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I’m not sure how to describe the extreme detail-richness that the foveon sensor gives, but here are two day to day examples. The eye picture is not only very detailed but also exposure compensated in the RAW converted + 2 step. Thanks to wide dynamic range the photograph is still use full and everything is there! \
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Camera: Sigma SD10, Lens: 24-60EX | Observe! The cropped version is NOT 100% in this web view. There is more!\
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Camera: Sigma SD10, Lens: 24-60EX | Handheld | Yes, there is overexposure in two of them, but I just couldn’t resist posting. Remember it’s a one shot.\
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Camera: Sigma SD10, Lens: Sigma 24-60EX | Mixed light. Some daylight, some flash. | See gallery for more images. Some fullsize.\
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Of Scandinavian youngsters just arrived to Kunming. They’re going to spend a year at TC/G Nordica and helping the stage/gallery/restaurant to serve the Chinese population with something different from the west. It’s a nice group of ten people and two elders. Great! \
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And the best of all, I’m not so alone any longer. :D\
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I just have to write about the Chinese decisiveness behavior. it’s very different from home and here’s my thoughts, I’ll start with three examples:\
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Example #1: A little more then a year ago my roommate decided to buy a Golden Retriever. The dog grew up, he was trained, feed and lived a happy life. Everybody knew he loved his dog, and he spoke of little else. One morning my friend tells his girlfriend that he during the night decided to sell the dog and that he put him out for 3000RMB on the internet. \
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A price that is totally ridiculous for a dog like that. And the result is of course that a lot of people were directly interested. His girlfriend tells him that it was a dumb price and not very thoughtful so my friend directly decides to change and he\’d5s now not very sure he wants to sell any longer. \
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Example #2: Another friend that I meat during English corner had a new life plan every second week. First was to go to Sweden to study, he planned for that and about one and a half week later he decides that it wasn\’d5t a good idea. Now it\’d5s England. He planned for that, talked about nothing else. One and a half week later he had thousands of reasons why he should stay in China to study. Now, that sounds great in about one and a half week. Now it\’d5s much better to just work in China. That sounds like a terrific idea, the big question is with what?!\
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A bar, one of the most common wanting among my friends. A Bar, a little more sophisticated one, for sophisticated people. But only for a week and a half. IF this guy had started the bar, then he would probably have it for a year or so. Then he would have sold it. Probably. It\’d5s not very common that a bar have the same owner for a very long time. Often because you don\’d5t know anything about having a bar. \
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Example #3: My girlfriend looked for apartment closer to me, she found a very nice one and the price was perfect. She decided to bring me along for the last meeting with the owner. We signed all paper but didn’t have more than one month pay with us, we had to have six. We went home to gather money and we had setup another meeting a day after. Back home the next morning the owner called, saying that my girlfriend couldn’t buy anymore. Reason, she has a foreign boyfriend. No other reason. Just that. Quick and dirty.\
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You make life-changing decisions in the speed of light. Often way to fast. And you\’d5re totally ready to change whatever plan you had. \
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Why? I think because of years the current political situation, adaptation to the system not knowing about tomorrow, always prepared for new situations and bow to them. Like the bamboo and the water. No time to think too much. \
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If everything around you \’d2can\’d3 change quickly without notification. Then maybe your life would be a little like this. OR the opposite. Extreme indecisiveness.\
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Btw, The local government is acting exactly the same way. They tear down beautiful old areas for new high buildings without thinking. They shuffle inhabitants far away outside the city and life goes in without disturbance. \
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Bamboo and water.\
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In fall of 2003 a group of women meet here in Kunming. The group consisted of chinese and Scandinavian women and a leader from England. They where artists, dancers, writers etc and they worked together with sugar and salt. Two weeks in China and two weeks in Sweden.
Finally the book about all this is done and ready to ship. I where the only outsider in this project I filmed and took photographs of everything they did. Camera used was a Sigma SD9. Main lenses: Sigma 50mm EX and Sigma 15-30EX. The final book now contains about 220 selected photographs from China and Sweden. Accompanied with a text in English and Chinese about the project.
I made the book using Indesign CS, used swedish ecologic paper, Munken, 220g. Cover 300g. Size 26×21cm. Printed here in Kunming/China.\
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Work work work, and movies. :) Last night I saw “Unleashed” or as it was first called, “Danny the dog” with Jet Li. (I\’d5m a fan of Luc) It was VERY good. \
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At work I’m working hard and quick with the children book. 88 pages and 40 scanned and photographed artworks.. two languages as normal. (Will feel like blessing when I return to one back in Sweden) I\’d5m reading some forums about HD editing, photography and cars at the same time. I should shut down Internet to be truly focused but that’s so boring. :)\
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Linn came back from a 7 days trip and I feel less alone now.
