Finissage der KunstAktienausstellung

Saturday night was the Finissage of the KunstAktienausstellung in Uferhallen. Some hours were spent wandering around the entire Hallen looking …

200 years of Liszt and some pianos

There is a piano restorer in Uferhallen. Once a week or so the forecourt fills with many cars not from …

drilling foundations at night

Riding home from Yoga+Bondage with Dasniya, around 1am the city still, especially along my favourite to-and-from Kreuzberg route. From Oranienplatz …

cartwheel again

I thought perhaps these were better separate from a Yoga+Bondage workshop. The last few days have been busy at nameless, …

cartwheel

It reminded me a little of China Miéville’s Handstand, except the pigeon was perhaps making a no-handed cartwheel. We have …

a body – gala moody at the volksroom

The coffee is made thus: In a small bowl two teaspoons or so of sugar for every cup is added. …

mein lesbisches auge 10

Some weeks ago, I was called upon to get an image ready for print with a half-hour, mid-night deadline; the …

Yoga&Shibari 27.4.

Wednesday has become a long day for me. Cycling to and from training in the morning, with the two hours …

bvg ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf)

(Which is harder to write when you can’t plop in some mathematical notation.) There’s a lot happening at Uferhallen lately. …

us alone tied

The day before the last performance, we arranged to spend some time on the stage working on some suspensions and …

parsifal. end.

jardin 5 4 3 2 1 fin.

the tying before parsifal unties

I saw the first Act. Well, parts of it I’d not seem before, while loitering side-stage from shortly after Nietzsche …

parsifal suspended

Today was our second workshop, this time being attentive to suspension. After the last one, word got around of our …

half-way

Last night, the fifth performance and half-way through the season of Parsifal, was pretty much what we hoped for. I …

parsi5000

Just after midday today, I took my 5000th photo with my Panasonic LX3. It’s not especially good, blurry, mid-action, looking …

third and some thoughts on revulsion

(I wasn’t so happy with what I wrote here last night, so I’m splitting this up and hopefully will write …

parsifotos

Once we got into the theatre to rehearse, I decided to not show all the photos, and wait until Parsifal …

last before

I see so little. The first act is warming up, putting on ropes. The only part I really see is …

all together now (including pauses)

Oh! There are a lot of people here. I wasn’t expecting that! Not just an obvious number of friends and …

1882, chin of nietzsche, invisible orchestra, double basses clamour to escape

Which is the title to the only image I will show today. As we come closer and I spend more …

that’s what parsifal said…

Getting stuck in Ghent at 1am after missing the last train from Brugge, talking in the kitchen till 330am and …

orchestra-ing and opera-ing (and black metal-ing)

The evening cafeteria meal was unique in being quite utterly tasteless. I had to ask Gala to try the dried …

la monnaie

Strange I have no category for pain. Two days after feeling so comfortable hanging for half an hour, I find …

bo shibari

Today was working with Gala mostly. It’s almost 1am and I am a little bleary-eyed and wondering if dinner, shower, …

Wahnsinn… Oh! – Wut… Ach! Jammer!

(Mainly because supernaut has been discovered at Parsifal, so I can no longer entertain the fancy I’m writing for my …

friday parsifal

A late start for some of us today and not even a suspension for me, though I was all ready …

the second act

Already almost 1am and still long before I find sleep. Today was another long one, with a running of the …

wherin tomas suspends dasniya, later much stupidity from gala and frances

We went in on Monday, the others enjoying a day off, to work on some rope stuff. Dasniya wanted to …

miscellanea surrounding friday evening

Did I say we tried the second scene mostly naked with much whiteness? Comes off with soapy showering. That was …

supernaut lightbox

When supernaut first began, there was barely much of the internet as it is now. I had decided to use …

break test

An interesting experiment. Amidst all the known security of carabiners, harnesses, spinners bearing 26kN stamps, and all the multitude of …

yesterday and today

We spent some hours yesterday using the empty rehearsal theatre to try some things. Two days of snoozing, eating, snoozing, …

parc forest winter

A dusk walk in the leafless forest. parc forest – 1 parc forest – 2 parc forest – 3 parc …

