Images 2006
This page contains links to selected personal images for this year. To locate any work-related images for this year please go to this page on the Supras site.
Bali, Indonesia (June)
I participated in the 11th Biannual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC), 18-23 June, and the rest of the month I had vacation. The images below, organized in sub-categories that overlap in different ways, are from the vacation part of Bali. Images connected with my participation in the IASC conference are also available.
1. Nature (images)
Balinese nature. Many are from a bicycle trip to the northern coast and from an afternoon walk with Lauren Baker through paddy fields outside Ubud. Contains 76 images (panoramas based on some images are below). [images removed]
2. Nature (panoramas)
Balinese nature. Many are from a bicycle tour to the northern coast and from an afternoon walk with Lauren Baker through paddy fields outside Ubud. Contains 10 panoramas (based on images above). [images removed]
3. Culture
Aspects of Balinese culture, broadly understood. Contains 50 images and 3 panoramas. [images]
4. The IASC conference, General
People and paper presentations. Contains 10 images. Some are also available on the Supras Site. [images]
5. The IASC conference, Field trip (images)
Field trip to villages Tenganan (Dt. Manggis) and Sibetan (Dt. Bebandem) in eastern Bali. Contains 49 images (panoramas based on some images are below). [images removed]
6. The IASC conference, Field trip (panoramas)
Field trip to villages Tenganan (Dt. Manggis) and Sibetan (Dt. Bebandem) in eastern Bali. Contains 9 panoramas (based on images above). [images removed]
7. Colleagues and friends
Old and new colleagues and friends. Contains 20 images. [images]
8. Mt. Batur expedition (images)
A fantastic nighttime expedition to see the sunrise, together with Laura Alayón, Lauren Baker, Sascha Müller and Tine de Moor. Contains 127 images (panoramas based on some images are below). [images]
9. Mt. Batur expedition (panoramas)
A fantastic nighttime expedition to see the sunrise, together with Laura Alayón, Lauren Baker, Sascha Müller and Tine de Moor. Contains 16 panoramas (based on images above). The time and geographic orientation of each panorama is given. [images removed]
10. Local people
Local people that I encountered. Contains 17 images. [images removed]
11. Towel art
Showcases the art and esthetics of transforming regular bathroom towels and hyacinths – and with it an otherwise ordinary hotel room – into something quite unique. Contains 23 images and 1 panorama. [images]
12. Flowers and fruits
A number of flowers and fruits that I met, smelled, enjoyed and/or eat. Contains 22 images. Sadly, no orchids here. However, in Banda Aceh, Sumatra where I traveled after Bali, I met with lots and lots of orchids (see below). [images removed]
13. Other life
Chance encounters with selected vertebrates and invertebrates (neither of which I smelled or eat, while it possibly is correct to say that I enjoyed them). Contains 8 images. [images removed]
Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia (July)
I traveled to northern Sumatra, specifically the city of Meulaboh on the west coast, the area where the tsunami of 24 December 2004 hit first. One travels here by plane via Medan, a large city on the east coast. Dates: 30 June – 7 July. I visited my friend Otto Nodeland, who works for Kirkens Nødhjelp/Norwegian Church Aid / Church World Service Indonesia on restoring drinking water supplies. Greetings and thanks to all CWS staff – you are doing a great job! Work-related images are available at the Supras Consult site, at: supras.biz/libraryimages.
1. Project staff
The CWS Indonesia staff lived together in a type of collective, and this is also where I stayed. The first image is from a dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Other images show staff watching TV and, of course, Otto the-master-fisherman. The last image shows Lars and Otto in front of the tiny airplane that took them from Meulaboh to Medan. [images]
2. Local people
There are interesting and pleasant people to meet all over Meulaboh and the surrounding district, ranging from the homespun Starbucks on the airport, sleeping babies, children, fruit sellers, restaurant guests sporting the latest fad in cell phones, an old Chinese women working in the family restaurant, to a rickshaw driver sleeping on the job (well, the latter image is admittedly from Medan). [images]
3. On the beach
Walked along the beach in Meulaboh with Otto some evenings, to watch fantastic sunsets (the panoramas did not come out so well, due to differences in light intensity in the images). Miles and miles of beautiful beaches, and completely empty. Very hard to imagine the scenes the played out here as the tsunami hit. The coastal road north to Banda Aceh went right along the beach, and the remnants of a bridge or culvert is visible on some images and panoramas. Two species of crab enjoy beach life as they always have. Water buffaloes like to stroll along the beach at sunset, much like we do. [images]
4. Orchids
Orchids galore! I just love orchids. All families are represented, I believe. There are some cultivars here. Shot in private sales outlets located in one part of Medan. [images]
5. Red chilis
This crop of red chilis was grown right next to the beach in Meulaboh, and is the first crop harvested after the tsunami hit. Hard to believe that this land was totally submerged and a war zone more than anything else a little more than one year back. A good part of the red chilis shown in these images was brought back to Norway. In dried form they are sure to spice up southern Italian dishes like arrabbiata sauce and pasta all’aglio, olio e peperoncino, and preserved in olive oil they will add an special taste to pizzas and dressings. In both cases, as the first crop after the tsunami, they will provide unique cultural flavor and serve as testimony to the incredible resilience of environment, cultures, and people. [images]
Ose, Setesdal (juli)
Ose Countryfestival, 20-23 juli. Et interessant sted å være og lære om denne musikken, og kulturen og folkene som er en del av den! Jeg satte spesielt pris på samværet med Ruth and Magne Haugland fra Bjelland og deres familie og venner, dvs. Alf Ola Haugland, Halvdan Møll, Jan Olav Voreland, Kåre Voreland og Lasse Bjerland.
