Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. Lasse, Good to see you are alive and well. Thanks Bob! Sorry to hear about your mother. Thanks, that was a couple of years back now, but still... well, you know. Hope you can work out the income/employment thing. Doing my best. Nice to have you back, we missed you. g Thanks again, Lasse.
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From: Paul Stenquist Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. It's great to hear from Lasse. He was one of my favorite posters, and I miss his robust presence here. Paul Thanks a lot Paul. Robust sounds good enough. Now I will only have to figure out what it means... Just kidding, we actually use the same word in swedish too. Lasse
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From: Dan Scott Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 05:00 PM, Lasse Karlsson wrote: Hi Lasse, Nice to see you back again. Congratulations on all the good things happening to you. And congratulations to the 17 year old's mother for being smart enough to accompany the both of you. vbg Ah! You mean she might want me to shoot a coupla bikini shots of her too. Right? Thanks, that might turn out to be some useful advice :-) Lasse
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. Out shooting some bands at a concert in late summer I was more or less picked up by this young woman who very much wanted to become a model. Well, she was nice and funny, and very persistent. (And she said that she felt I was just the right person for it - Any of you guys that would have been able to resist... :-) I _don't_ beleeve it. :-) (very big grin) Lasse
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Lasse Karlsson wrote: From: Keith Whaley Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. Lots and lots of rapt attention! ;^) :-) Lasse (And it's svenska flicka (same prononciation). Oooops! I can pronounce it okay, but missed out on the spelling... Or better still svenska flickan). That's for a group of 'em, right? OKAY! keith Nah, it still just one, but when talking about the girl versus a girl we add an -n at the end (or maybe a -t, depending on the word) as if you'd go a girl, but the girlen. When the blonde, tall, hugely smiling, naked Scandinavian girls gather for one of our frequent orgies of the season, we refer to them as flickor, where the -or indicate plural form. Dig that? :-) Lasse Oh, I do, I do... Yes. keith whaley
Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish.
Out shooting some bands at a concert in late summer I was more or less picked up by this young woman who very much wanted to become a model. Well, she was nice and funny, and very persistent. (And she said that she felt I was just the right person for it - Any of you guys that would have been able to resist... :-) I _don't_ beleeve it. Peter
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Just another Scandinavian report??? Temp job writing and photographing for local newspaper... To job arranging annual jazz festival... To putting on an exhibition of jazz photos... To getting picked up by a 17-year-old model-wannabe and shooting lots of photos of her. So *that's* just another Scandinavian report. How soon can I move to Scandinavia? -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
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From: Keith Whaley Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. I don't suppose you could find some time to post some of the svenska-flikka, could you? Now we're talking! How much d'ya offer? :-) Lasse (And it's svenska flicka (same prononciation). Or better still svenska flickan).
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Isn't it funny how you can bust your ass trying to make things happen to no effect, then life will turn it around and dump everything in your lap with almost no effort on your part. My life is going that way right now. It is bemusing as hell. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto - Original Message - From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 6:00 PM Subject: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. Hi all, Just want to say hi and that I'm still around although I haven't been posting for some time. I've got into the habit of following the list almost like reading the evening paper or some TV-news station of dubious quality, just to see what the quarrel is about today (And actually enjoying it at times. Whats becoming of me?) Anyway, as some of you may remember from an earlier report, a few months back I moved from Stockholm to my hometown - Mariehamn in the Aland Islands (right between Sweden and Finland). Been very busy with a whole lot of stuff, including getting my house in order (semi-detached, taken over from my dear late mother), working, writing etc. Got a temporary job for a month at one of the local papers (as a reporter, but shot a lot of pictures too - all great fun in many ways). Shortly after that I was asked (by the town's head of cultural affairs) would I be interested in a half time job arranging one annual jazz festival due in February. Of course I was, so that's where I earn my basic income right now, while trying to pull some other threads as well. Furthermore I have been offered an exhibition of maybe 50 jazz photos of mine during the same festival. (Well, what do you say, after having been wanting to do an exhibition for a number of years without knowing how to raise the money for it? And now it´s offered to me on a plate without me even asking for it...)
