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BACK

2011-02-28T01:06:00.003+01:00

I am back. Time is back. For some time at least.

Every day one photo. Thats what I will try to deliver in the upcoming ...months?

Flamed

2009-05-28T20:59:00.002+02:00

Hungover

2009-04-23T00:44:00.002+02:00

Empty

2009-03-08T22:59:00.003+01:00

Boby

2009-02-17T18:07:00.004+01:00

VaFi in the Studio. Soon up the blog.

2008-12-09T13:20:00.002+01:00

Gruzo

2008-10-19T13:07:00.008+02:00

Long time no see (who comes here anyway...?). Shot Gruzo this Saturday. A producer with bright future. Check GRUZO out at his myspace. Experimental downtempo/hip hop boy...

Shot a supa dupa cover band as well...

That's almost it... photographically. Need to get my photos together and create a web portfolio sou YOU can all contact me and I can SHOOOOT you in your heads!

Summer Smoothie 2

2008-09-02T12:34:00.004+02:00

Summer Smoothie

2008-08-26T15:20:00.002+02:00

Va and Fi. one of those hot summer days. Foto: Lu

Going through my archive

2008-07-24T17:04:00.002+02:00

In the followin days I might "refresh" some of those "forgotten"... like this one, my only ever BANNED deviation. Might be more than 3 years old.

UK

2008-07-07T02:58:00.002+02:00

England is ALMOST great.

Lately

2008-05-15T23:28:00.002+02:00

...Ive been practicing some manipulation and studyin. More manipulating though. Studying a little. Manipulating only. No studying. Shit. Same photo, 2 different approaches. Peace

Mostly Brno

2008-03-16T11:17:00.024+01:00

pHee is back with a blog entry! HELLO! Had some motivation to give my scanner another chance. It did not fail, neither it satisfied my needs. The tones are like puke. Or is it my development that makes it look like ISO800? Anycrap (how I love this word, thanks Pam), 2 films developed and scanned...

First one was half empty, ehm, pHeePRO... There were two shots from Austria- some hardcore snowboarding times, I tell you...

My and my best friend Cuga. I love the fact that OM4 has a timer. Cam on the floor...

This is a shot of a water slide in there. Amazing stuff. It was brand new with flash lights inside, milky way part, disco lights, projection. I got scared as hell... One part was also transparent... This is my fav photo recently, for many possible interpretations (if you can reach beyond rational thinking). A factory that produces human bodies, sends them using these tubes to the completion part of the process. Here goes a pair of fatty legs...

Back to Prague. Boarded a tram and immediately grabbed my camera. Wish I had a color film loaded. Purely purple sports outfit with golden shoes and lots of jewelery. I was like- she can not be for real! For such an outfit you really need loads of self-confidence. She did have it, she was American...

Had a dinner with Marta later that week. Went to a cozy restaurant to eat the czech version of the swiss Raclette (the cheese was not the right raclette cheese. other than that, pretty good meal). Delicious stuff, nice talk.

Moving on to a party I attended right after I got back from Austria. Wait, was it? I think so. Anycrap nr.2, It was a "potato pancake party" (czech equivalent "BRAMBORAKOVA PARTY")...Lots of potatoes to be peeled.

It was actually a bday party of Vanda and Karin...

Girls...

Moving on to the film number TWO. Brno again, this time no pancake party... Just a movie theatre, dinner, breakfest, dinner, lunch, breakfest, dinner... and a barber:) Took shitload of pictures there but the interior sucked, so it pretty screwed up the pics... Vanda only shortened it...

You could not tell the difference...

I liked the streetart up there and asked Vanda to make some funny pose in front. Ehm, this is how she ended up. I like the way she posed, hehe, but it just doesnt go with the background. And then the guy, shit. My experience confirmed though: NEVER ASK A GIRL FOR A FUNNY POSE, just shoot her!

