Valborg, Uppsala 2010

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Tomorrow it´s springtime, Valborg (Walpurgis Night)

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The temple

Early morning in Mae Sai, Thailand. And the monks have already been awake for hours. Just the sound of birds singing and a few hurrying footsteps towards the opening border to Burma. All is quiet.

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Gentlemen's portrait

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Kids from above part 2

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Report from a Crematorium

About a thousand people leave their last trace of embodiment here each year. It's high tech and the dead are treated with a big amount of respect as are their relatives who mourns in one of the 3 chapels above the crematorium. Me and 3 friends where invited to interview and photograph most things that is going on in a crematorium in todays Sweden. And for that we are grateful to the staff, and with a great deal of respect I won't show more detailed photos of people working there or closeups that could set the deceased personal identity in jeopardy.

The last pieces of a body are soon only bones and ashes, it's later are grinded to powder ash before inserted to a funeral urn.

The coffin are inserted, it's all automatic these days.

Joints and other body parts of titanium that won't burn, these are by Swedish law put somewhere in the grounds of the nearby cemetery.

A small farewell chapel for relatives above the cellar crematorium

Where the dead rest in peace before cremation, it's about 5 degrees Celsius in this room. A deceased can at max spend up to 2 month in this room before a cremation procedure.

A peaceful and structural quietness rests outside the crematorium

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Todays abstract photo

Stockholm house of culture 2010

"Kulturhusets upplevelse utställning"

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On top

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This weeks Abstract photo

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Among Thai friends, part I

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This weeks desktop background

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE THEN DOWNLOAD BY RIGHT-CLICK. USE AS YOUR DESKTOP BACKGROUND. / DJ

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Three children

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I wonder how the kids know what's right?

The political turmoil in Thailand continues. And I thought about that the kids must get confused. Now more then ever the color of the shirt are more important for the two dominating political camps, red and yellow.

How should the kids understand this? How should kids understand when Che Guevara clothings and Nazi symbols are sold to somehow to promote either the yellow (Democrats) or the red (Republicans). For us it's confusing enough, but how do the Thai's educate their youth in this confusing matter? The poorest and the richest are rallying for The reds? The educated and high end middle class for the Nazi, communist symbol promoting Yellows? How this did happen?

And in the midst of this is there two political camps separating police against military (even if in theory) and a king that is loved by all but are probably to sick and tired of the turmoil to even mention anything (yet). And the Thai media are almost all controlled by the red or the yellow camp, and are under strict censorship. It's a classical pseudo democracy in that way, media has a LOT of conspiracy theory's, it was the same when Mr. Thaksin had almost total control over the media before the 2006 military coup.

As my friend told me Communist revolution symbols as Nazi symbols are strong symbols for change, that's why they are used. But I somehow can't let go of the fact that it seems more like they have no idea what kind of symbols they are selling and sometimes using in public life and political rally´s.

Maybe the kids in Thailand are as confused as I am. But I guess that's why you are not aloud to vote until you are 18, but the socialization are the base and they are thought this political confusion. As you understand I ask myself a question, concluding facts so if you have an answer for all of us who are are set with a big "?" please comment.

But to get some sense of what is happening in real-time check this twitter http://twitter.com/georgebkk

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Kids Thai boxing in Chonburi, Thailand

If one is convinced it's the guy and the winner as you can see on the right.

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Portrait of the week

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dark water

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Xynthia has reached Sweden

Even if it's only the aftermath of the Xynthia storm from central Europe it showed itself to be strong this afternoon.

A few people were out working

And some roads disappeared

Some roofs collapsed

Some got stuck

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