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A new page with all my photography:


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oh, and this is all you need...

...if considering to 'beautify' the streets of your own town.

kinda simple, it seems...

taken from 'London Street Art Tours', Gallery

street art london

 I Know this great little place in London, the 'mother' of I know this great little place in Frankfurt have taken part in a guided street art tour through London. Watch here for their review on the london street art tour. I has been offered by a company called Street Art London, who do walking tours every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and a bike tour on Sunday. This is what I will definitely do when I'm in London next!

Here are a couple of pictures of street art found in London:

taken from 'I know this great little place in London'

Boxi (Berlin-based)

Roa

World War Won

Swoon

Stik

Christiaan Nagel

James Cochran

Phlegm - pictures taken from 'Street Art London Tours' Gallery

I know this great little place in Frankfurt is LIVE and running

So, it took waaaaay longer than expected, but finally 'I know this great little place in Frankfurt' is up and running on facebook. I have posted some of the nicest little places and events that I could think of for the moment, and I hope that they won't stay single on that page for very long but instead get many many new siblings. Current question is what sushi restaurants / good places to go for sushi in Frankfurt people can recommend. So if you know a good place for that kind of food, I encourage you to go there and leave your comment. Ah, wait, the most important thing is still missing - the address. Here it is.

long time no see

Hi everybody!
It's been a long time since anything last happened here. Many things to do. But also many things that I have experienced and will now share over the next couple of days, weeks...

One is, I have been to a truely wonderful place in the Northern part of Germany, called 'Fischland', and to the 'Darß'. Wonderful landscape, wonderful sea, wonderful everything. I have taken pictures there, a couple of which I would like to share here.

all pictures taken by me

And guess what: I even offer a couple of them for purchase in print online! If you want, klick here to watch and comment on them or even rate some. I'd very much appreciate that!





Have been to several other locations lately as well and took shots there, so expect more to come here once I have been able to work on the 'raw material'

beauty is in the eye of the beholder no 2

'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', a line i have used in the blog entry below about the poem, actually is a quote from a song by dan le sac vs. scroobious pip, called 'tommy c'. it has been combined in this video with footage of tommy cooper, who the song is about. check them out on their myspace-page, VERY recommendable! and listen closely to their lyrics when you do.

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

picture taken by me

Here is a poem that a friend of mine has written recently. It is very dark, and even though I am in favour of emphasizing the wonderful-ness and beauty of life I find this poem beautiful exactly because of its darkness. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; every moment, even the dark ones, can give you something to make out of.

Written by MJ:

Gejagt von der Traurigkeit, die ganze Welten auflösen kann.
Ist es da noch möglich zu entkommen, wenn man ihren kalten Atem im Nacken spürt.
Jene Traurigkeit verschlingt jeden Wunsch nach Leben und spuckt dafür etwas Dunkles aus.
Der Zweifel, den man so tapfer versucht hat zu überlisten, gewinnt langsam an Raum.
Die Tage werden trüber, Licht wird zu Schatten und die Dunkelheit unumgänglich.
Träume versinken, der Boden unter Ihnen verwandelt sich zu Treibsand. Und jeden Tag bleibt weniger von ihnen übrig. Bis sie ganz versunken sind. Am Ende bleibt die stärkste Kraft.
Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt. Sie verliert an Farben bis sie sich ganz auflöst.
Am Ende bleibt nur noch die Ahnung von dem was einmal da war, wenn der letzte Funken Licht
wie ein Stern verglüht.


 

home art vol 2

I have done some artwork to a picture frame into which you can stick photos in between its strips. it is the same style as the love-canvas i have shared here earlier; several kinds of material are the same as well. i gave it to someone as a present. as you might recognize one of the photos i have put on it is from my photo collection i have posted here some time ago.

 

 

all pictures taken by me

an inspirational collage-painting on canvas I have done. four parts supposed to be hung up each with a small distance from the others but still creating an entity.

some detail:

as i have taken a liking to patterns and surfaces i have experimented with different kinds of materials such as stencils, beads, stickers, brags, buttons, wood, rock, metal, glas, a tube of paint, ribbons, different kinds of paper, cork, etc., and used acrylic paint.

all pictures taken by me

The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Mark Mineart: an Esoc Theatre and FEST production - review from echo-online.de translated into English

I had the pleasure of watching what I find is probably one of the best plays that have ever been written on the  stage of the International Theatre Frankfurt last weekend, and I must say it exceeded my expectations! 'The Importance of Being Earnest', directed by Mark Mineart, is now being performed in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden as well and I strongly recommend it to anyone who can still get tickets! 

