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//luftschlösser //daydreaming //großherzogtümer

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:58:00 +0200

I am longing for days like these. those days.
they seem so far away.

but I know they’ll come back. even brighter.

Sorry for my absence. But work keeps me busy and my broken foot doesn’t make things easier. But there will be a change soon. Looks like 2010 is going to be an exciting year with many changes. I will tell you more about it in the near future. The only thing I can say is that I am full of ideas and that I really miss some people. People I haven’t talked to for a very long time. People who are miles away. Some only a few Kilometres. Some a few thousand. People I really love. People I saw yesterday and already miss them and people I haven’t seen for a zillion years. And even people from my everyday life. soon.soon.

Take a deep breath of the last summer air and hold it until the end of the year.

Wir lassen alle Uhren zerschlagen, alle Kalender verbieten

und zählen Stunden und Monden nur nach der Blumenuhr,

nur nach Blüte und Frucht.

Und dann umstellen wir das Ländchen mit Brennspiegeln,

dass es keinen Winter mehr gibt

und wir das ganze Jahr zwischen Rosen und Veilchen,

zwischen Orangen und Lorbeeren stecken.

Wer nicht ans fressen denkt ist ein Staatsfeind

und wird mit Makkaroni erdrosselt

mit Melonen erschlagen

mit Feigen erstickt.

Vorbei die Zeit des Fastens. Jetzt kommen die endlosen fetten Jahre.

//Georg Büchner.Thomas Brasch.

/////hope to see you there: Leonce & Lena

Zenit EM

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:26:00 +0200

Last week. I got a new toy. A Zenit EM.

I loaded it with a roll of Agfa Precisa 100. Here are the results.

What should I say. I’m already in love with this camera and this type of film. (btw. it’s cross processed.)

I love autumn. Especially when it’s this nice as at the moment. Colours. Sun. Bon Iver. Fever Ray.

Going to the cinema.

Daydreaming and flea markets.

Jety already looks like from “Back to the future”:

More photos during the next days. I need to find some time to scan them.

Full of work. Hurting foot. Looking forward to the weekend.

But for know I am too tired to write more. Try to catch some sleep.

Headache.

nyc memories.

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:52:56 +0200

nyc memories.

Last Sunday at Café Dinzler. This Sunday it will be the same. I...

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:17:17 +0200

Last Sunday at Café Dinzler.

This Sunday it will be the same.

I am so looking forward.

Reading Jon Fosse and having Ben & Jerry’s.“My...

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:15:41 +0200

Reading Jon Fosse and having Ben & Jerry’s.

“My plays depict simple people in a not too simple world.” - Jon Fosse.

nyc memories. jety. and his brand new ray ban. those were the...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:59:34 +0200

nyc memories.

jety.

and his brand new

ray ban.

those were the days.

I got this as a gift from an elderly woman today. How nice is...

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:58:32 +0200

I got this as a gift from an elderly woman today. How nice is that please?!
It’s for watching Super8 films. Right now you can see me on a stripe I shot two years ago in
London.

Can’t wait to get the one from New York in it!

Photo inspiration: My car. I joined Matts idea of talking about...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:12:00 +0200

Photo inspiration: My car.

I joined Matts idea of talking about photography inspiration.
It’s about places or things you often take photos of. Photo taking wonts and patterns.
More details at: holgarific.net

For me it’s my car. Not as a thing. More as a place.
Just going for a ride, without knowing where it will lead you.
Turning on a great record in the car. I love music.
I am sure we all do. But for me there is no better way to listen to music than in my
car. Letting the world pass you by, see the reflections of the sun on the street, rolling the windows down and let the wind go through your hair and putting on your sunglasses because of the blinding sunset.

Going for a ride is the best relaxation for me. I can leave all the busy things from
work behind me. I can let my mind flow along the streets and get new ideas.
It’s always a deep fresh breath for my soul.

But of course all this driving around leads you to great places, to great moments and great light situations. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because of going with the
flow. Haha “Going with the flow” sounds so ‘69, just like “give me your hand and follow your inner light”.
But I hope you know what I mean.
What I wanted to say is: what could a photo-taking guy like me more wish for than
“great places, moments and light situations”. To say it with Matts words: My car is always “a safe bet to get me something”.

