Want to keep positive

Heard on the news of another attack on democracy?

On Valentines day there was a shooting on a conference in Denmark.

One to have been the target is Lars Vilks. Our teacher told us about him in class today.

The artist Lars Vilks have some years ago done a piece of art named Rondellhunden in Sweden.

It portraits, it is said to portrait the profet Muhammed.

Although noone knows what that guy might have look like because its from so long time ago.

Well now

Lars Vilks is being protected by the swedish government because of his death treats, that is he is

being harassed by the someones that take offense in what he do for a icing.

He is an artist that makes provocation for a living. Also he seem to be a bit stupid in that way that he

has gone to meeting that supports a certain group of extreme thinking personas.

Why should the Swedish government support such a guy that makes his living as an artist by

offending other/ by being attention seeker / making big time extraordinary actions meaningfully to

get his viewers - although now that there is deathtreath against him some of his exhibitions has had

to be closed down

Maybe should play David Bowie Valentines day which is about a shooting also on Valentines day 

oh well Beatles is winning this one time because it has the lyrics ´I heard the news today oh boy´

Cheers!

News update: food year, I mean good year, 'ears

last entry 3rd of december about the politics in Sweden kind of.

Oh the politics. After x-mas day the Swedish prime minister decided to announce that the election is

off because the parties had agreed on certain terms in a way so that the very right party will get less

power in the dealings of the money issue. This has caused the very right party (or is it very left?) -

I dunno 'cause I don't care for the politics really - well, they issued a complaint on the prime minister.

This is nothing the other parties care for either as they did not vote against the new minister as it were

a voting last week. Oh the politicians.

I am still surprised that the "angry young man" very right party got so many votes that they made

themselves seats in the government. It is not a party that is very right (it is just the direction of their

politics).  The man that led them has gotten burned out already and has been replaced by another.

During the elections he was compared to a famous angry man figure with mustache from second

world war.  So this other man has been in charge of the" very angry party" since december.

Now they have less than four years to government - until september 2018 when next election comes

if they don't get away with trying to kick out todays prime minister for what? on what charges? being

not like them, for being not with them on the money issue. Who are they?

We and they - that is the problem always, segregation.

Many of the swedish voters voted for them and now they have less power of the voting of money

since the secret agreement made between the other parties in Regeringen during december 2014.

Even Nelson Mandela once was an angry young man, but he got older and wiser - (during a horrible

27years! in prison). No man - is that where I wish for all angry men to be?! Wise up.

Anyhow. Last week we begun having lectures and I have learned about the history of photography by

Peter Assar Monssen.  He told about Nan Goldin and the Ballad of sexual dependency that is her 900

some photographs that she has made soundtrack to with 30 different songs.

With time the camera has become less important and today film has greater impact on society. When

you do photograph, take a picture sans the lightning of the flash because the natural light is what the

picture needs.  It is so that light is measured with Kelvin. And natural light has x Kelvin and a

lamplight a different Kelvin. There is warm red yellow light and cold blue green light and the warm

light is what feels comfortable.

Before Larry Clarkes closeups there was Muzi(Muyi?) a drawing artist before Jesus Christ, 2000

years before the year zero this man in china drew pictures. Time flies and Aristoteles wrote down a

description of fotografia that he saw a square round pictures on the grass from the light of the sun as

it traveled through the branches of a tree - during a solar eclipse.

Alhazeni was first to make a camera obscura.

Brunelleschi during the medieval times 14th century found out perspective.

Leonardo DaVinci was first with the description of a Camera Obscura, like its a hole in the wall for

you to get an upside down picture on a whitewashed wall.

Something about a french bishop Feon? that wrote a science fiction novel 1600 something described

how to get a picture on a gold-plate or silver via water.

The history of real photography is less than 200 years old (It put some things in perspective)

First there was daguerreotyper or diaramor, fotogram. 1830 a photograph was made. The first ones

was made onto copper and very sensitive for touch therefore they were framed in glass.

Important Names: Diane Arbus, Philip DiLorca, Henri Tati

Rene Descartes said cogito ergo sum - that is I think therefor I am. (Is it not so that a

photograph of you sucks the soul out of you? - to many self-portrait photographs might just do you

soul less?)

About the daguerreotype: Smithsonian institute.

in politics (sweden)

I have been bingewatching The House of Cards last weekend,
a netflix show about political agenda in the US of A.

Then yesterday the swedish prime minister stood up for his budget plan by saying to the people that he was calling for a new election. It´s due for march 22. Right ?!

- I feel panic about this government crisis says a young female in class.
Then a grandmother comes into the room and says
- Don´t you worry, we the people have voted for the politicians to handle our stuff.
Let them handle it.

(there is new fasciscism going into our swedish democracy writes Ola in the newspaper)

When you got a problem:
if you know what to do about it, don't worry.
if you don't know what to do about it, don't worry.

Dalai Lama


"insert video"
Let it be sang by the Paul McCartney, Live Aid 1985, 15 july..

the house inside a greenhouse

what fascinate me is this house build inside a greenhouse
by family solvarm Naturhuset i Sikhall, Sweden











an english word for it is sky house. Accurate? IDK

I´d like one house like that to have medeterranian temperature although its snowy winter and it´s good för to electric bill when it is such good keeping the heat and the house get protected from weather and wind safely inside the glass made greenhouse shield.

A home where to grow vegetables and fruits and be well.

The house in Sikhall is open for visitors so I know what I might do next summer

Cheers!

Happy birthday John

John Lennon he was something else. A wonderful musician. He walked the earth 40 years, then that dreadful day December, 8th 1980 a weapon ended it. #Stop making guns in the name of love. Imagine a world free where it is war off, peace on.

Song Mind Games
Artist John Lennon

What is art?

It is a good question. Some questions just are there and have thousand billion of different answers to them. Yesterday I was at a vernissage on Gocart (it stands for Gotland Contemporary Art) it oould also be short for Go c art (Go and see art). There was a performance by Dryckesbröderna, two female artists in the making. They told about their travelling around the small island of Gotland, Sweden between cheers "skål".

Here's  their homepage
http://dryckesbroderna.tumblr.com  The drinking brothers  (in swedish)

So i figured to tell some travelling story too. I have taken some pictures of my time on Gotland as well.

 Here's on my way to Art-school looking at the clouds.

Passing by ringmuren. It is a photo of the reality so it is not art is it? If I made a painting of this wall thingy would it become art then? Who knows?

The world is art - the word is art

Freddie Mercury

When I think of a Queen song, the song that comes into mind is Bohemian Rhapsody, iconic harmonies and the wonderful singing master. I recorded that song from the radio on a tape when a was little. Today was Freddie Mercury's birthday. No more amongst the living but his songs will live on for all time.

I love the small song too Love of my life. The guitar play by Brian May on this tune is great to hear.

 
"Don't stop me now" is also a wonderful song and that it then the line continues 'cause I'm having such a good time. 

Fabulous muzic. Full of life, stories, harmony.
Cheers!

I should stop writing now. Leave on a high note. It just gets to me that my uncle had the same, not the same? similar, fatal ending to his life as Freddie. That disease is so real and so many get it and it's important to acknowledge it. Jonas Gardell has written a book about the early 70's in Stockholm "Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar" - don´t swipe off the tears without gloves on. It got to be film 2012 by director Simon Kaijser. That got to me.  Spoiler alert... characters dying.
There is a more aware society nowadays perhaps. Stay safe.  I will.

"Only the good one die young" what song is that?