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of the year! The new year is still wrapped in the foil of future, just like this sign, but in a few hours the foil will dissolve and we will all see what the new year has in store for us. Hopefully only good things! I wish all of you a fantastic start into the new year. Happy New Year!!!

FROM THE ORGANISERS: "The man next to me on the ten-hour flight has insomnia. His white clothing is in layers, and neat. He repacks his hand luggage, which is full of gifts. He was an athlete who represented his nation. Injury and necessity sent him to the factory near Croydon to make plastic cups. He is too big to ignore, even if he had not confided to me his fear of the losses that night shifts make in his mind. The art of memory becomes a topic of discussion. Will his family remember him? His trip is a secret..." Vahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian writer who has lived in Britain since 1991. Her poetry includes  No Traveller Returns  (2003),  Person Animal Figure  (2005), and  Undraining Sea  (2009). On Tuesday 4 January, 2011, at 7 pm, Capildeo will read from her recent work at Alice Yard. The programme will include excerpts from her prose work  All Your Houses , accompanied by a series of images by  Andre Bagoo , part of an “intertextual dialogu...

It just keeps on snowing. And as much as I like snow, I would love to pack my stuff and fly to Hawaii right now!!! In case you are wondering, this is Dresden, where I had an interview two weeks back, which went really well and lead to ... ah, no, sadly no job. However, cool city.

We've got still winter in Leipzig and it has brought down nearly all traffic in this town down. Most streetcars are out of order and you've got sometimes only two options: either you walk or you drive your car. That is: if you have a car and you could get it out of the parking space. Since I don't have to go anywhere today, I'll just walk over to the homeimprovement store in the afternoon and get some boxes. I take my time to organize my kitchen further and get some proper rest since I've been sick this last night. Probably ate something wrong. :(

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I wish all of you wonderful holidays with your loved ones. Enjoy your time off!

(The light and the colors were that way, no photoshop used.) Can't say that for the making of the presents though. It takes quite a bit of time, 1 hour per item. So since I'm an engineer, my presents are worth about 150€ a piece. ;-)

Pretty please? Pretty, pretty PLEASE!!!! I think it's the Weiße Elster that you see here, but I'm not sure. Anyway, don't let them stress you out. It's enough, that I'm stressed.

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आउगुरिओस दे फेलिज़ 2011

Took them last Sunday after the Ravel / Debussy concert, which was awesome. And so it this Lamp that lights the staircase over several floors. Enjoy your weekend everyone.

in Leipzig. Have a great weekend everyone!

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Roma Curated by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton January 4 – February 18, 2011 Reception: Thursday, February 3, 6 – 8 pm A sampling of photographs from participants in the 2010 Rome Athenaeum course: VART 3500: Photography in the Documentary Tradition: Rome . Over the course of one month in Rome this intensive class introduced students to the basic and advanced techniques of image production with a major emphasis on generating documentary projects directly relating to the people, architecture, and culture of Italy. The cosmopolitan city of Rome, rich with artistic history, served as the source for our photographic explorations, as well as the catalyst for discussions addressing the historical significance of the documentary impulse. Our studies and production brought us from exhibitions in progressive contemporary art galleries, to the ancient architecture of the Colosseum as we utilized the wealth of visual stimuli as a resource, as well as a backdrop again...

So I've decided about/spent my christmas money: I bought kitchen stuff. A pan, a scale and food storage boxes and a cookbook about meat. This all is necessary because I changed my lifestyle and this stuff helps maintaining it. Not that I weigh every piece of food and then calculate the calories, but it helps to know if I eat enough or not enough like yesterday. My body is thanking me already for these lifestyle changes, it finally rids itself of excess fat.

THiS iSN'T STReeT aRT I eDiZioNe Potenza: PIAZZA PREFETTURA, POTENZA ven 10 dicembre 2010 - sab 11 dicembre 2010 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI8YJcu5RlA&feature=player_embedded - Note sull'evento: Buongiorno, vorrei leggere qualche riga prima di partire con l’iniziativa, per spiegare bene di cosa si tratta, come nasce e a che serve questo impiego di tempo e denaro. Il titolo che ho voluto dare all’iniziativa è “this isn’t street art prima edizione (perché spero di farne o vederne fare altre). Il titolo non ha niente a che vedere con la street art, ma rispecchia le intenzioni della “mostra???” che sto organizzando. Infatti la particolarità di questa mostra è che non è una mostra, ma una discarica abusiva: abbandonerò notte tempo i quadri degli artisti partecipanti nel centro storico di UNA CITTA' (e spero che la cosa si possa ripetere anche in altre città in futuro). Ogni artista scriverà e chiuderà in busta il suo numero di telefono e ogni bust...

I didn't change anything about this pic, but still it looks like a shift from monochrom to color. Love it.

Senior Seminar Exhibition, Pushpin Gallery Dec. 8-14th, 2010 Artists: John Angles, Brendan Banks, Brandon Cruz, Jacklyn Cunningham, Maria Gotay, Olga Muzician, Vincent Straquadanio, Eddy Segal, Megan Weissner, Johanne Sterling, Amelia Strohsnitter, Mickey Velez.

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Happy, happy Christmas, that makes the dreams we remember from our childhood, I remember my grandfather the joys of his youth, and will transport the visitor to your fireplace and your sweet home! ¡Feliz, feliz Navidad, la que hace que nos acordemos de las ilusiones de nuestra infancia, le recuerde al abuelo las alegrías de su juventud, y le transporte al viajero a su chimenea y a su dulce hogar!(e autor desc.)

This is one of the pics I took in June when I drove 10 hours in one day for 2 hours by the sea. You might think it crazy, but I loved it. It was definitely worth it. Good morning everyone. I don't know about you, but I've had a wonderful Friday evening. I enjoyed another symphony concert at Leipzigs Music College. They performed Robert Schumanns op. 81 "Genoveva" , which is an opera seldom performed. Can't understand why though, since it's an amazing piece of music and I really loved it. And the best thing? Nobody dies in it! (Not that I listened to the text. ;-) Normally the hero and heroine die at the end, which takes up to 20 minutes, as in "Aida" by Guiseppe Verdi (Seriously who starts to sing arias in a grave, when you are running out of air?). I can't remember if I liked the music in "Aida", but I remember that I was really annoyed by the dying scene. And the fact that the "young" General was fatter and older than Aida...

Do you see them? I'm currently pondering the question, what I should do with my christmas money. Buying stuff for my flat or workclothes, which would be the sensible thing to do. Or buy something for my camera? Which would be the fun, but unsensible thing to do. Mmmh.