I star­ted off my sum­mer vaca­tion by going to my girlfriend’s sum­mer cot­tage. Not a cloud in the sky with tem­per­at­ures near 30° C. The water in the lake was at best 23° C. Scenery was excel­lent, but you must pay a price to the mos­qui­tos. Below, a photo of my feet after being drained gal­lons of blood.

Also got some nice national romantic shots.

Por­tugese dir­ector Miguel Peres asked to use two of my songs for his short film A nossa última con­versa (Our Last Talk) and I was more than happy to oblige. The film was fea­tured at Festroia film fest­ival in Por­tugal. Check it out.

Below, for your enjoy­ment, are the com­plete tracks.

I pur­chased a Polar­oid SX-70 from eBay and some PX 100 film from The Impossible Pro­ject. Unfor­tu­nately the expos­ure meter on the cam­era is mal­func­tion­ing. First it was giv­ing inac­cur­ate tim­ings and now it’s stuck to a single shut­ter speed. Luck­ily it wasn’t too expens­ive so tak­ing it to a repair shop will bring it to about the same price as other SX’s were on eBay.

What’s annoy­ing is that a lot of film was wasted. PX 100 costs 18 € per film (8 pho­tos) so these kinds of tech­nical prob­lems are under­stand­ably unwel­come. A year ago you could find Polar­oid 600 film from eBay for as little as 10 € per pack, but now the prices have risen to well over 20 €. A sad state of affairs.

The PX 100 is a black and white film and has really nice sepia tones, and if you keep it warm while it devel­ops the tones drift towards red. It gives everything a nice Fal­lout 3 like post-apocalyptic quality.

Speak­ing of Polar­oid, Lady Gaga was appoin­ted the cre­at­ive dir­ector for a spe­cial line of Polar­oid products and, more inter­est­ingly, Polar­oid is plan­ning to release a new film cam­era thanks to the avail­ab­il­ity of new 600 film.

Our cam­paign for Läkerol will be start­ing at full force soon. For now, you can enter­tain your­self with a bunch of films we made about our Swedish star Håkan, a man who will bring the mes­sage of good taste into Fin­land. Enjoy!

Check out the You­tube chan­nel with more films