H concert within F Session
January 25, 2010
H stands for Home-style. A little concert in Up in Smoke bar featuring :
Berry Sun; A.Aleksandrov; A. Kapich; Marik; Pasha Smirnoff; Janis (The Jammers);
Concert by FILTERED within the “F Session”
“F Session” will be сoncert series each with a name of one letter which stands for the style of concert being held.
Followed by “C night” (more information on this – later this week)
FILTERED team.
Art cafe Sienna
February 3, 2010
in the beautiful area of Riga at Strelnieku 3 there is this cozy place called Art cafe Sienna
Beautiful place with all kinds of tea flavors and coffee drinks. Also some cakes and loads of books, magazines and board games to spend your time in a cozy and cuddly way.
Interior is appealing as well. Soft furniture, tables of dark wood. And usually you wont meet a lot of locals there. Mostly tourists. Well, good thing is you can meet some interesting people, right?
I was getting some fruit flavored tea there and it cost me 1,20 Ls and i played few games, looked through some magazines and had a wonderful time looking out of the window at cold street, while drinking hot tea.
Also it is an art cafe which means they are organizing something from time to time, so be sure to follow ;>
- What they write about themselves :
- “Home of steaming hot coffee mugs, sweet smelling tea pots, fresh snacks and tempting pastries, handmade leather journals, unique and handmade photo albums, elegant sealing wax and other beautiful gifts.”
- Phone:
- 26142286
- Mon – Thurs:
- 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
- Fri:
- 9:00 am – 10:00 pm
- Sat:
- 11:00 am – 10:00 pm
- Sun:
- 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
(from now on any pictures with our logo – are one’s taken by FILTERED team, others are found in the internet)
Jūdas Graši & Winchester
February 3, 2010
Don Donulis
February 3, 2010
Ta-da!
Here it goes. Don donulis donuts place.
Prices are okay. Average price for a donut is about 0,27 Ls.
Many kind of them. Chocolate, vanilla, cherry, caramel, different flavors and forms.
Drinks are okay too – tea, coffee, some shakes.
Discounts for students and take away option ;>
Adress: Brivibas 89
Aleksandrs Muižnieks @ FILTERED
February 3, 2010
- Aleksandrs Muižnieks / Boze
- Photography/ Painting / Video making and edit
- “I was born, 1991 March 30, in Riga. I still live there,and I really love this city and all who are around – people, nature, city lifestyle and more.
I am an impulsive man, if something comes to my mind I don’t think very long but just do it now. Besides photography I study in secondary school and plus work in local shop. Also I roller-skate at amateur level. After some time I realized that if I can’t give something for skating, then I can do that with taking photos, after that I’ve started my photograpy story. In free time I like chilling with my friends or simply do nothing!Also I paint sometime, in the past, painting was a passion for me. I went to art class, but then I left it, I just don’t know why. Also I’m making some videos for my team. I believe that everything what I do will be useful in the future.”
- “Art for me is something like a toy for little children. When I feel if I need it, I just take it and do something with them, do some scratches on my paper, for example, or I take my camera and make some photos!”
- “I really can’t remember my first work, but all my life I was painting something on paper and now I do that too.”
- “Nothing is perfect, but if you got skills you can make something from nothing.”
- He will never visualise something that really is not acceptable for people.
- His inspiration: “I think all photographers which I know! I can learn a lot from them and maybe they can learn something from me.”
You can find him at:
Gatis Kurzemnieks @ FILTERED
February 2, 2010
- Gatis Kurzemnieks
- different forms of visual communication
- “I have studied very different things – starting from 3D graphics to software engineering and real time graphics programming, and the most recent – visual communication in Latvian academy of Art.
I have always been fascinated by possibilities of new technologies – especially in real time 3D graphics, so for the last five years, I have been working as a game developer. Lately I feel, that I have had enough of making games and I want to try something new. I hope I have gathered quite unique set of skills while living in both – technical and artistic worlds, so I am ready for about anything.”
- “I am visual artist because I like everything that is visual. I don’t care what it is, but if it looks good and interesting – I’m in! Pretty pictures – yay!!! “
- “I don’t think I have ever done a serious piece of art. What is serious anyway? It is always about playing, experimenting and learning. “
- His perfect model/subject is someone extraordinary.
- We asked him if he thinks he is different and here is his answer : “Deep down we are all the same. “
- He gets inspired by Simple things around us, music, movies, books, people.
