Mediastorm

MediaStorm is an award-winning multimedia production studio, working with top visual storytellers, interactive designers and global organizations to create cinematic narratives that speak to the heart of the human condition.

This is how Mediastorm describes themselves. Good. I could not describe them, I can only say go there and watch amazing stories being told in beautiful and humane way.

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Worth watching!

Russian Tattoo book

I went in to a museum of art and came out with a book on Russian Criminal Tattoos...
Anyway, what interested me were not the tattoos, though they are art pieces, interesting, scary and intriguing. What caught my eye was the photos of the people wearing them.
The photos are taken inside Russian jails and they tell so much of the state of the society they live in.
They show us the criminals of the street, many of them looks insane and they remind me strongly of photos from the beginning of last century made of patients. Those pictures were made for doctors case studies. These photos of Russian criminals show people on the edge of life, society and sanity. The photographer is conscious of his power to shine just a little spotlight on the people and the temptation to receive just those minutes, puts them in a vulnerable position. They are showing off their tattoos, but the voyeuristic camera lens undresses them and shows instead of cool tattoos the fragile person. To put these people into the context of the news we get from Russia lately, broadens at least my view of the country and the state it is in.
If you want to see more of this book it is made by Steidl in three volumes. I happened to buy the second one.

Mark Jenkins - Street Art

Mark Jenkins is making extremely cool and sometimes even scary street art. I came across his art as my friend intends to exhibit his work in Örebro konsthall in September. Otherwise on the street his work is difficult to see if you are not notified. I missed an art-piece just next to my house...I now conclude when I see his collective work at his website. Go through his website so that you don't miss it! I wish he could tell me were the next thing will be.



All images are from website of Mark Jenkins.

Pictures of Walls

Enjoy toilet scribbles? Wise or strange notes on walls? This is the website for you. At Pictures of Walls you are asked to take a picture of the wall art you see and admire, then contribute it to their collection. But as they say, they won't put up all crap you send. They will only show a collection of imaginative wall drawings and thought-provoking scribbles. No real graffiti. It all worth spending time looking through.
If you like it, there is a best of collection book. You can find it at amazon (and many other places). I love it!

All images are from the website picturesofwalls.com

Björn Terring photography

www.terringphoto.com - Nice photography. Not pretentious our conceptual, just straight up good, interesting photos.

Photo belongs to Björn Terring and is from his blog.

Found magazine

A favorite magazine of mine, for many years now, is Found Magazine. It satisfies my every need of imagery. I can spend many hours browsing through their archive of found notes and pictures. It amuses me tremendously to read and imagine were these notes comes from and who or were the photos were taken. It is a view in to other peoples life's, far away or maybe very close to mine. Could it be my neighbor who lost some of those notes or who's photo were found lying on the street? The notes often contains so strange and contradicting messages which makes my mind buzz from all the stories it makes up of who the writer is or who the receiver might have been. Then were it's been left and if the intended receiver really got the note or the content of the message. So if you have some hours to spend or just want a laugh quick-fix go to Found Magazine and see 'the find of the day'!



Both images in this post comes from Found Magazine.

Falling snow

Letter book

On my latest trip to Barcelona I found a beautiful book at Gallery RAS, Calle del Doctor Dou 10, BNC. www.rasbcn.com .
RAS have a great offer of art-, graphic design- and photo books. Well worth a visit. Nice is to see what art projects and books are being made in Spain and especially in and around Barcelona. This is one of them.