Sommeranfang V

Sommeranfang IV

Sommeranfang III

I met him on the beach last Saturday. He told me the tattoo is for his girlfriend, who sadly had passed away last year.

digital supergrain

Sometimes when you use digital and you fuck it up. Like shooting 3200 iso and underexposing you get a whole sea of noise but I kind of like the look, its not so sterile which is still the issue with digital.
Like this all grainy picture after the last match in Germany where they put our trainer behind the glass.

Sommeranfang II

Sommeranfang

"Blue Cheer released a cover of Eddie Cochran's classic "Summertime Blues," from their debut album Vincebus Eruptum, that many consider the first true heavy metal recording"
(wikipedia)

heatwave

Heatwave in Kalifornia
37 Grad LA. 53 Grad Celsius Death Valley. Obwohl es in der Wohnung brutal ist und ich sowieso nie Lust auf Klimaanlage habe, kann es wegen mir gerne so bleiben.

DIe Nacht hat sich genauso angefühlt wie auf dem Bild.

For The Love Of...

...California:

Not knowing what they feel

Anthony Minghella

I've just been listening again to KCRW'S Podcast of an Interview with Anthony Minghela and I found this quote:

"And I always think it's very interesting in a lot of commercial cinema: people know what they want, they know what they feel. They know why what happened to them happened to them. They understand themselves in a way that I never met anybody in the world understands why things happend. And I'm allergic to that and I'm allergic to a character ever knowing themselves."

This could be a fitting definition of any commercial production.

KCRW's film interviews held by Elvis Mitchel can be found on Itunes searching for "The Treatment". I try to miss not one of them.

Watercouple

"Fear No Evil Trust in God" and "God's love" are his Tattoos

Oil for my Brain

Theres basically two Cd's I've been listening to during my roadtrip from Miami to Kansas City:

Danny Elfmans' Soundtrack for "There will be Blood"


and Sascha Funke's Mango

RSS Role

not sure if anybody cares but heres a list of blogs I am reading in my feed right now:

http://bookendless.blogspot.com/
http://magculture.com/blog/
http://printfetish.com/
http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/
http://aphotoeditor.com/
http://www.whatsthejackanory.com/
http://5b4.blogspot.com/

Couple

Notes for Friends

first LA summer pictures & notes

Downtown Los Anjeles

"I think Grand Theft Auto, the whole series, is the most important artwork of our time," artist Tom Sachs said (...)"

uhm naja, wenn Tom das sagt...

Smokin Hot I

For Driving on the I-10

I recommend:

Wipe Out from the Surfaris

My father played this to me when I was 6 or 8.
He was playing the drums and if you watch the Video version of the Ventures you know why he liked it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T8__EwAT8VM

I recommend the original of The Surfaris though because it has the essential "Wipe Out" vocals at the beginning:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg&feature=related

CHarlotte Roche NY Times

Charlotte Roche in the NYTIMES with Wetlands/Feuchtgebiete.

Link

interesting piece of statistic:

"... there are also measurable gender-equality problems in Germany, Europe’s largest economy. Of the 27 European Union members, Germany is tied with Slovakia as third worst in the wage gap between men and women, with women earning 22 percent less, a figure surpassed only by Cyprus and Estonia."

And

"Germans have been accused, on occasion, of overanalyzing. "

What? Us Germans? Overanalyzing?
No Kiddin'!

Roadtrip II

Sand

Und so schauts aus wenn man mit seiner Kamera in der Wüste aufm Bodem rumkriecht.

Sternenstaub

In der Nähe von Joshua Tree.

Es sind eigentlich erste Versuche für eine Idee die ich im Kopf habe -mal sehen ob was drauß wird, ein Sternenhimmel ist so ungewohnt, daß es sieht schnell aussieht wie ein übertriebenes Bühnenbild aber wiederum gefällt mir genau das in Kombo mit den menschlichen Aufbauten.

Ray of Light

El Presidente




This should be exiting. Finally. They're going to throw all their dirt on him and try to brand him as Un-American but this time it won't work.

Fellini is the man

Anouk Aimée in Fellinis 8 1/2.
I took this movie along to the US

Its one of these artist film-in-film movies. Maybe the best one (I'm usually a bit sceptic about this genre). This one actually might have invinted the genre.

I really like the end sequence

and the portrait of Marcello Mastroianni as an artist who doesn't know what to do with his art (and life)