And the winner is: Lars Dela

So my friend Lars is a really good photographer, and I`ve been trying to talk him into submitting photos for Gaffa Photo Award. But Lars is a very humble person, so he didn´t really trust himself to be good enough, and therefore never got around to doing it.

Therefore I´ve decided to make him the winner of this weeks big photo-event in Denmark: Sadie´s Photo Award 2010!

So here are the winning photos. They are all taken at a concert in Pumpehuset, Copenhagen in the end of May this year with the bands Monkey Cup Dress and CODY.

As usual click to see full size.

 

Sleep Party People photos

Actually I have a lot to post.... so maybe I´m going to be a bit hyper active the next couple of days?

I went to a concert with Sleep Party People in Little Vega, Copenhagen last saturday. It was really great, just a little short, so I´ll look forward to the time when they have a bigger pile of songs to perform.

I normally don´t take photos at concerts. I have a friend, Lars Dela, that does that very well instead, but he was busy somewhere else that night, so I decided to give it a try. Also because Sleep Party People always perform disguised as rabbits, and I wanted photos of that.
 
I have no idea of what settings to use in my camera, so I experimented a bit. And it turned out that the only thing working was something called night snap shot, so I ended up with only 3 photos that worked (and one of them needed a little help in photo editing from Janis Sawyer, thanks).

But I´m pretty proud of those 3 shots, so here they are (I even uploaded them on Gaffa Photo Award after they called for more female photographers, but I don´t have high expectations on that though):

(click on the photos to see the full version)

 

NOT going to Roskilde Festival:-(

Well, I did buy my ticket to The Roskilde Festival, Northern Europes biggest music festival where I have been going every summer for 10 years now, just before the festival sold out and people started offering their firstborn in change for a ticket.
But then my cute physiotherapist, who have been treating my herniated disc, looked at me in this weird way and pointed out that this might not be the best idea I ever had, and would I then at least consider bringing a chair?

Have any of you been to Roskilde? Maybe going to my favourite scene/tent there, The Arena, who can house 17.000 people? And if it´s a REALLY popular band, there´ll be another 17.000 outside the tent. Bring a chair? He might as well have suggested I should bring a couple of elephants.

So I sold the ticket again, and at least made somebody else very happy.

But I was disappointed. Especially about the fact that I would be missing out on one of the concerts that I´ve been looking forward to the most: the Danish one-man-project/liveband Sleep Party People. I´m going to hear him play in Copenhagen later this autumn, but that´s just not the same as experiencing him at Roskilde... Roskilde is special.

So I had to express my frustration somehow. And since I´m anyway busy at the moment getting myself re-acuainted with Gimp(the free alternative, for those of us who can not afford Photoshop), and since Sleep Party People always perform disguised as rabbits, I stole a photo from Sleep Party People on Facebook (I´m sorry!) - a photo showing a band member looking out on Copenhagen from a rooftoop - and turned him into a rather frustrated an unhappy bunny....

I´m actually pretty satisfied with the outcome. So now I´m thinking if I should just go ahead, and harm a hole bunch of my favourite musicians?

Where´s my Path Finder?

Yes, where have my Path Finder gone? Have you seen it?

I´ve been having some exhibits lately after lying low for a while, and that was nice. It´s nice to get out there and get a sense that what you do does mean something to somebody.

I just had this little accident while exhibiting my bed-size installation "Mikkel" at the Town Hall on may 27. The installation consist of a lot of stuff, pillows printed with drawings of sexual organs, condoms blown up like balloons, and.... a pink jelly vibrator (never been used, I swear).

I was a little stressed and in a hurry in the morning, where I went to put up the installation before going to work, so I haven´t thought about how to make my pink jelly vibrator steal-safe..... and the punishment for that came quick, of course:-)


When I went to take a look at the installation in the afternoon, before taking it down again, of course the vibrator was gone.
I don´t really think some woman in need stole it; I suspect it now serves as a trophy in some guys livingroom. I could be proven wrong of course, but I don´t think so.

My fault of course. I didn´t attach it to the rest, and I didn´t even - as somebody pointed out that I could have - put a label on it saying "very used" or even "private property".

So I had to go buy a new one. It´s fine, but I still want the old one back. You know how I get attached to my scultures, don´t you?

So if you stumble across it, it looks like this (and it could be bought at Lust here in Copenhagen, in case you´ve ben getting inspired to try it out):

Meeting Sally Mankus

While staying in Seaside, Florida with my friend Janis Sawyer, we got a visit from another mixed media artist, Sally Mankus. Janis introduced me to her art and website some time ago, and I really like what she is doing and I do feel related to her art. I don' t know that many artists that I do feel related to, so it was nice meeting her. I just wish we'd had more time to talk...... like days instead of hours ;-)

We talked a bit about being an artist and how you make yourself seen on the internet, which is something that I know nothing about. So that was interesting. It's not the aspect of your work that you want to spend the most time on, but making public relations for yourself is part of the job.... So when I get back home to Copenhagen, I'm gonna look into that on my path to fame:-)

If you' re into my art, you should take a look at Sally's homepage. I guarantee you that she is doing some very interesting stuff! See: