I watched “Gravity” three days ago. Nothing “happens” and if you’ve seen it, you know what I mean. George Clooney in space playing his country music under his astronaut suit. Sandra Bullock is basically breathing and not breathing. Still, you are watching. You enjoy watching nothing. The quiet, [more]
Wir versuchen es, aber es kommt nichts bei raus. Heute keine Geschichte, mein Großvater ist müde. Der Abend, an dem er unsere Großmutter kennenlernte, er erinnere sich nicht so genau. Er ist angestrengt. Am Vorabend hat er drei Schlafmittel genommen, und bis jetzt, 18h, geschlafen. Was wir hier [more]
The Museum of Loneliness project Fragments of the Lost Library will be displayed next week in a pop-up shop. It is an especially assembled collection of 100 numbered books drawn from an eclectic base. Most have some value in their own right as collectible editions. The 100 books are [more]
Dear friends. Here comes the ultimative task in our Method Acting class. Two of us got an original New York City Taxi for the next 48 hours to work with. One of them is me. You can call me day and night, here is my phonenumber: XXXXXXXXX911
There are two water springs running from Landwehrkanal. Bubbling, they rush in from under some thick bushes, making waves briefly. After that the water flows at reduced speed, exploiting a sweet gradient towards the river Spree. Artificial streams and ponds gather and converge the dampness of the marshy [more]
Ein Meisterwerk der Instrumentation. Vor allem aber: ein solch unvergleichlicher musikalischer Genuss. Diese Farben, diese Charaktere! Am Anfang steht wie so oft ein “es war einmal…”, wundervoll lyrisch vorgestellt von den Violinen. Und was folgt? Tills Auftritt – das Solohorn setzt ein, und es beginnt ein unaufhörliches und [more]
In French, you can use the word “flash-back” (It has recently been added to the dictionary). But as the French don’t like so much all Anglicisms, you can find a side note, clarifying: On préfèrera Retour en arrière. (We prefer Retour en arrière.) Today, I read a story, [more]
Co-written with Erwin M. Schmidt. The German hiker is a special breed. Below are some key indicators for spotting the species in their natural habitat. If 3 out of the 5 descriptions below apply, chances are that you’ve spotted a German hiker! They wear lots of gear. Not [more]
On the hem of the cloak of a Verrocchio Madonna with child (ca. 1470) you can discern a band of gold embroidery that resembles script, but which makes no sense. It is painted in perfect detail to bring to mind Arabic writing, however it is just an array [more]
It was another big night at the joint in the valley the night I met Orson Welles. Orson was in Hollywood for the first time, like me. I liked him and he liked me, and jazz. We started hanging around together. So when I’d finished at the joint [more]
Up in the mountains of North India the air is fresh, the view is clear, the forests lush, the water cold, the clouds fluffy, the mountains high, the people welcoming, the light soft, the shadows deep. Actually you should visit to see, hear, smell, feel, for yourself.
Beim Wohndesign-Onlinestore Monoqi gibt es heute Reflexionen im Angebot. Für 259 statt 290 Euro pro Reflexion. Da ich meine Reflexionen nicht zu verkaufen pflege, zumal ich sie in der Regel eh nur für den Eigengebrauch anstelle, bin ich relativ uninformiert, was den gängigen Marktwert von Reflexionen betrifft. Sind [more]
“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” Kim Stanley Robinson “The Devil’s Ballroom.” Roald Amundsen about Antarctica Of all the utopian fantasies of the 19th century, the exploration of [more]
In the aphorism titled “Love and Duality” in the second part of Human All Too Human, Friedrich Nietzsche concludes: “What else is love but understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way to ourselves ? That love may be able to [more]
In the 1990s a genius down in Los Angeles by the name of Daniel Nussbaum published PL8SPK, a book in the shape of a silver license plate retelling famous stories using only the words found on actual California vanity car license plates. He calls it graffiti for the [more]
Shit, I am in deep trouble. Well, ok, not so deep, but still – trouble. Creative processes are full of surprises, aren’t they? I suddenly understood, that there is not only Chapter three “Instead of sleeping with my Mom, I want to die in her beloved Poland”, on [more]
“We Hyperboreans” is how Friedrich Nietzsche headed a fragment from his unpublished works dated November 1887. A few months later he wrote The Anti-Christ. We Hyperboreans, we who live in the “hyperborean zone”, in inhospitability or uninhabitability itself, the exterior. The “hyperborean zone that is far removed from [more]