Ose Country Festival, 20-23 July. An interesting place to do anthropological participatory fieldwork, I thought beforehand, and a fascinating place it turned out to be indeed! I especially appreciated the opportunity to party with Ruth and Magne Haugland from Bjelland, and with members of their family as well as their friends.
1. Festivalliv
Festivalliv og festival deltagere i mange varianter og stillinger: på scenen (musikere), på grusen (dansere), sittende og stående i og på grasset (tilhørere, edrue – stort sett), og liggende på grasset (tilhørere, langt fra edrue – og sovende). [foto]
2. Hauglandsgjengen
Den viden kjente og beryktede Hauglandsgjengen fra Bjelland i farta! Det konsumeres og diskuteres og konsumeres og preikes, alt fra for og imot Liv Marit Wedvik (stort sett for), og til for og imot Bush og USA (stort sett imot). [foto]
Taumevann, Njardaheim (august)
Statskogs hytte Taumevasshytta ved nordenden av Taumevann, 16-20 august. Fjelltur sammen med Mads. Langt fra vei og nesten like langt fra folk. Fint vær det aller meste av tiden. Litt fisk, ingen molter og masse blåbær. Mads spesialiserte seg på sauejakt og fjellklatring, og dreiv det langt i begge disse vanskelige idrettsgreinene. [foto]
Momjan, Istria, Croatia (October)
Momjan is an old mountain village located just south of the border with Slovenia. My old friend Mojca has been there a few times earlier, together with our dedicated realestate agent and friend Vlasta Svetina, to look at properties. Actually, “my” property is better described as a “ruin” – in every sense of the term. Momjan seems like a great place to live, close by an urban center and the coast (esp. Piran), sporting a good Italian restaurant, and yet hidden away! As a bonus there is apparently some descent fly-fishing opportunities around, courtesy Vlasta. But first various legal and pecuniary issues have to be overcome. Mojca took the pictures and some useful architectural additions to some of them. [images]
Santiago, Chile (November)
I participated in the 9th International Conference on Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI-9) and a USAID/FRAME-sponsored workshop on Environmental Trends Analysis (ETA) in the period 3-11 November. Aside from the conference and workshop activities, I spent quality time with other conference and workshop participants, which, it appears, to a large extent consisted in sampling the local food and wine menus. [more] [images]
Cascada de Las Animas, Chile (November)
After the GSDI-9 conference (see above), I traveled with my colleagues Lauren N. Sorkin and Gray Tappan to Cascada de Las Animas. This is an eco-tourism center and nature sanctuary located 50 km southeast of Santiago, in the village San Alfonso in the Maipo Canyon. We did a hike that turned out to be quite special, because of the fantastic nature (we climbed from 1100 m to over 2000 m, and still had to crane our necks to look up at the really tall peaks across the valley, easily above 5000 m, and lots of flowers), the beautiful weather (warm spring weather for somebody coming from Ultima Thule), and the good company of Daisy Selene Rojas Cayuqueo and Susana Pereami (two psychology students from Santiago who joined us for their very first mountain hike). My left knee (a meniscus had been troubling me for weeks) behaved ok – well, sort of – until the very end of the descent. That we came down late, and returned to Santiago even later – so late, indeed, that I missed my flight back to Europe, and had to stay over at the airport hotel until the following day – is a different story, not to be related here, and it does not in any way detract from the great memories of this hike! [images: Gray|Lars|Lauren]