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A bird? A plane? No, it’s the new Black Mesa trailer!

That’s right! We released our new trailer for Black Mesa last night, and during the night, it spread like a zombie infestation through an underground facility!
I spent my morning reading reviews and news articles all around the web, and I have to say, it truly is fun seeing something that you’re part of being posted and discussed all over the place.

I was especially (and pleasantly) surprised to find a direct mention of myself on Dagbladet.no, one of Norway’s biggest newspapers, where I was not only mentioned, but also quoted!

So without further ado, here is our new trailer and a little copypasta from our official website:

The wait was just long enough for all kinds of crazy bets to be made, but time to cash those in, because the Black Mesa Trailer is good to go and up for viewing! You can download it from a few different places, or watch it on youtube. We hope this gives you a small taste of what the game will be like, and we hope it was worth the extra wait!

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Bodø Airshow 2008

I spent all day yesterday at an air show up in Bodø, about a 5 hours drive from where I live.
Seeing as how I’ve never been at one before, I didn’t really know what to expect, but one thing is for sure; I wasn’t let down!

After paying the admission fees and making our way in to the actual airport where the show was, the very first plane we (me and my older brother) saw parked on the ground was actually one of my all time favourites. The DC3 Dakota. Needless to say I just had to take a closer look and snap some pictures of it.
And there would be many, many more situations like this during the day…

According to the map posted on the air show’s website, the plan was to have about 1.6 kilometres of planes lined up on the ground, however, I’m pretty sure it was longer than that.
We walked the line of airplanes as I shoot one picture after the other. This place had everything. WW2 planes, old soviet fighters, vintage fighters, choppers, top modern fighters, passenger planes of all sorts, small civilian aircrafts, you name it!
They even had a small amcar and vintage military vehicle section.

Throughout the whole time during the event, pilots were performing aero-acrobatics and formation flying using a wide selection of planes. All hilariously commented by Jan Erik Larssen, a Norwegian celebrity most known for hosting Autofil and generally acting insane. The perfect choice for being a speaker at an air show, in other words. There were also wing walkers, weapon demonstrations and sale stands.

Following the images below, I have posted a link to a gallery where I’ll be posing more images from the show as I convert the RAW files from my camera.

A good way to spend a Saturday.
One thing is for sure. This wont be the last time I go to an air show.

Go to the full gallery!

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Even more mono images!

It’s finally that season again. Summer, my favourite season, the infrared season!
I’m not exactly what you might call an active blogger, seeing as how my last post here was back in April, and to make matters worse; that post was about the same thing as this one!
That’s right, here comes another image post!

Since the sun decided to grace us with its presence today, I thought it would be an excellent opportunity to get some infrared exposures.
When I got back inside I sat down and experimented with some new post processing techniques. The end result was a new preset/action that I’m most likely to be using on a lot of my infrared pictures from now on. Well, on the mono ones at least.

If the weather forecast is correct, it looks like it’s going to be a nice sunny day tomorrow as well, so I’ll probably try and get some IR pictures then as well.

Anyway, here are a couple from today:

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More mono images.

Well, It’s been a while since my last post, and I feel that I should at least post something up here every once in a while.
I’ve been taking a lot of mono images lately, I don’t know why, but I’m really starting to enjoy working with black and white. I guess black and white photography appeals to me because of the “artistic” factor, not that I’m claiming to be an artist though. Simply put, I just like the look of mono images.
Hopefully, I’ll be working a lot more with black and white once I get a darkroom up and running in the basement, which I hope will be soon.

So, without further ado, here are two of the most recent mono shots I have taken;

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Lunar Eclipse.

It’s 4am, I’m standing in the middle of a field, only accompanied by my camera gear.
My eyes and camera are focused against the glaring night sky. I’m a bit worried that I’ll miss it, since there is a thick layer of clouds moving in from the east.
There is a lunar eclipse going on, and it’s the last one for the next two years…

So, while making my daily “news round” on the Internet yesterday, I saw that one of the news sites that I visit quite often had posted an article about a lunar eclipse that was going to take place last night.
Awesome, I thought to myself, I might be able to get some pictures of it!

The last time I attempted this, last year, it didn’t really go so well. Mainly because the only lens I had back then was the kit lens that came with my Sony a100, with a maximum focal length of 70mm.