prophecy: 4 tourists on 4 camels with scout half bear half tree oyster (with pearl) giant barrel sponge (Xestospongia muta/Schmidtia muta) REWE, Lichtenberg
Eines Tages war er verschwunden; ein Freund, Architekt im Tessin, mit Lehrauftrag in Amerika, Publikationen in dieser und jener Fachzeitschriften, ein von vielen Kollegen geachteter Entwerfer. Zu einem Geschäftstermin am Vormittag war er nicht erschienen und kehrte auch am Abend, von seiner Frau in zunehmender Spannung erwartet, nicht [more]
Back in the day, a celebrity tried to look sleek. Interesting, at least good, when they expected to be photographed. For instance, when Jacky O. walked down fifth avenue, her loafers looked stainless, her hair fresh like a flower bouquet, her smile like a wise woman. Her flared [more]
At GMIC today, I stumbled across a rather interesting thought. At a panel on ‘Connected Cars’, the speakers threw around the idea that software companies will rule the car industry of tomorrow. As a matter of fact, cars that are being developed today already run on hundreds of [more]
Korn says: “Paranoid And Aroused” Can’t stand the music (there are simply not enough oppressed aggressions inside of me I suppose). But in terms of contemporary mentality I must say: They got a point there. Paranoid and aroused – don’t you feel it too?
Philosophy was never anything but the mediation of the immediable: of reason to non-reason, of the finite to the infinite, of being to becoming, of the sayable to the unsayable, of knowledge to unknowing, etc. Wittgenstein’s theory of language-games and forms of life insists on the originary embeddedness [more]
Where a collective forms or begins to form, there is already a minimum of shared order, a minimum of consistency of shared hopes and projects; there is also the shared betrayal of the non-existence which ultimately constitutes the collective. If there are no binding criteria regulating the dynamics [more]
The dimensions of a radical passivity and a hyperbolic activity intersect in the subject. The subject is the scene of this intersection. Translated into categories of ontotopology, this means that the subject is the place where the future intervenes in the past and the past determines the future. [more]
What is it about Stuck in Berlin ? Stuck, coming from the italian Stucco, a decorative coating for walls and ceilings. Entering an apartment in Berlin, everybody would first comment the Stuck, if there is some or not, if it’s beautiful, apparently it’s always beautiful, I never heard somebody [more]
Italian food is available almost everywhere outside of Italy. German bread becomes more popular in Europe as well as in the States or other countries where either expats or natives, fascinated by the dark character of this German bakery product, open up a bakery. There is this certain [more]
I like walking through Vienna at night. When all people, all tourists and all horses are sleeping. It has the touch of distant middle age. Not cheesy like in Woody Allen––but still cheesy. It’s like this short trip to the past. When you walk the streets you see [more]
“Literature could turn you into an asshole. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.” The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
Liberated as free from industry. Lost, forgotten. Made in impossible circumstances. Mutant. Banned. Too much. Temporary holding place for films you can’t guarantee. Available by donation. Sample projections extend the architecture of a Flawed space. LFS is a subsidiary purge. Purge distribution. Purge DVDs. Purge Stoke Newington. [more]
When Vincente Minelli was asked to come to Hollywood–he had been a very successful scenic designer in New York–the studio brass asked him what he’d like to do. He said: I want to to do a black musical. Like Welles, Minnelli used to hang in largely mixed show [more]
I can’t write anything today, not to myself, not about anything, not to someone. So please enjoy Luis Bunuel making a Martini, Jermaine Jackson performing with DEVO and something I just found called Art School Girls of Doom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOAjW3q7MDg&list=RD02Ltfc-IlJiYc
Like I wrote yesterday, I usually play tennis Tuesday night in Schlieren (no big deal). Last time my opponent brought bananas with him because they were rotting in his start-up office nearby which attracted fruit flies. “Those little bastards”, he said. Almost everybody thinks fruit flies are bastards, [more]
Our course in Method Acting turned more and more into a discussion on urban semantics. Here is an example for a strange semantic situation, which we worked on today. Our subject, the Method Acting, brought us to the questions: who is acting, what is present, and how does [more]