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Recently I was invited to give a 3 day workshop on super 8 and wabisabi inspired easy film making plus hand processing in Dresden! The place is called Werk.Stadt.Laden. (something like city working station atelier), a self made artist run alternative hipiesque sweet place which I can absolutely recommand (they also offer knitting meetings, silkscreen not only for children, guerilla gardening, edit a neighborhood magazine and lots more inspiring stuff …).

3 days, 13 people, half my age (ohmygod) but what the fuck, there’s no big difference: passion and enthusiasm and joy for experimental filming know no age, ha!

(We used Kodak’s TriX material and developed it in Adonal. What came out was black and white negative film. Extremely beautiful and a wide range of greys! Having it digitized these days and reversed to positive. Link to films: later! Or check out my wabisabi workshob website! But I’m a bit behind schedule ….)

This morning at Ankerklause having breakfast with my Swiss friends, yummy coffee and awakening Champagne … watching busy birds outside.

Oh how I long for spring!

Ein kleiner Einer!

A little reminder for all who live in or close to Dresden:I’m giving a wabisabi worksop in Dresden @ Schmalfilmtage / Small Format Film Festival Friday and Saturday January 27 and 28!

It’s all about the magic of Super 8 and colour negative processing and it’s limited to 7 persons – only 3 signed in until today …. more info here!
And here in German; here in english!

… speak for themselves!!!

Here’s the text again …

We were told (thank you Dayna!) there‘s a secret magic hidden cantina in the heart of Kreuzberg in a street where nobody goes – Lobeckstrasse, close to the Prinzenbad, not far from tourist overcrowded Oranienstrasse.

We found the yummiest tacos in town! Hot and medium! Go perfect with Astra beer and good white wine!

In winter from Wednesday to Friday only, 6 pm to midnight in der Kantine vom Aqua Carré, Lobeckstr. 30 – 35, 2. Hof, Aufgang B, hard to find.
In spring and summer they have a taco stand in a van outside in the parking lot, same address!

www.vatos-tacos.com + www.facebook.com/vatostacosforever

Put me in your restaurant!

Click here for a funky New Year film 😉

Heehee, I noticed they sell marijuana folders at my local post office!

Pedaling along black city streets with my bike, winter begins, it’s quite cold in Berlin now and gets dark so early!

I find a single twig lying in the middle of a bike lane, I stop, I take a photo and I think: beauty lies everywhere!

I highly recommend a special programme on this year’s Berlin Interfilm Festival: Bike Shorts!
One more chance to see it: this coming Sunday at 5 pm at Passage Kino!
A freaky lovely funky mixed bunch of mostly very short films about metaphysical miracle bikes, speedy dwarves, brilliantly bikedancing Scots … durchgeknallte Newyorkers and lots more. Go!

Ehm .. the fourth foto is me holding the yummiest Schawarma ever … get it for only 3 Euros at Imren, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Boppstrasse 4!
I feel the Schawarma meat has a slight taste of cinnamon. Mmmh!

Richtung Mond!

Direction Moon!

(seen in Kassel)

Recently I found a funny installation here (close to Lausitzer Platz, the church, for those who want to know): someone wrapped benches with plastic wrap …
I just had to jump and check out if it’s a trampoline … but it’s not 🙁

… one more recommendation for those who read my post from a few days ago carefully … go to the Gouter and enjoy the special breakfast for two (if possible: in love) for 9,50 € called “En Amoureux“ …. mmmh …. and enjoy the last warm magic sunny days of this year!!

Zweiglein auf dem Grill
kleine Wurst liegt in der Glut
Sommer ist vorbei

Twigs on BBQ
Little sausage underneath
Summer has ended

I like it when strong tattooed pierced French men come to my city and open a café with the softest sweetest cakes and tartes and best tea and coffee and service!

Go to Goutez in Reichenberger Str. 143 and enjoy! Hmmm, the link is weird, but maybe they work on it!

My tea was called love and tasted juicy and spicy –– high recommendation!! Kusmi tea directly from Paris! Kiss me later 😉 (original recipes by Pavel Kousmichoff! Who ever that guy is …)

It’s a geocaching code … some readers know that I like to go on a cache trip with brother and nephew!

