Cheesy Selfie

A woman snapping a bunch of selfies with her smartphone as she arrives to my favorite cafe Malmens konditori on one of the first Summer days.

They Call Her One Eye

During her film career Christina Lindberg (whom you have met here on the blog) made 23 movies. Mostly exploitation and softcore. Her most famous movie was Thriller- A Cruel Picture, regarded as a cult movie today. One of her fans is Quentin Tarantino who based his character Elle Driver in Kill Bill on Madeleine, the role Christina plays in Thriller. The guys in the rock band Lugnet are also big fans of Christina, Grindhouse and rock from the 1970s. I got a call from their bass player Zethzon. He asked me if I could talk to Christina about a music video they were planning. Do you think she would be interested in partaking in the video? It will be in the style of a movie trailer from the 1970s. I told Zethzon that I could almost guarantee that she would say yes. Which she did, and the limited edition CD single was released yesterday along with a video that you can also see at YouTube.

The sound from a camera

That is often all the Roe Deer need to hear before they run off. And that is exactly what happened this time as well. Luckily for me I managed to grab one or two quick snaps before they disappeared into the birch forest at Välsta in Tungelsta. Still not feeling too well. I took the Roe Deer photo a while back, and as I didn't have anything better to do I made it into a poladroid.

The Friendly Waitress

The girl giving me the finger is the waitress at my favorite cafe, Malmens Konditori in Handen. Her name is Andrea. She has worked there for as long as I have been a regular guest, which is since Henrik took over the cafe. This means that Andrea now has a built in radar detection device telling her when I am aiming a camera towards her. And as you can see, having her photo taken is something she really likes. I shot this photo on Shrove Tuesday. And boy was that a busy day for Andrea and Henrik, who is the guy to the left. They made, and sold, believe it or not, 3500 Semla buns, which is the traditional bun that everyone in the country eats on the day we like to call Fettisdagen. Andrea told me that the photo really showed her personality and she posted a link to it from her Facebook site and it was a bit hit with all her friends.

The Poladroid People

I often shoot candid portraits. Either at events, or from a cafe table. Here are three recent ones that I like. The first one was funny. I noticed the smoking babe walking past the cafe, so I lifted the camera and started shooting. When she saw me I waved to her. She responded like a true celebrity and gave me the finger! You can see that photo if you press here. If you know anything about football you will recognise the guy on the second photo, although he is doing his best to stay incognito. It is Anders Limpar, one of Sweden's best ever players. I spotted him at a classic car meet earlier this summer. The third photo has a but if an illusion in it as it looks like the girl with the dog is about to collide with the cyclist, luckily that never happened. Oh, and before you say something, these are poladroids and not polaroids.

Mad About Hats

The first time I saw Annette was last summer. I was enjoying coffee and cake at Malmens cafe in Handen when I noticed her blue earrings and lifted the camera for a quick candid portrait. These days I see her a couple of times every week as she is now working at the cafe! She is mad about hats. She told me that she started wearing hats at the age of two. After I took this photo of her leaving the cafe yesterday afternoon she turned around and asked me if I would be interested in a hat photoshoot, sounds like an idea!

Skywatching

Walking down the path to the old tree yesterday I met Åke from Västerhaninge. He is into model planes and as we talked about this hobby of his he got the rc airplane up in the air in no time. I know nothing about this sport so it was interesting to hear some facts from Åke who had no problem manoeuvring the plane in all sorts of ways while explaining the facts to me.

Poladroid Art

Two Poladroid photos from two art exhibitions held at the Haninge Cultural Centre in Handen this spring. Back in March Fredrik Hofwander showed some of his art. Including this great pencil drawing of a doll house-sized Ultrahuset, a legendary punk music scene in Haninge back in the 1980s.

At the moment they are showing an installation by the Norwegian artist Tori Wrånes. It's all about The Belief of Human Electricity whatever that means. The installation includes the hammer hanging from the roof in front of these paintings/photographs and also a projection of photos showing the artist as she is working on the installation, and also this,(you will have to follow the link).

She's in Fashion

That old Suede song will work fine for today's poladroid photo as I attended a fashion show at the Haninge mall yesterday. All the models that participated were locals that had auditioned for their chance to appear on the catwalk. It was a crowded affair and impossible to get close enough for any really good photos of all the different models. The fun thing was that we saw both men and women and also one or two older models.

Still Winter

As I'm typing this the sun is shining and the temperature is around 0C, but it will probably be a few days before I can enjoy coffee outside at home because when I do that I normally use this table.

The Eccentric Norwegian

We have a few eccentrics in Tungelsta. One of them owns this old shack at Lillhammar, behind the abandoned greenhouse. He is in his eighties. Almost blind and deaf. And very religious. I once had a weird conversation with him. I asked him what he thought about the recent changes in this area, (a new stretch of road and a future new rail track), and he immediately started shouting that they would all burn in Hell! Not sure who he was talking about. Anyway, you will often see him walking from the bus station to the house. And then back the other way. He always carries a bucket. He doesn't live here (he has an apartment in Farsta), but he comes here during the potato season to fill up his bucket. Yes that's right, he grows his own potatoes, and lots of it. He loves his potatoes.
The effect on this photo was made with help of the Poladroid. It's a very cool software for both PC and Mac.