Dagies Blog

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!

Just around my corner! So many bars, so many galleries, so much going on … here’s a one day exhibition at The Forgotten Bar in Boppstrasse 5 in Berlin-Kreuzberg: paintings, drawings and photos by Peter Hock and Helga Geng, friends and neighbours. Moling through the manhigh magic snow, planets, bubbles and space themes in my mind, thinking about „Snow Crash“ and universe hopping … and then watching pictures … drinking red wine, talking with coincidence watchers. I love that. Be inspired!

Ohhh so pathetic, there’s a mistletoe hanging in subway station Schönleinstrasse … a poor angel must have had pity with us freezing winter travelers and somehow managed to fix it onto the ceiling above the stairs: you look up, grin and feel a bit kissed. Just an enourmously mingily tiny little bit! Smack!

A little late … but here come some photos from my film stills exhibition!

I’m still somehow enchanted … and want to thank you all for ploughing your paths through the snow and coming! Especially of course my brother and my nephew who helped me so much!
All in all we broke 2 corkscrews, had hours of crazy and intelligent conversation, I sold 3 pictures (or not … they said they wanted but I haven’t heard from them until now …), showed some original super 8 films (which the stills were taken from) and it felt like gathering around a bonfire … in a winter igloo …

I wanna do it again!!!

[if you want to know more about my work, go visit www.24stelsekunde.de! Only in German language, sorry, English version coming soon!]

All photos © me / www.berndbrundert.de 😉

whatever that means …

Siberia! Ice flowers! Glimmering snow! From one day to another Berlin has totally changed, all is covered in snow and all is … slow.

Yesterday there was a great and warm and loud event at the Schokoladen: Khani showed her 2 Bands-On-Boats-Trailer and then: 2 bands: awesome Rubber Hair and punkfunky Sudaca Power. Hearts glowing here and there, wine flowing, snowballs throwing 😉

Aaaaand: tomorrow’s the day: my exhibition!
Spent half of the day hanging pictures, well, my brother actually did and I was jumping around …

Come and see!

Atelier Detel Aurand
Kreuzbergstr. 37/38
Berlin-Kreuzberg
(U-Bahn Yorckstraße)

Weird how sensations can be completely different! For days I’ve noticed a strange smell in my house’s stairway. I detected: shoes. Feet. Dusty shoe closet. Not knowing where it comes from.
A friend came to see me and I asked her to tell me spontaneously what she thought it would smell like there. She said within a second: „Basmati rice“.
Since then I try to figure out the similarity between both worlds. Good training anyway. The commonness of totally unfitting things / realities.

It’s Sunday again and we aaaall go to the best flea market in town, the Mauerpark-Flohmarkt!
Tourists, real Berliners, aliens, art, shit, kitsch, cooool old stuff, fancy clothes, warm Wintermützen, best international food, crispy Bratwurst, speedy coffee – all mingles. Just today I want to hug and kiss my city.
See a smile coming up —> mauerparksmile.mov

Like so many beautiful times before my little family (today: brother, nephew, friend) and me went out in the woods, in the Brandenburg Ex-GDR, into the golden October fluffy air, exploring another geocaching site.
Crazy.
The Teupitz hospital. A lunatic asylum. With a long history: A psychiatry hospital, a city in a bubble, built 100 years ago and over the years serving as military hospital in the first WW and during Nazi time connected to their euthanasia murder program killing thousands of mentally and physically disabled patients …
From 1945 Russian military hospital.
Now ghost town!
Weird feeling … strolling around, exploring buildings, caves, a silent place, a lost place, finding relicts like Russian newspapers, mineral water bottles from the Georgian Republic, dossiers, hand written records, a theater with a rotten stage, a disco with wacky painted wallpapers ROCK IN ROCK – I mean why the hell do communists paint capitalistic disco symbols like ROCK and NY SKYLINE and DISCO and SNEAKERS onto their little club wall … many miracles and horror breezes mingle and still linger. October sun came rushing in, beaming us into a calmly breathing eyes-wide-open mood.

The Rock in Rock Band from left to right: Brother Bernd, me, Nephew David, Friend Kirstin!
Foto © www.berndbrundert.de best photobrother of the world!

Lately I walked along a street, a cemetery, high walls, old bricks … and I realized someone has vomited on a high kind of platform brick, eye height … no, rather forehead height …
Did he / she jump in the second when it … came?
Life is full of miracles and riddles!
And beautiful uncleaned windows like mine:

There’s a new fascinating hidden place in Kreuzberg (Ex PLUS Supermarket!) – called Eckstück – which is a Pizzeria upstairs and a concert cave downstairs.
Tonight: Rubber Hair, a weird young crazy fresh skilled band that at first sound glimpse you think: Eighties! Then: What a voice! Then: Interesting combination. Then: each of them is an instrument master. Then: What a VOICE! Then: good luck for your hopefully bright future! Then: I like you and want to see you again and wear something different again! Then: Thank you angels that I live in Berlin and not in Wanne-Eickel! Then: Welcome new band member attracting bunches of skinny (< – female) Russian people! Male Russians are less skinny. Then: The white wine was good and why does that guy look like Napoleon? Then: Swing on Carolin. Then: Summer comes surely back.

Here’s a small film clip (better link to better quality coming soon) >>> rubberhair1111.MOV

Weird … I’m starting to feel a bit melancholic …. this is definitely the last day of summer and the last day of my Crete holiday … and to cheer up me and everybody else —> here’s a find-the-cat-picture! And the lovely place the Kafeneion again. Go there if you’re there. I’ll be back next year for sure.

Last night I slept open air on the terrace … a giant sky, a cheesy moon and some stars above me. No wind, some noises like goose bells (very soft) and neighbors down the valley laughing (even softer).
Mmmmmmh! I’m on holiday, really!!

I can’t believe how lucky I am. I’m living in a postcard: I started the day with a nice 1 hour hike down to the beach through a rocky valley, a smelly valley, hot herbs, dusty heat … and then: the beach! Almost empty … a sandwich emerged in my hands … later … I hiked the long road up to Anidri, my good companion, a bottle of water … what more can I say, maybe that the Anidri Kafeneion is the best (do they have a website? Have to check that later) and I had the glorious three: fresh orange juice, a cold beer and Dakos (hard spicey bread with tomato and goat cheese).
Thanks to Connie and Herbert for the invitation 🙂

The pool kissing the ocean and the sky = everything’s purely good.

This is only funny for German sign lovers: Elende Kinder (miserable kids)! Heehee 😉

Found it on my Baltic Sea 3 days holiday (seeing my parents!) – a journey through strong winds and blackberries and salty ocean and love signs on benches and … my mother making blackberry liqueur with wild blackberries and vodka and cinnamon and sugar … harvest: Xmas!

I found a Flügelbügel (a winged coat-hanger, not rhyming …) Graffiti in my neighbourhood! I don’t know why but it made me smile. So senseless except for the rhyme. Sometimes it’s nothing more than a rhyme that gives meaning to some tiny something.
And then tonight there’s on of the last summer crickets sitting in my tree in front of my window singing loudly, no … of course not singing, just rubbing his legs to attract a late cricket lady.
One of the last summer days, me, late rhyming girl with a lately harvested red summer wine in my hand. Cheers!
Here’s the cricket boy >>> dagiescrickets.mp3