This time it was really spooky in a way to enter the lost ruins of Prora (on the isle of Rügen) – the gigantic Nazi holiday (haha) complex at the Baltic Sea. Standing in front of the buildings you could still feel negative dark megalomaniac sick vibes, really … bursting into wacky laughter at that stupid Hitler face No entrance sign … and at the same time being totally aware of that dreadful slaughterous killer regime … oh my, and we wanted to have fun exploring the ruins!

And yes we had! Loving team contra killer history, ha!

They’re going to build some nice hotel apartments inside the colossus pretty soon, so if you want to stray around, be quick, it’ll be over soon!

Last two photos shot by my brother www.berndbrundert.de!

Summer’s back!
 Oh won’t you staahaahaaayyyy just a little bit longer!!!

Hey Berlin summer, it was a pleasure to be part of you, to be tanned and stormed and wiped and tossed around in your uncertain motion! Come again soon! I’m your lover!

Admiral Bridge Sundown

I just scanned a bunch of old super 8 stills … (find them on my www.24stelsekunde.de) and I just have to say how I love that orange dog picture: this is Pelle the dog (†) who appears in my beetle film …
So SWEET!
(I developed the film with old expired chemicals and was very lucky to get those colors with partly solarization!!)

New athletic discipline: broom surfing 😉

Antje Øklesund is a cool venue. Antje Øklesund is a cool woman.
Berlin is a cool city that hosts cool bands. No, not cool >> heartwarming. Summerkeeping.

Tonight there was a secret concert called „Quixote back in Berlin with Zulu Pearls and Heidi Heidelberg“ – Heidi H is American with a giant voice and a hippiesk middle parting. One woman one guitar, how hard is it to be one of 6474837 singer songwriter women, to be individual? I don’t know, but her voice is thrilling and I liked her 7 songs especially the one about her lover telling her too often that he loves her … (Me: how poor in words, how great in music!) and >>> her version of Heard It Through The Grapevine is divine.

Next: nice pop guys called Zulu Pearls, summer ice cream music … and the sound (guy) of Antje is just fantastic.

Quixote is a Berlin / London based band that I heard before (they are part of Khanis Bands On Boats project) and I must say they definitely hide 3 or 4 fat smash hits in their miracle box — The Big Bad Man is the devil — and it smashed me 64748 years back when I was a tiny girl, working on a production line for Miele Waschautomaten (washing machines and dryers) in Gütersloh — 6 months heavy work and all we had was a little radio and I fought hard for BFBS because they broadcasted the finest music (the mighty John Peel for example who changed my life to good) — I’ll never forget the day when they played This Charming Man by the Smiths for the very first time, it just jumped on me like a little red demon and threw me down breathlessly … same with the Big Bad Man … good luck Quixote! Good luck Antje!

And by the way ….. wasn’t that one of the most gigantic songs ever: What Difference Does It Make?? (helped me survive my fucking youth @ countryside)

Some graffiti become a mirrored mouse!

Berlin-Kreuzberg’s Dresdener Strasse has a dead end where tourists never go: quiet and a bit lost …
go there and find a new peaceful yummy Vienna café called Ganz Wien run by a real Vienna lady who stranded in Berlin 8 years ago.
It is a lovely place with great coffees and all kinds of snacks, breakfast and more.
I had a Schmankerl? Stöberl? … can’t really remember but it was just right for my mini hunger: ham tarte with pickled cucumber and little onions for only 3.50 €.

I just can’t wait, I have to tell the world:
The English version of my website is (almost) finished! Working on the translation every day … come by and say hello!
www.24stelsekunde.de

Yes!
Success!
I processed the almost unprocessable Kodachrome K40 super 8 film! Black&white negative.
Color processing is impossible (secret 13 baths recipe), Kodak stopped processing a long time ago and Dwaynes, the last lab in the world, stopped end last year.
So now, everybody who still has one of the legendary material in their fridge: do it yourself!
Better b&w negative than nothing!