graphic easter

Latest work: I portray you with my cutter

last days of winter favourites

Carrot-Ginger-Soup

1. Boil Carotts and Ginger pieces in some vegetable stock.

2. Puree.

3. Season with salt and pepper, maybe some chili.

Fennel- Orange-Salad

1. Cut fennel and oranges into slices.

2. Arrange on plate and drizzle with good! olive oil.

3. Season with fresh grounded salt and pepper.

yes

www.nakedpastor.com

on easy rape and actual lovemaking

"I think it is absolutely the responsibility of an artist to look into darkness without blinking. I think it is important that we talk about morality and character and the way we dehumanize one another. But I also think the point has been more than made on film that rape is a terrible thing, and at this point, if you're not contributing some new idea to the conversation, then you are literally just using it as a button, something you push to get a response, and that unnerves me.

If I had to pinpoint what bothers me most about the subject, though, it's that our ratings system in this country is so broken that a film that contains a sustained, brutal rape sequence featuring full-frontal female nudity can breeze right through with an R-rating, but if you include a sequence in which two people engage in spirited, consensual sex and we see anything that resembles reality, you are automatically flirting with an NC-17 or going out unrated. We have created a code of film language in which the single most destructive act of sexual violence is perfect acceptable to depict in the most graphic, clinical detail, but actual love-making has been all but banished from mainstream film. There's no "almost" about it; it is disturbing on a philosophical level to realize how backwards the system is right now, and I think one of the reasons many filmmakers will include a rape scene is so they can get some nudity into their movie, and the context doesn't matter to them." Drew Mc Weeny in The Bigger Picture: What happens when we find 'The Line' as viewers?

Recently I had this conversation with this really nice, young dude. We exchanged music we currently listen to, totally different worlds. He also let me listen to some of the Hiphop stuff he creates himself and also sells. There is this song where he describes that he has this super long penis stuffing women with. Them screaming. Couldn´t really find out just from the lyrics if it was meaning to be pain-or pleasure screaming.

Me: "Hey, just to make sure, you are aware of the fact, that it´s not just about the size, right?" He: "About what else then?" Me: "Ever heard of "clitoris"?" He: "Nope. What do you mean?"

on cars and horses

"The number one argument against gay marriage is that society’s interests lie in protecting the reproductive family unit.

Today, that’s like arguing that horses should be outlawed so that they don’t interfere with automobiles becoming the dominant form of transportation. It just doesn’t make any sense. The reproductive family unit is thoroughly, one hundred percent safe. There are now more than enough straight people in the world. Happily coupled breeders are definitely here to stay, forever." John Shore

craft á mania

I´m might be overdoing the crochet-thing, but I don´t mind.

These are the latest outcomes. A collar for a onesie and the thing below is a glas place mat. Or however you call these things.

Die Apothekenkalender hatten doch recht

snow shoe hiking in the alps at minus 17 degrees celsius rocks.

in winter, my bed is my fortress

sometimes it´s difficult to have hope for yourself
to be able to change

in the forest, in the bathroom

2011

learning stations/reflections of the year/no ranking/random (just the private stuff)

1 went to the theatre, twice! (Exit Europa, Benefiz-Jeder rettet einen Afrikaner)
2 picked cherries from an abandoned tree and baked a cherry cake, anyway, never baked so many cakes in a year!

3 made cheese for the first time

4 absolut food:

everything spelt

frozen yoghurt

Kürbiskernlaugencroissants (pumpkinseed-bretzel-croissants)

grapefruitjuice

rubabcake

ricotta

5 I regularly went to some kind of sport: back fitness, I´m good in making funny moves when warming up to bad disco music

6 got an annual- ticket for the art exhibition hall, but did not really use it to the full

7 short trip to Madrid, CPH-living commune get together

8 Need for east roadtrip: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Hungary, Romania

9 resulted also in not being so afraid anymore to drive cars (this is sometimes not true)

10 completed for the first time my annual tax declaration but did not send it off (was not necessary)

11 took some further education in "trauma"

12 ran a half marathon again

13 went to demonstrate

14 crocheting, yeah, and paper stitching

15 taking time for creatice stuff anyway, and enjoying it!

