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Dyna Fyr.

Vegard Skjefstad — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:00:58 +0000

Driving Home for Christmas.

Vegard Skjefstad — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:48:20 +0000

Notodden bus station. Welcome home!

December 7, 2011.

Vegard Skjefstad — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Now we’re talking! Lesson learned: Bitching about something solves the problem.

December 3, 2011.

Vegard Skjefstad — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:34:15 +0000

More like September 3, 2011. I am disappoint.

Autumn 2011 pt. 2.

Vegard Skjefstad — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:46:01 +0000

Yes, autumn keeps on coming. The temperature drops below zero during the night, it’s getting colder to bike to work every morning and that tree I keep taking pictures of is gradually turning more orange. Change is good.

Old Turf.

Vegard Skjefstad — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:21:04 +0000

It’s been a few years since I last set foot here: My old high school. I think it’s been 15 years. Time sure flies when you’re having fun.

Autumn 2011.

Vegard Skjefstad — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:55:02 +0000

It looks like autumn 2011 is en route and on schedule. I took another picture of the same tree last year, but a couple of weeks later; in October, when everything was a lot more autumn-ish.

Sights From the Weekend.

Vegard Skjefstad — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:01:38 +0000

Anniken and I spent Saturday and Sunday at a farm with a bunch of her friends. So, yes, there were other people, but I don’t know how they feel about getting their faces plastered all over the interwebs. As a substitute, you can download the pictures and photoshop your own friends in them. Good food, splendid drinks and great people. And a farm that could have been taken straight out of an average Norwegian horror movie set.

Enjoy!

Urban Art.

Vegard Skjefstad — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:17:29 +0000

Oslo has a serious graffiti problem. It’s more or less everywhere you walk and it’s ugly as hell. I wouldn’t call myself a globetrotter, but I’ve been around the block and from what I can remember I have never seen as much graffiti anywhere in the world as I see in Oslo. The same goes for drug addicts and drunks, but that’s another story. It’s so bad a brilliant Norwegian musician wrote a song about it, here accompanied by a video that sort of proves my point:

If you are a running around doing this you need to get your act together. I’d love to see you arrested, prosecuted and sentenced to community service; your first job being to remove whatever piece of crap (pun intended) you were caught making. You might say that I’m overreacting. I say you should read up on the broken windows theory and shut the fuck up. The kind of graffiti Oslo is drowning in makes no sense at all. Today I even saw a wall where someone had written #antisec, which made me want to reach out for the first nerdy looking “hacker” activist I saw and punch him in the face. That’s the broken windows theory in practice.

But every now and then a piece of art surfaces that doesn’t just look like a random act of vandalism. It blends into the urban environment where it’s been created while at the same time livening up what is normally a gray and boring area. Some time over the last couple of weeks, two artists have created some excellent pieces down by the walkway opposite the bus terminal in Schweigaards gate. They’ve even covered some of the crap that was already on the walls. Here are a few quick captures I did while walking by today.

Yeah, I know I’m being quite the hypocrite here; smashing common graffiti while at the same time praising the works of art pictured above. But I’m going to go ahead and let this one slide and just be a hypocrite. Digging around on the interwebs a little, I discovered that artists are Alice Pasquini and C215. It looks like they tend to roam around a lot. Check out Street Art London for pictures of work they’ve done in London. Also, have a look at C215′s Flickr photo stream for more pieces he’s done in Oslo this summer.

Around the Neighborhood.

Vegard Skjefstad — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:26:58 +0000

After I got together with Anniken I’ve been on what I guess is about a million walks. We’re a bit different when it comes to being in the apartment. I can stay inside for a whole weekend, no problem. For her, however, sitting in the apartment can make her rather restless and going for a walk is a good cure for restlessness. I tag along, and I’ve learned to like it: Partly because it’s nice to get out every once in a while, partly because I know she gets less restless. And of course I really enjoy her company.

After I did the Android Camera App Review and bought and installed Vignette, I’ve brought my “phone” with me and shot a few pictures on our walks. Here are a couple of them, and I got to say that Vignette really puts that final, magical touch to most of them.