the owls are not what they seem.

double exposure with color flashes.

the blue looks like neon blue. so cool.

a camera: the polaroid impulse af

So far i've only used my grey polaroid 600 from the late 1990's which has been very reliable and worked like a charm for the past 3 years. My newest addition is this one..... not only can a type like this one be spotted somewhere in a certain Twin Peaks episode, it also has a self-timer and autofocus sonar..features that a lot of other polaroids don't have. double win! Its flash is a pop-up, which means it can pop up easily in a bag, so that's a downside. It was released in 1988 and was pretty much the latest polaroid camera around at the time of twin peaks in 1989. So here is my first test shot with it..with slightly expired and x-rayed film, but it works!

cherry pie day.

February 20th was cherry pie day. In Twin Peaks they only eat cherry pie. I got the "welcome to twin peaks" book on ebay earlier this month (oh it is the cutest little book-i love it) and thought i would make the cherry pie from the recipe in that book. My first cherry pie ever, and so i did for cherry pie day! It is a pretty simple recipe that only requires a few small preparations like keeping it in the refridgerator over night etc. I also had to translate it to swedish and therefore it's not entirely american made, and cherries are not in season right now, so overall i had to work with what i got. But cake or dinner pie, it is fun! what's your favorite pie?

"Black Lodge 2600"

The computer nerd in me is h-a-p-p-y. Some dude threw this together + a manual, to all twin peaks/video game fans happiness. Special Agent Cooper needs help to escape the black lodge. And yes, it is difficult but lovely too. I only get to 1000 scores. Here are some screenshots of my play:

i think it's well done, love it!

february is going to be twin peaks month here on the blog.
because i love it.
(no spoilers though).

um... yes please.

"Tears on Tape’ is going to be really organic, straight-in-your-face, super melancholy bulls— [Laughs]. It’s going to be something nobody’s heard before. I’m really happy about it. It sounds great. Remember the soundtrack for ‘Twin Peaks’ that Angelo Badalamenti did? It’s got that similar forlorn, melancholy quality but mixed up with Motörhead. That’s where we’re at! We’re really happy. It’s got that dreamlike quality. It’s like Roy Orbison meeting Metallica."

- Ville Valo , about the upcoming album ‘Tears on Tape’

*the above are some doodles i did this past weekend

North Bend & Twede's café, Seattle

um.. yeah, i bought a mug. we all did!
the coffee was that good.
and it says twin peaks on it.
so.

Snoqualmie Falls, Seattle

or metal hippies in seattle..

fire walk with me

{L}ast time i was in the states, i visited Rydell High in california, this time we went to Twin Peaks. i've been watching the series for the first time this summer -it is amazing. i'm glad the series has somehow managed to escape me up until now, it turned up in my life at the perfect time. the fact that we went there was such a funny coincidence. my friends, almost all of them, are huge fans so naturally we had to go. We only went to North Bend and Snoqualmie, about 30 minutes from Seattle. we had cherrypie and a damn fine cup of coffee (the character Dale Cooper was right about that one!) at Twede's Café, which is the Double R Diner in the series. what else can i say... see the series or bob will come for you.

We went in to Seattle in the late evening/night, a few hours before our flight back, and what can i say, we love the cheesecake factory. This was our last stop for this time. we loved it here. as always. only good things!

i'm very happy with the diana's, using the 55mm wide angle lens. i could never have gotten both the house and the waterfall in the shot, without it.