New Striptiz portrait - Brigita Pavlovič - Festival Maribor

Brigita Pavlovič is an art director of Festival Maribor and that is a really fantastic high-production festival with classic philharmonic orchestra from Salzburg playing together with aborigine didgeridoo super star and many other crazy creative combinations. It’s starting on 4th of September until 14th. Looking forward!

Again commissioned by Mladina weekly for their Striptiz rubric I did a portrait of Brigita on a top of Narodni dom in Maribor. I used a fully extended tripod, that I hold it so I got a sort of bird’s view on the town. It is important that it’s a bit weird perspective with violin, trumpet and didgeridoo and have a very self confident, but also relaxed feeling.
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PS: Today I’m off to Bosnia, commissioned by Io Donna / Corriera della Sera and right after I take a week of a vacation.

Kuri R. Sieberer - a creative portrait for Striptiz rubric of Mladina weekly

Kuri R. Sieberer is an artist, performer and writer. He written a book V vetru, that with hard core pornography is discovering psychological human condition. His book & performance will be next Friday 22nd of August @ Metelkova. Portrait was commisioned by Mladina weekly. HI-res image available on www.borutpeterlin.com

By this portrait I had in mind a romantic - pornographic moment and again it was in banzai strategy. I got a brief in the morning and in the evening it was realized. Do you want to buy that doll? It’s well preserved and it costs 20 EUR.

Striptiz portrait ZVVIKS animation group

ZVVIKS are really good animation crew from Ljubljana. Their motor is Kolja Saksida (lying, left side). I improvised this portrait. I had different group scheduled for more then a week, but then on the day of the shoot they canceled. Since I’m preparing to go for a vacation I had to do a portrait so I called few creative people who know creative people and would be ready for a portrait ASAP, so their name came across. They showed me the scenography that they work on and I was really impressed! They are good. Really good. I didn’t want to shoot inside and the scenography is really fragile so I decided to take few small pieces and make another scenography by myself. We were in Tobačna and I noticed that wall and that barb wire. Sice last week I was in Četnik’s concentration camp Omarska of course that caught my attention. So I build a picture so you would wonder what the f… is this place with barb wire, CCTV and wall. Interpretations are numerous and that’s why I like this picture.

Anatoly Karpov, former Chess World Champion

Anatoly Karpov (Russian: Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was undisputed World Champion from 1975 to 1985, repeatedly challenged to regain the title from 1986 to 1990, then was FIDE World Champion from 1993 to 1999.

Anyhow today I drove more then 600 km to Banovci and back to do a portrait of him. Journalist Bernard Nežmah is a real expert on chess and Karpov noticed that so, discussion was going on for 1,5 hour. Other journalists had half as much. Nevertheless I had only a minute to do staged portrait, but nevertheless I really like this portrait.

PS: MORE KARPOV’S PORTRAITS

Grimmski is a new excelent music band from Ljubljana

Mladina weeklyis a sponsor of Lent festival and they have a stage Mladina, where new fresh bands are introducing themselves. So every year I get this commissions from our marketing department to do portraits of those bands for Striptiz rubric. First two years I was trying hard to explain that Striptiz rubric is really not a place for that kind of introductions and even more against of my concept of reinterpreting PR image of person being portrayed, but it was a waste of time. So now I just do the portrait as another PR image and save some energy.

What I want to say is that the first time I encountered an unknown band that is really cool. I love their music and I’m sure they will be big, really big. Check GRIMMSKI and their myspace site. I love it, but it grew to me only when I listen it in my car and home stereo. Deep bass is necessary to hear. Their album Random Savior is available for free download from their site.

PS: Actually Striptiz rubric is a good place for unknown bands, just I get frustrated because I can not fit them in my concept of Striptiz portraits (my fault) and then I get allergy when I start to read really boring PR text about how many albums they recorded and how long they are playing and then I collapse when I try to read a supereclecticmultiethnicelectronicturborockskunkpankgrungediscoboogie that should present the kind of music they play. I solve that by not reading Striptiz text that is written by bands, but I just listen the music. I didn’t read what Grimmski wrote, but I did listen their record about 38 times.

