A few weeks ago I attended the Rocklandia festival at Wasalandia in Vaasa as the festival photographer. One of the main acts that evening was the awesome rockers in Dead by April straight from Sweden.

And here you go, my vision of Dead by April!

( Dead by April at Rocklandia by Tage )

Check these guys out on the web why don’t you.

—>>> Dead by April

—>>> Dead by April on Facebook

—>>> Rocklandia

Hope you enjoyed these babies.

// Tage – Dead by Tage

Only a day or so to go now before the rock hits the fan. And now the Rocklandia team released a small festival teaser – check it out.

( The Rocklandia teaser – by Adriano Sverko – live footage by Tage )

And yes, in case you haven’t heard already – Amaranthe have cancelled their Rocklandia show, they are now replaced by the fabulous Dead by April, gonna be awesome. Another reason for you to join in on this festival!

—>>> Dead by April

( Rocklandia )

Have a good one ya’ll – see you on Saturday!

// Tage – The Rocklandia Lens

Check out the poster, check out the bands performing – some cool shit goin’ on alright, all of them are to be portrayed by Tage in their right element. Join us!

( Rocklandia is closing in – get your tickets now! )

Don’t miss out on this opportunity, join the Rocklandia clan.

—>>> Rocklandia

Have a splendid one dudes!

// Tage – The Rocklandia Photographer

A while ago we made two commercial films for the Åbo Akademi University, and now, yes now the time has come for them to be released upon the globe. So, be my guest and check out the short spots!

And hey, be sure to watch em’ in FullHD!

( Åbo Akademi commercial #1 – Directed by Tage Rönnqvist )

( Åbo Akademi commercial #2 – Directed by Tage Rönnqvist )

These films was directed by Tage Rönnqvist and shot by Ramedus, our fellow gaffer Mr.Lönnfeldt took care of the lighting and Adelias assisted us in everything. The story/concept was developed at the University by a group of eager students featuring such heroes as Joel Isaksson, Sonja Lillhonga, Tomi Järvinen and Jonna Teerimäki!

We shot the films on the RED camera in Waasa at MediaCity during a sunny day in February 2011.

So, tell me, are you applying for Åbo Akademi this year? I bet you are.

// Tage – School

A couple of weeks ago I shot the De Van show at Royal Night in Wasa. This was one of many Rocklandia Warm Up shows, and this very night I saw the magical performances of CellOut and De Van. And here you go, the De Van show in pictures. Be sure to enjoy!

( De Van at Royal Night, Wasa – all shots by Tage )

I put up the CellOut shots earlier, so if you missed them you’ll find em’ over here.

Some words on the show then, De Van, yes, if you get the chance to see these boys – grab it! And they will return to Wasa later during 2011, and then, yes then you should be there to witness these rockers. And you should ofcourse come see them at the Rocklandia Festival in Wasa next summer – I bet it’ll be, that’s right, awesome!

Hit some links!

—>>> De Van

—>>> Rocklandia

So, hope you had a great time checking out some rock shots, stay tuned for more rock guys!

// Tage – De Shooter

I have finally finished the editing of all the Tomas Ledin shots I grabbed last weekend at the Wasa Arena during his “Vägra Vinter” tour. Be my guest and browse through the pack of  rock shots if you please…

( Tomas Ledin at the Wasa Arena )

The very mentionable thing is that I’ve put on a small change to the viewing of my shots, starting today.. I’ve decided to make the shots a bit bigger, higher resolution you know. So, so what? Well, the shots are bigger, a bigger feast for your retina, anyway, hope you like this set of shots. Browse around people – gallery time!

( Tomas Ledin at the Wasa Arena by Tage )

Hope you liked this post. I can tell you that the gig was really good and that Tomas Ledin sure is a great performer! Have a great day people and let’s hope for a great upcoming week shall we!

// Tage – The Ledin snapper

So tomorrow is a big day for the Tage Rönnqvist Media Corporation, it’s hopefully a hilarious day over at the Royal Comedy Club in Vaasa, Finland. I’m called in by FTW Productions (Stockholm, Sweden) to take some live shots of three different stand up comedians who are doing a small tour of Finland. The guys are Soran Ismail, Fredrik Andersson and Aron Flam. All of this is going down at the Royal Night Club in the city center of Vaasa at 8 pm. So if your in this town, come see the show if you please, I bet you’ll laugh your ass off..

The very next day, Friday that is, I’m gonna shoot some promo shots for Aron Flam. Hopefully all of these backstage-, live- and promo-shots will be grand.. Cause if I manage to pull this one off in a classy manner, I’ll possibly have more stand up shoots coming my way – and hopefully some abroad shoots, now that would be something for my little company!

