The world’s first person, Felix Baumgartner, is on his way. This will be the first time in history when a man will go supersonic with just a parachute, without any kind of machine. You can follow his attemt here.
Just click on the Youtube-window down here to watch it live.
Here in Sweden the autumn is really getting a grip of mother nature. The nature is in it’s most beautiful state, on the other hand the days are shorter, and the winds are getting chillier for each day, but maybe the Swedish society is starting to getting warmer?
The last months we’ve had some debate in Sweden regarding our responsibility as citizens to help other people out when something have happened to them. The debate here in Sweden started after a guy fell down on a subway track and a few minutes later was robbed (!!), lying there helpless. The robber took his cell phone and wallet and let him be run over by the subway train. Totally unbelievable! For those who wonder what happened to him; he amazingly survived!
After this I’ve really started to see a change in Sweden. For those of you who have followed this blog, you know that this is a close topic for me, and I guess for all the people that moves from smaller cities to larger ones since the difference in anonymity is huge. (Previous posts here: https://saarimner.com/category/about-personal-thoughts/)
Today, while I was out buying some fresh bread for breakfast, preparing for the Korean F1-race, I noticed three cars that had stopped to help a woman lying on the side of the road, and I guess there were like 10 people helping the woman out! It may sound strange to reflect on this, but I actually think that positive things start to happen, and maybe the story about the man on the subway track was a start for something new? Last week Swedish police (yes, the Swedish Police posts things on Facebook 🙂 ) also posted a story about a woman who have helped a helpless man against two young robbers, and she was all over the news the next day.
Can all these events be start of something new? A warmer and more caring society as a whole? As I always state my political view as naive, I will keep on believing that we one day will have that great society where everyone is seen.
.. and maybe, maybe things are a changing?
I think this guy made the day for these officers. (Sorry about the previous broken link)
This has been a really busy week for this blog. For the first time ever this blog will hit the 5.000 mark for a single week (even though I guess the absolute most part of it was due to “Can you see it”) which is, to be honest, incredible and beyond what I expected when I started writing “to my self” literally. I’ve also been very lucky to be nominated for the very inspiring blogger award from Sirenia. I’m really proud to receive this award from Sirenia since she runs a blog of her own. The blog’s name goes by My Own Avalon and I think the name is really telling of what’s inside. Go ahead and check it out here, it’s a truly great blog.
The rules about this award is on the bottom. 1)
When you receive this nomination you are told to tell seven random things about yourself, and I guess the most obvious like my interest for Photography and thoughts about life in general should be left out:
1. I love my work, and think that I’m very fortunate to work with so talented people every week.
2. I totally believe in the words treat others like you want to be treated
3. I believe that it takes a lot of personal strength to be kind and show and tell about your weaknesses, so in many ways I believe that you find many strong people among those that are expected to be weak and vice versa.
4. I almost always have music on. My five favorite albums are * Keane’s – Hopes and fears, * Hoobastanks – the Reason, * Sara Isaksson’s – Red Eden * Stephen Simmonds – For Father and finally Babyface Unplugged NYC 1997. After those five I guess I have millions more… like albums from Jellyfish, Coldplay, Alison Krauss, Red, Timbaland, Toto and so on
5. I’m addicted to Formula 1 and follow almost every news I can get over
6. I love nature and I guess this affection’s getting stronger the older I get
7. Love everything with high speed that stays on the ground… 🙂
That was a little about me
My own nominees for this price are as follows and in no particular order:
– Conceptual Art for wonderful own work and and amazing list of new discoveries every day. Thank you for your dedicated work!
– Helenography for her own style in photography. When the rest of the photo world is much about over saturated pics, Helene stays true to her own great style with more modest and subtle colors with a great deal of strong light
– Marina Chetner off course. A great and well-written blog about many things but I guess the main focus is on describing places
1) The rules for receiving “the very inspiring blogger award” are telling seven random things about yourself, thank the person who has awarded you for this award by linking back to them and pass the award over to other bloggers and let them know you’ve awarded them.