And I made a mistake, marketing just supplied me with contacts and editorial decision was made beforehand. I don’t find that an important information, but I guess we are all paranoid that marketing is governing our lives.What a ridicules thought!

Links 07_2008

Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device
A month ago I made a bet that Mladina will be off print in a 15 years and then I corrected myself to 25 years. Maybe I made a correct judgment for Mladina weekly, but I am surely not going to wait even five years before discarding paper magazines. Amazon’s Kindle sounds the future.

GETDROPBOX is a new concept of using Internet for backing up, synchronizing different computers, sharing files among friends, a new method of collaborating on a project, THE FUTURE,… I’m using it and all I can say, it works and it’s really fantastic!!! It’s in it’s beta state, so ask to join in…

Free music for podcasts, projections, etc..
source: Eirikso.com

If you are interested in Creative Commons, this is really interesting video.

Are you interested in selling Stock photography? Then you are interested in ProStockMaster!

Interesting in buying stock photography? Then you are interested in Excavator. A sort of portal that goes through hundreds of stock sites and offers you suggestions.

Kim Jong-il brings happiness into our blogs

Kim Jong-il visiting a military unit.
Source: Korean Central News Agency

Tomo Jeseničnik - Striptiz portait for Mladina weekly

Tomo Jeseničnik, is an author of famous picture that represented national campaign I feel Slovenia. He made a T-shirt I feel Tibet as a protest that Slovenian government during it’s presidency of EU, didn’t speak up for human rights issue in Tibet. Picture is shot for Mladina’s creative portrait rubric Striptiz and was photographed at the same spot beside lake Bohinj that his famous picture was shot. That picture is a part of his three year project Slovenia v presežnikih. Book was released in April and it’s already sold out.

He is super successful commercial photographer and his formula is about the same as Nachtway’s and many others. He works three times as much as ordinary professional photographer. He lives in Velenje and for the picture we met in Celje and then drove to Bohinj to make a picture. The drive was about 200 km if not more, but he didn’t hesitate for a bit. Everything for a good picture. I hope that the portrait justifies the effort. Only at the end I realized it does reminds on Boštjan’s Pucelj portrait, but I don’t think that matters…

Technically it was several minutes exposition and I illuminated the tree with 20 flashes of a studio flash power of 1500Ws. In plain English that’s about whole a lot of energy. I Illuminated Tomo with detached flash and that’s about it.

PS: I was off blog for some time because my eyes are infected + I’m replacing picture-editor at Mladina + today I made a trip to Omarska and back in one day 540 km, but it’ll be really good reportage in this Friday’s Mladina.

Photographs of Strojan Roma family exhibited in Tokio!

Exhibited pictures of Strojan Roma Family by photographer Borut Peterlin at DAYS JAPAN Photojournalism Exhibition in KONICA MINOLTA PLAZA Special Exhibition “Living on Earth 2008” in Tokyo.

Our vineyard house is SOLD!!!

Our vineyard house is sold! I felt really sorry for it, but then I felt the same as when I put my dog to sleep. It’s in everybody’s interest. Now I know I’ll build my own house in a year time and I’m really looking forward it. Even more I felt a bit stressed out because a two room flat of about 50 square meters is way to small space to raise two children and I work a lot from home. Now I know I will not have to get in too much debt and I could focus my work on what I want.

Today it was really strange day. I received a call from Ljubljana to do a portrait of Zemanta’s managing director Aleš Špetič. Last year they won an award at the international contest at Seedcamp for new ideas in the field of new media. I did a portrait and then I mentionedthat I’m in love in new media as well and I have a million dollar idea too. He commented that the hardest is to sell that idea and then I mentioned in few sentence what idea do I have. He listened very closely and then he said. You know what, I think you should apply for the seedcamp award with this idea. UAU. that really boost my already rich and vivid imagination so I immediately called my friend Jure and two programmers to talk about the idea. We will see perhaps it’ll be a new Facebook, just different. Like Asspaper

But seriously I will try to make a team and submit it to the Seedcamp competition. Zemanta will review the application and give some suggestions.