Back to the drawing board
Here’s something you don’t see often in this blog! They say that there’s a first time for everything, so without any further ado let me present: a drawing.
Just a test drawing – I definitely need to practice more.
Don’t worry: probably I won’t be posting to many drawings. I have other talents that I hopefully master better than drawing digitally.
Sunday is coming to an end: Have a wonderful week everyone!
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Phishing spammers stole my post
Spam fuckers trying to steal your WordPress account.
I didn’t want to spend time writing a post like this today, but it’s nice to post a warning to all my fellow bloggers out there.
The spammers are getting more and more rude. Now they stole my post! Not only a picture or two, but the whole post! They stole it and published it in 3 different websites.
Once some blogger asked me why I watermark my photos: Some bloggers don’t like it when they see a post and the photos are watermarked. Well, that’s why: because people steal your text and your photos to market their own products. I’m not getting paid to blog, I’m not earning money by blogging and I don’t want other people to steal my shit to try to generate revenue for themselves.
Not only are these websites trying to generate revenue for themselves, they are also trying to steal your password & your WordPress account: In order to comment on the websites questioned, you need to log in. The log in looks exactly like the ordinary WordPress login (see illustration SpamFuckers01.jpg), but it’s not.
They’re trying to get you to log in, and by doing so they successfully get your log in details (your username and password).
The spammers use WordPress.org as a platform, but I looked up the owners of the websites and all 3 sites are hosted through singlehop.com – a site famous for spam.
So, if you encounter this problem, make sure that you don’t leave any comments or try to log in.
It looks like the official WordPress site, but it’s not. They are trying to redirect you to their site and steal your password.
The good news is: WordPress’ spam filter stopped them!
Trail Biking in Oslo
Waiting for the subway…
“Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain.
Mountain biking can generally be broken down into multiple categories: cross country (XC), trail riding, all mountain, downhill, freeride, dirt jumping and trials. The vast majority of mountain biking falls into the recreational XC, and Trail Riding categories.” (wiki)
In Oslo there are several trails in the area around Frognerseteren. Take the subway Line#1 to the end of the line: Frognerseteren.
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You’ll find more of my music in these posts:
Purple Transvestites & Gay Muslims
Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple. This week the team over at WordPress decided to go for another color in the Weekly Photo Challenge: ” – what kind of purple caught your photographic eye? Share a picture that means PURPLE to you!”
I like photographing and I love photographing people! These photos were all shot at the Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade in Oslo earlier this summer. With so many colorful personalities around, this event was like a photographers dream!
Purple enough for you?
Opera Software Headquarters
For those of you that are into software & computers (Daniel?): I just wanted to present this gallery with the surroundings Opera Software‘s new headquarters in Oslo. Opera’s new offices are located in Gjerdrums Vei 19 in Nydalen, Oslo. All these photos are shot nearby or just outside the building.
Inside: a photographic journey through India & Nepal
Often the inside of something is even more interesting than the outside. – Sara Rosso
Here’s some pictures that represents “inside”, plus a bunch that I just throw in for fun. All these photos were shot between December 2004 – December 2005 when I spent 9 months traveling around in India on my Bullet 350 motorcycle. Most of the time was spent in in Delhi & Rishikesh, plus 3 months were I settled in a village in Nepal.
The inside of my Bullet350
There’s nothing to mourn about…
There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.
― Charles Bukowski
The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Panning a moving subject
Just after I bought the new camera my mother-in-law wondered why I shot so many pictures of cars as we were driving from place to place. I tried to explain to her that I was practicing the technique of panning a moving subject, but she didn’t understand what the fuck I was talking about.
This is what I was talking about:
If you want to try this technique, experiment with the shutter speed on your camera. Set it somewhere between 1/15 sec or 1/30 sec (sometimes even faster or slower). These are shot from a moving car, which makes it more difficult: it’s easier if you’re standing still, while the object you’re shooting is moving.
The Interior Decorator God
My headline can be a bit misleading, as he is technically not a God – only a deity, but here you have him: the most popular depiction of religious superheroes among the interior decorators of the world! It’s none other than Buddha himself!
Buddha: Technically not a God, but as close as one can get to being one according to some people.
Buddha: Technically not a God, but as close as one can get to ever being one (according to some people).
A Night Like This – in Tel Aviv
A lot of people say that Tel Aviv is the miniature version of ‘a knife, a fork a bottle and a cork’.
The Upstairs Room
Here’s what I believe will be the last clue in the little riddle that I’ve been running through the last week: A frozen river, a beautiful girl, a dog, the last standing wall of the temple in Jerusalem & this loft?
The Upstairs Room
Face over at facesplacespaces.wordpress.com has basically cracked the code already 
Playing with the sun at Oslo Opera
I’ve posted several photos of the Oslo Opera House earlier, but none of them in sunlight like these. Went down to the Opera house in Oslo last night to take some photos, all of these are shot between 20:00 – 21:00 in the evening.
