This weekend Connected was awarded an Honorable Mention at the 2011 ITSA Film Festival in Groveland, California. I directed Connected together with Jens Raunkjær Christensen a few years ago, and it is still being screened at festivals around the world.

You can read more about the film at the official website: www.ov43.com

The Monsters captured and herded around The Peblinge Lake in Copenhagen during a week in July 2011. This was a fun quick street art project I did with with Mira Vinzents, that got people looking, photographing, and maybe seeing the stinking belching alge mounds that had been laying around the lake, in a new enjoyable way.

The projekt was featured on the Danish art blog I Do Art and the Street Art blog Streetheart.

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On our first research trip to the Faroe Islands

Currently I am working with Jens Raunkjær Christensen on a film project documenting the storytellers of the amazing and remote Faroe Islands. The project is backed by several Faroese sponsors and is supported by the Film Workshop at the Danish Film Institute. Principal photography is planed to take place in September 2011. We are writing about the project on the development blog. (In Danish).

I have provided photography for an article in the February issue of the Danish gastronomical magazine Gastro. Read the article here: Gastro – Havets foie gras

Books exhibited at the Paris Cookbook Fair

Last weekend I attended the Paris Cookbook Fair, where two of the books I have designed were exhibited as nominees for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. In the category Best Asian Cookbook the sushi book placed fourth. Considering that an estimated  26.000 food and wine books are published each year*, I am really happy with the result. The exhibition was a great opportunity to meet with writes, designers and publishes, and to gather inspiration for future book projects.

* Source: Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Yearbook 2010

Gourmand - Wold Cookbook Awards

I just received news that the two cookbooks I have designed, both won the Danish national competition in the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2009.

Sushi – Lidenskab, videnskab & sundhed won in the category: Best Asian Cuisine Book.
(The book was recently published internationally as Sushi – Food for eye, the body & the soul)

Tang – Grøntsager fra havet won in two categories: Best Fish And Seafood Book and Best Book For Food Professionals.

Both books are now qualified for the international competition, where they will compete with the very best cookbooks from all over the world, at the Paris Cookbook Fair in February 2010.

Update: I recently learned that Sushi – Lidenskab, videnskab & sundhed is now shortlisted as one of the four best books in the international category Best Asian Cuisine Book.

The Chromascope site has been updated with a photography section, and new projects has been added. Notably a collection of landscape photography from the Faroe Islands. More projects will be uploaded soon. There is also a new front page on the website.

The sushi book that I designed a few years ago, has been translated to English, and is now published by Springer Science+Business Media. I have designed a new cover for this version, added a lot of new images and design refinements.

Sushi: Food for the Eye, the Body and the Soul is being released in a beautiful hardcover edition, and has received amazing editorial reviews. Looking forward to see how it fairs with an international audience. You can read more about the book at the official website sushibook.net.

The book is now available to order at Amazon: US / UK.

The original Danish book is sold out, but a new edition is now being released by Nyt Nordisk Forlag. More about that in a separate post later.

This weekend I visited Norðurlandahúsið (The Nordic House) at the Faroe Islands, to help setup an exhibition by fashion designer Maria Louise Suhr. The exhibition presented her graduation project from the Design School in Kolding, a collection with swimsuits, shoes and bags inspired by the charter tourism of the 60′s.

A series of landscape photography from the islands, will be posted on the website soon.

Connected poster & closeups

The poster for the short film I directed with Jens R. Christensen is now being sold in a limited edition of only 73 numbered prints. The poster is designed by  Anders Baden Nielsen and Joaquim Marquès Nielsen from the design studio Barq. It is 66 cm x 100 cm and offset printed on nice thick 200g recycled paper.

Worldwide shipping available. Visit the webshop here: ov43.bigcartel.com

We have now launched the official website for our short film Connected, that I have directed with Jens R. Christensen. The website gives an in depth look behind the scenes. www.ov43.com