weekly glee # 22 2009.

christmas is getting nearer and nearer, and time speeds up. i'm counting the days until the stress is finally over. i'm already thinking of next year and hope that it will be a bit more relaxing. ( okay, i'm planning to move, but it doesn't really stress me out like these christmas days do, haha :D ). yesterday it snowed for the first time, it wasn't that much though. the mountains near me had more luck, the newspaper showed a white winter wonderland up there. i should drive up and make some photos ( oh, hai new camera <3 - silver one, there wasn't any other colour in the shop, buhu). until then.. some goodies found on the net :D

1. desertions.

almost castle-like / indoor grass

# abandoned train station in abkhazia by dmitry mordolff - two words: truly magnificient! someone should totally renovate this beautiful building. but it's actually pretty fantastic as it is now. reminds you, that there's still this georgian-abkhaz conflict going on with the south ossetian war.
# 'a catskills tradition' by dark_fetus - a huge hotel complex in the catskills mountains which was inspirational for the hotel in the movie 'dirty dancing'. another informative contribution by dark_fetus.
# jakob dylan, as well singer-songwriter as his father, bob dylan, put his home in l.a. on the market. some rooms are very romantic, some rooms are not so much my cup of tea. but all in all it has quite a spanish feel to it, which makes the villa pretty charming.

2. photogenius.

beehive gothic / straightjacketed beauty

# shalom harlow by sanchez & mongiello for numéro 108 - nets over nets. and ballerina influences! and absolutely well shot! ( warning - mild nudity! )
# ginta lapina by greg kadel for numéro 109 - it comes to my mind that numéro magazine must be absolutely goddess-like. i mean. i can't count the numerous good photosets anymore i've seen shot for this magazine! in this set we find a lot of red eye-catchers worn with the best fashion pieces ever! i'd like to wear almost anything that is showed here! 'specially this.
# julia, kamila & sharan by daniel jackson for vogue nippon january 2010 - gothic wave makeup mixed with beehive hair = unusual, but very nice-looking!
# courtney love by yelena yemchuk for dazed & confused january 2010 - even though miss love is quite an enfant terrible i like her photoshoots pretty much! they always have that pure and true feeling. ( warning - another nudity shot! )

3. architecture & design.

eye-boggleing / book heaven

# joe cariati's glassblown creations - stunning! i need those for my bathroom! immediately!
# digitally fabricated bookshelf by dbd studio - o.m.g. that is everything that comes to my mind when seeing this mind blowing shelf! i mean. how amazing is that?

4. diversity.

lovely doe deere / candyfuture lipsticks

doe deere of doedeereblogazine.com reminded me of her great candy cane crown outfit she wore last year for a shoot. she's truly amazing, having launched her superdelicious lipstick line with colours like turtoise blue and lavender lilac! they have the best names like: 'no she didn't', 'd'lilac', 'retrofuturist' & 'styletto'. and they're all so intense!

mom blogger heather armstrong of dooce.com baked some christmas cook ie s. for the first time! this blog post is the most hilarious thing i've read all week. she's a true sarcastic/ironic and a great inspiration to me! her blog entries almost always make me laugh! ( + she has the cutest kids! )

want to have the moon by your side? these russian fellows have created their own moon reality! the photos are so fantastic. this should belong into all bedrooms in the world.

the idea of hot chocolate on spoons makes me go all : ... give... me... mouth... is... watering... now!
this looks so yummy and delicious! need to go to aachen ( duh XD ) and get some!

5. video time.

major video overload this time :D

The First Snow, Canon 7D from Reid Carrescia on Vimeo.

the first snow. this video will calm you down a bit. wonderful captures of snow moments.

beatles . love me do
uhm i just jumped on the beatles = love bandwagon.

marina & the diamonds . mowglie's road
the video is crazy, the song is just pure wonderfulness!

marie laforet . marie douceur, marie colere
great rolling stones cover of 'paint it black'. i mean.. great is not the right word. fantastic! outrageous! loveable!

kraftwerk . the robots
EARWORM ATTACK! yes, really. i love kraftwerk.

and last but not least: MUPPET TIME! because i'm still celebrating their anniversary :D

the muppets . ringing of the bells

the muppets . bohemian rapsody cover.
LURVE! totally!

have a nice week y'all! i'm not sure if i'm able to post next monday, i guess i will do a christmas special on the 25th. we'll see. until then :D

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 ...

the america chronicles '22: austin I - city of the violet crown.

sighted on the way to austin: the texas colorado river . but beware, this is not the iconic colorado river ( 2.334 km long ) that has its source in the rocky mountains and confluences in the gulf of california, flowing through the grand canyon and other magnificent landscapes along the way, but this is texas' very own colorado river with a length of 1.387 km starting in the llano estacado plains in northwestern texas, and eventually ending up in the gulf of mexico at matagorda bay . why there are two colorado rivers in the US, i really don't know 😅 my guess is, that they were named by two people in different times, not knowing of the other's colorado river discovery. we'll meet the texas colorado river again in austin, so i will probably bestow more information on you eventually ;D a random road squirrel, also found on the way to austin. austin is about 187 miles ( 300 km ) away from baytown and is situated west from there in central texas. it sits at the foot of th...

ghost of nature.

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