visual poetry.

Totem from Superblack on Vimeo.

Super! Mario!

by the Knutsson Brothers from Sweden :)

Je vous ouvrir le crane, ma chère amie.

Mansfield TYA - "sur le plafond" from charlie mars on Vimeo. 
via lesbianbutch.tumblr.com

Il n'y a pas d'étoiles // Sur Le Plafond // Si je m'allonge au sol // Je me noie, dans le son

Les yeux de ma promise // Sont des cimetières // Des cadavres en chemise // Courent dans ses artères

Les yeux de ma promise // Des cadavres en chemise

Il n'y a pas d'étoiles // Sur Le Plafond // Si je m'allonge au sol // Je me noie, dans le son

Votre tête est un tombeau // Une cage à soucis // Puis-je vous ouvrir le crane ma chère amie

Votre tête est un tombeau // Puis-je vous ouvrir le crane

Il n'y a pas d'étoiles // Sur Le Plafond // Si je m'allonge au sol // Je me noie, dans le son

Je vis dans un couloir // Qui n'a pas de tête // Les murs sont des armoires en allumettes

Je vis dans un couloir // Les murs sont des armoires

Il n'y a pas d'étoiles // Sur Le Plafond // Si je m'allonge au sol // Je me noie, dans le son

Il n'y a pas d'étoiles // Sur Le Plafond // Si je m'allonge au sol // Je me voie, que des cons

My little farm.

I started growing my own vegetables on 20 square metres. And I want more!
It is a beautiful experience to see your food grow, to get a feeling for the time and care it takes and for uncomparable freshness when nibbling the radish directly from your garden...
It is also surprisingly easy to produce your own 'best veggies in the world'. Therefore I will definitely work more and more land in the future. And these two videos are encouraging me to follow my hippie-dreams of being a part-time farmer! (as does my dear friend Saskia, by recommending me these videos.)

Honeybee.

Made by Hand / No 3 The Beekeeper from Made by Hand on Vimeo.

beautiful music by beautiful people.

You're A Runner by Me And My Drummer from Sinnbus on Vimeo.

Procrastination...

... is strolling vimeo for awesome videos.

Procrastination from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

Belated Halloween.

Mound by Allison Schulnik from garaco taco on Vimeo.

Women, know your Limits!

tiny town Big Berlin.

why is everything sweet in tiny?

Tiny Town - Berlin from Sam on Vimeo.

Taste the Waste

It’s a system that we all take part in: Supermarkets constantly have the complete selection of merchandise on offer, the bread on the shelves has to be fresh until late in the evening, strawberries are in demand at any time of the year. And everything has to look just right: One withered leaf of lettuce, a crack in a potato or a dent in an apple and the goods are sorted out...

Amazing but true: On the way from the farm to the dining-room table, more than half the food lands on the dump. Most of it before it ever reaches consumers.

When it comes right down to it, no one actually thinks this is okay: Food is not something to be thrown away “because others have nothing to eat”, as younger people would say, and as for the elderly: “I was around during the war and we were glad to get our hands on every crust of bread!” That’s one side of the story. They discover the other side when they venture a look into dumpsters: behind their local supermarket and, if they can summon up enough courage, in the trash cans outside their own door. We’re not talking about chicken bones and potato peels here. The topic at hand is perfectly edible food, some still in the original packaging, and frequently enough not even the ‘best before’ date has expired.

If we were to save merely half of the avoidable garbage, that would have the same effect on the world climate as when we took one out of four cars off our roads.

And on famine, too. My mother always reminded me to eat everything on my plate: “Children in Africa would be glad to have that food.” We children never took her seriously. How were the leftovers on our plates supposed to get to African children? The rising prices of wheat clearly illustrate the point: These days we buy our food on the same world market where developing countries buy theirs. If we threw away less and bought less as a result, the prices would drop and more would be left for the hungry.

(selected quotes from the website to the film, rearranged)

My ears still think of you.

Finally. Tim Neuhaus & the cabinet (above) and Herrenmagazin (below) were guests at TVnoir (singer/songwriter 'talk'show) in march. Both gave lot of pleasure to my ears that night so that I wanted to share them with you ever since (and was just waiting for the Herrenmagazin-video of that night to be online). Sorry for all my non-german readers who will not understand the beautiful lyrics of Herrenmagazin... actually - why don't you tell me in the comments what you'd guess he is singing, just by interpreting voice and music!?

(big thanks to my dear sister - yes the famous clown - as it was her who invited me out to this event and who really was the cherry on the cake that night ♥ ).

YES YES YES more!

one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Wouhouu!

Paradise Lost.

The exhibition "Paradise Lost" in Istanbul Modern deals with the old dualistic understanding of culture vs. nature in the western world. The shown video-installations approch this issue from many different perspectives. Some of them focus on the "clash" of nature and modern technology, others wake and exhibit a deep fascination for the creation (wich I do not mean in a religious sense!) with all the structure and beauty in it. You will see naked people in the clouds, women dancing on saturated green mountain meadows, opened skulls, memories stored in light and a biker comforting kangaroos. And more that keeps you thinking.

"Paradoxically we celebrate or mourn modern industrial society as the cause and effect of humans' victory over nature. Modern industrial society thus is seen as the end of nature and the highest state of culture. Yet modern industrial society is at the same time critically dependent on "natural" resources such as hydrocarbons. Modern human society is not independent of nature; at best (and at worst) it's a hybrid of nature and culture."

The video below gives an insight to the installation that captured me most because of its stunnig, calm aesthetic, without a wagging finger or moral sermon, and yet offering "a message" - Migration by Doug Aitken. Every shot in it would be worth a frame.

 
"Even many animals are not really unambiguously part of nature or culture. Several of North America's iconic "wild" animals, for example, are neither wild nor domesticated. Turkey, deer, buffalo, pigeon and geese all passed through genetic bottlenecks as humans subjected the species to dramatic selective pressures by (nearly) exterminating them, breeding them back or managing their populations."
 
(quotes from Interview with Emmanuel Kreike, associate professor of history and associated faculty member of the Princeton Environmental Institute, by Carol Peters found here)

temporary exhibition "PARADISE LOST"
in Istanbul Modern
until the 24th of July,
on thursdays entrance is free

Urban Gardening.

Absolutely lovely. Even though I must say that she looks like the incorporation of alternative-eco-stereoptype: I think this is really cool. And I was astonished how much harvest she actually has in the end - even though we're only shown a very small part of it. This got me definitely hooked! I found the video via yougrowgirl.com, a page for people who have maybe even smaller or no gardens at all.

Philematology oder ein Kuss macht kein Loch.

Andy Warhols "the Kiss", 1963

• Anthropologists report that 90 percent of the people in the world kiss. 
• The orbicularis oris is the muscle running around the outside of your mouth that allows for the basic kiss. It changes the shape of your mouth while you talk, and it puckers your lips when you kiss.
• Bonobo apes kiss one another frequently. They kiss to reduce tension after disputes, to reassure one another, to develop social bonds and sometimes for no clear reason at all.
• About two-thirds of people tip their heads to the right while kissing. Scientists believe this preference starts before we're born, when we tip our heads to the right in the womb. 

find out more about kissing here, here or here. 
The facts above are taken from the kiss-quiz you find on the last link (and partially edited)
"Ein Kuss macht kein Loch" ist ein venezianische Sprichwort, sagt Wikiquote

Leiber & Love.

Am Besten mit "Der Himmel ist blau" von den Ärzten parallel abgespielt.

Watch it with "Der Himmel ist blau", a song by the german band die Ärzte played as backround music.