Monday, January 25, 2010
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Some things I loved in 2009...
... Radfahren mit Wildschweinen im Köschinger Forst - Heiko’s GeburtstagsBootsfahrt in Berlin - Sabina’s Paella - Vanillekipferl mit Diane - Hendrick’s Gin mit Robert trinken - mit Prof. Vladimir in einer Studentenwohnung in Paris wohnen - zu Mathew Johnson’s „when love feels like crying“ joggen - Nik spielt Shakespeare in Basel - Jamey and Mo’s BreadPudding - die Bibliothek im Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris – Jackson Pollock im Moma - Übernachten bei Blake im Mojave Desert - Mauerpark im Sommer - MüsliEssen nachts vorm Ausgehen - Osterfeuer mit Adrian, Nik , Jan und Kathrin bei Dominique - Grillen in Uli’s und Steffen’s Landhaus - durch Berlin mit Britta zum Berghain - Pacific Coast und Ruhlsdorfer See and sexy dark grey Berlin in winter + breaking down with my car 10 minutes after going on holiday... ;-0 ...MUSIK: Venice Beach Drum Circle– Gustav Mahler in der Philharmonie - Redshape – Fleet Foxes – La Roux – Planetary Assault Systems - &Me -Acid Pauli beim Bar Closing –Bonnie Prince Billie - Flying Lotus und Sunn O ))) - FILME: Achterbahn – Import Export von Ulrich Seidl – The Exiles by Kent Mackenzie -The Wrestler - FOTOBOOKS: Robert Adams, Summer Nights Walking - Takashi Homma, Trails - Las Vegas Studio, Robert Venturi und Denise Scott Brown


























Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Christmas Decoration at Galeries Lafayette, Paris 2009
Sorry for the prolonged pause - I was on the road for a couple of weeks but will do some catching up the following days and weeks.
To start here's a short video of the Christmas decoration at Galeries Lafayette in Paris. Drunken Easter Bunnies in Pink Champagne! What else do you need for Happy Holidays?
Saturday, October 24, 2009
For the Love of ... Fleet Foxes.
"I was following the pack
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied round their throats"
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied round their throats"
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Family Album III
Again the grown-up men are always in uniform.

From World War I. Not sure who is a relative in this photo.

There's nearly no notes in the album. As the album hasn't been discovered for so long nobody knows who is who. I like to think that she is one of my relatives though. In any way I love her dress!

Some of the faces are incredible. To me they look sometimes more like mexicans or native americans than Bavarian peasants. Incredible also my grand grandmother sitting proud with these enormous keys on her lab.

From World War I. Not sure who is a relative in this photo.

There's nearly no notes in the album. As the album hasn't been discovered for so long nobody knows who is who. I like to think that she is one of my relatives though. In any way I love her dress!

Some of the faces are incredible. To me they look sometimes more like mexicans or native americans than Bavarian peasants. Incredible also my grand grandmother sitting proud with these enormous keys on her lab.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Family Album I
When I was recently visiting my family in Bavaria my aunt had discovered an old family album which was hidden for decades. The album cover looks "Jugendstil" so it's probably around 100 years old, although there are even older pictures in it too.
The picture on the right shows my grandmother with her two brothers. Incredible.

Below on the left is my grandmother again sitting on the lap of my grand grandmother.
On the right my grand grandfather. The men are always wearing uniforms on the pictures.
The picture on the right shows my grandmother with her two brothers. Incredible.

Below on the left is my grandmother again sitting on the lap of my grand grandmother.
On the right my grand grandfather. The men are always wearing uniforms on the pictures.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Friday, September 04, 2009
Curses! - The Deep End (Holy Ghost! Day School Dub Mix)
Love the record cover. Love to listen to it while driving on the Autobahn.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
For the Love of Reading... Marguerite Duras - Der Liebhaber
Das Beste am Übernachten in fremden Wohnungen ist manchmal dort Bücher oder Musik zu entdecken, die man so nie gelesen oder gehört hätte. Thanks Katja!
"Manchmal weiß ich: Wenn das Schreiben nicht, alle Dinge vereinend, ein flüchtiges Sprechen in den Wind ist, so ist es nichts." (Duras)

"Die Geschichte meines Lebens gibt es nicht. So etwas gibt es nicht. Es gibt nie einen Mittelpunkt. Keinen Weg, keine Linie. Es gibt weiträumige Orte, von denen man glauben macht, es habe hier jemanden gegeben, das stimmt nicht, es gab niemanden." (Duras)
"Manchmal weiß ich: Wenn das Schreiben nicht, alle Dinge vereinend, ein flüchtiges Sprechen in den Wind ist, so ist es nichts." (Duras)

"Die Geschichte meines Lebens gibt es nicht. So etwas gibt es nicht. Es gibt nie einen Mittelpunkt. Keinen Weg, keine Linie. Es gibt weiträumige Orte, von denen man glauben macht, es habe hier jemanden gegeben, das stimmt nicht, es gab niemanden." (Duras)
Saturday, August 22, 2009
For the Love of .... Stone Roses - Waterfall
"Today's the day she's sworn
To steal what she never could own"
To steal what she never could own"
Friday, August 21, 2009
After Party, Berlin ca 1995
At sunrise under a bridge at the Spree river. On the first picture the wet t-shirt was left to dry by someone dancing and sweating all night.




