Recht auf Ausbildung!

A couple of weeks ago i covered a demonstration of about 200 pupils, on their way through the center of Berlin. Their mission: Hand over a petition to the members of the German parliament, the Bundestag. There’s currently about 1,5 million youngsters in Germany desperately looking for in-firm training for all sorts of jobs – but these days very few companies are willing to train the workforce of tomorrow. So these kids got over 75,000 people to sign their petition for a law to guarantee training. Hope some sort of legislation will be passed soon, or many young people will end up untrained, in dead-end jobs with sh*t wages.

MC Maihem

I shot this at one of our Grimetime-parties in 2005. Shame MC Maihem never took things further and vanished from the scene shortly after. No idea how such a petite & pretty girl could have such a big & bad voice!

Berlin IS the center of the art world.

These days one constantly reads about Berlin being the center of the art world, the eye of the storm of global artistic creativity and originality. What a load of crap, i kept thinking. Then, one Sunday i came across this in one of the many Berlin flea-markets. In this painting of Tokio Hotel’s Tom Kaulitz i immediately felt the suggestion of a narrative intent, an echo of socialist realism – clearly, the work of one of the many geniuses in town. The MoMA better track this one down. I think it was oil on canvas.

My Soprano Epiphany

Have i mentioned that i hate opera and everything that goes with it? Well, at least so i thought. Enter: A ‘froed hottie with a killer soprano who sings early songs of Arnold ‘twelvetone’ Schoenberg and has a wicked sense of humor. And i’m sold.

(this is another ‘left-over’ of my work at yellow lounge for deutsche grammophon & pfadfinderei)

Alexanderplatz – new wildlife refuge