Oh la la!

NUNU having a bath

This is NUNU, the alien/lebkuchenmännchen- crossbreed. I made him as a companion for little Falk. Nunu needed some time off because Falk keeps him very busy. His mum prepared a nice wellness treat and now he's fresh again and prepared for all the more hugs and kisses!

THis is Francis Alÿs

www.francisalys.com

"Du kannst dir im Atelier Wunder welche Fantasien ausmalen, dann gehst du herunter, um Zigaretten zu kaufen und siehst auf der Straße drei Dinge, die sofort alles in Frage stellen, was du fünf Minuten vorher in Poesie-Bändchen gelesen hast".

I always thought I should see Francis Alÿs in Mexico City, but then I heard that he moved away. google says that he's still there - Francis, can I come and visit? Are you lighthearted?

STAMPING DIE MOLD

Some molds for a little product to be born soon. Why bother finishing the design when the tools are already so beautiful?

42 ST. Bernards, or how to fill a forest with panting

ENGELBERT KREMSER

What a futuristic and classy architect! 

Apparently he did a few buildings in Berlin and it's probably worth checking if some of them are still existing - a to do for the spring time list. However I wonder if I would like his style if he was a contemporary architect. www.engelbertkremser.de

Europa Center. Fotomontage

Fotomontage, S-Bahn Halensee. Brückenhaus

Gewächshäuser, Dahlem

Pflanzenschutzamt Britz #1

#2

#3

Kinderspielhaus, Wittenau, #1

#2

Café am SEe, Britz, #1

#2

SANSHIRO SUGATA

One of the first Akira Kurosawa films - from 1943.
Foto from a scene where he uses a shoe to display time.
Sticking to the real old and good stuff  rather than to a made up Hollywood "Artist"
(theartist-derfilm.de)

J A P A N #1

NORMTEILE

JAMES GALLAGHER

www.gallagherstudio.net
www.jamesgallagher.blogspot.com

The collages of James Gallagher make me understand how strange humans are indeed. Adorable freaks.

David OReilly - Please Say Something

 

How sad and touching this little video is! Lost in concrete, unspirited and true. 

Towanda - free yourselves, little Mikys!

EINBLATTKALENDER - Suchbild von Nadine

Finally winter in the city - doesn't look like a Breugel though

STANDARD TIME - DATENSTRUDEL

The great 24h video is finally available on DVD
Would be a perfect app for ipads -anyone willing to do the job?

70 workers built a wooden "digital" time display in real time: a work that involves 1611 changes within 24 hour period.
Standard Time is an artwork of Mark Formanek, realized by Datenstrudel.
www.standard-time.com

QUBIQUE "Next Generation Tradeshow"

I've just been to Berlin's new Design Fair at Tempelhof Airport:
www.qubique.com
As expected - not very inspiring. I didn't find much that I liked. Anyways, here is an exceptionally nice idea of upcycling: Old, persian rugs, re-dyed.

mike meiré - day in day out

Simple, difficult, nice.
www.meireundmeire.de
I like his/their work a lot - my favourite ist still THE FARM PROJECT for Dornbracht.
http://www.meireundmeire.de/projects/project/the_farm_projectmilano/
I'd live there!

EDELSTEIN MUSEUM IDAR-OBERSTEIN

THE GEMSTONE MUSEUM; AN iNSPIRING VISIT: i DIDNT BRING MY CAMERA; BUT HERE ARE SOME SIMILAR IMPRESSIONS: THIS STUFF IS NOT at all ONLY ESOTERIC!

P R E V I E W: einblattkalender 2012

**The new 2012s are printed and on the online/in the stores in the next few days
I've already heard some interesting assumptions and interpretations:

The green logo looks like:
1. The cross section of a brain
2. A walnut
3. Grapes
4. Oak-leaf
5. A hanged Jesus
...and the embossed stamp a converted, ancient olympic medal

True is that we have fragmented card game symbols this year.
And it's our fourth issue - time flyes!

VIOLET - Meg Stuart | Damaged Goods

© Photos: Chris Van der Burght

Costume Assistance for VIOLET - from shamanism to constructivism and finally ending up with extremely reduced streetwear. The performance is a must-see -- abstract, energetic, intense!

Check tour dates on: www.damagedgoods.be

concept & choreography Meg Stuart  | created with and performed by Alexander Baczynski-Jenkins, Varinia Canto Vila, Adam Linder, Kotomi Nishiwaki, Roger Sala Reyner  |  live music Brendan Dougherty  |  dramaturgy Myriam Van Imschoot  |  scenography Janina Audick  |  light design Jan Maertens  |  costumes Nina Kroschinske

A selection of reviews:
www.nachtkritik.de
www.contemporaryperformance.com
www.dancebloggers.com
www.utopiaparkway.wordpress.com
www.dradio.de

Beauty Remote

50 ct on the fleamarket - totally useless, perfectly designed. A new object for my inspiration wall.

* new einblatt-colours 2012

Nadine's colour-instructions
for the new einblattkalender edition 2012 -
and can someone please tell me how to get
rid of the blurry grey frames around the pics?
They are ugly!

Pink

and hereby I officially promise to NOT post anything that's pink next time - believe me, it just happened somehow!!

TREMOR COSTUMES

Shaking, swinging, twitching, falling… What differentiates these modalities of movement? What constitutes their affect on our perception?  

Designing and sewing costumes for a dance-performance was very challenging for me as I am a classic product designer. But with these highly motivated and emotionally close people everything is possible! After weeks of experimenting we finally decided on a very reduced, clean cut style. It all makes sense now, but it was a massive process. To find the perfect socks it literally took days!

 

Dance Sebastian Matthias, Lisanne Goodhue, Isaac Spencer Sound Jassem Hindi 

 

Production of K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, coproduced by Dampfzentrale Bern. Best of 100 Grad Festival Berlin 2011  Fotos © Arne Schmitt

Sopiensaele - 100 Grad Festival Berlin 2011

Lisanne and Isaac - Her socks "expired" in this performance.

A hard job to construct patterns that are -- comfortable, danceable, meeting the concept.

Version 2 of the pink dress -  #1 died in the washing machine.

Sebastian - the choreographer and dancer - in Italian leather pants and hand-sewn shirt.

Tub-scribble -+*-

Late Season's Greetings

A peony from the garden - as big as a baby's head

Daniel Josefsohn

www.danieljosefsohn.com

Coffee and Marcel

Segments of a 1:1 Coffee-machine model and a chair I worked on for Marcel Wanders www.marcelwanders.com

HAve a nice day - or two

The colours, OH the colours!

Costumes

The first costume I ever created (together with a group of product designers and a ceramic designer): A chemically decomposed coat and cracked mudd-makeup styling. Still waiting for the photos of a recent costume project...

Gobelin - 1921

by Max Peiffer Watenphul (what a name!), a Bauhaus treasure. I think we need to go back to wall-mounted rugs and fabrics.

CONSTANTLY-CHANGING-DESK-WALL-COLLAGE

Zahnparade / Toothparade

Still my favourite - I shot it a few years ago. There are more on
www.youtube.com/user/somrer and there's even more to come...

Jennifer Rubell

Today I feel like visiting a Jennifer Rubell installation. Preferably the "Padded Cell" www.jenniferrubell.com Too bad that none is in town (as far as I know).

nana's poem

Fierce and beautiful. I'm so proud that she wrote it for me!

Shop concept for More&More

Material- and style samples/sketches for a More&More showroom with Werner Aisslinger http://www.aisslinger.de . In the end it became much more commercial. Sometimes reality bites

Green Design Project

Thoughts about a different approach to sharing space with greens