Girls

Heard today : "When you're a teenager, the main issues are girls, so, no girls : no problem. I talk about my own experience, of course ...". I think this one is gay.

Nan Goldin, Berlin work

The American artist Nan Goldin is a leading exponent of ‘subjective photography’. Her own life forms the focus of her artistic work. Goldin has repeatedly spent extended periods in Berlin since the 1980s. In 1991 she was able to spend an entire year in Berlin as part of the DAAD artist programme. With around 100 photographs, the Berlinische Galerie is presenting a comprehensive insight into her work created in Berlin, whereby it is also drawing on previously unpublished material from the artist’s archive, which has never before been presented. The photographs were taken from 1984 to 2009 and presented at the berlinische Galerie. I remember I saw already an exhibition of this artist when I was living In Barcelona and was impressed by her work but as usual, she makes me sad. Good enough I was at the exhibition on Sunday because the weather was nice and we could enjoy our first ice cream in Eispirqten in Grunbergerstrasse where the tastes are amazing.

Headlights

They're telling me it won't be long
The door is shut
The suits are on
Too bright to be day
To hurt anyway
Still there's no view
No green, no blue
The headlights above
They don't know love
You smile to please
I try to care
You break my heart
you break my heart
I love you here
I love you here

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Cycle

When you drive your bicycle every day the same road, at the same time, you meet on the street the same people at the same place. It’s very funny but almost every day at the same place a guy passes me with his bicycle and compared to me, he drives fast. This morning, like every morning at the same time on the same road, while listening to the music to wake me up and watching the beautiful sun rising on the city, this guy slow down at my side and drives the same speed as mine, asks me to take off my headphones and straight away asks me if my bicycle is for sale ! I was so surprised by the question that I answered stupidly no, that I’d like to keep it, but after that, wondering, why someone would like to buy my bicycle. He said It’s a nice one (maybe …) and I could not even tell how much it costs. Let’s think about it.

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Wine testing

With all the wine I drink every week, the best present that my friend could make is a wine testing. They have done it last summer and because It is a Mydays voucher : It has a one year availability so I had the time to determine what kind of wine I wanted to taste. Of course one I don't know. It happened last friday. I had booked a Riesling testing because I like drinking white wine when I don't eat, meaning for the apéritif or when I go out. The red wine here in the bars is most of the time undrinkable so I said myself why not widening my taste as I always take the same or at the most what the bar has to offer. Appointment is made at 20:00 in the shop Eisenwein in Mitte. We are not the first ones (I invited my man), a couple of mid 50's people arrived earlier. Then we waited for the other guests to come, in total 9 people not included our host. The man knows what he's talking about. He said first of all that he does not want to fall asleep while he tells the story and the priority will be given to the opening of bottles. But we feel very quickly that It is his passion and It is not boring at all. It was planned an event of 2 hours for 7 wine bottles. We stayed one hour more and we had 9 bottles. We started with Champagne, he said It will open our taste. Then starts with a very low sugar wine until the extreem Spatlese. The term spätlese (pronounced SHPATE-lay-zuh) refers to the degree of ripeness at which the grapes are harvested. In the German system of ripeness classification, the grapes with the least amount of sugar are destined for kabinett wines. Then comes spätlese, and then the riper auslese, beerenauslese, trockenbeerenauslese and eiswein. I didn't like very much the first two. Maybe they were too fresh, meaning we have to wait to let the smell evaporate until you can taste the wine. The host does a very job entertaining us with questions and exercices about our taste. So out with dry Kabinett, Vulkangestein and Schiefer, from 2008 and 2009. The next two are my favorite : Riesling Traminer cuvée trocken 2009 and Groebe. The smell and the taste are very good and they go well together, meaning It does not hurt my nose like with the first one. Not too much sugar, tasty, and nice colour. We don't drink the glass, well at least not all of them, and there was aside water and bread to help you let the taste of the previous go away. We just throw the rest of the wine away. I just wonder what to do with it. I guess you can't drink it but I find nevertheless a shame to lose wine ! I didn't ask, my mistake. This is something I would recommend. This present was a very good idea and we had a great time thanks to the participants who enjoyed being there and the quality of the knowledge of the host together with the choice of the wine. I'm just thinking I could become an addict of those things. Let's think about it.

Dirty pig

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty. And the pig likes it.

Have a look

I have found this interesting flyer and some other nice pictures and drawings that make me think at this website : this isn't happiness. Please have a look and enjoy. I couldn't resist going to next page.

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I should stop

was drunk since thursday ...

Hundreds of tourist

From my modern Met : Ready to embark on an adventure? Let's take a trip around the world. Got no cash? Strapped for time? No worries. On this vacation, you won't be leaving your desk... Switzerland-based Corinne Vionnet is our guide to the world's most famous landmarks, monuments millions have visited before. Her art is created not by acrylic, oil, or watercolor, each piece is made by combining hundreds of tourist photos into one. After conducting an online keyword search and sifting through photo sharing sites, this Swiss/French artist carefully layers 200 to 300 photos on top of one another until she gets her desired result. Look closely and you'll see dim shadows, vague silhouettes that aimlessly wander around. More than anything, these haunting figures make us think about our own fading memories and the inevitable passage of time. "Why do we always take the same picture, if not to interact with what already exists?," Vionnet asks. "The photograph proves our presence. And to be true, the picture will be perfectly consistent with the pictures in our collective memory." "This work is intrinsically linked to the people who took these pictures," Vionnet says. "The collaboration is obvious, but it is without their knowledge. These pictures are on the Internet, to be seen by any eventual visitors. I am just one of those visitors. It is the sheer quantity of these almost identical pictures that gave me the idea of superimposing them. I do not think I would have had the idea if I had made all these pictures of the same places myself. Anyway, the work would loose its meaning."

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