ein bühnenweinfestspiel, some books, a story

“A funny story.” (As I remember it from 9am, or, how black metal brings us all together.) “I said to …

some parsifal-ing

The rehearsal theatre is much bigger than most company’s performing theatres. Next door is another. Below others. A cafeteria on …

berlin to brussels … again …

Much packing, organising, turning off of fridge, plants watering, courier arriving, eating the remainders of the fridge. (and so on.) …

uferstrasse snow

It’s not the Gulf Stream collapsing. It’s not going to be the coldest winter in 1000 years. The North Atlantic …

caadx-105 … a story of buying a new bike

I bought a bike. (Actually, I bought it a couple of weeks ago, I just got busy, was over in …

some sunday evening shibari attempts

No, I haven’t been writing here much lately (again). I took a week off and went to Brussels, staying with …

grunewald … nordwärts vom nikolaisee

The S-Bahn detoured to Messe Sud, somewhere I’d never heard of before, then the ersatzverkehr bus dragged me the length …

grunewald again…

How did that happen? A month and hot a single hike or walk. I thought perhaps it had been two …

uferhallen at night

Apparently the fire department will come and take me down if I attempt to climb the chimney in Uferhallen. Well, …

uferhallen – autumn

A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …

grunewald

Schlachtensee, Krume Lanke and the lakes along the east side of Grunewald have been my favourite walks around Berlin since …

london again

Dasniya received some photos of her and us at the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage a couple …

müggelsee by boat and foot

Today rising somewhat early and then via S-Bahn (und zwei abgefickte neo-faschisten), Ostkreuz, S-Bahn again to Friedrichshagen, a town outside …

hips hip knee knee

Somehow my hip has decided to fall apart. And my knee. Boring not to be able to dance, ride, yoga, …

grunewald schlachten see

Raining in steady endless sheets, grey and the faint sense of autumn already. While hiking around Vienna I thought I …

yoga + shibari brussels photos

Some photos from the workshop Dasniya taught in Brussels late-June/early-July. I’ve been meaning to put these up for a while, …

lainzer tiergarten

I took off away from the city yesterday, as I’d been planning since before I arrived, remembering wandering in the …

in café prückel again, above and below

Some pictures from yesterday, in-between writing some notes that may become my script. café prückel hans writing the drinking scene …

rehearsing in café prückel

Today in Café Prückel, in the cellar, in the theatre. Filming some of the performance and performing some of it …

rehearsing in the schauspielhaus

A long day finally with everyone together working through what has been until now individual and separate. Also the arrival …

sophiensäle wien

Blogging daily about Café Prückel I think I can say won’t be happening. Much busyness, running around, long days, inability …

brussels parc forest and others…

Ten days in Brussels, it passes quickly. Tomorrow returning to my other home. I haven’t written much about being here, …

return to blog

The last week has been chaotic. I came to Brussels slightly early – on Tuesday, to help with Dasniya’s Yoga …

arrive…

Around twenty minutes before the decent would reach its terminal conclusion, I fell asleep, the Airbus landing, front or side …

actually the whole purpose of this was…

actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this …

late spring painting of leaves for arrival of summer

He carries a large white bucket and three different brushes, two delicate tied on to poles, one short and fat. …

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 …

brussels train

A week in Brussels. Much reading, three new books, two finished. Much cooking also, Hans, Aunschka, Paea whom I’ve not …

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 …

some days in london … part one

Arriving late. Dasniya and I caught the ring S-Bahn to Flughaven Schönefeld certainly one of the most dreary airports belonging …

japanese bondage live drawing

Monday at the London Festival of Japanese Rope Bondage, something of a quieter day for all of us finished with …

london – a proof

Why are you photographing busses in Picadilly Circus? To prove I was here. … and that I was a tourist. …

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. …

Ath

An adventure yesterday, south-west of Bruxelles for around 30 minutes. A train with Gala, past a town called Silly. No, …

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 …

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, …

leaving the brauerei

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

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 …

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 …

nahe brauerei, sonnenblumen getötet

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

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 …

ftp blah…

I have no idea why none of my FTP applications are able to run LIST -a while using Internode’s wireless …

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