This Place Was a Shelter – Olafur Arnalds from Rika Yasui Hammen on Vimeo.
This Place Was a Shelter – Olafur Arnalds
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New website with some of my work!
New website with some of my work!
Hi everyone!
Long time no see – sorry for that!
I have now just started a small company with a friend in Copenhagen.
It’s called TBT productions and you can find our website by clicking on the link.
Hope you will like it 🙂
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This Place Was a Shelter
http://genero.tv/watch-video/35758#_=_
This is a music video, that I just made for a competition for the artist Olafur Arnalds.
I hope you will like it and share it with others 🙂
Apparently the video won’t come up on the page, so you will have to click on the link to see it…
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Hip Hop at retirement home
Not long time ago, I made this music video with the concept of what it would be like for us the day we would be at a retirement home.
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Invent to Apply
I made a mini documentary about a couple using today’s technology to preserve all the best things about our ancestors’ way of living. Hope you will be inspired 😉
Anybody can be an innovator of lifestyle.
Kitchen garden
What I picked from the kitchen garden yesterday 🙂
The embarrassment of being dressed
The cool thing about location hunting or art directing or researching for film & theatre is that you sometimes get yourself into awkward situations… which is refreshing and may actually boost your self-confidence in some strange way.
Not long time ago I went location hunting at the coastline of the Southern suburbs of Copenhagen (Køge bay). I brought my bicycle and my camera, to test shoot at the different spots. First I stopped at Karlslunde beach, where literally no-one was there; not even the waves! it was perfect for what I wanted to film, but a little bit far away from the city, so I decided to continue my hunting.
I then came to a natural preservation area. There were a lot more visitors and the area was huge, with long haired cows, sheep, people running, biking… The beach was much further away from main roads and train stations. But at some point I decided to take a look anyway. The bicycle lane was behind the dunes, so I couldn’t actually see the water. I found myself a tree to park the bicycle and then walked up and through the dunes. The thing about dunes is, that it’s a perfect hideaway, just until someone with a camera (like me) peeps in between the grass. Sorry I did not think I would step right in to a naked man’s sunbath. Ok, so I turn the other way and… oh, there is another one… Ok, I’ll just focus on the goal – the water. Finally I get to the beach… of course a couple of naked people are sitting and walking there too… did I miss the “nudist beach” sign or something? So I put the camera back in to the bag to seem more discrete. But how can you seem discrete when you seem to be the only person dressed there? Oh well, so I just walked through as if everything seemed normal. Being overdressed can be as embarrassing as  being underdressed; and in this case it was funny enough the person with clothes ON who was embarrassed…
Hiding behind some rocks I got some nice shots of the waves and was now preparing to walk back to the bicycle. Couldn’t really remember where the different people were hiding, nor where exactly that tree with my bike was… Ok, we are in hippie land Denmark, but why was it that everybody was naked? and how come that there were only men? Every time I Â turned around another man would be standing proudly, his fists on his hips, looking triumphant over his conquered dune. At some point I considered asking a bypassing young man if I had stepped into the world of The Emperor’s New Clothes…
drawing by Kristine Frøkjær
But wait, I should have just asked him if he wanted to run out in the water for me, so that I could film him. Too many thoughts in my head and I ended up just getting back to the bicycle.
On the other side of the hill, everyone was dressed and by some mysterious magic their clothes would just disappear when they got on the beach side. I wondered if the bypassing visitors where thinking that I had just gone through the same enchantment – it seemed like they looked at me in a different way than when I parked the bicycle – or was it just my own attention that was different…
Anyway, it’s cool to live in a country where it is still regarded as being more logical not to get your clothes wet. It certainly made me smile 🙂
The Best Caramel I’ve ever tasted!
Not long time ago, I went to film a documentary about some of my friends. In return I helped them out taking pictures of their homemade caramel, that they have started selling.
Some might think that caramel is caramel, BUT this caramel is really tasty. As a big fan of caramel, I have tasted many different kinds , but ever since I tasted my friend’s Caramélie, all other caramel just aren’t as tasty. Why? The texture is nice and soft, not too hard. It has a little saltiness to it, which is very nice and it is only made from natural products. So even though in some way caramel can be regarded as an unhealthy element in your diet, it is good for you in small doses and it certainly is healthy for your soul 🙂
If you feel like trying it out, I think there is a mail address on the label 😉
For your inspiration, caramel can be enjoyed in a spoon, or on a pancake, in your coffee, on a sundae, on baked apples, on bread, in yoghurt… so many many ways of using this marvelous ingredient.
Sweet dreams…
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Competition entry
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/49064437″>DauÄ‘alogn – Sigur Rós – competition submission</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/ryh”>Rika Yasui Hammen</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Hi there everyone!
It’s been a long time! Lately I have been busy making music videos and one of them was for a competition which is open for votes now. So if you like it, please vote for it on this page 🙂
When I saw some of the other competitors’ videos I thought to myself, how am I ever going to have a chance to win, because their visuals are soooo beautiful! But there is a story to mine which I am quite happy with, so maybe it’s not too bad 🙂 As a director, I guess that storyline is to be preferred.
Hope you will like it!
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