MEX4

THE VOLVO P1800 AND THE 1800ES

A week ago or something I posted some pictures of a red VOLVO I spotted while out Champagne shopping in the west ...and encouraged people to give me info about the car if they new anything about it.. since the only thing I knew was that I thought it was nice looking. I didn't have to wait long for information. Only a day later I got an e mail from my PARENTS (my dad was the person who earlier had encouraged me to do more car stuff on my blog so it was nice with some backing up) who had imediately recognized the car as the one ROGER MOORE alias SIMON TEMPLAR drove in the famous tv-show THE SAINT (in Norway known as  HELGENEN, screened on fridays on norwegian TV, when my parents were younger). The car TEMPLAR drove was a white VOLVO 1800P, a sports car, while the one I spotted was a red  VOLVO 1800ES, an estate, a station wagon.  The VOLVO 1800 ES ran out of production in 1973 and only 8,077 of the ES were built in its two model years.  

Another thing maybe worth mentioning about my blogpost about the VOLVO is that I can tell by the statistics on my site that I have had 18 hits from a page called 'car-accident-pictures' this last week. I have had some more viewers then normal lately because of the Vixen BlogAward, but these I am tempted to "blame" on the car post, not minMote and VIXEN. Who knows. Anyways, here are some beautiful pictures of these two Volvo models from back in the days.

CARNIVAL TIME

Walking past ALEXANDER PLATZ the other day and looking at the mannequins with COSTUMES on in the store windows made me remember that it's CARNIVAL season. I have no carnival plans for this year but went home and looked at some POLAROIDS I took some years ago when I had a carnevale in my apartment in OSLO. Had it in february as a sort of delayed birthday celebration. My friends were not too HAPPY about the hole dressing up idea first, but the party ended up being a total success. Here are some of my POLAROID FAVORITES from that night, I never get tired of looking at them. 

SUN SETTING

STAUSBERGERPLATZX2

BLOOD ORANGE, SUN AND SWEATER

ERLEND'S BIRTHDAYDINNER

For E's birthday we prepared a hole CHICKEN, the best till this date I think. Even after most of the meat was gone, the room still smelled great from the BONES. Resulting in E fulfilling a long time dream; making his own chicken stock of of the chicken bones, water, wine and some vegetables. Even though the food tasted great; we pared the chicken with white-truffle-butter-sweet-potato-fries and a fresh salad, the HIGHLIGHT of the evening was maybe the wines. We started of with a Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Brut from a CHAMPAGNE PRODUCER that E has been very interested in ..and excited about lately; JACQUES SELOSSE (more about that producer and his wines in a blogpost I'm planning; a champagne guide for dummies) and then went over to a PINOT NOIR, a 2007 Aurelien Verdet, Nuits St. Georges, 1er Cru La Richemone. Both of them very tasty and definitively worthy of E's birthday celebration. More about AURELIEN VERDET here.

KARL-MARX-ALLEE, BERLIN

INGER

MY SISTER AND HER CAPE

This week my SISTER arrived in BERLIN, to stay, for almost half a year. It feels FANTASTIC to have her here after almost FIVE years not living in the same CITY. The other day when we went out she was wearing this beautiful second hand AUBIN & WILLS CAPE that she bought a week before she arrived here  ...in a second hand store at the PORTOBELLO MARKET in NOTTING HILL, LONDON. She told me that as she was paying for the CAPE an older british man walked in. You could tell by the way he looked that life hadn't been too EASY on him, but that he still had a GREAT sense of STYLE. A soon as he came in to the store he looked at what my sister was buying and exclaimed in a (of course) perfect BRITISH accent; OH, IT'S PUURFECT FOR SKIING! Coming from Norway, the ultimate land of skiing, this of course sounds pretty much just hilarious, but still, just puurfect, coming from this man.

SUNNY PINK FRIDAY, STRAUSBERGER PLATZ, BERLIN

NEW FLOWERS FOR THE WEEKEND

SUNLIGHT ..STILL VERY EXCITING

WHAT CAN I SAY, I ♥..

               

 GALLIANO for DIOR, SS 2011,  photo: SCANPIX

APRICOT LIGHT, OUR BEDROOM WALLS

KINO INTERNATIONAL, BERLIN

PLANES CROSSING THE SKY

BEAUTIFUL WOODEN BOTTEGA VENETAS, KURFÜRSTENDAMM, BERLIN

TOWER AND TREES

PASSED THIS SOL LEWITT THE OTHER DAY

SOL LEWITT, Modular Cube, 1993

ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS BEAUTY..

One time when I talked to my DAD he asked for more picture of CARS on my BLOG. I have always been a big fan of CARS, maybe I don't know that much about them, but I really like how they LOOK, and I therefore thought that my DAD's request was a reasonable one. Unfortunately most of the nice cars here in BERLIN are in the western part, and not the eastern where I live, so there haven't been any car photos.. until last week.. when we went on a trip to the WEST to buy some CHAMPAGNE for E's birthday ..and my eye fell on this old VOLVO ..and I thought to myself that this was a nice opportunity to photograph a car (even though I think my dad was more hoping for a picture of maybe a BMW or a MERCEDES BENZ). So here they are.. my blog's first car pictures and hopefully not the last ones, even though I must admit that I don't know much about this car ..other than it's red and with a fun shape.. . and that it's a VOLVO..

...and that it has a BEHIND looking like this.. If anyone know anything more about this CAR, like when it's from or something, feel free to COMMENT, then maybe this can be the start of me learning more about cars..

AT THE NEWSSTAND, LEHNINER PLATZ, WEST BERLIN

THROUGH SUNGLASSES

ERLEND has taken a new step on the PHOTOGRAPHY LADDER; coming up with his own photo ideas, like shooting trough his SUNGLASSES. I have always been a FAN of doing that so I didn't argue.

SUNREFLECTIONS

The other day the SUN was shining, not the teasing kind of shining, but the REAL DEAL ..and the sun hit some of the things in our bedroom and created beautiful SHADOWS. Some of the shadows fell on some CARDS I had bought a couple of days earlier ..with motives by the two artists GERHARD RICHTER and WOLFGANG TILLMANS .. I thought the shadows and the motives on the cards looked really nice together and wanted to capture it, to save it ..maybe for a rainy day.. anyway ..that is the STORY of how these photos came to LIFE.

LIGHT