Dagies LA-Blog

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The Spice Of Life

Lisa and me! Sisters in film and workshop …. we did one together today, processed TriX b&w film in hot and spicy ingredients like turmeric, black pepper and extra hot Mexican chili. The results are fantastic, super high contrast (thank you, bright Los Angeles sunlight!!). We spread enthusiasm! Love for analog, wabisabi and the small things that breathe beauty.
A big thank you goes out to: „Wunderbar Together: Germany and the US“, an initiative funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by Goethe Institut and supported by BDI The Voice of Germany Industry. …. for shipping me over. No, flying. By the way: the American Airlines meal is really good! Cheers!!

Be Nice!

My Filmshow at Echo Park Film Center

If you are in Los Angeles, come to my film show this coming Sunday!

The Super Funky Once In A Year Rummage Sale At The Echo Park Film Center

Good Morning, Los Angeles!

I Channel Youtube

I am beginning my one year sabbatical and I feel weird. I try to document myself. I try to capture my floating ideas. I try to exhibitzi. I try to set up a youtube channel.

Devil‘s Lake Vibes

I love my Teufelssee, my Devil‘s Lake. Situated in the West of Berlin, in Grunewald, quite small, but attractive for all overheated Berliners and tourists. We mingle. We are clothed or naked. We are hippies and hipsters, old, very old and medium. The vibe is very very relaxed and pleasant.

It’s a very old, glacial lake, rather deep, that is why it stays much cooler for longer than other lakes around – ideal when temperatures in the city rise above 30. Or 35.

I definitely adore it.

Joker

Funny … these days it seems that I find more and more weird things just lying there … does it have to do with the fact that I have set my antennas upright? That I have time? That I am off my daily job? My daily routine? I’m beginning to love it …

Lost Teddy

There’s a lost little teddybear at Hermannplatz, Berlin!!

Smoking Key Man

I found the very best locksmith in Berlin!
I have an over 100 years old door key which I wanted to have duplicated … impossible for almost everyone except for – tadaaaa – Walter Heise in Berlin-Neukölln, Emserstrasse 27. The real Walter doesn’t live anymore, but I like the guys inside, all smoking old men (the shop smells! I like it, gives me a feeling that they are really busy and don’t give a shit about non-smoking fashion), with funny phrases and jokes on their lips, and a gigantic wall of keys from which Smoking Man number one fished the right model in no time with a long fishing rod.

Pastagram

I am very very intrigued by a new method to create beautiful images using parts of plants and their inner phenols plus ecological developer aka washing soda and vitamin c! Read Karel’s blog please!
I invented something new: pastagram!
I soaked pasta pieces (Buchstabennudeln/letter noodles) in a developer soup and then placed them on super 8 stripes. In plain daylight!!
After a while I brushed them off and fixed the stripe. The result is not very amazing … looks like a leopard … but anyway … to be continued!!!!

Dreetzer See

… I love you!

Star Wars Clouds

When the clouds are coming in like Star Wars‘ credits you know … June is coming!!

Stockholm

Stockholm is sexy and smiling and pinhole camera and kanelbull-clichee and fog on the sea and bike lanes and I am learnig Swedish and my favourite words are glömt and nöttkött (jag äter inte nöttkött!) and varg and häst and katt.

Under The Cherry Tree

I placed my pinhole camera under a blooming cherry tree and let it expose 3 seconds long.

Pep Casolare

My favourite pizzeria Casolare has two puppets in the front window which look like Pep Ventura. Pep Ventura, who is it?

Pep Ventura was a Catalan musician. A poor boy who lived with his grandfather and played on handmade flutes. He spiced up the Cobla and the Sardana with new flutes and composed 550 songs.

I made a film (click here to watch it!) … inspired by Barcelona, my own personal craziness, Wiki information and music.

Photos © Bernd Brundert

Pinhole Prince

And here it is: the pinhole picture that I took yesterday. Freshly developed, scanned and inverted to positive!

The Blue And The Green

Finally! Finally summer has come to Berlin … and my favourite public pool has opened its gates. The Prinzenbad! Princes’ Pool! The blue of the water (15°, icecold, can you imagine? I went in!!) … the blue of the sky … the fresh juicy green of the newborn tree leaves! I am simply happy to be alive (and I took a pinhole picture with my Illy camera. Result: later. Must scan).

Friends In My Darkroom #10

25 years ago I lost my lover and 9 years ago I refound him. 2 years ago I got a darkroom and now I move it to another smaller planet. 7236576235 years ago there were mammoths, now there are less bees. I don’t like Bob Dylan but he sang right: The Times they are a-changin‘ …