As promised here is an update with, finally, some pictures.
With today I would like to start posting pictures everyday; I know it could be a hard job, but who said it would be easy?
In each post I will also add a description, just to give the picture a clearer context. It is supposed to be some sort of photo-documentary of the places I go.
The posts will be shorter, but more frequent; hopefully my Internet connection will allow me to do so.
I start this project with my visit to the Ploče Gate (Vrata od Ploča), the Eastern entrance to the Old Town (Grad). It is very close to where I live and it is one of the two main entrances to the Grad.
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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.
Hejhej!
How is it going over there? Here, as you can see from the enlightening title, it is cloudy today; not really a big deal, but I am probably out of imagination, so lets keep it in that way.
It has been quite a long time I don’t stop by and write something here. I could invent stories on how I was so busy and I couldn’t update it, but I believe the main reason is that this blog goes parallel with my photography and since in these last months, due mainly to the almost permanent presence of ice on the streets of Gothenburg, I did not carry my camera around, I did not take picture either.
I will try to have it with me more often from now on.
Anyway, about me.
Life is going fine, went through many happy and sad moments but life goes on, and so do I.
I finally got a job and even though that occupies quite a lot of my former-spare time, I like the job and it gives me more stability, money-wise.
University proceeds normally, still nothing very interesting so far.
The project, a picture everyday, is almost at its 2nd year, and I am considering about making a video or something out of it.
The main issue is that during these 2 years I have changed camera and also changed version of LightRoom. It would not be a problem if I had planned a little bit more carefully.
Now I find myself ordering the first year of pictures = not funny. But I will do it, and probably today! {Update: done, it was not THAT bad at the end}
Anyway here are some pictures, yes I have taken few pictures during these months, of Gothenburg. Nothing special, but still better than nothing.
Well, for now, this is it. I am leaving for Italy in 3 days, so I find myself full of things I want to be completed before the departure.
I will try to give more updates while I am there.
Take care.
peace,
N.
Hello,
I’m back and finally I found the chance to put myself here to update the blog a little.
This week has been quite not interesting, due to the weather and to the fact that my team and I took a week of vacation from the school project, I have not done much.
In fact lately here in Göteborg it has been raining and, sometimes, snowing quite a lot. With the omnipresent wind helping out, going out, even to just catch a bus, is a though adventure.
About me: I am quite good physically, even if emotionally is a whole another story.
Last week I finally started searching for information about a trip I’ve longed to plan and, of course, to do: go to see the Northern Lights (For whom who are not aware of them, or simply do not know what they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)). They are also called Aurora, and since we are in the northern hemisphere they are called ‘Aurora Borealis’ (from Greek).
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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
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]
Continues…
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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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Hello,
today, after I came back from work, I noticed the sunny day and I thought that this would have been the perfect time to take some shots from my pretty large garden.
And so I did:
[A fence in my garden]
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