Sounds of summer

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Spending the summer at the coast is always ​refreshing. Here is my little attempt at a soundscape, a little scene from the waterfront - a teleport back to summer, sunshine and lazy days ...

This soundscape is put together of a number of short pieces of sound I recorded at the waterfront - seagulls, waves washing on the rocks and so forth. The bumblebee I got on tape purely by chance a few days later - it flew by my microphone and decided to take a closer look; the challenge was to isolate it from the lawnmower in the background.

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Updated "Follow" link

Unfortunately there was an error in the link to the RSS link, "Follow", for my blog. So if you clicked the "Follow" link on September 18th or 19th, I recommend that you delete the old RSS feed and register again. 

What happened was that the link was not updated when I registered the mortensalomonsen.com domain, so for a day or so the link pointed to the domain name I used for setting up the site. The old RSS-link is still valid, but I am not sure for how long. 

Old and new

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On the way home from work I saw the mirror image of the old main building of  the national weather service, met.no, in the windows of their new building, "TallHall" at Blindern. The next day I brought my camera and tried to get a shot of the scene. It did not work out exactly as I had hoped, but it is close enough. I'll try again, the architecture of the new building is quite exiting.

The history of the Norwegian national weather service, met.no, runs back 150 years. The main office has been at Blindern in Oslo since the mid forties when the main building was built. Blindern was a rural area back then, but today it is part of the town and the main location for the University of Oslo.

​The first university buildings where built around the same time, and are built in  a style of architecture inspired by functionalism, as for example the Pharmacy building. The architecture of me.no's old building may also be inspired by the functionalist movement.

Welcome

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A couple of months back I spent a week in Iceland attending a PODAS (Phase One Digital Artist Series) photographic workshop. It was a huge boost for my favorite hobby, photography, and I decided to create a site to showcase some of my work and last but not least to keep the momentum going. 

Near Vik, southern Iceland​

Near Vik, southern Iceland​

I hope you enjoy it, and perhaps find some inspiration as well. Thank you for stopping by.

“Do not fear mistakes. There are none”
— Miles Davis