Hello everyone,
as the title says, I’m in Dubrovnik. If you are wondering where it is, it is located in the deep south of Croatia; and if you are wondering where Croatia is, then I have bad news for you.
I arrived yesterday, after a very long trip by bus (approx. 15 hours), which passed through several cities (I will soon update this post with their names; UPDATE: The bus departed from Trieste and went through Rijeka, Zadar, Šibenik, Split, Makarska, Ploče and then Dubrovnik).
Dubrovnik is truly amazing and I’ve already found several good places for taking pictures. I’m also lucky I’ve found a very nice apartment right in the main area of the town, the Old Town. A very suggestive and busy place.
Right now I’m looking at an extremely blue sea, with a cloudless sky and light breeze. Kids` laughters, a mix of languages, the waves and my iPod creates a very improbable yet nice soundtrack for this moment.
Due to connectivity issues, I am not able to upload pictures as per now, but I’ll try my best tomorrow.
UPDATE2: even today I won’t be able to upload any picture, but today or tomorrow I will cut out some time to take some other pictures and post them here!
Bye for now.
I’ll update you as soon as possible.
Nesh
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Hello everyone!
Last month I had the chance to visit Copenhagen (Denmark), a city I liked, even though I kind of expected something more from it; it could have just been the bad weather, I don’t know.
Streets of Copenhagen
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Hello everyone,
this is just a quick update.
I have been busy with some projects and trips, so I am still working on some images before writing a post.
This post is mainly to tell you I am still alive (yay!) and that I have opened a shop on Artflakes (I will put the link at the bottom of the post). It has the pictures I like the most from my collections.
Even though this isn’t quite a common post, I will still put some extras:
[Sóley – Pretty Face]
I found this song while wandering on youtube, I think I started from a song of ‘Radical Face’, another group I found quite randomly.
I just like listening to it.
And here is a quote from the book ‘High Fidelity’; a book I read a while ago and found very amusing as well as inspiring, I strongly suggest it to anyone:
“What came first–the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands– literally thousands– of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Here is the banner linking to my shop:
http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/alberto-vaccari
I wish you a great day and I look forward to hear from you. Feel free to drop a line here in the comments, I will appreciate :).
P.S. I am also thinking about changing the theme of the blog (again), but I am not sure yet.
Peace,
N.
Hello there,
how is it going? Have you seen? I managed to write another article, this time without waiting weeks, WOHOHOOO!
Just some news from Sweden and myself: I finally found a part-time job as web developer, just for a project now, but hopefully everything will work out fine; if so, it is very likely to become a permanent position.
Here it is getting colder, but I am still looking forward to something more; I really miss the Canadian winter. Even though I have been reassured that there will not be much snow, I have been told by many people that ‘it will get f*$%ing cold here’.
I guess I will need to wait and see it myself.
For the rest, I have been working on a school project lately and with some work I am on my way to accomplish my task.
Oh, right! I was forgetting, next week there will be the first meeting of the photography group I am going to join, and on the 25th of November I will, if everything stays like this, going to take pictures of an event for a magazine! Yay!
I have been lazy lately, concerning photography in an artistic way, so I am looking forward to have a place and thus a determined period of the week for focusing on this. And also having the chance to take pictures for a magazine will give me, first of all, experience in people photography.
Yesterday, there has been the Halloween Party at Chalmers (the other University in Göteborg). The party itself was alright but the people made it great.
You perhaps might be wondering about my costume, well… My first plan was to make (sew and so on) my own Super Mario costume (yeah I know, you might be thinking: ‘what’s cool about that’, but I liked the idea to be the only Super Mario to be able to say ‘Mamma mia’ with the right accent :P), but due to problems during the way (mostly because the result of the hat did not satisfied me), I opted for the easy and quick way: the ‘undead/zombie/vampire/whatever costume’. It came out nicer that I thought, thanks to a friend who made my make-up last-minute. Taaack again! 😛 [Tack in Swedish means ‘Thanks’, Ed.]
I will conclude this short and pictureless with the now usual Extra section.
Extras:
This video is a live performance of Jake Newton’s “Terrible Dream”.
I have discovered him quite randomly on the website ‘pledgemusic.com’ and after having listened to some of his tracks I was convinced he was someone to support, and so I did, I pledged and helped him to make his record. [In which he succeeded, for more info: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/jakenewton-lets-make-a-record]
I like this song for its simplicity and the whole picture created by the lyrics.
I really like how J.N. describes what he feels for the partner while he is in the world of the dreams; a place where, supposedly, only the pure essence of the self comes out of the armor and says what he really believes. In fact, there are many statements that can be considered somehow ‘extreme’ (“Without your love the world is void of everything”) and sometimes such feelings can be expressed just in our own dreams.
And the song ends in a gloomy and bitter finale where he just woke up next to, we can assume, her and she is, indeed, not aware of what just happened and gives only an apparently cold comment about him talking during his sleep. I used the word gloomy and bitter because I can imagine that probably he will not (or cannot) completely tell his dream and therefore she will never know.
This week I have had the chance to see a very interesting interview of Tiziano Terzani, an Italian author and journalist.
