weekly glee # 11 2009.

hello from autumny wiesbaden!
the weather is pretty chilly right now and i think i feel the melancholy crawling into my life.
but i have a huge stack of wonderful links coming, so maybe it'll help me through surviving this issue.

1. desertions.

murmansk desertion

# murmansk marine biological institute by victorprofessor - this definitely does not look like some institutional building, so it's all the way more interesting! i love the vacation residence feeling about these buildings. it must have been wonderful to work here! all the stacks of books and sheets, it's amazing what you can find there!

2. photogenius.

warrior from outerspace / bunny woman
( notice the resemblance? tim walker week :D )

# bruna tenorio by geoff barrenger - this arabian-styled photoshoot is just too beautiful!
# the lady who fell to earth by tim walker for vogue uk october 09 - actually, i'm a bit of a phobian when it comes to everything out of space, but these pictures let me hope that there can be beautifulness out there as well :P
# make me a monster by daniel jackson for dazed & confused october 2009 - first off: not safe for work! second: oh my god, how awesome is this? these pictures are jaw dropping! and at the same time you can't help but think how magnificiently beautiful they are. in their very own way.
# ash stymest & anna selzneva by karmi sadli for system F/W 2009 - all i can say about these is: hot! especially ash stymest.
# valentina zelyaeva by richard bush for elle usa september 09 - i love the wind blown clothes and the hair and the overall very november like feeling. i like that the model is not sad nor melancholic but very excited :P
#tim burton's tricks & treats by tim walker - i bet this week's most loved photographer is tim walker, haha :D well, but how can you not love his photography when looking at oversized bones, edward scissorhands, red haired bunny women and tim burton characters all the way through?

3. architecture & design.

# tiramolla loft bedrooms by tumidei - RAD! oh how practical and the best of all: visually stimulating to the eye! i don't think kids should own that all alone. i'd have a great interest in these, too!

4. diversity.

yummy pie / not so yummy monsters

# nubby twiglet introduced dean & de luca - a food store - to her readers and my eyes popped out as i saw the delicious cakes and fruits and the wonderful presentation of the goods! i'm a retail saleswoman and i find it very interesting to see other food trader's concepts. yum!

#alexdoomer2009 has posted some eye catching moscow pictures on his livejournal. check out!
# wanna see some epic hair? check out 'don't judge my hair' and discover the world of bad hair do! like the dog poo hair!
# yummy! watermelon pie! check out! try out!
# artist and photographer mark powell sends us right to hell with his monster modellizations. i found this on my darling's livejournal - usotsuki! check out her icon makery here: live = evil.

5. video time.

bob dylan and patti smith singing dark eyes

there is something so intense and personal between those two. very wonderful to watch this video, i love it lots! here's some more information about bob dylan/patti smith relations.

george harrison and the pirate song.

on september 19th there was the international 'speak like a pirate' day and coilhouse has posted a very funny article about that. i love george harrisson's 'the pirate song' :D

and now i leave with some serious eyecandy. this enchanting young men with autumn leaf hair! quite handsome he is!

shot by the sartorial ist.

have a nice week!

may '20: seeking modernism.

super pink rhododendron buds emerging! i start off this post with some flower images to appreciate and praise the time of spring, especially the month of may, which is the most abundant spring month to me personally. all the blossoms, all the fresh greens amass during may, and my heart and mind are hardly ever able to not frolick & gush about it all! for this post i am returning to one walk i did with the sole purpose to find a special mid-century villa in königstein ( which would ultimately prove to be a failure - i did find it, but i couldn't approach it properly to have a good look at it and only ever saw a tiny bit of the garden/forest side ). the whole walk was not a letdown, though, as i did find some other mid-century & brutalism gems and thoroughly enjoyed walking through the old spa town in the taunus mountains. rhododendron shrubs yield all kinds of different blossoms in myriad colours, they are easy to breed, therefore a wide variety can be found all over the wor...

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

november: thuringian forest.

the day we visited the thuringian forest near luisenthal we would also receive the death notice of my cousin. while the day in luisenthal was pretty magic - i even found a goat skull to take home for my not so fast growing skull collection - the time we got home and received the phone call of my grandmother, everything went dull. we always had hoped for him to recover - over the course of his sickness there were multiple times we'd thought he was on his way up, but that also counted for the times it was clear that the cancer was severe and probably not defeatable. in the end he fought four years, but he couldn't conquer. his constant optimism & general good will wasn't enough as his body decided to give up on him. i'm still thinking a lot about him, he was such a good natured guy, always seeing the good in everything and everyone. it's so strange to know that he's never going to be on any future family party gathering again. we discussed so many things whe...

ghost of nature.

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