Dagies Blog

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!

Life is really kind of sweet
when you find chocolate in the street!

Some days ago I had a firefly sitting on my hand! So light I couldn’t feel its weight at all! It was glowing, pulsating like breathing, simply beautiful like summer, midnight stars, love poetry, smiling from ear to ear, glowing belly!

Photo © Jochen

[chewing gum machine ….]

If you miss a chewing gum machine on your neighbourhood walls like they used to be there in your childhood days …. there’s always an artist around who paints your dream!!

LOCALIZE Das Heimatfestival 2011 – A festival of City, Art, Culture in Potsdam, 4th year, my first time of participation – I was invited with my film Turn Baby Turn to be part of a short film program.
Films about (feeling, being, missing, constructing, exploring) HOME, experimental, political, private … a very creative mixture of 10 works!

What a lovely event! Happy audience, well organized enthusiastic nice and cool organizers – everything inside and in front of legendary Potsdam Film Museum!
I had a great evening and I found two new friends, filmmaker ladies Marie-Catherine and Lisa!
Plus … I won the Sonderpreis der Universität Potsdam (special mention!), connected with 100 Euro which I’m going to spend immediately and buy some fresh super 8 film cassettes.
Yeeeehaaaaaaa thank you!!!!!

While I was in Greece I tried to learn a little, tried to read the letters …
I learned that they have no B! And what do they do to fake a B? Use “MP”! Which comes pretty close, check it out, say Mpus instead of Bus. Say Mpampy instead of Baby …
Crazy, isn’t it?

Here’s a sign of a Restaurant … try to find “Club Sandwich”! [Λ is L / ∏ is P / ∑ is S / OY is like OO …] 😉

Nothing beats a breathsucking ocean view and an over-exposed muesli in the morning!

Anidri Beach rocks.
Unfortunately the Beach Kantina was closed this evening … but I found the most beautiful toilet painting for women and men there!

And I know now: the Greek flag consists of sky, sea, air!

This morning, bikeriding, I almost rolled over this little piece of cardbord, kratke and cipele and cabanica, and thought: so beautiful these words! Czech perhaps?
World of images, world of words, I love you!

Playing in the park, animating things and ourselves, havin fun with the Nizo camera and getting to know it while filming … that was day 1 of my 2 days workshop!!
It is always so interesting and full of energy to see how a group forms … only 2 days and we’re all having a community feeling like sitting in one boat … and creativity and joy multiply!

Yesterday I helped my friend Khani with some filming for her miraculous Bands On Boats project in the Schokoladen (a nice venue – chocolate shop is the name, music is inside) – hanging a super 8 camera from the ceiling and filming a little around (video) … focussed on the lovely band Quixote.
They really amazed me. Awesome talented guys from London, now living in Berlin for better vibes and surviving reasons I guess. The singer has a voice that melts icebergs. I look into my magic crystal ball and see a bright future for them!

After a very relaxed and beautiful and sunny inside outside vernissage of my film still exhibition yesterday I must say: I love this city, I love this summer, I love summer rain and shiny rainbows, I live beneath and feel somehow … protected. Hereby I swear: I will multiply, beam and share!

Here’s a little slideshow of the event >>> X

Don’t miss my exhibition, Berliners and visitors!
This coming Saturday from 1 pm!
Admire Barbies, have a sparkling wine and a coffee, talk to me and others, linger on the sidewalk – enjoy summer and pictures!!

At Screenshot, THE film digitizer shop in Berlin! (Sredzkistr. 24)

What a yummy word! Italian for treat. Lecker Imbiss in German!

There’s a tiny restaurant in my neighbourhood called Primo Maggio (May 1st) – I enjoyed a late Easter minimal breakfast with my brother (perfect for a medium hungry person: Colazione „Bella Ciao“ which is 1 butter-dripping croissant, 1 fantastic coffee, 1 glass of fresh orange juice for 4.50 €).

Mediterranean feeling inside and outside!

car&tulip photo www.berndbrundert.de – best photographer in town 😉

Sterben ist Scheisse, why the fuck do have friends to die?

This is for Fred who was my supporter and my friend in my super 8 universe for sooooo many years!

Left above picture: incredible blue sky in Berlin-Neukölln today, Fred’s memorial party tonight, hot sun, straight colours, clear vision, smiling neighbours, angels flights, blackbirds tweets ….. I need one more rosé … drink on / for love ………

First day out smoooothe summer wind on my skin, Rhabarbersaftschorle and Spezi and wheat beer mmmmmmmmh want more!

Seems like spring light is slowly flooding in … yeeeaaaah!!

My little family (nephew, brother) and me went on a trip to the outskirts of the city – on the hunt again for imaginary treasures and real lost places (see www.geocaching.com), a cool way to explore and find places and spaces you’d never go without your navi 😉

Nephew David forgot his camera at home so he asked me to take a photo of his spooky discovery: a spider on ice!

Paolo, me, and Lisa met in Rotterdam!
This is an intimate message for those who know! They are my American (super-8-) friends who run one of the most magical places on earth – the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles! Yeeha! What a wonderful time we had walking over shaky bridges (pre spring stormy weather!), filming, counting rabbits … sharing and renewing our friendship!

On my train ride back to Berlin I discovered some poetic words / decoration … don’t understand much but it made me smile thinking about coming back, confetti and returning summer feelings!

And this is a cool sandwich vending machine found at Rotterdam Centraal train station!

Recently I was in Dresden, beautiful city, overflowing river, funny train station called „Wild Man“ … I held a workshop there at one of my most favourite short film festivals called „Schmallfilmtage / Small format days“. Woke up, looked out of the window, rubbed my eyes: blue sheep!

Inspiration. Colors. Next Wabisabi workshop will be in Berlin, in May. Check out wabisabisuper8.com from time to time …

Connection of music and film. How I love it! My films can’t exist without music or rhythmic sound. When I listen to a tune and close my eyes the images come, whirl inside of me, begin a life of their own. Just can’t help it, they are always connected and kiss each other! Hey, romantic me! The snow just melted away and I can smell pre-spring coming!

Anyway … David Thomas, American clarinetist and soloist with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra hired me to create a film for one of his music pieces. Called „Arabesques“. And the images start to roll. And rock 😉 My home is my animation studio, I carry my Nizo camera with me when I go out , I’m a hunter and collector!

I saw this today in one of the ugliest corners of Berlin: the passage from Kottbusser Tor to Dresdener Strasse, always marked with different piss odor marks.
Made me smile, though 🙂

The more I look at that … no … into that picture, I see those swans flying through the universe! Sucked into a black hole! Spit out by a swanhater! Bullshit, they were just lazily floating on the Berlin Landwehrkanal when I passed the bridge. Snow pouring from the deep black heavens.

Happy Xmas and love for you all!

I found this today in my street!