2004年8月, 第一次来瑞典参加文化交流活动, 就驻扎在这座美丽的城市。马尔默是继斯德哥尔摩,哥德堡之后的瑞典第三大城市,人口25万。马尔默位于瑞典的最南端,是南部重要港口,海军基地和交通枢纽,隔厄勒海峡与丹麦首都哥本哈根遥遥相望,两城相距26公里,乘坐公共汽车和火车就可以直接来往。马尔默城市建筑古老,却是不同种族和民族的集合地。走在马
尔默城市中心的大街上~~深深呼吸~~感受那美国黑人摇滚与朋克,意大利的浪漫与东亚风情,阿拉伯保守与印度的奔放,当然最少不了的就是西方的奶酪味啦! 2006年的今天,是我第四次在这里停留。在瑞典朋友愿意担保路费,吃费,住费的面上,一人欣欣然离开了有猴子相伴的庇护所—-哥德堡。头也不灰的来到此地,享受我一周的渡假时光!
部分图片已上传! 所有图片摄影师: 刘冬云 图片处理: 刘冬云/卡雷
I was in love with this beautiful city when the first time I came to Sweden in August 2004. Malmö is Sweden’s third largest city with a population of 250,000 habitants and has a modern and continental atmosphere. The whole Malmö is very interesting when it comes to architecture. It has a lot of old buildings and castles from the Middle Ages. A 35 minutes short trip by train or bus takes you to Copenhagen over the Oresund Bridge. The new turning Torso tower becomes the main landmark of the city. It is also the tallest building in Sweden. Today in August 2006, I come back again. With a big free feeling of being far from “monkey”, I will enjoy this special holiday with my own friend.
Photographer: Linn All photos are developed by Linn and Carl Rytterfalk. And no, I didn’t use Sigma camera. I used a Canon Ixus 500.
马尔默的教堂 The church in Malmo
. You can find images on Google. And anyway, I really liked your...
Hi again you guys – I wanted to follow up on my comment about images (photoshop).
First, really enjoy the photo of the building, with its architecture and its ‘treatment’. Very interesting and dramatic.
However, this and all other images show distortions, jagged internal edges, as if the image size isn’t right for the page. This morning I checked, and this distortion occurs on Firefox but not on IE, at least on Windows.
What is causing it I am not sure – one of your brothers is expert I think and can probably resolve this. But what I can tell you is that Firefox reports the ‘twist building’ image size ‘specified’ as 450 x 600px, but with ‘actual’ size as 500px × 667px.
The image really is the larger size, as I verified by downloading it. I also looked at your css, and the only ’450′ px I can find there is the column width, which Firefox is probably accurately rendering, causing the pictures to get squeezed, thus have jagged edges in them.
My suggestion is to resize the images in photoshop, keeping the aspect ration of course, for 450 px width. This would include the ‘pearl’ article pictures also.
It’s probably the simplest way – maybe your brother would suggest this or another solution.
Apologies to interrupt your writing with photography talk, Linn….but this way we can best enjoy what you are showing.
Best,
Clive
哈哈，看来你这个小日子真是不错了．现在有机会深入了解一个新的地方，拜托你长长脑子多思考多留心多比较，同时呢，既然喜欢拍照片又有个好老师，希望你成为一个好的摄影师，难说就是你终生的职业也不一定哦．
Easy Life, hehe.. Did she really say that?! But it sure is Good.. Hi PingPong! Yes, she has a good teacher, she has art already in herself. She just need guidance and training.
But I think her future occupation will be quite different. We’ll see.
Nice to hear from you.
oh,yes,hope everybody have the wonderful life in future.
看了你的文章,不错不错,很是感人,希望你在瑞典一切都好!!
Hi Linn – I must say that your writings are quite interesting, in English, or as a translator may show (some amount) from Chinese. In fact, your dreams after the ‘Red Chamber’ seem to have caused some vividness in my own after reading them Friday night – or it was something, anyway.
Being in a new place can certainly open our vision, and the dreams which slowly make the adjustments, besides entertaining and enlightening us.
In a related way, I must say that I hope you are giving Carl more ‘freedom of self’ than sometimes in your comments of his weblog. He is after all a man, a Swede, a modern person in a life surrounding us with change and new openings — or challenges.
A close friend, as another person opened to us in the gentle ways, has a remarkable ability to allow us to expand our life. We must be careful not to think it is all a matter of ourself. After all, a great deal of Chinese wisdom one way or another shows, that relationship is very much of everything. This means this wisdom’s ‘place’ can suddenly leap ahead, in relevance to our currrent and coming world. My opinion anyway.
Much of the best to each and both of you. I think you are lucky in having youth, and most lucky of all in having time, to make nice use of.
It’s very interesting to learn you’d been in Sweden before, Linn, and in what auspice. This then reminds me again, of someone who was close, artistic, capable, and very eastern, who was my luck to have as friend once too.
She taught me a small Korean tale at one moment, about being careful about throwing one thing away entirely on discovering another. It was good advice, hidden in our many experiences. Again, time gives a good way to tell.
Kind regards,
Clive
Hey Clive! It’s me, the Monkey.
It sounds like you misunderstand her way of communicating with me. It’s one of the part of her personality that I love that comes thru in all her writings.. She’s norty in a fun way and I guess she should learn how to use smiley so that others also see what I already know. 
