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Win! I have boarded my flight – and so have my kids! :D
Yesterday was fantastic – my darlings held a goodbyeparty for me and we danced and hugged all night! I’m looking forward to these 2 hours now, ambient music in my ears and SLEEP!
See you in Barcelona!
With the help of all the people that donated at the exhibition, ordered photos, bought things through the webpage and sent smses, I managed to collect 12.585kr (1345€) for the kids of the world, through my account at Unicef.
Thank you everybody, this is a beautiful result and we did it together – for the kids! – Tillsammans för Kidsen!
This was a project where I mainly focused on the situation and reality of the children in India through my photography and the photo exhibition that was held in december, the money raised will however go to kids all over the world – and more help and attention is always needed. In other words – the fundraising continues. The account stays open and there is always a possibility to contribute in many ways. The easiest being by sending an sms from a Swedish mobile to 72 900 where you write KÄMPA KIDS.
Tomorrow I’m jumping onto my flight to Barcelona and I’m hoping that the flight attendants at Spanair will let me bring my home-made box with the photos onto the flight.. I’m bringing some of my kids along, their reality deserves to be displayed and acknowledged in more places.. let’s see what happens.
But first… let’s dance!
“Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.”
Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
What a great evening. Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, Commando and Richie & Josie. <3 Commando was so much fun, my favourite part was doubtlessly when he jumps off a lifting jumbojet. Priceless Arnold-monent. Goodnight.
UPDATE: Here it is. Top quality comedy.
This is little Michael at the El Shaddai Childrescue center in Assagao in Goa, India. October 2010.
I will miss Malmö a bit – but I’m really looking forward to living and doing my thing in Barcelona. And I’m taking my photos with me!
I’m at the last stage of this project, with most of the orders delivered, the only thing I’m waiting for now is the bill from the printing house so that I can pay and do that last transfer to Unicef and see what numbers the fundraising finally got to :) In a couple of days you will know – however, the account will not be closed so if you still want to contribute, send a text to 72 900 with KÄMPA KIDS from a Swedish mobile and you give 5€ to the children of the world! Or you can buy yourself a little something here. If you don’t live in Sweden and you would like to make simple a transfer with a Creditcard, you can do it here. Dhanyavaad!
Found this videoclip that used to loop when I worked in the Swedish Pavilion at the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza..
We heard these songs over.. and over.. and over.. and over again.
And, of course, this one. I heard it more than four times a day, but I loved it.
Bo Kaspers Orkester – Fullkomligt Kaos
Kaos (2001)
Oh.. and that salmon from the German pavilion..
Tenéis pins?
The orders have been printed and my photos will be on their way to people’s homes very soon. 54 photos in total, ending up on random walls in random cities around Sweden. I’m so happy!
I saw Mikael Melbye’s production of Puccini’s enchanting La Bohème at the Copenhagen Opera the other day. Obviously, I couldn’t take any pictures during the play, but the surroundings were beautiful enough to share. Click the pictures for lightbox.
And then there’s always YouTube – this clip is from the second act of Franco Zeffirelli’s production of La Bohème.
Wait for Musetta’s waltz at 2:10.
La Scala, 2003.
Goodnight!
Barcelona really does inspire. It’s those little details I always have been nagging about.. the details and the contrasts that I look for. Barcelona gives me an euphoric overdose of all that and I imagine myself walking around for hours with my camera – very soon! I can’t wait to live there and be able to call Barcelona my city. As I said some time ago, I would easily move to Rio de Janeiro if they only spoke Spanish – and Barcelona is my mini-Rio. It’s the closest I have come to find a city like Rio – and it’s in Europe = free healthcare, baby! haha
Today I went out shopping like a good girl is supposed to!
I came back home with a Synology DS211j NAS and two 2TB Samsung HDD.
That was a couple of hours ago. Setting up the NAS and formatting the drives takes a while, but the nerd in me is really happy! Now I will be able to access my stuff from anywhere, and everything will always be safely backed up – I can’t believe I didn’t do this before!
Here’s a print screen of the Synology interface, click it for big. You just have to love the simplicity of it! That, and of course – Lauryn.
