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Stefan, Casanova of the film camera

I can't drink coffee and talk to you at the same time

About Me

My photography website:
http://www.streetsofscience.net

My works can also be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanmp

My Interests

"Work hard...Rock hard...eat hard...sleep hard...grow big...wear glasses if you need 'em"

I'd like to meet:

Ed Romney (RIP), camera repair man extraordinair. Several dead Hungarian born photographers. Real People.

Music:

Weird Al Yankovic, Color Me Psycho/the Forbidden Dimension, Motown (circa 1959-71), MC5, Lee Hazelwood, Blue Öyster Cult, Yogi Yorgesson, The Stooges, Frank Sinatra, New Math/Jet Black Berries, Elvis, Naked Raygun, the Flaming Sideburns and many many MANY more!!!
I listen to/am influenced by far too many musicians to list them all. I'm just a music junkie is all.

Movies:

Classic Horror films
Classic westerns
anything by Whit Stillman or Noah Baumbach

Television:

The Wire
Pushin' Daisies

Books:

Yes, I like to read. Constantly.

Heroes:

Tapio Rautavaara
Thor Heyerdahl
Robert Capa
Ed Romney

My Blog

I bet repairing digital isn’t this much fun!

I spent a good part of Sunday afternoon replacing seals in one of my cameras. Replacing foam rocks! It kinda feels like fixing up and old car or something...although I wouldn't really know I guess, be...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:00:00 PST

photography news

Whew, I just slaved all day yesterday...well, except for when I stepped out to get coffee with my brother and then later I went for a walk because it was amazingly cold and I couldn't resist the exper...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:37:00 PST

Death by Digital

I've been silent for some time now, sorry about that folks. Life gets in the way...I just found out that Digital has claimed another life: Infrared Photography. And I JUST started to learn the craft o...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:20:00 PST

Infrared, that’s what’s next...

I've been wondering what to do next for some weeks now...of course I was thinking about going back to Sweden and Finland. Then reading my buddy Damo's blog about Japan I got nostalgic for Japan, and r...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:55:00 PST

RockNRoll boat (Sweden) wrap-up

As some of you know, I went back to Sweden for a week to be apart of the Rocknrollbåten. The boat left Stockholm the evening of September 20th loaded with hoards of music fans and some folks that just...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:36:00 PST

My Rock and Roll Photos Now on Display in Ann Arbor

Ive got 6 large photos on display at Underground Sounds on display from now until October 31st (Hallowe'en). Come down and check out my prints of musical artists driving themselves insane alive; momen...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:20:00 PST

Motor City been burnin' for 40 years

40 years ago this day, the Motor City began to burn. I wasn't even born so I won't pretend like I was there, I'm just going to say what I've learned&according to John Lee Hookers song "The Motor City'...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:50:00 PST

Radio Birdman kicked ass last night...

Radio-friggin-Birdman! It was awesome. It was pretty cool to see Birdman perform in the hometown of Deniz Tek, one of the main men behind this unstoppable musical force. Some local musicians in attend...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:31:00 PST

Budapest

Well, here I am in Budapest. According to the other photo students my hair style makes me a rockabilly Clark Kent. OK, I guess I can live with that. Trying to figure the money here is a litte strange,...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:00:00 PST

Adventures in America...thus far

I got back to the states safe and sound, beat jetlag...as usual!The flight from Stockholm to Amsterdam was great. I was seated to some guy from California that has been living in Sweden for 24 years a...
Posted by Stefan, Casanova of the film camera on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:28:00 PST