Thus I wanted a pic of myself in front of that concrete wall as well. Funny to pass an analog camera to someone else these days. "You have to focus with that ring on the lense- that is the thing sticking out in front!"

Vanda did a prety good job though! The finger makes it look amateurish. I like!

Find the fish bone!

I got a guided tour through the FF Faculty of MUNI, Brno. "And this is the room of Professor SOVA, an asshole. And here Professor Markova, a bitch..."

This is my favorite part of the FF Faculty. The coffee place KRMITKO. Very "FF look", indeed. This CROP looks nice...

Hehe, I love the strength of the bear. I mean it makes it look sooo EMO and totally ruins the atmo...

Vanda not knowing I was taking the pics. The only chance to snap "her TRUE her"

The other day on our way to the city. In this moment we did not know how badly the number 51 would treat us. A nightmare. Mind the note on the wall.

It is always fun with me...Oh yeah!

"No, Im not takin a pic of you, just the old man out there..." "Sure, sure..."

While waiting on the lights I aimed at this lady and waited for her to pose. She did. Snap. Va smiled.

One of the greatest home cooked dinners I have had. The Cook...

...and the meal... (I could be shooting for cookbooks! lol)

Wish you all the best for upcoming weeks. Cant promise when my next entry comes- there are four rolls waiting to be developed. But I will be busy in the following days... Peace out!

Oh, all shot on Kodak TX, at 400ISO, developed in old XTOL, 18 degrees, 9:30, agitation every 30 secs...scanned on Canon ScanLide 600F (SUCKS!)

Happy Birthday, See You

2008-02-02T01:03:00.000+01:00

I am not dead, not yet

2008-01-29T00:01:00.000+01:00

I am not dead, actually very far from being any close to it (this sentence cracks me up, very philosophical, for Va, indeed) . I just have not been very active photographically and I am getting pretty sad about it. Does it mean my life has become less interesting? Does it mean I suffer lack of inspiration? Does it mean I am becoming a boring person? WHat does it mean? I scanned some old negs, gave my scanner another chance...useless...it gave up on me again, bastard. I managed to scan some but guess what- the resolution was set too low so they look like crap. The last ones don't so I attached some that made me happy. I hope life has been treating you well. I can not complain actually, just the photography, JUST...

This makes me smile. I would call it "HITCH HIKING IN BULGARIA". If there is a nice car you are damn keen to stop it... Though, most of the times you just keep walking. Either it is a carriage pulled by horses or an old LADA, DACIA, MOSKVITCH,...

Then there is the cute one... Old Romanian guy sincerely in love with young aussi lady, writing down his address for her to send him pictures and a letter...

...all that happening on a nice sunny day between the amazing Maramures fields...

randomness I like

Recently I have realized that I got pretty old. When I try to speak to young kids they do not trust me. They turn around, run to their parents, teachers... which is on one hand good but on the other pretty sad. But it is the world we live in...

Comission

2007-12-08T23:06:00.000+01:00

Hello there,
days have got to the inflection point. School, Christmas- enough to cut off your pleasures... I just burnt a DVD that Im giving to my "employes":D as the result of the shootings we've done. Different music projects. Some of the people were really cool, some of they were not. It is interesting how it reflects in the results. I think it is a sign that I could not work as a pro. I just don't have good ideas when I don't like the poeple. I would say we "dont connect"...u know what I mean. I will just show you few I am happy about...

Filip... he is not only a good CHANSONIER...

...but also a great FRANK SINATRA!!!

There was a jazz trio I was shooting. They told me they played the "happy jazz" and they really were bunch of laughing individuals. The guys kept touching their singer while taking the shots, I have captured many hilarious moments. I dont have them on my notebook though, maybe later. Here some "serious" ones...

And then there was the classic music duo. Piano and violin. Great couple, great shooting. It is strange how i get totally different tones on my mac. dunno how it looks on your screen but all should be very white-ish...

