500 Kate Bushes

It’s already 3 weeks ago but I still have a crazy smile on my red lips when I think back … „The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever“!!
Women, men and some children disguised themselves as Kate Bush (like she was in her very first video clip performing Wuthering Heights in 1978), meeting on a picnic at Berlin Tempelhofer Feld and … dancing like her! In a crowd, in a kind of flashmob. Mass experience. Wow, that was pure fun and a celebration of beautiful silliness as well as open admiration for an extreme beautiful and touching ever-green song and a cool and picturesque choreography!
Here’s the event on Facebook.

The Burrito Window

There’s a new spot in Berlin, a little burrito shop, yummy big portions, Burritos and Quesadillas for 4 €.
At Kottbusser Damm which is a very ugly but also very lovely and lively street, I’ve lived there around the corner for so many years … I still like it. Go there and munch! It’s number 8 I think, close to U-Bahn station Schönleinstrasse!

Analogue! Now!

One long week in Berlin: a festival all about analogue photography! AnalogueNow! An exhibition of great photo works and many many workshops. One of the workshops: mine! Developing black&white super 8 films in ecological stuff (such as Wurzelpeter bitter schnaps, coffee, flower tea …).
6 people, 5 hours, 4 film rolls, playing, filming, walking in the sun in Berlin-Lichtenberg’s beautiful and empty (industrial) streets.
And then: big surprise and fascination how it is possible that „simple“ non-poisonous things like tea made from local flowers and weed, brandy and coffee are so strong to develop a film into a b&w negative with great grey nuances, strong contrasty blacks and whites.
Yes!
Let’s do it again! More workshops soon to come …

Sink

I will have a darkroom finally. A real darkroom, part of an atelier of a friend’s. Shared with my brother, the photographer. More films, more analog experiments, more „real“ photos, more playing with matter, juices and chemicals, light, friends. Yeah!