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Lasse! You sly dog! Good to hear from you. (I thought she was twentyish something, since we met in this restaurant, but then she turns out to be only seventeen...) She and I had been talking about shooting some more on the condition it wouldn't cost me anything and I could use her as a model for practising stuff. However, the prospect of having her mother around makes it feel more like an assignment for pay... We'll see what will come out of it. (I haven't yet decided, and don't know whether she'd still feel up to it.) (Furthermore, a lot of photowork has been stalled due to problems with either Windows or the hardware. (Might get back with an OT plea for assistance in dealing with this.) ) I was reading your volumous post ;-) and thinking - hmmm, there's *got* to be a bit about a pretty girl in this somewhere. Lo and behold! We must meet one day. Best, Cotty Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:00:06 +0100, Lasse Karlsson wrote:
This is getting long enough for now.
So, Lasse, do you need a roommate? How's the job market for hardcore
computer geeks in your area? :-) { actually, only half joking ... I've
thought about moving to NW Europe a lot over the last few years }
TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
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It's great to hear from Lasse. He was one of my favorite posters, and I miss his robust presence here. Paul Keith Whaley wrote: I don't suppose you could find some time to post some of the svenska-flikka, could you? keith whaley Lasse Karlsson wrote: Hi all, Just want to say hi and that I'm still around although I haven't been posting for some time. I've got into the habit of following the list almost like reading the evening paper or some TV-news station of dubious quality, just to see what the quarrel is about today (And actually enjoying it at times. Whats becoming of me?) Anyway, as some of you may remember from an earlier report, a few months back I moved from Stockholm to my hometown - Mariehamn in the Aland Islands (right between Sweden and Finland). Been very busy with a whole lot of stuff, including getting my house in order (semi-detached, taken over from my dear late mother), working, writing etc. Got a temporary job for a month at one of the local papers (as a reporter, but shot a lot of pictures too - all great fun in many ways). Shortly after that I was asked (by the town's head of cultural affairs) would I be interested in a half time job arranging one annual jazz festival due in February. Of course I was, so that's where I earn my basic income right now, while trying to pull some other threads as well. Furthermore I have been offered an exhibition of maybe 50 jazz photos of mine during the same festival. (Well, what do you say, after having been wanting to do an exhibition for a number of years without knowing how to raise the money for it? And now it´s offered to me on a plate without me even asking for it...) So far I haven't gotten further with this other than browsing through a great number of albums and binders of photos. Since I haven't done more than the occasional blow up of some of them, I have come to realise that quite a few that do well as 10x15cm prints wouldn't make it being enlarged to exhibit size. (By the way, I haven't even decided on size yet. Any comments based on your own experience are welcome.) By the way, there was also this other funny thing. Out shooting some bands at a concert in late summer I was more or less picked up by this young woman who very much wanted to become a model. Well, she was nice and funny, and very persistent. (And she said that she felt I was just the right person for it - Any of you guys that would have been able to resist... :-) She talked me into doing a (lousy) shoot the same night outdoors against a wall - problem was it was too dark for me and the camera to focus properly, but she was great fun. Anyway, there was simply something about her, that made me agree on shooting her on the beach the following day, a kind of a test shoot - some bikini shots and some portraits. I think I shot four or five rolls - I didn't do a very good job at it - we were both slightly tired from the previous late night - but then there was this handful of shots that were simply great to my eye. She left the following day (she lives in Sweden on the west coast, a full day's ride from here) and I didn't really get a go at some shots-set ups that I had been planning on. I sent her a few scans, and she was delighted. So was her family apparently, since her mother once came on the phone asking when they might come over for another shoot... (I thought she was twentyish something, since we met in this restaurant, but then she turns out to be only seventeen...) She and I had been talking about shooting some more on the condition it wouldn't cost me anything and I could use her as a model for practising stuff. However, the prospect of having her mother around makes it feel more like an assignment for pay... We'll see what will come out of it. (I haven't yet decided, and don't know whether she'd still feel up to it.) (Furthermore, a lot of photowork has been stalled due to problems with either Windows or the hardware. (Might get back with an OT plea for assistance in dealing with this.) ) This is getting long enough for now. Till later, Lasse
Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish.
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 05:00 PM, Lasse Karlsson wrote: Hi Lasse, Nice to see you back again. Congratulations on all the good things happening to you. And congratulations to the 17 year old's mother for being smart enough to accompany the both of you. vbg Dan Scott
