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Absolut colors celebrates the Rainbow flags 30th birthday by making a special rainbow packaged bottle of their famous vodka. It makes me proud that a multinational company decides to honor multitude and individuality in this way. The package is designed by Gilbert Baker who made the first Pride flag in 1978. (The Italian peace flag is older and slightly different rainbow flag but both of them serves a good purpose).

Absolut has always been very very good at marketing!

Let´s have a Stoli on the rocks, shall we? ;-)

When I feel wound up of stressed because life can be stressful, I think about this window. It´s installed at my favorite museum, Louisiana. This particular window is the ultimate cross over between Asian tranquility and Dansih design. Imagine sitting at a low sofa watching the changes of the branches in the wind and the quiet ripple of the water. If this would ever bore you you can always look at David Hockneys A bigger Grand Canyon. It´s not the best of Hockneys works as far as I think, but it is _grand_. This room used to be the home of another favorite of mine, The Man Striding by Giacometti. His works always makes me wonder about his perception, like if perhaps there was something wrong with his eyes. There´s a friendly uneasyness to his work that I admire.

There´s a great exhibition there right now with Cézanne and Giacometti, at first it seemed like an odd matching but after reading a bit about the two and seeing “them” together it turned out to be a very inspiring match making. It seemed their careers were parallel to some extent, they both dealt with similar topics. They both spent a lot of time copying each others and other artists work. Giacometti has made a lot of comments about Cézannes work and so on. I´ve always felt that there was some sort of lightness to Cézanne but I wsa proven wrong. A lot of his paitings are kind of dark and intense, not just portraying nature is a colorful way. It appears I need to upgrade my art history knowledge to at least 2.0.

Taking pictures of food is hard. It´s an art form of its own. I don´t claim to be good at it but I like to try to find an angle. Make it personal. For a few years it´s been all about blurs, over exposures and super closeups in every magazine. It´s getting boring so today I went for the opposite. Darker collages with flowers hanging and cigar boxes at stupid angles. I think it went well. They do need a lot of post work and I´m not allowed to show any of them yet. But so far I´m content about the fact that I lost track of time while working/playing around. It´s a good start for a possible good outcome.

It never fails. When I´ve been home for a month or two I start getting restless. I have plans for traveling and a busy schedule but it´s not enough. I wanna get away _now_.

As a bribe or comfort I bought something I really needed today, an iPod Touch. I already have an iPod and a shuffle so I could live without one but now I´m glad I don´t have to. It´s a beauty!

I watched Psycho today. Again. It was more than 20 years since I last saw it. I had forgot how good it is! So ahead of time. The photo is fantastic and the actors performances are superb. It´s a perfect movie. The faces Janet Leigh makes while driving, running away are stunning. Everything is so subtle. Nothing except what´s needed is there.

In retrospect it seemed bold to have the “star” of the movie die after a “measly” 46 minutes but it´s also perfect. What struck me today that I totally missed out last time was how innocent the movie was, or rather the presentation of the plot. Today there are 14 to the dozen of serial killer movies with killers being psycho. And most of them goes too far, all that violence kind of make you numb. But in comparison Norman Bates seems like a sissy boy scout. I guess at the time of its release it was another story.