Music for Thursday – Old School Foo Fighters, End Over End

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For all of those who think they can’t

I’ve always loved these type of stories / videos of people who put their fears, struggles and differences away, and just goes for it.

This is absolutely one of those. Truly inspirational!

Music From the movie Due Date – Fleet Foxes, Mykonos

Preparing for autumn photography

I think we’re just a few days away from the best autumn days, in terms of Photography. Some of the leaves has started to get those amazing colors, but soon the forest will be full of red, green, blue, yellow and so on.

This is a photo I took last year, just a few weeks after this point.

© Pedro Hansson - Preparing for Autumn Photography
© Pedro Hansson – Preparing for Autumn Photography

Happy Weekend with this awesome Bike Horn Rock Video

iPhone 5S – First Impression – Hands On HD

From Dan B, on YouTube

From Techradar

Music From Breaking Bad, Episode 13 – Steve Perry (former Journey) – Oh Sherrie

In the last episode of Breaking Bad there was music playing in the background for quite some time. Could you figure it out?

For those of you who know Journey, you may also know Steve Perry, the vocalist. The song that were playing was from his solo album “Street Talk (1084) “Oh Sherrie”. Since Journey had a quite huge hit with “Don’t stop believn'”, this could might as well be a new hit due to such great exposure in Breaking Bad.

For more music, click here
See also: Music From Breaking Bad, Episode 16

Beautiful Time Lapse / emulation Of An Aging Woman

Link to the Vimeo-page: https://vimeo.com/74033442

Danielle from Anthony Cerniello on Vimeo.

Created by: Anthony Cerniello
Still Photographer: Keith Sirchio
Animator: Nathan Meier
Animator: Edmund Earle
Nuke Artist: George Cuddy
Music: Mark Reveley”

Golden Morning

© Pedro Hansson - Golden Morning
© Pedro Hansson – Golden Morning

About Life

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”

– Alfred D. Souza

 

A Short Test In Lateral Thinking – Can You Figure It Out?

A man parks his car at a hotel and suddenly knows that he has lost all his fortune.

What happened?

First Signs Of Autumn

First Signs Of Autumn

Ever since I started this blog I’ve been portraying autumn. In my opinion the best season of all if you’re into Photography. In Sweden it’s one of the warmest start of September, ever.

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

I hope you have a good start of the week.

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/3mL0pzaHLsjJoaGfvQWyD5

© Pedro Hansson - First signs of autumn
© Pedro Hansson – First signs of autumn

Birthday Walk 2013

Today is my birthday and I’m trying to start a new tradition. Getting up early and the take a long walk together with my camera. This is the first photo from that walk.

© Pedro Hansson - Morning Walk
© Pedro Hansson – Morning Walk

Some Friday Fun: Obama sings Daft Punks – Get Lucky

Best wishes for the weekend

Source: 9GAG.COM

How to create a logo – Yahoo’s new logotype

For all designers out there. Short, but  interesting video about the making of Yahoo’s new logo.

Source: feber

The Story Of Jonathan

This is a story (as Heroin Diaries by Sixx A.M) that’s 16 minutes and 36 seconds long. It’s a story of a kid, that grew up, and all through life just had one wish, to be loved by his closest.

I guess this story isn’t that strange, and uncommon. Still it is a thoughtful story by W.A.S.P. For all music fans; even if you know the history of Blackie Lawless, he and Nikki Sixx used to play in the same band, “London”. As one of my friends said; this may be the inspiration for Nikki Sixx to share his inner thoughts in Heroin Diaries?

Don’t miss out on this piece of music history. Thank you J for the tip!

Lyrics could be found here ->

Dating tips for single ladies in 1938

This is a series of photo from 1938 of how women were supposed to act when they went on a date. It seems like the world has moved in the right direction since then 🙂

For the rest of the photos click on the images

Source imgur

Beautiful creation – The new Porsche 918 Spyder

What a beautiful car this is, and what a great future all car fanatics still can dream for. This is the new Porsche Spider Hybrid which you can travel around 20 km purely on electricity but whenever you need more power the petrol engine kicks in. All together the system power is around 900 horsepower! Not bad!

Source: Carscoop

So You Think You Can Ride? Italian Motorbike Display by Italian Police Riders

I almost can’t believe that this is possible to stage. Especially the sequence where they are driving as a cross. Respect.