There is one pic of these two which I like... he is sleeping. It sooo tells about his character. Complicated guy out of this world but still in. Amazing opinions and attitudes. Another fact about this pic is something my friend Klarissa said immediately after she saw it: "if she didnt have that necklace, it would look crap...do you see it, pHee?" "Yes, I do, pechee...now I do..."

As you might have deduced, the rest did not bring me any sort of great feelings. Just satisfaction that something was done and the quality meets my "employer's desire (hopefully). Not that I would not find any connection between me and the rest of the music projects but sometimes I shot under terrible circumstances and the results reflect that...

Ok, hope you are all well and I promise that the next entry will be film again, will try to develop and scan some-if the scanner agrees...

have to get back to a serious chat:D

Have a nice December! Will try to wish you marry xmass... your pHee

Crapweek

2007-11-16T10:28:00.001+01:00

Hello!

New glasses!

This weeks been a nightmare. screwed up on an exam, lost points for not being in classes, got caught by police, lost poeple who wanted to pay me money for things, didnt get much sleep... all this resulted in this... (a webcam pic I just took while typin this at school)

At least I won a pair of ADIO shoes in yesterdays radioshow on my favorite radio. To be honest though, I would leave the shoes for more points from economics. damn. hope your days have been better. sorry for not posting photos anymore. Its hard to do it with this much bad shit happenin around.

Been Busy!

2007-10-21T16:15:00.000+02:00

Hey, excuse me...been busy. School has started plus:

1. TRIP TO GERMANY to see my bro Benni and Rey...

2. Heike arrived from Germany for a weekend to see me...

3. I've been assigned to shoot few music projects... Lots of work with it.

4. I took a voluntary job to shoot for our university students newspaper. My first assignment was the leader of the Green party who had a presentation at our Uni.

Hope to have more time for those of you who visit this blog. Peace

Rumania

2007-09-15T01:50:00.000+02:00

I want you to take enough time for this entry. Get a drink, chips or anything and enjoy the photos. I recommend them to be seen in full-size (simply click on the pic). I personally love all the pics from Rumania so I would like to dedicate (how lovely) this entry to Heike, the hard working german who keeps promising to come but...where are you,wi-fee???)

First I thought I would show all the Balkan pics together. Then I realized that there has been so many totally DIFFERENT places we have been to that it would be senseless to show it all in one time.

You would not believe the story of these negatives- first I developed the films at home- no problem. I just used my old XTOL developer so I was sort of scared how they would turn out. they were alright. seemed little underexposed, most of them. well, then I scanned some at home-really underexposed. Then the scanner would not work so I decided to take them to some lab. "Check the price list, we just raised the prices yesterday." "Ok," I said and looked, shit! 10 CZK for a frame-just a stupid scan. I had 7 films with me. 7x36x10=over 2000CZK, no way! So it took me around an hour to pick some frames to be scanned. I got them on Thursday and they are not underexposed. My scanner is just fucked up. Ok thats the story...sorry.

Rumania was the third country we visited. Photographically the most interesting country-it might happen that this would be the only report I will get up here cause I personally love the pics. We got to Bucurest by a terrible nighttrain from Varna, Bulgaria. Got chased by dogs, found our hostel, fell asleep, woke up, went to town since we had only one day and one night in there.

He seemed unhappy

What I liked in Bucurest were the trash bins for drivers at every street lights. Nobody seemed to be using it though...

The Caucescu Palace was scary. Thought of A.Hitler very often while walking around... Rumanian cars:) disaster...

My buddy, Petr (Boby). It was soo hot and we did not really enjoy the city so we took it easy and rented a pedal boat. He is a Pee Ai Em Pee!

On the pedal boat we pedalled into this guy, Indian Londoner who told us that marriage was the worste we could ever try to do and that life is about money and sex, nothing else. He was funny though. University professor actually. Unbeliavable (after all he had told us).

Note the book guides:)

At the next table there was a British couple talking. They overheard us and invited us to their table. Interesting people, traveled the whole world, apparently. They did not show up for the dinner that night though (We ate a bear!). That sort of changed my opinion about British manners.