Now I will teach her some more about how to use photoshop.
Ok, Carl, I believe you
. I am glad it turns out to be in fun, and maybe (?) I show my ‘ancient culture’ by being interested in the feeling of respect.
Anyway, I am smiling that you two are.
And I agree about the Photoshop – would have mentioned that, but other things seemed first.
Linn, I am glad you are a such a good friend to Carl, and meant what I said about the dream writings being somehow interesting.
Best to both,
Clive
Hi Clive,
First of all, i want to say sorry for my dishonor to Carl. After reading your comments, i thought a lot about my action and the way of using language. My English is not so good as yours and Carl’s, so maybe sometimes when i want to show some humor but it doesn’t come out the right way. For example “what are you doing all the time?” on Carl’s blog. i think i shouldn’t forget adding a smiling face behind it next time
and actually i did smile when i wrote this sentence. My Chinese friend call me “knife month” with a “tofu heart”. i can show you a typical example between Carl and me:
we never give up or loose if we have different opinion. ask him!) Anyways, I think I will not be too childish or personal in a professional world. Sometimes you need somebody help you to grow up, right?
Carl: I am sorry about that! do you still love me?
Linn: i hate you!
Carl: i love you too.
Then we hug each other. (i forgive him already but i am still a little bit proud! Carl is very proud too
second, thank you for giving us a very important advice of my blog. Actually, carl and I also found the difference between Firefox and IE after i published the pictures. but we didn’t know what was wrong with IE. we thought the mistakes was from my text because i use chinese and chinese punctations. we deleted and updated this post many times so that your comments disappear. but i am very happy i found it in my email box so I could published it again.
Last, THANKS!!! you read my dream! I don’t know if you translated it by internet or not (accroding to my experience, it’s almost no grammar) but i think you cought something or your own feeling from the story, so even we don’t have a match point, it doesn’t matter anymore, does it? Sorry i didn’t translate the title because i couldn’t find the English word for it, maybe you can help me? anyways, i really appreciate your respect on a small unperfect girl. (i asked Carl why he didn’t read my dream, he told me “i don’t understand Chinese!” hehehe~~~)
best wishes!
my wish is the same like pingpong friend!
and Dongdandan, take care of your back
and say hi to your boyfriend!
我的祝愿和小何一样, 希望大家有美好的未来!
董丹丹, 你要照顾好自己背, 向你男朋友问好!
Hi Linn, and really appreciating this nice and warm letter from you
.
I am hearing you and Carl well about this ‘language’ subject, and I think we are all hearing each other — this is very good all around. And, you know, we more ‘ancient’ do have a tendency we recognise sometimes as useful – just to say a thing we feel, once it is composed in one way at least. This is never the whole story, but it is often useful _in_ a story. And anyway, not so ancient of course – just of benefit also of family where some have always been growing more so that way
. And so we share.
Would tell you, I have had enough experience of closeness with degree of ‘knife tongue & tofu heart’ to really appreciate. So please be sure to know I smile in a very nice way. And prepared to tease and be teased also…
Also about being ‘a bit proud’. Especially
. And I believe it has ways to be very good, as respect learns and grows.
Professional world. Well, yes. We all learn to have our own face for this, and one way or another, that it can grow to be truly important, also a life-long task. Because this view is also one aspect of humanness, and one we are in my opinion mostly not so good at. Then I like to see the ways we experience our life more fully, first and always, and in a way then refine, to bring the best of that into the ‘exchanges’ which we say are professional. While we always continue our fuller life.
On the action of WordPress and images, this is still a bit mysterious to me. Maybe we can figure it out, because I plan to use WP too, and if not as much as you and Carl on the pictures, it’s important they look good. If I find out anything more, will let you know – something else keeps me busy for present.
On the writing after dreams, you are very right – I can’t get any full sense of it from translators, but I do get some sense anyway
. Some practice long ago with Korean, and general appreciation of languages does help.
I use several of the translators, which is kind of an interesting (post-modern) way to approach meaning. Sometimes there are great differences in results, and one is seemingly much clearer than another. But not necessarily more correct…this is a very good reminder….
I did enjoy both some senses I got out of your writing itself, and some meanings which seem to float up out of the breadth of these dreams. One is always considerate of anything like that – nothing is definite. But it can enrich our own thought and feelings to hear the ‘conversations’ of others, don’t you think? The ones we choose, anyway
.
I took the title to be something like ‘Dream, after Dream of the Red Chamber’ – maybe this is in a way a good result even from the internet translator. If we use the word ‘after’ in the way I am familiar with as ‘efter’ from Norwegian, and I guess Swedish is something of the same. In that case it means ‘influenced’, or ‘connected with’, especially ‘made by respecting’ some earlier artist’s work. It can be so in English also, worded as above.
I actually have one of the original Red Chamber chapters in a small book, the kind you pick up at the train station, which is how I got it. I looked just now but didn’t find it yet – maybe this copy is in German, so more practice than reading for me. And then I found the first chapter in English on the web – two versions again to see about….
Linn, thank you.
…
I am meanwhile also smiling a bit about Carl and his ‘don’t understand Chinese’. I think he is one of those also who learns many things in his own way specifically, and in this, sometimes to be especially wise
.
Best to both,
Clive