updates.

nita finally updated her blog. check out some really nice portraits she shot for her studies here.

weekend drive.

we took a ride down to a town that houses the two coal-powered electric plants. the reason we did this was that nita is completing a photoshoot for her studies, and at the same time it was fun to see the large objects up-close. While nita was photographing, a police car pulled over and started asking questions that made us immediately into high-profile suspects: we were supposedly endangering to put the entire region of Kosova on a black-out with our actions - that's what we were told. The pictures show the main field with power transmission grids.

we do not know if you're laying mines or putting granades around - said the police officer.

No signs were around that prohibited us from taking shots (apart from the part where the power-plant was located), so i pointed out the lack of protectin for these areas - which for some reason enraged the police officers. The conversation with the local police officer was beyond rational and they were really rude. At one point, he told me to shut up and move three feet - or - i would be faced with brutal force - and - almost arrested a friend of ours. Our arguments did not seem to help at all and each response got us into trouble.

of course, it was hilarious and i cannot (still) believe that our police force is so full of dumb people who cannot judge any situation / protect and serve. they left us alone, and we had to move from the power-plant > but nita made enough shots and continued her project elsewhere (which was the whole point).

this got me inspired to travel lost more around Kosova and see more closely where i live in.
might post some pics later on from the whole project.

frozen burst.

shoot this quickly while on my way back to work. got a new camera, and might go around take few shoots of the new surrounding.

time of the comet is terrible. horrible. terrible

Time of the Comet is a movie set in Albania at the beginning of WWI, and sees a small group of Albanian villagers as they travel to meet the newly crowned King of Albania (a German King) and pledge their allegiance to him - all this so that they fight the armies of the Ottoman Empire. It also makes it the most expensive movie that any Albanian has produced (it cost around 2.5milion Euros) But this "Time of the Comet" movie made me want to puke in its first 10mins and me and nita had to leave earlier because I could not take it anymore. Another friend of ours could not take it either.

The script/screenplay is unbelievably dumb+lifeless; the lines that actors say are vague/fake, and even in the most serious of dialogues, the audience was made to laugh,
the lead actor was more concerned with the looks than the way he acted/talked; there was no story line, although the historical story was rich in itself, but they've devoured any meaning of it; but the scenery and the camera shoots were ok.

the movie was dull, empty, stupid, pathetic.
at moments it seemed like one of those badly dubbed turkish movies.

There was a large audience, and the air conditioning was not working properly. It reminded me of the awful school excursions where you were trapped in a dirty bus seat, sweat all around and you could not escape the crumpy TV playing turbo-folk videos of yester-years new year festivities.




I want my 3euros back, please.
Thank you.

chalkidiki. thessaloniki. greece

shot with a 35mm film camera. converted it to digital. roughness remains - which is good.