Welcome to 2009!

Just a preliminary report...

The year 2008 in my blog - photo-cavalcade

It is getting close to 2009 and everyone is making a cavalcade of some sort based on the year that has gone by. Surprisingly, I'm going to to the same. Since this is mainly a photo-blog, I have picked one posted picture from each month during the year. I hope you will enjoy them - just click on the picture below and start scrolling.

Happy New Year!

X is for things we are not supposed to do

Found in the bathroom of a hotel. They had obviously been the venue of a conference for editors...

A Happy New and Better Year to all the Lexicographers in ABC Wednesday!

Today's post is my entry in the third round of ABC Wednesday, the meme initiated by Denise Nesbitt.

For more, you can log on via a Mr Linky enabled site or
a no-comment blog where you can post a copy or short version of your post with a link-back to your original post for the full version and comments.

Odd Shot Smile(y) of the Year

Found yesterday - one happy stone ball! Looking forward to the New Year's Ball, perhaps? Or maybe it was only an oddball.

Happy New Year to all Odd Shooters!

Please visit Katney's Kaboodle for more about Odd shots!

Amalie Skram

Bergen has its share of statues. As usual they depict politicians and various cultural personalities, most commonly men. One of the few made to commemorate a woman is this one of the female writer Amalie Skram. Wikipedia describes her literary life like this:

In 1882 Amalie Skram debuted under the name Amalie Mueller with Madam Høiers Leiefolk. Her work continued until her death. She dealt with topics she knew well.

Her work can be divided into three categories:

• Novels concerning marriage, which explored taboo topics such a female sexuality, and the subservient status of women in that period. These works was received by many as overly provocative and resulted in open hostility from some segments of society.
• Multi-generation novels, which dealt with the fate of a family over several generations. With these she explored the social institutions and conditions of the time and campaigned for change.
• Mental hospital works such as Prof Hieronimus and Paa St. Jørgen, which deal with the primitive and brutal conditions of such institutions of the period. Her novels created a major stir in Denmark and precipitated improvements in these institutions.

She is recognized as one of the early and strong proponents of what has come to be known as the women's movement, setting the early European early trend. Her works, which had been generally forgotten with her death, were rediscovered and received strong recognition in the 1960s. Several of her works are currently available in recent translations to English.

The Statue was made by the female sculptor Maja Refsum in 1949 and is placed at "Klosteret" on "Nordnes" in Bergen

Route 666 3 (Australia 2008)

Route.666.3.Apocalypse.Provoke.The.Establishment.2008.DVDRip.XviD-AEROHOLiCS
DVDRip - XviD - 2008 - 110 minutes - Includes Extras - Aeroholics relese

http://rapidshare.com/files/175982369/Route.666.3.Apocalypse.Provoke.The.Establishment.2008.DVDRip.zip.001

http://rapidshare.com/files/175993120/Route.666.3.Apocalypse.Provoke.The.Establishment.2008.DVDRip.zip.002

http://rapidshare.com/files/176140371/Route.666.3.Apocalypse.Provoke.The.Establishment.2008.DVDRip.zip.003

http://rapidshare.com/files/176162755/Route.666.3.Apocalypse.Provoke.The.Establishment.2008.DVDRip.zip.004

Join the files with HJSplit (win) or Split & Concat (mac)
After that extract normal rar files with winrar etc.
Juntar los archivos con HJSplit (win) o Split & Contact (mac).
Despues extraer los archivos rar con Winrar etc (extraer solo un rar)

TRAILER


screens & links from Zerosec
thanx to jacktheknife

From a post-Christmas stroll

Do we eat too much at Christmas? Do we spend too much? Do we get too much? I don't know - all I know is that with 'flu in the house, guests in the house, variable weather and personal side-effects of medicines, it has been little exercise. I attempted to rectify some of that today.

At least the weather was nice!

Someone on the other side of the fjord had obviously got too many gifts and was doing something about it...

DIRTY HANDZ "The Lost Tapes..."

Paris 2001-RER C

Reverse Graffiti : Ossario : Alexandre Orion

http://ossario.net

Investigating a Christmas tree

Have you ever investigated your Christmas tree close-up? It can be an interesting experience.

You will of course find some "ordinary" Christmas-tree decorations.

But you might be lucky and find an elf (or a "nisse" as we call them here)

And if it is really your day, you might have the kind of tree that attracts birds!

Todos los caminos llevan a Roma...

El Periodico 24-12-2008

Graffilthy Videos 12-24-08

Goodbye Graffiti on the news in Vancouver



Man killed in LA by graffiti gang


Rotterdam Trains


The Famous CHAKA

W is for Wishing You a Merry Christmas!

Today's post is also my entry to the third round of ABC Wednesday. The Wishes goes to all who pass by, and especially to the founder of the meme, Denise Nesbitt.

For more, you can log on via a Mr Linky enabled site or
a no-comment blog where you can post a copy or short version of your post with a link-back to your original post for the full version and comments.

Jisoe (Australia 2005)

Jisoe.(2005).DVDRIP.XViD.[sAzER]
-Film documentary on the writer Jisoe from Melbourne. Shows him painting trains, bombing, racking etc.
-Documental sobre el escritor Jisoe de Melburne, que sale pintando trenes, firmando y robando a cara descubierta.
DVDRip - 2005 - English - 700 mb - XviD - 56 min - sAzER release
Download (Torrent TPB)

MTAliens

M.T.Aliens from graffiti on Vimeo.

