halloween

 dressed as Freder Fredersen...

Freder: It was their hands that built this city of ours, Father. But where do the hands belong in your scheme? 

 Joh Frederson: In their proper place, the depths. 

ooh-oo child

morning reads and evening reads

mornings:

every morning i wake up excited because i cant wait  to check my postbox and see if some letters or postcards has arrive. today i had a very very lucky day. :-) and there is not much more you can ask for then to start your day with a glass of cold soya milk and a nice letter or a postcard.

evenings:  

lately i enjoy to use the evenings to read one issue of the series of 14teen called : "Great Interviews of the 20th century". tonight i will read the interview with "Marlon Brandon".! 

you should get the series too - its nice.! and perfect to read at nights. each volume has the exact bedtime story length. 

and i tell you:

its nice to have lovely morning,- and interesting evening reads. 

sunny sanny

yesterday was such a sunny day and i enjoyed my secret journey very much  (if you cant remember about my secret journey read the post of the day before.!)...

... to make sure that today will be another sunny day i builded a "Teru Teru Bozu".

“Teru Teru Bozu” is a lovely doll made of white cloth or a tissue. In japan - kids and adults make it when they wish for a sunny next day because they have a school trip or something else lovely and wonderful planned. 

Important the "Teru Teru Bozu" is always display in the window.

"Teru" means: Sunny.

"Bozu" means: Little boy 

Sunny sunny little boy.! lets see if you worked. 

it´s a secret

after reading "it´s a secret" by john burningham.

 i decided to get dressed with a paper hat and go on a secret   journey myself... i would like to tell you where i go... but... as malcolm the cat in john burningham´s book says: "IT`S A SECRET"!

one day....

one day i would like to buy for me and my future family a house in the countryside . 
near a river or a lake. with lots of nice plants around... and many puff balls. so i can show the kids how the explode when you touch them. that would be lovely...!
i would organize excusions with the whole family to invented fantasy worlds in the forest.

baking lovely berry cakes and eating them with ice cream while playing nice music in the radio. 
dancing madly until late at night and reading stories to one another in self builded blanket tents. 
going on insect safaris and going on funghi forays. befriending all the animals in the grass, forest and lake near the house. doing costume parties with great themes...
organizing tea parties in huge trees and all of that... imagine. 


oh i cant wait... 


one day.!

photo editor

i am the new photo-editor of the english publication under/current.

we are working with a new team to relaunch the magazine.

the whole new team is working now on the new issue which will be out spring  2011. it will be very nice! ( i mean of course.!)

we will have many of my favourite image makers contributing to the issue... it will be very exciting.
and it´s nice to have the once in the magazine which have inspired me and my own growing and understanding as a photographer and image maker.

and if you would like to show me ur work, please do so: daniel@undercurrentmagazine.com

more soon...

perfect weekend or post 301

a perfect weekend is a nice happening we easily forget to value sometimes.!
so its nice to remind me how wonderful this one was.!

a wonderful weekend with

- reading my favourite books by john burningham

i,  in particular like "Aldo" - its about a very very lucky girl who has a special friend called "aldo" -
not just a normal friend:
a wonderful rabbit friend
and
a secret friend who always comes when things go bad or when you feel lonely.

over the past month, my aldo was enrique.... but he is not a rabbit nor is he a secret. he is just a friend who makes me also a very very lucky boy.

- late night cinema shows until 3 in the morning ( but dont forget to dress warm.!) and get yourself a good amount of coffee or cola so you can take now and then a quick sip during the film.

- meeting up with my friends ana and sebastian and going on a fungi foray! dont forget to wear good boots to take you trough the wild nature of england.

in my pockets i took my loved little wooden knife which i bought in france earlier this year. i like to cut with that knife
....and to carry the knife in my pocket makes me feel very safe.

- riding with your bike trough town and if you ride your bike try out to make sounds while driving. it makes more fun believe me.
when i drive down hills a bridge and if i feel no-one can listen i make sounds such as ...



- many dinners and lunch´s with nice friends and future friends such as diego. with whom i ate oven baked mashed potato´s and drank a apple juice.

diego makes nice work such as following.

(if you want to see more of his work check STUDIO FANTASTICO.COM )

- and how nice is a weekend if your book finally goes into print.! it will be in the stores 30/11.!

front

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what a perfect weekend.!
and the best thing of all is that my weekend is still not over!  :-)

elvis costello x daniel sannwald

what happens when Elvis Costello and Daniel Sannwald join forces?

i will tell you in a couple of days! 

i am so excited.

little acorns

its nice to wake up under a japanese embroidery. 

one of my favourite japanese saying is:

"Chiri mo tsumoreba yama to naru."

which means 

Great oaks grow from little acorns.

waiting

... for the morning to arrive

"the absence of anything" part 3

soon we will start filming.!

"the absence of anything" will be partly filmed in total darkness. 

something i wanted to do already since a long time. 

Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.

(Victor Hugo)

read more here 

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all flowers in time bend towards the sun

(all images by the wonderful stephen gill)

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All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun 

my 3 favourite pokemon´s

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It Goes Without Saying

recent discovery:

i developed the habit of talking to myself when i am alone 

i start to talk about different things.

a conversation with an imaginary second me who does not reply.

  someone who just silently listen to all i have to say. 

today i was telling me something about "dance" and then i had to think about following:

my sister still makes fun of my endless attempts of dancing german expressionistic dance in our rustically living room. 

a few weeks ago dance umbrella started in london and with its start i though i should give my dance wish another try. 

and so... i started taking contemporary dance classes.

 i did not expected contemporary dance to be so strict and my class to be so over serious. 

but listen... dancing... its quite wonderful. 

time passes different if you dance 

and its nice to know that 

at the eye of the storm stands the body...

the road is life

i had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion

our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again

we had longer ways to go but no matter,

the road is life