I once stayed a night in Chungking Mansions, when a flight from Canada arrived too late to catch even the …
August 30, 2011
Madrid
Already in Madrid three days since arriving Saturday morning and sliding across town on the Metro to walk into Dasniya’s …
July 31, 2011
A day in Gent
A short pause for two days before the next project begins. Gala and I have been working together and in …
June 19, 2011
Finissage der KunstAktienausstellung
Saturday night was the Finissage of the KunstAktienausstellung in Uferhallen. Some hours were spent wandering around the entire Hallen looking …
October 16, 2010
uferhallen at night
Apparently the fire department will come and take me down if I attempt to climb the chimney in Uferhallen. Well, …
October 10, 2010
uferhallen – autumn
A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …
July 25, 2010
sophiensäle wien
Blogging daily about Café Prückel I think I can say won’t be happening. Much busyness, running around, long days, inability …
June 3, 2010
there is a chimney on the other side…
… but not so much sun this spring. A view from my window in Wedding, over the BVG workshops, now …
May 6, 2010
brussels train
A week in Brussels. Much reading, three new books, two finished. Much cooking also, Hans, Aunschka, Paea whom I’ve not …
April 18, 2010
Kirschblütenfest in den Asiatischen Gärten
Journeying far east to Erholungspark Marzhan and the Gärten der Welt for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Much apartment-stack architecture reminding …
April 9, 2010
london – a proof
Why are you photographing busses in Picadilly Circus? To prove I was here. … and that I was a tourist. …
November 23, 2009
lx3 v2.1 1:1
While I suffer with what I shall call VogelschweinSARSgrippe, and ponder whether I can arrive in as many cities as …
October 11, 2009
Ath
An adventure yesterday, south-west of Bruxelles for around 30 minutes. A train with Gala, past a town called Silly. No, …
October 10, 2009
antwerpen
A train to Antwerpen with no ticket despite my attempts to buy one. Thirty minutes in which I think upon …
September 25, 2009
riding home at night
Many other photos to show, of shibari chrome sex robots, and a nach dienstschluss mit Katrin, whom I am designing …
September 21, 2009
uferstr & kreuzberg & treptow
Sie sagt, “Kapitalismus muss weg!” mit Ihr Faust drohen, über ein €10 Zweiradschloss. Wir hat geradelt um Kreuzberg und Treptow, …
September 5, 2009
leaving the brauerei
For the last nine months, I’ve been living in a beautiful, isolated small apartment, by virtue of being on a …
August 28, 2009
night and trees
I saw my darling Ivo perform last night at Halle. Sublimely brilliant and I shall attempt to write something on …
August 19, 2009
brauerei fast fertig
Soon I will have to leave my beloved hobo dachgeschoss. Eight months, surely one of the most beautiful homes in …
August 12, 2009
plants vs brauerei
Somehow I stumbled back onto a couple who inspired my greatly years ago when I first started computers and design …
August 8, 2009
häuslichkeit
I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …
July 25, 2009
nahe brauerei, sonnenblumen getötet
Playing with my camera yesterday during the rain, ah summer in Berlin would like to be tropical, but I miss …
July 15, 2009
a plant a brewery
Learning more of depth of field and finally moving into the full manual mode on my LX3. It has a …
July 14, 2009
brauerei, alex im hintergrund
More playing with my camera. I wondered why shooting at f/4 was leaving the background in wide-angle shots a bit …
June 24, 2009
brauerei in sonnenabschied
Playing with things like P and A and S, but not M. Unless M is movie. HD video from a …
June 23, 2009
first light
Something telescopes do… it feels like the appropriate description for the first photo I take with my camera. Of course …
June 16, 2009
Reading: Alexandra Richie – Faust’s Metropolis – A History of Berlin
alexandra richie – faust’s metropolis
June 16, 2009
bötzow brauerei beleuchtet bei nacht
An undertaking by night in the Brauerei. An unlikely moment where my poor camera has enough light to capture the …
June 1, 2009
käse und brot
Still coming back to myself. Daniel arrived with much cheese and bread. Later I ate three steaks. Salt and meat, …
May 26, 2009
gewitterregen über bötzow brauerei
Summer, it has been decided will be stormy with displays of thunder and lightning. Much blowing of wind also. It …
May 20, 2009
brauerei schornstein… ohne schornstein
It is almost time for dinner. What little things have I done recently? Updated to OS X 10.5.7 which miraculously …
May 17, 2009
buchstabenmuseum