16 poser part: only bought 2nd hand clothing, fairtrade and/or organic clothing this year (except of socks)

17 I went to a stutter-therapy, major fear thing: more about that to come

18 haus mit holz geheizt, ich mach den Ofen an, baby

19 Mannheim nightlife

20 did drink enough water for 3 months, now I´m really bad at it again,- try again next year

gift wrapping

1.Paper from used envelopes and internet orders to wrap gifts

2. Crochet or sew your way around to fix it. Or use some left over buttons.

3. Decorate with crocheted items, wire and paper doilies from used envelopes.

Cost:
Wire 1,50€
Crocheting whool: 2€
Total: 3,50€

the black trees

It´s tree time

So many trees get cut every year
and then are thrown out for new ikea-furniture
if they are not pretty enough, they get dismissed
it´s a sad world.

Here is my hommage to the black trees, the crooked, the lean, the outcast:









Material:
old magazines
thread
buttons
pen
leather left overs

"tree"-decoration

In case there´s any need of decorating any trees which associate you with christmas time, here´s my suggestion:

Have a swallow, fly back home (Handdrawn)



Origami-ball (I never do that again)



Crocheted Ball (bought that from a small village christmas market)



I´m more for a few decoration items, don´t bump the tree!

another stitch

Here comes the Gazelle

paper wheels

I lately was again in a home of an older couple. The floor was totally covered in different thick carpets. To preserve the nice floor. And the couch was totally covered with blankets in no fitting colours. To preserve the couch. What a pity to preserve things so much, you never come to enjoy them.

One thing I learned in Denmark is that it is important how the rooms look you are living, learning and working in. It is effecting the way how you can work, how you welcome and honour people and treat yourself. In Germany there are still so many terrible office and working and learning places. No beauty, no nice colours, no design. And how much time of our life are we spending there...

The hallway in my working place used to look not very welcoming. And we didn´t even notice. Sadly as social workers we are so often used to having little money to be spend on these things. And over the years you can become so used to the status quo.

So what we did together with some women:
Painting an old small table white.
Sewing some covering for old chairs with a nice blue-white print fabric that was donated to us.
And now making some paper wheels for the wall.
Extreme difference.

UPCYCLING

I`m all up for reusing...

http://www.weupcycle.com/

http://www.designsponge.com/category/diy?materials=recycled-materials

whores` glory

I´ve been lately invited at the launch of this film in Germany,

on the guest list due to my work.

Michael Glawogger has taken 5 years ( filming was just 30 days, building trust to be allowed to film took several years) to film different prostitution milieus in 3 different countries and 3 different religious settings:

• High-class prostitution in Bhuddist Thailand where prostitution due to the king is not existing
• a brothel town in Bangladesh, which is muslim and where prostitution is legalised since 2000 (even earlier than in Germany)
• the mix of prostitution, drugs and some kind of brute catholicism in the "zona" in Reynosa, Mexico

The movie is not showing a certain view or opinion on prostitution, but shows:

it is like this, and like this and like this and also sometimes like this.

He told that in this sometimes all cruel settings it is still fascinating for him to recognise (and to show in his movies) how people still keep being beautiful people.

The movie is also uncomfortable and if you can´t take naked bodies and "dirty talk" better don´t watch it. It´s certainly not "jugendfrei" (In mehrfacher Bedeutung des Wortes).

Otherwise I think I would recommend it, also because the music is for my taste very well chosen.

http://www.whoresglory.at/

portrait stitching

delight

this is the small piece of grass in front of the house where I´m living

-in the middle of the city-

yes!

recycle stitch

Lately I got inspired to start stitching paper
it´s quite a nice possibility to make cards and the like from
used envelopes, old magazines and collected buttons.

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Überbleibsel vom Juli- was man so macht

Den Mozzarella entlang seiner Linien reißen
Mit der Zunge am Gaumen zerdrücken
Die Tage mit Arbeit füllen
Die Tage ohne Dich füllen
Sich zusammenziehender Magen
und Angst.
Nicht mehr sprechen können.

In Bücher flüchten.
In Arbeit flüchten.
Nicht wissen, womit den Tag füllen, wenn die Arbeit nicht ist.
Manchmal mich zu Dir flüchten.

Zum 100. Mal die Schuhe kaputt laufen.
Nach Hause gehen.
Nicht frühstücken
Die Haare flechten
Laufen
Laufen

need for east 6

I was so desperately in need of some positive images.
Multumesc.

need for east 5

Maria Tanase

need for east 4

muntii carpati

need for east 3

transsilvania verde

need for east 2

Bukowina