There’s a lost little teddybear at Hermannplatz, Berlin!!
Kategorie: Hier kommt alles rein!
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‘ …
Hello New Darkroom!
Well … I moved my darkroom into my bathroom again like it was 2 years ago. Now tidier. It feels good. My first Kodachrome (developed in Rodinal) is hanging to dry and I think I’ll have a glass of red wine and celebrate!
Bye Bye Darkroom Atelier
2 years! 2 years of silence and happiness and crazy workshops and concentrated work and meeting people sometimes and growing flowers and chilis on the terrace and films films films. And photos. And pinhole photos.
Now my darkroom moves into my bathroom. Much smaller. But still full of inspiration!
The Other Half
Women‘s Day. We‘re going to get the other half. And a little bit more. For all the brutal shit.
Blooming Bus
Some of the Berlin busses wear flowers now!
Tolleranzen
My favourite sticker! Mehr tolle Ranzen! More tolerance! More fancy satchels!
New Pizza On The Block
We have waited a long time. Years. The Casolare is the big boss and I used to say: there is nothing better.
But.
Now there is.
Just opposite. Try it!
I See Double
… that was the name of my recent workshop. Filming with double super 8 cameras! And even more adventurous: creating double exposures!
We used fresh Czech FOMA films and old ORWOs.
Developed in Caffenol, classical poisonous black & white reversal stuff like potassium permanganate & sulfuric acid and a little less toxic and more experimental: peroxide and acetic acid. Yummy stuff and beautiful results!!!
Mothersocks
Mothersocks are joyful, colourful, made with love and best wool. They keep me alive all winter long. Thank you Mama (das wollte ich schon immer mal bloggen ;-))
Friends In My Darkroom #9
This is Črt from Praha/Prag! A crazy film maker and camera collector … I asked him what his name means, the only name in the world without vowels! (pronounce it like “Chirt”) … and he said: it means nothing where he comes from – Slovenia – but in Czech where he lives now it means “Devil”. Hoooaah!! 😉
Silent Tulips
Official opening of my friends’ gigantic amazing venue called Silent Green (it used to be a crematorium) … I found a tiny island of tulips, talk, drinks and silence in the middle of a funky party.
I Love My 2 Aunts
This is a very special lovesong for my 2 favourite aunts. Enjoy it on vimeo. The secret password is pelmeni. XXX
Ach du
2019 is here …
Friends In My Darkroom #8
This is Deborah and she says: “It all smells like black tea until the soda and vitamin c is put in and then it smells like henna!”
Ava‘s Socke
Little sweetness.
Friends In My Darkroom #7
De-Alexification
Just say Nein or No to Alexification.
Pizza Academy
Design Academy Berlin for drawing, photography, gaming and pizza sharing 😉
Don’t Look Now
Daphne du Maurier made me fall in love with Donald Sutherland.
One of the best films ever – Nicolas Roeg has just died ….
„Don’t look now“ … a film that I saw when I was in my teenage years that impressed me like hell … one of the best horror films ever … when the red caped dwarf turns around and reveils a spooky old face … aaaaah …. the second face … the blue eyed blind woman … the silent soft boatride through the canals of Venice … a film about premonition, time travel, a warning, an ending love … but more, it reminds me of one of my most loved novels by Daphne du Maurier: „Ein Tropfen Zeit“ in German, „The House on the Strand“ in English … if you ever get the chance to read it: do it! It is about a person travelling in time using a weird drug potion, making him go back into time, into addicting and most fascinating stories of murder, adultery, plague, betrayal in the 14th century … but only in his mind, not in his body … that’s why he finally mixes the two worlds more and more … walking on a train trail that is not real in his 14th century meadows …
There is scarcely a book in the world that dragged me more into a fantastic bubble like this one. Even Daphne says: „I got so hooked on the story I actually woke up one day with nausea and dizziness“.
This is Daphne du Maurier:
Kicherlotto / Chickpea Lotto
Making an installation for a new film called „Kicherlotto / Chickpea Lotto“!!
The peas are numbered from 1 to 49 – the German lotto needs 6 numbers – and they will germinate and sprout in only a few days. As soon as I see a little sprout coming out I will note the number and play lotto with the first 6!!
