Photographic Flux
Visions in time
Usually photos are good at recording space, while video is required to capture time as well. However, in this collection I try to include both time and space in a single photograph.
Things disappearing silently in the background
Absent motives and things no more
One day I was walking, on the main street, when I suddenly sensed a difference. I turned my head and found myself looking at nothing.
Or more precisely, I was looking at something that was no longer there. The old gasstation had been abandoned overnight, only empty frames left.
I mentioned it to my brother, who added that several other stations had closed, all somewhere between city and suburb. Maybe a new trend..?
Light Show
Fire in the Dark
Light 3 - Light 2 - Light 1 - Light 0
Here's some more scenes from the city after dark.
Even at night there's light. Shaken but sharp...
Little Green Red Men
It's Time and Space to Stop and Go
Signs at Night, Signs of Light, Signs in Sight.
All in Walking Distance. Left or Right.
Blue drops
Water in small pieces
I guess the title says it all.
But can you guess the surface..?
Charlottenborg
Without Filter
CUF II 2008
Recently a new exibition took place, without filter and in Valby, Copenhagen.
I participated with 5 photos from the Light Show collection.
CUF 2008. Prøvehallen. Porcelænstorvet 4.
2500 Valby. Copenhagen. 12-13 april 2008.
www.charlottenborgudenfilter.dk
PaveMental
Walking vistas
Certain things we walk on, but never look at. Here I did the opposite, have a look...
Winter 2008
Snow photographs
We hardly had any winter in 2007/08. But a few times snow fell after all, I rushed out to capture some glimpses...
Modern Ghosts
Electronic Ectoplasma
Modern Ghosts. People wandering around in our rooms, talking to themself, not to us.
We can see them, but they rarely seem to notice us. They repeat their actions,
again and again, and yet they think it's all new. But we know better, they are,
for a ghost of reasons, doomed for uncertain time, to walk the light...
Unknown
Unidentified motives
Unknown motives, unidentified scenes.
Between the Lines
Text én Mads
Fantastic realism á la Petterson
LØRDAG 17: Ole Pettersons new exibition is starting today pm 13 - 17,
until May 29 2008, Galleri Nybro, Nybrogade 30, 1203 Kbh. K.
Gallery is open tuesday-sunday pm 13 - 17. www.galleri-nybro.dk
Shadows walking
SUNDAY 11: It's summer, and it's official!
Socrates versus Philip K. Dick
TUESDAY 15: I have always been wondering, if this old Socrates-quote was more than an unintended absurdity. But today I discovered its match:
Socrates: "Today's young people love luxury. They have bad manners, scorn authority, have no respect for their elders and gossip when they should be working. Young people don't stand up any more when older people enter the room. They contradict their parents, swagger around in society, gobble up all the sweets on the table, cross their legs and tyrannize their teachers."
Philip K. Dick: "I have a secret love of chaos. There should be more of it. Do not believe - and I am dead serious when I say this - do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new."
Charlottenborg
Without Filter II
FRIDAY 11: A new exibition coming up, without filter and in Valby.
I participate with 5 photos from the Light Show collection:
Light is usually only the means to create a photo. Here I've crossed the line: Light has become the motive itself.
I've broken two fundamental rules: Enough light, steady lens.
Instead I walked out into nights, kept the camera moving, sometimes following moving objects. No flash, but long exposure.
Capturing lights in darkness, shaking the lens at any photon drifting by. Sounds like a recipé for chaos?
Yes, most of the times, but now and then new order arise from chaos, presenting views I would never have envisioned myself.
It sounds like a paradox, yet such photos may be shaken and sharp.
www.charlottenborgudenfilter.dk
Dilem
WEDNESDAY 2: Last month I designed a new website, that went online 1 April. It started with an order for a graphical symbol to be used in a paper folder (sometimes there's still life offline).
When I finally had that finished it had evolved into a website too: www.dilem.dk
Unless you can read danish, you wont get much out of the text. But at least I can explain that Dilem stands for Danish Ideabased and Local Electronic Media. An association of all danish local TV- and radio stations.
Autumn next year Denmark switches from analog to digital broadcasting, and the whole media landscape will then be rearranged.
Bon Voyage!
WEDNESDAY 19: Clarke has left the planet...
Google can't find Google
MONDAY 25: Sometimes things may seem very logical, and yet it isn't so.
Here's a recent example: Ask the search engine Google to look for "search engine".
Googles first proposal is: Altavista. Google is not nr 1, nor 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc...
but lurking somewhere on the third page. How many look that far normally..?
21'th Century FireFox
FRIDAY 22: Now Firefox has been downloaded 500.000.000 times (corresponds to about 150.000.000 users). Download of more than 100 millions in less than a half year. Congratulations..!
What is to become of them?
SUNDAY 17: Perhaps you can still recall the french riots a few years ago; cars burning in the streets, general disorder and the public asking: Why do these young people behave like that, what went wrong..?
Now the same kind of trouble have reached Denmark, but the questions remain. Perhaps philosophy can provide an answer. Let's ask Plato:
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
Hm, not much of an answer really.
Let's try Socrates instead:
"Today's young people love luxury. They have bad manners, scorn authority, have no respect for their elders and gossip when they should be working. Young people don't stand up any more when older people enter the room. They contradict their parents, swagger around in society, gobble up all the sweets on the table, cross their legs and tyrannize their teachers."
No, that didn't help either. 25 centuries ago we seem to find the same kind of troubles. History just repeats itself...
Or does it? Let's try a mirror-version, to gain some perspective:
"What is happening to our grownup people? They disrespect the kids, they disregard their children. They ignore justice. Petrifying in front of TV, like zombies devoid of any emotion. Their minds are decaying. What is to become of them?"
Or what do you think..?
Multitudes
North West Light Show
Video by Mads Dam. Music: Lars Mikkes
Silhouette
Shadow experiment
Silhouette Video by Mads Dam
Wandering 1
Wondering
Walking Video by Mads Dam
Shades
Gray waves
Video by Mads Dam. Music: Lars Mikkes
CycloScopic
Circles within Circles
What is a super-cycle? Two or more circles combined. This may sound esoteric, but here's a really simple example:
Imagine the Moon circling Earth, or imagine Earth circling Sun. These are examples of simple circle-systems.
Then imagine standing on the sun, and following the orbit of the Moon; here we have two circles combined.
We also look at a strange orbit, regarding the Moons velocity; Sometimes it seems to speed up, or slow down.
Sometimes even stopping. Or even weirder, moving backwards?
View more...
In the silence of the forest
Wilderness whispering
Video: Mads Dam. Sound: Nature
Order and chaos
Living image
If you see a pattern moving right or left, up or down - it's an illusion.
If you see a pattern starting ordered and gradually becoming chaotic,
this is also an illusion. In fact, the pattern itself is an illusion...
More video
Colour space - Journey into the image
The floor - Viewed as a piece of modern art
Pulse - Red experiment
Rush
Star City - Transmorphosis
Thunder dripping
Statue in the park
Universalto. Looking up another hill
Winter Apples
The invisible man goes for a walk...
More animation
Universum. All this and more
Digital Jungle 2 - Living image
Exosphere 5. Eternal animation
Exosphere 6. Eternal animation
Exosphere 7. Eternal animation
Exosphere 8. Eternal animation
Magrittes mirror
