Rune E. Kolvik

Jeg lar meg ofte imponere av talentfulle mennesker, og jeg liker det. Både utøvende kunst og ferdige verk som malerier, eller musikk. Jeg lar meg også imponere av gode spillefilmer. Jeg lar meg imponere av vitenskapsmennesker som på en elegant måte får videreformidlet sin kunnskap. Jeg lar meg imponere av gode vokalister, dansere, trommiser og gitarister. Jeg lar meg imponere av talent rett og slett. Ofte blir jeg så imponert at jeg blir rørt. Så rørt at jeg kan feller tårer.

I likhet med publikum i denne videoen ble jeg rørt til tårer av denne damens talent. Hennes kontroll over sitt medium, og hennes fortellerevne i kombinasjon med lydsporet er en sterk opplevelse. I mine øyne i hvertfall.

For en stund siden ble jeg gjort oppmerksom på ett spennende prosjekt som heter Playing for change.  Playing for change er ett multimedieprosjekt som er skapt for å inspirere, bringe sammen, og fremme fred gjennom musikk. Bakmennene har reist rundt og gjort video og lydopptak av musikere fra alle verdens hjørner. De har så redigert og klipt dette og på den måten bringt musikerne sammen. De har noen av sangene liggende på prosjektets hjemmeside (playingforchange.com), men for å oppleve alt materialet må man kjøpe CDen deres. Da får man med en DVD med alle videoene også.

Mannen bak forteller litt om prosjektet:

Sangen Stand by me:

Bob Marleys udødelige One Love:

I have for quite some time now been thinking that I want to start writing these posts in my main language, Norwegian. I feel I am able to express myself better in my own language, and I believe most of the people reading what I write is Norwegian aswell. So. I will be translating the site and I will start posting in Norwegian.

hehe. I knew this would happen. But I guess I had a little bit of hope that I could pull it off. I posted an image the two first days. The third day I had no access to my computer, and I haven’t done anything about it since. I have been photographing, but not with the ~365 in mind. So without further ado I hereby shut down the project and publish photos whenever I feel like doing it.  (smileyface)

The big thing these days on every flickr stream is the 365 shooters. The project is a hard simple one. To take a photograph and post it every day a full year. Sounds simple right? But imagine being creative and take 365 photographs of different objects/subjects. I kinda promised myself i wouldn’t do the 365 thing, but the last couple of days i have been considering doing it anyway. Or rather my own version.

~365
thilde365 is where i will try to take a photograph every day for a full year. If I don’t succeed however. I won’t take it to hard. I might just get to number 280. Or i might not take a photo 3 days in a row. We’ll see how it goes. I also might post the image here and write a few words about the image. The home of the project however will be my new flickr pro account. I kinda also promised myself i wouldn’t create a flickr account. Not only have i created an account. i am enjoying it, and i purchased a pro account. I guess i am in a period where i go against myself.

Yeah i know.. me? thinking? right? Well. I have actually.

Lately i have added a lot of blogs to my RSS reader. A lot of blogs on photography and photographic art. On these blogs I have seen several posts about new sites coming on line. One more specific then the other. One site for contemporary photographic art. (Yes ANOTHER one.) And another for contemporary photographic art with the color red in them. Another with pictures of sidewalks. Ok ok, This is exaggerating, but I do so to illustrate a point. And my point is. I’ve seen this before. Not exactly like this, but very similar. Some time ago there were a lot of new companies starting websites. Investing millions of dollars(or whatever kind of currency) they didnt have. To sell some kind of a product nobody would buy. Anyway, long story short. They all went bankrupt, and the world kinda agreed that this would not happen again anytime soon. Now, again,  we see thousands of new websites popping up in a rapid rate. One more specific then the other. And they all think they have a good product to sell. They all claim to be the new hot thing. But in reality most of these sites are the same old stuff all over again. Maybe with a colorful new design. Or a minimalistic design more suitable for contemporary photography.

Anyway. My point is this. People will sooner or later grow tired of visiting hundreds of sites every day reading the same on them all. Or seeing the same pictures. I have mentioned contemporary art particularly (mostly because i have seen a lot of them lately), but the same goes for wedding photography and i am sure the same “problem” goes for all aspects of semiprofessional and professional photography (I am leaving amateur photography out of this post, but i might say something similar about that too).  I am not against people wanting to create something for themselves. But i am thinking that it might be a good idea to think abut the “market”. An over saturated market benefits no one. When i go into a camera store i would hope to find a broad range of makes and models. So that i don’t have to wander around town through ten different stores to collect the information i need.

I am increasingly a fan of community thinking. To have a large site where people network, add content, discuss, exchange ideas or inspire each other. There are sites like this, and more will open in the future. But maybe there should be just one. One big ass site about, by and for photographers of any genre. I was listening to the squeeze the lime pod-cast the other day. Mr. Pieter Van Impe said that he as a wedding photographer was a jack of all trades. In his work he would need to be a journalistic- and a still life photographer as well as a wedding photographer. I agree with him. So every photographer that wants to be the best of his trade would benefit from also being competent in all aspects of approaches to the job. But that’s for a different post.

Sooner or later people will loose interest in all these specific sites. The hits will drop rapidly. And many of the sites will perish and disappear when the authors no longer want to put money and time into updating a site with no visitors.