Lomography, for those who are not aware of it, is casual photography with characteristics such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure, blurring, “happy accidents,” and alternative film processing. It belong to the hipsters of photography enthusiasts. This also requires special cameras, like LOMO LC-A or DIANA F. They are analogue film cameras with basic controls. The over-saturated  colors are obtained from treating the film in diverse thermal conditions.

But now in the digital age, these effects can me easily obtained using an application in iPhone or Android camera phones. But there is always a debate on the puristic value of the outcome. I personally think that it is the outcome that counts. It is the composition, the atmosphere, the content that matters to make it an attractive capture. It doesn’t matter you have shot that picture with a “real Lomo camera” or just you iPhone, if that picture doesn’t contain the above said ingredients, then that pic is fuck worth.

I had one of my “lomo purist” friend complain about how she found it hard to develop the films as the film processing studios are becoming extinct and rare. The remaining ones charge you an arm and a leg for processing a 36 roll film. This is one hobby that will eat your wallet thin. One would also begin to doubt the photo moment as they are too expensive to make mistakes on.

I have played with the “real Lomo” camera, and have found it bulky and expensive for a hobby, and so, now i’m happy with the application i have on my Android phone. And yes, it is the final outcome that counts.

• iPhone it’s the KING!!!! Bitch!!
• that statment makes no sense
• This is a test. Thus is a test. Iphone just lost.
• the droid has multi touch
• what is multitouch..?
• lol i was trying to multi touch my droid …
• ya i’m gay for robots but ya now i know it’s incappable of my multi fingers
• who gives a fuck about multi touch
• Look, dick-faced, cum guzzler. You can stop trying. Your every comeback attempt is a fail and makes you look that much stupider. You’ve already been owned… By me. Hahaha. Go back to your dads basement and continue to use your iPhone the way it was intended to… Sticking it up your ass. BWAHAHA. And remember to do what your dad said… Keep your ass oiled and loose for his small dick. LOL. You are one sick fuck, you barn animal fucker, horse cum drinker, daddy-fucking fucker. Ewww.
• I was eating noodles at this restaurant and there were 4 people at the table next to me arguing about which was better. Two had droids, and the other two had iphones. They both decided to test the phones by looking up the local bus schedule. One of the people’s iphones froze, so one person with a droid looked up how to fix the iphones problem while the other got the bus schedule. The other iphone guy was trying to find how to fix the iphone but his phone was too slow. Just from what I saw, I think the droid would be better for me, because without those droids there, the people with the iphones would have definitely been screwed.
• The Motorola Droid would be like FUCK YOU to the iPhone and kick its ass. It will pull a Chuck Norris!
• I wish to GOD all of you dumbfuk morons would stop typing “your” when you mean “You’re” (YOU ARE) and “There” then you mean “They are” (They’re) etc. How can you criticize anything when you can’t make a literate post? “The droid (Droid) is far superior THAN the iphone ??? WTF is that? You mean “to the iPhone”. You can’t be “superior than” something. Idiots.
• WHAT IS MY FINAL WORD? R U BLIND OR UNALFABET? CANT U READ? For all of you who think iphone is a good phone i say AGAIN. IPHONE IS A PEACE OF CRAP!!!! AND THE OWNERS ARE IDIOTS FOR BYING IT!!!  thats my point of view and i am sticking with it.
• Flamers should be banned from leaving any feedback of any sort on the internet. (And by “flamers”, I mean people who type in all caps and have no semblance of an open mind.)
• I make a lot of money so I have both. I could care less about which one is better than the other. Having BOTH…the iphone 3gs camera takes much better pics. The droid is marginally faster overall. So who cares. Cant wait for the iphone 4 and droid 2 cause im gonna upgrade both. LOL!!!
• Call my Droid! It’s better than iPhone any day! I’ll text war about it! Call me!
• I can’t wait until AT&T loses their contract with apple. Oh, what a great day it will be for me and my verizon network 

The above pic is taken from Roskilde festival in 1984, when stereo BoomBoxes were hot. It is funny to notice how time has changed the look and technology. We haven’t reached the space age yet, and thats because we are now enjoying the Apple age. Below is the pic of a girl at Roskilde Festival 2010 (26 years later) listening to her version of Boom Box – her Apple computer.

