Stockholm concrete and lines

Some more from Stockholm

Theresia, Svante och Alf at "Matkultur" on my birthday

Estrid and Hanna

Sigge and Estrid

Trying a 17mm - 40mm lens

Estrid and plane

Lisens amazing birthday cake made by Alf

At Lisens brothers place in "Siberia"

Lisen slicing her birthday cake

Streets of Siberia

Svante and Hanna at Odenplan underground station

Alfs shadow

Stockholm

Moving on to my friends apartment in town. I have taken too many photos. Here is only a few. More will surely come soon.
A blury Hanna and a quite sharp Estrid

 Håkan

Alf & Lisen

My birthday cake

Svante, Jumme & Håkan

Me and my new hat I bought for my self on my birthday. I look like a station master, I need a whistle and one of those paddles indicating if the train is leaving. (Photo taken by Hanna)

the Archipelago

On thursday afternoon me and my parents drove up to stay at my brothers house in the Archipelago of Stockholm.

My brother and my dad outside my brothers amazing house

My dad when out fishing

Dusk

Dusk

Midnight

Midnight

 

I was hoping to catch a fish, cook it and eat it. But no luck so far. My dad managed to catch a small pike though. But we let it dive back into the water again.

Öland

Some pictures around the area where my parents live. A slice of genuine Swedish countryside.

Back to Sweden

Sorry for the delayed updates. During the night between Friday and Saturday I left a rainy winter Sydney behind. Just before I left I captured a few moments with my new Camera. A Canon 5D and a 24mm f1.4 Lens.

After 14h hours in the air I arrived at Dubai Airport. I was there for less than 10 minutes though. But managed to get a shot of the city during take off.

(I spent the14h in this room, trying to sleep, watching movies and eating)

Leaving Dubai behind, the Indiana Jones like map with the plane followed by a red line indicated we where flying straight a cross Iraq. Looking out the window I could see the ground, roads and little buildings. It felt surreal to see the country with my own eyes, after seeing it so many times on TV.

Valuable Delicacy

In my very early teens at the end of the 80's / beginning of the 90's I heard about a book called Necromancer written by William Gibson. A groundbreaking futuristic novel set in a dark future where the word is controlled by massive corporations and Information is hard currency. The book had already been around for more than half a decade and had formed the futuristic subculture called "Cyber Punk", along with it, more novels, movies, music etc. etc. and not the least the mantra "Information want's to be free". I believed in it without quite understanding what it meant. I must have thought it was highly associated with copying and spreading computer software. To be quite honest, as the teenager I was I probably didn't think much of it. I just thought it sounded cool and futuristic. Now almost 20 years later I see the mantra got a much bigger meaning. To quote Obama:

“You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank all that high on the truth meter. With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.”

At first glance... is this someone who is just a little frightened of new technology? That would probably be the conclusion of the teenage me. One detail got stuck in my brain though "a form of entertainment". Thinking of the guy at the party a few weeks ago who picked up his iPhone posting a comment on Facebook "Whoops, some red wine on the carpet, shit happens" after a glass was tipped over by mistake. Surely this kind of information would probably not be valuable in the world of Neuromancer. The same with the guy who who had scales hooked up to Twitter, automatically posting his weight to the public every single morning. Or the ranting comments about "Damn, it's Monday again, I feel like a coffee" on Facebook. The list is endless. Huge amounts of information being passed on creating a big block of noise. The percentage of valuable information is decreasing rapidly. I wonder if one day, you will have to go to some form of information Deli, where you can pure quality information. Or if there will be people experts in evaluating information, just like a jeweler. Will we talk about a new virtual form of pollution? Will there be processes to purify information, something like an oil refinery? Will you be able to get an information coach, someone helping you where to get the information suitable for you? What news to read, where to find the best quality information for your interest?
Maybe I should start a political party, like environmentalists, but in a virtual form?