I’m not sure where I stumbled upon this, but it wasn’t so long ago and immediately thought of someone whose …
May 8, 2009
sonne um abenddämmerung… mehr regen
Tired. Allzu viele Wartezeiten für Termine. Allzu viele Termine. Bei jedem Schritt, Abhängigkeit. Mehr ich weiß nicht, wie zu sagen. …
April 3, 2009
höhlenforschung im hof
I am sick, a little exhausted and run down and sad at the moment, not that I am ever so …
March 22, 2009
because i have been remiss…
I haven’t blogged much this month due to… oh I’m not sure, it just slips by sometimes and I think, …
March 3, 2009
digging up the hof
When the sign on the door said please clean up the Hof and put your bicycles in the cellar, and …
February 18, 2009
some days of snow over the bötzow brauerei
Lina returned. Monday night via Hermannplatz. I remember the M41 does not lead towards me. The last few days have …
February 12, 2009
nach dem schnee… ganz kalt…
I borrowed Lina’s camera. I’d forgotten what it’s like to have a good camera, one that can zoom and frame …
February 11, 2009
starker schnee-regen… oder maßiger…
More of a dusting of water frozen out of the air. Lina arrived from Amsterdam, it rained and the slate …
February 7, 2009
Bötzow-Brauerei the next day…
My camera is not so good. Well, it is my phone actually, so rather good for what it was three …
February 7, 2009
biblio-smut
When I have my pirate castle I shall also have a library like this. I’m not sure which, maybe all …
February 7, 2009
Bötzow-Brauerei
Quite often I look out my window, across the warm brick expanse of… I wonder what it is, a vast …
January 9, 2009
sakhalin arctic pirate lighthouse
In my long search for the perfect lighthouse to wage piracy from, I’ve stumbled across a chain of Soviet era …
January 1, 2009
my new house…
Moving again, nearby, a hobo attic suspended above Berlin. Daniel, Gala and Vanessa for Silverster dinner, Suisse cheese fondue, roast …
November 27, 2008
alleys, a pirate shack…
Alleys for fishermen and harbour girls. The greyness creates a completely different light here and sounds from the distance travel …
November 26, 2008
further along the beach… and a castle
Another walk yesterday, after two hours of yoga, inadvertently, I just pottered through things I haven’t done for a while, …
November 25, 2008
along the beach…
I went for a walk yesterday, in search of fish and seafood for dinner, but arrived too late, too much …
November 2, 2008
dinner & thwarted by a dog
The firetrucks took so long to arrive. The police were there first, and then more. Then an ambulance, all useful …
October 20, 2008
lustgarten und der palast der republic
It was an assignment for German class, to wander from the Goethe Institut to Hackescher Markt and then across the …
October 3, 2008
walking in graefe-kiez
Still I am thinking of my walk to ballet each morning and how oh perhaps tomorrow or next week I …
September 24, 2008
kreuzberg 10967
I have moved. A home. For a while, my own room, a bed, unpacked suitcases, books on top of a …
September 18, 2008
englisch buchhandlungen aus berlin
(I was waiting until I’d visited a few more bookshops, but I’ve been distracted with writing applications, and know it …
September 9, 2008
some u-bahnhof & s-bahnhof i have visited
I’ve visited many more and find them all delightful and yummy thick ceramic tiles and iron girders with fat rivets …
September 4, 2008
köpenickenstr wagenburg
I’ll try and remember where I began. It was last night. Was I searching for something for someone? Was I …
August 31, 2008
rosa luxemburg platz
Wandering around the Volksbühne in the evening on the way to eat Burritos. A new bookshop discovered, much laziness, food …
August 29, 2008
revalerstr 99
This week a haze has descended on me, it is easier to stay in bed safe in the folds of …
August 26, 2008
kreuzberg… s036
Looking for… turned around exiting the u-bahn, dampness and grey Berlin wears comfortably. Some cities resent their weather, others, Guangzhou …
August 22, 2008
hadlichstraße… a cigarette dancing factory
I often muse on how dance takes me into peculiar, old, strange, uninhabited, alien places. Old cities are amassed with …
July 7, 2008
Juedisches Museum Berlin
I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today. juedisches museum berlin – 1 juedisches museum berlin – 2 juedisches museum …
July 7, 2008
the remainder of the weekend
I don’t understand what I’m looking at. This afternoon, again in Rosenthalerplatz, I decided to walk much of the way …
October 29, 2007
reading: kerstin finger – tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
October 22, 2007
daniel’s secret town