Anyway, here is this year’s result. Taken with my 210mm Minolta AF zoom lens.
Too bad I don’t have a telescope mount for my camera. Oh well, next time maybe, in 2010.

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35mm, you say?

That’s right. I recently purchased myself a 35mm SLR.
To be more specific; I recently purchased myself a Minolta XG-2 from 1977.

I have wanted to get into film photography for a long time, and have been searching for a 35mm camera for an almost equally long time.
After multiple failed online auctions, failed referring to the fact that I’m somewhat cheap when it comes to spending money, and inevitability being over bidden to the point where my wallet starts to feel rather infected, I finally found this Minolta classic on a Danish online auction site and decided to bid on it. After a few bids it was mine.
The camera came with two different lenses, a flash and an original carrying bag.

The only things left for me to get now would be a developer tank and the required chemicals… And the actual film, of course.
I’m also planning on setting up a full fledged darkroom in the basement, but that will have to come later. At the moment, I’m mainly focusing on learning to develop my own films so that I can scan the negatives.
I really cant wait to start learning the development process. Thankfully there is loads of free documentation on the subject online. Youtube, for instance, offers lots of really good guides.

When I first started writing this post, I was going to go on a small rant on why I don’t like the Norwegian Customs and Excise Authorities, in relation to me not being able (Read; Willing) to buy a film scanner from the National Geographic Web Shop due to shipping fees and customs.

However, I was browsing on the Norwegian counterpart of the same auction site mentioned earlier in this post when I came across a very nifty little thing called a Slide Duplicator.
Why I haven’t herd of this little appliance before is beyond me, but it may have something to do with me being a sworn computer/digital sort of geek thing…
Anyway, if you do not know what a Slide Duplicator is, it’s basically a tube which has a lens inside it, a camera mount on one end, and a slide holder on the opposite end.
It’s designed for duplicating of slides, obviously, but can also be used for digitalizing film. Just like a scanner.
Amazingly simple! (And affordable. Let’s not forget to mention affordable.)

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Weekend updates, antispam and cake.

Don’t you just love it when offers for free iPods and highly questionable medication that supposedly is going to make your “manhood” into a mix between the bastard child of the empire state building and a fire hose?
Don’t you just love it when you get like 42 of them in your inbox every day? I sure don’t.
Hopefully now that you are required to solve a simple math question before posting a comment, my inbox won’t look like a freaking pharmacy catalogue when I check my mail in the morning… Hopefully.

So, yeah, my little weekend project is slowly progressing… This weekend I made a tire prop and a vintage tirestand from GoodYear.
You can view the second batch of models at the Weekend Workshop page.

By the way, I lied about the cake, sorry. There is none.

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I hate Mondays…

It’s true. I really do. Especially the kind of Monday I experienced yesterday.
And this would be why:

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A couple of pictures…

So, I woke up this morning and was told that it was really windy at one of my favourite photo locations, the Helgeland Bridge. Needless to say, it wasn’t long before me and my brother was out there to snap some pictures. It was cold, really cold, but it was worth it though.
If you have like 0* Celsius outside and the wind is blowing with a speed of 35 meters per second, it should be easy to figure out that a pair of gloves, a scarf and possibly a hat is pretty much mandatory when going outside, but no. I always end up not bringing any, which inevitably results in me freezing my ass off. When am I ever going to learn?

Anyway, here are two of the pictures I took today:

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Weekend Workshop.

So, in an effort to keep this blog updated on a regular basis, I have decided to start a little project.
Every weekend throughout 2008, I’m going to set off some time to make one or more new pieces of game art and post it here under the category “Weekend Workshop”
While doing this I get to expand my portfolio, keep my blog updated on a regular basis and challenge myself a bit. Three flies in one smack, so to speak.

I have a couple of ideas floating around as to what I’m going to make, and I still haven’t decided yet, but right now it looks like I’m going to start things off by making assets for a small gas station scene that I will most likely present in the Source Engine or in the Unreal 3.0 engine.
We’ll see…

Update: Jan 7th, 2008. - Some small changes.
The project page can be found here
This page will be updated weekely, and moved to a su bection of my portfolio pages when those are up and running.