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Ofer Wolberger’s project Life with Maggie

On the Beach, Pensacola, FL
Photographer Ofer Wolberger



Today I went to see this exhibition from C/O Berlin Life with Maggie by Ofer Wolberger at the Goethe Institute of Stockholm, and I read the interview made by Jennifer Crowley – or rather part of this – from the book Talents 17 - Life with Maggie.

It seems as such an interesting idea, to use this mask of his wife’s properties, that she got from her parents collections of masks once, and let this mask from the 1930-1940´s have its own life in our time.

He is making an avatar of this I think. This is what I do with my avatars in Second Life. Liza loves the 1920`s and she hates all of this new era’s stuff, but she tries to fit in. Just like “Maggie”, as the photographer names the character he is making of the mask to let it become alive again in our time.

I specifically love the scene, the photography, of “Maggie” at the beach. To me she wants to be there and swim like the other guests on the beach – but she doesn’t want to be undressed or dressed in bikini. She makes her own way a bathing suit – a swimming suit- of her nightgown or a short dress. So this way she is on the beach as she used to be in the 1930 or 1940´s maybe. But she at least tries her outmost to fit in, and this she also does.

When you are meeting an environment that isn’t yours, but still is supposed to be, you try to make the best of this situation. I think “Maggie” is excellent in adjusting^^^

Am looking forward to follow Ofer Wolberger in this project. He tells in the book that he want to see “Maggie” grew old. So it will be continued.

It is his wife that supplies “Maggie” with the body that carries the mask of her around and of course she will be elder day by day.

This makes a nice portrait of a couple that works together and definitely plan to be old together too.

If I ever interview them I will have to ask about this.

I saw nothing of the wife in the part of the interview I read from this book, more then the photographer mentioning her as the owner of the mask and as his wife and telling us that she is the model - the person that brings “Maggie” into life by posing her in the situations she is placed within. Her husband does tell us she make an impact in evolving “Maggie” though, since she is part of her, and he does tell us about her by her name, of course, she is Billie. But maybe she is interviewed too in the book, somewhere. I havent read it through yet.

One charming detail is when Ofer Wolberger mention that “Maggie” lives her own life in a way too... as he thinks sometimes “this Maggie would like to have a vacation picture of”... and this way he is givin her a bit freedoom beside his owns wishes for his pictures.

I believe the characters we create - if we let them free.... They will amaze us.
Maybe you got to be an artist yourself to understand this sentence...

/Nine

C/O Berlin
Talents 17 Life with Maggie - The book
Life with Maggie - The Project


Link to Goethe Institute of Stockholm for page in swedish

Mass Murder Agenda

Mass Murder Agenda at Debaser Slussen STO 25th of March 2010. Great gig! And their PREMIERE GIG!! WOW Such a kick off for them as Mass Murder Agenda!!
Gig last night was AWESOME! The visual of them tv-screens with message picture of brutality in world, them drumbeats eating their way through entire me til me spine making me heart beat fast as hell, The almost theathrical performance - "almost" since the band managed to give it the feeling of danger for real - this made it the strongest experience I had for years - IF Ever.. Impressive!!!!!!!
Also the lightning with the logo glowing in it - cool detail!!!- was such nice add on to the whole perfection^^ ..it was also areally smooth move when they left the stage and all them pictures of film still on.... that empty stage with this gave an yummy afterfeeling of death destruction angst despair. Them 30 minutes of this band were AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had to go home after this. Couldnt take no more music. I was content. Had enough in a good way. Pleasure all through with great feeling as after a really scary movie, kind of cool shocked feeling all through. GREAT!!!!

Mass Murder Agenda http://www.myspace.com/massmurderagenda
contains of Joakim Hedestet (ex Face Down ex Construcdead) Martin Sundberg (ex Sexydeath), Tristan Agdler (ex NIL Machine), Henrik Blomqvist (ex Face Down) and Christoffer Barkensjö (Construcdead, Face Down, Kaamos)

Debaser Slussen is one of them coolest rock clubs in Stockholm, Sweden.
It´s suited at the water next to the channel where ships and boats go through when changes sea, makes me wonder if ppl sometimes fall into this when drunk.. its in the harbour in middle if city.. Small, kind of dirty feeling, with a square outside for people to smoke at..(YEAH - you may bring your drinks outside-its almost as before the smoking prohibition time -) dark walls feeling inside... good athmosphere in a simple way - it´s a rock club area for sure..smoothest place in this town..for me... when listening concerts in Stockholm. You find this at Karl Johans Torg at Slussen just next to Gamla Stan.

/Nine IZ

iodine Jupiter Release the 26th of March

The 26th of March iodine Jupiter releases the new book "Fuck around the clock" a satiric view upon our world of Sweden. His creations is always sharp as hell, this time he is letting the readers see the humour that is always there more clear.

He kicks the world in its ass a way not so many are even getting close to.. check the http://www.iodinejupiter.com and see the trailer of the promo video made for this book and you get the idea....

iodine Jupiter ger ut en ny bok "Fuck around the clock".
Jag har sett bitar ur promotion videon för boken, den e hård. Ska definitivt gå på releasepartyt fredag 26 mars på Strand i Stockholm. Ska bli otroligt kul att läsa tidningarnas recensioner ^^ men framförallt ska det bli^skojigt o se vilka reaktioner han väcker denna gång i medierna^^ han får alltid folk att känna nåt vad han än väljer för pinne att peta på våra döda sinnen med....

fashion and art (RIP)

Liza Veliz

Liza Veliz
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There is a secret life of me..not so very secret though... since am pretty much not incognito anywhere in this world.... of pixels or else..air... what ever to call RL....

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