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Okay, I took this picture right out of bed at 8:28 AM getting ready for my swim training. Initially I already wanted to be in the water at that time, but I overslept. ;) I got up at 8:17 put the electric kettle on, brushed my teeth and took this picture for you, still in my night shirt. I swam for 45 minutes today and am really proud on myself to walk to the pool, swim and then eat my breakfast while walking back home. By the way the walk to the pool took 30 minutes, the walk back took 45 minutes, same route. Yep, the swim definitely took it's toll. So I'll go swimmning on Wednesday again.

Have a nice Weekend everyone.

This is the shop with the silverware, lot's of beautiful things, which make a girl dream (or gay men with the good and expensive taste). By the way, I'll get a new "camera" today. My old cell phone ( Motorola MOTO u9 and I LOVED it, old Trekkie that I am ;) broke a few weeks back and yesterday I succumbed and ordered a new one via Amazon. My new Samsung was shipped yesterday by Amazon Leipzig (funny, eh?) and should arrive today. Now all I need to do is buy a Micro SD Card (planned for next week) and I can provide all of us with new and some kind of lomographic pictures.

The best chocolate cookies in the world, enjoyed most with milk. (Not everything was bad in the GDR , especially the sweets were good.) But since I don't eat grains anymore they are off my foodlist. Still, I enjoy this photograph immensely. It's from my sunlight session last year.

Mike and Jeff at the opening of HIVitrification at St Vincents Hospital Mike Moore and Jeff Lees graduated from the Certificate IV in Ceramics at the Nepean Arts and Design Centre in 2007. Since they completed their study with us, they have followed their careers in ceramics with a passion. After completing further study (Diploma of Ceramics at SWI)  in 2009, Jeff and Mike started running pottery classes for HIV positive people. The classes, called "Positive Pottery" are held at Pine Street Creative Arts Centre in Chippendale, and are supported by a generous grant from the City of Sydney. On Friday the 26th of November 2010, Jeff and Mike's students held an exhibition called "HIVitrification" at St Vincent's hospital in Paddington. " It was amazing; a fair amount of their work sold on the night. We even had Margaret Olley come along and purchase a piece from one of our guys." said Mike.  In 2011 Mike and Jeff will undertake a Graduate Diploma in Vi...

Bitteschön Chris. Und ja, das war die Kirche in Röcken. :)

At the Münster of Basel (Switzerland). Happy Sunday everyone!

This should rock out. FIND out more about Diplo here . CHECK Abovegroup/Ogilvy out here . AND  studiofilm club here .

The Kids Are All Right has a cool title. All right  as in a concession to the fact that children come first and are always right? All right as in they turned out okay? All right as in all from the right wing, conservative camp? Lisa Cholodenko's film is a gently humourous melodrama that is something of a political statement without overtly being one. It's something of a miracle that this small film got nominated for Best Picture. Catherine Shoard of the UK Guardian is convinced the film has not a chance in hell ( SEE this ) of winning, though. The movie is great because, finally, it's a gay film in which nobody dies. This is a daring feat in itself (consider Philadelphia : Tom Hanks dies of AIDS after listening to opera with Denzil Washington; Brokeback Mountain : Jake Gyllenhaal is murdered in the desert leaving Heath Ledger to sniff Jake's bloody shirt to get high; Kiss of the Spider Woman : John Hurt gets killed after going Latino in prison, Milk : Sean Penn finall...

Printmaking category winner Sean Sweeney with his self-portrait linocut. A large crowd packed into the Trapezium Gallery on Wednesday to hear  Nepean College Director Ann Beerden announce the winners the opening of the 2011 Student Acquisitive Art Prize. As one of the panel of three judges, Ann Beerden announced the artists selected: Amanda Mayrhofer for painting, Sean Sweeney for printmaking, Peter Lewis for ceramics, Robert Musgrave for photography and Helen Nairn for drawing. Congratulations to all! All artists selected for the exhibition were included because of the high standard of their work, and their professional attitude to presentation and exhibition practice. Ann praised the quality of all work on display, and conveyed the difficulty the judges had in making the decision. There were three judges for this year's prize. Adnan Begic joined us as our external industry expert. Adnan co-ordinates St Mary's Corner, a local cultural precinct administered by Penrith City ...

After a year with the same cut a new hairstyle was desperately needed. And I finally succeeded in finding pics of hairstyles that I liked to explain my wishes. Last year I didn't find them, so I bought Manga comics to explain (yes, I'm crazy like that) and I failed misserably. ;D So essentially you could say it's an emo haircut with a hidden bob (for the job interviews and opera evenings) and short neck hair (I really hate it when the hair on my neck stands off due to the high collars I wear). And here is how my new haircut looks: Taken with Photo Booth. I like my new haircut, now I just have to learn to do a proper eye make up. Luckily there are youtube tutorials on this. :D

I'm changing more and more. And that feels sooooo good . I suddenly prefer Dance and Rock music instead of singer/songwriter (the slow stuff like Colby Caillat, Josh Rouse and so on). Since yesterday evening I'm totally into Dance music and dance around my flat. I really had to pressure myself to put my iPod down, stop dancing and dress this morning!!! It took three serious commands to myself to make me do that. ;D And what's more, I'll finally change my hairstyle, after one year of having roughly the same cut (unusually long time for me). It is time to move on and put something up to balance my dressy clothes. So, this is how I look now/before (Monday morning to be exact): And the new me? You'll see tomorrow.