Some rays of sun breaks through the clouds and illuminates this building vis-a-vis Oslo Opera
Musical Portrait
Just watched episode 310 on Kelbytv.com and picked up this awesome technique. If you’re into Photoshop I recommend that you check them out in one of their channels. These tips are not only for advanced photoshoppers – Kelbytv.com makes sure to incorporate easy tips & tricks as well.
Musical Portrait by CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com
To see how I made this picture, check out the program and you might learn something new as well. I promise you: it’s an easy technique.
http://kelbytv.com/photoshopusertv/2012/07/10/episode-310/
You can also watch it on YouTube.
A beach, a bar and a girl in a black & white bikini
Mr. Frizz over at Flickrcomments.wordpress.com asked if anyone had a story or a short reflection to share, tagged with the letter “B”. It made me think of this story that unfolded on a sandy beach in India sometime around December/January 2004/05. This is a true story of a bar, a beautiful woman in a bikini and two written notes – one of which is directly related to the other.
Wailing Wall
There’s a connection. Angelinem.wordpress.com & facesplacespaces.wordpress.com have tried to figure it out. This post is the next hint.
A frozen river, a beautiful girl, a dog, the last standing wall of the temple in Jerusalem & this loft?
A Reflection
A Reflection…
A frozen river, a beautiful girl, a dog, the last standing wall of the temple in Jerusalem & this loft?
A Chain of Flowers
A Chain of Flowers
Here’s a link to a related post (the drowning man), but what’s the connection?
Ovnsbakt ørret med kinesisk stekte poteter
Stekte poteter på kinesisk vis er en oppskrift jeg plukket opp fra kokeboken “Xiang – Mat og kultur fra Hunan” av den kinesiske kokken og forfatteren Feng Xian Lin. Boken gir et godt innblikk, ikke bare i kinesisk matlaging, men også kultur og tradisjoner. Potetene er en wok-rett og den passer bra også sammen med andre retter – f.eks kylling.
Til hovedretten trenger du følgende:
- 1 hel ørret (størrelsen bestemmer du selv)
- 2-3 knuste hvitløksfedd
- 1 liten rødløk delt i 4
- Peanøttolje (eller en annen olje som er god til steking)
- Saften fra 1 lime (presses over fisken – inn i buken)
- 1 klatt margarin eller usaltet smør
- 3 kvaster dill (eventuelt andre urter)
- Finhakket ingefær
Don’t share your opinion here on WordPress
Just agree instead.
Someone kept spewing out links to their old post, so I went to this persons blog and told her that she was a click-whore: spewing out links to old posts, without even bothering to write a new post and link back to the site in question.
After that WordPress set my account in some spam-filter, so whenever I comment on someone’s blog I end up in their spam-filter (unless they have already un-spammed me). The same happens with trackbacks/pingbacks. I’ve had this confirmed by plenty of fellow-bloggers.
I wrote to akismet technical support, but after having filled out a form, it’s been nothing but silence from their part.
To me it seems like WordPress only want us bloggers to share our opinions if we are cozy and agree with each other. Even when people are semi-spammers – using their blog to sell some products via text related product placement and advertising, we’re supposed to only write nice things like: “ooh, great post”, “lovely photo” and suck up to each other.
Is it really like that? Are all you WordPress bloggers out there just a bunch of pussies that can’t handle a negative remark now and then?
Are you children that cannot be told the truth about the world, only fairy tales with happy endings?
Personally I prefer people with opinions, even if they don’t always correlate with mine.
Today it’s the 4th of July, and a perfect date to write a post about Freedom of Speech. Well, perhaps not here on WordPress- they might slip the digital handcuffs on you for sharing your opinion.
Like Patti so elegantly put it:
“I know comments sometimes slip into spam but I had no idea there was a Sheriff in WPTown ready to slip on the handcuffs for words against the grain. I always thought WP comments went to spam after too many being made by the user in a particular period of time. If that’s so then why on the stats page do they suggest “making comments” to get more traffic? Hope this is resolved soon and am looking forward to your honest comment and opinion getting out and about again!”
What’s your opinion? Can you handle criticism, or do you prefer WordPress to protect your fragile little mind?
EDIT: Today I got a message from the support team that I was un-spammed.
So now I can end my drama queen shenanigans (for now), but I’ll be back: riding Rocinante while courageously fighting injustice & digital internet windmills!
“Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.”
Landscape photography: Valdres, Norway
Here’s a landscape photo that I shot in Valdres, Norway. If you want to see more landscape shots, add me on Google Plus.
from Leinesanden towards Vang
The lake you see on the photo is Vangsmjøsa.
Photography as political medium / political commentary…
Mediated persona as part of political performance.
Dreaming about another term….
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July 13, 2012 | Categories: Art Photos, People, Portraits | Tags: dreaming, George Orwell, Obama, Photography as political commentary, Photography as political medium, Social And Political Art, The United States of America, USA, Weekly Photo Challenge 2012 | 21 Comments »