Walking through town last week, Daniel took me into another one of the city’s abandoned construction sites. Adelaide has an …
August 19, 2007
sunset on hindley st
Maybe a week ago, leaving the mall and about to walk along Hindley St towards something and being stopped by …
April 29, 2007
it returns to wilderness
Letter-hyphen-town has been what most cities I’ve lived in have been reduced to since Emile in Zürich shortened it to …
March 11, 2007
lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now …
February 26, 2007
when in doubt … cliché and generalise
Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning’s blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary, …
December 14, 2006
burnley bouldering overpass
A late-morning ballet class, a lot of cycling, and a mid-afternoon boulder down at Burnley. I was feeling like chocolate …
December 14, 2006
degraves st subway alley
Somehow I have managed to avoid, during my decade in and out of Melbourne, from ever going down the stairs …
November 13, 2006
leaving adelaide again
One final morning class at Leigh Warren after a tumultuous previous night where I made the mistake of inadequate supplies …
July 28, 2006
创意广州十三行 creative canton
It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for …
July 7, 2006
三元里 san yuan li in new york
Ou Ning of Alternative Archive, who does spend more time in airports than me, and possibly the person mostly likely …
May 26, 2006
collapsing old buildings
There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking …
April 17, 2006
supernaut is lazy (but can read…)
I’d probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut …
March 22, 2006
park19 in 石围塘 shiweitang
A very strange day yesterday of taxis and ferries and walking around parts of Guangzhou that are very much not …
March 14, 2006
somewhere in asia…
When I get jammed into an aisle seat and told, “Aw, just put yer legs in the aisle”, coz I’m …
February 25, 2006
fengdu’s erased horizon
Daily reading of Diacritic, and this reminded me alot – in an almost diametrically opposite way – of the photography …
December 1, 2005
a taxi ride
Going from Huanshi Dong Lu to Jiangnan Dadao, across the river and along the inner city elevated freeways that snake …
October 26, 2005
shanghai does contemporary art
Contemporary art in China is really mostly a scene in Beijing around 798 Factory, despite other cities having something going …
October 13, 2005
Traditional Architecture in modern Asia
I’m not sure where the link to this came from, but anyone interested in Asian architecture will get a kick …
October 12, 2005
origami
Phillip Adams of Ballelab, Australia’s only genius choreographer is presenting a development of origami on October 21st and 22nd at …
October 2, 2005
architecture for dictators
Periodically Domus deals with architecture in Asia that goes beyond the mind-numbing childishness of Shanghai=good!!! and manages to make the …
January 19, 2005
architecture of density
The Robert Kock Gallery in San Francisco is exhibiting the large-scale photographs of Hong Kong-based artist Michael Wolf until the …
December 23, 2004
give me toilet architecture or give me death
Professor Yu is going to be taking alot of shit for a while for thinking Rem Koolhaas should apologise for …
November 16, 2004
‘second-tier city’ culture
Chongqing recently expanded its boundaries to become the largest municipality in the world with a population of some 20 million …
November 16, 2004
guangzhou’s tallest building
In Yuexiu Park there is an old drum tower which is most of what remains of the once city-encircling walls. …
November 13, 2004
城市謠言 – 華人建築展 2004 The Rumor of China Towns
Blowing off the opportunity to see Ned Kelly at the Film Festival, the next stop for the night was MOCA …
November 5, 2004
architecture in beijing
The first architecture Biennial Beijing 2004 has just started in the capital, and Stefano Mirti, Simone Muscolino and Luca Poncellini …
October 22, 2004
东山小区 dong shan town
Around 5pm it’s impossible to get a taxi anywhere in town, and even if you do, it moves so slow …
October 21, 2004
liwan hutong
China is keeping me busy. I’m teaching contemporary dance at the Guangdong modern Dance Company School Yes, they have a …
September 23, 2004
the watchtowers of 开平碉楼 kaiping diaolou
News Guangdong reports on the Kaiping Watchtowers, diaolou 碉樓, which have come under State protection for their architecture and historic …
September 22, 2004
taikang art street
With the demolition or threatened demolition of artist’s villages and communities in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai as the glacial mental …