Labels: Weekend
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
For the Love of ... Althea & Donna
"Watch how we chuck it and ting
Inna we khaki suit and ting
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots"
Inna we khaki suit and ting
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots"
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
For the Love of...Early Fleetwood Mac
And Now: Albatros! Love the way they are into playing their instruments!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Friday, August 07, 2009
W.E.E.K.E.N.D.
New York, 1994, Limelight and Sound Factory
Sound Factory: it must be 3 or 4 am in the morning. You could not buy any alcohol, but people seemed to be high on something. There’s a huge dancing crowd of topless male muscle bodies on one side of the floor. The girl on the right picture is standing in line with 15 people desperately waiting to drink water from a fountain.

Sound Factory: it must be 3 or 4 am in the morning. You could not buy any alcohol, but people seemed to be high on something. There’s a huge dancing crowd of topless male muscle bodies on one side of the floor. The girl on the right picture is standing in line with 15 people desperately waiting to drink water from a fountain.

Labels: Weekend
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Monday, August 03, 2009
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Johnny, Manhatten Beach, California, 2008
Johnny has spend a good part of his life in Prison - (around 17 years if I remember correctly.)
He found God there - the cross on his neck and the 7 tatooed under his eye - and now tries to help kids in trouble. I wanted to visit him in San Bernardino but at the end he had to cancel it. I'm going to meet him next time when I'm back in LA.
He found God there - the cross on his neck and the 7 tatooed under his eye - and now tries to help kids in trouble. I wanted to visit him in San Bernardino but at the end he had to cancel it. I'm going to meet him next time when I'm back in LA.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Weekend, Sehnsuchtsschweiß

New York 1994, Limelight and Soundfactory
"It’s nine in the morning, sometime in 1991, and Junior’s been pumping the dancefloor since midnight. Dark bodies are dripping in the shadows; the people on the floor are moving with the steady power of a single-muscled machine. Everyone is loose with movement and focussed on a single moment of existence; ready to continue this physical communion as long as the bass groove keeps on shaking their bodies. Suddenly the half-light becomes darkness, the huge mirror ball is black, the Goddess of Light has plunged us into mystery. And the music stops. Dead."
Link
Labels: Weekend
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Los Angeles Moon 2008

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen."
Raymond Chandler, Red Wind
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Mook Magazine from Beijing
Lately I have been getting several requests for editorials for Chinese magazines. I'm not sure where they discovered my work but I always look forward to receiving an issue with my photos edited through their eyes accompanied with beautiful signs I can't read.
This story was recently published in Mook magazine from Beijing, whose selection and layout I particularly enjoyed.





Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Man who sold the World
In the wake of Nirvanas cover of Bowies song, Bowie bemoaned the fact that when he performed the number himself he would encounter "kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.' And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!
(from Wikipedia)
It's actually hard to find a good version of Bowie doing the song himself on Youtube but I DO like this performance:
(from Wikipedia)
It's actually hard to find a good version of Bowie doing the song himself on Youtube but I DO like this performance:
Labels: song of the day
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Paris Photo
I'll be off for a spontaneous trip to Paris Photo - if I can bring someone a signed copy of books from Stephen Shore or Alec Soth - shot me an email.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Election
Just one link before going back to work after a long night.
A page which shows good photography about the election&politics is Bagnewsnotes. Its worth clicking back a view pages on the site.
Link
A page which shows good photography about the election&politics is Bagnewsnotes. Its worth clicking back a view pages on the site.
Link
Election - photolink
Just one link before going back to work after a long night.
A page which shows good photography about the election&politics is Bagnewsnotes. Its worth clicking back a view pages on the site.
Link
A page which shows good photography about the election&politics is Bagnewsnotes. Its worth clicking back a view pages on the site.
Link
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Waiting for the Obama Effect
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Exile on Main Street
Wall Street versus Main Street! Tschuldigung wo isn' de Hauptstrass? - Here's a clip of Rolling Stone's Exile on Main Street.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Obey Giant Campaign
This is around the corner where I've been living in LA in Echo Park.
Its one of the few big sized Obama Posters by skater artist Shepard Fairey which in the meanwhile can be seen everywhere on buttons and t-shirts (in California at least). The amazing thing is that he got the official go from Obama's campaign.
Here's more on it in a Washington Post article:
Link

Its one of the few big sized Obama Posters by skater artist Shepard Fairey which in the meanwhile can be seen everywhere on buttons and t-shirts (in California at least). The amazing thing is that he got the official go from Obama's campaign.
Here's more on it in a Washington Post article:
Link

Sunday, September 07, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Skylight Books
My favourite LA Bookstore has recently opened new space where they have all the magazines and the art and photography books. Its right beside the "old" Skylight books on Vermont.
Address is 1814 N. Vermont, LA, CA 90027
Link
Address is 1814 N. Vermont, LA, CA 90027
Link
Pacific and Sierra
After our roadtrip from Vancouver down the Pacific Coast To San Francisco then via Yosemite to the Eastern Sierra we are now back in Los Angeles.
What impressed me the most where the Redwoods and wild beaches in Northern California and the Eastern and Higher Elevations of Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra around Mono and June Lake. Didn't care so much about Half Dome and Yosemite Valley and thought San Francisco is just too cold but has real beautiful light.
Dune Buggy riding in Oregon and making a fire on a foggy Oregon Beach were great experiences too.










What impressed me the most where the Redwoods and wild beaches in Northern California and the Eastern and Higher Elevations of Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra around Mono and June Lake. Didn't care so much about Half Dome and Yosemite Valley and thought San Francisco is just too cold but has real beautiful light.
Dune Buggy riding in Oregon and making a fire on a foggy Oregon Beach were great experiences too.





























































































































































































































