First attempt on Lens Whacking! Check out Vimeo for more details!

Un šķiet skārienjūtīgā paaudze jau sen būtu apsaldējusi pirkstus, ja ne labais draugs un čoms deguns. Pēdējās nedēļas es gana bieži atbildu uz zvaniem bakstot ar degunu pa ekrānu. Twitter ziņas jau ir augstāka klase. Tāpat reizē izvairīties no stabiem un iekāpt pareizajā trolejbusā.

Interesting how the cold weather is changing some of the small daily habits. For example in trains I ‘ve always picked those cars without the electricity transformators in them because here in Latvia the ones with are quite loud, shaky and when you rest your head to window you might get tiny headaches But the fact is that those are better heated then others and by -20°C I’d better stay with warm feet.

And seems that touch-screen generation would have frost-biten fingers if not good ol’ buddy The Nose. Lately quite often I’m answering my phone with gentle nose tap against screen. To tweet like that is a bit higher skill already just as well as avoiding obstacles on street and managing to get in the right tram.

To start with here is Michael Møller Sørensen – person with whom I share love for bmx, cinema and a pair of socks (ok, that’s not true). We met when I was studying in Aarhus, Denmark. That was a day when I cruised down with my bike to local skatepark and saw him pedaling around concrete park. And that’s it, we started to talk and got to know each other. Still every time when I’m on my bike, I’m amazed how many awesome people I’ve met while riding bmx. Especially in Denmark where at the beginning I didn’t knew anybody, bmx helped me to meet great people who otherwise I wouldn’t.

We did this photo session as a farewell to each other – next day, after 2 years of studies , I was going back home to Latvia. Place of which we agreed upon was Godsbanen - freight yard under construction which is going to be converted in massive culture and art center. And also great location for photography and/or filming. The open train yard close to it with graffiti writings on cars, rusty bridge, train tracks – small urban paradise.

The decision to make photos look like shots from movie wasn’t intended in the beginning (I did the post for these pictures almost 4 months after I took them). But when I thought of them couple of days, I understood that cinema look would be right what’s needed since Michael is filming videos and studies it. 2.39:1 is common aspect ratio used in cinemas and I had to crop out a lot of the frame, because again – that wasn’t planned in the beginning. If it would, then definitely with that in mind I’d compose image with a lot more space around Michael.

Right now Michael is somewhere on his way around half the world. For approx. 3 months he’s been traveling around Asia and USA. Actually, I have no clue where in the world (literally)  he is now. I envy him about this. Cheers bru, I hope we meet soon. Maybe in Estonia at Simpel Session

Much luv,
Janis

Skolas putekļos

Jauku Tev klausīšanos (:

Bet šoreiz ļaujies, ieklausies ..

Ļaujies

Where do you put your post-it notes, reminders? If you want, throw a link in comment section to pic with your notes/post-its’/whateva (:

23rd of February and following quote (with spelling mistake):

This time true rhymes (as always) from Guru, Gang Starr joint “Peace of Mine”, The Ownerz album: “The mind is a terrible thing to waste I show love cause it’s a terrible thing to hate”

P.S. This was few days ago. 89′er – my year.