More connected – but more alone?

This video really made me think about the modern way of spending time with each other. The topic is far from new, but I think this short movie really put its finger on today’s society, and I’m the first to agree that I’m absolutely one of those who should think more about this.

So, why are we always “on our way”, instead of grasping the moment we’re in?

Daughtry – September

Country Road – Autumn – iPhone Photo

iPhone Photography – Autumn

Yesterday I were in Norrtälje, together with some friends. On our way there, we walked along this road, and this view, with the trees that’s preparing themselves for Winter, the road and the small typical Swedish houses was amazing. Really looking forward to best time of the year when it comes to photography, the autumn.

On top of the photo I’ve added some filters, and then added the “painting like” effect.

© Pedro Hansson - Country Road
© Pedro Hansson – Country Road

If this isn’t entirely staged, it’s entirely awesome – Lenny Kravitz crashes the VOP Choir

Lenny Kravitz overheard some music from The Voice of Praise Choir (First Baptist Church in Lewisville) and desired to crash in.

 

Paintings of Swedish Sci-Fi Suburbia

Don’t miss out on talented Simon Stålehags amazing paintings of a Swedish Sci-Fi Suburbia. Awesome work.

If you like the painting; visit his website here

Swedish Summer; Evening – Sunset

© Pedro Hansson - Sunset, Summer in Sweden
© Pedro Hansson – Sunset, Summer in Sweden

iPhone iOS 7 – Some thoughts after using the new iOS for a month

Some thoughts about iOS7 after using it for one month

Since we’re developing apps for iOS I’m part of the beta testing team that will use their coming upgrades before they are released, and report issues back to Apple, to have them corrected.

(See also – One of the best new features in iOS7 – a well kept secret?)

iPhone iOS7

This new upgrade is both a big upgrade, at the same time as it’s not. It’s big in terms of GUI, the icons are “flat” now instead of “floating”/3D. I really don’t know if I like this more than the old one. I’ve got used to it, but at the same time I miss some of the old beautiful icons. It’s a small change in the overall usage.

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One new feature is the possibility to have more than one screen in each icon-folder, but at the same time there are fewer icons in every screen. Both good and bad there as well.

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The camera has been upgraded and I think it has gotten better with live filters, easier access to functions and some new nice features as “square” for all instagrammers (my nick is btw on instagram is @pedrohansson).

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What I thought for almost 24 hours was a big flaw in this new OS, was that I couldn’t reach spotlight to the left of my home screen. With over 600 apps installed that it was a downgrade. But of course there was a new way of doing that, that actually is better. Wherever you are in your iOS-screens you can just put your finger on the screen, hold it down for a short time and drag it down. Voila! There’s spotlight.

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The new fast access screen (that you access by dragging your finger from the bottom upwards) is also a highly appreciated function that should’ve been there years ago.

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Siri seems to have had a major upgrade. A more personalized feeling and I think a better understanding of follow-up questions. It’s starting to be really impressing.

What is really nice in the new iOS is the multi tasking screen where you can reach all apps that currently are running. This screen is now a full screen with “live shots” from each and every app running. Great GUI!

What’s more to say? Well there are many many small changes here and there and I think this is a really good new iOS. I just wonder if it’s enough to keep the Androids behind.

I will continue to use iPhone since my whole home is built around it, AND it’s always working which I think is the number one feature with the iPhone. You just start it and use. No need to turn off GPS, no need for “app killers” since they are running out your batteries and so on. So Apple, I will stick with you for a while more, but I hope we will see some new cool, mind blowing functionality, in the future, as we were used to in the past.

For all the romantics out there – part 2 – 94 yo Fred’s song, Sweet Lorraine

Today I came across another of those “romantic stories”, and since I recently published another of those stories I thought that I could post this as well.

I hope you enjoy it

Autumn Music – John Mayer, live in Nokia Theatre – Free Fallin’

Here in Stockholm it has been an amazing August day. Blue skies, people everywhere and it almost feels like the summer is still here.

What I enjoy with Sweden, and Swedes is that we almost never miss out on an opportunity to have a great day / evening when the sun is shining.

Back at home I started – as always – to listen to some music, and this awesome track started playing in my speakers. What a great autumn song!

Best wishes for a great “lill-lördag” tomorrow

iPhone Macro – Bumble-Bee

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