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Light snowfall over the Garden of the Royal Danish Library (also known as The Royal Library Gardens), which was designed in 1920 by architects Jens Peder Andersen and Thorvald Jørgensen. The Garden of the Royal Danish Library, one of the oldest university library gardens in Europe, known as Det Kongelige Biblioteks Have in Danish, or… Continue reading Garden of the Royal Danish Library in Light Snowfall

Exerque « And in the breaking of the vessels, sparks of the light fell into the shattered fragments and became mingled with what is coarse or impure » « A spectral messianicity is at work in the concept of the archive and like religion, like history, like science itself, this ties it to a very… Continue reading Traces / Edgar Degas’ Obsession

My Pentax journey has gone like this: Pentax K20, Pentax K5, Pentax K10D, Pentax *ist DS, Pentax Optio P70, and, since the week before last, a Pentax H90, one of Pentax’ last compact cameras, I think, with a CCD sensor. Last weekend I visited Ribe and the tidal marshes near the island of Mandø. Here… Continue reading Tidal Marshes, Mandø, Pentax Optio H90 Rendition

I’ve been away from the world of visual arts for about sixteen years, but I’m back with a renewed interest after buying a vintage camera for a minor macro-photography project. This branched out into taking shots of architecture and various objects, some of which have been clustered into the Objects for an Ideal Home series.… Continue reading Copenhagen Photographer & Artist ~ Kasper Bergholt

“Alors il y a de l’esprit. Des esprits. Et il faut compter avec eux. On ne peut pas ne pas devoir, on ne doit pas ne pas pouvoir compter avec eux, qui sont plus d’un : le plus d’un.” Jacques Derrida: Spectres de Marx: L’état de la dette, le travail du deuil et la nouvelle… Continue reading Spectral Flowers

Flax, if it had a voice, would be screaming while processed. It’s grabbed by the head and pulled out of the ground. Roots and all. It’s sown thickly for self-suppression, so that it grows stunted and does not branch out. Flax needs oppression. It’s pulled around. It’s spread-eagled on the fields, and elsewhere soaked in… Continue reading Viktor Shklovsky: On Flax from ‘On Freedom of Art’, The Third Factory, 1926

The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, founded in 1856, was a veterinary and agricultural science university in Copenhagen, Denmark, until its merger with the University of Copenhagen in 2007. Surrounding the buildings, designed by Gottlieb Bindesbøll, are its unique gardens, which house a diverse collection of over 6,000 plants and flowers. Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer… Continue reading ‘Flora Excursoria Hafniensis’

The ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’ series is inspired by a 1999 music album, in the electronica genre, as it was labeled in the mid-90s, by that name. ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’ was produced and released by the Danish musician Opiate (Thomas Knak) on the record label April Records. In 2009, a 20th anniversary… Continue reading ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’

This blog post, focusing on the Leben CS-600 and CS-600X tube amplifiers, began as a thorough introduction to vintage tubes after I bought a Leben CS-600 in 2024. It expanded to cover other Leben Hi-Fi Stereo Company amplifiers, from early models to their latest tube-based products, with a focus on integrated amplifier designs.  In addition,… Continue reading The Leben CS-600 ~ An Introduction to Leben Tube Amplifiers