Magic Circle Festival 2008

We're finally back in Oslo after the Magnificience of Manowar at the MCF08.

All your camps are belong to Norway

(Greek guy makes it look easy, it wasn't)

We arrive at Bad Arolsen

The HoD party! Great food, and the drinks were flowing free. How can a man say no?

Matthew's marguaritas made quite the impression on the girls.

HoD party. I think I met you guys first... Kinda blurry from this point on.

Erman the German and Spiros the Malaka

Norway and Finland

Four riders of doom

Small gathering of HoD. Nice tits by the way!

Matthew was seen doing this alot. Must be his wife keeping a leash, hehehe

Me and Katja outside the Forum tent

The House of Death Forum all in one piece

(Yeah, some are missing, but we'll photoshop them in later)

Signing session on Friday

Eric and me at the signing on Friday. Eric, you're the man!

Eric: "There's something familiar with you"

Me: "Yeah, I'm one of the moderators on HoD"

With Karl and Rhino

Here is the blurry picture Neil took of me and Maria.

Man, next time set the camera on auto, she does not deserve to look blurry on camera.

The shows

The MCF main stage, with Jack Starr.

It's gargantuan, and looks like it's taken right out of a sci-fi movie set.

Hi-5, we like!

Me and Matt are backed by England and Norway

Alice Cooper

Kobus

Doro

Photos of Manowar are not posted. Wait for the DVD...

It was impossible to take pictures whilst banging inside the frontstage crowd.

Ready for the battle on Saturday

Me, Todd, and Matthew

Xóan being harassed

Metal brother from Italy

Nima gets his punishment

Both Steve and I survived the show on Saturday.

I'm listening to your CD now, brother! Cool stuff!

"Yeah, bro. It really says MVP on my shirt."

Matthew proudly sports his "Manowar Vintage Product"

I met some truly amazing people at this years festival.

Many of whom are very recent friends. But it felt like we had known each other for ages.

On second thought, maybe it was the alcohol?.... Heheheh

Dagbladets bytryner

Hver uke publiserer DB bilder av helgens bytryner i Oslo og andre byer. Hver uke kan man se de samme navnene på utesteder gå igjen. Hver uke blir jeg forbannet over at fotografen ikke varierer sine "jaktmarker".
Utestedene som blir besøkt er storbyenes hippe kjøttmarkeder, der nymfomane ekshibisjonister kan utfolde seg med støtte fra en landsdekkende avis. DB bedriver hallikvirksomhet med sin praksis, og det er under at de får fortsette med dette. Forvent motsvar i de kommende ukene!

English translation:
Every week come Monday, the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet (abb. DB) publishes pictures of people frequenting clubs and bars. Every week, the photographer visits the same places. And every week, I get annoyed that they don't vary their "hunting grounds".
The profiled clubs are the meatmarkets of Norway's big cities, where nymfomanic exhibitionists can show off with the support of a nation-wide newspaper. DB are a bunch of lowlife pimps because of this practice, and I'm surprised that they can continue what they're doing. Expect my response in the coming weeks!

Sweden Rock 2008

Da var årets SRF overstått

Bilder med kommentarer følger:

En camp tar form

Store, tøffe gutter

Primal Fear

Moshpit på Testament

Testament

Chuck Billy, Eric Peterson, Alex Skolnick, Greg Christian, og Paul Bostaph

Judas Priest

Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glen Tipton, Ian Hill, Scott Travis

Store, snille gutter

Manowar-forumfolk

KÖRV til kun 10 spenn på Zeppelin Stage

Svölk

True Norwegian Bear Metal

Shakin' Street

Fabienne Shine, Ross the Boss, Philippe Kalfon, Mike Winter, JL Kalinowski, Phil Bonanno

Ross The Boss!

New album coming out aug. 22nd

Whitesnake

David Coverdale, Doug Aldrich, Reb Beach, Marco Mendoza, Tim Drury, Tommy Aldridge

Saxon

Biff Byford, Doug Scarrat, Paul Quinn, Nibbs Carter, Nigel Glocker

Og det var det. Årets lineup var ikke like sterk som tidligere år, men de konsertene som var verdt å se, gjorde til gjengjeld festivalopplevelsen ekstra moro.

GTA4 - Oslo edition

Will the real Niko Bellic please stand up?!!

Hi-5, yeees we like...

House of Death T-shirt

I just received my t-shirt for the Manowar-forum:

Everyday LEGO creations

I'm making objects in use in everyday life out of LEGO.
Today's selected item; a cell-phone holder:

Nuanced photojournalism?

I read the Norwegian news paper Dagbladet (www.dagbladet.no) everyday.
Every week, they have a photojournal from city-life in Norway's biggest cities.
This time, it was Oslo's turn, as it has been so many times before.
What Dagbladet lacks, however, are photographers capable of considering other places than two clubs as "hip enough to take pictures in".
"Dattera til Hagen" (Hagen's Daughter) and Gloria Flames, are two clubs in Oslo's Grønland district, known for their "hipness". The photoreporter has taken a total of 20 pictures at these two locations.

I wonder if there aren't any other places in Oslo wherein to take pictures of people?