But it’s not only the driving arround. Parking the car up on a hill, watching the stars
and having good conversations is at least just as good. Or spending whole nights in there ‘cos you are
on a two/three days trip! It’s always fun.

And don’t think that I am kind of a dangerous and fast driving guy. No!
I am more the putting-my-hand-out-of-the-window-and-making-waves-with-my-hand-in-the-airflow guy.

Part of my family / Teil meiner Famile Summer memories. /...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:10:36 +0200

Part of my family / Teil meiner Famile

Summer memories. / Sommererinnerungen

I have a very big family. What you can see here is a part of it. My dad, my mum, my brother, my aunt, uncles and cousins.

And obviously we went on a boat trip together.
So much fun.

I love my big family.
Maybe it sounds cheesy writing about his family and how much you love them, but there are so many families out there with misunderstandings,fights and tragedies. And there are people who never had a father or a mother.
So I think it would be very ungrateful to not mention how much I love them.

I know how lucky I am having a family like this. And I appreciate it everyday.

Everyone of them is totally crazy, insane, lovely, unique and open minded at the same time.
I owe everyone of them so much.

But I think they know how much I love them, because i really hurt my ass as i took this photo. The water was very low, I slipt on the ground and with one hand in the air to keep my camera dry I slithered along the ground. This was such a stupid (and really hurtful) scene.

// summa summarum auf Deutsch: Ich liebe meine Familie mit allem was dazugehört, Tanten, Onkel, Cousins und Cousinen. Und wer bayrisch versteht hört sich einfach folgendes Lied darunter an.

Hans Söllner - Für meine Buam

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:09:00 +0200

Hans Söllner - Für meine Buam

At Rosenheimer Herbstfest (pre-Oktoberfest)I don’t really...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:49:09 +0200

At Rosenheimer Herbstfest (pre-Oktoberfest)

I don’t really like Volksfest or Oktoberfest.
I don’t like the beer-tourists and the beer-natives. And especially I don’t like them drunk. I don’t like bench standing and bellowing to the most stupidest songs on earth.
I don’t like the heat in the tents and the untraditional fashion dirndl dresses.

But what I like are the balloons, the carrousels, the smell of fresh roasted almonds.
I like the fact that you meet people there you haven’t seen for many months/years.
And I like the food and a sip of a cold Bavarian beer outside of the tents in their Biergarten.

That’s the way I like my Herbstfest.

And of course I don’t like the fact: Herbst = Autumn

/Sumasumarum auf Deutsch: Stinkende gröllende betrunkene Bierzeltmeute: nein. Kettenkarussell, gebrannte Mandeln und Hendl im Biergarten: ja.

Herbstfest 2009

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:43:14 +0200

Herbstfest 2009

I love this photo Jety has taken of me.

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:22:00 +0200

I love this photo Jety has taken of me.

Saying goodbye to the last sunrays of my summer. I’ve...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:45:36 +0200

Saying goodbye to the last sunrays of my summer.

I’ve always hated the last day of summer break. I just always did.
As long as I can remember.

I already miss the 2009 goldenlightlensflaredust.

Testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed. All that...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:44:16 +0200

Testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed.

All that is left of my/this summer:

- fresh cut grass
- a shirt from new york
- new shoes
- a red book full of memories and thoughts
- mint green socks with little bears

China town. NYC. Polaroid Diptych.

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:15:07 +0200

China town. NYC.

Polaroid Diptych.

Chinatown Double exposure taken on a slide film with the holga....

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:46:48 +0200

Chinatown

Double exposure taken on a slide film with the holga. Cross-processed, colour corrected and cropped. Taken in Chinatown NYC.

It’s a fact.We are remarkably cool guys.

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:51:14 +0200

It’s a fact.

We are remarkably cool guys.

Bike & NYPD I am so jetlagged so I spent the night with...

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:49:04 +0200

Bike & NYPD

I am so jetlagged so I spent the night with scanning some films.

//And I’m a little bit sad ‘cos my summer vaction is over in a few days.