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fading robot memories

submono — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:48:02 +0000

update: my “fading robot memories” picture made image of the week at digital artist! happy!

in a melancholy mood today…

iNacktscanner

submono — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:39:21 +0000

Original in German here

Too true, too often

submono — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:44:11 +0000

Topping Out

submono — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:32:22 +0000

Today I was invited to attend the topping out ceremony of the German Pavilion for the Expo 2010. The topping out ceremony is a German tradition that celebrates the completion of the basic structure of a building.

Well, it’s really like this, when you’re suddenly surrounded by (other) two meters tall Europeans they are either Dutch or German. Well, in this case mostly German and so there was a nice and surprisingly big crowd present to marvel at the huge steel skeleton that is to be the German Pavilion and to enjoy German beer (of course) and food.

The only real drawback was the weather. A super hot and sticky, overly humid summer day in Shanghai that kept people flocking near the aircons in the food tents. I still don’t know how they want to handle this when the real Expo is up and people will have to queue for hours outside the main attractions.

Guess we’ll all find out soon enough

Alive and kickin’

submono — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:49:59 +0000

One million urban planning exhibitions later I’m still stuck in China, although we’re hard at work to change this situation dramatically

What is new is that I’ve started doing some fine concept paintings again, something that helps tremendously in keeping me sane in an insane country.

Here are some examples:

It usually takes something between 45 minutes and several hours to finish one of these babies.

Sarnai

submono — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:56:21 +0000

While in Berlin I stumbled – purely by chance – upon this wonderful photograph by Andres Marroquin. Marroquin is a young photographer who has just graduated from the Ostkreuz school for photography and this photograph of a young girl (Sarnai) from Mongolia was part of the graduation exhibition in an old transformer station in Berlin Pankow.

I went to the exhibition and the original photograph thankfully turned out to be even more mesmerizing than the web preview. I then immediately called the artist and bought the print . And I’m very happy about it!

Bad mobile phone pictures of a good exhibition

Am Meer

submono — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:51:39 +0000

What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami

submono — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:43:48 +0000

I am a big fan of Haruki Murakami and his wonderful, magical novels and short stories. So I was delighted to find “What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami”. As a founder of not just one but already three different companies I know that these words are very, very true. Pace yourself, believe in yourself, do what you really want to do, stick to it, don’t listen to Mr. and Mrs. “You can’t” and again believe in yourself.

Thanks to michetravi for pointing me in this direction.

Oasis

submono — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:20:52 +0000

I found an oasis in Berlin:

Ordinary people picking up dirt from the streets because they want their environment to be clean

A woman buying breakfast for the homeless guy at the corner

The super market girl at the check out double-checking the receipt because she thinks the bill is too high

Everywhere friendly and relaxed people chatting for no other reason than that life is here to live

Really a strange place, in the middle of the city…

cultural differences | germany and china

submono — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:02:27 +0000

a picture says more than a thousand words. this is very, very true when you have a a look at these little gems. although entertaining they say how it (very often) is. you can find everything about the project by yang liu here.