Tomaž Humar remains to be an inspiration
Today there was an official confirmation that famous alpinist Tomaž Humar died in Himalaya’s mountain Langtang Lirung.
I’ve met him only once at IPAK agency in year 1999 when he was making a selection of his images with Bojan Brecelj. I remember vividly the energy that he was radiating and how strong handshake did he had. Later I heard an anecdote that once he had a meeting with a potential sponsor from Germay and when he shook a hand of a wife of this potential sponsor, he broke a bone in her palm. Obviously he didn’t won sponsorship of this man. I’m not sure if it’s true, but I heard it as I’ve told you.
Anyway his book Ni nemogočih poti and his path remain an inspiration to me. I’m training martial arts (in recreational purposes), but nevertheless I’ve train every single day for at least an hour. During trainings often I’ve wear a T-shirt he gave me ten years ago. It’s old and in bad condition, but I still have it as a power T-shirt. Why do I train so hard? I have no clue. I feel good, I feel relaxed, I feel alive. Rest in peace Tomaž.
Here are two images from my personal photo-diary. First one is with my daughters and a T-shirt of Tomaž Humar.
Our house with a roof
Our house have a roof! It was finished two weeks ago, just before the rain that was falling whole week.
Urh Sobočan – a lance art artist
Urh Sobočan, is an artist who works with lance art and illustration. My first inspiration was spiderman so I bought a cobweb effect spray. My idea was to portray him as a spiderman’s victim. I had many scenarios, but on the end we did the picture in Gallery Krka. In tight time schedule I’ve made few mistakes. The biggest was that white walls are not good background, so in post-process I made it more dramatical and the second was that it’s impossible to make a spider web over a man’s face.
I had two Balcar flashes. Right one was with softbox and second one with small dish bounced from a wall on left side.
New issue of Mladina weekly & Kosor / Pahor romance
Here is a cover page of Mladina weekly done by
Graphic design: Ivian Kan Mujezinović
Photography: Borut Peterlin
Creative director: Robert Botteri
Picture was taken on Pahor / Kosor meeting in Zagreb and I love this settle gestures that are so revealing, but even more I love to see what my colleagues make it out of it.
Life after death and life before life
Two weeks ago my father in law died in a para-gliding accident in Pogorelec mountain. During a take off he made a mistake and before a parachute was carrying him he seated down on the seat, fell and started to slide on the ground and then roll down the steep, rocky hill. He died on the spot.
With times like these you are faced with question of afterlife. I believe in afterlife. But not like it is written in books. My expectations of afterlife are far more humbler. I can’t believe in God almight and all-merciful. I could believe in God almighty or in God all-merciful, but he/she can’t be both. Or to quote Svetlana Makarovič “Anybody who visited children’s department of oncology hospitable, realizes that there is no God.”
But nevertheless I believe that consciousness if far more complex stuff then our mind can comprehend. Yes, Freud was right, consciousness is a peak of iceberg comparing to our unconsciousness, but I believe that unconsciousness is stretching far beyond a person’s physical existence. As we all know energy is mass and it is indestructible, so I believe in after-life as much as I believe in life before-life. Few billions atoms of my body were few weeks ago just a soil on a field of corn, but now they are here and writing a post of this blog. I wish we could a reconstruct a path of a single atom to it’s birth place – a star.
Of course I don’t believe solely in our physical existence. If you would see my livers hanging in a window shop of a butcher shop, would you say, “Oh Borut, long time no see! How are you doing lately? Obviously not good, he, he…”. Luckily for me, my livers are were they used to be in last 35 years and now they are transcending themselves by writing a post about afterlife. So I believe in afterlife as much as I believe in life before-life and we are just knots in a threads of Universe.
Jože you were far better father in law then you wanted to be and yes, you were right, we don’t exist in this world to be patted and praised, but to be shaped out, just like a water shapes out a stone in a river.
Martin Strel – trailer of his film
did I mention he’s living in my region of Slovenia?
Igor Bavčar behind the fence
Last week there was a huge media scandal when the richest two men in Slovenia, Boško Šrot and Igor Bavčar were under criminal investigation. With other journalists we were waiting in front of a building where Igor Bavčar and police officers were investigating and we had a chance to photograph them in their path to the car. It was only a couple of dozen seconds, but I’ve managed to catch this picture and it’s published through whole page in Mladina weekly. I love this part of the job that is the closest to “the decisive moment” as it gets.