Today I will give you no pics whatsoever, but tomorrow past midnight CET, when you tune in again, I will probably have some shots posted from the stand up shows, probably, if nothing spectacular occurs… So, wish me luck, and I’ll promise to bring back some awesome shots of some awesome Swedish punks.

// Tage – The laugh of tomorrow is the blog of today

The new blogmodel with the pics on top turned out to be the flop of the century, Thias Newspeed was all wrong about the readers, I have one reader that I know of, and she thought that the journalistic Sandwich-model was way cooler than the crappy “all pics on top” model.

So just to be different I will now use the “no-pics-version”. So if you are not interested in what I’m writing you might as well stop reading now. And for whatever reason I will blog about something really not-read-kind-stuff, just to make things even more No-Picturesque. Know what I mean? Probably not.

Hello to zero readers, it’s spectacular to write a blog that now has zero readers. Haha, I sure need pics to make it interesting, but since I had to leave for Vaasa today very suddenly, I didn’t have the time to bring any pics of the last Helsinki by night day, nor any new pics of my new Memory Card! Yay! I finally bought another one. Extreme IV Compact Flash 8GB.

During the last day of taping the intro I blasted away about 16 tons of software ( C the BWO reference? ) thought so, stupid. Unfortunately I won’t be able to post any pics from the last day of shooting since the last day was all about shooting the hosts of the show, and who the hosts are is a big secret until the 25th of november. So no go. But on the 25th I’ll post a lot of cool shots from behind the rehersals of Make Up.

What else is new. Oh yes, almost forgot, and this is a long and disturbing fuck all story.

I finnished editing the shortfilm I made at the hospital, and then ofcourse comes the small major-time problem of getting the film to a simple DVD. Everyone thinks getting stuff to DVD from Avid (video editing program) is a very very simple thing, but there is no “burn to DVD” button in the software. And there is about 6 million ways to get the finished product to your desktop as a playable file, so after 3 hours of swearing I had the 9minute piece as a wmv-file on my desktop, and then the problems started raining in. Can anyone by the way arrange a course on how to make things right? This is my step-by-step (not the Take That song) journal to epic fail.

1. Tried burning the file to DVD with the  fucked up DVD program called Cyberlink DVD solution. Did not work, the movie worked but some of the pics moved very slow. (Bilden hacka)  Had to try another way.

2. Tried exporting the film from avid with different measures and sizes and even some different bitrates, hours went by and I finally had a version that was ready and working. Tried burning it again with Cyberlink, did not work. Cyberlink told me that “there aren’t any whatever points in this media” or some shit… I went mad. Then I had a small breakthrough. Yes.

3. Googled around for another DVD burning program and I found this thing called DVD-flick (http://www.dvdflick.net/), it’s free and it works! Awesome software, it really has it all, at least for a dude who is used to Cyberlink’s fucked up program. So I burned the film to DVD with the new software and threw it in the DVD-player, and guess fucking what, it had the wrong aspect ratio, it was 4:3 when I wanted it to be 16:9. I went even more mad. So mad that my friend Mad Mike went Easy-going.

4. Hours and hours went by. Got the file exported again from AVID, and this time as FULL HD widescreen 16:9, finally. The file was working fine and I tried burning it, and after these hours of the system testing me I thought that I would finally have a break, but nooo, fuck no. Threw the godforsken thing in the dvd player and whaddayouknow, the sound wasn’t entirely in sync! The fucking sound. And this time I was too pissed off and the clock had turned almost 4 a.m in the morning, so I settled with this version. I cried myself to sleep.

5. Tonight I showed the movie to the guys involved and I really felt like shit, after all this work and I couldn’t get it fucking right. But then I suddenly understood why this happens – cause shit fucking happens, but really, now I know what the problem is.

6. My camera films with 29,97FPS (the american way), and when I try to watch that in a european TV which displays things in 25FPS (frames per second) I’m in alot of trouble, well not alot, but some troubles indeed. Should have understood this earlier and tried to convert the material to 25FPS from the original 29,97, but I don’t know how to complete that so fuck all. And and and, the files and the film is working allright when you watch it in a computer screen, since that one shows you things in something between 30-60FPS, to my knowledge.. Don’t correct me if I’m wrong.

So, horror all over. But at least I learned alot of new stuff. And although I’ve put hundreds of things to DVD earlier in life, the problems are always fucking different, why isin’t there a simple button or explanation on how to make thing right, like there are with women?  If anyone have some bright ideas to solving problems like these, give me a ring. And the really good thing is that Canon is releasing new firmware for my 5D Mark Tage in the beginning of 2010, making it possible to film stuff in 24FPS and 25FPS, so then all my problems will be solved, or at least this problem, but then there are 5.999.999 problems left.