I liked a sentence he said; here it is, of course the translated version: “There is a nice word in Italian, that suits more than the word ‘happy’, and it is accontentarsi (to able to be content). Only a man who is content of what he has can truly be happy. Because this system founded on the pursuit of a desire: that there is always a desire that for you is unreachable, makes everybody unhappy”.
After seeing that short video, I am going to watch the full version of the interview, this man seems very interesting.
For more information about his life:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziano_Terzani
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziano_Terzani
This is it for now,
hoping to see you soon.
Peace,
Nesh
Hej guys,
how are you keeping?
Finally I found some time and will to start writing again. I have been quite busy, mostly because of the university (which involves parties of course), but also quite lazy. My laziness increased when I noticed that all the links to my pictures, I published on the blog, were broken…
Today I was ready to upload them all again (this time on flickr), but I gladly found out that they were *magically* back. Nevertheless I wanted to back them up, and so I did.
Well, I shall talk about Sweden.
Right now I live in Sweden and more precisely in Göteborg.
For those who do not know where it is, here is the map:
I am attending an IT bachelor degree at the Goteborgs Universitet.
Lately I have stayed mainly in the city, but last week I went to Ireland to meet a friend I really missed.
I have found an accommodation and maybe soon a job as well.
I am looking forward to start working on the photography group of the university, I have not been practicing a lot lately. But I have many projects I want to attempt.
This post does not contain as many interesting pictures as the others, but I wanted to catch up with what happened so far.
As usual I will end the post with a nice song I have found out lately, no aphorism today 🙁 :
[ Björn Olsson – Låt i H moll]
I found this song in a funny video and it got stuck in my head for its apparent simpleness. The author is ‘Björn Olsson’, he is Swedish and from Goteborg!
Check him out, you wont regret it: http://www.bjornolssonmusic.com/
Peace,
Nesh
Hello guys,
yes yes, I know.. butterflies have nothing to do with burgers and even less if they are monster burgers.
But I wanted to put together these two different subjects and post them into the same post (repetition).
I will start with the Butterflies, way healthier than the monster burgers.
Yesterday I have been amazed by a gorgeous butterfly flying around my small, but still, awesome garden:
[Every picture has been taken with a Nikon D5000, and of course they fall under the copyright of this blog]
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Hey guys,
so? Did you try this thing out? If so, how did it go?
I tried it, and I really enjoyed it. It was like ‘Bring your camera at work day’, instead of a child. Yes, because I had to work that day. I was planning to go somewhere really awesome and special, and then I ended doing overtime on saturday.. Really bad. But at least I really filmed what I usually do during my normal days, here in Canada.
I will upload my videos soon, maybe tomorrow, today it seems to be really crowded and slow the upload page.
[Smarties experiment]
[Every picture has been taken with a Nikon D5000]
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Hey guys!
Sorry if I did not write anything these last days, but I have been busy: working, researching and preparing a huge birthday cake for a close friend on the wrong date (that was really a huge surprise, in fact I made a mistake and I made the party in the wrong day ç_ç).
Today at least I found the time to write again something about this project ‘ Life in a Day ‘. I spent some time thinking how I would like to show a day of my life: maybe doing something special, going somewhere incredible, but then I realized that it wouldnt be a real day of my life, so I decided to just film my life from my point of view (kinda first person movie), where I show what I do during a typical day. In fact, even if tomorrow is saturday, I am going to work, and tomorrow I try to create my footage.
And you guys? Are you going to give it a shot? I mean, that’s something that everyone can keep for himself and show it to his/her children in 10 years. Wouldn’t it be cool? And then if you are lucky and/or interesting, you might end up on a movie.
Let me know, I am really curious, I have already seen some ideas, and they were all awesome. And you know why? Because they were simple, and showing what a normal person thinks and does in his ‘normal’ life. I dont like calling a life ‘normal’, because every single life is amazing and fantastic. Something I do here in Canada (where I live right now) might be boring for a person who lives in US, but it might be awesome for a person who lives, for example, in Argentina or Italy.
C’mon guys, take out your camera and film!
Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday
Hello,
how are you guys?
This is going to be a long post, since I had less time than expected I am going to fill various articles all together.
As I announced in a previous post, yesterday I went to Mt.Tremblant (Quebec – Canada). I went there with some friends; we’ve kayaked on the Lac-Monroe and then went to the International Blues Festival in Mt. Tremblant Village.
Where we went kayaking was simply awesome; it really reminded me some places in World of Warcraft (I played that game soo much, that now every place reminds me a zone in that game).
Obviously I did not take any pictures while kayaking, I did not want to risk to ruin my brand-new camera.
Here is some shots of the area:
[Amazing landscape, we have kayaked on this lake. Imagine the feeling you have while being there, alone with you, a very close friend and water.]
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Hello guys,
nice day today. At work I worked on a new project and I enjoyed the experience, and the weather was not that bad (some rain that only cooled down the temperature).
Yesterday, while shopping at Dollarama (a discount shop where – by definition – everything should cost just 1$; even if, for some articles, the price is higher) I noticed some soap bubble containers, and I thought that I have actually never taken pictures of soap bubbles, and I thought (as usual): ‘Why not?’.
[Pictures taken with a Nikon D5000]
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