Globetrotter

Tonight I'm literally sleeping at the airport. Heading to Cape Town at 06.20 tomorrow morning. This is the view from my window.

Stockholm City

Been hangin out in Stockholm for two days now, shooting more portraits for the annual report I'm doing. Had some spare time as well checking the city out. I like it. Even though it snowed sideways for quite some time I got to see quite a bit.

Trondheim

Even though I have not blogged about him before I do as most of you know have a son in Trondheim, his name is Martin, he is 3,5 years old and is probably the coolest dude you have yet to meet. A die hard Kaptein Sabeltann fan and a talented photographer. He has inherited all my wit and charm :-) and then some so all you kindergarten chicks out there be aware.

Riga, Latvia

Some shots from my spare time in Riga, a surprisingly small city. At least the centre of it, considering 800.000 people live there. Tomorrow I'm heading to Stockholm and then to Cape Town a couple of days later.

Busy Week

This week has been quite busy with a couple of days shooting in and around Oslo, went to Riga to photograph a doctor and a trip to Trondheim. When not shooting or traveling I've basically been eating lamb and drinking beer with my good friends. I also spent some hours with Halvor a.k.a. Mr. Barsk while he was getting scarred for life.

Details Schmetails

Male Nudity

My friend Erik, studying medicine in Poland, crashed my couch after we enjoyed a tad too much alcohol friday night.

Weather-wise, this has been an amazing weekend. Spent both saturday and sunday hanging around st.hanshaugen, drinking coffee and enjoying the sun. Gotta love the spring baby.

Roadtrip

I had a lovely friday shooting some portraits up in Østre Toten. Then finished the day with a sweet chocolate-cake at Østre Toten's house of culture.

50 mm f/ 1.2

Bought some new equipment for my newly received work today. A new lens, a backpack, memorycard etc.

This is my assistent LK shot during lunch.

Oh, happy day

I got assigned to another job today, an annual report that sends me to Stockholm, Riga and South Africa, don't know what city yet and some photos in my own country. I'm leaving next week. And I'll be doing 4 portraits in different cities in Norway with another job. And I've also got a third job that will be done the first week in April. So the next 3-4 weeks is all packed and ready to go. That's cool.

Rain

Today I've done a lot of non-work related stuff. I started the day with a nice run, the slight rain made it even better, felt amazing afterwards. Then I went to the dentist to get my teeth fixed and now I've cleaned my apartment for more than 3 hours. It has never been this smooth here since I moved in. All my clothes have been washed and now it's time to make myself a splendid meal. It's raining hard outside and nothing feels better than to be inside a nice, warm apartment listening to the raindrops hitting the building.

Money, money, money

I tried to think of something cooler than having to pay 103.289,- nkr(13.000 euro) within one week but nope, nothing comes to mind.

As the sun hits the sky

I woke up this morning feeling a bit emotional and philosophical and once I saw the beautiful weather outside I knew I had to go outside.
My mind needed some cleaning up and I felt like pondering about the ups and downs in life, it felt easier to wonder why some things have to be so F****** difficult with the sun in my eyes and good music in my ears. I walked for a couple of hours and even though I didn't find the answers to everything in life it felt good. I came across some missionaries on my way and actually spent quite some time talking to them. Most of the time I am as you all know cynical, selfish and not a very pleasant fella, but since I was in my bigger than life mood today it was good to talk to some people that believe in something I have not yet started to believe in. They were really nice and I had to photograph them when we separated, me with a flyer helping me to reach God, them with the belief they had salvaged another doomed soul.
A bit disappointed about the fact that they couldn't guarantee success in life, work and love if I only started to pray but they were quite sure my life would be better and more meaningful if I did. Maybe I'll start.

´yello

I have finally started my fashion portfolio, hopefully I will finish it during the week. Had a veeeery exciting meeting last week, something superb might come out of it.
The client had other opinions than me and the ad agency about my last shoot, the picture we wanted was too sexy for them so they chose a picture I'm not so satisfied with. That sucks. Here is the neglected picture.



Now this is funny;

Juno

Just finished photoshopping last weeks shoot, I'm very happy with one of the pictures and semi-happy with the other. They will both be hanging around on buses and tubes in some time. And of course published here once I'm allowed. Tomorrow I'll be meeting the guys at Upstruct for some talks about my new website that they are creating. I might have gotten a really exciting new job as well, will know more after a meeting friday morning. This blog is boring now, no new pictures, ever.

Went to the movies yesterday and saw Juno, it was tremendous. Highly recommended.

Friday

Had another 12 hour day yesterday, did a commercial shoot with Saatchi & Saatchi. We had some model-problems but as soon as they were sorted out it all went smoothly. But since the art director is in Copenhagen this weekend I wont be able to finish it until monday so that means, early weekend for Mr. Nersveen. Yeah.

Had a meeting at Dinamo this morning. Amazing location, this is one of many beautiful views from their garden.

I prefer Coke

but this ad for pepsi is særs snasen.

Long day

Tired now after nearly a 12 hour day, worked with pre-production for thursdays shoot when my good friend Torkel from Kitchen called me with a job. A pretty urgent one as well, has to been done tomorrow so spent the evening locating props and setting things up in the studio. But now I'm tired so will be heading home. Cheers

Midweek

Several meetings finished, the feedback is good so hopefully it will result in a future work-relationship. I've gotten another job though, will know more about it later this week I guess. The meetings has really given me a boost and will try to attend at least one meeting every week all the way towards summer. There are so many great creatives out there and they all need to know that my purpose in life is to make their ideas come true.

These are the "brains" behind 2008scandinavia.

Yeah

Had my two first meetings today, and the superb guys at Virtual Garden liked my portfolio enough to give me a job on the spot. A really cool job as well. Yeah.
Have a great weekend, I'll be drowning myself in good food and wine.

Nicolas Sarkozy & Carla Bruni

The french president's girlfriend. The showerpicture is fantastic.

200

yup, my 200th post in this blog. Nerd.

I'm

alone in the studio, anyone wanna come party?
Updated my portfolio today, have two meetings tomorrow and then 6 next week, I have two more to book as well. Hopefully something good will come out of them. Nervous about their response.

Lego

kicks ass. It's their 50th anniversary this year. Happy birthday. This piece of art is made by 2008scandinavia.

I usually work from 10 until 18 on days where I don't have shoots or specific stuff to do. Today I went to work at 08, and it felt superb. So from now on, my new work hours are 08 until 16. Suddenly I get two more hours. That's 730 more during the year, that's one more month. That's insane, why haven't I thought of that before.

Photographed Magnus Reitan today, very pleasent fella. I wish I had 1/1000 of his money.