This is a video collection by Twisted Sifter about the Biggest and best jumps in history. I’m a true admirer of #1 in this video, what an accomplishment.
Hope you all have a great weekend!
I got this picture sent to me on Facebook today and to be honest (I guess I have to blame it on the flu) it took me quite awhile before I got it. It’s a litte bit of a brain-game.
As it said in the Facebook-mail;
“First you don’t get it… Then you do… And then you can’t UN-get it!”
Please respect others experience and keep it to your self, the key 🙂
So, can you see it?
Today I was introduced to a new form of art, Hyperrealism. To be frank I still find it hard to understand that these are drawings and not pictures. Among the most impressive things I’ve seen…
“Hyperrealism was born from the idea of photorealism, which are paintings based on photographs but created in a non-photographic medium.
Taking an average of between three and six weeks to produce, Cadden creates about seven pieces each year – which usually come in A1 or A0 sizes – and sell at galleries for up to £5,000 each.”
From Mail online
This year’s been the most frequent downhill winter for me for many years. On Thursday I will go on my fourth, and unfortunately last, ski weekend together with 22 old colleagues and I searched for some new ski-inspiration on Youtube and came across this lucky snowboarder guy. I sure hope I’ll have the same luck as him going downhill.
Hope that you all have a great start of the week!
If you’re looking for some new and creative ways of using IKEA:s furnitures you’ll find lots of new ways here. Really like this Macbook Air Stand that’s made out of a IKEA’s napkin holder “Fantastisk”.
Instead of buying an Apple stand for $39 a piece, you’ll get this one for $2 …
Click on the image to read more
If you, like me, LOVE the thrill of speed (not the chemical one), you’ll love this video, shot with a GoPro Hero 2-cam.
Happy weekend!
Earlier today I browsed Wikipedia and came across this amazing story that’s been the inspiration for two movies.
What a strange and unbelievable destiny… Mehran Karimi Nasseri fled from the Shan in Iran and was awarded refugee status in Belgium but wanted to settle down in UK. Unfortunately, while he was on his way to a detour in France he lost all his papers (they got stolen) and he got stuck at Charles De Gaulle-airport in France.
This was in August 1988. Who would’ve thought at that stage that he would be stuck there until July 2006? Two movies has picked up inspiration from this story; “Stuck in transit” and “The terminal”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
I’ve always been a big fan of images from, and images of space. These are some images of the first kind, images from space. Love the detail and quality, ans as always it makes me think of how small we all are.
On the Flickr-site you will also get an insight on how these images were done.
To get the full image size, click on “original”
Have a great end of the weekend.
Link to the pictures:
Earth, with focus on USA
Earth with focus on Africa
I wish more companies /ad agencies would have the same kind of creativity when they’re creating Billboards. Almost every ad on this page is truly amazing!
Hope you have a great weekend! (Click on the image to jump to the site)
This is one tough kitten! Takes nerves to fight an Alligator over food, but it doesn’t keep this one from trying!
Now that’s attitude!
Since I’m living in a country where the word for Married and Poision is exactly the same (and pronounced the same) and, as you will learn in the video the number six is the same as sex, I thought it would be of great value to share a quick introduction to “how to speak Swedish”.
A little international warning: In Sweden everyone’s allowed to speak words like fxxk, and other foul words in TV and press, so if you’re offended by those words this is a little warning that there are no “beeeps” in Swedish film clips in general. If you, on the other hand likes a little bit of irony and language comparisons you might find this extremely short introduction interesting 🙂
This is a powerful article I’ve found yesterday, about old B/W-photos that now has been colored and how they actually describes the reality in a new way. Two of the photos are really graphic (warning), and when colored even more horrifying than before.
For me this was an eye-opener. It’s easy to think that the history looks so much different than the present, but I guess it’s easy to imagine that things were more different than they were.
I didn’t thought that polar bears (as I’ve learned to be one of the toughest animals out there) could be this gentle and playful.
Really great short video!
Happy New year!
