Sunlight....

Brand new....

Transition....

Photo and text by Natalie Curtis

"You’ll need the code. An evidence of existence. To enable your arrival, and your departure (though the leaving is not so easy, the way the time moves, slowing and sticking). But more than that, for when it’s all gone, and some of it already is. Because even if you wanted this place to last forever, and you don’t, the cities mutate around us and nothing stays the same."

Wrong again....

The two original doors from the early 40`s (?)....and the absurdity of our days in the middle.

City [dis]membering....

Silence....

Energy....

The remnants of the 60`s....

Time....

Lonely....

1931....

Rarity....

The Doors Alive...(?)

1920`s....

Chalmers A-bibliotek....

..2017, by Tengbom Arkitekter

1948....

..the Jaguar XK 120

The mother of all churches....

..Basilica di San Pietro

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane....

Tate Modern....

Static....

Selfridge & Co....

Amanda Bergman....

..one among the many talented Swedish female singer/songwriters 

Aspvik....

Stockholm, 2015, by Andreas Martin-Löf

1913....

Motel 6....

3505, State Street, Santa Barbara....1960`s

Swedese....

Retired....

Amazing....

20Th Century Women, a very good film by Mike Mills

“You get to see him out in the world as a person. I never will.”....so many details and nuances one can discover when seeing a film several times. 

Gare Marítima de Alcântara....

Lisboa, 1943, by Porfirio Pardal Monteiro

A Better New Year....

The wife....

Behind every successful man....there's a woman. The story in different shapes and time, it is often repeated, but never really ends. The director Björn Runge got a late ticket to another level and Glenn Close will finally collect her Oscar ?

Roma....

At the end of the day....it is always women who keep this world from falling apart. Cleo appears like a reincarnation of God, a self-denying human being with a heart of infinite dimensions. A piece of beautiful black & white film by Alfonso Cuarón (with superb sound work).

Watching this beauty on small screen is definitely to be avoided.

Happy Christmas....

Outside Paris in the mid 1960`s. Photo: Gérald Bloncourt

This photo of a Portuguese immigrant child is so much more than that moment....it is a child with curiosity and dreams that the future could be different. Everything is written on her face. A truly beautiful picture.

Canal....

The brutalized 60`s and 70`s....

..when decorative paintings with quality could be covered with white paint....just like that !

Star....

Perfection....

..a (royal ?) gold etui, made in France

Winter day....

Jul Göteborg....

Window....

The Falk Simon silver collection....

silver dish, Porto, Portugal, late XVI-century

Among many other masterpieces, some delightful artifacts from the same period from Augsburg, Germany

Vanity Fair....

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is Vanity Fair - a world where everyone is striving for what is not worth having.” declares the author William Makepeace Thackeray, played with a knowing smile by Michael Palin. 

Seven quality episodes with a group of very young British actors - and Olivia Cooke in the main role....is just brilliant. 

Not forgetting the music used in the opening credits - "All Along the Watchtower" by Afterhere (Glenn Gregory and  Berenice Scott). The track is taken from their debut album Addict.

Bo Kaspers Orkester at Scandinavium....

Scandinavium, November 23

It's hard to define Bo Kaspers music due to the many influences ....but when they turn from jazz to electronic, the music becomes special.

Best in show: Utan dig

João Botelho....

.."the reinforcement of the individual....reinforces the manipulation of individuals"