There has been a review of one of the Darmstadt shows on echo-online.de which I felt obliged to translate into English and post here so that a wider range of people can find out about the show as it is itself performed in the one language every Oscar Wilde play should be performed in due to the remarkable beauty of its language: English.

taken from Echo online, 12th February 2011   

translated into English by me

Attitude, or countenance, is the main thing

Comedy: two theatre groups perform Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at Hoffart in Darmstadt.

Witty hedonists: Mike Marklove (left) as Jack Worthing, Harald Schoppe as Algernon Moncrieff. 

Picture taken by Günther Jockel

Dates

The performance this Saturday (12^th) at the Hoffart-Theater is already sold out. The play will be performed coming Friday and Saturday (Feb 18 and 19) at the Amelia Earhart Playhouse Wiesbaden, Konrad-Adenauer-Ring 39, though. Performance times are 7:30 p.m.on both days; the box office can be reached under 0611 8162473. The next production of the Esoc Theatre Group will be shown at the Hoffart-Theater in May: ‘Die Physiker’ by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Being an Irishman, Oscar Wilde observed England from an Irish perspective in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, a British member of the audience explains in bright English accent during one of the intervals of Thursday’s sold out performance at the Hoffart-Theater. The Esoc Theatre Group and the Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre are performing what is probably Wilde’s most known comedy as a co-production in English language. And even as the audience member’s statement might sound a bit contemptible she cannot help smiling to herself about all the moments in which Wilde holds the mirror up to the English society of the Victorian Age. For the German member of the audience, these moments seem to confirm flawless clichés, for example when the butler Lane’s first action on stage consists of pushing the silver tea set into the correct position in an almost affectionate manner. Lane himself seems to be a blueprint of the British servant: displaying a deadpan expression, a humble attitude, and entirely under control. He is sure to get loud laughter. His employer, Algernon Moncrieff (Harald Schoppe) is a man-about-town. In order to flee the burden of being a gentleman he has invented the ailing Bunbury as his alter ego. His pal Jack Worthing (Mike Marklove) has created a second existence for himself as well in order to turn his back on country life: in town he visits his brother Earnest who he impersonates there. When Algernon visits the country one day to play a joke on Jack the roleplay is discovered.

Directed by Mark Mineart, the ensemble succeeds very well in portraying the often satirically trenchant behaviour and character patterns of the English society on the threshold to the 20^th century.  The actors relish in their characters’ shallow conversation and accompany their cup of tea with faces grinning like a Cheshire Cat. And when everyone’s true colours are shown it is vital to keep countenance and drink tea – even though it has been drowned in sugar.

A real stunner is the performance of Bobbie Lording-Pfanner as Lady Augusta Bracknell. A British Grand Dame, she radiates a wonderfully accentuated aristocratic arrogance. When talking she cranes upwards with rapt attention and follows her words narcissistically. In that moment, every single muscle in her face seems to be active: her lips form a smugly curve, her eyebrows are pulled upwards. Even Joan Collins as Denver-minx Alexis couldn’t be any more arrogant and trenchant even though her acting (Joan Collins’s; note by translator) was a lot worse.

The only member of the Esoc-Theatre in the ensemble is Melanie Zander as Miss Prism. She wears an elegantly flowing robe with implied corsage, as do all other actresses. A gentle and subtle head of the household, she stays inconspicuous at first but keeps a secret about Algernon and Jack, the disclosure of which will cause amazement.

frankfurt's got art in the streets

 I was on a small shooting tour yesterday (shooting pictures, no casualties involved), trying to discover what my neighbourhood looks like from a closer perspective, and i found a couple of interesting street art samples, whether they are graffitti or stickers or posters or of other kind. to some of the pictures i've done some editing so have included myself in them as well.

it always depends on how you look at things...

 

                                   

all pictures taken by me