But hey, I’ve got 99 problems but the bitch ain’t one. Peace out fuckers.

//Tage-Z

Alright, today was a good day I think. It was friday the 13th and Jason Voorhees was at my crib, I told him to fuck off and die. He accepted my request and did very much so. Later this day I went to the hospital in Vaasa to make a shortfilm, it is an infomercial for the hospital’s socialworkers.

( The front door to the location of the set )

The short film has been in the works for several weeks and on today’s unlucky date we had decided to shoot the damn thing. I think it will be a 10-15 minute piece about what the socialworkers at the hospital are all about. The film is built with voice-over stuff and a scene somewhat based on reality.

( The “patient” preparing on set )

The team behind the camera consisted of me and the Make-up artist Sara. The editing and the sound parts will also be done by me. So it’s kind of a one-man-band thing. We didn’t use any lighting, and that worked really well I hope, since my 5D Mark Tage is really strong on the lighting part, I hope. Haven’t gone through today’s shots yet, but what I’ve seen looks good, no it’s up to the editor to screw it up. Oh, wait, that is also me.. The short film consisted of a whole bunch of lines and actors, so it was quite tricky to pull it off with only one guy handling the tech-part…

( Kinda christmas-y won’t you say, no? Location part 2 )

I’ll start the editing process during next week and it should be finished in a couple of days. The entire sequence, or movie, was shot in about 4 hours and I’ll continue on Sunday with some exterior cutaways to the already recorded voice-over scenes. The flick will be shown twice, at some hospital convention thing, I don’t really know, call the hospital if your interested,the secret number is the yleinen hätänumero 112, no?

( Another bad joke in the wall? )

The project has been very successful so far, the socialworkers (who wrote the script, acted and planned the whole shebang) did a great job with the acting and I really hope that the short film will meet their demands, if not, then it would totally suck. Don’t know if I’ll upload the movie on any internet-channel at all, it depends on a lot of things, only time and major fuck-ups will tell. But as for now I feel that the movie is in healthy hands and it will be a successful project. Thank you Vaasan Keskussairaala for believing in me!

Now you folks have a great night, tomorrow is a new day with some mighty and dirty challanges.

// Tage – Hopefully I didn’t catch the H1N1 at the hospital, hopefully..

I haven’t done this blogging-noveling now for a few days due to a lack of interest. Had other things on my mind and other stuff to attend to, but you know how it is, sometimes you gotta try living aside the net for a change. And by living I ofcourse mean that the new Kent record came out and I had to take a few days off from everything to get my total focus to the new album called RÖD.

And let my fucking tell you, the album is just awesome, simply fucking awesome. I’ve scrolled through the songs now about 7 times, and let me hit you with the earlier fact again, the album is just awesome, just fucking awesome, have I repeated myself enough now? No? Ok. The album is fucking brilliant. Everything from lyrics to the songs to the sound to the everything, love all about it. Some fucks say that Kent isin’t the same anymore since they went all rocking electronic on our sorry asses, and they are and were wrong. Kent are still the same dudes writing the best lyrics there is and some very much kick-ass songs, only with a somewhat different ring to it. Haven’t ever heard of Kent? Click the link!

www.myspace.com/kentsweden

( The Tage holding the Thing )

And this I might also mention. I’ll be staying in Vaasa for about a week from this evening forward, so if there are any fuckers in need of pics, give me a ring and we’ll do something about it! The fact that I’m in Vaasa I mostly mention for the fact that I get to put another pic in this cake so that it will look more läsvänlig. Well try to translate läsvänlig. Read-kind? Stupid.

( The Vasa-view for some time to come )

And the last thing I’ll mention this fine sunday-night is that I minutes ago glanced through this year’s mosted watched finnish film, it’s called Rööperi. A somewhat mafia-like story of the perkele-miehet raised in Punavuori, aka Rööperi. It was a good movie. The first hour was awesome, then the movie took a sudden finnish turn and became fucking melancolic, can you believe that shit, everything we do in this country has to be depressive, marvelous! Stupid shit. But then the movie took another turn and it ended, quite allright. Cool characters, but for Rööperi 2: The sperm return of the Pornguy called Tomppa, I would add some more violence and less blood-spitting mothers who die of breast cancer. I’ll give the film 3 Halonens’ out of 5.

Peace and G-night!

//Tage – den som spar, får inga nya objektiv.