So we went back to the hostel and played some games. I like this one a lot. The eyes belong to a very charismatic Portuguese bloke.

Unimpressed, we left Bucurest to the rural heart of Rumania, where time has stopped and where people are so nice that it makes you think you are not in the 21st century. Maramures...

We arrived on Sunday and the owner of the only hostel in the area gave us a tour around. On Sunday they all sit in traditional clothes in front of their houses and chat...I wonder what about.

Fortunately,we were not alone in the hostel. A gorgeous Australian lady took the tour with us. Marie was her name, sweet girl... the locals were going mad!

Maramures is sooo full of spirits and the villages are so beautiful that even prince Charles owns few houses in there to protect the traditional spirit and keep things the way they look. The priest in this church showed us Charles' signature in the guest book there and was talking for about five mins how amazing it was to shake Charles' hand. I believe him though. For the poeple there, almost isolated from the outside world, it must have felt stronger than Christmas.
The wood is used instead of a bell.

Interesting cemetery around the wooden church. The graves were strange...

We were lucky to get to a local festival. Amazing. Traditional dresses, dances, interesting people. What else could my OLYMPUS ask for?

These guys were playing cards. He did not seem fond of me. Or was it because of his neglected fingers?

My favourite player

It is easy to say whose turn it was...

He seemed as an outsider. Outkast. He might have been owing some money to one of the card player. He kept peeking at them...

The whole festival moved to a barn later where everyone danced. Well, not everyone...

He will be a business man once. He was trading his tattoos very well, I could tell. In the end he had tattoos all over... Reminded me of my childhood.

I wish I had taken a picture of a local reporter. He had this oooold oooold oooold russian camera. Maybe thats why she was staring at my only oold OLY like this:)

We got back to the "bar" where the men were preparing the grill. Very old school natural way. The meat was good though!

We got back to our town later- SIGHETU MARE I think...

Next day we visited local prison. It was used by Caucescu to imprison political deviants. Now it is a museum. Pretty impressive...

In the backgarden there is a great monument. I played with the space to get this pic. I like...

We spent the other days in nature- I will bring a digital report from that. The best days in that area. Anyone interested in adventure and something that is no more available for sight in the western world, go to Maramures. Make sure to take cigarettes though, they are the best bribing tool.

Took a bus to BUDA-PEST two days later...Report soon.

There would ebe more pics coming if the scanning wasnt so expensive. Bastards...

A lil taste of the Budapest report...

°°Sakra°°

2007-09-09T00:55:00.000+02:00

Hello!

My scanner gave up. Dont know for how long but he doesnt seem to be happy with the number of films waiting aside to be scanned. As*hole! Sooo, no long entry as promised. Just some negscans I found from July, the month when I worked my ass off to actually let my amazing scanner ignore me now. Very nice!

We(plural majestaticus) start with few shots from a party. Well, the way home from a party. We worked sooo hard that month each one of you can imagine how we ended up that night. What worse, Marta brought me a present from Netherlands and I took it with me. O Oh.

The-guy-who-I-travelled-with rapping some shit to another friend who was one of the crazy group. I wonder how many people we woke up that night. The shot actually feels like they are enjoying some licking game and he is about to stick his finger...whatever. lol.

This made me laugh for some time... The real sportsmanship!

I found out that I will never be able to take any short exposure shots. My hands shake too much. Even when I pass something...My mum told me already that my fingers shaked a lot- thats the age I guess. The-you-know-who here...

The party was over and we were back to work. Working as a bartender sucks. Your life is upside down. If you wanna go drinking after work it is 7AM. We didnt care though. The-you-know-who always fell asleep on the way home. I wanted to as well but then we would oversleep our station, as last year...so I shot a pic and kept reading the newspaper.

One day when I brought the camera with me again, there was this wasted guy at my bar. Nothing unusual, Im just happy I once caught how mostly British or Irish guys end up in that place. See his story...

