Music, power and fun in Porjus
This weekend I've been in Porjus to enjoy "Porjusdagarna" (The Porjus days), a big annual summer event in the small town that has been a tradition for more than 20 years of my life now. It was a great weekend in a lot of ways, and in order to show you a little bit of what it looked like I have prepared an image with a few of the photos that I brought back home. I have placed numbers by each image, and the image captions can be found below the image.
1. Festplatsen, Porjus (the stage area).
The weather was bad, but the event still gathered hundreds of people over the two days.
2. Johanna and me.
Check out the newest family member, little Theo, in Johanna's jacket! Theo is the third papillon around, and he lives with my father in Porjus. Most of the time. Every now and then he'll visit us in Jokkmokk where he can go wild with our two girls Elven and River (Theo is River's brother, by the way).
3. Markus Fagervall live on stage.
Swedish Idol 2006 winner (and former WP-Andreas01 theme user) Markus was the artist of the day. I had not seen him live since Snabelfestivalen 2004, back in the days when he was still an unknown local rocker. I liked the music of his old band Liquid Scarlet back then, but the more radio-friendly style he plays today sounded great as well. And extremely professional of course. I didn't get any chance to talk to the star himself, I was busy with something else after the gig…
4. Daniel Viklund lifting the 170 kilogram atlas stone!
…which was the final part of the Laponia Strongman competition, where my older cousin Daniel Viklund managed to beat the competition (including Finlands strongest man!) to win the Laponia Strongman 2007 title! Daniels brother Emil can also be seen on the image. Daniel will compete in the Swedish championship (Sveriges Starkaste Man) in Arvidsjaur soon, aiming at a top-3 placement after finishing 4th last year.
5. Dad and Ida.
My father Kjell was of course proud of Daniels achievement, since dad has been lifting weights for more than 30 years and acted as a big source of inspiration for Daniel when he started working out many years ago. Younger cousin Ida was also around, and she drove us back to Jokkmokk on sunday afternoon when the event was over. Thanks for the ride!
6. Jingle Bass, Jingle Bass…
And finally, an image that I'm posting just for the fun of it. I spent most of Saturday night watching Live Earth on TV, but I also made a quick visit to a nearby party where I met some old friends and colleagues. But the interesting thing with this image is the lovely t-shirt that I have ordered from Perrra.se. I won't spell out the artist name that is written on it, but you can see it and listen to the music on Perrra's site! Perrra is one of my true idols, and the shirt have truly caught the attention of a lot of people this weekend. Thanks for the fun, Perrra, and keep the great work up!
Comments
Comment from heleny
Time: July 9, 2007, 5:12 pm
Nice pics! It seems that you had a lot of fun this weekend. I like the t-shirt..:))…maybe i should get one too..
Comment from Ted Hoffman
Time: July 9, 2007, 6:26 pm
Nice pics. At least the water in the background is not frozen over.
Comment from Alex Smith
Time: July 9, 2007, 7:56 pm
That dog image looks a bit.. photoshopped, it doesn't really look like that dog is in the coat pocket at all.
Anyway uh.. hope you had a good time?
Comment from Andreas
Time: July 9, 2007, 8:10 pm
Alex: Yes, that photo looks a bit strange. But it is not edited in anyway, the dog was really there. :)
Comment from Dave
Time: July 10, 2007, 7:29 am
Andreas, I tell you my back is hurting just looking at that picture of your cousin lifting that stone. Good luck to him and I hope he stays healthy!
Comment from Roger
Time: July 10, 2007, 8:03 am
Wow, you have got really strong cousins in your family…
Comment from Pregnant
Time: July 10, 2007, 11:07 am
I was about to go there as well. Now when I can see what the weather was like Im pretty satisfied that i did not go. How ever. I bet you had a great time.
Comment from Dima Design
Time: July 10, 2007, 1:22 pm
I love such rest. In my country too there are such competitions on the strongest person of the world, the country… I have found some photos by this kind of sports, enjoy
1. http://www.bogatyr.com.ua/photogallery.php?photo=1149
2. http://www.bogatyr.com.ua/photogallery.php?photo=1166
Comment from Andreas
Time: July 10, 2007, 2:04 pm
Yes, that is the same kind of competition. There are a couple of good images here as well, taken at the King of Stones series finals last year. Cousin Daniel (who won the series) can be seen on #2 (middle) and #5.
Comment from Alberto
Time: July 11, 2007, 5:47 pm
Looking at the bildgallery images, your cousin seems pretty dangerous.
Does that Strongman competition only have place in Laponia? It reminds me the "celtic games" (or something like that) which take place every year in summer in Scotland.
Comment from Hans
Time: July 12, 2007, 9:54 am
According to the pics you've taken this event seems to be a lot of fun. It seems like it's great entertainment for everyone. For how many days was this event goin' on? Was it the whole weekend?
Comment from Miguel
Time: July 18, 2007, 8:49 pm
I am a big fan of "Strongest men" contests and I just love the shows from Eurosport.
Would be great if you have more photos from the contest.
Cheers,
Comment from Andreas
Time: July 18, 2007, 9:48 pm
Miguel: Then you may have seen my cousin Daniel on Eurosport already. :) Yes, I have lots of photos from this contest, and also from the Jokkmokk Strongman contest last year (which Daniel also won).
I really need to get a gallery online now, so I can start uploading photo albums to the site…
Comment from Dima Design
Time: July 19, 2007, 10:58 am
I think it too it will be interesting. Here in the right corner the whole video of all kinds of exercises.
http://www.ifsastrongman.com/
Comment from Igor
Time: July 20, 2007, 8:12 am
very nice pics.
do you have an another gallery with ALL photos?
Igor
Comment from Anne
Time: July 21, 2007, 10:46 am
@DimaDesign
Thanks for the link.
Strange exercises - something between "whow" and absolut stupid.
Comment from Jens Tee
Time: July 22, 2007, 9:29 pm
congratulation for your cousin Daniel for winning. I have also seen the live earth concert on saturday night. Many Greetings from Germany. Jens
Comment from Khushal
Time: July 9, 2007, 8:54 am
At first applause for your cousin Daniel for winning and your Dad from where he took the inspiration but my God! i've never seen any competition of this sort in my life ever and its too dangerous and daring btw:( one unbalance and the stone drops* i hope it never happens *.
and the Perra site seems to be in Swedish so i am not getting a single word, maybe you could have posted the image here;)