Roskilde Festival, the week long rock festival featuring 150 top bands was about to commence. 60,000 people camp out 4 days in advance, creating their own party before the stages open. The stages are ORANGE, ARENA, COSMOPOL, PAVILION and ODEON and bands are placed in order of their popularity. This year, 2 of my fav stages ASTORIA and LOUNGE, were closed dude to financial crisis. The festival is officially open on thursday while a neat 100,000 guests and staff rock this little town called Roskilde half an hour from central Copenhagen.

Day 1 (Thursday 1 July)

We started out exploring the scenes by visiting Arena stage where PARAMORE was playing to a houseful. It took just 2 songs for us to realize that it was some kind of a teenage fad. And later did i realize that the hype came along with their soundtrack to another hyped teen-flick – TWILIGHT. We then move further to LCD SOUNDSYSTEM. The financial crunch had shown its signs at Cosmopol stage which usually house electronic music, had cut down on their extravagant light shows. Even the big screen display was half the size. So, there was not much other option but to edge in as close to the stage as possible. But the hype had hit LCD SS as well, and was soon getting overcrowded, and we decided to bail out. Next stop, GORILLAZ. Damon Albarn was not who i wanted to see on the huge screen. But we like their creativity about that band and the new music they created. We therefor decided to stay until they belt out the more known hits.

Day 2 (Friday 2 July)

A long rest and a long train ride later we just manage to miss FLORENCE + THE MACHINE. We entered the stages hungry and to a bite of a pizza, we watched DIZZY MISS LIZZY who were belting out their classics. We later agreed that there is nothing better than classic rock, and DML was got at it. We walked into a much happier scenario at Odeon stage, where CASIOKIDS were playing to their faithful fans. Happy teens in chicken suits were jumping around happy. We decided to watch the fun for a while. We than edged towards the pit at the Orange Stage to ALICE IN CHAINS. I was never a big fan of theirs, but they performed without bells and whistles to a faithful 60,000 fans. We had spotted a falafel stall while at Odeon stage, and as we were waiting that long queue to the counter, we heard BOBAN I MARKO MARKOVIC ORKESTAR perform their gipsy samba music. We chanced upon BIFFY CLYRO at Arena scene and the sound felt good, but we were in a hurry to find a good spot to THEM CROOKED VULTURES. Yet another good rock from a band formed of Dave Grohl (Nirvana), Josh Homme (Queens of Stone Age) and John paul Jones (Led Zepplin). We wade further to watch NOFX deliver humorous Ska-Punk. We decided to hit the bus as we heard the mediocre sound of NEPHEW.

Day 3 (Saturday 3 July)

The days session started with a fun band at Pavilion stage by the name MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND. We managed to hop to the synthed beats and a chubby front man. Once again at the pits at the Orange Scene, we watch KASHMIR perform their classics. One of the best bands of Denmark was worth the time we spent there. We had decided to queue up for the pits to watch MUSE up front, but the long queue bent our plans for the better. I ran into PENDULUM which sounded pretty much like  THE PRODIGY. I stayed a while watching the amazing visuals and the mad crowd hopping to the synth stabs. The MUSE was a delight. We found a good spot on the far end where the sound and the view balanced both ears and eyes. We stood transfixed to the Lazer lights shooting out from the Orange Stage. We managed to hit the pits to THE PRODIGY, to which i was a bit disappointed. I have earlier seen them perform at underground venues where they belonged best. But it seemed that many more liked their performance than this hardcore fan called ME. I spent a few 10 minutes to MODERAT, a four piece electro band. i finished my session at 4 am to KELLERMENSCH. I was clearly influenced by MUSE, that any other performance was hard to match them the rest of the day.

Final Day (Sunday 4 July)

We walked into the stage to a much overcrowded Arena Stage where THE NATIONAL were playing. Hype monkies were hanging of the trees in front of Arena Scene. KASABIAN was on their day job routing at the Orange Scene. The girls decided to queue up for PRINCE and i decided to explore further. I chanced upon JULIAN MARLEY giving the people the spirit of his much famous father Bob Marley. Get up, stand up… you know what i mean. I decided to empty my bladder before PRINCE took over the 80,000 people, and on the way to the toilets i got to listen to THE TEMPER TRAP perform their radio hit. PRINCE… what can i say. I updated my facebook status “i found god, and his name is PRINCE”, need i say more. We closed the big festival to ARRIBA LA CUMBIA SYSTEMA SOLAR CHICO TRUJILLO which was one big happy party. People were clearly enjoying the last moment of the greatest music festival of the year, everyone promising to return next year.