This is my favorite floor in the club I worked at. The cubical shapes are lights. They are on both sides of the room and the DJ controls them. There are different colors and different light programs. All along are great comfi sofas and it just looks right. You might know this one already though...taken before the club closed. My fav.

I went home earlier one day and it started to rain. I felt like she must have when they shot it. Nobody gave me any towel after the camera snapped though!

I kept walking, all wet, saw them, all dry. Who was happier though?

Thats it. I hope my scanner will forgive me for whatever I have done.

I want to wish all the best to my wife.

Im 21,shit.

pHee blee back

2007-09-03T00:10:00.000+02:00

Back.

Even though my finger hurt right before I left...

...my eye was alright...

...so I took loads of pictures which need to be developed (8 films) and photshopped-2GB:)

Expect a huge entry this week...

MLASK

Traveling

2007-08-19T18:38:00.001+02:00

I havent died,
yet.
Ive just been traveling.
Back soon.
Later.

Filip

Alicetc.

2007-08-01T06:22:00.000+02:00

I have been working my ass off last month. Still got few days to go, sucks...

Working as a bartender ain't no fun. There is something positive about it though- One gets to meet people, foreign people, interesting people, and that what this "loco" likes...

For those who wonder, my friend took it while checking my OM4, people seem not to know analog cameras anymore. No wonder... He did a good job, tho

This will be a short entry. Dedicated to my friend Shulda. Great friend of mine who knows a lot about me and doesn't know shit at the same time. She heard something about a girl from Jamaica I have met. So, Petra, let me introduce you to Alice, a beautiful girl born and living in London, having Jamaican dad and English mom. As I hinted in the beginning, we have met in the club I work at and spent few mornings and one sketchy night together, chatting, drinking, having fun. Those, who know me, know...

Alice, hope you don't mind this introduction! You know I wanted to shoot you so bad! You were good in resisting though...

Did not last for long. The food and drinks we got in that arabic place made you forget about my camera, hehe, clever boy, pHeela, bribing women with food.

We had a long discussion about the difference between CRISPS and CHIPS. Very intelectual, indeed.

"Filip, stop saying chipsy chicken!"

The last one sums it up. Cheers everyone, hope you liked my new beautiful londonese friend! She got snapped on Kodak400TX at ISO600, no kiddin. XTOL.

A bonus shot I took on the way to pick Alice up to take her to watch the new David Lynch movie. Embarrasing experience... Anycrap, you cant get the little joke in the photo if you are not czech,sorry. Cheers!

Bitter sweetness

2007-07-11T07:11:00.000+02:00

Just a little report from a day after a family party in the city of ZELEZNY BROD where my grandma lives.

Her health is not very satisfying and her daughters (my mum and aunts) know about it. She was happy to see us together on her yard though.

Not a very happy frame

Let's get to some sweet business- my cousin's daughter, Anicka, she is a kid that no photographer would be able to stop snappping...

We had a great shooting session together:D Unforgettable...

Her dad, my cousin, my favorite frame

My grandpa hates being photgraphed. he turns away anytime one takes out any sort of camera... He is the greatest man though, over 90 years old now, still active painter...

This short entry started with a serious frame, it will end with one too- my brother with our beloved grandma.

Snoop Dogg gig tonight, no cameras allowed in though, sucks...

Back from fishing

2007-06-28T15:00:00.001+02:00

Just dropping the latest news and one shot.

Oh yeah, this is my best buddy with his biggest trophy- a 98 cm catfish. We planned to have it smoked later at home but my dad accidentally dropped it back to the water. LOL. At least I took this pic...

Anyways, it has been two beautiful nights by the pond in the middle of woods fishing, drinking, talking... great relax. I will start working this weekend so you might hear little less from me. there's a lot to come though, I will try my best, I promise. Stay tuned...

My family goes out!

