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A few weeks ago while watching music videos on TV they were broadcasting music videos from the 1980s. One of them was “Listen to your Heart” from Roxette, a Swedish duo founded in 1986 by Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. In that time, they were very popular. Unfortunately, Marie Fredriksson passed away in 2019 because of cancer. Between 2002 and 2019, Roxette paused a lot.
The music video in mention did not tell a story but was filmed while the band was live on stage during daytime. The stage was set up in a ruin of a castle or something similar. Every now and than, the camera swung over the whole scene and showed a bit more of the surrounding. Some parts of the ruins looked quite familiar to me and I came up with the idea, that, not long before, I walked exactly among and on top of those walls.
Thus, I started investigating and found out, Roxette filmed in 1989 6 music videos in the courtyard of Borgholms Slott on Öland, and “Listen to your Heart” was one of them. Thus, I really walked inside that castle, a wonderful place for taking architecture photos. It kept me busy for nearly 2 hours. There were not many barriers hindering visitors to explore all parts of the castle. I really liked it very much.
In a part of the ruin, the set up a model of the castle to show the visitors how it used to look, when it was in use back in the 18th century.
Wikipedia says:
“Borgholm Castle (Swedish: Borgholms slott) in Borgholm, Sweden, is today only a ruin of the fortress that was first built in the second half of the 13th century and rebuilt many times in later centuries. It is linked to Halltorp estate, to the south. The castle was destroyed in a fire on 14 October 1806.
The construction of the original fortress was probably ordered by King Canute I, although this is not totally certain. He reigned 1167–1195 and had fortresses built on the Swedish east coast as defence against enemies from the other side of the Baltic Sea. During the 13th to 15th centuries, additions and changes were made. For example, new towers were built, and a new and thicker wall was constructed. The fortress was damaged on a number of occasions during these centuries, including in 1361, when King Valdemar IV (Atterdag) of Denmark attacked Borgholm.”
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End of last week, Frank Gehry passed away at the age of 96. He was a famous archictect and designed buildings anew, just like Antonio Gaudi. All over the world you can see buildings designed by him. On Wikipedia you can also find a list. Maybe there’s one close to you. Check it out.
I picked this detail photo from my archive. It’s taken in our state capitol a few years ago during our photographers’ roundtable. You can have a look here the see the full scene.
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…. No, not to heaven, but to a waterfall!
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… Nancy Sinatra once sang.
I’m not sure if she has ever visited this place in Iceland. Although, also these shoes once were also made for walking, they now have a different job – kind of ….
In one street in Höfn, we saw a couple of pairs of shoes. About 10-15 pairs of different kinds of shoes were standing there on a small wall in front of one house right next to the pedestrian walk, from little girls’ ballerinas to solid hiking boots. Some of them were definitely female’s shoes, others were not clearly assignable. All of them were covered more or less with moss. I suppose it was meant to be a kind of art: art of decay. Unfortunately, no sign was set up to explain it.
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I love these solitaire trees. Only in these cases are they able to develop their natural shape. But, although the tree stands alone, it is not. It is embedded in his surroundings and thus a beautiful part of the landscape.
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You know, I was in Sweden a few weeks ago. As I wrote, we started our trip in Malmö and headed from there to Öland, off the south-east coast. On our way along the south coast of Sweden, we made a short stop in Ales Stenar to see the old stones. I’ll tell you more about it in a future post.
Today, I want to focus on the guy flying above the cliff. It was a lot of fun watching him or her using the up-winds to fly around.
In German, these vehicles are called Drachenflieger, which translates to dragon flyer, but hang glider is the more precise name. Wikipedia says: Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised, fixed-wing heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium alloy or composite frame covered with synthetic sailcloth to form a wing. Typically, the pilot is in a harness suspended from the airframe and controls the aircraft by shifting body weight in opposition to a control frame.
The style of these gliders is inspired and developed from the original design by Otto Lilienthal, one of the pioneers of flying back in the 19th century.
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