I had my first visit to Roskilde Festival in 2000, as i got the tickets as a gift from one of the close friend of my girlfriend then. Thank you Eskil, i have never stopped since then (except one year!). So this makes it my 9th Roskilde Festival. 150 top band per year, times 9….. yes, I have pretty much experienced the Roskilde feeling out to the max, The sex, drug and rock n’ Roll bit. Its not much of sex and drugs anymore as years went by. I started focussing on other things that Roskilde festival offers. Stuff like art and creativity. I started absorbing inspirations from this festival vibe. To think differently, with no boundaries, bravely, colorfully, rebelliously, senselessly. I had been busy  spanning one end of the camping to the other seeking interesting stuff, The last few years at the Roskilde.

Unfortunatelty, i wont be able to do much of running around this time around, as i sprained my ankle. I guess i am going to be this guy who i shot last year.

i will most definitely listen to some good bands and give you the feedback.

Meanwhile, check some of the Roskilde moments i have captured thru the years.

Today, i let iTunes genius pick my songs on my way to the work. Electronic was the genre, Moby, Tricky, Thievery Corporation, Royksöpp and Fatboy slim was among the selected. While listening to Fatboy Slim, i recollected that his music videos were unique. While the track “Weapon of Choice” was playing, i remembered how Christopher Walken, who is otherwise known for acting powerful characters, was dancing to it. We enjoyed it more, specially because he took us by surprise. A sure classic music video.

I was at my lunch break at the canteen with my colleagues. The canteen is usually well served with loads of free newspapers like Metro, Urban and 24 Timer. We bury our heads in these tabloids in search of topics for conversation. Someone usually breaks the silence by a laughter, or “fuck, what the fuck is going on, man?” or “check this out”. And suddenly, there is a conversation for the next few minutes.

We dread the day when canteen has no newspapers. Where can we hide?  what conversation can we bring up? Damn, thats a hard one !

Yesterday, as usual, one of my colleagues bursts out into a man-laughter. A ‘man-laughter’ is usually a laugh at a the opposite gender. We men (women have their own table) eagerly wants to know what that was about. It was about this advert for a TV channel for men called Canal9, which usually broadcasts Bruce Willis, Football and cars, about their special World cup football special. The advert has a picture of a dildo and says “And so its the World cup, girls”. You are not going to get your men for the next whole month.

"its the world cup, girls..."

But strangely enough, i was at a sports pub with my friends out to watch the opening match. I was amazed by the amount of girls that turned up there as well. I did notice that they were not there to watch the game on big screen. But instead, they were rating and assessing potential “boyfriend material” while all the unwary men were dumb fixed on to the Big screen.

Let the games begin…., girls !

The "other" dj?

I was invited to enter a Dj competition for Copenhell, a Rock festival happening around the weekend. The invite kinda cracked me up.

They wanted 3 people to participate as a team against other teams. Since the electricity will be generated manually, one of the three will foot-pedal a cycle-generator and create the juice for the machines. while the second person of the team will spin vinyls or CD’s. the third person, yes the third person… well we don’t know what he does, and so does anyone else know! But we know there are always 2 people on the stage.

True, the wannabe, amateur Dj scene has this “other” person next to the Dj extending…. moral support?!!…. i don’t know.

i have been Dj’ing the last 15 years, and the only person i ever needed besides me were my groupies or friends.

Freakin amateurs !!!!

I grew up in the third world. I saw the first tv in 1980. I laid my hands on a P.C. in 1985. I learnt about the internet in 1990. I had my first E-mail address sometime in 1994. But internet was up and running since 1969. This video shows how they predicted the internet’s future.

Block party in copenhagen

Its been 6 months since i quit Dj’ing. I quit just as Keisha released a “hit” song “Tik Tok”. I have been behind the decks for almost 14 years, seen many  venues, seen many party people, and enjoyed the game. I quit Dj’ing to concentrate on my film making career. As a Indie filmmaker, most of my films are made during the weekend. I just wouldn’t have enough juice to multi task.

Copenhagen is wonderful clubbing city. I recently came across a clubbing photographer whose photos made me miss the scene. Well……

check his pics here at http://www.r2cph.com/