2007-06-22T20:32:00.001+02:00

I promised to introduce my family a little bit. My dad had his bday recently. As usual we picked a restaurant and spent the real european 4 hour lunch with a little surprise in the end. The author- my brother, of course. The comedian...

First is my sister though- with her lil doggie REX. Rex is actually very photogenic, he doesnt stay with us but with my grandma so every time she comes over REX really becomes my sister's property...

Now our little sweet pair, soon married, fo sho:D Haha, bro is gonna kill me. Dont even mention a wedding in front of him!

My bro's soulm8 Uta aus Dettschland. She calls me little cousin, nice.

Father got a very strong home-destilled SLIVOVICE. Dont let the focus mislead you to the czech rum. It was strong...

Father has a new job and he enjoys telling everyone about it. Some people even enjoy listening. Im kidding. Its actually really amusing!

My bro, finally focused, lil underexposed, Id say. He has his own world, musician...

My sis and her dessert. Yummi pancake, oh yeah...

And the teeth afterwards...

Julie again

Finally the surprise. My bro called me beforehead to ask me to bring my XXXL sweats with me... Why? You will see. He ran away earlier from the "lunch" and changed by his car, took the accordeon, gave me papers with lyrics to spread among the family and asked me to bring em out. So they came, laughed but followed the instructions and there we were- crazy family, in the middle of a parking lot, singing a great czech song under the amazing lead of the great farmer looking accordeon player, my brother David. Craziness... Is there any other family doing shit like this?

I have problems witg rolling the film to the next frame- I might not put the films in my camera well. Still, some of the part double exposures make nice sense:)

This is it for now. Some of you might never check this blog again, hahaha. come on! we are a normal, ok, slightly crazy family, but we love each other!

(All photos on KODAK TX400 dev. in XTOL taken with OM4)

Cesky Krumlov

2007-06-19T14:17:00.000+02:00

Hello family, friends, anonymous's etc. This blog is *an attachment* to my deviantArt page. Both sites will cooperate with each other, copy each other, hate each other... but most of all, they will be run by this guy...

...ME

Since I got a new scanner I will be uploading mostly FILM pics here. Ive been shootin only film recently. So much to improve. Most of my images are underexposed, not focused correctly, developped badly. Well, you will see...
Just enjoy this blog, learn about my friends, family and myself, of course.

Last trip with my class after our succesful graduation

-CESKY KRUMLOV-

We had a transfer in Ceske Budejovice...

Some stranger was alone by the map, pointing at different places all the time...wtf

Hehe, a typical Czech taxi driver, lol. Yes, thats him(her?)

Nazi victims memorial at the railway station, strange.

Chicas a la oktava! Haha this is the train that took us to Krumlov. 30 degrees, no air-co, nice.

Haha, Vojta aka. Flavio aka. Myslivec, aka. MEAT lover!

Two bad boys, two best friends, two bitches "caught in action"!

Eating lil tom's, yummi!

Ciza is "the sportsman", always talking about sports (or women). Ok, I call him encyclopedia for his strange habit to know everything...

Kaja and the greatest frame from that trip

Hehe, I smashed a fly thats been disturbing me during that hot-ass journey. Isnt really visible, but it looked gross (and dead).

Arrived to Krumlov, hello!

Ehm, typical Czech woman outfit...

Close to our funny-named hostel RYBA (fish) this guy had his own spot on the edge of a bridge. He didnt like me. but he liked his wine and the tatoo place nearby:)

Since it was the after graduation trip all of us had our class tee's on. Designed be my friend and me! Hehehe, shiny shit. This is onlya a part of my class though.

We went for a "fancy" dinner in a very Czech style- litres of beer, kilos of meat. YES! It was too dark in there, so nothing really came out. This is a very cute couple...

This is the last frame, very symbolic indeed. We were warming up for that crazy night- Absinth. It ended up badly for me. Fortunately I left my camera at RYBA. Im telling you-you would not like to see what was going on...