Suddenly I feel free. Last week I was feeling horrible, this week the world is full of possibilities. LIFE IS GREAT!!

On our way to Mauna Kea we stopped here. Isn't island truly amazing?! I really would like to go back there! Have a fantastic new week everyone. AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EGYPTIANS: YOU MADE IT REALLY HAPPEN!! I SEND YOU ALL MY BEST WISHES, GO GET YOUR DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM!!!

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True Grit is a better movie than you expect it to be. And it's truly great. It's not a remake but rather a reboot. A second adaptation of a 1968  bildungsroman by Charles Portis. At first blush, this is not material you expect to be a right fit for the Cohen brothers ( No Country for Old Men , Fargo ). There's Jeff Bridges in an eye-patch-wearing role first taken up by John Wayne. Bridges does not play Wayne here. He's Jeff Bridges playing Rooster Cogburn, a boozy hired vigilante with an apparent soft spot for little girls. Also with a soft spot for little girls is Matt Damon, playing LaBoeuf, who, with Cogburn, hunt down the murderer of Hailee Steinfeld's dad. There are enough Freudian impulses going on here to easily take over what could have been a simple wild wild American west movie. Instead, the Cohen brothers go for edge, for character, beauty, intensity and, ultimately, the bittersweet and sublime. It's like No Country for Old Men but with spanking! U...

A quick round-up of books am dipping into at the moment discloses: Plan B by Paul Muldoon (photometry with photographs by Norman McBeath), Selected Poems by Sylvia Plath, Running the Dusk by Christian Campbell (which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first book of 2010); The Four Questions of Melancholy by Tomaž Šalamun (because five questions would have been intolorable); Veil by Bob Woodward (the story of the CIA's secret wars of the 1980s); Art in the Caribbean by Anne Walmsley and Sybil by Benjamin Disreali.  Here is a poem from Campbell's Running the Dusk which can be found at the publisher's website : Iguana  for A.T. My friend from Guyana was asked in Philadelphia if she was from “Iguana.” Iguana, which crawls and then stills, which flicks its tongue at the sun. In History we learned that Lucayans ate iguana, that Caribs (my grandmother’s people) ate Lucayans (the people of Guanahani). Guiana (the colonial way, with an i, southernmost of t...

Daniel Seiple Film screening and discussion: Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011 Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6 PM Fordham University Visual Arts Department Lincoln Center Campus 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 Room SL24H Join artist and producer Daniel Seiple for a screening and discussion of his project Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011, 30 minutes plus extra footage. Project synopsis: On December 5th in the Tone River, just up from where it meets the Kinu River in Moriya, Japan, the president of the Joso Flying Club, Ono-san, ordered his technical specialist, Sugiyama-san, to crash his radio controlled airplane into my fishing boat, per my request. I had spent the previous month filming and becoming acquainted with two RC clubs who had airfields along the river. The hobby club, which flew scale models including WWII aircrafts such as the Japanese Zero and U.S. B29, talked openly about the Kamikaze. One mentioned its absence from school history books. Anot...

Ahh, the beauty of this picture and it means a lot to me. I'm back on my way after a paradigm shift in those last three days. Happy Friday everyone!

The Fine Arts section at NADC would like to welcome all our new and returning students for 2011. It's been a busy and exciting week, as everyone launches into the new study year. Coming up next week in the Trapezium Gallery, the official opening on Wednesday the 16th of February at 12 noon, of The Student Acquisitive Art Prize, showcasing the best of student work from 2010. Watch this space for more info......  (click invite to view larger)

It was such lovely weather and today we have nice weather too.

Arte azionE movimento Mail art by Enzo Correnti - Inserito da ENZO CORRENTI

Leipzigs botanical Garden, spring 2010. Monday morning and not so good news. Oh well, I've decided to see life as a beautiful adventure and I will solve this little problem too. As a matter of fact I've taken the first steps already and I got a positive reaction so I'm in the game and moving towards my goals. It's the action that gets the positive energies flowing, so take action and make your goals and dreams happen.

CHECK out one of 3Canal's latest video here .  SEE more about the band  here .

You don't really see it in my face, but this morning brought some very nice surprises. I don't need to buy new trousers this week!! I thought I had to, because one jeans and slacks aren't enough, when you go to work. However, this morning I thought: " Well, your current jeans are sitting relatively loose and you know you are down to around 60kg , so let's try some of my old trousers. " (I haven't weighed myself in a week!) And lo' and behold they fit, all of them!! The one in the following picture is a jeans I bought before I gained so much weight due to taking the pill in 2003! When I bought this jeans I was literally 5 kg lighter and now it fits!!! That's the reason for my expression. So, I might not have lost so many pounds, but obviously my body changes for the better. And let's not forget: muscles weigh more than fat. So I'm quite excited and am more than happy to stick with the Paleo lifestyle. When I move in to weeks it will be a b...