weekly glee # 16 2009 : post-halloween edition .

halloween is over, but the glamour of it never really fades. this is why there's still so much spooky and creepy stuff in this post.

1. desertions.

police motorcycle / cuteness on the rocks.

# 1940ies house by the river by themushroomtea - very creepy little house with cat skeleton, mummified rat, lost shoes and a loooot of dark corners.
# '...and all the pieces matter' by thehoodwatch - pictures from the abandoned set of HBO's 'the wire' in columbia, md. apparently, 'the wire' was a tv series and the settings of it are now abandoned. lovely! you'd never see a real police department abandoned, i s'ppose. see also: halloween houses.
# abandoned estate of the bibi family in grebnevo by new_karfagen - lion heads, yawning cats ( beware! cute! ), puppets in windows. this estate has a lot of little surprises waiting for you :D
# up on sale are those two estates: kimora lee simmons' luxurious villa with own cinema and sport studio & dylan mcdermott's home with the best old doors ever.

2. photogenius.

psycho house / bird fears

# the brothers grimm by matthew brooks for t magazine - oooh, guys with style! i love the tailored coats and everything.
# grazia by antonio redaelli - cozy clothes and the rifled hair + marble skin = <3
# the birds by peter lindberg 2006 - a photoshoot based on the alfred hitchcock movie 'the birds'. very eerie and gorgeous at the same time. see also: peter lindberg made another set for the movie psycho!

3. architecture & design.

# cartesia drawers by nosigner - this drawer is totally crazy and versatile! it opens up in different directions and has a lot of storing room.

4. diversity.

the creepiest places on earth

so cool!

5. video time.

regina spektor . eet
i love regina! full of super sweet ideas and witty humour :D

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november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

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 ...

ghost of nature.

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