]	http://www.lawebdelpez.com/
[z]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/594126
[aa]	http://www.myspace.com/luminmusic
[ab]	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/bg/
[ac]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashkevil
[ad]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_%28symbol%29
[ae]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_padlocks
[af]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_padlocks
[ag]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/20233
[ah]	http://www.zeropage-media.com/
[ai]	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
[aj]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/20231
[ak]	http://www.zeropage-media.com/
[al]	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
[am]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/20236
[an]	http://www.zeropage-media.com/
[ao]	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
[ap]	http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/20236
[aq]	http://www.zeropage-media.com/
[ar]	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
[as]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantocrator
[at]	http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1%3A8&version=KJV

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