You can find him at:
Marc Litvyakoff @ FILTERED
January 29, 2010
- Marc Litvyakoff
- photography
- “I love to look around me and to see the beauty in people and objects.. I guess this is why I started to photograph- to find beauty-stop the moment-show it to others, that is the point. I believe that there is a beauty in everything it depends just from which site you are looking on it..
it’s already 10 years that my passion for painting has transformed in photography.. I also dreamed about fashion, I dreamed to design shoes! Today I can say that my dream came true, as my girlfriend is a fashion designer and we are working together a lot. My two big passions-fashion and photography transformed into new passion-fashion photography:)
photography is my way to make our world better, this is my credo” - “it can be, as well as it is not always has to be a piece of art to be a good photo. I am a commercial photographer, not a “pure art” photographer”
- “My first big step was my first cover for PODIUM ART magazine 4 years ago, which I like even now”
- “I prefer color, because I love color itself”
- “No matter what it is it has to have an influence, to inspire me in order to become a good picture”
- He will never visualise something that brings bad emotions.
- He gets inspiration from beauty.
You can find him at :
facebook / fotoblog / litvyakoff.lv
Normunds Rustanovičs @ FILTERED
January 29, 2010
- Normunds Rustanovičs / N.R.
- Photography
- “I don’t lock myself to a specific category, as photography is not my only hobby, I try to explore different areas, mostly landscape, street and portrait. I started to do street when I got my first order of TRIX400 BW film, which is wonderful for this purpose.”
- “I guess I started to get serious about photography because I love nature, I like to freeze the wonderful moments as I see them, and show them to others. I travel by bicycle and have seen probably all of Latvia, so I have had many opportunities to make images. Apart from photography and travel I also do Geo caching and Web design, I guess all of these go together well. I don’t make images often – my inspiration comes like waves, at some periods of time, I make no images at all. For months there could be nothing. Then one day, I have a good mood, and make some really good stuff, that I want to post on flickr (this is where I put my favorites).”
- “I like Landscape photography, because landscape never goes anywhere. You can anticipate the best light, best angles, and come at the right time. I won’t escape, and I love the peace of untouched nature.”
- “I guess I got serious as soon as I got my first camera. I had a Zenith quite a long time back, when I was a kid, but as soon as I ran out of film, I forgot about it, and the next phase started after I bought a digital Canon soapbox. Nothing spectacular came out of it, but after my SLR upgrade, I even managed to sell one of my images for quite a nice sum (see it), so this is when I became “professional” :) Just joking, I’m not a professional except in the sense that I have been paid to take images.”
- “Black and White. Color. Each for a different purpose. Street and portrait I like in BW, of course – better if it’s film. I actually make quite a few images with my Nikon F3, a fantastic manual camera. My landscapes always turn out better in color, although it takes my breath away to look at full size Ansel Adams prints (which are black and white).”
- A perfect object for photographing – “Untouched nature from the perfect vantage point, at the right light. It’s my dream scenario.”
- “Isn’t everyone different? At least everyone likes to believe that. I guess that everyone has their specific taste in terms of image composition, saturation, contrast, noise – some people prefer grainy Holga images, some like over saturated, noise-reduced HDRs. I guess I have my own taste, and it’s very critical. This is why I don’t have many images posted online, and this is why I don’t have many absolute-favorites from other photographers.”
- “There is nothing – no view, no emotion – that can’t be visualized and brought to the viewer. The only trick is, to do it in a way, that reaches the maximum possible people. Maybe there is a specific way that brings emotion to one person, but maybe there is another way that brings emotion to ten people. If you learn to reach more people with your image, you become a photographer.”
- He gets inspiration from music.
You can find him at:
Reinis Petersons @ FILTERED
January 29, 2010
This amazingly talented artist gave us permission to publish his works, leaving us a little hope to one day also get an interview from him. Let’s hope. And meanwhile..
Born 1981.lives and works in Riga, Latvia
Areas of work:Fine arts, video & illustration.
His website has a long list of places and projects he participated in.
Roman Drits @ FILTERED
January 28, 2010
- Роман Дриц \ Roman Drits \ Romāns Drics
- Photography
- Was born and grew up in Riga; has a decent personality, manly but сapricious, kind, moderately patient.
- His first conscious photograph:
- At this time, he tries not to realize what he is photographing.
- He prefers black and white photography. In color (at least for now) there are too many odd things for him.
- Despite the fact that he uses film cameras for his works, he does not feel any disgust towards digital equipment.
- His perfect model must be “out-of-body”.
- All his works are united by defined or undefined atmosphere.
- He gets inspired by finale of Beethoven’s ninth symphony.
You can find him at:
romandrits.com / Flickr / blogspot
Oskars Pavlovskis @ FILTERED
January 28, 2010
- Oskars Pavlovskis
- Graphics
- He never limited himself within any particular category. He does whatever he finds interesting for himself.
- Born in Latvia,Riga. He is involved with art since early childhood. Starting with art schools and ending with LMA. Works professionally as a computer graphics artist. This is exactly what he wants ti be doing in the future. Particularly designing computer games.
- He gets inspired almost by everything.
You can find him at:
