Bråvalla Festival - Yeah Baby, Yeah!

Finally time for Bråvalla Festival, something I've been looking forward to for weeks now! It was better than I ever could have expected! I'll be working some with WiMP this summer :) It's a music streaming service with HiFi-music. Here with my colleague Felizia! 

The festival was located in Norrköping, about two hours drive from Stockholm. We got to stay there all days, Thursday - Sunday.

Felizia and her boyfriend Gustav!

Our first interview was with these wonderful young guys in Bombay Bicycle Club. Jamie MacColl (guitar) and Suren De Saram (drums) talked about Swedish girls and how bad they're at dancing. I made this one-minute-video-interview with them. If one minute wasn't enough you can read more here. 

Next up: Imagine Dragons!!!! We had so much fun and could not stop talking... We had a long discussion about who would be what character in Lord Of The Rings. Haha! Mentioned got Gollum, Saruman and some dwarf. You've probably heard their song 'Demons' :) Their concert was super super great too!!!

Lana Del Rey was one of my favorite gigs from our first day at Bråvalla (Thursday). She started to eat gum, smoked cigarettes and drank some sort of coffee-drink while being on stage. Well she's able to it all, we loved it. And singing in sunset made the concert even better!

Sam Smith. I'm speechless. Wow. Soooo good. Top three from Bråvalla for sure. He came on stage around midnight Thursday night and it was just the perfect ending to our first day at the festival.

Day two started with interviewing Foxes. She was really cool and loads of people think she did one of the best performances at Bråvalla. Her song 'Let go For Tonight' really made people let go of the night, dancing like crazy! I'm about to finish a one-minute-video-interview with her. To be posted very soon!

We met Steve, drummer in Placebo, really late on Friday evening and were a bit tired... but he gave us so much energy! 

He joined Placebo in 2007 and when we asked him what makes a band stay together for so long (20 years) he said that 'you just stick together'. Like his parents do in their relationship, he said. Read about Placebo in this interview by Nora.

This gig also belongs to one of my favorites, with Kings Of Leon. I loved the lighting and the sound was sehr gut. It had been raining all day so people in the front basically stood in water and mud getting all dirty. But hey, it's was a rock concert!

The day after.... we had some work to do and went to the festival early. We were sitting in the press-room were they had wifi and coffee! 

On Friday it started to rain a lot and lighting hit in the midst of a camping area.. ten people got hurt, some very bad. One of them is still at the hospital in a "really critical condition". We heard a big load sound and when we got to hear what happened a lot of people got really sad. A big big tragedy. And poor people who had to stay outside in their wet tents that night... I was lucky enough to stay at a hotel. 

It's been a really intense weekend, but I'm very very happy. I saw so many nice bands perform and met awesome people! Later this summer I'll also be with WiMP at Way Out West and Stockholm Music & Arts with artists such as Neil Young and Robyn. Can't wait!!! 

Thank you WiMP, my colleagues Nora & Felizia and all the great people I met for making this a fantastic festival! Puss /Sandy

Fotoklossen - Behind The Scenes

Jag har ofta fått frågor om produktionen bakom Fotoklossen som ställs ut på fem utvalda Designtorget butiker. Jag har tagit bilder på hela processen och redogör här för de olika stegen :) De tillverkas på min pappas snickeri Snickman Produktion AB, Årsta Berg (Stockholm).

Fotoklossen kommer i två olika material; björk och valnöt. Först klyver jag råplankorna till lister i justersågen. Min pappa Eckhard Stadelmann visar hur.



När råplankorna är klara ska de riktas så att de blir raka och i vinkel.  

Här planhyvlas listerna så att de blir raka och fyrkantiga. Det går snabbare om man är två här, jag och min pappa har bra flyt! 

Sedan snedhyvlas de fyrkantiga listerna med denna mall så att lutningen blir densamma på alla Fotoklossar. De hyvlas 5mm åt gången så vid denna station står jag ett bra tag :)  

Japp, nu börjar det likna något!

Nu kapas de till sin rätta storlek i justersågen; 59cm och 11cm.

En av de sista stegen i den råa behandlingen är att såga till skåran där fotografierna kommer att stå i. Detta görs genom att vinkla klingan på sågen. 

Här har jag stått ofta och länge. "Vertikalen" består av ett slipband (150 korn-storlek) som likt sitt namn roterar vertikalt. Den är räddaren i nöden då den hjälper mig få till den runda lutningen och en perfekt yta.  