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\f0 She had my SD10 with power pack and the 24-60 lens. She had a lot of fun and people took her for a pro.
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\f0 She is 1.58cm high and weight about 44kg so you can imagine how big the camera looked. :D\
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I\’d5ll post some of her pictures soon. She\’d5s getting really good.\
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distances\
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It\’d5s strange how the feel for a distance changes here compared to Sweden. This might be easier for a swed to understand But I’ll give it a try and give you an example. \
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Right now I’m sitting on a bus going home from a town down south of Kunming. Wen Shang is its name. The trip I\’d5m doing is going to take about 6h and I feel that I\’d5m soon in Kunming. This feeling is quite strange. In Sweden going from Malmo ( a town south in Sweden) and Goteborg (a town more north) would take about 4h on a bus, a trip that I, back then would call a long trip. I wouldn’t say; I\’d5m soon in Goteborg, not even when it was half way.\
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I wonder if size in this case matters?! If the size of China somehow changes my mind about distances and that maybe I would go back to normal thinking when returning to Sweden. \
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I remember when I went to Shangri la and after 12 hours in a sleeping bus came home and asking some friends if they been there, and when their answer where no my direct reply where; Why? It\’d5s so close!\
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But I\’d5m happy that my thinking is as it is as long as I am where I am. Reflections?\
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Camera: Sigma SD9 | Lens: Sigma 12-24EX\
Dpreview entry\
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Camera: SD9 Lens: Nikon 50mm F1.4 @ F2\
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Just now I saw a BBC documentary called My penis and I. It\’d5s about a guy in Britain with a small tool searching for answers to the big question; Does size matter?. I found the documentary to be very interesting and the guy to be extremely brave. Recommended For all boys equipped with whatever size. \
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Ohh btw, the other day I finished season one of LOST Argh.. why is there no EEEENNNND!\
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When I came to china I noticed one particular thing, they all pronounced Usually wrong. More like Urually, with no s tone at all. Later I discovered that not only usually was a problem but also zoo, measure, and pleasure. \
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Am I wrong? :)\
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\MPEG4 “nniL dna lraC - We the art” (Chinese server)- 320×200 - 54,2MB - 3:17 \MPEG4 “nniL dna lraC - We the art” (European server)- 320×200 - 41MB - 3:16\This is the movie I talked about last night. Please download the european version if you live outside China. Download will be VERY slow otherwise.\
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8:27 - Today, in a couple of hours I will make a movie with 30 kunming artists. Fun and Scary.\
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11.11 - eight artists done.. I can tell you one thing.. Children are MUCH easier! On top of that I’m not fully satisfied with my light.. I changed so that everybody could stand and with a bigger background and I never tried it before. But I cannot change in the middle of recording so I have to apply some magic in FCP.. It’s going to be very educating.\
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11.45 - Drank to much coffee.. aargh.. a little shaky now. Bagger. Just had a really good artist here, maybe one of the most successful ones and he was great fun. Saved my day.. :)\
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14:50 - 17 artists done. Hmm.. light is better due to a fault.. maybe I will have a problem later on.. Drinking a beer now to make the speedy coffee effect to calm a little.\
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15:41 - 19. wanted his motorbike in the studio.. :) (a 250cc harley wannabe) I had to find a ramp and all. He was very happy when he could sit on it in the studio. hehe.. Another girl took a big white flower, another wanted a big mirror. Gave her that. one fellow, or no, two stripped bare.. I only filmed from waist and up. :) I think I have material for a fun movie. Just hope nothing strange will happen with time code and stuff.\
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18:19 - 23 people done including me. (I think) 6 more artists will come tonight. It will be a lot later than I first thought. I had to change aperture from F2.8 to F2.2 because a paper I had put in front of the light moved during my takes without me noticing. Remember my setups are ALWAYS VERY cheap and alive. :D I just hope this will not make a big difference in picture quality. Going from light to dark in a couple of frames.\
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21:07 - 29 people done! Wow.. .We called 30 and 29 turned up. Some still unreachable because of travel but I’m amazed by this number anyhow. The most famous guys where all here! ha! And I don’t mean guys known to some local chinese, I mean guys who are famous everywhere where we talk art from China. \
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23:53 HOME! 33 persons all together. Linn wanted to make a funny movie directly (she helped me to fill in time, names and a simple drawing + that she translated everything I said) So we did. We laughed our guts out, she ate a paper and we played it backwards + some stupid moves with me also played backwards.. Will remake it now at home because I added a to harsh level in FCP. So Tomorrow it should be uploaded and ready! I hope. :D\