Addicted 2nd Issue DVD

2007, DVDRip, 1.6gb, Misfits release - Includes extras
"Footage taken from 47 Crews = 247 Artists and filmed in Aachen, Bochum, Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Ruhrarea plus Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Belgium,Berlin, Rotterdam, Budapest, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Milan, New York, Paris, Poland, Stuttgart. That’s a whole load of different writers, cities and countries."
Download (Torrent - grafftorrents.com)

Star Gazing in Sky Watch

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Watchers!

(A special dedication goes with this post to my lung transplanted friend Truls Zimmer who has been fighting for his life against infections and is finally showing signs of recovery!)

PS Please visit Sky Watch Friday's own site for more.

A spectrum of/in escalators

How to break up the boredom of shopping?
Look around!

Something might be changing.

Piece Of Mind Trailer

Piece Of Mind Trailer. from Keegan Gibbs . com on Vimeo.

V is for Voss in ABC Wednesday

Voss is a municipality not far for from Bergen - many would call it a small town. Wikipedia describes it like this:

Voss (help·info) is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Voss. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen.

Voss was established as a municipality on January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Vossestrand was separated from Voss on January 1, 1868 and Evanger was separated from Voss on January 1, 1885. All of Vossestrand and the main part of Evanger, were merged back into the municipality of Voss on January 1, 1964.

The main centre of population is the town Voss or Vossevangen. Voss is situated on the main road and railway line from Oslo to Bergen, about 100 kilometres east of Bergen. The people of Voss make their living mainly from agriculture and tourism, both in the summer and winter.

When you look at the snowcapped mountains in the distance you could be excused for thinking that you were now into the Norwegian "Highlands", but you are not. The picture above shows the station building, and it says clearly that you are now all of 57 metres above sea level. However, Voss has fostered a number of Olympic champions in the winter games and Voss was also for a number of years a training centre for winter warfare for NATO-troops.

The lake "Vangsvatnet" is in many ways the centre of Voss, with most of the town on one side and agricultural areas on the other.

The main church is called "Vangskyrkja" and is a stone church from 1277 with room for 550 people.

You may have noticed that I have mentioned winter sports several times, but only shown summer pictures. There is a very good reason for this: Voss arranges a festival called Ekstremsportsveko (The Extreme Sport Week) where anyone with a suicide complex can take part in a number of death-defying activities. A quote from their homepage should give an indication:

Ekstremsportveko is build upon the four elements; water, air, earth and fire. Kayaking, rafting, kiting, big air and freeride represent water. BASE, skydiving, paragliding and hanggliding represent air. Longboarding, climbing, MTB/BMX and multisport are based on the earth element, whereas the festival program is rooted in fire.

The pictures were taken this summer, but I stayed on the ground...

Today's post is part of the the third round of ABC Wednesday. The founder, Denise Nesbitt, has changed the rules to make the system more practical. There is now a no-comment blog where you can post a copy or short version of your post with a link-back to your original post for the full version and comments. Scanning through this no-comment blog will give you a Variety of Vs. She has also set up a site where you can log on via Mr. Linky if you want to do that. However, Mr. Linky has lately been somewhat uncooperative, so I do not know how it will be today.

Graffiti Torrents 12-16-08

Hardknocks - The Subway Edition (2008)

Berlin & New York subways ONLY
2008 - DVDRip - 710 MB - XviD - AEROHOLiCS Release
Download (Torrent - Demonoid.com) Trailer

Ghetto Blaster (Italy 2006)

Subways from Rome, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Madrid, Naples, Turin and many other cities.
2006 - VHSRip - Italy - XviD - 672 MB
Download (Torrent - Demonoid.com)

Friendly Fire 2 - (Scandinavia 2008)

"60 min- Friendly Fire 2 is an intense hour of wholecar, panels, train bombing and tagging from Scandinavia.Train graffiti footage from Stockholm, Gotheborg and many other cities.Crews featured in this DVD: VIMOA, AOD, KH, Y2K, FY, NER, OCF, FAGS, ALL, FOS and AE."
2008 - DVDRip - 736 MB - XviD - 13thnemesis Release
Download (Torrent - Demonoid.com) Trailer

FF2 DVD Website - Friendly Fire 1 Torrent

Odd Shot Jug

In Norway it is prohibited by law to smoke in restaurants and other indoor, public areas - including work. This makes the freezing, smoke-addicted people smoke outdoor. So outside a number of buildings you will find a variable amount of people (mostly women it seems to me), huddling around some trash-can or other.

But I have never seen a jug like this.

Please visit Katney's Kaboodle for more about Odd shots!

Today's flower - The Christmas Star

Julestjerne (Euphorbia pulcherrima) - Christmas star

PS The Today's flowers meme is hosted by LUIZ SANTILLI JR. . Please visit and enjoy.

RENFE - Historias Del Tren

A light in the window

Even an old agnostic appreciates a
bit of light in the window at this time of the year.

Greek Riots Spread To Madrid & Barcelona

Inside Outside DVD + English Subs

Finally a release of this good film with subtitles.
2007, DVDRip, 470mb, Uploaded by 18_widda_bullit
Download (Torrent TPB)
y no, no hay subtitulos en castellano.

screens from GraffTorrents

Heron on a mirror

A lonely heron looking for food in a small bay of on an almost flat fjord. Even in December there is fish to be found.