rope techniques

More Shibari with Dasniya, now in Kreuzberg. Much fun.
Jeden Mittwoch 20 -22 h Shibari Technik in Kreuzberg
An diesen Abenden werden …

anouk van dijk & falk richter – TRUST

The set is moody, gloomy, dark, chrome chairs and black leather sofa, matching seats, a stylist-industrial minimalist clutter extending back …

Hermann Heisig – THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP!

The second performance of Saturday night in Tanztage’s Festsaal, Hermann Heisig’s THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP! is superficially opposed to almost the …

too far again, not far enough…

Daniel is performing in the Adelaide Fringe this year. I think it will be rather good. Some photos to enjoy …

Laura Kalauz + Martin Schick – Title

Possibly the most problematic of all the performances I’ve seen so far in Tanztage, Laura Kalauz’s and Martin Schick’s Title …

Jana Unmüßig – HAUS

I had planned to see only a couple of performances in Tanztage, I thought perhaps one a night over a …

Death by Glitter – Get a Leg Up

The third performance of Friday night, and barely making it in time while snacking on Thunfisch pizza on the tram …

An Kaler – Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy

(An aside: Having managed to evade seeing dance for the most part last year, I thought I should take advantage …

2009 theater

Without taking the time to look, I’m not sure I’ve ever done an end-of-year best-of list for performances I’ve seen. …

solstice

Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. …

various things… some reading… a proper beginning

Daniel (no, not you, another one) says, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and so begins again. Reading, thinking, …

seile

I bought some rope today. From Fesseltrieb in far east Sonnenallee, biking through a first biting day of winter, clear …

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 …

landwehr kanal mit schneeregen

Snow and ice in the early afternoon in Berlin. In November. I shall no longer pretend it is still autumn.

Reading… a 2nd anniversary

My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …

bondage basics

More from Dasniya, who shall be teaching a two day workshop in Shibari in November. Certainly one of the highlights …

Konstruierte Fantasien / The Construction of Fantasy

From Dasniya, and what I’ve been doing since March this year, being tied, suspended, flying, tying others, playing, something like …

i went to brussels … again

A week this time. To Flughaven Schönefeld, then to Bruxelles Airport, raining once more, grey from B to B. Here …

i have a futon

The last time I saw my futon was, I think, early last year when I temporarily removed from storage all …

riding home at night

Many other photos to show, of shibari chrome sex robots, and a nach dienstschluss mit Katrin, whom I am designing …

uferstr & kreuzberg & treptow

Sie sagt, “Kapitalismus muss weg!” mit Ihr Faust drohen, über ein €10 Zweiradschloss. Wir hat geradelt um Kreuzberg und Treptow, …

osada steve

A couple of days before I began my current day job, a Thursday evening, having done some fast coding, I …

leaving the brauerei

For the last nine months, I’ve been living in a beautiful, isolated small apartment, by virtue of being on a …

som faves

Ivo says, ” you know I was very suspicious about its qualities and I will still be…”. Though not in …

night and trees

I saw my darling Ivo perform last night at Halle. Sublimely brilliant and I shall attempt to write something on …

i went to bruxelles… the weekend…

Ballet Friday, wandering the streets after and eating a lot. Mussels missed, but waffles, chocolate, pommes frites, beer, all yes. …

i went to bruxelles…

I was possessed by the desire to go to Brussels on Sunday last week, and in a fit of unusualness, …

brauerei fast fertig

Soon I will have to leave my beloved hobo dachgeschoss. Eight months, surely one of the most beautiful homes in …

Yoga im August

Yoga in August for Berlinerinnen, two hours every Sunday and I think you should go.
Liebe Augustinischen Yogis,
Für jene die …

plants vs brauerei

Somehow I stumbled back onto a couple who inspired my greatly years ago when I first started computers and design …

häuslichkeit

I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …

a chronology of burnt-out corpses

Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …

nahe brauerei, sonnenblumen getötet

Playing with my camera yesterday during the rain, ah summer in Berlin would like to be tropical, but I miss …

Gunter Kroemer

Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …

a plant a brewery

Learning more of depth of field and finally moving into the full manual mode on my LX3. It has a …

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 …

dasniyasommer.de

Because it’s…
I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, not …

thingswithbits.info

I thought it was about time I had another website…
(Now I just need to get around to spending more than …

one… eins

A year ago.
A train from Frankfurt lulling me out of the delirium and endurance of 30 hours or more, I …

Daniel Jaber, Class at Marameo. July 6 – 17!

EXCELLENT!!!
(which reminds me, I never saw the sequel)
And I’ll miss this sequel also. Poo. Fliegen, fliegen, fliegen… splat!
TUMBLING CLASS AT …

today i learned about depth of field

(Inbetween learning about search engine optimisation, Google Analytics… other…)
I have a book which is a basic introduction to DSLR cameras. …

brauerei in sonnenabschied

Playing with things like P and A and S, but not M. Unless M is movie. HD video from a …

first light

Something telescopes do… it feels like the appropriate description for the first photo I take with my camera.
Of course of …

ich habe eine kamera. es ist schwarz

panasonic lx3 black noir schwarz
miscellanea plus box and 8gb sdhc card
panasonic lx3 and lens cap
pasm! hotshoe! …

Daniel Jaber, Tumbling at Marameo! June 22-26

Not that I shall be doing it, which sucks…
Excellent fun!!! (more details on the flier…)
Daniel Jaber – Tumbling class for …

Reading: Alexandra Richie – Faust’s Metropolis – A History of Berlin

alexandra richie – faust’s metropolis

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 …

käse und brot

Still coming back to myself. Daniel arrived with much cheese and bread. Later I ate three steaks. Salt and meat, …

i’m home now…

That’s all.

where i was, tuesday till saturday
from daniel…
from dasniya…

im keller, 6ter stock… später in der buchhandlung und auch gewitterhagelsturm

A strange adventure with Daniel accompanying me and Matti translating on occasion. Kreuzberg near my old home, Dieffenbachstr, time too …

gewitterregen über bötzow brauerei

Summer, it has been decided will be stormy with displays of thunder and lightning. Much blowing of wind also. It …

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 …

buchstabenmuseum

I’m not sure where I stumbled upon this, but it wasn’t so long ago and immediately thought of someone whose …

SUNN O))) @ Volksbühne/Prater

SUNN O))) @ Volksbühne/Prater
Berlin, Berlin
Sunday, May 24 2009, 8:00 PM
— ideologic

MUSIKBÜHNE: SUNN O)))
So. 24.05.2009, 20:00 Uhr Volksbühne im Prater
STEPHEN O’MALLEY, der Doyen …

brauerei… nochmal…

chimney in sky
bötzow brauerei at dusk

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.

super dickmann (and his ’s)

Yes, really we laughed a lot.
super dickmann’s … (super dickmann’s what?)

regnend…

I have been meaning to write a couple of long posts on dance, art, performance and instead spent much of …

der 1. mai in berlin

I should really make a new category for Berlin…

Berlin.
I should really get off Movable Type so when I decide to …

MA √ 15’ { idiosyncrasy } sin x = ly – fx2¯

The best show I didn’t see this year, oh… I have difficulty with seeing dance, and then occasionally something is …

von berlin hbf nach wien sued

Early rising, 9 hours from Berlin to Vienna, through Czechoslovakia, I’ve never been there before. Now I’ve seen several train …