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Good night!\
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MPEG4 “Chinese Kids” 240×180 (Chinese server). - 44MB \
MPEG4 “Chinese Kids” 320×200 (European server). - 48,9MB \\
There is a team from Sweden in Kunming right now making a book about kids in China and Sweden. The book will cover countryside an city and somehow maybe give a glimpse of whatever differences there might be in longings and thinking. It’s going to be in Swedish and Chinese. Maybe a english version in PDF. All kids have done one painting each and the book will have all the artwork and a small interview per kid. I’m going to make the books layout.\
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This movie was made during one interview session that they had at TC/G Nordica in Kunming with “city” kids. Right now they’re out there doing the same thing with countryside kids but no video this time. \
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The video was one of those.. Ohh.. they are all so cute, let’s make a small movie! :)\
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A while ago I had friends from Sweden over and after a while this statement came: A lot of homosexual in China huh? They’re everywhere! \
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In Sweden we have a natural distance. A quite big one. A distance that make a Swedish boy think that lesbians are more natural and easier to understand. Girls are close since birth. Boys fight each other for fun rather then touch. A girl can hold hand, hug, and even kiss another girl without being thought about. A boy doing the same thing is naturally looked upon as a homosexual. \
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In China the Swedish girl-to-girl behavior is the same for boys. They walk hand in hand, they go arm in arm, very close and they sit in each others lap. No kisses but a very close relation far from the Swedish version. I still find holding hand a bit too much but I do touch a lot more and it all feels friendly and natural. \
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What is a little bit odd in all this is the relation between girls and boys. Witch is a lot more sensitive here. A boy doesn’t hug a girl just like that. In Sweden it\’d5s the opposite. A boy can without a problem hug his girl “friend” if they haven’t meet in a while without any strange feelings or connections being thought of. \
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If you’re together, hugging and kissing is for the private arena. Nothing you make a show of in public. That’s maybe also why my friends find it odd that they see more boys and boys and no boys and girls. This is slowly changing too. Adapting to the western way or maybe just leaving old rules and regulations from older generations. \
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Anyways.. Back to work..\
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http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Panasonic-Announces-AG-HVX200-HD-Flash-Media-Camcorder-with.htm\
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PC and Mac. Mpeg4. Gamma 2.0 1 and 3 is total remakes from Mac only version.\
1. Mpeg4 Linn “new version” 320×200 - 8.7MB \
2. Mpeg4 Thomas and Carl 320×200 - 8.7MB \
3. Mpeg4 Waterfall (New long version including a bonus track) 320×200 - 36.3MB\
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Mac only: (H.264 Gamma 1.8)\
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Quick and dirty, but we had a lot of fun. The first movie is with my girlfriend Liu Dong Yun alias Linn. The second with my Swedish friend Thomas Edenholm and me. The best way to learn is to have fun, so that’s why these two movies exist.\
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The last one is from a place not far from here that not many people know about. Come here and I will show you!! I will probably make a second version from that place. Very beautiful.\
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How about eating the Placenta / after birth? \
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According to Chinese traditional way the mother should eat her own after birth after giving birth. The cake is said to be very nutritious and is often eaten as a soup. This delicacy is sometimes (often, always or rarely?!) shared among people attending the family in this happy day. Yesterday I was talking about this with a close friend and she told me that her cousins\’d5 friend sometimes buys an after birth for eating. The price? 5 RMB. \
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Me myself have never, to my knowledge, eaten anything like it. But I don’t really know. :) What I do know that I’ve tried is dog, toad, snail, insects (different types) duck feet and stomach (intestine). And of course different animal skin.. well.. There sure is some more strange things but this is what I can think of right now.. :) \
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Thanks to one of my readers I now know that what I called “womb cake” is Placenta in the real world. :) In Swedish it’s called “Moder kaka” Now you know.\
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From today. Picture to the right shows the setup. It’s actually two lights but being at the same spot I think it’s ok to call it one light. \
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Pictures taken with my trusty Sigma SD9 and Nikon 50mm 1.4. All pictures taken at F2 in low resolution. Picture directly from Sigma Photopro to Photoshops’ “Contact sheet II” automation. The whole image can be seen at Dpreview Sigma forum\
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