So, Christmas and New Years Eve is over and things are getting back to normal. Have tried to keep my hands off the blog world for a few weeks and find new inspiration, and boy, inspiration I’ve found!
Let’s kick this year off with a really clever page turner 🙂
Best wishes for a happy 2012!
Jimmy Kimmel has made some hard tricks against the kids during the last months. First he asked the parents to eat their kids Halloween candy and tape the crying kids when they told them.
This is the follow up, “give your kids a terrible present and tape it“.
Hope you enjoy! Happy fourth advent!
This week has been really hectic so the work with my blog hasn’t been up to par to say the least, but it filled me with great joy to receive this award from Xandi (a truly great blogger that I’ll never miss a post from – big fan Xandi!).
so.. thank you Xandimusic for giving me this “The Versatile Blogger Award” !
Here are the rules for the Versatile Blogger Award:
Things about me:
Here’s my nominations:
Adrianharveyphotography is a great source for the photo-interested. What I really enjoy with this blog is the workflow descriptions for each pic. Great blog when I lack inspiration.
http://adrianharveyphotography.com/
Great stories and higg quality blogging with 1001scribbles
http://1001scribbles.wordpress.com/
La Plume Noire was one of the first blog’s I started to follow. Great pics and great stories!
Lesley Carter – this blog could be described as the blog for the adventurer.
http://lesleycarter.wordpress.com
Katie is definitely in the top 5 photographers I follow on the internet and I think we share the same type of images. Always a pleasure when new material is out there. I’ll never a miss post from this blog.
http://katiescamerablog.wordpress.com
I recently discovered this blog that I truly appreciate. I think we share the same thoughts about life as well as our interest in Photography.
http://nandinidhiman.wordpress.com
Don’t be fooled by the name of this blog. It’s nothing about stupidity. Great blog with great pics!
http://oceanofstupidity.wordpress.com/
Ristinw’s blog is a great one to follow. This blog is all about life and follow every day activities in her life. Check it out!
Unfortunately Marina Chetner already received this blog, but it’s still a great blog. Don’t miss it…
Renslittleworld is a truly great blog with travel pictures. The pictures are subtle but yet full of life. Don’t miss it!
Ever wished that you could feel like a dolphin? Just cruising around in those waves, jumping up and down. Well this must be the closest thing so far.
It looks like something taken out of last Spiderman movie, this crazy and amazing gadget Flyboard Zapata. Don’t miss this!
Luc Bergeron has put together the best 200 videoclips from Youtube in this 3 minute long amazing video.
if you wan’t to find the original clips from the video you’ll find them here:
List of 200 videos in order here: http://on.fb.me/vxKDJA
Liste des 200 vidéos en ordre ici: http://on.fb.me/vxKDJA
I’ve got this movie sent to me from one of my friends on Facebook. I call it a movie even though it’s really really short, 2:25 to be exact.
During the first four days after launch it had 700.000 viewers, and I can understand why, it’s a really great feel good movie.
School Portrait (2011) from Michael Berliner on Vimeo.
Chuck Norris doesn’t need Twitter;
he’s already following you!
for more Chuck Norris,
click “just for fun” in the
left panel
World’s funniest and best salesman?
Just listen to the start of his salespitch! Amazing! I’ve never heard more one-liners in so few minutes!
I would buy from this guy whatever he would sell! 🙂
When Graham Bell first invented telephone
he had 2 missed calls from Chuck Norris
Well, this must be on the top of the charts for non-important blog-posts. Anyway here’s a few beds that I wouldn’t ever imagine that existed! Quite entertaining to watch 🙂
Have you ever heard the expression that it’s a maximum of six degrees between you and me? Well, now University of Milan has investigated that a little bit further and the number to remember is 4,74 degrees between any two people on earth.
If this sounds interesting… Click on the link below for further reading.
A few weeks ago I posted a video of a beatboxer that sequentially built up a song, recording one step at the time.
This video is kind of the same but with a guy using instruments and singing. Quite amazing, and quite a good song too.
Thanks to the blog Worldmusic for posting this!
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