pt. 3 - sommerferie - matala

after a more than lousy danish/german summer 2012, i welcomed the greek heat that almost made me collapse.

yingyangskin

view from our terrace!

little friend

matala: 1 unreal shopping/food/bathing/holidaying-town

warm, very salty water

it got dark really early every night, and the sun went down behind that mountain

quite exhausting everyday walk (or: climb) to the red beach (because the other one was quite crowded and not as beautiful)

worth it.

"wenn die sonne lacht, nimm blende acht"-test (erfolgreich.)

snorkeling was great! so many fishes!

for the people that were too lazy, or simply not able, to crawl over the rocks, there was a little boat coming by twice a day, getting you back into civilization.

best illustration of a mojito of all times. isn't it?

beach glass.

the crowded boring beach, but with loads of beach glass!

pt. 2 - sommerferie - baltic sea

gerhard-richter-eske picture taken by jeppe. i like it!!

winter blues und fernweh

These days I'm dreaming of traveling and sunshine... I'm longing so much to "just get out of here", for a few weeks, preferably a few months, go and live somewhere else, meet new people and experience new things. But most of all I'm longing for having the time to really dig deep into the things I love doing and connecting with myself and those pleasures again. Ah, that would be nice and healthy.

I went through all of the pictures I took during an amazing and super varied summer vacation last year. Those 3 weeks felt a lot longer since there were so many different stops on the way: The dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, seeing friends and family at home, spending some seriously chilled out days in a summerhouse at the Baltic Sea, and to top it off - 10 days in Crete, in the most surreal and fantastic little ex-hippie-town Matala. I really enjoyed not having a "city-holiday" for once, where so much is about visiting sights, shopping, going out, seeing a lot of people. Although I love seing new, big cities and new people - it's always very inspiring and so much input - I rarely find myself coming back from those exhausting trips and feeling refreshed, balanced and relaxed.
So I really enjoyed those days, having new places, things and people in small doses, and still having enough time to read a lot, sleep, draw, enjoy the nature, some art, and each other's company.

Guess that's also why I'm craving for a months-long-trip somewhere, and the experience to "live" there.
 



mamiya, roll 2

Today I want to share a few more shots from my Mamiya camera. I just finished the second roll of film and been scanning all the negatives. Since some things on the camera are broken and therefore quite hard to handle, I've been a bit hesitant to take pictures. 3 out of 12 turned out blurry and basically useless, although one of them (the new header of this blog) I really like, despite of its bleariness. It was taken at the Botanisk Have (botanical garden) in Copenhagen. A really beautiful place with lots of green houses (with crazy humidity and butterflies living in it, and my favorite: meat-eating plants!!) and of course, interesting green and colorful living stuff all over. I'm looking forward to visit again, when it's getting sunnier and warmer.
I can feel that spring is slowly coming and it makes me SO happy. This Monday was the first day this year where I was able to ride my bike home from work without it being completely pitch-dark outside! It's still far from being light, though, hehe. Seems like I could escape the winter blues this year - yay! It was pretty bad the last time. Reasons might be that I stick to my daily bike rides from and to work, no matter what weather there is outside. Also, I think, I'm slowly getting a bit more comfortable with Copenhagen, its people, my current point in life and so on.

some sun in autumn

home.

Carlsberg Glyptoteket and one bored dude. 

Nørrebrogade and one of my favourite graffiti.

HIRBEL

Two of my friends are making music together and they're going to release their first EP soon.
They asked me to make the cover for it and that's what I did.
I wanted to create some kind of "surprise-experience" for the people getting a CD, so I had the idea of making a cover in the style of a lottery scratch ticket. You can scratch off the facade of the house and see what's going on inside, in all of the different little rooms.
Have a listen to Hirbel here: Hirbel Bandcamp

in theory:

and practice (just to try it out - print and painting are far from perfect):

psych/stoner

'lil flyer i made for a show in my hometown's club Schieszhaus.

sketchbook

'sup?
I scanned some pages from my sketchbook(s) and I'm putting this now on the interweb.
I also started a 14-day-challenge - do one drawing OR take a photo a day (I wanted to start "small" - so, only 14 days and only one tiny sketch/snapshot would be enough, may not sound like much, but I've even had my troubles with that already - damn work/winter/classes/lazyness). So far I've been keeping up, wehuw! The results I'm going to post as soon as I'm done with the whole thing and the pictures are developed.

Some doodles (love that word) coming UP, mostly from our summer vacation - Berlin, Baltic Sea, Crete:

IB, the marsvin - Meerschweinstudie :D

During a Berlin-trip.

Pretty shitty, but I tried spying on people and drawing them without being caught - and that's one of my first attempts - has to be documented! That was during eating brunch at Viasko - a vegan restaurant in Berlin. Hands down the best brunch I've ever had.

Wanted to try my pens, hehe. The person is looking out of the windows, but you can't tell, because it's not finished. (but i doubt it ever will be finished...) On the right side there was supposed to be a bed/room interior.

Otis an der Ostsee.

My mum fell asleep while I was drawing her - best model, hehe.

3-minute sketch of my dad, he had to laugh so hard when I showed it to him. I think he was shocked. He wanted me to call the drawing: "Aufgebracht nach Telefonat mit Rentenversicherung".

I had to cut the other half of the drawing off, out of privacy reasons, haha! If you cn read German+my handwriting, you will know, why. To get the vibe, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ASY6WhI2dc

The beautiful cliff at the Red Beach in Matala/Crete...

Reference picture! :)

Well, it was a nudist beach! That's why there is an outline of my boob. And a self-portrait I drew from my reflection in Jeppe's sunglasses.

Those rocks were sick!!