Denna skåra är riktigt vass i början. Jag slipar den med ett 180-papper för att ta bort flisor. Om man slinter här kan det lätt bli repor på klossens ovansida... övning ger färdighet! Jag har fått slipa om många klossar :) Sen slipar jag hela klossen (och bryter alla kanter) med ett 240-papper innan de vaxas första gången.

Dags för första omgången vax! Jag brukar stå inne i lackeringsrummet och använder mig av snövit vax och valnötsvax. Vaxet gör att de två träslagen björk och valnöt får en ännu intensivare färg, samt att de blir tåligare.

En lackerare sa till mig att träet drar till sig mycket vax och att jag kan låta klossen stå och "dra" sig ett tag innan jag torkar & polerar dem. Även skåran behöver vaxas.

Fotoklossarna får sig en liten hörna i lackeringsrummet. De behöver stå och torka i 24 timmar innan de kan slipas och vaxas igen. Sista omgången slipar jag dem i fint slip papper för att få dem lena (400 korn storlek).

Sista omgången vax är viktig! Om jag lämnar ett fingeravtryck syns det när vaxet har torkat. Då får de sig en till omgång :)

Innan de packas in ordentligt för leverans ska det klistras på stickers. Jag har gjort dem i Photoshop och sedan beställt dem online.

Äntligen framme! Du kan hitta Fotoklossarna på Götgatsbacken, Sergelgången och Nybrogatan (Stockholm), Vallgatan (Göteborg) och i Designtorgets webshop. 

Så här har det sett ut hemma hos mig! Jag tycker om att blanda klossarna då de står som en fin kontrast mot varandra.

Alla mina Fotoklossar görs med mycket omtanke och kärlek. De är perfekta till att hålla dina fotografier, vykort, påminnelser och brev. Tack vara den fantatsiska strukturen i varje enskild råplanka får alla Fotoklossarna sina unika skiftningar och nyanser.

Ge ditt skrivbord lite ögon godis med denna levande foto-display! Om du inte bor i Stockholm eller Göteborg finns de tillgängliga här.

Tack till Designtorget AB, Snickman Produktion AB och min pappa Eckhard Stadelmann som alltid tror på mina idéer.

Kram,
Sandy

Midsummer on Öland #3

Christopher, me, Mårten and Philip went for a short trip to the supermarket. We made a stop at this pier.

Little fish must have been someone's dinner.... the rests ended up here. These kind of small fishes are called 'spigg' and are all over in the Swedish waters! Good to fish bigger fishes with :)  

Time for a swim! Sebastian does some gymnastics to get ready :)

Classic: The-happy-jump-photo! Lotta, Justin, Lisa, Sebastion, Sandra, Jonas and Oscar.

Ooooooh cold. Around four of us had a swim (I did not) in 14 degrees....

Sun was shining finally!

Starting to get dark.. We all met at the beach to see the sun go down together.

Philastian!

All of us! And Johan's parents too, Pia and Lennart. Weird that it will get darker from now on, good that I got to celebrate Friday evening together with these great people.

Sunset song by Carro and Lotta!

Thank you Johan for inviting us all to enjoy this wonderful place with you. I had the best time on Öland and will remember this sunset for ever. I just love water & sun combined, there is nothing else needed to make me feel good. If I don't live by the ocean like this one day I'll be very surprised.

Hope you had a great midsummer friends in Stockholm and everywhere else! I wish you all the best, now summer has started for real. Take care, see you. Puss /Sandy

Midsummer on Öland #2

This would have been the perfect car for miss Sandy. Sadly it's not mine, but I'm practicing some posing moves until I get one myself hehe. Host Johan drove to Öland with his friend Camilla in this monster VW van!

Best friends. Host Johan and Mårten with one of our gifts. Haha!

There was a 'movable' sauna on the grounds! Philip is getting prepared. 

Outside the sauna you could cool down in this mini-bathtub. Either you look like a lady while having a bath or like Jonas does here (not sure what the definition would be, maybe circus?)

Maria did some awesome pies with 'sill'. Very Swedish. It contains dark bread, onion, herring, chive, radish and sour cream. Yummy? Not my favorite, but tradition!

Time for lunch! Buffé for midsummer with salmon, pie, herring (different kinds), eggs, potato and hard bread with good cheese.

Lotta looked so beautiful in her dress from Swedish brand Rodebjer.

Time to eat!!!

And FINALLY time for desert... Per went to the moon and beyond. These strawberries killed me. SO GOOOOOOD!

Decoration provided by DJ Sandy :)

This was the result of our midsummer flower-crowns. And the result of a good camera; all happy people gathered in one photo!