[ pixel viking ] portrait art by Caroline Martin

Welcome

to my Internet home...

My name is:
Rico Bergholdt Hansen

I live in:
Odense, Denmark.

This is where I post my own photos and videos along with general ramblings about the things that interest me, such as: Travelling, landscapes / nature, history, design, architecture, music, art, science & technology and related topics...

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Tuesday
Mar262013

Stories From the Stone Age...

Stories from the Stone Age is an Australien documentary from 2003 in 3 episodes of 50 minutes each.
1: 'Daily Bread' begins in the Middle East around 15.000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age. The climate gets warmer and wetter and the Hunter / Gatherers learn to farm as they find grain.
2: 'Urban Dream' begins 12.000 years ago in Europe where people are living a hard nomadic life - still living as Hunter / Gatherers. A new smaller Ice Age - the Younger Dryas - changes life and in the Middle East people start to domesticate animals. Urban centers pop up and cities start to emerge.
3: 'Waves of Change' begins 4.000 years ago. The Stone Age slowly comes to an end as metals are found. Olive oil is mass produced and traded in a big scale. Dairy products, wool and salt also become important commodities - this is going on without a monetary system. Large stone monuments and graves in Europe and their meaning is explored.
Archaeologists are used throughout the series and everything is based on archaeology.
Thursday
Mar142013

Skrillex - Bangarang - Old School Computer Remix...

James Cochrane aka bd594 is a bit of a nerd - but creative - very hard not to like.
Wednesday
Mar132013

Instagram - @pixel_viking

Visit my Instagram for current photography...

Sunday
Mar102013

The Nordic Bronze Age...

The Nordic Bronze Age from 1700 BC - 500 BC was a relatively warm period with good farming and a dense population. People had more energy and time to spend on things like art and other things related to their culture.
Saturday
Mar022013

The Battle against Rome...

This is the English version of 'Kampf um Germanien - Die Varusschlacht' from 2009. A documentary made by Germany's ZDF (TV station) about Armenius or Hermann who led the Germanic tribes in the battle against Roman occupation of the land between the Rhine and Elbe rivers - the northern front of the Roman Empire.

The battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD ended the Roman advance north. This is a two episode series - each episode is about 45 minutes long.